Q3 2023 Inspired Entertainment Inc Earnings Call

Participants

A. Lorne Weil; Independent Chairman of the Board of Directors; Inspired Entertainment Inc

Brooks Pierce; President & Chief Executive Officer; Inspired Entertainment Inc

Barry Jonas; Analyst; Truist Securities

Jordan Bender; Analyst; Citizens JMP

Ryan Sigdahl; Analyst; Craig Hallum

Chad Beynon; Analyst; Macquarie Research

Presentation

Operator

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Inspired Entertainment third-quarter 2023 conference call. (Operator Instructions)
Please note today's event is being recorded. Please refer to the company's Safe Harbor statement that appears in the third-quarter 2023 earnings press release, which is also available in the Investors section of the company's website at www.inseinc.com. This Safe Harbor statement also applies to today's conference call as the company's management will be making certain statements that will be considered forward looking under securities laws and rules of the SEC.
These statements are based on management's current expectations or beliefs and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and changes in circumstances. In addition, please note that the company will discuss both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation is included in the earnings press release.
With that completed, I would now like to turn the conference over to Lorne Weil, company's Executive Chairman. Mr. Weil, please go ahead.

A. Lorne Weil

Thank you, operator. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining our somewhat delayed third-quarter conference call. With us this evening as usual is our CEO, Brooks Pierce. And joining us for the first time is our interim CFO, Mr. Marilyn Jentzen.
Marilyn has done an extraordinary job overseeing the accounting work that's taken place in the last three months. And for those of you who may not be familiar with Marilyn's background, although I think we've made it public in a few different places, she's a 10-year veteran of the big four accounting world. She's a former Senior VP Finance of IGT, and she is a Wharton MBA with a concentration in accounting.
And thanks to her work and the work of her team, we today filed an amended 10-K for 2022, amended 10-K for the first and second quarters of 2023, and the delayed 10-Q for the third quarter of 2023. And with these filings, we are in full compliance with Nasdaq and with our lender group. This follows a three-month process during which our internal organization was augmented by enormous outside accounting and audit resources provided by one of the most highly regarded and prestigious firms in the public accounting industry.
Indeed, it's not an overstatement, I think to say that these are the most fully vetted financial statements I have encountered in my roughly 50 years of working in the public company arena.
As mentioned in the press release, the first half of 2023 was unchanged from what had been previously reported last year with a $1 million first quarter downward adjustment offset by a similar U.S. upward adjustment in the second quarter. In the full year 2022 EBITDA was adjusted downward by about 0.5% from 99.6 million to $99.0 million. EBITDA in the third quarter of 2023 was $26.7 million, slightly behind the third quarter of 2022 for a variety of reasons, which I'll clarify as I review the individual businesses in a moment, we think that $26.7 million very meaningfully understates the earnings power of the business at this time, given that the fourth quarter is by now in the rearview mirror, given that we're in February, I think I can say that we expect the fourth quarter to be in line with consensus and excluding the roughly $2 million impact of our fourth quarter computer systems had to be nicely ahead of both consensus and Q4 2022.
Now let me take a look at each of the businesses themselves. The virtual sports business continues to be as amazing a business as I've seen in all my years, super high margins, relatively low capital intensity, significant barriers to entry, which we have further strengthened with the NFL and NBA licenses and tremendous long-term growth potential following a period of extraordinary growth that was driven by the addition of several new territories. And we've talked about those a number of times in the past and some great new products. We've been on a short term plateau for a few quarters. And indeed, we saw modest year-over-year EBITDA decline in the third quarter, which, as mentioned in the press release was more than entirely occasioned by our major customer deliberately and effectively pruning the user base. A process we think has run its course at this point in a moment.
Brooks will talk in some detail about why we think we were about to embark on a second exponential growth phase driven by new products and more importantly, huge new geographies that operate in both the gaming and lottery spaces, while growth in the Virtual Sports business has been in temporary pause, the other part of our digital business Interactive has validated the wisdom of the major investments, we've been committing some time to content and platform development.
Revenue and EBITDA in the third quarter grew 37% and 68%, respectively, with EBITDA margins expanding from 53% to 64%. It's important to recognize that this growth has been driven by only a small handful of US gaming jurisdictions in North America and we're confident that the inevitable addition of new states and new provinces will further accelerate this growth. Taken together, the EBITDA of our combined Virtual Sports and Interactive digital businesses accounted for 58% of our overall EBITDA in the first nine months of 2023 from about 50% in 2022. Here again, Brooks will add significantly more color in a moment.
The most important development to report within our retail business is the phenomenal performance of the Vantage cabinet in both of the betting shop and public sectors in a moment. Brooks will review this subject in some detail, but along with the success of our asset-light strategy, this cabinet and its associated content appears clearly to be a game changer in our recurring revenue retail businesses. And notwithstanding the success of the new cabinet, the EBITDA from our combined retail businesses declined modestly from 2022 to 2023 with the overall decline split about evenly between gaming and leisure. Three distinct factors contributed to this decline. The minor loss of EBITDA attendant to the asset-light strategy, which we believe will be more than made up for by the performance of the Vantage cabinet, the movement of significant one-time product sales out of the third quarter and very significant wage increases in the holiday park business due to changes in the U.K. regulatory environment. Regarding the latter, we believe we have devised a restructuring program designed to recapture this lost income, which we hope to be able to discuss in our next conference call. Taking all these factors into account, we would expect to see reaccelerating growth in our retail businesses as we move through the fourth quarter and into 20.
And with that, I'll turn things over to Brooks.

