PLAY

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Communication Services DELAYED
Last price
6.60
▼ 0.26 (3.84%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
6.76
Prev close
6.86
Day high
6.78
Day low
6.52
Volume
1.76M
Market cap
$228.49M
P/E (TTM)
—
52W range
6.26 – 22.10

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
-1.46%
Prior close 6.86
VWAP
6.62
-0.33% from price
Relative volume
0.84×
Normal
Session range
4.75%
6.52 – 6.83
Position in range
25%
Near session low
ATR (14D)
0.35
5.24% of price
Prior day high
7.10
PDH
Prior day low
6.80
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
1.76M
Avg 2.10M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+2.82% +0.9%
1M
-25.79% -27.3%
3M
-37.82% -41.2%
6M
-49.73% -64.7%
YTD
-59.53% -73.5%
1Y
-63.62% -79.3%
3Y
-82.22% -164.1%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

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Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+1.14M
Net buying
Buy transactions
42
1.15M shares
Sell transactions
1
6.99K shares
Net transactions
+43
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.0 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
1.80M
Total on file
Bought 1.15MSold 6.99K

Insider transactions

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DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Sep 25, 26
LIPMAN NATHANIEL J
Director
STOCK 10.57K $0 Direct
Sep 25, 26
PROTELL CHARLES H
Director
STOCK 10.57K $0 Direct
Sep 25, 26
MORGAN RACHEL
Officer
STOCK 15.11K $0 Direct
Sep 25, 26
WEISS ALLEN R
Director
STOCK 10.57K $0 Direct
Aug 31, 26
SAMPLE DEREK
Officer
STOCK 39.02K $0 Direct
Aug 18, 26
PROTELL CHARLES H
Director
STOCK 11.19K $0 Direct
Aug 10, 26
SHEEHAN KEVIN M. CPA
Director
STOCK 35.53K $0 Direct
Aug 10, 26
HARPER DARIN
Chief Executive Officer
STOCK 203.05K $0 Direct
Aug 5, 26
LIPMAN NATHANIEL J
Director
STOCK 1.01K $0 Direct
Aug 5, 26
SHEEHAN KEVIN M. CPA
Director
STOCK 1.31K $0 Direct
Aug 5, 26
CHAMBERS JAMES P
Director
STOCK 1.07K $0 Direct
Aug 5, 26
HILL PATH CAPITAL PARTNERS LP
Unknown
STOCK 952 $0 Indirect
Aug 5, 26
WEISS ALLEN R
Director
STOCK 952 $0 Direct
Aug 5, 26
PROTELL CHARLES H
Director
STOCK 784 $0 Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
HARPER DARIN
Chief Executive Officer 309.95K Stock Award(Grant)
HILL PATH CAPITAL PARTNERS LP
Unknown — Stock Award(Grant)
HILL PATH D FUND L.P
Unknown — Stock Award(Grant)
LEHNER LES
Officer 89.87K Stock Award(Grant)
MORGAN RACHEL
Officer 141.16K Stock Award(Grant)
MORRIS CHRISTOPHER DANIEL
Chief Executive Officer 117.92K Stock Award(Grant)
PINEIRO ANTONIO
Officer 88.51K Stock Award(Grant)
SHEEHAN KEVIN M. CPA
Director 198.90K Stock Award(Grant)
TUCKER JEREMY DON
Officer 231.09K Stock Award(Grant)
WEHNER TONY
Officer 114.88K Stock Award(Grant)

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$228.49M
Enterprise value$3.81B
Revenue (TTM)$2.08B
Gross profit$796.90M
EBITDA$370.60M
Net income$-88.60M
EPS (TTM)$-2.56
Free cash flow$-15.46M
Total cash$16.00M
Total debt$3.59B
Book value / share$2.52
Shares outstanding34.83M
Float26.39M
Short % of float36.21%
Dividend yield0.00%
Beta (5Y)1.92

