Winvia Entertainment Group – Teddy Sagi is back and should be followed as he grows this gaming group, shares 225p
- Mark Watson-Mitchell
- 6 hours ago
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Mark Watson-Mitchell - 18.05.2026
This really is one to watch - Winvia Entertainment Group (LON: WVIA) is a technology-driven entertainment company operating in the prize draw, skill games, and online gaming markets.
It is focused on two discrete fast-growing channels, being the large and highly fragmented UK Prize Draw market and the regulated Romanian online gaming market.
As the company itself declares ‘The Name Says It All’ - “Winvia” blends Win and Via—the path to winning. Simple. Clear.
It reflects the group’s mission to create smart, smooth, and rewarding experiences for players, partners, and stakeholders alike.
Recent AIM Newcomer
On Monday 3rd November last year, this group announced its admission to trading on AIM, following a substantially oversubscribed placing at 195p per share, with 20,512,820 placing shares issued.
The enlarged share capital immediately following admission is 105,126,590 ordinary shares, with the placing shares representing 19.5%.
The company received £40.0m from the placing before expenses, resulting in a market capitalisation of £205.0m at the placing price on admission.
The net proceeds were destined to fund acquisitions in the UK Prize Draw sector.
The Business
The group is a technology-led entertainment business, focused on two discrete fast-growing channels, being the large and highly fragmented UK Prize Draw market and the regulated Romanian online gaming market.
Underpinning both channels is the proprietary Technology Platform, which has a track-record of supporting growth and operational improvement.
Winvia Entertainment is the second-largest (by market share) Prize Draw operator in the UK, where players can win a range of prizes, including cars, luxury watches, holidays, gadgets, properties, and other items.
The Group currently owns two Prize Draw brands, Best of the Best and recently acquired Click Competitions.
The Group's Romanian Online Gaming business is well established growing, profitable and highly cash generative.
It operates a multi-brand strategy including own brands, such as Princess Casino, Royal Slots and Luck, a number of white label brands.
The newly built innovative proprietary technology platform is a key strength of the business.
It has been built in-house, with significant investment and its application to date has significantly improved key performance metrics.
Winvia’s near-term growth plans are primarily focused on the highly fragmented, fast-growing UK Prize Draw market in which there are strong organic growth opportunities in addition to a strong pipeline potential acquisitions that can leverage the Technology Platform.
Today’s Acquisition News
The group announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire Rev Comps, a UK-based prize draw platform, for £11.8m in cash, with completion expected by Wednesday, 1st July.
Rev Comps generated over £80m in revenue and approximately £2.1m in profit before tax for the year to end-May 2025.
The acquisition, funded by existing cash resources, is expected to be earnings enhancing and aligns with Winvia's strategy to consolidate the UK prize draw market, with potential earnout payments based on future profit growth.
Rev Comps is a UK based, family-run, digitally-led prize draw platform offering daily and scheduled draws to a loyal and growing customer base.
The business has developed a strong brand presence within the UK prize draw market and has demonstrated consistent engagement across its player community.
The Acquisition is aligned with Winvia's stated strategy to build a leading position in the UK prize draw market through disciplined acquisitions and organic growth.
Specifically, the Acquisition expands the Group's scale and customer base within the UK prize draw market and adds a highly complementary brand with established player engagement and marketing channels.
Prior to Completion, Rev Comps will be migrated onto Winvia's core technology platform, which has been developed to support scalable, multi-brand prize draw operations.
Integration into the Winvia technology platform will enable enhanced data-led marketing and customer engagement, improve player acquisition, retention and conversion.
Operational efficiencies are expected through shared infrastructure and automation and support the rapid deployment of new product features and subscription-led offerings.
Management Comment
Winvia CEO Mihai Manoilă stated that:
"The acquisition of Rev Comps represents another important step in delivering our strategy.
Rev Comps is a high‑quality business with a strong customer base and brand presence, and we believe that integrating the platform onto Winvia's proprietary technology will significantly enhance performance.
The acquisition further strengthens Winvia's position as a consolidator in the UK prize draw market and supports the Group's ambition to deliver sustainable, cash‑generative growth for shareholders.
The Group continues to engage with a number of exciting potential acquisition targets in the UK Prize Draw sector."
The Equity
There are some 105.12m shares in issue.
The group’s largest holder is Teddy Sagi, with 73,062,980 shares, representing 69.5% of the equity.
The next-largest is Chranel Limited, with 8,270,270 shares representing 7.87% - this company is 52% controlled by Winvia CEO Mihai Manoilă and 48% by the group’s Chief Business Development Officer, Odeta-Cristinela Nestor.
Another large holder is YD More Investments Ltd, with 3,461,539 shares, representing 3.29% of the equity.
Chief Operating Officer Tsahi Shmuel controls Rems Holdings Ltd, with 3,057.030 shares (2.91%).
Guy Balterisky, the Chief Technology Officer, controls Yaya Global Tech Limited, with 3,057,030 shares (2.91%).
Broker’s View
Analyst Greg Johnson, at Shore Capital Markets, considers that at the current price of 225p per share, Winvia is valued at under 6x FY26F EBITDA estimates and a double-digit free cash flow yield.
“We see such metrics as highly attractive given the building subscription-led revenue base, strong cash conversion and significant M&A opportunities.”
His estimates for the current year to end-December are for revenues of £210.4m (£173.0m), with adjusted pre-tax profits of £33.5m (28.1m), generating earnings of 24.6p (25.4p) and paying out an almost doubled dividend of 12.3p (6.4p) per share.
For the 2027 year, he sees £236.1m revenues, £44.1m profits, 30.2p earnings and a dividend of 15.1p per share.
In My View
Do not underestimate the ability of Teddy Sagi, said to be worth some $7bn, his control of Winvia is to drive its revenues and profits to the extreme, while growing the company’s valuation.
This early acquisition could be just the start of some massive cash-generative appreciation, while its shares at 225p, on just 9.2 times current year and 7.4 times prospective earnings, could well prove to be one of the best gambles on the market.
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