Benzinga | Sep 9, 2020 10:16AM EDT

Dave & Buster's Earnings Outlook

Dave & Buster's (NASDAQ: PLAY) announces its next round of earnings this Thursday, September 10. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for this Thursday's Q2 earnings announcement.

Earnings and Revenue

Sell-side analysts are expecting Dave & Buster's loss per share to be near $1.39 on sales of $95.76 million. In the same quarter last year, Dave & Buster's announced EPS of $0.9 on revenue of $344.60 million. The analyst consensus estimate would represent a 254.44% decrease in the company's earnings per share. The company's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past like this:

Quarter Q1 2020 Q4 2020 Q3 2019 Q2 2019EPS Estimate -0.78 0.69 0.02 0.84EPS Actual -1.01 0.80 0.02 0.90Revenue Estimate 176.77 M 344.46 M 296.36 M 344.29 MRevenue Actual 159.81 M 347.16 M 299.35 M 344.60 M

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 56.16%. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders won't be happy going into this earnings release.

Don't be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. Dave & Buster's Enter is scheduled to hold the call at 17:00:00 ET and can be accessed here: http://public.viavid.com/player/index.php?id=141393