Crown Resorts Acquisition & Valuation

Caesars Entertainment's stand-alone portfolio includes about 50 domestic gaming properties across the Las Vegas (48% of 2025 EBITDAR) and regional (49%) markets. Additionally, the company hosts managed properties and digital assets that produced marginal EBITDA in 2025. Caesars' US presence roughly doubled with the 2020 acquisition by Eldorado, which built its first casino in Reno, Nevada, in 1973. Caesars' brands include Caesars, Harrah’s, Tropicana, Bally’s, Isle, and Flamingo. Also, the company owns the US portion of William Hill (it sold the international operation in 2022), a digital sports betting platform. The portfolio is set to expand to more than 60 casinos with the proposed acquisition of Caesars by Fertitta Entertainment and its Golden Nugget resorts.

Vail Resorts Inc Bhd is a resorts and casinos company that operates mountain resorts and ski areas. The company has three business segments that include Mountain, Lodging, and Real Estate. The Mountain segment operates numerous ski resort properties that offer a variety of winter and summer activities, such as skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, hiking, and mountain biking. The Lodging segment owns and operates hotels and condominiums. The Real Estate segment owns, develops, and leases real estate, typically near its other properties. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue within the United States.

Boyd Gaming Corp is a multi-jurisdictional gaming company. The company operates wholly-owned gaming entertainment properties (casino space, slot machines, table games, and hotel rooms) in Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Geographical regions separate its business segments: Las Vegas Locals, Downtown Las Vegas, Midwest and South, and Online. The Midwest and South hold the key number of entertainment properties and generate the majority of the company's revenue.

MGM Resorts is the largest resort operator on the Las Vegas Strip with 37,000 guest rooms and suites, representing about one fourth of all units in the market. The company's Vegas properties include MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, Park MGM, Luxor, New York-New York, and Bellagio. The Strip contributed approximately 59% of total EBITDAR in 2024. MGM also owns US regional assets, which represented a low 20s share of 2024 EBITDAR (MGM's Macao EBITDAR was 21% of the total in 2024). MGM's US sports and i-gaming operations are currently a high-single-digit percentage of its total revenue. The company also operates the 56%-owned MGM China casinos with a second property that opened on the Cotai Strip in early 2018. We estimate MGM will open a resort in Japan in 2030.

MGM China is one of six casino license holders in Macao. It operates two integrated resorts: the MGM Macau in the Peninsula and MGM Cotai in Cotai. The company is allowed to operate 750 gaming tables during its new 10-year concession period of 2023-32.

Wynn Resorts operates luxury casinos and resorts. The company was founded in 2002 by Steve Wynn, the former CEO. The company operates four megaresorts: Wynn Macau and Encore in Macao and Wynn Las Vegas and Encore in Las Vegas. Cotai Palace opened in August 2016 in Macao, and Encore Boston Harbor in Massachusetts opened June 2019. We expect the company to continue to build nongaming attractions in Macao over the next few years. We model Wynn's managed integrated resort in the United Arab Emirates to open in 2027. The company also operates Wynn Interactive, a digital sports betting and iGaming platform, in a few states. The company received 76% and 24% of its 2019 prepandemic EBITDA from Macao and the US, respectively. In 2024, both the US and Macao were each 50% of total EBITDA.

An investment in wide-moat-rated Endeavour Group provides investors with exposure to one of the most well entrenched dividend-paying businesses in the Australian retail landscape. Following decades of enduring organic growth through store rollouts, Endeavour's off-premises retail segment—with more than 1,700 retail outlets mainly across its Dan Murphy's and BWS brands—accounts for approximately half of all off-premises retail liquor sales within Australia. Endeavour's immense scale in the off-premises retail segment is unrivalled within Australia. Indeed, Endeavour's sales are almost three times larger than its nearest retail competitor, Coles.

Bains de Mer Monaco is engaged in the gaming, hotel and leasing Industry. The Gaming sector combines the gaming table and slot machine operations at the Monte-Carlo Casino, the Cafe de Paris Casino, the Sun Casino, the Bay Casino, and the Rascasse. The Hotel sector includes all the accommodation and catering activities, the therapy and spa-centre and all the related hotel services provided in its establishments. The Leasing sector combines leasing activities of boutiques, office space and the hotel residence activities of the Monte-Carlo Bay and Balmoral. Bains derives the majority of revenue from the Hotel sector.

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp functions in the United States leisure industry. It owns and manages a cluster of resorts and accommodation facilities under trademarks like Marriott Vacation Club, Grand Residencies, and The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club predominantly in the United States. Some of its properties are also spread across Europe and Asia Pacific. Marriott's majority revenue components include the sale of vacation ownership products such as luxurious vacation packages. In addition, it offers purchase money financing to the end users of its core services. The company operates in two reportable segments: Vacation Ownership and Exchange & Third-Party Management. The majority of revenue is derived from the Vacation Ownership segment.

