Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
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- 0001525769
In the last 90 days, Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. insiders filed 1 open-market purchase and 0 sales; 169 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $474.4M in total; no superinvestor holds it.
13F holders, Q4 2025
Institutional positions in Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. as of Dec 31, 2025. Investment managers with $100 million or more in US stocks report their long positions on Form 13F within 45 days after each quarter ends. How 13F works
- Institutional holders
- 188
- +5 vs. Q3 2025
- Shares held
- 41.5M
- −438.2K (−1.0%) vs. Q3 2025
- Total value
- $673.2M
- −$88.3M (−11.6%) vs. Q3 2025
- New holders
- 38
- 62 more added
- Sold out
- 33
- 61 more reduced
5 institutions that held it in Q3 2025 haven't filed for Q4 2025 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q3 2025: new holders, sold out and not filed yet
Holders and value by quarter
Institutions reporting PLAY on Form 13F each quarter since Q1 2021, and the total value they reported. Values are as of each quarter end, so they also move with the share price.
| Quarter | Holders | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 169 | $474.4M |
| Q1 2026 | 186 | $439.5M |
| Q4 2025 | 188 | $673.2M |
| Q3 2025 | 188 | $768.6M |
| Q2 2025 | 194 | $1.21B |
| Q1 2025 | 187 | $800.3M |
| Q4 2024 | 192 | $1.42B |
| Q3 2024 | 223 | $1.64B |
| Q2 2024 | 220 | $1.84B |
| Q1 2024 | 236 | $2.92B |
| Q4 2023 | 213 | $2.36B |
| Q3 2023 | 209 | $1.63B |
| Q2 2023 | 213 | $1.98B |
| Q1 2023 | 224 | $1.85B |
| Q4 2022 | 229 | $1.81B |
| Q3 2022 | 224 | $1.56B |
| Q2 2022 | 233 | $1.60B |
| Q1 2022 | 243 | $2.32B |
| Q4 2021 | 220 | $1.71B |
| Q3 2021 | 202 | $1.73B |
| Q2 2021 | 210 | $1.84B |
| Q1 2021 | 216 | $2.32B |
Institutions, Q4 2025
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.; share changes are against Q3 2025.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deutsche Bank AG | 24,794 | $401.9K | 0.00% | +741+3.1% | Added |
| BNP Paribas Arbitrage, SA | 25,004 | $405.3K | 0.00% | +12,893+106.5% | Added |
| Prudential Financial Inc | 25,594 | $414.9K | 0.00% | −2,110−7.6% | Reduced |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 25,649 | $415.8K | 0.00% | −4,847−15.9% | Reduced |
| Sapience Investments, LLC | 25,960 | $420.8K | 1.59% | +8,427+48.1% | Added |
| State of Wisconsin Investment Board | 26,454 | $428.8K | 0.00% | +26,454 | New |
| Beese Fulmer Investment Management, Inc. | 29,868 | $484.2K | 0.03% | +14,215+90.8% | Added |
| Counterpoint Mutual Funds LLC | 31,718 | $514.1K | 0.04% | +31,718 | New |
| Engineers Gate Manager LP | 31,734 | $514.4K | 0.01% | −45,200−58.8% | Reduced |
| Landscape Capital Management, L.L.C. | 32,457 | $526.1K | 0.04% | +32,457 | New |
| AQR Capital Management LLC | 34,746 | $563.2K | 0.00% | +22,631+186.8% | Added |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC | 36,153 | $586.0K | 0.00% | −127,382−77.9% | Reduced |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 36,688 | $595.0K | 0.00% | +8,138+28.5% | Added |
| Marshall Wace, LLP | 37,397 | $606.2K | 0.00% | +6,431+20.8% | Added |
| Boston Partners | 38,917 | $630.8K | 0.00% | +16,108+70.6% | Added |
| HRT Financial LP | 40,980 | $664.0K | 0.00% | +40,980 | New |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | 42,923 | $696.0K | 0.00% | −100−0.2% | Reduced |
| Intech Investment Management LLC | 44,658 | $723.9K | 0.01% | −120,735−73.0% | Reduced |
| LMR Partners LLP | 47,631 | $772.1K | 0.01% | −2,076−4.2% | Reduced |
| Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC | 52,272 | $847.3K | 0.00% | +52,272 | New |
| Swiss National Bank | 53,673 | $870.0K | 0.00% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Gamco Investors, Inc. Et Al | 55,062 | $892.6K | 0.01% | −8,521−13.4% | Reduced |
| Walleye Capital LLC | 63,533 | $1.03M | 0.01% | +63,533 | New |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 73,118 | $1.19M | 0.00% | −880−1.2% | Reduced |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 75,225 | $1.22M | 0.00% | +75,225 | New |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 75,963 | $1.23M | 0.00% | −10,562−12.2% | Reduced |
| Incline Global Management LLC | 76,548 | $1.24M | 0.42% | −769,671−91.0% | Reduced |
| American Century Companies Inc | 77,827 | $1.26M | 0.00% | −33,104−29.8% | Reduced |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 79,929 | $1.30M | 0.00% | +20,598+34.7% | Added |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 80,267 | $1.30M | 0.00% | +6,469+8.8% | Added |
| M.E. Allison & Co., Inc. | 83,950 | $1.36M | 0.92% | −2,075−2.4% | Reduced |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 85,004 | $1.38M | 0.00% | +6,995+9.0% | Added |
| Citigroup Inc | 87,343 | $1.42M | 0.00% | +35,484+68.4% | Added |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 88,822 | $1.44M | 0.00% | +1,531+1.8% | Added |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board | 93,415 | $1.51M | 0.01% | −11,743−11.2% | Reduced |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH | 95,986 | $1.56M | 0.00% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Kazazian Asset Management, LLC | 100,000 | $1.62M | 1.71% | +24,307+32.1% | Added |
| UBS Group AG | 100,411 | $1.63M | 0.00% | −409,513−80.3% | Reduced |
| Nuveen, LLC | 102,226 | $1.66M | 0.00% | +1,254+1.2% | Added |
| Raymond James Financial Inc | 107,418 | $1.74M | 0.00% | −5,589−4.9% | Reduced |
| Gsa Capital Partners LLP | 110,080 | $1.78M | 0.15% | +64,016+139.0% | Added |
| Barclays PLC | 112,311 | $1.82M | 0.00% | −56,488−33.5% | Reduced |
| Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. | 123,500 | $2.00M | 0.00% | −25,147−16.9% | Reduced |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 129,307 | $2.10M | 0.00% | −1,112−0.9% | Reduced |
| Ruffer LLP | 130,065 | $2.11M | 0.10% | +130,065 | New |
| Verition Fund Management LLC | 130,604 | $2.12M | 0.01% | −27,496−17.4% | Reduced |
| Victory Capital Management Inc | 139,422 | $2.26M | 0.00% | +59,295+74.0% | Added |
| Bank of America Corp | 154,193 | $2.50M | 0.00% | −109,299−41.5% | Reduced |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 155,032 | $2.51M | 0.00% | −36,932−19.2% | Reduced |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. | 174,005 | $2.82M | 0.00% | −21,815−11.1% | Reduced |
| Jane Street Group, LLC | 221,661 | $3.59M | 0.00% | +133,074+150.2% | Added |
| Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC | 243,940 | $3.95M | 0.01% | +44,820+22.5% | Added |
| CenterBook Partners LP | 265,155 | $4.30M | 0.21% | +223,123+530.8% | Added |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | 272,783 | $4.42M | 0.00% | −11,553−4.1% | Reduced |
| Northern Trust Corp | 281,764 | $4.57M | 0.00% | −26,936−8.7% | Reduced |
| Canada Pension Plan Investment Board | 296,100 | $4.80M | 0.00% | +296,100 | New |
| Saba Capital Management, L.P. | 320,309 | $5.19M | 0.17% | +225,000+236.1% | Added |
| Maverick Capital LtdSuperinvestorMaverick Capital | 325,487 | $5.28M | 0.06% | +174,238+115.2% | Added |
| CIBC World Markets Inc. | 335,100 | $5.43M | 0.01% | −1,800−0.5% | Reduced |
