Worth a bet on Entain?
Near the end of a year of ups and downs, independent analyst Alistair Strang studies the form for this gambling firm's shares.
9th December 2025 07:51
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
Looking at betting company Entain (LSE:ENT)’s share price, we’re not entirely full of optimism as it appears weakness anytime soon risks promoting reversal to an initial 635p with our secondary, if broken, at a bottom of 465p.
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It has been reported that institutional shareholders own 61% of the company, and we wonder whether the recent Government mugging in the budget by increasing gambling taxes will provoke some cautionary pressure from the effective owners of the organisation, institutional types traditionally afraid of their own shadow.
Of course, there’s a more positive scenario available. Movement above the Blue downtrend since 2001, currently 893p, indicates the potential of a share price lift to 988p initially. Our longer-term secondary, if this initial is exceeded, works out at 1,118p eventually. This scenario contains a bit of a bombshell, showing a long term attraction as coming from 1,835p. This ambition makes quite a lot of visual sense.
Source: Trends and Targets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.
Alistair Strang has led high-profile and "top secret" software projects since the late 1970s and won the original John Logie Baird Award for inventors and innovators. After the financial crash, he wanted to know "how it worked" with a view to mimicking existing trading formulas and predicting what was coming next. His results speak for themselves as he continually refines the methodology.
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