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    What Aristocrat Leisure (ASX:ALL)'s Buy-back Expansion and Credit Upgrade Means For Shareholders

    Simply Wall St·12/18/2025 20:17:41
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    • Earlier this week, Aristocrat Leisure updated investors on its ongoing on-market buy-back, confirming total repurchases of 9,311,187 securities and releasing its 2025 Annual Report, 2026 AGM date and Corporate Governance Statement.
    • Alongside reaffirmed FY26 NPATA growth guidance across Aristocrat Gaming, Product Madness and Aristocrat Interactive, Fitch’s upgrade to a BBB credit rating highlights improved financial flexibility for capital returns and investment.
    • We’ll now explore how the expanded buy-back and reaffirmed growth outlook could influence Aristocrat Leisure’s previously framed investment narrative.

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    Aristocrat Leisure Investment Narrative Recap

    To own Aristocrat Leisure, you need to believe it can keep growing across land based gaming and digital while managing capital returns and sizeable investments like NeoGames integration. The latest buy back progress, reaffirmed FY26 NPATA growth guidance and Fitch’s BBB upgrade appear to support the near term growth catalyst, while the biggest current risk still looks to be execution and cost control around ongoing M&A and platform integration rather than this week’s announcements.

    Among the recent updates, Fitch’s move to upgrade Aristocrat to a BBB credit rating with a stable outlook stands out, because it directly affects the company’s funding flexibility for both buy backs and future investment. For investors watching how Aristocrat balances capital returns with spending on NeoGames and Aristocrat Interactive, this stronger credit profile could influence how comfortably the company can pursue its growth plans without putting undue pressure on cash flows or leverage.

    But against this more flexible balance sheet, investors should still be watching the rising operating costs and integration risk linked to NeoGames and Aristocrat Interactive...

    Read the full narrative on Aristocrat Leisure (it's free!)

    Aristocrat Leisure's narrative projects A$7.3 billion revenue and A$2.0 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 2.4% yearly revenue growth and an earnings increase of about A$0.8 billion from A$1.2 billion today.

    Uncover how Aristocrat Leisure's forecasts yield a A$72.81 fair value, a 28% upside to its current price.

    Exploring Other Perspectives

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    Six members of the Simply Wall St Community currently place Aristocrat’s fair value between A$56.22 and A$76.25, reflecting a wide range of personal models and expectations. You can weigh these against the key catalyst of NeoGames and Aristocrat Interactive integration potentially expanding iLottery and iGaming, which may have important implications for the company’s future performance.

    Explore 6 other fair value estimates on Aristocrat Leisure - why the stock might be worth just A$56.22!

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    This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.