Scientific Games Proposes to Acquire Remaining Interest In SciPlay At 11% Premium

by Anusuya Lahiri, Benzinga Editor

July 15, 2021 7:37 AM | 1 min read |

Scientific Games Corp SGMS submitted a proposal to its board to acquire the remaining 19% equity interest in SciPlay Corp SCPL in an all-stock transaction.
Currently, Scientific Games owns 81% of the economic interest and 98% of the voting interest in SciPlay.
SciPlay shareholders would receive 0.250 shares of SGMS for each share of SciPlay, implying an enterprise value of $1.9 billion.
The transaction implies a premium of 11% based on the SGMS and SciPlay respective closing stock prices on July 14.
Scientific Games expects the transaction to be immediately accretive to the shares.
Scientific Games held $1.1 billion in cash and equivalents as of Mar. 31, 2021.
Price action: SCPL shares traded higher by 7.23% at $16.47 in the premarket session on the last check Thursday.

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