Sands China operates integrated resorts and casinos in Macao. Its properties include Sands Macao, the Venetian Macao, the Plaza Macao, the Londoner, and the Parisian Macao. It has about 23.5% market share in the Macao gaming sector in terms of gross gaming revenue as of 2025. Las Vegas Sands has a 74.8% stake in Sands China.

Wynn Macau operates two integrated casino resorts in Macao, including Wynn Macau on the peninsula and Wynn Palace in Cotai. These properties feature with high-end hotels and brand-name stores, making Wynn an iconic high-end brand. Wynn Resorts has a 71% stake in Wynn Macau.

Red Rock Resorts Inc along with its subsidiary is a gaming, development and management company that develops and operates strategically-located casino and entertainment properties. Its casino properties are conveniently located throughout the Las Vegas valley and provide its customers a wide variety of entertainment and dining options. The majority of revenue is derived from Casinos, followed by Food and Beverages, Rooms and others.

PENN Entertainment is an American casino and online betting operator headquartered in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1982 as PNRC Corp., reorganized and renamed Penn National Gaming in 1994, and took its current name in August 2022. It operates 43 properties in 20 states under brands including Hollywood Casino, Ameristar, Boomtown and L'Auberge, and it runs online sports betting and iCasino through theScore Bet and, until 2025, ESPN Bet. The company earns revenue mainly from casino gaming, with further income from food, beverage and hotel operations and from its interactive segment. It reported revenue of about USD 6.5 billion and net income of USD 222 million in 2022, with 21,875 employees. Its growth came largely through acquisitions, including Pinnacle Entertainment for USD 2.8 billion in 2018 and Score Media and Gaming for about USD 2 billion in 2021, and in August 2023 it agreed a ten-year, USD 2 billion licensing deal with ESPN that was terminated in November 2025.

Kangwon Land Inc is a casino and resort company. The business has six business segments that include Casino, Hotel, Holiday Unit, Golf Course, Skiing Ground, and Other. Kangwon operates numerous resorts and casinos that have table games and slot machines. The company's resorts also have condominium units. The Golf Course segment generates revenue from courses the company has built around its resorts. The Skiing Grounds segment is engaged in skiing tickets and rentals through the company's integrated ski resort. The Other business segment controls interests such as Kangwon's theme park. Kangwon Land generates the vast majority of its revenue in South Korea.

Sandals Resorts is a Jamaican operator of all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, based in Montego Bay. It was founded in 1981 by Gordon Butch Stewart, who opened Sandals Montego Bay in a former hotel, and it is run by the Stewart family. The group operates the Sandals brand of couples-only resorts and the Beaches brand of family resorts, together with Fowl Cay Resort and private villas, across Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Revenue comes from room, food, drink and activity packages sold to leisure travellers, mostly directly and through travel agents. Customers are holidaymakers, couples and families, and the company also runs a foundation and a corporate university for its staff. In 2026 Royal Caribbean Group agreed to buy a 50% equity interest in the business.

Aman Resorts is a Baar-headquartered luxury hospitality group operating 36 properties across 20 countries including Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and the United States. Properties occupy remote natural sites such as tropical islands, mountain retreats, and urban oases, each with 20 to 80 rooms for personalized service. The portfolio encompasses resorts, hotels, private residences, and branded residences developed in partnership with local architects. Aman Resorts debuted in 1988 with Amanpuri on Phuket's Pansea Beach.

Mews is a cloud-native property management system for hotels, hostels, and serviced apartments serving over 5,000 properties in 85 countries. It automates reservations, payments, and housekeeping via open APIs with 1,000-plus integrations including Stripe and Google. Amsterdam-headquartered Mews won Best PMS at the 2024 HotelTechAwards. Founded in 2013 by hoteliers, it processes millions in bookings monthly across five continents.

citizenM is an Amsterdam-based hotel developer and operator founded in 2008. It created an affordable-luxury concept built around compact rooms, prominent communal spaces, centralized technology and properties in major urban markets. The company develops, owns and operates hotels while selling room nights and food-and-beverage services directly to travelers. Hotel operating revenue and property value appreciation support its integrated model. Its standardized design, digital check-in and international expansion strategy distinguish citizenM from conventional full-service chains, while its real-estate ownership makes it both an accommodation operator and property platform. Properties are concentrated in globally connected cities. citizenM serves B2C customers through activities spanning Accommodation, Real Estate Development and Buildings & Property. Its commercial model generates revenue through Services, supported by sector expertise, operating execution and customer relationships.