| CIBC World Markets Corp | 335,799 | $5.44M | 0.03% | +335,799 | New |
| Point72 Asset Management, L.P. | 348,484 | $5.65M | 0.01% | +113,853+48.5% | Added |
| Invesco Ltd. | 357,133 | $5.79M | 0.00% | +84,951+31.2% | Added |
| Natixis | 374,000 | $6.06M | 0.02% | +374,000 | New |
| Woodline Partners LP | 393,676 | $6.38M | 0.02% | +393,676 | New |
| National Bank of Canada | 398,000 | $6.45M | 0.01% | +398,000 | New |
| LSV Asset Management | 400,486 | $6.49M | 0.01% | −7,800−1.9% | Reduced |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 424,277 | $6.88M | 0.00% | +350,429+474.5% | Added |
| CastleKnight Management LP | 440,389 | $7.14M | 0.41% | −433,496−49.6% | Reduced |
| ING Groep NV | 451,000 | $7.31M | 0.04% | +451,000 | New |
| Fund 1 Investments, LLC | 453,909 | $7.36M | 1.07% | +24,909+5.8% | Added |
| MUFG Securities EMEA plc | 454,000 | $7.36M | 0.09% | +454,000 | New |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 500,272 | $8.11M | 0.00% | −180,664−26.5% | Reduced |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 628,455 | $10.2M | 0.00% | +69,847+12.5% | Added |
| SG Americas Securities, LLC | 634,148 | $10.3M | 0.01% | +443,308+232.3% | Added |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 656,282 | $10.6M | 0.00% | −6,687−1.0% | Reduced |
| Clearline Capital LP | 683,408 | $11.1M | 0.83% | −936,556−57.8% | Reduced |
| Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership | 1,041,578 | $16.9M | 0.01% | +69,861+7.2% | Added |
| State Street Corp | 1,106,488 | $17.9M | 0.00% | +28,349+2.6% | Added |
| Morgan Stanley | 1,451,586 | $23.5M | 0.00% | +44,446+3.2% | Added |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 1,511,591 | $24.5M | 0.00% | +366,064+32.0% | Added |
| Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund | 1,515,000 | $24.6M | 0.04% | +434,000+40.1% | Added |
| Patient Capital Management, LLC | 1,663,341 | $27.0M | 1.04% | −473,916−22.2% | Reduced |
| Eminence Capital, LP | 2,346,038 | $38.0M | 0.60% | −15,111−0.6% | Reduced |
| Nomura Holdings Inc | 2,411,191 | $39.1M | 0.11% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Vanguard Group Inc | 2,453,674 | $39.8M | 0.00% | −468,520−16.0% | Reduced |
| BlackRock, Inc. | 4,168,127 | $67.6M | 0.00% | +87,352+2.1% | Added |
| Hill Path Capital LP | 7,119,255 | $115.4M | 7.43% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale | 2,729 | – | – | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −1,294,746−100.0% | Sold out |
| Millennium Management LLC | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −338,274−100.0% | Sold out |
| NewEdge Wealth, LLC | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −220,660−100.0% | Sold out |
| Dark Forest Capital Management LP | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −124,745−100.0% | Sold out |
| First Eagle Investment Management, LLC | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −101,000−100.0% | Sold out |
| Blueshift Asset Management, LLC | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −60,508−100.0% | Sold out |
| IMC-Chicago, LLC | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −55,139−100.0% | Sold out |
| Hussman Strategic Advisors, Inc. | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −42,000−100.0% | Sold out |
| Group One Trading, L.P. | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −19,564−100.0% | Sold out |
| Capital Fund Management S.A. | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −18,959−100.0% | Sold out |
| Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −18,896−100.0% | Sold out |
| PEAK6 LLC | 0 | $0 | 0.00% | −18,109−100.0% | Sold out |