Continued Double-Digit Consolidated Revenue Growth, an Increase of 12% Year-Over-Year

Maintained Healthy Balance Sheet and Committed to $1.4 Billion FY 2025 Consolidated AEBITDA Target⁽¹⁾

Demonstrated Diversity and Strength of Game Portfolio across Our Business at G2E and AGE

Added to the S&P/ASX 100 Index on September 25, 2024

Light & Wonder, Inc. (NASDAQ and ASX: LNW) (“Light & Wonder,” “L&W,” “we” or the “Company”) today reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024.

We maintained strong momentum in the third quarter and delivered our 9^th consecutive quarter of double-digit consolidated revenue growth year-over-year, sustainable cash flow generation and returned $44 million to shareholders through share repurchases, while continuing our advancement toward our long-term financial targets. Consolidated revenue increased 12%, driven by strong performance across all our businesses, maintaining healthy earnings growth:

• Gaming revenue increased to $537 million, up 15% compared to the prior year period, primarily driven by global Gaming machine sales growth, which increased 38%, coupled with strong performance in North American Gaming operations.
• SciPlay revenue grew to $206 million, a 5% increase from the prior year period, driven by the social casino business, which continues to outpace the market and gain share on strong payer metrics, while our direct-to-consumer platform remained strong, representing 12% of total revenue.
• iGaming revenue grew to $74 million, a 6% increase from the prior year period, primarily reflecting continued momentum in North America, while the prior year benefited from $3 million in license termination fees, which impacted revenue growth by 4%.

Matt Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Light & Wonder, said, “Our results once again reflect the relentless collective efforts of the talent across our organization underpinned by our robust and scalable R&D platform. At G2E and AGE, we showcased a wide array of products that demonstrated the diversity and strength of our portfolio and franchises. We will continue to execute on our cross-platform strategy focused on innovative content and products as a leading global end-to-end gaming technology solutions provider. Our team is committed and engaged as we stay on course through the execution chapter of our journey to reach our target.”

Oliver Chow, Chief Financial Officer of Light & Wonder, added, “The highly cash generative nature of our business, combined with a healthy balance sheet and strategic capital allocation program, has proven to be a strong framework to create shareholder value. We plan to further accelerate this value creation flywheel through continued R&D and capex investments, as well as through financial means such as our share repurchase program. We stay highly convicted to our strategy and roadmap as we reaffirm our 2025 $1.4 billion Consolidated AEBITDA target⁽¹⁾ and look to remain a compounder of growth for years to come.”

LEVERAGE, CAPITAL RETURN AND LEGAL UPDATE

• Principal face value of debt outstanding⁽¹⁾ was $3.9 billion, translating to a net debt leverage ratio⁽²⁾ of 2.9x as of September 30, 2024, a 0.2x decrease from December 31, 2023, and remaining within our targeted net debt leverage ratio⁽²⁾ range of 2.5x to 3.5x.
• Returned $44 million of capital to shareholders through the repurchase of approximately 0.4 million shares of L&W common stock during the third quarter of 2024.
• Dragon Train litigation — On September 23, 2024, L&W received an order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada granting Aristocrat a preliminary injunction relating to future sales and distribution of our DRAGON TRAIN^TM game. On October 3, 2024, the Company released a statement on the litigation and highlighted a number of key initiatives to mitigate the immediate impact and any continuing business disruption from this order, including but not limited to, leveraging our diversified portfolio of successful game franchises, as well as the development of new iterations of the Dragon Train franchise consistent with the terms of the Court’s ruling. Our North American Gaming operations installed base consisted of approximately 2,200 units of Dragon Train-themed games, of which, to date, approximately 95% have been successfully replaced and / or converted with another game from our portfolio of game franchises. Our pre-ruling estimate of 2025 Consolidated AEBITDA⁽³⁾ for Dragon Train was less than 5%⁽⁴⁾ of the $1.4 billion target. We expect growth in Consolidated AEBITDA⁽³⁾ to be above 10% for the full year 2024. We will continue to execute on our long-term sustainable growth strategy progressing towards our 2025 financial targets.

