Casino Hotels (United States) — NAICS 721120

1. Overview

A casino hotel is what it sounds like: a hotel with a casino on the premises. The federal statistical system treats it as a lodging business rather than a pure gambling business, because the property sells rooms, restaurants, shows, spas, and convention space alongside the slot machines and card tables. The Las Vegas Strip resorts are the archetype, but the category spans Reno, Atlantic City, and regional markets from Mississippi to Pennsylvania, plus the locals-focused casinos ringing big cities. [1]

Why it matters to an investor: these are large, capital-heavy, cash-generative businesses whose fortunes track consumer discretionary spending, travel, and — increasingly — the shift of gambling onto phones. The economics are unusual. A single Strip resort can throw off hundreds of millions of dollars a year in cash flow, yet the same property carries enormous fixed costs and, more and more, a landlord that must be paid rent every month regardless of how business is going. Property location, regulatory position, local competition, and capital structure often matter more than the national gaming trend.

There are several distinct ways to participate:

• Public operating companies that run casino resorts.

• Public real-estate investment trusts (REITs) — companies that own property and pass rental income to shareholders — that own the land and buildings under many big resorts and lease them back to operators.

• Private-equity-backed operators (for example, the Venetian in Las Vegas).

• Tribal enterprises owned by sovereign tribal governments, which are generally not open to outside investors.

• Direct property, private credit, and sale-leaseback deals, mostly for institutions.

2. What it is, and how it is structured

Scope. NAICS (the North American Industry Classification System) code 721120 covers establishments primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging in a hotel that has a casino on site. The casino may offer table games, slot machines, and sports betting; the property typically bundles in food and beverage, entertainment, parking, pools, and convention facilities. [1]

What it excludes — important, because it makes the official "casino hotel" numbers narrower than the casino economy most people picture:

• Casinos without a hotel — standalone casinos, riverboat and cruise-ship casinos, and racetrack casinos ("racinos") — sit in NAICS 713210, Casinos (except Casino Hotels). [1]

• Hotels without a casino sit in NAICS 721110, Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels. [1]

• Lotteries, bingo halls, off-track betting, and other standalone gambling fall in NAICS 713290, Other Gambling Industries. [1]

• Online sports betting and internet casino gaming ("iGaming") are not a lodging category at all; they show up under separate gambling and information-services codes even though the same brands (BetMGM, Caesars, ESPN Bet) run them. [1]

How a property is put together. The economics separate into layers that can be owned by different parties:

1. The licensed operator runs gaming, rooms, food, entertainment, and marketing.
2. A real-estate owner may own the land and buildings.
3. A brand, hotel manager, tribe, or private fund may supply operating control or capital.

The defining structural feature of the modern U.S. industry is the sale-leaseback: an operator sells its real estate to a REIT and leases it back under a long-term triple-net lease — a lease in which the tenant pays taxes, insurance, maintenance, and rent on top of occupying the building. This split of who runs the casino from who owns the building is unusual among consumer industries. [24][25]

Ownership mix. Four very different owners operate side by side:

1. Publicly traded commercial operators (MGM, Caesars, Wynn, Boyd, PENN, Red Rock, Bally's, Monarch, Full House, Churchill Downs).

2. Tribal governments, which own the large Indian-gaming resorts under a separate federal framework and are generally outside the commercial-business statistics.

3. Private equity and private families, which own operating businesses such as the Venetian (Apollo Global Management) and Golden Nugget (Fertitta Entertainment). [20][22]

4. REIT landlords (VICI Properties, Gaming and Leisure Properties), which own the real estate and lease it back to operators. [24][25]

3. How big it is

Our ground-truth federal figures for NAICS 721120 (dollars converted from thousands; no suppressed value is used):

Two things to read carefully. First, "receipts" here means total revenue of casino-hotel businesses — rooms, food, shows, and gambling combined — not gambling win alone. Second, these figures cover only the ~516 hotels-with-casinos, not the whole casino economy.