Brooks Pierce

Okay. Thank you, Lorne, and thanks to all of you for joining the third-quarter call. And as I usually do I'll tried to add some color and detail to Lauren's overarching comments to give some further clarity on the business progress as we see it and what we're working on in terms of future developments, certainly echo Laurent's statement about the efforts put forth by both Merrill and the entire finance team on the accounting work that's done to take us to get to today. And frankly, when I give thanks to the whole inspired team who has endured this process along with other challenges, including the hack to our IT systems and the recovery from that in such a professional way. As we've mentioned in the press release, the hackers have penalized us by approximately $2 million, primarily through the reduction in our ability to do to deliver games, the slowdown in integrations and other productivity reductions. Good news is we feel like the future is bright for Inspire, and that's what the team. And I are laser focused on. First, let me give you some details on the Virtual Sports business alongside Lauren's comments. I agree completely that it is an amazing business with all the characteristics Lorne mentioned for the most important of which is the fact that I feel like we're in the first quarter of the game in this business and the main drivers of the growth in the business are new products, licensed products and new geographies, and we're in the very, very early stages in each of those categories. We've launched the NFL license game with our largest customer and we're seeing exactly what we hoped with the NFL game growing in revenue weekly without cannibalizing our existing NFL alumni game. First Half of 24, we'll see the game launched across additional North American operators like BET, MGM and Rush Street. And we hope to add other operators as we go through the year. And we're also seeing more interest from European and Latin American operators for this product. And we'll be rolling it out to these customers also over the course of 24. As always, it takes some time to do the integrations and coordinate promotions with operators, particularly in some of the newer Virtual Sports markets like North America, where we are more confident than ever that there's a robust market for this product and that license brands will drive incremental play. We're very excited to have signed a license with the NBA as well, and it will be our first, but certainly not our last foray into the archive version of virtual sports wear and footage of previous NBA games will be constructed into a virtual sports format, and we're confident that this will resonate with the vast and be a worldwide brand in many of the markets we serve. We expect to launch this product in the second quarter of 2024 with our large customer in Greece who have 3,000 approximately 3,000 road retail locations as well as a major online presence. And we're already working with them. OPAP. and the NBA to do a major marketing and promotion launch for this product. And importantly, it will be an incremental channel not replace an existing virtual channel increase. We're also down the path on our hockey game, as we've talked about in the past and hope to launch that also in 2024 and expect that will be a very popular new game in key markets like the U.S., Canada and Nordic and Eastern European areas. So clearly you can tell we're very bullish on both licensed brands like the NFL and NBA and the new products supporting these that we'll be rolling out this year in terms of additional geographies besides North America, that's, as I said, in very early stages. We're obviously incredibly excited about the opportunity we see in Latin America and particularly in Brazil. We are fortunate to have Virtual Sports, specifically included in the recent sports betting all the past in Brazil. And we've been working in that market and advance for months to help build interest in our unique offerings. As most of you will know, soccer football, depending on where you're from is the biggest virtual sport for inspired and represents more than 75% of our business currently and Brazil's an incredibly passionate population. And when it comes to the sport and as we've seen in other markets like Greece, Italy, Turkey and Morocco, having a passionate fan base for sport is a great precursor for the success of Virtual Sports in that market. So we'll have a team down in Brazil actually next week for several meetings with operators. And we believe that Brazil will be a market for our products, including our gaming alongside Virtual Sports. That would be much like our other key markets of U.K., North America, Greece and Italy. That will be very strong for our digital businesses. As Lorne mentioned in his remarks, it's not out of the ordinary for business segment that has seen the growth that we've seen out of Virtual Sports to experienced a period of moderating growth. And ours was exacerbated by the change in policy by our biggest customer with their players. But we are confident that the strategy of additional license sports in either new or newly launched territories will propel sustainable growth for this segment going forward.
