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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. PLAY

Retail-Eating Places · CIK 0001525769 · Fiscal year ends 0202

AnnualQuarterlyTTM
Revenue
$544.10M
Fiscal year ended 2026-08-04
Operating income
$19.40M
Fiscal year ended 2026-08-04
Free cash flow
-$37.90M
Fiscal year ended 2026-08-04

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY) reported revenue of $544.10M and net income of -$12.50M for the fiscal year ended 2026-08-04. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Retail-Eating Places.

Income

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-08-042026-05-052026-02-032025-11-042025-08-052025-05-062025-02-042024-11-052024-08-062024-05-05
Revenue$544.10M$559.20M$529.60M$448.20M$557.40M$567.70M$534.50M$453.00M$557.10M$588.10M
Cost of revenue$83.20M$79.80M$78.20M$63.50M$76.40M$82.10M$77.50M$67.80M$81.80M$87.30M
Gross profit$460.90M$479.40M$451.40M$384.70M$481.00M$485.60M$457.00M$385.20M$475.30M$500.80M
Operating income$19.40M$46.90M-$13.90M-$16.20M$53.00M$63.20M$44.10M$6.30M$84.50M$85.50M
Net income-$12.50M$5.70M-$39.70M-$42.10M$11.40M$21.70M$9.30M-$32.70M$40.30M$41.40M
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 34.81Mshares 34.94MUnavailableshares 34.53Mshares 35.14Mshares 35.19MUnavailableshares 39.11Mshares 40.78Mshares 41.64M
Pretax income-$18.60M$10.00M-$52.20M-$56.40M$14.30M$26.40M$8.70M-$41.80M$50.60M$52.40M
Income tax expense-$6.10M$4.30M-$12.50M-$14.30M$2.90M$4.70M-$600.00K-$9.10M$10.30M$11.00M
Diluted EPS$-0.36$0.16Unavailable$-1.22$0.32$0.62Unavailable$-0.84$0.99$0.99
Selling, general & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
General & administrative$27.10M$27.50M$27.80M$32.90M$32.00M$24.40M$18.90M$24.60M$28.00M$28.00M
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-08-042026-05-052026-02-032025-11-042025-08-052025-05-062025-02-042024-11-052024-08-062024-05-05
Cash & equivalents$16.00M$19.60M$16.60M$13.60M$12.00M$11.90M$6.90M$8.60M$13.10M$32.10M
Total assets$4.12B$4.14B$4.12B$4.13B$4.09B$4.06B$4.02B$3.94B$3.83B$3.79B
Current assets$127.80M$130.90M$124.10M$122.00M$116.80M$113.40M$94.40M$112.00M$96.10M$137.80M
Total liabilitiesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Current liabilities$430.70M$451.90M$434.60M$377.60M$350.00M$431.40M$433.90M$391.00M$408.20M$424.10M
Total equity incl. NCI$87.90M$99.60M$91.20M$130.80M$166.20M$146.80M$145.80M$226.60M$284.40M$292.50M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$39.40M$40.20M$39.90M$39.90M$39.10M$41.30M$39.80M$38.40M$37.20M$37.80M
Accounts receivableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Goodwill$742.60M$742.60M$742.60M$742.60M$742.50M$742.50M$742.60M$742.50M$742.50M$742.50M
Long-term debt$1.50B$1.50B$1.52B$1.55B$1.55B$1.57B$1.48B$1.44B$1.29B$1.29B
Accounts payable$124.00M$141.50M$125.50M$90.80M$59.20M$109.90M$134.40M$90.30M$84.10M$109.40M

Cash flow

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-08-042026-05-052026-02-032025-11-042025-08-052025-05-062025-02-042024-11-052024-08-062024-05-05
Operating cash flow$46.80M$113.80M$103.00M$58.00M$34.00M$95.80M$108.90M-$7.20M$101.80M$108.80M
Capital expenditures$84.70M$105.30M$69.00M$78.60M$89.20M$154.60M$169.90M$131.20M$116.10M$113.00M
Investing cash flow-$84.70M-$105.30M-$69.00M-$78.60M-$84.70M-$154.60M-$169.90M-$131.20M-$115.90M-$112.80M
Financing cash flow$34.30M-$5.50M-$31.00M$22.20M$50.80M$63.80M$59.30M$133.90M-$4.90M-$1.20M
Net change in cash-$3.60M$3.00M$3.00M$1.60M$100.00K$5.00M-$1.70M-$4.50M-$19.00M-$5.20M
Stock-based compensation$900.00K$2.50M-$200.00K$8.90M$7.90M$3.00M-$4.50M$2.80M$2.30M$4.00M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$0$0$0$0$0$23.90M$83.90M$28.00M$50.20M$9.80M
Depreciation & amortization$73.70M$70.90M$88.00M$63.00M$65.20M$63.20M$64.00M$53.90M$57.50M$62.80M

Derived

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-08-042026-05-052026-02-032025-11-042025-08-052025-05-062025-02-042024-11-052024-08-062024-05-05
Free cash flow-$37.90M$8.50M$34.00M-$20.60M-$55.20M-$58.80M-$61.00M-$138.40M-$14.30M-$4.20M
Gross margin84.7%85.7%85.2%85.8%86.3%85.5%85.5%85.0%85.3%85.2%
Operating margin3.6%8.4%-2.6%-3.6%9.5%11.1%8.3%1.4%15.2%14.5%
FCF margin-7.0%1.5%6.4%-4.6%-9.9%-10.4%-11.4%-30.6%-2.6%-0.7%
SBC / revenue0.2%0.4%-0.0%2.0%1.4%0.5%-0.8%0.6%0.4%0.7%
Current ratio0.30x0.29x0.29x0.32x0.33x0.26x0.22x0.29x0.24x0.32x
Revenue YoY growth-2.4%-1.5%-0.9%-1.1%0.1%-3.5%-10.8%-3.0%2.8%-1.5%
Net margin-2.3%Unavailable-7.5%-9.4%2.0%Unavailable1.7%-7.2%UnavailableUnavailable
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue15.6%18.8%13.0%17.5%16.0%27.2%31.8%29.0%20.8%19.2%
Long-term debt / equity17.07xUnavailable16.61x11.87xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rateUnavailable43.0%UnavailableUnavailable20.3%17.8%-6.9%Unavailable20.4%21.0%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open PLAY in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-09-14View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-06-15View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-03-31View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-12-09View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-09-15View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-06-10View SEC filing

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