Undercount caveats. The County Business Patterns figures count only employer establishments (locations with paid employees); they exclude nonemployer businesses and most government workers, and an establishment is not the same thing as a firm. [2] The Economic Census is payroll-based and applies disclosure suppression, but — usefully here — its methodology makes an explicit exception to include government-owned casino hotels, so the undercount is less severe than in government-heavy industries. [3] Even so, standalone casinos and racinos (713210), online betting and iGaming (separate codes), and much of tribal gaming still fall outside this line item.

How much bigger the whole casino economy is. Trade-group and regulator data measure a different, larger thing — gross gaming revenue (GGR), the amount wagered minus the amount paid back to players (the casino's "win"). In 2025, U.S. commercial gaming set a record $78.7 billion in GGR, up 9.2% and its fifth straight record year, and generated a record $18.1 billion in gaming taxes — with all 38 commercial markets growing. [5] (The prior record was $71.9 billion in 2024; within the commercial total, traditional casino games are the largest slice, while sports betting and online casino are the fastest-growing, with online formats now around a third of the total. [6]) Separately, tribal gaming — largely tracked outside the commercial statistics because it is run by sovereign tribal governments — set its own record of $46.2 billion in GGR in fiscal 2025 (up 5.3%) across 545 operations run by 246 tribes; the FY2024 figure was $43.9 billion. [7] So the true U.S. casino footprint is far larger than the 721120 line item, which captures the commercial, hotel-attached slice. (GGR and Census "receipts" measure different things and should not be added together.)

Finally, the concentration statistics below describe firms within this national code, not local market power. A single city or state market can be near-monopolized even when the national picture looks unconcentrated.

4. The investable universe

Unlike many industries in this series, casino hotels offer a genuinely deep public menu — both the operators and the landlords beneath them — though none is a pure NAICS 721120 play. Revenue figures below are ~2024 full-year totals used as scale markers (total revenue, not gambling win); 2025 figures are generally higher.

Operators (run the casinos):

Landlords (own the real estate — REITs):

Private, tribal, and fund-owned owners (largely not investable):

• Apollo Global Management (APO) owns the Venetian and Palazzo operating business; VICI owns the underlying real estate. [22] Las Vegas Sands (LVS) — once the Strip's largest developer — sold the Venetian in 2022 for $6.25 billion and is now purely an Asia operator (Macau, Singapore), so it is no longer a U.S. casino-hotel play despite the name. [21]

• Fertitta Entertainment / Golden Nugget — private, family-owned (Tilman Fertitta); the same firm agreed in May 2026 to acquire Caesars. [20]

• Golden Entertainment — returned to private, family ownership in April 2026 (led by Blake Sartini) after selling seven resorts' real estate to VICI (~$1.16 billion) and leasing them back; it is no longer publicly traded. [16]

• Tribal enterprises — the largest single category of casino resorts by count is tribal and is generally not investable, being owned by tribal governments. Major examples: the Seminole Tribe of Florida (Seminole Gaming / Hard Rock International) [26]; the Mohegan Tribe (Mohegan Sun, Connecticut) [27]; the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Choctaw Casinos & Resorts) [28]; and the Chickasaw Nation (WinStar World Casino and Resort, Oklahoma) [29]. Foxwoods (Mashantucket Pequot) and many California and Oklahoma resorts fall in the same bucket.

5. How the money works

A casino hotel makes money in two braided streams, and the metrics differ from a plain hotel.

The gaming side. The house edge is a statistical certainty over volume, so operators track:

• Handle / drop — how much money flows through the machines and tables. Slot handle is the total wagered; table drop is the cash and markers dropped into the table box. [30]

• Win / hold — win is what the casino keeps; hold is win as a percentage of handle or drop. Because hold on table games swings quarter to quarter (Las Vegas table hold typically runs ~22–26%), reported earnings can beat or miss on luck alone — a two-percentage-point swing in hold falls almost straight to the bottom line. [30]