Moving on to the interactive segment of the digital business has shown, as Lauren mentioned, incredible growth throughout 22 and 23 with revenue growth in the third quarter of 38%. And this segment really continues to click on all cylinders. This is a result of improved games and quantity of games released along side dedicated account management to ensure that our games are positioned appropriately on our operator site. We have a roadmap of content in the first half of 24 that, frankly looks like the strongest roadmap we've ever had for all of our key markets, including UK, North America, Greece, Italy, and going forward in Latin America and specifically Brazil. Additionally, we're in the process of building our next game studio, whose primary focus focus will be bespoke content for the North American market. To date, we've supported the North American market from our UK studios and considering that we've had some very strong results, but we see new states coming on in gaming and new opportunities in our retail business in North America and think a dedicated studio will accelerate our online retail growth in this key market. Our omnichannel strategy has been validated in the UK and Greece, in particular, as we leverage our retail game content alongside our online content and we are gaining share in each of those markets and we'll be looking to replicate that success in North America.
Many of you have seen the recent announcement about the stakes limits in the U.K. being adjusted to GBP2 for those under 25 years old and GBP5 for those over 25 years old, we've been an active participant in these discussions and have fully prepared for this outcome that will start in the fall. We expect it to have a very modest impact and our game designers have been planning for this for a long time. And frankly, we feel that this is probably a good thing for the market long term. Many of you will have seen a product that we introduced at G2E of a revolutionary product, frankly, that we call hybrid dealer and we recently showed it even more extensively at ICE in London. So we've now soft launched that with bet MGM and have worked through all the technical and regulatory steps alongside them and are they are planning a big marketing push now that the Super Bowl is behind them and we look forward to reporting on that in future calls. We also expect to go live with roulette in the second quarter of 24 and expect that this will be the larger of the product segments and will apply to a broader set of our customer base. Our booth at ICE was filled with operators wanting to see this product and our pipeline of potential customers is extremely full, and we'll be working throughout 2024 to be delivering this product segment to as many key operator customers as possible.
Overall, we feel like we've positioned the digital segments of our business, as Lauren talked about for continuing along this great growth trajectory, moving over to the retail businesses whose characteristics are also in our lower growth and stable businesses with recurring revenue streams based largely on our participation in the cash books. But we also have a component of one-time sales in that business that can move from quarter to quarter impacting performance when looking at the narrow lens of one quarter. And that's what we saw in Q three of 23 with some sales moving into the fourth quarter. Biggest news in these businesses is the phenomenal success of the Vantage cabinet and that we are much further down the road and the replacement and asset-light strategy. We are driving in these segments, we've completed the full installation of Vantage cabinets in both that Fred and Paddy Power shops and the Vantage can cabinet continues to produce an uplift of close to excuse me, 11% for these operators over the cabinets they replace. We've now installed over 1,200 advantage cabinets in our pubs business, which represents about 19% of our estate and we're seeing actually greater uplift with daily cash box in the pub segment, up 21% versus the machines they replaced. We're now starting to place these cabinets in other venues such as HC.'s motorway services and bingo venues.
On the sales front, in North America, we've seen improved performance in our terminals in Illinois with a brand-new game pack. That's proving to be very successful. And we're working with several key prospects in the Canadian market, and we'll look to report on that in future quarters.
As Lorne mentioned, we certainly have some cost pressures in the holiday parks segment of the leisure business that we have plans to mitigate and are working diligently across the entire business to find economies and efficiency improvements to run our business segments more profitably, and we'll we'll report on that progress on that front in subsequent quarters.
So even though we haven't had formal calls due to the restatement We've obviously been very hard at work building what we think is a growing diverse and profitable business.
So with that, I'll hand it back over to Lorne for any closing remarks before we open up to Q&A.

