{"id":777004981,"date":"2023-05-08T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004981"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:13:31","slug":"agem-index-up-2-7-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-up-2-7-in-april","title":{"rendered":"AGEM Index up 2.7% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Six out of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw their stock prices rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.- The AGEM Index increased by 2.7 per cent&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-down-0-5-in-march\" target=\"_blank\">month-on-month<\/a>&nbsp;to 971.52 in April. Compared to the same month last year,&nbsp;the index was up by 12.7 per cent or <strong>109.10 points<\/strong>. Six out of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw their stock prices rise, contributing positively to the index, while six contributed negatively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crane NXT gained a 20.1 per cent increase in stock price after launching as an independent, publicly traded company, leading to a 12.39-point gain to the index. Konami Corp&#8217;s stock price rose by 10.2 per cent, contributing to an 11.16-point gain for the index.&nbsp;<strong>Everi Holdings Inc&nbsp;<\/strong>saw an 11.4 per cent decrease in stock price, resulting in a 3.54-point loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 2023, all three major US stock indices experienced month-over-month increases for the second consecutive period. The Dow Jones Industrial Average grew by 2.5 per cent from March, while the S&amp;P 500 increased by 1.5 per cent. The NASDAQ saw only a 0.04 per cent increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six out of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw their stock prices rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":27875,"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, tracking gaming equipment manufacturers, increased by 2.7% month-on-month and 12.7% year-on-year in April, with six of twelve constituent companies experiencing stock price gains. Notable contributors included Crane NXT and Konami Corp, while Everi Holdings Inc saw a decline. This performance outpaced some major US indices, indicating robust investor sentiment within the gaming supplier sector.","focusai_entities":"AGEM Index, Crane NXT, Konami Corp, Everi Holdings Inc, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, NASDAQ","focusai_location":"Asia, US","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Crane NXT's Growth Drivers?","query":"What specific market or product developments contributed to Crane NXT's significant stock price increase post-spin-off, and what are its projected growth vectors?"},{"label":"AGEM vs. Broader Markets?","query":"How does the AGEM Index's sustained growth compare to broader capital market performance in key gaming jurisdictions, and what are the implications for sector-specific investment?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,163],"tags":[23731],"class_list":["post-777004981","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\/777004981","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=777004981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777005014,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004981\/revisions\/777005014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}