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EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT
EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT 2020 - Q3
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Operator

Greetings. And welcome to the GAN Limited Quarter Three 2020 Financial Results. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Chief Legal Officer, Todd McTavish. Thank you. You may begin..

Todd McTavish

Thank you, Darrel, and good afternoon, everyone. GAN’s third quarter earnings release was issued today after market and is posted on the company’s website at gan.com. With me representing the company today are Dermot Smurfit, Chief Executive Officer; and Karen Flores, Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, we’d like to remind you that except for the factual statements made today, the information contained in this conference call, including any financial and related guidance to be provided, consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict.

Words and expressions reflecting optimism and satisfaction with current prospects, as well as statements in the future tense, identified forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

Forward-looking statements should not be interpreted as guarantee of future performance or results, as such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those expressed in or suggested by the forward-looking statements.

Some important factors that could cause such differences are discussed in the Risk Factor section of GAN’s IPO prospectus dated May 5, 2020.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statements are made and the company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions or changes and other factors affecting forward-looking information, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws.

With that, I’d like to turn the floor over to Karen for opening remarks. Please go ahead, Karen..

Karen Flores

Thank you, Todd. Before Dermot takes the floor, I will take the opportunity to briefly summarize the key financial highlights, which will set the stage for both our detailed commentary.

First, we executed on continued growth momentum, delivering revenue of $10.3 million on gross operating revenues of $142 million, with growth in online casino gaming, as well as the resumption of sports betting throughout the quarter.

Second, we have invested to expand our capability to deliver on being the leading technology and content supplier for internet gambling, together with our corporate infrastructure to ensure governance align with the requirements of NASDAQ.

This means we have logically invested to resource today for tomorrow’s opportunity, having won substantial new clients since the date of our admission to NASDAQ. This is the nature of our rapid growth model and positions us for a rollout of expanded multi-state client operations throughout 2021 and beyond.

Finally, the transformative acquisition of Vincent Group p.l.c., better known as Coolbet is now underway with an expected close in early Q1 to bring their sports capability online in the U.S. as a managed B2B sports offering integrated into our market leading platforms.

We believe this acquisition is being undertaken at a highly attractive valuation, relative to the opportunity to rollout B2B sports betting services in the U.S. We have undertaken to acquire Coolbet for approximately $175 million, which represents 3.5 times 2021 forecasted revenue.

We believe this is a compelling purchase in light of industry comparable valuations. The transaction will be satisfied through approximately $95 million in cash and $80 million in equity to be issued of closing, with the equity tranche subject to structured shareholder lockup periods.

We will seek new capital in the coming weeks to ensure GAN maintains a strong balance sheet post-closing of this transaction. We intend to use a combination of cash on hand and an equity capital raise subject to market conditions. We look forward to delivering the 2021 growth opportunity equipped with our Coolbet partners.

Thank you and I’ll now invite Dermot to take the floor..

Dermot Smurfit

Thank you, Karen, and good afternoon, everyone. GAN delivered revenue of $10.3 million in the third quarter, up 23% quarter-on-quarter and up 86% year-on-year. Of these quarterly revenues 88% originated from our key strategic market of the United States, driven by the resumption of U.S.

sports betting, rapid growth in online casino gaming and multiple deployments of our platform in anticipation of the upcoming Michigan market activation. These results were also driven by $142 million in gross operating revenue, up 76% versus the third quarter in 2019.

Underlying that performance was impressive year-on-year growth in online casino with gross operating revenue from casino games jumping from $26 million in third quarter of last year, more than $95 million in the third quarter this year.

Year-to-date, we delivered $413 million in gross operating revenue to all our clients by the end of September, which was up 112% from the same nine months in 2019.

When looking deeper into our year-to-date performance, the ramp up in gross operating revenue from online casino gaming is highly impressive, with 306% growth year-over-year to 240 $6 million, compared to $60 million in casino gross operating revenue in the same period of 2019.