A. Lorne Weil

Thanks, Brooks. I don't really have anything to add to what Brooks and I have already said, I'm sure will I've plenty to talk about as we get into the Q&A. So I can look at our screen and see who's in line to ask questions. And Helen had an opportunity to do so for six months.
But I should also mention that Marilyn Jentzen, our CFO, will not be making any prepared remarks this evening, and we've released a gigantic amount of financial information today and it's and I've just tried to digest that, but Marilyn is here and am I ready to answer any finance or accounting related questions that you might have? And or anything else that she feels like she wants and telecom.
And with that, operator, can you please open the program up to Q&A?

Question and Answer Session

Operator

(Operator Instructions) Barry Jonas, Truist Securities.

Barry Jonas

Hey, guys. Good, good afternoon. Good evening. Nice to have you back. I wanted to ask about hybrid dealer, which was something we all saw at G2E. I wanted to get a little more detail on it. You know, Ashley is just sort of meant to be a replacement or complementary for the live dealer experience? And how big do you ultimately think hybrid can get on?

A. Lorne Weil

What I would say it's it's it's complementary, but as we've talked about very don't kind of individually.

Brooks Pierce

It's an important differentiation from the live dealer market in that there's not the same operating costs.

A. Lorne Weil

There's not the same setup cost.

Brooks Pierce

So there's a number of economies that the hybrid dealer offers to the operators. So certainly what we're seeing with MGM and with future customers, I think we've mentioned Caesars has been signed up. Is it it's to their incentive to trying drive traffic and to hybrid dealer.

A. Lorne Weil

I just actually today ironically solve the fully fleshed out that MGM marketing plan, and we're super excited about that so I don't think anyone expects that it's going to replace live dealer, but I think the operators are extremely motivated to drive as much on to this business as possible as as an additive to live dealer the other.

Brooks Pierce

I think the other point to add to that, Barry, is I think what Brooks is saying, he's absolutely right. As far as certainly the what we call the Tier one operators, the MGMC.'s, cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and even even maybe the Tier two operators.

A. Lorne Weil

But there are huge number of operators who can afford any dealer product. So for loads for these people is not a question of and whether our business is adding to the Live View or replacing the live viewer. They just don't have it. And this is going to give literally hundreds of operators now for the first time a product that has this function. So yes, like we're incredibly excited about MGM. But frankly, we're just as excited about the other end of the market that has never had a problem.

Barry Jonas

Yes. Great. And then just for a follow-up, and I wanted to ask about capital allocation. You purchased that you've been purchasing back stock. Curious if you can say whether that's continued into the Q4 and just get your thoughts on prioritization whether that's more share repurchases, M&A, debt review?

A. Lorne Weil

Yes. No, I think, yes, it couldn't continue into Q4 because we've really been blacked out ever since we haven't bought any stock since we since this whole Q3 situation arose. So we haven't been able to buy stock and I'm not sure when we will. We certainly are at this point aren't going to be able to buy any stock until we report the fourth quarter and file that the Q4, the full 2023 10 K bear.

Barry Jonas

Got it. And then I guess just beyond that box M&A or how you think about privatizations once this is fully concluded with the accounting issues?

A. Lorne Weil

You know, I think that probably feel more comfortable having that conversation after we report the fourth quarter and file the 10 K that then everything to do with this will be behind us and will be sorry to talk about whatever we want to talk about.

Barry Jonas

Fair enough, Ari. Thank you so much.

A. Lorne Weil

Sure.

Operator

Jordan Bender, Citizens JMP.

Jordan Bender

Good afternoon, everyone. With some of the M&A in the courier space recently, I think it shines a spotlight back on the lottery space. So what's your take on the progress within the lottery industry and maybe the long-term uplift coming from that business as well?

A. Lorne Weil

Well, in the United States, the high lottery business, it has been evolving more or less the way the lottery and the gaming businesses, which is the states that have it are doing very well. But the rate of a new states introducing rigs are either a gaming or lottery have frankly, not been as accelerating as we would have expected some. But my feeling is that has to change. There's a thousand reasons why it has to change. And looking forward, I think we're going to see an acceleration in the lottery business where getting ready for that from a we are making phenomenal progress on that cloud-based lottery system that we're developing in the Caribbean. We recently launched the AI lottery part of that platform, which is going to serve two functions for us. One, it's a product that we can actually used to get into the platform business in other parts of the world if we choose. But more importantly, we can use it as a test bed for high lottery products that we want to launch on that platform and that would include not only traditional electric, what are called electronic instant tickets, if you will, but also Virtual Sports, which for us is a we think, a huge opportunity in the lottery business.
So in a way, it's kind of good for us that things have been going a little bit slower in the market because it's giving us more time to complete the products that we're trying to develop and round out our product line, get our ducks in a row on.
And I think and I think you certainly are you're right that the M&A activity in the in the industries that you know, starting with Scientific Games getting bought and then the home and video games acquisition by Aristocrat, I think a lot is going to happen in this part of the business and we're very excited about, but it's not evolving as fast as people thought it was going to, that's for sure.

