Growth Metrics

Accel Entertainment (ACEL) EBITDA Margin (2017 - 2026)

Accel Entertainment posted quarterly EBITDA Margin of 4.16% for Q1 2026, little changed year-on-year from 4.16% in Q1 2025, and down 7.58% on a QoQ basis from 4.5% in Q4 2025.

Accel Entertainment (ACEL) has 10 years of EBITDA Margin data on file, last reported at 4.16% in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, EBITDA Margin changed 0.0% year-over-year to 4.16%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 3.58% (up 67.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 3.57%, up 101.0% from the prior year.
  • EBITDA Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 4.16%, down from 4.5% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBITDA Margin topped out at 10.7% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 0.27% in Q3 2024.
  • The 5-year median for EBITDA Margin is 4.12% (2023), against an average of 4.66%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when EBITDA Margin soared 915 bps; it then slumped 810 bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of EBITDA Margin shows it stood at 4.66% in 2022, then retreated by 15 bps to 3.94% in 2023, then plunged by 31 bps to 2.73% in 2024, then surged by 65 bps to 4.5% in 2025, then declined by 8 bps to 4.16% in 2026.
  • The last three EBITDA Margin figures came in at 4.16% (Q1 2026), 4.5% (Q4 2025), and 3.71% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) EBITDA Margin (Qtr)
1 Flutter Entertainment 18.39 Bn 17.30 Bn 1.84 Bn 1.95%
2 DraftKings 13.23 Bn 12.22 Bn 696.69 Mn 0.36%
3 Churchill Downs 6.28 Bn 6.13 Bn 475.00 Mn 21.57%
4 Rush Street Interactive 2.60 Bn 2.43 Bn 132.17 Mn 11.66%
5 Brightstar Lottery 2.28 Bn 2.94 Bn - -
6 Accel Entertainment 1.01 Bn 735.58 Mn 109.94 Mn 4.16%
7 Codere Online Luxembourg 490.38 Mn 420.96 Mn - -
8 Bragg Gaming 269.74 Mn 261.99 Mn 18.22 Mn -4.57%
9 Inspired Entertainment 233.43 Mn 189.93 Mn 54.60 Mn 8.92%
10 High Roller Technologies 45.23 Mn 42.56 Mn - -

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 4.16%
Dec 31, 2025 4.50%
Sep 30, 2025 3.71%
Jun 30, 2025 1.91%
Mar 31, 2025 4.16%
Dec 31, 2024 2.73%
Sep 30, 2024 0.27%
Jun 30, 2024 4.37%
Mar 31, 2024 2.82%
Dec 31, 2023 3.94%
Sep 30, 2023 3.67%
Jun 30, 2023 4.12%
Mar 31, 2023 2.39%
Dec 31, 2022 4.66%
Sep 30, 2022 10.63%
Jun 30, 2022 10.70%
Mar 31, 2022 10.49%
Dec 31, 2021 0.70%
Sep 30, 2021 5.43%
Jun 30, 2021 8.74%
Mar 31, 2021 1.34%
Dec 31, 2020 -11.32%
Sep 30, 2020 5.06%
Jun 30, 2020 -12,339.84%
Mar 31, 2020 45.13%
Dec 31, 2019 1.62%
Sep 30, 2019 7.45%
Jun 30, 2019 14.73%
Dec 31, 2018 -0.06%
Dec 31, 2017 7.40%