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GNOG NASDAQ

Golden Nugget Online Gaming, Inc.
1W: +14.5% 1M: -22.4% 3M: -27.1% 1Y: -56.4%
$5.78
Last traded 2022-05-04 — delisted
NASDAQ · Consumer Cyclical · Gambling, Resorts & Casinos

Edge Score

Quantitative competitive moat analysis scoring five pillars of durable advantage — cost leadership, brand intangibles, switching costs, network effects, and efficient scale — using industry percentile rankings on a 0–100 scale.

WEAK EDGE
49.9 / 100
NoneWeakNarrowWide
Primary source: Switching Costs  ·  ROIC: 10.2%
Cost Advantage
53
Intangibles
62
Switching Cost
64
Network Effect
19
Scale
33
The Edge Score quantifies a company's competitive moat using five pillars: Cost Advantage (20%, operating margin and SG&A efficiency vs industry peers), Intangible Assets (25%, gross margin premium, R&D intensity, brand pricing power), Switching Costs (25%, revenue stability, earnings consistency, customer retention proxied by operating leverage), Network Effects (15%, revenue growth with expanding margins, market share dominance), and Efficient Scale (15%, market concentration, ROIC sustainability). Each pillar is scored 0–100 using industry percentile rankings, then weighted into a composite. Wide ≥ 70, Narrow ≥ 55, Weak ≥ 40, None < 40. GNOG shows a Weak competitive edge (49.9/100) — limited structural advantages that may face competitive pressure. The primary source of advantage is Switching Costs. ROIC of 10.2% suggests modest returns relative to capital deployed.

Analyst Insights

Wall Street analyst consensus based on price targets and buy/sell/hold recommendations from institutional research coverage over the trailing 12 months.

Analyst Price Targets
Analyst Recommendations
Strong Buy: 0Buy: 1Hold: 2Sell: 0Strong Sell: 0
Rating Summary
ConsensusHold
Avg Target$—
Analysts0

InsiderStreet Scorecard

Proprietary multi-factor scorecard rating companies across seven fundamental dimensions — profitability, balance sheet strength, earnings quality, growth, value, momentum, and safety — each scored 0–100.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ — Grade A+
Profitability
—
Balance Sheet
56
Earnings Quality
5
Growth
88
Value
62
Momentum
47
Safety
0
Cash Flow
18

Risk & Quality Signals

Academic financial models used by institutional investors to assess bankruptcy risk, earnings manipulation, financial strength, and credit quality.

Altman Z-Score
-0.10
Distress Zone
Piotroski F-Score
5/9
✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
Beneish M-Score
—
—
Ohlson O-Score
-5.87
Bankruptcy prob: 0.3%
Low Risk
Credit Rating
B-
Score: 20.0/100
Trend: Stable
Earnings Quality
25/100
OCF/NI: -0.42x
Accruals: 48.0%
The Altman Z-Score (1968) combines five ratios — working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market value of equity, and sales, all relative to total assets or liabilities — into a single bankruptcy predictor. GNOG scores -0.10, placing it in the Distress Zone (safe > 2.99, distress < 1.81). Historically, companies in this range face elevated bankruptcy risk. The Piotroski F-Score (2000) is a 9-point binary checklist — four profitability tests (positive ROA, positive cash flow, improving ROA, cash flow exceeding net income), three leverage tests (declining debt ratio, improving current ratio, no share dilution), and two efficiency tests (improving gross margin, improving asset turnover). Each pass scores 1 point. GNOG scores 5/9, indicating moderate financial health — some areas of strength offset by weaknesses in others. The Ohlson O-Score (1980) is a 9-variable logistic regression that estimates bankruptcy probability using firm size, leverage, working capital, current ratio, profitability (ROA), cash flow coverage, negative equity flag, consecutive losses flag, and earnings trajectory. The raw score is converted to a probability via logistic transformation. GNOG's implied 0.3% bankruptcy probability is well within safe territory. Our Credit Rating model scores companies on five weighted components — solvency (30%), earning power (25%), leverage (20%), liquidity (15%), and cash flow quality (10%) — then blends the absolute score with sector and industry peer rankings. For companies with large buyback programs, equity is adjusted by adding back cumulative 5-year repurchases (capped at 80% of FCF generated) to avoid penalizing shareholder-friendly capital allocation. GNOG receives an estimated rating of B- (score: 20.0/100), with a stable trend. The Earnings Quality score measures how well reported earnings are backed by real cash. It evaluates the operating cash flow to net income ratio (OCF/NI ≥ 1.0 means every dollar of earnings is cash-backed) and the accruals ratio (the gap between earnings and cash flow relative to assets — lower is better). GNOG's score of 25/100 is low — reported earnings may not be fully supported by cash flows.

