{"id":777030951,"date":"2025-08-28T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777030951"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:42:35","slug":"sjm-holdings-reports-revenue-growth-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sjm-holdings-reports-revenue-growth-in-h1","title":{"rendered":"SJM Holdings reports revenue growth in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gross gaming revenue (GGR) was up 7.5 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- SJM Holdings has shared its financial results for the first half of the year. The company posted a loss of HK$182m (US$23.4m), compared to HK$162m (US$20.8m) a year earlier. Gross gaming revenue (GGR) was up 7.5 per cent year-on-year at HK$14.8bn (US$1.9bn). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GGR for self-promoted casinos rose by 7.8 per cent year-on-year and GGR market share rose to 12.9 per cent from 12.5 per cent in the same period of 2024.\u00a0According to the company, this was driven by an increase in the market share of Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau, which rose from 2.1 to 2.5 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-rolling GGR for self-promoted casinos was 145.5 per cent of the same period in 2019. Hotel, catering, retail, leasing and related services operations posted growth of 11.9 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adjusted earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) fell by 5.1 per cent year-on-year to HK$1.65bn (US$212m) while EBITDA margin declined by 1.4 points to 11.2 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grand Lisboa Palace<\/strong> saw revenue of HK$3.63bn (US$466m) and <strong>Grand Lisboa Macau<\/strong> HK$3.76bn (US$482m). SJM said GGR at its other self-promoted casinos grew by 5.4 per cent to HK$2.66bn (US$341m) while GGR at its <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/no-rating-impact-from-sjm-holdings-acquisition-plan-satellite-casino-closures-according-to-fitch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">satellite casinos<\/a> grew by 6.8 per cent to HK$5.65bn (US$725m). Satellites are to close by the end of this year, with the company to relocate their gaming tables and slot machines to newly acquired floor space at Hotel Lisboa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SJM is also developing a 3-star hotel in a recently acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sjm-holdings-expands-into-hengqin-with-new-hotel-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">building in Hengqin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/Macau-gaming-tax-revenue-drops-50-in-1Q21-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-tax-revenue-up-in-first-seven-months-of-the-year'>Macau gaming tax revenue up in first seven months of the year<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross gaming revenue (GGR) was up 7.5 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777030954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"SJM Holdings reported a net loss of HK$182m for H1, despite a 7.5% year-on-year increase in Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) to HK$14.8bn. The company's GGR market share in Macau rose to 12.9%, primarily driven by Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau. Adjusted EBITDA, however, declined by 5.1%, indicating margin compression amidst strategic asset re-allocation.","focusai_entities":"SJM Holdings, Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau, Grand Lisboa Macau, Hotel Lisboa","focusai_location":"Macau, Hengqin","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"EBITDA Margin Analysis","query":"What specific operational inefficiencies or cost pressures contributed to SJM Holdings' 1.4 percentage point decline in EBITDA margin despite GGR growth, and what mitigation strategies are being implemented?"},{"label":"Satellite Casino Impact","query":"How will the relocation of gaming tables and slot machines from satellite casinos to Hotel Lisboa impact SJM Holdings' NGR, operational costs, and overall market positioning in the next fiscal period?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[24619,23108],"class_list":["post-777030951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","tag-finance","tag-sjm-holdings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030951","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777030951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777030959,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777030951\/revisions\/777030959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777030954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777030951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777030951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777030951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}