Ambiguous Stats for Online Casinos
Leisure and Gaming is one of the first online casinos out of the starting gate
releasing first quarter profits for the 2010 year, and the company’s results
leave a bit to be desire, actually. Leisure and Gaming has also reported the
full year results for 2009, and those are absolutely positive and indicate that
L&G had a strong momentum moving into the new year. Even then patterns within Q1
indicated that the L&G online casino and betting interests should perform well
because of an increasing number of wagers on the site. The though times though
are a direct result of the current sportsbetting market, and the company is
optimistic that Q2 will show much better profit margins.
The specifics on the L&G online casino gambling group indicate that profits for
Q1 are down over this same period last year, 2009. Q1 2009 brought in gross
profits of Euro 2.8 million while Q1 2010 fell to Euro 1.2 million – quite a
significant change. Lowered net win margins are a large part of the problem, the
major sporting teams in the UK and Europe performed incredibly well and that has
directly affected the results. On that same train of thought though, with the
World Cup coming up this summer, and other major sporting events on the horizon,
L&G anticipates that there is no reason the company should not be able to
recover online casino betting momentum and perform well throughout the rest of
the year.
Additionally, L&G has announced that the poor Q1 performance has highlighted for
the management team at the online casino betting group the value of having more
diversified interests at play on the site. Not only betting offerings, but other
games and features that can continue bringing in profits in slower betting
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