Brooks Pierce

And Jordan, maybe it's Brooks. One more thing I would add is remember we talked about we have introduced a couple lottery games on particularly with lotto Quebec because they had it unique technical setup that fit that worked well for us. And the games are kind of a year old and ones still in the top five and the other ones. And I think the top 25. So the content creation that we use for both our gaming business and our retail business is definitely transferable to the lottery business.
I'd echo what Lorne says is it's probably not been the worst thing in the world for us to have it go a little bit slower because we know we have content and we can build content that will resonate in a lottery.
Great.

Jordan Bender

And then on the follow-up, I I don't think I missed it, but did you guys comment on are all the conversion units done as we sit here today. I think William Hill was supposed to last into the new year.

Brooks Pierce

Yes, we commented that that Fred and Paddy Power are done on William Hill has not is not done yet. And there's a trial that's ongoing right now, where is wherein the success that we're seeing from both of other big customers is also happening with William Hill So that's we'll when we can comment on the William Hill status, we will. But needless to say, the trial that we have ongoing with William Hill's is going very successfully, right now.
Great.

Jordan Bender

Thank you very much.

Brooks Pierce

You're welcome.

Operator

Ryan Sigdahl, Craig Hallum Capital Group.

Ryan Sigdahl

Hey, good afternoon, guys. I want to jump over to Virtual Sports. So revenue declined in the quarter. I guess it's plateaued a little bit here. But I guess what's your visibility and confidence to reaccelerate that business and time line to do that. And as you think about kind of the hurdles to getting all the newly licensed, whether it's homerun shoot out, NBA NFL, you have a ton of new product that seems like it should resonate, but I guess what's the biggest barrier to getting that faster than the market?

Brooks Pierce

And yes, there's I think you're right, and we do think that that's the kind of baseline for, um, for growth on alongside the obviously, the new market in Brazil that we mentioned on. But yes, look, it's like it's everything. It's you've got technical stuff and you've got to do you've got to get customers signed up, you got to get regulatory approval. And frankly, it's part of the reason why it's taken as long as it has. But I really do feel like we're at an inflection point now with bet MGM going live in Rush Street going live. And honestly, I think it will it will help drive some of the other operators if we're successful with those guys.
And the strategy for us has been in particular with these licensed brands because Virtual Sports is new to the US bedding consumer. So we thought the power of brands like the NBA and the NFL would be a good way to introduce this to the North American market, seeing good results out of Ontario UM already, which has been out for a while. But I would say 24 is going to be the time to kind of put up a shot up in terms of North America.

Ryan Sigdahl

And then for my follow-up question, just overall, I think you said or you did say line Q4 with where consensus is, which is a modest EBITDA growth. So I guess what's your confidence in getting back to EBITDA growth in Q4 and then again into 2024?
Thanks. Good luck. Thanks.

A. Lorne Weil

Ryan, do you want new yet willing? I'm not sure whether you asked the question at the end, Ryan, or if you're just kind of signing off some. But if you ask if you ask a question then I think I think what we're comfortable saying right now is we feel obviously, it's February.
So we were and we've we've scrubbed the Q4 numbers already very comprehensively. So I think we're comfortable saying what I said in my in my in my prepared comments that Q4 should be in line with consensus. If you adjust it for the for the $2 million hit, we're talking with the hacking vetoed. It would put us comfortably ahead of consensus and certainly ahead of last year. As far as what yes, what we think going beyond that, I think again, I'd rather wait until the end of the first quarter and when we report the fourth quarter and file the 10 K and then maybe we'll be able to talk more comfortably about 24.

Ryan Sigdahl

Very good. Thank you, Lorne.

Operator

Chad Beynon, Macquarie.

