{"id":9741,"date":"2020-09-07T23:19:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T23:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:03:30","slug":"agem-index-continues-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-continues-recovery","title":{"rendered":"AGEM index continues recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The AGEM Index has seen stock prices climb 14.5 per cent since July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.- The AGEM Index, which measures the performance of gaming suppliers&#8217; stocks, climbed 14.5 per cent in August to 482.02 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The growth consolidates the index&#8217;s recovery after it took a hit from the initial impact of the pandemic. In <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/asian-gaming-provider-stock-climbed-in-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">July<\/a><\/em><\/strong> the index had risen 3.3 per cent month-on-month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August\u2019s results showed stock prices performed 1.8 per cent better than in the same month in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest price increases were seen by Aristocrat Leisure Limited, 8.4 points above July\u2019s price, and Konami, up 27.1 per cent in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers\u2019 (AGEM) provides an index of 13 gaming supplier companies based on the main stock exchanges around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientific Games&#8217;s price increased 17.7 per cent in August. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ainsworth Game Technology\u2019s price was down 7.3 per cent month-on-month and 48 per cent year-on-year. Taiwan\u2019s Astro Corp. also fell, down 39 per cent month-on-month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AGEM Index has seen stock prices climb 14.5 per cent since July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9743,"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 suppliers' stock performance, surged 14.5 per cent in August to 482.02 points, consolidating its post-pandemic recovery. This growth surpassed 2019 levels for the same month, with notable gains from Aristocrat Leisure, Konami, and Scientific Games, while Ainsworth Game Technology and Astro Corp. experienced declines.","focusai_entities":"AGEM Index, Aristocrat Leisure Limited, Konami, Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers, Scientific Games, Ainsworth Game Technology, Astro Corp.","focusai_location":"Asia, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM Index Recovery Drivers?","query":"What specific market dynamics or regulatory shifts are primarily driving the AGEM Index's consolidated recovery post-pandemic, and how sustainable are these factors?"},{"label":"Supplier Performance Discrepancies?","query":"Beyond the headline index growth, what are the underlying factors contributing to the significant performance discrepancies between top-performing suppliers like Aristocrat and Konami versus declining entities like Ainsworth and Astro Corp.?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,163],"tags":[23731,22127],"class_list":["post-9741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-finance-news","tag-agem-index","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741","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=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21150,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions\/21150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}