Valuation & profitability ratios

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Trailing P/E—
Forward P/E-4.77
PEG ratio—
Price / sales—
Price / book2.60
EV / revenue1.83
EV / EBITDA10.28
Gross margin38.29%
Operating margin4.39%
Profit margin-4.26%
Return on equity-69.74%
Return on assets1.14%
Debt / equity4,079.64
Current ratio0.30
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Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 5 years · 6 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2026202520242023YoY
Total revenue $2.10B$2.13B$2.21B$1.96B -1.4%
Operating revenue $2.10B$2.13B$2.21B$1.96B -1.4%
Cost of revenue $300.30M$314.40M$353.00M$323.20M -4.5%
Gross profit $1.80B$1.82B$1.85B$1.64B -0.9%
Selling, general & admin $652.80M$623.00M$639.70M$607.40M +4.8%
Total operating expense $1.70B$1.58B$1.53B$1.36B +7.5%
Operating income $105.10M$239.10M$325.00M$277.10M -56.0%
Net interest income -$154.00M-$135.30M-$127.40M-$87.40M -13.8%
Pre-tax income -$67.90M$69.90M$163.10M$173.60M -197.1%
Tax provision -$19.20M$11.60M$36.20M$36.50M -265.5%
Net income -$48.70M$58.30M$126.90M$137.10M -183.5%
Net income to common -$48.70M$58.30M$126.90M$137.10M -183.5%
Basic EPS -1.401.492.942.83 -194.0%
Diluted EPS -1.401.462.882.79 -195.9%
EBIT $77.80M$195.00M$283.40M$253.10M -60.1%
EBITDA $357.20M$433.20M$491.90M$422.40M -17.5%
Basic shares 34.67M39.07M43.20M48.50M -11.3%
Diluted shares 34.67M40.01M44.07M49.18M -13.3%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.10
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
0.39
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
8.00
+22.0% from spot
ATM implied vol
78.9%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
+1.6%
Puts bid over calls
Call volume
399
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
39
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
8.00
4.47K contracts
Heaviest put OI
7.00
5.05K contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

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Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jul 2026 0.19-0.27 -244.3%
Apr 2026 0.660.22 -66.7%
Jan 2026 0.46-0.35 -176.9%
Oct 2025 -1.04-1.14 -9.3%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter -1.42 8 $448.77M +0.1%
Next quarter -0.19 8 $541.69M +2.3%
Current year -1.65 8 $2.09B -0.4%
Next year -1.38 7 $2.16B +3.1%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$13.00
High target$22.00
Low target$9.00
Implied upside97.08%
Analyst count6
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy0 / 3
Hold7
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders5.18%
Held by institutions120.85%
Institutions holding229
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Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
6.59
+0.13% from price
SMA 20
6.92
-5.18% from price
SMA 50
8.69
-24.53% from price
SMA 100
9.97
-33.83% from price
SMA 200
12.37
-46.98% from price
EMA 12
6.77
-2.61% from price
EMA 26
7.37
-10.51% from price
EMA 50
8.29
-20.45% from price
RSI (14)
36.3
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-0.60
Hist 0.11
ATR (14)
0.35
5.27% of price
Realised vol 30D
85.9%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
8.11
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
5.73
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
8.69 vs 12.37
Trend bias
Below 200
-46.98%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 6.60
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
1.58
More volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.28
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
85.9%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-69.9%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-90.7%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
0.35
5.27% of price
Beta (reported)
1.92
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
9.83M
Prior 8.41M
Change vs prior
+16.9%
Shorts adding
% of float
36.21%
Heavily shorted
% of shares out
28.23%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
3.8
Liquid
Float
26.39M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

171 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Sep 15, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Sep 15, 26 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 15, 26 Freedom Capital Markets MAINTAINED Hold Hold
Jun 29, 26 Citizens INITIATED — Market Perform
Jun 16, 26 Benchmark DOWNGRADE Buy Hold
Jun 16, 26 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jun 16, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Apr 6, 26 Piper Sandler MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Jan 8, 26 Truist Securities MAINTAINED Hold Hold
Jan 6, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Neutral Neutral
Dec 11, 25 Truist Securities MAINTAINED Hold Hold
Dec 10, 25 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate—
Forward yield0.00%
5-year avg yield—
Payout ratio0.00%
Ex-dividend dateJan 9, 2020
Next pay dateFeb 10, 2020
Last split—
Split date—

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