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DraftKings Fined $200K for SEC Violation Over Social Posts
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10/2/2024
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DraftKings, we've got news on them, social media content, which is now so prevalent,
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and everybody's doing social media posts, everybody's giving out pics online.
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DraftKings, though, got pinched for $200,000.
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What happened here?
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Yeah, DraftKings was hit with an SEC violation where they have to pay the $200K.
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It actually stems from their CEO, Jason Robbins, posting on social media about the company's
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strong growth a week before earnings.
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The company came out, did not admit or deny any of the findings, but they actually agreed
00:33
to pay the fine.
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Basically, the regulation that was violated here was fair disclosure, according to the
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SEC.
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Robbins posted on social media talking about massive potential for growth in new markets,
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states that DraftKings launched in either 2018 or 2019 with sports betting, which ended
00:52
up being a key component of the earnings call, which was held seven days later.
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He talked about revenue growing 80% in those states, and it's really become a big focal
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point for the company talking about how we're going to be profitable and continue to get
01:05
money even without new state launches.
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The problem here, according to the SEC, is that he, quote-unquote, selectively disclosed
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info to investors.
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It sort of has to be disclosing info to everyone at the same time, saying he should have waited
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for earnings to disclose this.
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Now, social media can be used to make material public, but it has to be on an account that
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is flagged that will be sharing the information, at least that's according to the reporting
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from my colleague Matthew Waters, who did a great job covering this for us at Legal
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Sports Report.
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So neither of Robbins' Twitter accounts or LinkedIn accounts had been identified as these
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accounts where people could receive updates about sensitive stock information.
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So essentially, it looks like he jumped the gun here and they got hit with a $200,000
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fine because of it.
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Not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but definitely something that the company
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will not want to keep repeating.
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All right.
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Finally, Sam, we've got a couple of minutes left.
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Let's get an update on Nevada.
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I know there's some financial numbers in there, average hold numbers.
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Seems to be always a successful run for Nevada, no matter what time of the year it is, especially
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with football season in this quarter beginning.
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Yeah, Nevada is always a good benchmark for how Las Vegas-based sportsbooks are doing.
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We saw August, they actually grew revenue and handle by a lot despite a year where revenue
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and handle has been down.
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Pretty much overall, it was only the third month this year with year-over-year growth,
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which should set them up pretty well as we enter football season, postseason baseball,
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the NBA.
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They had about $455 million bet during the month, despite a below average hold rate of
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only 5.5%.
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Everywhere else in the country, hold rates are about 9.7%.
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Nevada has a lot of the money bet in person, which kind of changes the framework of how
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that all comes in.
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I think baseball really helped with the postseason push there with the wildcard races in the
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AL and the NL coming down to the wire.
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Always so amazed when you have 182 games that can come down to the wire, but it's really
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good for sportsbooks, obviously, as we see in Nevada.
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And like you alluded to, Craig, I would expect as the football season numbers roll in from
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September and then into October, we're only going to see this go up and up, especially
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with college football heating up as well.
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So good sign for the sportsbooks, and I'd expect it to be their second straight month
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of growth once September comes in.
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