Brightstar Lottery (BRSL) Surges 7.6% on Earnings Performance

We recently published 10 Shock Winners on Wall Street. Brightstar Lottery PLC (NYSE:BRSL) is one of the best-performing stocks on Monday.

Brightstar Lottery jumped by 7.63 percent on Tuesday to end at $15.38 apiece as investors digested the company’s mixed earnings results in the second quarter of the year.

In its earnings release, Brightstar Lottery PLC (NYSE:BRSL) swung to an attributable net loss of $58 million versus a $42 million net income in the same period last year, pulling the company to a $31-million net loss in the first half of the year versus a $123-million attributable net income in the same period last year.

Total revenues inched up by 3 percent to $631 million in the second quarter from $613 million year-on-year, while revenues for the first six months dipped by 4.7 percent to $1.21 billion from $1.27 billion.

For full-year 2025, Brightstar Lottery PLC (NYSE:BRSL) maintained its adjusted EBITDA outlook of approximately $1.1 billion, as forex gains are expected to offset higher-than-expected US multi-state jackpot and LMA impacts.

However, revenue outlook was lowered by $50 million to only $2.5 billion on expectations of a product sales shift and higher amortization related to the Italy Lotto upfront license fee.

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