- SciPlay Corp (NASDAQ:SCPL), the maker of mobile and web games, could not reach an agreement with the majority owner Scientific Games Corp (NASDAQ: SGMS), regarding the offer.
- Scientific Games, a prominent supplier to the gambling industry, expressed its withdrawal from the offer.
- The two sides failed to come to terms after a special committee of SciPlay’s board rejected Scientific Games’ initial stock-swap offer.
- Scientific Games, which already owned 81% of SciPlay, had offered 0.25 of its shares for each share of SciPlay it did not already hold.
- Price Action: SCPL shares traded lower by 17.1% at $12.82 in the premarket session on the last check Thursday.
HOOKIPA Pharma Q2 EPS $(0.23) Beats $(0.36) Estimate, Sales $2.75M Miss $3.56M Estimate
HOOKIPA Pharma (NASDAQ:HOOK) reported quarterly losses of $(0.23) per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $(0.36) by 36.11 percent. This is a 55.77 percent increase over losses of $(0.52) per share from