Valuation

Key valuation multiples comparing the stock's market price to its earnings, revenue, book value, and cash flows. Lower multiples may indicate relative undervaluation versus peers.

P/E
4.66x
PEG
0.01x
P/S
0.00x
P/B
-0.80x
P/FCF
-14.77x
P/OCF
—
EV/EBITDA
8.27x
EV/Revenue
7.98x
EV/EBIT
6.50x
EV/FCF
-15.50x
Earnings Yield
15.97%
FCF Yield
-6.77%
Shareholder Yield
0.00%
Graham Number
—
Equity-based multiples (P/E, P/B, P/FCF) compare the stock price to per-share fundamentals and are affected by capital structure. Enterprise value multiples (EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, EV/FCF) strip out debt and cash, making them more useful for cross-company comparisons regardless of how companies are financed. The Graham Number — √(22.5 × EPS × Book Value) — is Benjamin Graham's formula for the maximum price a defensive investor should pay. At 4.7x earnings, GNOG trades at a deep value multiple. An earnings yield of 16.0% exceeds typical risk-free rates, suggesting equities are being compensated for risk.

DuPont Decomposition (5-Factor)

The 5-factor DuPont framework breaks Return on Equity into its component drivers — tax efficiency, interest burden, operating profitability, asset utilization, and financial leverage — to reveal what truly drives shareholder returns.

Tax Burden
1.154
NI / EBT
×
Interest Burden
0.858
EBT / EBIT
×
EBIT Margin
1.228
EBIT / Rev
×
Asset Turnover
0.279
Rev / Assets
×
Equity Multiplier
-0.425
Assets / Equity
=
ROE
-14.4%
The 5-factor DuPont identity decomposes ROE as: Tax Burden × Interest Burden × EBIT Margin × Asset Turnover × Equity Multiplier = ROE. This reveals whether returns are driven by operating performance, financial leverage, or tax efficiency — three very different sources of profitability. GNOG's ROE of -14.4% is driven by EBIT Margin (1.228) as the dominant factor. A tax burden ratio of 1.15 indicates minimal tax leakage — the company retains over 90% of pre-tax earnings.

Graham-Dodd Adjusted Valuation

Our adaptation of Graham's growth formula (Fair P/E = 8.5 + 2g) from The Intelligent Investor. The classic version relies on analyst growth projections, which can be unreliable. This adjusted model substitutes the company's realized 3-year EPS CAGR — a backward-looking, verifiable measure of actual earnings power — grounding the valuation in demonstrated performance rather than forecasts.

Two adjustments we make, and why. Growth is capped at 15%. Graham defined g as expected growth over the next seven to ten years, not last year's rate. Across US companies since 1994 the median realized 7-year EPS growth is 5–8% regardless of how fast a company grew beforehand, and of 4,457 company-quarters that grew faster than 200%, none sustained it. Uncapped, the formula assigned fair multiples in the hundreds to companies that had never held that rate — and scored worse than simply reading the P/E. Capped, it carries real information. The verdict has three states, not two. Tested over 377,249 stock-months, this ratio only separates outcomes at its extremes: below 0.25 beat the universe by 1.3 points a year, above 3.0 lagged by 2.7, and everything in between sat inside a one-point band. Rather than call two-thirds of the market "undervalued" on a threshold of 1.0, we say Neutral where the model cannot tell — which is most of the time.

Adj. Growth Rate
0.00%
Fair P/E
8.50x
Intrinsic Value
$13.51
Price/Value
0.74x
Margin of Safety
26.34%
Premium
-26.34%
Assessment
Neutral
Graham's classic formula uses analyst-projected growth to estimate a fair P/E (8.5 + 2g). Our adjusted version replaces that projection with GNOG's realized 0.0% 3-year EPS CAGR, capped at 15% — demonstrated performance rather than forecasts, held to a rate companies have historically sustained. GNOG trades at a -26% premium to its adjusted intrinsic value of $13.51, suggesting the market is pricing in future growth beyond what historical earnings support. The adjusted fair P/E of 8.5x compares to the current market P/E of 4.7x.

Profitability Trends

Historical profitability ratios tracking how efficiently the company converts revenue into returns for shareholders over time.

Leverage & Solvency Trends

Debt and liquidity metrics showing the company's financial leverage and ability to meet short-term and long-term obligations.

Efficiency & Working Capital Trends

Operating efficiency metrics measuring how quickly the company converts inventory to sales, collects receivables, and manages its cash conversion cycle.