Chad Beynon

Please go ahead. Hi, afternoon and thanks for taking my question, Lorne. Hi, Brooks.
I first just wanted to hit on the Vantage cabinet uplift. I know you had talked about this on prior calls and it looks like what you had forecasted is coming through in terms of the double digit increase. Can you talk any more just in terms of if that has been stable since those have been deployed?
And then Brooks, could you just touch on, so the white paper change, do you think that could affect the I guess, the increase in terms of the cabinets here or like you said that, that might already be factored in?

Brooks Pierce

Sure thing, Chad, I'm yes. I mean, the good news is we've been kind of fully deployed in Paddy Power and the breadth that Fred for multiple quarters now. And it is the growth is has remained in double digits. So we're very confident about that.
And the William Hill trial is actually showing even better results. So I think we feel we feel quite good about that. And obviously, you're seeing an even bigger impact in the pubs business some of which is fixed fee and some of which is recurring revenue. So hopefully that will start flowing through in the results.
And we'll obviously talk about that as we can in terms of the white paper and the stakes women saying, look, this has been talked about ad nauseam on it came in exactly as we predicted. I'm not sure we would have predicted that it was going to be age driven, but we thought it would be a some kind of split on either B. five or two.
So I think it's actually pretty much as we expected. It will supposedly be implemented in September. So I just don't think it will have a material impact on us this year. And frankly, with game design and the operators, we hope to over the course of the year mitigate what very small impact they may have.
So it's just just doesn't feel like a big thing to us because people just aren't betting would think about it when you're when you're playing online, people just aren't generally staking GBP5. So it just doesn't have the same kind of impact like it did with the triennial, for sure. I mean nowhere in the same category.

Chad Beynon

Okay. Appreciate it.

A. Lorne Weil

In terms of margins outside of the accounting nuances and a $2 million hit how should we think about inflationary impacts, I guess in the the digital business or the the retail and leisure business as we kind of get into 24, are there still lingering inflationary measures, supply chain, et cetera? Or if the business is flat to slightly up, could we assume that on a same-store basis, margins could follow suit as well in other words, we can fuel some.
Well, the in the digital businesses, there is there's really no inflationary pressure to speak of because you don't have the at least in the way our businesses work, the large field service organizations on that field that that you do in the other parts of the business. So I think we're seeing certainly in the case of interactive because there's very little diminished, no inflationary pressure the way the business scales as the revenues grow, the margins grow faster. Some that's also the case with the Virtual Sports business. We haven't seen that the last couple of quarters, but we've certainly seen it now in spades over the last couple of years with the margins accelerating like crazy as the revenues have grown. And I think as Brooks said, I think we can expect that those revenues are going to reaccelerate as we move through 24 in the home, the retail businesses because of there is a very large main thing is a large field service component and hundreds of people. And there have been increases in the U.K. minimum wage and living wage and all kinds of other stuff that that makes it very difficult to a good to see the kind of margin improvement that we've seen in the digital businesses.
But as I said, and so forth. So we absolutely are seeing inflationary pressure, but we think that we can restructure the businesses in a way that we can blunt a lot of that impact on and so on. I think we are feeling pretty good that our 2024 margins across the board will certainly be as good as they were in 2023, notwithstanding the inflationary pressure. So whatever, whatever our, let's say, adjusted EBITDA margin after taking account of unusual factors wasn't in 23, I would not expect that the margins will be lower than that in 24%?

Brooks Pierce

Yes, I think that 100% right about all that. And just one last thing, Chad, because I know we've talked about this on a number of calls before about the UK consumer and the concern about that and what's going to happen if there's a recession, et cetera, et cetera. And I think the results are pretty conclusive and that the UK consumer has figured out how to manage themselves such that it isn't impacting their gaming plays. That's kind of shown by the results of the of the Vantage cabinet. So I think it's the feel as you're in the UK is that there's certainly less and less talk about consumer issues and inflation in that regard. So that that also was good.

Chad Beynon

Great. Appreciate it. Thank you very much.

Brooks Pierce

No problem, Chad.

Operator

Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. Mr. Lorne Weil, Executive Chairman, I'll turn the call back over to you.

A. Lorne Weil

Thank you, operator. And again, thanks, everybody, for joining today and thanks for that your support over the last several months. We obviously appreciate it and where we're happy that we've come to what we think is a pretty good place right now and where I'm pretty enthusiastic about about 2024. So I guess we'll be speaking to, you know, fairly soon since we're most of the way through the first quarter, and we look forward to reporting more to you at that time. So thank you.
Thanks, operator.

Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. We thank you for participating, and you may now disconnect.