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Inspired Entertainment, Inc. (INSE)

Consumer Cyclical

No action
Fundamental
3
Sentiment
2
Technical
2

Do Nothing: qualitativeScore is 2 (below required floor of 3); strategy requires qualitativeScore ≥ 3 before any bullish entry. Liquidity also fails: avgDollarVolume20 ≈ $1.20M (< $5.0M floor) and recent 3-session average dollar volume ≈ $1.01M (< $1.5M recent-liquidity floor).

Analysis as of 2026-09-18· more than 2 trading days ago

Company overview

Inspired Entertainment, Inc. provides gaming technology solutions to regulated lottery, betting, and gaming operators worldwide. It operates through four divisions: Gaming, Virtual Sports, Interactive, and Leisure, offering gaming terminals, digital games, simulated sports titles, and amusement machines. The company is headquartered in New York, New York.

Fundamental

fair
Fundamental3
Mixed fundamentals

Strong margins and cash flow contrast with high leverage and negative equity, suggesting a higher-risk value setup.

High-margin gaming-technology business with cheap enterprise multiples and large implied upside from DCF/analyst targets, supported by recent insider buying. However, leverage and weak credit-style signals (very low Z-score, thin interest coverage, negative equity) keep risk elevated even though recent SEC filings show covenant compliance and liquidity runway into 2027; overall best viewed as a higher-risk value/opportunistic setup rather than a low-risk compounder.

Sentiment

weak
Sentiment2
Weak sentiment

No actionable catalysts and weak recent coverage with downside risk flagged by technical notes.

No actionable first-party catalyst exists in the 1–30d window — the 30-day official-PR spine returned no Inspired-specific releases and the sole in-window signal is a rumored technical note (options positioning, 2026-09-15) flagging weak sentiment and downside risk — while the sentiment delta is indeterminate (baseline below the 3-item threshold) with an item-level tilt from mildly positive baseline coverage to a neutral-to-weak recent fortnight and retail coverage is absent. Red-Flag Screen clean, but an empty catalyst calendar with thin, weak recent coverage is an absent setup rather than a mixed one.

Technical

weak
Technical2
Strong downtrend

The stock is in a strong downtrend with deeply oversold conditions but no confirmed momentum reversal.

INSE closed 09-17 at 4.79 after tagging a fresh 52-week low (4.66), below every moving average (SMA20 5.54, SMA50 6.21, SMA200 7.56, EMA9 5.15, EMA21 5.51, DEMA14 4.92, TEMA14 4.85) and below the session VWAP (4.86). ADX 52.8 measures a very strong trend and, with price beneath all averages, that strength is DOWN. MACD remains negative and still weakening (line -0.38, signal -0.34, histogram -0.04) — no momentum turn is confirmed. RSI 22.4 and Williams %R -91.7 are deeply oversold and could support a reflex bounce, but with no confirmed turn the chart quality is bounce-only — score 2. The trade is suppressed regardless by the upstream qualitative screen (qualitativeScore 2 < 3) and by liquidity (20-day ~$1.20M vs $5M floor; recent 3-session ~$1.01M vs $1.5M floor).

You’re looking at 2026-09-18 — more than 2 trading days ago.

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