SUMMARY RESULTS

Third Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights

• Third quarter consolidated revenue was $817 million compared to $731 million, a 12% increase compared to the prior year period, and our 14^th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, driven by strong performance across all three businesses. Gaming revenue increased 15%, primarily led by continued growth in Gaming machine sales, which grew 38% year-over-year, and 5% growth in Gaming operations revenue. SciPlay and iGaming revenue grew by 5% and 6%, respectively.
• Net income decreased to $64 million from $80 million in the prior year period, primarily due to higher restructuring and other costs (“R&O”) related to certain legal matters, offset by higher revenue and healthy margins. The prior year net income also benefited from a non-cash foreign currency transaction gain included in other income. Net income attributable to L&W per share⁽¹⁾ decreased by 12% to $0.71 compared to $0.81 in the prior year period.
• Consolidated AEBITDA⁽²⁾ was $319 million compared to $286 million in the prior year period, a 12% increase driven by revenue growth and sustained margin strength across our businesses.
• Adjusted NPATA⁽²⁾ increased 23% to $122 million as compared to $99 million in the prior year period, primarily due to revenue growth across all businesses. Adjusted NPATA per share⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ increased 24% to $1.34 compared to $1.08 in the prior year period. The Company is providing a targeted Adjusted NPATA⁽³⁾ range between $565 million and $635 million for fiscal year 2025.
• Net cash provided by operating activities was $119 million compared to $204 million in the prior year period. The current year period was unfavorably impacted by changes in working capital including the timing of collection of receivables associated with the roll out of Entain units in U.K.
• Free cash flow⁽²⁾ was $83 million compared to $123 million in the prior year period. The decrease was primarily due to changes in working capital described above.

BUSINESS SEGMENT HIGHLIGHTS

FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

We report our operations in three business segments—Gaming, SciPlay and iGaming—representing our different products and services.

Third Quarter 2024 Business Segments Key Highlights

• Gaming revenue increased to $537 million, up 15% compared to the prior year period, primarily driven by global Gaming machine sales growth of 38%. Gaming operations also grew 5%, benefiting from year-over-year growth in our North American installed base, which grew by 7% to 33,151 units, as well as elevated average daily revenue per unit at $49.05. Our North American premium installed base grew for the 17^th consecutive quarter, representing 50% of our total installed base mix. Our growth is driven by the continued strength and success of our diversified portfolio of successful game franchises and the success of our COSMIC^® and KASCADA^® cabinets. Gaming AEBITDA was $267 million, up 14% compared to the prior year period, primarily driven by revenue growth in the period.
• SciPlay revenue was $206 million, a 5% increase from the prior year period, while AEBITDA increased 8% to $66 million, reflective of continuing revenue growth and margin expansion. Growth was primarily driven by the social casino business, which continued to deliver consistently high player engagement and monetization, leveraging game content, dynamic Live Ops through the SciPlay Engine and effective marketing strategies. Our growing direct-to-consumer platform, which generated $25 million, or 12% of the total SciPlay revenue for the quarter, also contributed to AEBITDA growth and margin expansion. SciPlay maintained its number of payers at 0.6 million and elevated AMRPPU⁽¹⁾ at $113.49, enabling SciPlay to grow ARPDAU⁽²⁾ by 8% year-over-year to $1.04 and payer conversion to 10.7%.
• iGaming revenue increased by 6% to $74 million, and AEBITDA decreased slightly to $24 million for the current year period. Revenue growth for the period reflected continued momentum in North America and Europe as well as strong content launches. Revenue and AEBITDA in the prior year period benefited from $3 million in certain termination fees, impacting revenue and AEBITDA growth by 4% and 12%, respectively. Wagers processed through our iGaming platform totaled $22.8 billion during the quarter.
• Capital expenditures were $71 million in the third quarter of 2024 as compared to $70 million in the prior year period, primarily due to ongoing investments made to support our Gaming operations growth.

Earnings Conference Call

As previously announced, Light & Wonder executive leadership will host a conference call on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. EST to review the Company’s third quarter results. To access the call, live via a listen-only webcast and presentation, please visit explore.investors.lnw.com and click on the webcast link under the Events and Presentations section. To access the call by telephone, please dial: +1 (833) 470-1428 for U.S., +61 2 7908-3093 for Australia or +1 (404) 975-4839 for International and ask to join the Light & Wonder call using conference ID: 044989. A replay of the webcast will be archived in the Investors section on www.lnw.com.

About Light & Wonder

Light & Wonder, Inc. is the leading cross-platform global games company. Through our three unique, yet highly complementary businesses, we deliver unforgettable experiences by combining the exceptional talents of our 6,000+ member team, with a deep understanding of our customers and players. We create immersive content that forges lasting connections with players, wherever they choose to engage. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games. The Company is committed to the highest standards of integrity, from promoting player responsibility to implementing sustainable practices. To learn more visit www.lnw.com.

