Las Vegas Summer forecast

By Jake Pollard  |  July 9, 2021

Crosstown traffic: Las Vegas demand and visitation numbers look set to continue rising this Summer, with Deutsche Bank this week saying visitor traffic numbers on the Strip for June were improving. Despite being down 27% vs. Jun19, that was an improvement on the 38% drop in April and 32% drop in May compared with the […]

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888 signals ‘return to normality’

By Jake Pollard  |  July 7, 2021

888 trading statement The top line B2C revenues up 11% YoY to $247m, B2B down 13% to $10m, total revenue up 10% to $257m. Regulated markets now represent 74% of group revenues from 73% in prior year, with growth in UK, Italy and Spain among others helping to offset falls in Germany. Sport was the […]

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Las Vegas Q2 preview

By Jake Pollard  |  July 2, 2021

The beat goes on: Analysts are confident Las Vegas Q2 volumes will beat market expectations in the next few weeks. With May GGR on the Strip up 26.7% on May 2019 and up 35.6% MoM to $655.5m, analysts at Macquarie said their survey of Las Vegas operators pointed to “Q2 beats and continued momentum” for […]

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SciGames sets up sportsbook sale or IPO

By Jake Pollard  |  June 29, 2021

Scientific Games strategic review Open questions: The company has decided to divest its lottery and sports-betting businesses in order to rapidly shrink its long-term debt and zero in on a more gaming-focused entity. Each business will be either sold, separately listed via an IPO or using the SPAC route and the news immediately set the […]

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Penn National Q2 pre-announcement

By Jake Pollard  |  June 25, 2021

The top line Revenues for the three months to June will range between $1.45bn-$1.55bn while adjusted EBITDAR will be between $540m-$580m. At the midpoint for each they represent growth of 18% and 25% respectively and an adjusted EBITDAR margin improvement of 220bps. Compared to Q219 the company expects revenue, Adjusted EBITDAR and Adjusted EBITDAR margin […]

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