While both the consumer attention and client demand remains focused on sports betting, the real core of the U.S.

internet gambling profit opportunity lies inherently within the online casino, which is only unlocked by the mass market appeal of sports betting being a technical and operational capability, we will shortly possess it has a theme of return to shortly.

Stepping up the level, it’s worth noting that the vast majority of all internet gambling revenues are generated today in just two states, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but the third major market of Michigan poised to commence.

In Pennsylvania the ramp up of internet gambling versus operating revenues continues to surpass expectations set in early 2019 predictably centered around growth in online casino gaming. In neighboring New Jersey, they’ve just reported a new all-time monthly record in online casino gaming revenues of $91 million, reflecting 109% growth year-on-year.

When you combine online casino gaming with internet poker, and of course, internet sports betting, New Jersey generated in excess of $132 million of gross operating revenue in that single state in the single month of October. This amount would have seemed implausible just two years ago.

New Jersey is now on a path where internet gambling revenues could be on a monthly run rate to exceed pre-COVID retail gaming revenues by the end of 2022. I’ll state this again, because it is incredibly important for everyone to understand the magnitude of the structural shift in the retail casino industry.

New Jersey’s internet gambling market is on a growth path to exceed pre-COVID monthly retail casino gaming revenues within 18 months, possibly less.

This all points to bright line a truth that COVID combined with the advent of internet sports betting and the associated strong cross-sell of sports gamblers into online casino gaming has manifestly altered expected future growth opportunities in this industry for decades to come.

Since processing the first legal online casino bet in New Jersey back in November 2013, GAN has spent several years developing the U.S. internet gambling opportunity for the benefit of our shareholders today and we remain at the forefront of this expansionary wave. Two strong recent client wins serve as high profile illustrative examples.

First off, we’re supporting the national ambitions of the venerable Churchill downs we will be kicking off shortly in Michigan with significant existing digital and retail gaming assets to leverage online.

Then there is the highly exciting 10-year contract we closed in Q3 with Wynn Resorts Interactive division, who we will also bring online to Michigan with selected expansion opportunities and other incremental states already in discussion between the parties.

Speaking of Wynn, it is worth noting we license our iBridge patents to them as part of our commercial deal structure, ensuring we secured above market pricing throughout the unprecedented 10-year contract term.

Based on our experience today in Pennsylvania, we have seen on average 75% more value in aggregate deposits from those online gamblers who have linked their retail reward cards to their regulated online gambling account versus those who have not linked any reward cards.

Proving at the massive volume -- value proposition of our iBridge patent in real money in an account linked just as we proved the same for simulated gaming over many years.

However, the largest event in 2020 for shareholders appears not to be an admission to trading on NASDAQ, but the inflection point represented by or now announced acquisition of Coolbet with regulated operations in both Europe and Latin America. This acquisition accelerates our previously announced pathway to $100 million in topline revenues.

It unlocks the shareholder value opportunity to become a B2B sports betting provider in the U.S. and provides us with a fast growing internal -- international strategy, which is entirely incremental to our existing international market activity in Italy.

By way of key and recent performance highlights, Coolbet is net operating income breakeven year-to-date despite the COVID sports impact in the second and third quarters of 2020, and it’s operating at significant levels of scale internationally.

Last month Coolbet served more than 50,000 active customers online, the vast majority that’s both international and U.S. sports events, with our sports book retaining just under 10% on their sports handle.

Their internet gambling operations generated gross operating revenue of approximately $29 million in the nine months to September 30, with more than $90 million in online bets processed last month alone.

Coolbet is now on a firm annual run rate to deliver $50 million in topline revenue to GAN’s combined P&L in 2021 and has exciting performance momentum in these final weeks of 2020, when combined GAN’s overall headcount as a group will exceed 400 in total with $65 million in the trailing 12 months revenue.

As background to this transaction, since launching on NASDAQ we commenced an exhaustive review of numerous sports betting technology owners. We surveyed more than 16 companies at various stages of maturity and in doing so learns diverse critical truths about the sports betting industry.

