Signing out of account, Standby... <br>Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. (GMBL) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 0% and 33.98%, respectively, for the quarter ended December 2021. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead...<br>Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. (GMBL) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.37 per share in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. This compares to loss of $0.46 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.<br>A quarter ago, it was expected that this company would post a loss of $0.42 per share when it actually produced a loss of $0.45, delivering a surprise of -7.14%.<br>Over the last four quarters, the company has not been able to surpass consensus EPS estimates.<br>Esports Entertainment Group, Inc.<no-break-space></no-break-space>, which belongs to the Zacks Gaming industry, posted revenues of $14.53 million for the quarter ended December 2021, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 33.98%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $2.36 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates just once over the last four quarters.<br>The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.<br>Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. Shares have lost about 7.4% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of -8.8%.<br><b>What's Next for Esports Entertainment Group, Inc.</b><br>While Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. Has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?<br>There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.<br>Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.<br>Ahead of this <a href="https://www.zacks.com/stock/research/GMBL/earnings-calendar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earnings release</a>, the estimate revisions trend for Esports Entertainment Group, Inc. Mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see <a href="https://www.zacks.com/stocks/buy-list/?ADID=zp_1link&ICID=zpi_1link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here</a>.<br>It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is -$0.33 on $27.72 million in revenues for the coming quarter and -$1 on $98.91 million in revenues for the current fiscal year.<br>Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Gaming is currently in the bottom 37% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.<br>One other stock from the same industry, Playtika Holding (PLTK), is yet to report results for the quarter ended December 2021. 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