Company: BRSL
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001628280-25-048813
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Company: Brightstar Lottery PLC
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 6-K
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.0 billion. Net cash used in financing activities was $143 million in the first nine months of 2025, compared with $39 million for the same period in 2024. Net cash used for financing activities in the first nine months primarily related to a $123 million payment on the Sony deferred license obligation.

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#### Dividends
Our Board of Directors authorized the following cash dividends:

| ($ in millions, except per share amounts)         |     | 2025 | For the three months ended September 30, |     | 2024 |      |     | 2025 | For the nine months ended September 30, |     | 2024 |      |
|:--------------------------------------------------|:----|:-----|-----------------------------------------:|:----|:-----|-----:|:----|:-----|----------------------------------------:|:----|:-----|-----:|
| Dividends paid/declared per share of common stock |     | $    |                                     3.20 |     | $    | 0.20 |     | $    |                                    3.60 |     | $    | 0.60 |
| Total dividends paid/declared                     |     |      |                                      647 |     |      |   40 |     |      |                                     728 |     |      |  120 |

On October 30, 2025, the Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.22 per share. The dividend, of approximately $42 million, is payable on December 2, 2025, to shareholders of record on November 18, 2025.

Historical payment of dividends is not an indication that dividends will be paid on any future date. The Company has not implemented a formal policy on dividend distributions, and any future dividend payment is subject to Board approval.

U.S. federal income tax considerations for U.S. shareholders of ordinary shares

The following discussion is not intended to serve as a complete summary of the U.S. federal income tax considerations relevant to the Company’s distributions or the ownership of the Company’s ordinary shares. For additional information, please refer to the Company’s Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 ( “Taxation—Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations ”), the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.

We generally expect that our quarterly dividends will be subject to customary dividend tax treatment in