AGEM Index<\/strong><\/em> companies reported decreases in stock price during the month, with five trending positively and eight moving negatively.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe stock price of Aristocrat Leisure experienced a 4.5 per cent decrease, contributing 15.96 points to the general decline of the index. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stock price for Konami dropped by 10.4 per cent, accounting for a 9.80 point decrease in the Index. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ainsworth Game Technology dropped 13.6 per cent month-to-month and over 64.4 per cent since October 2019. Scientific Games Corp. saw a 8.7 per cent fall on September and 32.9 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, Taiwan\u2019s Astro Corp. experienced a 0.4 per cent drop in its stock prices in October, and lost 13.5 points compared to the same month in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All Asian companies measured on the AGEM Index showed monthly and annual declines in stock values. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The AGEM Index recorded its first monthly decline since the pandemic began, falling 6.8% in October and 2.5% year-on-year, primarily driven by underperformance among Asian gaming equipment manufacturers. Major industry players like Aristocrat Leisure, Konami, Ainsworth Game Technology, Scientific Games Corp., and Astro Corp. experienced significant stock value decreases, contributing to the overall index contraction. This trend signals potential headwinds for the gaming supply sector's capital market valuation.","focusai_entities":"Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM), Aristocrat Leisure, Konami, Ainsworth Game Technology, Scientific Games Corp., Astro Corp.","focusai_location":"Asia, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Q4 Outlook","query":"What are the projected implications of this sustained decline in gaming equipment manufacturer stock values on their Q4 earnings guidance and capital expenditure plans?"},{"label":"Regional Market Divergence","query":"Does the AGEM Index's focus on Asian companies indicate a regional market divergence in gaming equipment demand or is this a precursor to broader global market softening?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,163,158],"tags":[23731,22127],"class_list":["post-11561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-finance-news","category-slider-home","tag-agem-index","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008199,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561\/revisions\/777008199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}