In order to best serve manage sports betting to our current and future clients in the U.S., we needed to find not just sports technology, but also the people who stand behind that technology as the knowledgeable operators. The sports traders know how to take positions on sporting events. Those who know how to trade all sports, including U.S.

sports, they know how to manage risk and ultimately who understand how to generate profit from a volatile sports environment, only by acquiring an owner operator of sports betting technology, which GAN secure the necessary tech, engineering and trading skills talents and their associated intellectual capital.

Working with our advisors identified this acquisition as a rare industrial opportunity, due to the symmetry of their technology with ours, permitting rapid integration, transport and deployment into the U.S. in 2021.

More importantly, we identified a can do culture, very much aligned with GAN’s own culture formed under challenging circumstances, leading to well earned success.

By teaming up with Coolbet experienced leadership, GAN will be equipped with state-of-the-art micro services based technology, which is driven their award winning sports betting experience, user interface and product for overseas users. It is this capability which will now permit GAN’s offer sports betting in the U.S.

as a managed service as soon as reasonably possible in 2021, alongside our market leading platform and extensive library of online casino games. As a perhaps, timely reminder, in our last earnings call, I took the opportunity to outline the parameters of any sports acquisition we might consider.

Adding the sports capability is a logical way to rapidly expand our share of client’s gross operating revenue flowing through our platform and this acquisition will prove immediately accretive to both revenue and earnings.

More importantly, we believe the culture Coolbet aligns closely with GAN and there is a real shared excitement to bring their sports capability to America next year. And so in making this acquisition, it is important to indicate now that we only intend to bring Coolbet to the U.S.

as a B2B product and service that we are not planning to bring Coolbet B2C platform to the domestic market at this time. Equally important to note is that GAN will continue to work alongside existing and valued third-party sports betting vendors who have integrated into GAN’s platform at the request of our clients.

And so sports betting and casino gaming go hand-in-hand in America, just as they have done in Europe and Asia for more than two decades.

We therefore foresee substantial incremental regulation of internet casino gaming by sports in every state in the future, particularly those in need of incremental tax revenues to support their state budgets badly damaged in this continuing COVID environment.

Shifting gear briefly and in an equally important strategic development for GAN, during the third quarter, we also launched our Super RGS for casino content delivery in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and we also prepared for lunch in Michigan as well.

This Super RGS delivers our market leading portfolio proprietary casino games, third-party casino games developed inherently within our platform and aggregated content from multiple RGS providers. All told, we are now delivering in excess of 800 casino games to our clients who maintain leadership positions in the market.

The significance of the Super RGS is that it will permit internet gambling companies who are operating on a proprietary or competing third-party platform integrates GAN Super RGS and launch our entire games portfolio on their website and mobile apps.

This creates a technical and commercial vehicle for GAN to deliver its casino content across the entirety the relevant U.S. intra-state markets and not just onto our platform client’s websites and mobile apps.

We believe this will be an exciting incremental new market offering in 2021, particularly for new market entrants seeking one technical integration to catch up with major operators.

We will also allow existing operators to fill the gaps in their content portfolio by integrating GAN’s Super RGS, when successfully commercialized GAN Super RGS should materially contribute to our gross operating revenues and generate high margin content licensing revenues, weighted towards the second half of 2021.

We remain very much focused on executing against our growth strategy, but also investing in the people required to deliver on the business objectives of our clients. As Karen mentioned, we’ve been resourcing today for tomorrow’s opportunity.

As a reminder, since listing on NASDAQ, we have acquired multiple new additional clients of our platform, including Penn National for simulator gaming, Churchill Downs for nationwide rollout of real money, internet sports and casino gaming, as well as securing that unprecedented 10-year deal to bring Wynn Active online to Michigan and expansion opportunities outside Michigan already under discussion.

