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Light & Wonder makes and sells gambling machines, casino software, and online betting games to casinos and players worldwide.
Light & Wonder is a gambling company that sells the machines and software behind casino floors and online betting apps. It has two main businesses. The bigger one, gaming, makes slot machines and the computer systems that run them inside casinos. The smaller but faster-growing one, iGaming, builds online casino games that people play on their phones through apps like DraftKings or BetMGM. It also has a small social casino arm, where people play for fun, not real money.
Think of it as the company that builds both the arcade cabinets and the video games inside them — except the arcade is a casino and the games pay out real cash. Its customers are casino operators, who buy or lease the machines and pay for the software that tracks play, and online betting companies, who license its games and share the money those games make. Gaming supplies roughly two-thirds of revenue; the digital side is the growth engine, growing at a double-digit clip while the machine business plods along more slowly.
The company used to be called Scientific Games, a name tied to lottery tickets and a heavy debt load. It changed its name to Light & Wonder in 2022 after selling off its lottery and sports-betting units to focus purely on casino and online games. That pivot, plus steady share buybacks, is the core of the story now — management is betting that digital play will keep expanding even as physical casinos grow modestly.
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