JPMorgan downgrades DraftKings, says different sports activities betting shares look extra enticing

It is time for traders to ditch shares of DraftKings , in response to JPMorgan. Analyst Joseph Greff downgraded shares of the gaming inventory to underweight from impartial, saying in a notice to purchasers that the corporate’s friends supply a clearer path to online-sports-betting (OSM) profitability. “For DKNG, we see an extended runway and extra threat to attaining OSB profitability than friends; with the inventory’s bounce since earnings, we see 20% draw back to our unchanged year-end 2023 worth goal,” he wrote. Shares shed practically 5% earlier than the bell on the downgrade. Greff highlighted the corporate’s worse-than-anticipated EBITDA steering among the many causes for the downgrade. For 2023, DraftKings guided for an EBITDA lack of $475 million to $575 million even with the launch of its product in Maryland, Ohio and Massachusetts, which is above the financial institution’s estimate of a $350 million loss. DraftKings’ inventory has come below stress this 12 months, falling practically 45% because the begin of 2022 and 58.6% from its 52-week highs. The financial institution’s $12 worth goal implies a close to 21% draw back for the inventory from Friday’s shut. JPMorgan additionally downgraded shares of Penn Leisure to impartial from chubby. The inventory fell 2.3% within the premarket. Penn shares “are inside attain of our worth goal and we see it as possessing much less upside than both Las Vegas Strip-centric and LV Locals centric shares; so we see it as a relative underperformer. In different phrases, our downgrade of PENN is a valuation name,” JPMorgan mentioned. — CNBC’s Michael Bloom contributed reporting