Evolution Gaming posts quarterly revenue record, inks five for new Belgian studio

Live dealer online casino specialist Evolution Gaming has delivered an impressive performance in its first ever earnings report as a publicly traded company.

Evolution says revenue in the first three months of 2015 came to €15.4m, a 43% year-on-year improvement. Evolution, which began listing shares on Stockholm’s NASDAQ First North Premier market in March, says the quarter was marred by €4m in non-recurring expenses involved with the initial public offering. As such, Q1 earnings per share fell 50% to €0.04 and profit fell one-third to €1.4m. Absent those IPO bills, earnings would have nearly doubled to €6.2m.

Evolution CEO Jens von Bahr said the quarterly revenue was a company record thanks to good growth in the company’s existing customer portfolio and increased mobile usage. One-fifth of Q1 revenue was derived via mobile devices.

Discounting those pesky IPO costs, margins increased 11 points to 40%, easily topping Evolution’s 35% target. Von Bahr said the conditions for live casino operations “have never been so good as they are today” and bode well for Evolution’s future.