Looking ahead a few weeks into the end of this current quarter, we do anticipate the launch of Michigan with technical deployment for three clients completed and our licensing applications very much in good order. The date of launch is now in the hands of the regulatory process, with potential clarification anticipated shortly after Thanksgiving.

It’s worth noting the environment for retail commercial gaming in Michigan has darkened somewhat overnight, as Michigan’s governor has ordered Detroit’s casinos to close this coming Wednesday.

This together with industry stakeholders support and vendor readiness suggests we will see the first bet placed online in Michigan before year’s end some months before originally anticipated.

I will now take this opportunity to thank our shareholders for their continuing support of GAN as the leading provider of B2Bb enterprise software solutions for U.S. land based casino operators.

We anticipate maintaining and strengthening our leadership position as we move rapidly into 2021 and deliver on the opportunity represented by Michigan with Wynn Resorts, Churchill Downs and FanDuel.

Also, our continuing mission has clearly stated to bring retail casinos online with our technology platform focused principally on delivering all forms of internet gambling content, including casino gaming and sports betting.

For retail casinos in those states without internet gambling legislation, we offer simulated gaming now with the opportunity to upgrade to real money internet gambling as state by state regulation continues to emerge.

This simulated gaming product continues to generate new business and new relationships for us and in the quarter we expanded the scope of simulated gaming to encompass simulated sports betting is has proven popular amongst Ohio residents and serves as an excellent way to acquire Ohioans substantially in advance of regulated real money sports betting widely anticipated in 2021, not unlike the marketing advantage enjoyed by Daily Fantasy Sports operators.

And so we continue to see COVID-19 accelerating intrastate regulation of internet gambling. Americans continue to spend more time at home consuming online entertainment of all kinds. In many states politicians continue their search for incremental revenue opportunities to replace loss tax income.

We see all of this as continuing the favorable climate for incremental regulation of internet gambling and we welcome the market expansion in Maryland, Louisiana and South Dakota in the wake of our recent elections.

In planning for a post-COVID industry environments we have invested in our people by expanding our leadership bench to support our corporate infrastructure as a NASDAQ listed company and continuing to invest in creating the burstable engineering resources required to deploy game stack platform for existing and new clients.

The challenge remains to increase our capabilities of delivering multiple clients online simultaneously across multiple states, delivering on the expansion objectives of our clients and we are very proud to have three clients lined up for day one online operations in Michigan.

Robust bandwidth amongst our engineering groups worldwide continues to remain a high priority and Las Vegas continues to be fertile ground as we execute on rapid controlled expansion. I’m extremely proud of how hard our team worked to deliver record results this quarter and serve our clients.

This great team will soon be complemented by the great people at Coolbet with whom we look forward to a prosperous 2021. And so, with that, I will turn this dialogue back over to our CFO and Board member, Karen Flores..

Karen Flores

Thanks, Dermot. The announcement of our pending acquisition of Coolbet begins yet another exciting chapter in GAN’s history.

For the first time we will be welcoming another organization into the company and we will embark on this journey together to unlock the potential of creating the premier global online sports betting and iGaming technology supplier ecosystem.

Coolbet has successfully scaled their business over the last several years and will provide GAN near turnkey capabilities in online sports betting. This acquisition is just one example of our unwavering commitment to deliver shareholder value and we remained laser focused on this objective in Q3.

Before discussing our third quarter results in details, I’d like to focus on two key highlights. First, since early summer, we put significant attention and effort towards evaluating both our technology stack and our organizations in determining how best to deploy the capital we raised during the IPO to lay the foundation for our future success.

We concluded on Coolbet not only for the proprietary technology they felt, but also for the seamless cultural fit. We are thrilled to welcome the entire Coolbet organization to GAN. Second, forging ahead on our journey and being able to capitalize on opportunities as they arise, such as Coolbet demands that we strengthen our corporate enterprise.

We have made tremendous progress in shoring up areas of our infrastructure that has been historically challenged onboarding more than 60 employees since the start of COVID and kicking off numerous core projects in the areas of product, technology, infrastructure and compliance.

