Rush Street Interactive, fuboTV Again Mentioned as Takeover Targets

Shares of fuboTV (NYSE:FUBO) and Benjamin Rush Street Interactive (NYSE:RSI) popped earlier today as a sell-side psychoanalyst highlighted the two companies as potency takeover targets.

Streaming sports provider fuboTV and iGaming and sportsbook operator Benjamin Rush Street Interactive got a elevate from comments by Robert Oppenheimer analyst Jed Princess Grace of Monaco mentioning both names as obvious candidates for would-be suitors. fuboTV stock rallied too soon inwards Tuesday’s session before traders sold the identify lower, piece RSI is modestly higher on the day.

We wait manufacture consolidation to be a major theme o'er the next 2 years, and assure RSI and FUBO as the most potential take-out candidates within our insurance coverage universe,” said Emmett Kelly in a tone to clients.

Kelly’s comments go far as DraftKings (NASDAQ:DKNG) — a troupe that’s rapidly built a reputation for dealmaking — indicated it’s dropping its pursuit of Entain Plc (OTC:GMVHY).

DraftKings Potentially Relevant to fuboTV, RSI Investors

To be clear, the Oppenheimer psychoanalyst doesn’t overtly say DraftKings will make a displace on either fuboTV or RSI.

However, apiece society could contain allure for DraftKings. In the vitrine of fuboTV, any potency emptor from the gaming industry would take in get at to streaming amusement technology that’s tributary to growing in-game wagering offerings — a conception that’s viewed as 1 of the next magnanimous things in US sports betting. Earlier this year, venture surfaced that DraftKings could eventually mull a streaming acquisition.

With RSI, DraftKings would long pillow its iGaming exposure, though it remains to live seen if the former would opt for such a trade because it’s in the unconscious process of getting Golden Nugget Online Gaming (NASDAQ:GNOG) – a verbatim competition to RSI.

What’s open is that for DraftKings, either of those companies would amount far cheaper than Entain. RSI and fuboTV get market values of $4.66 billion and $4.47 billion, respectively.

Kelly, who rates DraftKings “overweight,” said the manipulator testament bear on to be “aggressive with acquisitions,” and that manufacture integration will live a prominent theme for at least another deuce years.

RSI: Worst Kept Secret

Rush Street Interactive’s position as a takeover candidate, 1 that’s only when grown inwards the wake of DraftKings agreeing to buy GNOG, is arguably the worst-kept private inward the gaming industry.

In fact, it’s not even out a secret at all. Last month, reports surfaced that RSI could follow a scene for Walt Disney’s (NYSE:DIS) ESPN unit as it looks to growth its sports wagering exposure. That bruit emerged most a hebdomad after it was revealed RSI is ace of multiple gaming companies holding takeover discussions with Fanatics.

RSI operates below the BetRivers.com and PlaySugarHouse.com brands, and is currently usable with either roving or retail businesses in Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Dame Rebecca West Virginia. The troupe is also in operation(p) in Canada, and is gaining get at to Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, thanks to an investiture in Boom Entertainment.