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Sands China regains market lead in October

Nov 04, 2014 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck  


Sands China regains market lead in October

Sands China Ltd, the Macau casino operator controlled by Sheldon Adelson, in October regained top spot for monthly market share of gross gaming revenue (GGR). The operator of the Venetian Macao (pictured) accounted for 23.7 percent of Macau’s GGR last month, up from 21.8 percent in September, according to industry figures compiled by GGRAsia.

Mr Adelson said during the parent firm Las Vegas Sands Corp’s third quarter earnings call that growth in Macau’s mass-market gambling had made up for lower spending by high rollers in recent months. The firm last month reported adjusted property earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of US$811.6 million in the third quarter of 2014, up by 3.3 percent from a year earlier.

SJM Holdings Ltd, the company founded by Stanley Ho Hung Sun, was second in the market in October, with a share of 23.4 percent of GGR. Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd, which grabbed the market lead for the first time in September, saw its share drop to 21.4 percent in October, from 22.9 percent in the previous month.

Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd had a market share of 14.3 percent in October, up from 12.6 percent in September. Wynn Macau Ltd and MGM China Holdings Ltd had 8.9 percent and 8.2 percent respectively of October’s casino revenue.

Macau’s casino GGR for October fell 23.2 percent year-on-year, said the city’s casino regulator on Tuesday. Total revenue from all casino games in October amounted to approximately MOP28.03 billion (US$3.5 billion), compared to nearly MOP36.48 billion in the period a year earlier.

The October GGR decline is the biggest year-on-year monthly drop since the Macau government started to issue GGR data in its current form in 2005.

“We think the market now fully expects October year-on-year declines will be the trough for the year, and subsequent months will have to deliver sequentially better year-on-year declines to meet expectations,” analysts at UBS AG said in a note on Tuesday. “We continue to expect year-on-year declines will improve from October levels, but not materially until late first quarter or early second quarter of 2015.”

Judged month-on-month, the October tally was up 9.6 percent on MOP25.56 billion achieved in September.

Analysts at Union Gaming Research Macau Ltd are now assuming that November and December will see GGR tallies similar in hard numbers terms to September’s aggregate. “We currently expect declines of 16 percent and 24 percent, respectively, to round out the year. This would result in total 2014 GGR down 2 percent to MOP355 billion (US$44.4 billion),” said the research house.

“Our current expectations of December being down 24 percent year-on-year include further disruption to the VIP segment owing to the expected visit of President Xi Jinping to Macau as part of the 15th anniversary celebration of the handover of Macau to China,” Union Gaming added.


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