{"id":13069,"date":"2021-01-06T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13069"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:55:53","slug":"manufacturer-stock-prices-remain-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/manufacturer-stock-prices-remain-strong","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturer stock prices remain strong in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The December edition of the AGEM Index showed a 9.5 per cent hike since November and was 26.7 per cent up on the prior year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.- The stock prices of gaming equipment manufacturers continued to rebound in December 2020, according to the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (<strong><em>AGEM<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AGEM index for the month showed an increase in value of 60.18 points (to a total of 691.90 points), which was 9.5 per cent up on November and 26.7 per cent higher than in December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian firms within the Index preformed well. Scientific Games Corporation\u2019s stock price rose by 11.3 points <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/konami-and-aristocrat-push-agem-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from November<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and over 54 per cent from December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stock of Tokyo\u2019s Konami also saw a 3.6 per cent month on month increase and a year on year increase of  29.3 since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s Astro Corp. had a spike of 126.9 per cent within the year, but in December it showed a 7.6 per cent month-on-month decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s Aristocrat dropped three points in December in relation to the previous month, and was down almost 8 per cent on the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Ainsworth Game Technology\u2019s stock price improved 54.2 per cent on November but the average price was 38.9 per cent lower than in December 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The December edition of the AGEM Index showed a 9.5 per cent hike since November and was 26.7 per cent up on the prior year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13071,"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 reported a 9.5% month-on-month increase in December 2020, reflecting a continued rebound in gaming equipment manufacturers' stock prices, up 26.7% year-on-year. While Asian firms like Scientific Games and Konami showed strong performance, some, such as Astro Corp., Aristocrat, and Ainsworth, experienced mixed results or declines in specific periods.","focusai_entities":"Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers, AGEM, Scientific Games Corporation, Konami, Astro Corp., Aristocrat, Ainsworth Game Technology","focusai_location":"Asia, Tokyo, Taiwan, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM Index Drivers?","query":"What specific market factors or regional developments contributed to the significant year-on-year growth observed in the AGEM Index for gaming equipment manufacturers in December 2020?"},{"label":"Supplier Performance Discrepancies?","query":"Beyond the aggregate AGEM Index, what underlying operational or market-specific challenges explain the divergent stock performance among individual manufacturers like Astro Corp. and Aristocrat compared to Scientific Games and Konami?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23731,23907,23909],"class_list":["post-13069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-agem-index","tag-land-based-casino","tag-slot-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069","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=13069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008201,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069\/revisions\/777008201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}