The investment and achieving operational excellence is not contained to just our people. The NASDAQ uplisting coupled with our M&A strategy has resulted in an elevated level of professional advisory services for a short-term period.

This primarily includes accounting and tax advisory, capital markets advisory and outside legal in connection with corporate infrastructure, expansion and additional compliance requirements, s a result of becoming a U.S. public company this past May.

We anticipate that this investment will continue through the first quarter of 2021 and will put us in a great position to achieve our long-term objectives. Now turning to a discussion of our third quarter results. I’m excited to report continued positive momentum with revenue of $10.3 million, an increase of 86% comparatively and 23% sequentially.

Year-over-year, our combined simulated and real many iGaming SaaS revenue increased by 75%, while both comparatively and sequentially a contributing growth factor was our most recent client Wynn and the related deployment of multiple instances of the iBridge platform to Michigan in preparation for a December Go Live.

We are excited to soon be launching three partners in the states. Additionally, the lift we experienced in the second quarter in our online simulated and casino iGaming segments as casinos were shuttered during COVID was sustained during Q3. In both categories we observe 20% plus quarter-over-quarter increases in active player days.

However, arc down monetization declined slightly as related to content mix shifts within the quarter, balancing out the increase in active player days. For simulated the launch of Penn National mid-August was also a contributing positive factor and we look forward to scaling this business further over the coming months.

Turning to gross margin, quarter-over-quarter we saw compression of 2 points as related to increase hardware revenue. However, on a year-to-date basis versus 2019, we have seen a substantial increase in operating leverage, with margins increasing from 47% to 64%.

As our 2019 results include $4 million in patent licensing revenue, the operating leverage is even more significant excluding this, with margins increasing almost two-fold from 33% to 64%. Administrative expenses for the third quarter of 2020 were $10.4 million, compared to $4.1 million for the third quarter of 2019.

Year-over-year increase in administrative expenses was primarily attributable to our growing staff, expanded share-based compensation as related to the IPO and increased professional services, as I mentioned in my opening comments.

On a year-to-date basis, we have incurred $6.8 million worth of share-based compensation related expense that will not recur in 2021. With respect to the strengthening of our corporate infrastructure, the company performed an audit of its global tax position, which has resulted in $900,000 of non-recurring charges related to estimated tax provisions.

These estimated provisions pertain to VAT, as well as the potential application of the Wayfair Supreme Court decision in 2018 as related to U.S. sales and use tax on our simulated gaming business. Adjusted EBITDA improved slightly year-over-year from a loss of $400,000 to a loss of $100,000.

Again, this reflects our current level of investment in product, technology, infrastructure and U.S. public company compliance. Our balance sheet remains strong with cash and cash equivalents of $57.5 million and we continued to remain debt free.

At this time, we are reiterating our full year revenue guidance of $37 million to $39 million based on commercialization of our intellectual property subject to timing. With respect to 2021 guidance, we are still in the process of finalizing our plans, which will of course now include the addition of Coolbet.

We will continue to refine our internal budgets as we move through Q4 and we’ll issue formal 2021 revenue guidance on our Q4 and full year earnings call. Dermot back to you for closing comments..

Dermot Smurfit

Thank you all for joining today for a third earnings call as a U.S. listed company. Again, we would like to thank all of our investors who have backed our market leadership position which we intend to extend in the coming period with the support of our colleagues at Coolbet.

Our team is executing well to expand our client base and bring our existing clients online in ne intrastate markets despite the challenges presented by COVID-19 and limitations on business travel, as well as unpredictable regulatory processes. Our technology team continues to grow here in the United States.

We remain one of the few active employers in the hard hit local economies such as Las Vegas. Our future represents the future of American gambling and all growth will likely be predominantly in the online channel for many years to come. We very much look forward to speaking with you all again early in 2021. Stay safe wherever you may be.