Growth Trends (YoY %)

Year-over-year growth rates for key financial metrics, showing the trajectory of revenue, earnings, and cash flow generation.

Earnings Stability

R-squared of linear regression measuring how predictably revenue, earnings, and margins follow a trend over the trailing 5 years. 1.0 = perfectly predictable; lower values indicate erratic or cyclical behavior.

Monte Carlo Price Simulation

Geometric Brownian Motion with 1,000 antithetic paths over 1 year, seeded from 339 days of historical volatility. Percentile bands show the range of statistically plausible outcomes — this is a statistical model, not a forecast.

Current Price
$5.78
Median 1Y
$1.52
5th Pctile
$0.40
95th Pctile
$5.74
Ann. Volatility
81.0%
25th–75th percentile 5th–95th percentile Median path Historical
All Ratios & Metrics

Complete fundamental data with up to 20 periods of history, sparkline trends, and current values across 13 categories and 130+ financial metrics.

Profitability
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
ROE 2.4% -13.1% -14.6% -6.0% -14.4% -14.42%
ROA -9.5% 20.8% 22.2% 12.4% 33.9% 33.91%
ROIC -0.3% 1.1% 3.3% 43.8% 10.2% 10.20%
ROCE -23.7% 26.7% 28.5% 14.4% 44.5% 44.45%
Gross Margin 56.9% 54.7% 53.5% 52.3% 1.5% 1.52%
Operating Margin 8.6% -21.9% -21.9% -24.4% 25.8% 25.76%
Net Margin -73.4% 2.8% 10.3% -72.3% -63.8% -63.78%
EBITDA Margin -1.0% 2.8% 6.1% -77.0% -28.5% -28.45%
FCF Margin -1.3% -1.1% -73.5% -50.8% -51.5% -51.51%
OCF Margin -1.3% -1.1% -73.0% -50.3% -50.5% -50.46%
ROIC Economic snapshot only 15.81%
Cash ROA snapshot only -11.92%
NOPAT Margin snapshot only -52.55%
Pretax Margin snapshot only 1.05%
R&D / Revenue snapshot only 0.00%
SGA / Revenue snapshot only 47.30%
SBC / Revenue snapshot only 14.29%
Valuation
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
P/E Ratio -43.12 9.65 8.64 22.50 6.26 4.661
P/S Ratio 31.64 11.33 6.54 6.91 7.61 0.000
P/B Ratio -1.06 -1.26 -1.26 -1.36 -1.38 -0.799
P/FCF -24.79 -10.35 -8.91 -13.59 -14.77 -14.767
P/OCF — — — — — —
EV/EBITDA -33.94 10.53 9.72 31.07 8.27 8.265
EV/Revenue 34.41 10.90 6.38 6.91 7.98 7.982
EV/EBIT -33.87 10.54 9.74 31.32 6.50 6.501
EV/FCF -26.97 -9.96 -8.69 -13.59 -15.50 -15.495
Earnings Yield -2.3% 10.4% 11.6% 4.4% 16.0% 15.97%
FCF Yield -4.0% -9.7% -11.2% -7.4% -6.8% -6.77%
PEG Ratio snapshot only 0.007
Shareholder Yield snapshot only 0.00%
Leverage & Solvency
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
Current Ratio 1.75 2.48 2.38 1.97 2.05 2.052
Quick Ratio 1.75 2.48 2.38 1.97 2.05 2.052
Debt/Equity -0.21 -0.30 -0.32 -0.23 -0.40 -0.403
Net Debt/Equity — — — — — —
Debt/Assets 0.79 0.47 0.48 0.47 0.53 0.526
Debt/EBITDA -6.07 2.57 2.49 5.17 2.31 2.305
Net Debt/EBITDA -2.74 -0.41 -0.24 0.01 0.39 0.389
Interest Coverage -1.21 2.05 1.77 0.73 3.53 3.529
Equity Multiplier -0.26 -0.63 -0.66 -0.49 -0.77 -0.765
Cash Ratio snapshot only 1.260
Debt Service Coverage snapshot only 2.776
Cash to Debt snapshot only 0.831
FCF to Debt snapshot only -0.231
Defensive Interval snapshot only 1584.4 days
Efficiency & Turnover
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
Asset Turnover 0.13 0.18 0.29 0.41 0.28 0.279
Inventory Turnover — — — — — —
Receivables Turnover 3.26 4.73 7.76 9.75 6.28 6.283
Payables Turnover 0.99 1.54 2.27 2.43 4.08 4.079
DSO 112 77 47 37 58 58.1 days
DIO 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 days
DPO 370 237 161 150 89 89.5 days
Cash Conversion Cycle -259 -159 -114 -113 -31 -31.4 days
Fixed Asset Turnover snapshot only 24.682
Cash Velocity snapshot only 0.540
Capital Intensity snapshot only 4.231
