Gambling.com Group Updates COVID-19 Impact

Gambling.com Group, a provider of digital marketing services for the global iGaming industry, has provided an update on the impact of coronavirus on its financial and operational performances. The Group has been operating under a work from home policy since 16 March 2020.

The Group expects that the cancellation and/or postponement of major sport events will have a negative impact on revenues from the sports betting segment. Since many major sport events have taken place as planned in the first half of March, the Group is not expecting a significant impact on revenue in March.

The majority of the Group’s business is outside of sports betting. The Group’s largest segment is online casino which is now having a positive trend. So, the Group does not expect the COVID-19 pandemic to have a long-term effect on its business and view the situation as temporary in nature.

At the end of March, the Group implemented further cost reduction measures that will result in ongoing quarterly savings of EUR 0.15 million in addition to a temporary measure for the second quarter which is expected to save approximately EUR 0.3 million.

The company has also provided a trading update for January–February 2020. The total revenue for the period was EUR 2.41 (3.32) million and adjusted EBITDA amounted to EUR 0.39 (1.17) million. Net Interest Bearing Debt (NIBD) amounted to EUR 9.43 (15.19) million at the end of February 2020.

The effects of certain open-market bond purchases disclosed on March 25 will reduce NIBD by EUR 1.43 million. Sports betting revenue during the period accounted for less than 20% of total revenue.