June 11, 2021 · Commercial Gaming Financial

Caesars, MGM Earn Rave Reviews from JPMorgan on Las Vegas Recovery

It’s non 2019, but things are getting indorse to normal on the Las Vegas Strip, and that’s unspoiled tidings for the 2 largest operators on that point — Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ:CZR) and MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM).

Some Wall Street analysts are progressively bullish on the pair of gaming equities, with JPMorgan’s Joseph Greff connection that grouping today with positive commentary on the Bellagio and Flamingo operators. In the largest US gambling casino center, weekend occupancy is strong and slated to remain that path through and through year-end — a confirming for operators as they hold off for pattern business to return. Greff sees Las Vegas leading a move resurgence.

Las Vegas testament trail the group recovery, presumption its invoke as a meld and point of intersection of leisure time and grouping [travel], the topper of both worlds, inwards our view,” said the analyst.

He’s forecasting a daily round of second-quarter earnings per part beats from Sin City operators, citing raised counsel from those companies and bullishness around sports betting, as gamblers hold back on the go of the 2021 football season.

Bullish on Caesars

Combined, Caesars and MGM extend nearly 20 Strip casino-resorts, making the stocks logical picks for analysts and investors pointing to Las Vegas vibrancy.

Indeed, the shares are reflecting that scenario. Year-to-date, the capital of France operator is higher by 49.23 percent, spell the Mirage operator is upward 38.18 percent. Those returns easy pinch those sported by companies with limited Las Vegas exposure and some large regional gaming operators.

JPMorgan’s Greff boosts cost targets on Caesars and MGM. In the typesetter's case of the former, he’s the third analyst this week to manage so. In rearing his calculate on the Planet Hollywood operator to $129 from $120, he cites not only if the land-based gambling casino business, but the emerging iGaming and sports betting opportunity, as comfortably as the late completed William James Jerome Hill purchase.

“We note value CZR’s core/traditional gaming stage business at ~$89 and its USSB/iGaming opportunity at $38, plus $1 per deal credit entry for a sales agreement of William Hill’s non-US operations,” said Greff.

An promulgation on a buyer for William Hill’s international businesses is expected inwards the endorsement half of the year, and that sales agreement could take inward $2 one thousand million or more for Caesars.

Enthusiasm for MGM

MGM is the largest Strip operator, and CEO Bill Hornbuckle late spoke bullishly on Las Vegas activity, locution his keep company is seeing record-breaking slots play, adding that “We’re rearward with a vengeance.”

JPMorgan’s Greff lifts his MGM cost aim to $52 from $47, good in a higher place the Wall Street mediocre of nearly $44. There’s potency for significantly more upside to that outlook.

“Assuming Las Vegas Strip revenues yield to 2019 levels, at that place could live an incremental $6 of equity note value per divvy up not inward our estimates,” said the analyst.

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