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The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Earnings Yield Investor model based on the published strategy of Joel Greenblatt. This value model looks for companies with high return on capital and earnings yields.

INSPIRED ENTERTAINMENT INC (INSE) is a small-cap growth stock in the Software & Programming industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Joel Greenblatt changed from 70% to 80% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: Inspired Entertainment, Inc. is a business-to-business (B2B) provider of gaming content, technology, hardware, and services. The Company offers a portfolio of content, technology, hardware and services for regulated gaming, betting, lottery, social and leisure operators across retail and mobile channels around the world. Its Gaming segment supplies gaming terminals as well as gaming software and games for the terminals provided to betting offices, casinos, gaming halls and high street adult gaming centers. Its Virtual Sports segment designs, develops, markets, and distributes games that create an always-on sports wagering experience in betting shops and other locations and online. Its Interactive segment uses interactive-only content as well as offerings from its Gaming and Virtual Sports segments to create games that are hosted on remote gaming servers. The Company's Leisure segment supplies gaming terminals and amusement machines to the leisure and hospitality sectors.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.

Detailed Analysis of INSPIRED ENTERTAINMENT INC

XPONENTIAL FITNESS INC (XPOF) is a small-cap value stock in the Recreational Activities industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Joel Greenblatt changed from 70% to 80% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: Xponential Fitness, Inc. is the global franchisor of boutique fitness brands. The Company operates a diversified platform of ten brands spanning across verticals, including pilates, indoor cycling, barre, stretching, rowing, dancing, boxing, running, functional training and yoga. The Company's portfolio of brands includes Club Pilates, a Pilates brand in the United States; CycleBar, the indoor cycling brand in the United States; StretchLab, a concept offering one-on-one and group stretching services; Row House, the franchised indoor rowing brand in the United States; AKT, a dance-based cardio workout combining toning, interval and circuit training; YogaSix, a yoga brand in the United States; Pure Barre, a total body workout that uses the ballet barre to perform small isometric movements; BFT, a functional training and strength-based program; Rumble, a boxing-inspired full-body workout, and Lindora, a provider of medically guided wellness and metabolic health solutions.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.

Detailed Analysis of XPONENTIAL FITNESS INC

About Joel Greenblatt: In his 2005 bestseller The Little Book That Beats The Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt laid out a stunningly simple way to beat the market using two -- and only two -- fundamental variables. The "Magic Formula," as he called it, produced back-tested returns of 30.8 percent per year from 1988 through 2004, more than doubling the S&P 500's 12.4 percent return during that time. Greenblatt also produced exceptional returns as managing partner at Gotham Capital, a New York City-based hedge fund he founded. The firm averaged a remarkable 40 percent annualized return over more than two decades.

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