{"id":1682,"date":"2021-08-25T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T15:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2021-11-03T08:41:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:41:52","slug":"catena-media-hit-by-german-hindrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/news\/catena-media-hit-by-german-hindrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Catena Media hit by German hindrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Catena Media Q2<\/h3>\n<h4>The top line<\/h4>\n<p>Revenue up 9% to \u20ac30.4m, adjusted EBITDA up 1% to \u20ac14.9m, margin was down to 49% vs. 53% in Q220. NDCs were up 34% to 140,025 during the period<\/p>\n<p>North American revenues were up 37% and accounted for 41% (33% Q220) of group revenue. Organic growth of 9% and 17% excluding Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sauerkraut:<\/strong> CEO Michael Daly said Catena had been \u201con a journey\u201d in Q2; given the choice that trip would have rerouted around the car crash in Germany. Asked about the decline in German revenues, CFO Peter Messner suggested that a broad 50% fall since the end of last year and the introduction of the \u2018tolerance\u2019 period in October has worsened in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Daly said the \u201cdarkest days should be ending\u201d though he admitted that timings were uncertain. \u201cYou are putting your finger up in the air at present to sense the direction of the wind,\u201d he said. He didn\u2019t elaborate on how things will improve in Germany, but said he expects the industry to work out a new rulebook as the situation settles. \u201cGermany will continue to be the talk and the focus for many months to come,\u201d he added. \u201cThere is opportunity there and we expect to exploit that opportunity in the months ahead.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Happy days:<\/strong> Catena is in a better position in North America which, Daly pointed out, was the \u201cfastest-growing market for sports-betting and casino in the world\u201d and presented an \u201cunparalleled opportunity\u201d for Catena. The company\u2019s casino vertical \u201cexceeded expectations\u201d in Michigan and the group recently added the Lineups.com site to its offering, which Daly said would give Catena \u201ceven more upside.\u201d Daly suggested that the weak current trading, &#8211; 2% organic, 11% ex-Germany &#8211; will improve as the sporting calendar gets busier. \u201cThe end of the quarter will obviously be stronger than the start,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h3>Also available today at Earnings + More:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wagersearningsmore.substack.com\/p\/25-aug-catena-media-hit-by-german\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rush Street Interactive presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wagersearningsmore.substack.com\/p\/25-aug-catena-media-hit-by-german\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In-Play watch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wagersearningsmore.substack.com\/p\/25-aug-catena-media-hit-by-german\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kambi M&amp;A<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wagersearningsmore.substack.com\/p\/25-aug-catena-media-hit-by-german\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chalkline funding round<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catena Media Q2 The top line Revenue up 9% to \u20ac30.4m, adjusted EBITDA up 1% to \u20ac14.9m, margin was down to 49% vs. 53% in Q220. NDCs were up 34% to 140,025 during the period North American revenues were up 37% and accounted for 41% (33% Q220) of group revenue. Organic growth of 9% and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[615,663,665,664,666],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-catena-media","tag-chalkline","tag-in-play","tag-kambi","tag-rush-street-interative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagers.com\/staging\/4285\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}