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How to buy Golden Entertainment stock | 15.94
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Golden Entertainment, Inc is a resorts & casinos business based in the US. Golden Entertainment shares (GDEN) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Golden Entertainment employs 8,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$768.6 million.
How to buy shares in Golden Entertainment
- Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
- Search for Golden Entertainment. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: GDEN. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Golden Entertainment reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$15.94, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Golden Entertainment, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Golden Entertainment. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.
What's in this guide?
- GDEN shares summary
- Compare share dealing platforms
- Is GDEN stock a buy or sell?
- Stock performance over time
- Can I short GDEN shares?
- Are GDEN shares over-valued?
- Golden Entertainment's financials
- How volatile are GDEN shares?
- Does Golden Entertainment pay a dividend?
- Have GDEN shares ever split?
- Other common questions
How has coronavirus impacted Golden Entertainment's share price?
Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Golden Entertainment's share price has had significant negative movement.
Its last market close was USD$15.94, which is 22.43% down on its pre-crash value of USD$20.55 and 349.01% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$3.55.
If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Golden Entertainment shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$236.43 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$882.60.
Golden Entertainment share price
Use our graph to track the performance of GDEN stocks over time.Golden Entertainment shares at a glance
Information last updated 2020-10-20.
| Latest market close | USD$15.94 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | USD$3.55 - USD$21.67 |
| 50-day moving average | USD$13.4746 |
| 200-day moving average | USD$10.6546 |
| Wall St. target price | USD$17 |
| PE ratio | N/A |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | USD$-1.833 |
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Is it a good time to buy Golden Entertainment stock?
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Golden Entertainment price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $15.94 from 2020-11-16
| 1 week (2020-11-20) | -2.09% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2020-10-30) | 23.95% |
| 3 months (2020-08-28) | 20.48% |
| 6 months (2020-05-29) | 30.66% |
| 1 year (2019-11-29) | -12.03% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2018-11-29) | -12.61% |
| 3 years (2017-11-29) | -51.42% |
| 5 years (2015-11-27) | 53.27% |
Is Golden Entertainment under- or over-valued?
Valuing Golden Entertainment stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Golden Entertainment's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Golden Entertainment's PEG ratio
Golden Entertainment's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.12. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Golden Entertainment's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Golden Entertainment's EBITDA
Golden Entertainment's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$100.5 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Golden Entertainment's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Golden Entertainment financials
| Revenue TTM | USD$768.6 million |
|---|---|
| Gross profit TTM | USD$555 million |
| Return on assets TTM | -0.83% |
| Return on equity TTM | -52.9% |
| Profit margin | -16.69% |
| Book value | $6.473 |
| Market capitalisation | USD$365.9 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Shorting Golden Entertainment shares
There are currently 631,359 Golden Entertainment shares held short by investors – that's known as Golden Entertainment's "short interest". This figure is 0.1% down from 631,724 last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Golden Entertainment shares can be evaluated.
Golden Entertainment's "short interest ratio" (SIR)
Golden Entertainment's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Golden Entertainment shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Golden Entertainment shares traded daily (recently around 259818.51851852). Golden Entertainment's SIR currently stands at 2.43. In other words for every 100,000 Golden Entertainment shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2430 shares are currently held short.
However Golden Entertainment's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Golden Entertainment shares, or, against the total number of tradable Golden Entertainment shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Golden Entertainment's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Golden Entertainment shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0337% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Golden Entertainment shares, roughly 34 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Golden Entertainment.
Find out more about how you can short Golden Entertainment stock.
Golden Entertainment share dividends
We're not expecting Golden Entertainment to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Have Golden Entertainment's shares ever split?
Golden Entertainment's shares were split on a 1:2 basis on 10 September 2014. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Golden Entertainment shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 100% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Golden Entertainment shares which in turn could have impacted Golden Entertainment's share price.
Golden Entertainment share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Golden Entertainment's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.55 up to $21.67. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Golden Entertainment's is 2.4997. This would suggest that Golden Entertainment's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.
Golden Entertainment overview
Golden Entertainment, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates a diversified entertainment platform in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Casinos and Distributed Gaming. The Casinos segment owns and operates ten resort casino properties in Nevada and Maryland. The Distributed Gaming segment is involved in the installation, maintenance, and operation of slots and amusement devices in non-casino locations, such as restaurants, bars, taverns, convenience stores, liquor stores, and grocery stores in Nevada and Montana; and ownership and operation of branded taverns with slots, which target local patrons primarily in the greater Las Vegas, Nevada metropolitan area. As of December 31, 2019, it had approximately 10,900 slots in approximately 1,000 locations. The company was formerly known as Lakes Entertainment, Inc. and changed its name to Golden Entertainment, Inc. in July 2015. Golden Entertainment, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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