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$GENI is on its turnaround arc, bottom reversion in process
Bullish on $GENI due to exclusive sports data contracts, strong earnings growth, and its potential to become the 'PLTR of sports betting'.
With the little spike this morning, I figured I'd share my secret position. I theorized that the turnaround was near for GENI, and the last earnings call confirmed it.
GENI is the genius behind all of your addicting sports bets, and their tech is making them \even more\ addictive. They're the only data contract owners of the major sports leagues, NFL, NCAA, European football leagues (fuck if I know how those work), PGA, and NASCAR being the main positions. Their business thesis is opposite of SRAD, who focuses on smaller contracts with the NBA and other less pricey contractual data agreements.
Their platform uses near instant data feeds for live, in-game bets as well as functioning as a data oracle for transactions on sports moments. GENI sells their data to over 700 betting platforms like DraftKings, and just last month entered a multi-year agreement with Polymarket. They own and develop so much more proprietary data and in-depth sport and \customer analysis\ with the purchase of Legend. That was a risky bet, and was the entire reason the stock dropped last year, as everyone thought they were over leveraged for the buy. Projections from this last earnings proved it was a smart investment.
This company is going to be the PLTR of sports betting, and an early position here feels very comfortable with the rest of the market froth going on. They're still priced under their 200 WEEK moving average.
Risk: most contracts are out to 2030+, there is potential that data eventually gets spread to other platforms, or the NFL and other leagues start their own platforms. Unlikely, because the NFL is significantly invested in GENI.
The boring stuff:
MC of $1.59B
Q12026 revenue of $188M, 31%YoY growth
Q1 $24M EBITDA
Forecast raised for full year to revenue over $990M and EBITDA over $270M.
Positions: 1000 shares @ $5.58, 1000 more @ $6.47
20x $10 Jan 27 calls
25x $12.5 Jun 27 calls
Will be buying more shares on dips under $6. Options volume is almost non-existent, so options are likely not the play unless that volume booms on price reversion.
No positions no post.
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Been watching GENI for a while but never pulled trigger. The Legend acquisition definitely spooked a lot of people at time but you're right about the data moat they're building. Sports betting is getting more sophisticated and real-time data is becoming everything
The contract lengths through 2030+ are actually pretty solid protection against competition. NFL isn't going to build their own platform when they can just collect licensing fees from GENI without any of headaches. Much easier to let them handle the tech stack while leagues focus in what they do best
Your call strikes look reasonable given where stock has been trading. That $10 Jan 27 might print if this turnaround thesis plays out. Volume has been pretty dead on options side like you mentioned but that could change fast if momentum picks up. Sometimes the best plays are ones nobody is talking about yet
It almost seems too reasonable for this sub