What happened
Shares of Esports Entertainment Group (GMBL +0.00%) were looking like a bad bet Friday, down 13.7% as of 2 p.m. EST after the Malta-based provider of esports and esports gambling services announced that it will sell 2 million shares of common stock at $15 per share in a direct, at-the-market offering.
Probably not coincidentally, the stock was trading Friday afternoon only marginally higher than the price of that secondary stock sale.
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So what
Esports did not say what it is raising the money for. It did say that it expects to close the stock offering on or around Tuesday.
Also happening that day -- an earnings report. On Wednesday, Esports announced that it will release results for its fiscal 2021 second quarter after the close of trading Tuesday. Presumably, that will also be after it closes its stock sale.
Now what
Investors buying this stock between now and that quarterly report are taking something of a gamble themselves -- on whether the earnings news will be good or bad. For what it's worth, analysts who follow the company predict that Esports will report $2.4 million in revenue (up about 10% sequentially from Q1), but an $0.18 per share loss -- 20% worse than last quarter.
So, investor, do you feel lucky?
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