{"id":777002091,"date":"2023-02-06T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777002091"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:54:40","slug":"agem-index-rises-13-5-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-rises-13-5-in-january","title":{"rendered":"AGEM Index rises 13.5% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The AGEM Index increased by 113.32 points in January to 952.42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.- <strong>The AGEM Index<\/strong> increased by <strong>113.32 points to 9952.42 in January 2023<\/strong>, a rise of 13.5 per cent from the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-falls-7-4-in-december\" target=\"_blank\">previous month<\/a>. Compared to one year ago, the index was up 26.55 points, or 2.9 per cent. All but one of the 12 listed companies saw stock price increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest boost to the index came from <strong>Aristocrat Leisure Limited <\/strong>whose 11.3 per cent stock price rise resulted in a 44.55-point increase in the index. <strong>Crane Co <\/strong>saw a 15.4 per cent stock price increase, adding 18.70 points to the index.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only negative effect on the index was due to <strong>Ainsworth Game Technology<\/strong>, whose 3.7 per cent stock price drop caused a 0.01-point loss to the AGEM Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January 2023, all three major U.S. stock indices rose compared to the previous month. The NASDAQ rose by 10.7 per cent, the S&amp;P 500 by 6.2 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 2.8 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AGEM Index increased by 113.32 points in January to 952.42.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"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, a key indicator for gaming equipment manufacturers, experienced a significant 13.5% increase in January 2023, reaching 952.42 points. This robust performance, primarily driven by strong stock appreciation from Aristocrat Leisure Limited and Crane Co, outpaced major U.S. stock indices, signaling positive investor sentiment in the B2B gaming supply sector.","focusai_entities":"AGEM Index, Aristocrat Leisure Limited, Crane Co, Ainsworth Game Technology, NASDAQ, S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average","focusai_location":"U.S., Asia","focusai_target_profile":"investor_analyst (1.0), ceo_executive (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9), operator_casino (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Market Factors Impacting AGEM?","query":"What specific market factors contributed to the outperformance of gaming equipment manufacturers relative to broader market indices in January 2023, and are these trends sustainable?"},{"label":"AGEM Index M&A Impact?","query":"How might the sustained growth in the AGEM Index influence M&A activity or capital expenditure strategies among B2B gaming suppliers in the coming quarters, particularly for companies like Aristocrat Leisure Limited?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,163],"tags":[23731],"class_list":["post-777002091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-finance-news","tag-agem-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002091","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777002091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777002138,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002091\/revisions\/777002138"}],"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=777002091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777002091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777002091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}