Operator we will now take questions..

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question is come from the line of Chad Beynon with Macquarie. Please proceed with your question..

Chad Beynon

Thanks. Good afternoon. Congrats on the announcement. Dermot, I wanted to start with that. So you noted that you’ll be bringing the B2B product of Coolbet to the U.S. So just so we can understand it. Once that’s implemented, you’ll essentially have a full turnkey sports betting product with risk trading the betting engine.

I guess what you’re offering will be comparable to some of the comprehensive offerings to GBC, gambling, et cetera. Just trying to understand if there’s still major pieces that you’ll have to outsource or will you essentially be able to do everything at that point? Thanks..

Dermot Smurfit

Yes, Chad. Great question. Appreciate it. And Coolbet was in fact in the develop stages of planning their own B2B offering services for deployment in the U.S. So our timing was not just lucky, but usually convenient for both sides of the transaction. Yes, it will be a turnkey managed service.

It will be fully data provisioned and traded with significant experience -- existing and has experience of U.S. sports betting. So we do think we’re bringing a highly competitive offering at the sports betting engine trading risk management level.

Furthermore, we’re also bringing an award winning mobile front-end purpose built for sports gambling into the U.S. and it’s one of the few areas where I think the U.S. sometimes lags state-of-the-art in Europe and Asia. So we’re very much looking forward to bringing these guys and a superior product into the U.S. for existing and future clients..

Chad Beynon

Great. Okay.

And then on the B2C revs or B2C biz for Coolbet outside of the U.S., are there markets that you expect you’ll have to exit if they’re gray or do you believe that all the markets that Coolbet operates in right now, you’ll be -- you’ll want to stay in those markets?.

Dermot Smurfit

Yeah. So, again, a key criteria as part of our review of the market was ensuring that we had a similar attitude towards regulation in regulated markets. Coolbet has substantial B2C operations in Estonia, under licensed Sweden, under licensed, and of course, through Malta.

So we’re very happy with the compliance profile of Coolbet’s overall B2C business and we look forward to significant expansion in 2021..

Chad Beynon

Okay. And then lastly just for the quarter, adjusted for the FanDuel OSB shift, would you believe that your market share maintained Q3 versus Q2 or actually increased? Do you have a sense of kind of how that looked in the quarter? That’s all for me. Thanks..

Dermot Smurfit

Yeah. Pretty much consistent Chad. I mean, sports betting share obviously decreased in the quarter. We missed the September ramp up for NFL take those again. But in terms of online casino, we’ve seen a fairly consistent market share, so no particular change there..

Chad Beynon

Thank you very much..

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ryan Sigdahl with Craig-Hallum. Please proceed with your questions..

Ryan Sigdahl

Great. Good afternoon, guys, and congrats on the business development. Just want to stay on the Coolbet topic for a few here to start. As you mentioned, that sports betting technology being integrated in the second half of 2021, having a full end-to-end offering.

Will your customers have the option to continue use and can be your other third-party offerings for the sports betting engine or will you be transitioning everyone basically on to your full end-to-end solution?.

Dermot Smurfit

So, right, Ryan, great question. I made it pretty clear in my narrative that we’re going to be open to continue to work with our valued third-party sports betting vendors, already integrated into our platform. It is going to be at the choice of our existing and future clients as to whether or not they want to embrace the Coolbet’s sports offering.

We do believe we have significant competitive advantages over the choices available to them today. And we certainly hope that over time, some of our existing clients will choose to deploy the Coolbet technology and displacement of existing sports betting vendors.

But first, the puddings in the eating and we’re very excited to bring this to market early in 2021..

Ryan Sigdahl

Got you. Thanks. Apologies for missing that earlier. Then just as far as bringing Coolbet technology to U.S. on a B2B.

Is there any license considerations we should keep in mind there or they have the licenses, can you basically integrate them and off and running?.

