Online gambling operator Unibet Group plc announced record gross winnings revenue growth for the fourth-quarter of 2015. The company generated the amount of £111.4 million during the period in review, up 43% year-on-year. Full-year revenue amounted to £354.1 million, up from the £312 million reported for 2014.
EBITDA for the quarter totaled £26.2 million compared to £18.9 million in 2014. The company also posted underlying EBITDA of £27.1 million for the three months ended December 31, 2015, up from the £18.4 million reported for the same period a year ago.
Profit before tax for the period amounted to £21.3 million and profit after tax totaled £19.4 million. The respective amounts of £15.4 million and £13.5 million were posted for the corresponding three months of 2014.
Unibet’s full-year EBITDA amounted to £77 million, down from £115.7 million generated the year before. Underlying EBITDA increased to £80.8 million from £77.7 million.
The amount of £62.2 million was generated in profit before tax last year, compared to the £99 million posted for 2014. Full-year profit after tax totaled £55.7 million, down from £93.4 million in the previous year.
Unibet’s product offering includes a sportsbook, casino games, and poker. During the quarter ended December 31, 2015, the group had as many as 32,689 live betting events and streamed a total of 7,749 different events on both desktop and mobile devices.
Essentially, the online gambling operator offered 800 casino games by 47 providers of online gaming solutions. Those could be accessed on desktop and mobile devices. As for Unibet’s poker division, during the fourth quarter of the year, the company held its first Unibet Open in Antwerp and launched an updated tournament lobby that facilitated players in finding the tournaments they were interested in.
The gambling company revealed that the number of its registered customers kept on growing in the fourth quarter of the year. By December 31, 2015, there were 13.5 million registered customers compared to 13.2 million reported for September 30, 2015.
During the three months ended December 31, 2015, Unibet had a total of 921,150 active customers. Of those, 156,208 were customers of Stan James Online and iGame Group, businesses that the gambling operator acquired in 2015. In comparison, the company had 570,360 active customers during the same period of 2014, and 671,635 active customers during the third quarter of 2015.
