{"id":24488,"date":"2021-11-12T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T13:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24488"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:54:02","slug":"macau-casino-operators-property-ebitda-down-97-for-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-operators-property-ebitda-down-97-for-q3","title":{"rendered":"Macau casino operators property EBITDA down 97% for Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deutsche Bank has revealed property EBITDA was down 97 per cent when compared to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Deutsche Bank has said\u00a0<strong>Macau&#8217;s casino operators economic status declined<\/strong>\u00a0during the third quarter when compared to the previous period, when EBITDA was down 83 per cent from the 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that\u00a0<strong>Las Vegas Sands, Galaxy Entertainment and Melco Resorts all gained in their EBITDA market share\u00a0<\/strong>during the third quarter to the detriment of SJM Holdings and Wynn Resorts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As regards gross gaming revenue (GGR) in Macau, Las Vegas Sands and Galaxy Entertainment Group continued leading the market share over&nbsp;<strong>Melco Resorts &amp; Entertainment,&nbsp;<\/strong>Wynn Macau and SHM Holdings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the main casino operators shared their financial results, Deutsche Bank noted the companies were affected by the recent outbreak of Covid-19 cases during the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-faces-new-covid-19-cases-in-october-golden-week\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October Golden Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau&#8217;s GGR for October was the lowest monthly GGR figure of 2021, below even August when\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-down-47-7-in-august\">the city recorded GGR of MOP$4.44bn (US$554.5m)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lawrence Ho, Melco&#8217;s chairman and CEO<\/strong>, said: \u201cContinued travel restrictions and quarantine measures in Macau and the region negatively impacted our&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/melco-resorts-posts-us446-4m-in-operating-revenue-for-q3\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">third quarter operating and financial performance<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To preserve our cash and liquidity, we continue to enforce strong cost control discipline in respect to both operating expenses and capital expenditures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Deutsche Bank, industry margins in the latest quarter contracted by 2,570 basis points when compared to pre-pandemic levels while overall revenue was down 70 per cent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As regards&nbsp;<strong>VIP results, the figure was down 83 per cent<\/strong>&nbsp;when compared to 2019 levels but up 122 per cent year-on-year.&nbsp;<strong>Mass-market results&nbsp;<\/strong>were also down 68 per cent from pre-pandemic levels but up 394 per cent when compared to the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Bank has revealed property EBITDA was down 97 per cent when compared to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Deutsche Bank reports a significant decline in Macau casino operators' Q3 economic status, with property EBITDA down 97% from pre-pandemic levels and industry margins contracting by 2,570 basis points. Persistent travel restrictions and a recent COVID-19 outbreak severely impacted GGR, leading to market share shifts among key players. Operators are implementing stringent cost control measures to preserve liquidity amidst the challenging operational environment.","focusai_entities":"Deutsche Bank, Las Vegas Sands, Galaxy Entertainment, Melco Resorts, SJM Holdings, Wynn Resorts, Melco, Lawrence Ho","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau Recovery Outlook","query":"What is Deutsche Bank's revised GGR forecast for Macau in 2022, considering the persistent travel restrictions and the Q3 performance data?"},{"label":"Operator Liquidity Strategy","query":"How are the reported cost control measures and capital expenditure reductions by operators like Melco Resorts impacting their long-term strategic investment plans and competitive positioning in Macau?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[23907,23906],"class_list":["post-24488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24509,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24488\/revisions\/24509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}