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Forward-Looking Statements

In this press release, Light & Wonder makes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations, plans, results or strategies and can often be identified by the use of terminology such as “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “continue,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “target,” “should,” “could,” “potential,” “opportunity,” “goal,” or similar terminology. These statements are based upon current Company management (“Management”) expectations, assumptions and estimates and are not guarantees of timing, future results or performance. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated in these statements due to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors, including, among other things:

• our inability to successfully execute our strategy;
• slow growth of new gaming jurisdictions, slow addition of casinos in existing jurisdictions and declines in the replacement cycle of gaming machines;
• risks relating to foreign operations, including anti-corruption laws, fluctuations in currency rates, restrictions on the payment of dividends from earnings, restrictions on the import of products and financial instability;
• difficulty predicting what impact, if any, new tariffs imposed by and other trade actions taken by the U.S. and foreign jurisdictions could have on our business;
• U.S. and international economic and industry conditions, including increases in benchmark interest rates and the effects of inflation;
• public perception of our response to environmental, social and governance issues;
• the effects of health epidemics, contagious disease outbreaks and public perception thereof;
• changes in, or the elimination of, our share repurchase program;
• resulting pricing variations and other impacts of our common stock being listed to trade on more than one stock exchange;
• level of our indebtedness, higher interest rates, availability or adequacy of cash flows and liquidity to satisfy indebtedness, other obligations or future cash needs;
• inability to further reduce or refinance our indebtedness;
• restrictions and covenants in debt agreements, including those that could result in acceleration of the maturity of our indebtedness;
• competition;
• inability to win, retain or renew, or unfavorable revisions of, existing contracts, and the inability to enter into new contracts;
• risks and uncertainties of potential changes in U.K. gaming legislation, including any new or revised licensing and taxation regimes, responsible gambling requirements and/or sanctions on unlicensed providers;
• inability to adapt to, and offer products that keep pace with, evolving technology, including any failure of our investment of significant resources in our R&D efforts;
• failure to retain key Management and employees;
• unpredictability and severity of catastrophic events, including but not limited to acts of terrorism, war, armed conflicts or hostilities, the impact such events may have on our customers, suppliers, employees, consultants, business partners or operations, as well as Management’s response to any of the aforementioned factors;
• changes in demand for our products and services;
• dependence on suppliers and manufacturers;
• SciPlay’s dependence on certain key providers;
• ownership changes and consolidation in the gaming industry;
• fluctuations in our results due to seasonality and other factors;
• risks as a result of being publicly traded in the United States and Australia, including price variations and other impacts relating to the secondary listing of the Company’s common stock on the Australian Securities Exchange;
• the possibility that we may be unable to achieve expected operational, strategic and financial benefits of the SciPlay merger;
• security and integrity of our products and systems, including the impact of any security breaches or cyber-attacks;
• protection of our intellectual property, inability to license third-party intellectual property and the intellectual property rights of others;
• reliance on or failures in information technology and other systems;
• litigation and other liabilities relating to our business, including litigation and liabilities relating to our contracts and licenses, our products and systems (including further developments in the Dragon Train litigation described under “Aristocrat Matters” in Note 15 of our quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 on November 12, 2024), our employees (including labor disputes), intellectual property, environmental laws and our strategic relationships;
• reliance on technological blocking systems;
• challenges or disruptions relating to the completion of the domestic migration to our enterprise resource planning system;
• laws and government regulations, both foreign and domestic, including those relating to gaming, data privacy and security, including with respect to the collection, storage, use, transmission and protection of personal information and other consumer data, and environmental laws, and those laws and regulations that affect companies conducting business on the internet, including online gambling;
• legislative interpretation and enforcement, regulatory perception and regulatory risks with respect to gaming, especially internet wagering and social gaming;
• changes in tax laws or tax rulings, or the examination of our tax positions;
• opposition to legalized gaming or the expansion thereof and potential restrictions on internet wagering;
• significant opposition in some jurisdictions to interactive social gaming, including social casino gaming and how such opposition could lead these jurisdictions to adopt legislation or impose a regulatory framework to govern interactive social gaming or social casino gaming specifically, and how this could result in a prohibition on interactive social gaming or social casino gaming altogether, restrict our ability to advertise our games, or substantially increase our costs to comply with these regulations;
• expectations of shift to regulated digital gaming;
• inability to develop successful products and services and capitalize on trends and changes in our industries, including the expansion of internet and other forms of digital gaming;
• the continuing evolution of the scope of data privacy and security regulations, and our belief that the adoption of increasingly restrictive regulations in this area is likely within the U.S. and other jurisdictions;
• incurrence of restructuring costs;
• goodwill impairment charges including changes in estimates or judgments related to our impairment analysis of goodwill or other intangible assets;
• stock price volatility;
• failure to maintain adequate internal control over financial reporting;
• dependence on key executives;
• natural events that disrupt our operations, or those of our customers, suppliers or regulators; and
• expectations of growth in total consumer spending on social casino gaming.

Additional information regarding risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in forward-looking statements is included from time to time in our filings with the SEC, including the Company’s current reports on Form 8-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC for the year ended December 31, 2023 on February 27, 2024 (including under the headings “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors”). Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and, except for our ongoing obligations under the U.S. federal securities laws, we undertake no and expressly disclaim any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Due to rounding, certain numbers presented herein may not precisely recalculate.