Dermot Smurfit

Yeah. That’s exactly right. So it gets folded under the umbrella of gaming licenses, privilege gaming licenses that we’ve secured over the years. We are not expecting any turbulence when it comes to gaming licensor or regulatory considerations. So it should be a pretty smooth entry into the U.S.

under the very conservative compliance profile operated by GAN, which will of course continue..

Ryan Sigdahl

And then one last one on Coolbet then I’m going to switch over to the core business for one.

Are you able to share which regions are the largest for Coolbet and then any approximate market share by those regions?.

Dermot Smurfit

Regionally Northern Europe, including Estonia, they have a substantial business and certain Latin American markets. But in terms of market share, we’re not in a position to disclose individual market share positions..

Ryan Sigdahl

Got it. Then just switching over the core business, expenses were a little bit higher than we’re expecting in the quarter, you mentioned some professional fees and public company, et cetera.

How should we think about EBITDA for the next several quarters? I think you’ve mentioned kind of elevated costs through Q1, so is breakeven EBITDA the right assumption or just any directional commentary to kind of help with puts and takes there?.

Karen Flores

Yeah. So we are going to be, as I mentioned, having continued advisory services through the fourth quarter and into Q1, as we’re in process on a number of projects, which also includes converting our financials to GAAP and then anything associated specifically with the transaction. So we do anticipate that Q4 and Q1 will look similar to this quarter..

Ryan Sigdahl

Good. One more for me and then I’ll turn it over. You mentioned commercialization efforts on your patent, the rewards integration framework.

Did I hear correctly, you said, Wynn is using it in Michigan or we’ll use it, is that correct one? And then can you talk about kind of the pipeline and how many operator assumptions you’re assuming in your Q4 guidance? Thanks. Good luck..

Dermot Smurfit

Boy happy to confirm that Wynn has licensed patents and we will deploy the iBridge patented capability. As we touched on we saw an incredible uplift in online gamblers in Pennsylvania who wouldn’t the rewards card they basically deposit 75% more than people who don’t think their rewards card.

It is all very logical and symmetrical is our experience in simulator gaming. In terms of patent licensing, we’ve got multiple proposals out there at the moment and we are not in the position to comment..

Ryan Sigdahl

Are you able to say how many are in the guidance Wynn’ noted in your press release?.

Karen Flores

So, again, our earnings guidance is contingent on it is based on commercialization of our patents and so a portion of that is in the fourth quarter..

Ryan Sigdahl

Great. I’ll turn it over. Thanks, guys. Good luck..

Dermot Smurfit

Thanks, Ryan..

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Josh Nichols with B. Riley FBR. Please proceed with your questions..

Josh Nichols

Yeah. Thanks for taking my questions. Just want to hit on a little bit of people have been talking about Coolbet, but it also does broaden GAN’s opportunities to move outside the U.S. as well a little bit given their current foothold.

Could you elaborate on that a little bit and then provide a little bit more color on just what you think the tech advantage that Coolbet has that really attracted you to that business relative to some of the competing offerings?.

Dermot Smurfit

Yeah. Thanks, Josh. That’s a great question. So, as touched on, we looked at 16 and less or greater detail depending on the scope and merits of each individual sports can we operate.

We’re actually found a lot of B2C sports operators that didn’t really have proprietary sports betting tech at all they kind of lens overly lean or relied on third-party sports betting providers. So there is a -- what I described is the mirage of B2C operators in Europe in fact have any proprietary sports capability that’s worth noting.

Coolbet has got extensive in-house capability at all levels. They represent a full turnkey solution for deployment in the U.S. We believe they’re extremely successful, bearing in mind, the hyper competitive markets of certain mature Northern European markets. They’re also excitingly positioned for structural growth in South America.

There’s a ton of opportunity in South America.

There’s a structural opportunity for growth, not just today, but as markets regulate from time to time, and that’s of course, where we see some significant synergies in deploying GAN’s regulated markets platform, coupled to Coolbet’s very compelling sports betting products proposition, which has won multiple awards over the last few years in these competitive European markets..

