{"id":777003053,"date":"2023-03-07T12:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777003053"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:01:12","slug":"agem-index-down-0-2-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-down-0-2-in-february","title":{"rendered":"AGEM Index down 0.2% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The AGEM Index decreased by 1.51 points to 950.91.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.-&nbsp;<strong>The AGEM Index<\/strong>&nbsp;fell by 1.51 points to 950.91 in February, a decline of 0.2 per cent&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-rises-13-5-in-january\" target=\"_blank\">when compared to the previous month<\/a>. Compared to the same month last year, <strong>the index declined by 0.2 per cent or 2.04 points<\/strong>. Of the 12 AGEM Index companies, six reported stock price gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest positive contribution came from<strong> Aristocrat Leisure Limited<\/strong>, which saw a 7.6 per cent increase in its stock price, leading to a 9.27-point gain for the AGEM Index. <strong>Crane Co<\/strong> also contributed positively, with a 3.3 per cent increase in its stock price, resulting in a 4.76-point gain for the index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2023, all three major US stock indices saw a decline from the previous month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased by 4.2 per cent, the S&amp;P 500 by 2.5 per cent and the NASDAQ by 0.9 per cent compared to January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AGEM Index gathers together twelve players in the gaming equipment manufacturing sphere: Agilysys, Ainsworth, Aristocrat, Crane, Everi, Galaxy Gaming, Inspired Entertainment, International Game Technology, Konami, Light &amp; Wonder, PlayAGS and Transact Technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AGEM Index decreased by 1.51 points to 950.91.<\/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, which tracks the performance of major gaming equipment manufacturers, experienced a marginal 0.2% decline in February, reflecting broader market softness. Despite this, key B2B suppliers like Aristocrat Leisure Limited and Crane Co. demonstrated positive stock performance, partially offsetting the overall index decrease. This indicates a nuanced performance within the gaming equipment manufacturing vertical amidst general capital market trends.","focusai_entities":"AGEM Index, Aristocrat Leisure Limited, Crane Co, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, NASDAQ, Agilysys, Ainsworth, Aristocrat, Everi, Galaxy Gaming, Inspired Entertainment, International Game Technology, Konami, Light & Wonder, PlayAGS, Transact Technologies","focusai_location":"Asia, US","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.85), operator_casino (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM Index Drivers","query":"What specific market dynamics or macroeconomic factors contributed to the AGEM Index's marginal decline, and how do these compare to the broader capital markets' performance?"},{"label":"Supplier Performance Outlook","query":"How do the individual stock gains of Aristocrat Leisure and Crane Co. reflect their respective market strategies or product cycle advantages within the B2B gaming equipment vertical?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,163],"tags":[23731],"class_list":["post-777003053","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\/777003053","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=777003053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003091,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003053\/revisions\/777003091"}],"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=777003053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}