Growth (YoY)
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
Revenue — — — — 1.6% 1.65%
Net Income — — — — 5.4% 5.38%
EPS — — — — 4.5% 4.48%
FCF — — — — -6.8% -6.79%
EBITDA — — — — 3.5% 3.52%
Op. Income — — — — -16.1% -16.10%
OCF Growth snapshot only -4.77%
Asset Growth snapshot only 44.22%
Debt Growth snapshot only -4.32%
Shares Change snapshot only 25.93%
Dividend Growth snapshot only -1.00%
Growth Quality
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
Revenue Stability — — — — — —
Earnings Stability — — — — — —
Margin Stability — — — — — —
Rev. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.500
Earn. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.500
FCF Positive Streak 0 0 0 0 0 0
Earnings Persistence — — — — — —
Earnings Smoothness — — — — — —
ROE Trend — — — — — —
Gross Margin Trend — — — — — —
FCF Margin Trend — — — — — —
Sustainable Growth Rate — — — — — —
Internal Growth Rate — 26.0% 28.4% 14.1% 51.3% 51.31%
Cash Flow Quality
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
OCF/Net Income 1.74 -0.93 -0.96 -1.64 -0.42 -0.415
FCF/OCF 1.00 1.00 1.01 1.01 1.02 1.021
FCF/Net Income snapshot only -0.424
OCF/EBITDA snapshot only -0.522
CapEx/Revenue 0.2% 0.1% 0.4% 0.6% 1.1% 1.06%
CapEx/Depreciation snapshot only 0.035
Accruals Ratio 0.07 0.40 0.44 0.33 0.48 0.480
Sloan Accruals snapshot only 0.072
Cash Flow Adequacy snapshot only -47.820
Earnings Quality Score snapshot only 0.250
Dividends & Buybacks
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
Dividend Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Dividend/Share $0.01 $0.01 $0.01 $0.01 $0.00 $0.00
Payout Ratio — 0.5% 0.5% 0.8% 0.0% 0.00%
FCF Payout Ratio — — — — — —
Total Payout Ratio — 0.5% 0.5% 0.8% 0.0% 0.00%
Div. Increase Streak 0 0 0 0 — —
Chowder Number — — — — — —
Buyback Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Net Buyback Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Total Shareholder Return 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
DuPont Factors
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
Tax Burden (NI/EBT) 0.39 1.82 1.83 36.99 1.15 1.154
Interest Burden (EBT/EBIT) 1.83 0.62 0.63 0.04 0.86 0.858
EBIT Margin -1.02 1.03 0.65 0.22 1.23 1.228
Asset Turnover 0.13 0.18 0.29 0.41 0.28 0.279
Equity Multiplier -0.26 -0.63 -0.66 -0.49 -0.43 -0.425
Per Share
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
EPS (Diluted TTM) $-0.46 $1.40 $1.48 $0.77 $1.59 $1.59
Book Value/Share $-18.65 $-10.68 $-10.09 $-12.78 $-7.23 $-0.47
Tangible Book/Share $-18.65 $-10.68 $-10.09 $-12.78 $-7.23 $-7.23
Revenue/Share $0.62 $1.19 $1.95 $2.51 $1.31 $2.75
FCF/Share $-0.79 $-1.30 $-1.43 $-1.28 $-0.67 $0.00
OCF/Share $-0.79 $-1.30 $-1.42 $-1.26 $-0.66 $0.00
Cash/Share $2.11 $3.68 $3.50 $2.89 $2.42 $2.42
EBITDA/Share $-0.63 $1.23 $1.28 $0.56 $1.26 $1.26
Debt/Share $3.83 $3.17 $3.18 $2.89 $2.91 $2.91
Net Debt/Share $1.73 $-0.51 $-0.31 $0.00 $0.49 $0.49
Academic Models
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
Altman Z-Score — — — — — -0.097
Altman Z-Prime snapshot only -0.256
Piotroski F-Score 1 2 2 2 5 5
Beneish M-Score — — — — — —
Ohlson O-Score snapshot only -5.866
Net-Net WC snapshot only $-2.06
Credit
Metric Trend Q4'20 Q1'21 Q2'21 Q3'21 Q4'21 Current
Credit Rating snapshot only B-
Credit Score 20.00 20.00 20.00 19.00 20.00 20.000
Credit Grade snapshot only 16
Credit Trend snapshot only 0.000
Implied Spread (bps) snapshot only 900.000
Industry Credit Rank snapshot only 39
Sector Credit Rank snapshot only 24

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