Las Vegas Sands is an integrated resort developer and operator listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in Las Vegas, whose properties are Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and, through its majority-owned Sands China, The Venetian Macao, The Londoner Macao, The Parisian Macao, Sands Macao and The Plaza Macao. It sold its Las Vegas properties in 2022 to concentrate on Asia, pursued a casino licence for a resort at the Nassau Coliseum site in New York before withdrawing that bid in 2025, and is expanding Marina Bay Sands with a fourth tower. Founded by Sheldon Adelson, the company is the largest casino operator in the world by market value and employs around 40,000 people.
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Boyd Gaming's group earnings barely moved in the third quarter, but its two Las Vegas segments lost $8 million of EBITDAR between them while its locals and regional casinos grew. Management says August was the weakest month.
Marina Bay Sands took the bigger hit, with EBITDA down 21%, while Sands China's revenue rose 8.4% on the quarter and its share of Macao's mass market reached its highest since 2023. The parent still spent $950 million on its own shares, raised its 2027 dividend by 20% and took its Sands China stake to 75.56%.
The regulator's quarterly breakdown by game shows that one product, the mass and premium-mass baccarat table, lost more revenue than Macau's casinos lost in total. VIP baccarat was flat and slots grew by almost a fifth, which is the only reason the quarter's fall stopped at 3.8%.
Galaxy Entertainment Group's chairman bought 4.6 million shares for cash on the first trading day after Macau's weakest monthly gaming revenue of the year, paying less than the stock traded for on the exchange that day. The filing shows the price; it does not show who sold.
The Gaming Commission added the word "wagering" twice to Regulation 5.200, so a private salon now logs only the guests who bet, not everyone who walks in. The attorney general's office said the industry found the 2025 rule "somewhat burdensome"; Commissioner George Markantonis said he does not understand compliance being called burdensome, then voted for it anyway.
Takeharu Yamanaka won in 2021 on a platform of killing the city's integrated resort bid, and did. He has now stepped down over a workplace harassment finding, weeks before a special election, in a country whose prime minister supports a second round of casino licensing and whose tourism agency will take applications from May 2027.
A Hong Kong default judgment against a Macau high roller cannot be enforced in Singapore because gambling debts offend the country's public policy, the High Court has ruled, even where the gambling was lawful at a licensed casino. The decision unsettles a 2004 precedent and the way Asian casinos extend credit to customers whose assets sit in Singapore.
Gambling duties and casino tax brought the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore S$3.6 billion in the year to March, growing faster than corporate income tax or stamp duty. The report does not separate the casino take from the duties, which limits what can be read into it about Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa.
Las Vegas Sands bought 1,623,200 shares on Monday and tipped its Macau subsidiary past 75%. The consequence is not the stake, it is the listing rule Sands China had to switch to as a result.
The Gaming Commission voted 3-0 and one commissioner said the people he wanted in front of him were not there. Of the $3.6 million Mathew Bowyer lost at the property, $88,000 came on the current owner's watch. It is paying for all of it.
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