{"id":777014462,"date":"2024-04-04T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014462"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:29:35","slug":"agem-index-down-3-3-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-down-3-3-in-march","title":{"rendered":"AGEM Index down 3.3% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Five of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw stock price increases in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.-\u00a0The <strong>AGEM Index\u00a0<\/strong>decreased by 42.18 points to 1,218.92 in March 2024. That&#8217;s a 3.3 per cent decrease\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-up-8-in-february\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from February<\/a> and a rise of 273.11 points, or 28.9 per cent, in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the 12 companies in the AGEM Index saw stock price increases, resulting in five positive contributions and seven negative. <strong>Aristocrat Leisure Limited<\/strong>\u00a0was the largest negative contributor, with an 8 per cent decline in its stock price. <strong>International Game Technology<\/strong>\u00a0stock fell by 16.9 per cent, causing the index to lose 19.91 points. <strong>Crane NXT<\/strong>\u00a0made the biggest positive contribution with a 6.0 per cent stock price increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw stock price increases in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777001538,"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 registered a 3.3% monthly decline in March 2024, closing at 1,218.92 points, yet maintained a substantial 28.9% year-on-year growth. This monthly contraction was largely influenced by stock price decreases from major B2B gaming equipment suppliers, notably Aristocrat Leisure Limited and International Game Technology, with Crane NXT providing the most significant positive contribution.","focusai_entities":"AGEM Index, Aristocrat Leisure Limited, International Game Technology, Crane NXT","focusai_location":"","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM Index Drivers?","query":"What specific market or operational factors contributed to the significant stock price declines of Aristocrat Leisure Limited and International Game Technology, and conversely, to Crane NXT's positive performance, within the AGEM Index for March 2024?"},{"label":"Sector Performance Outlook?","query":"How does the AGEM Index's robust 28.9% year-on-year growth, despite a monthly dip, position the gaming equipment manufacturing sector relative to broader capital markets and other gaming verticals for the remainder of FY2024?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16331],"tags":[23731],"class_list":["post-777014462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-elsewhere-news","tag-agem-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014462","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=777014462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014485,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014462\/revisions\/777014485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777001538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}