Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Accel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: ACEL) operates as a leading distributed gaming operator in the United States, offering turnkey gaming solutions to bars, restaurants, convenience stores, truck stops, and fraternal and veteran establishments across multiple states. The company's website is www.accelentertainment.com. From the company’s description.
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What Accel Entertainment, Inc. does
In the company’s own words
Accel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: ACEL) operates as a leading distributed gaming operator in the United States, offering turnkey gaming solutions to bars, restaurants, convenience stores, truck stops, and fraternal and veteran establishments across multiple states. The company's website is www.accelentertainment.com.
The company's core business involves installing, maintaining, operating and servicing gaming terminals and related equipment for location partners, along with redemption devices with automated teller machine functionality and stand-alone ATMs. Accel also offers amusement devices including jukeboxes, dartboards, and pool tables. The company designs and manufactures gaming terminals and related equipment through its Grand Vision Gaming division, providing proprietary gaming terminals and software alongside offerings from leading manufacturers such as Light & Wonder, International Game Technology, Aristocrat, and Novomatic.
Accel operates across nine states through multiple brands. Its primary distributed gaming operations function under the Accel Entertainment brand in Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, and Pennsylvania. The company operates Century Gaming and Grand Vision Gaming in Montana, Century Gaming in Nevada, and Bulldog Gaming in Georgia. In Louisiana, operations are branded as Toucan Gaming. Additionally, Accel expanded into casino and horse racing operations through its December 2024 acquisition of Fairmount Park – Casino & Racing in Collinsville, Illinois, which opened in April 2025 with approximately 260 gaming positions and a thoroughbred racetrack.
As of December 31, 2025, Accel employed over 1,600 people nationwide. The company's business model emphasizes long-term, exclusive contracts with location partners, providing recurring revenue streams supported by data analytics, compliance support, and dedicated relationship management. The company offers over 150 different gaming terminal models and approximately 2,000 different games, positioning itself as one of the broadest selections in distributed gaming. Accel's competitive advantages include its gaming-as-a-service platform, strong location partner relationships, customer experience focus, deep industry experience, and established vendor relationships that provide favorable pricing and reliable equipment supply.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry
- Services
- Headquarters
- BURR RIDGE, IL
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1698991
- SIC
- 7900
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2018–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Accel Entertainment, Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Accel Entertainment, Inc.’s weight in each
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Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
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