Josh Nichols

Thanks. And then I just want to hit on, of course, second half being seasonally stronger than the first typically.

Could you provide any kind of outlook or what thoughts are for potential gross operator revenue for the fourth quarter or how things are potentially trending on that front?.

Dermot Smurfit

Little bit too early to comment really Josh, we’re certainly being happy with most parts of the business in Q4 and we’re looking forward to hopefully taking the first bet online in Michigan by mid-December. But, of course, we’re in the hands of the regulatory goals..

Josh Nichols

Thanks, guys.

I will hop back in the queue?.

Dermot Smurfit

Thanks..

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is come from the line of Greg Gibas of Northland Securities. Please proceed with your questions..

Greg Gibas

Good afternoon, Dermot and Karen. Thanks for taking the questions and congrats on the acquisition. I guess just a follow up on Coolbet, if I could, I think, you said about $50 million in revenue you expected in 2021.

How should we think about the company’s margin profile and maybe how it OpEx additions will impact your OpEx after the integration is complete?.

Karen Flores

Yeah. So we gave a little bit of insight relative to their current cost structure. I think on the call, we mentioned that they were operating -- they are operating net operating income breakeven on a year-to-date basis and they have about 175 employees.

So, moving forward, I mean, they’re doing an excellent job in managing the growth of the business and we anticipate that the trajectory that they’re currently on will continue into 2021 in terms of revenue and profitability, which is why we’re saying it’s immediately accretive..

Greg Gibas

Okay. Got it. Thanks. Thanks for color there. And if I could follow up on something in you prepared remarks.

Regarding the partnership with Wynn, is it pretty reasonable to assume that, as they roll out their online gaming offering in other markets outside of Michigan that wouldn’t really make as much sense to go with different providers in every state? I guess how are you thinking about that logically? And then how are your discussions going with them? You said, you are talking about those opportunities, but I guess, how -- can you give us anything more in terms of how those opportunities present themselves in additional markets?.

Dermot Smurfit

Yeah. I would hope that Wynn executives would be upset with me for saying they seem to be indicating a broad sense of satisfaction with the way they have been working with GAN to get ready for Michigan.

Obviously have been under taxing timelines across the whole enterprise, our side of this, and yes, there are expansionary opportunities within for Wynn in additional states. But as with all things, when we’re ready, we’ll announce whatever may come up that.

You pointed on perhaps a default logic that perhaps you would want to use multiple platforms in multiple states, but I do believe GAN has a very competitive positioning with the focus on convergence and integration of the rewards programs, and of course, Wynn with their fabulous properties in Las Vegas and Massachusetts actually has a very substantial database of Michigan residents who we hope would be very prepared to leap online with them for both sports and casino..

Greg Gibas

Okay. Got it. That’s a good point. And then, I guess, lastly, just to kind of follow up on the assumptions that go into guidance.

I know you don’t like to comment on revenue share expectations, but just wondering how you should think -- how we should think about some kind of DLR [ph] or maybe how individual markets are expected to trend on a sequential basis, or I guess, what’s implied in your guidance?.

Karen Flores

Yeah. So, again, we’ve talked about continued ongoing growth with all of our customers and so we were seeing expansions in the market. Dermot touched on that relative to New Jersey and so we are expecting our current market shares to continue at steady state and grow with those markets. Of course, we’re looking forward to the launch of Michigan.

We’re focused on continued commercialization of the patents and we’ve talked about that, on the last two calls as being part of the ongoing guidance as well. And so I think we’re -- this year is really about setting us up for continued significant growth going into 2021.

And a portion of that is organic and all of the clients that we’re signing, and the pipeline for 2021 continues to be robust. And the sportsbook technology offering will help accelerate our $100 million target as we’ve stated..

Greg Gibas

Got it. Thank you..

Operator

Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. On behalf of the GAN Limited team, thank you for your participation. This does conclude today’s teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time..

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