The non-gaming side. Rooms, food and beverage, entertainment, retail, parking, and conventions. Here the hotel metrics apply: occupancy (share of rooms filled — Strip resorts ran into the low-90s% in 2024), ADR (average daily rate, the average price of an occupied room), and RevPAR (revenue per available room, which combines price and utilization). [30] Destination resorts keep non-gaming at roughly a third or more of revenue, which smooths the luck-driven gaming line and, on the Strip, is now the growth engine; regional casinos rely more heavily on gaming. [10][30]

The profit metric to know: EBITDAR. Analysts judge these businesses on EBITDAR — earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and rent. The "R" matters uniquely here: because so many operators sold their buildings to VICI or GLPI and now pay rent, EBITDAR lets you compare a company that owns its dirt against one that leases it. Property-level EBITDAR margins commonly run ~30–33%. [30] These are useful operating measures but are not defined under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and should be reconciled to reported results.

The sale-leaseback trade-off. Selling the real estate raised cash and boosted returns, but it converted a flexible, owned asset into a fixed monthly rent bill that must be paid in good times and bad — magnifying both upside and downside. It also reallocates risk: the REIT gets predictable, escalating rent but depends on the operator staying solvent and licensed. [24]

6. What drives demand

• The consumer economy. Gambling, travel, and resort spending are discretionary; wallets tighten fast in a downturn and open in a boom. This is a cyclical industry — operators' own filings name discretionary consumer spending and customer volume as central revenue drivers. [8][13]

• Travel and events. Airlift, convention calendars, sports (Las Vegas now hosts the Super Bowl, F1, and pro franchises), and concerts fill rooms. Las Vegas drew 41.7 million visitors and 5.8 million convention attendees in 2024. [8]

• Local and regional play. Regional and Las Vegas "locals" casinos depend less on tourism and more on nearby household spending, drive times, and population growth — a reason Red Rock and Boyd behave differently from the Strip. [14]

• New supply and legalization. Each new casino, and each state that legalizes commercial or online gaming, expands the market — but can also cannibalize existing venues nearby.

• The digital shift. Online sports betting and iGaming are the fastest-growing slices (around a third of commercial GGR) and are both an opportunity (operators run their own apps) and a threat (they can pull play from the physical floor). [5]

7. Regulation

Casino hotels are among the most heavily regulated consumer businesses in the country, at three layers:

• State (and local) gaming regulators license every operator — and often key employees, lenders, directors, and vendors — after intensive "suitability" (background) investigations, and they set the games allowed, tax rates, and internal-control standards. In Nevada, a gaming license is a revocable privilege, and regulators can investigate anyone with material influence over an operation. [33] Gaming tax rates vary enormously by state; commercial operators paid a record $18.1 billion in gaming taxes in 2025. [5]

• Tribal gaming runs under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988, overseen by the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC). Casino-style (Class III) gaming generally requires an approved tribal ordinance and a Tribal-State compact. This framework is why tribal resorts sit largely outside the commercial statistics. [7][31]

• Federal anti-money-laundering (AML) rules. Under Title 31 of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), casinos are treated as financial institutions: they must run a written compliance program and file a Currency Transaction Report (CTR) when a patron's cash in or out tops $10,000 in a gaming day, and a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) for suspect transactions of $5,000 or more. [32]

The practical takeaway: licenses are hard to get, valuable, and revocable. Regulation is a moat around incumbents but also a standing risk — a compliance failure, a state tax hike, or restrictions on ownership transfers and change-of-control deals can hit results and asset value directly.

8. Competitive dynamics and consolidation

The national field is unconcentrated but consolidating. Federal concentration data for 721120 (2022) show the four largest firms taking 35.3% of receipts, the top eight 46.9%, the top twenty 63.7%, and the top fifty 81%; the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI, a standard concentration gauge) sits at just 465.5, well under the ~1,500 "moderately concentrated" line. [3] Nationally there is room among 223 firms — but locally, competition is fierce and often between a handful of nearby properties, so any single market can be far more concentrated than the national number implies.

Competitors are broad: destination resorts, regional and tribal casinos, plain hotels, lotteries, video gaming, iGaming, mobile sports betting, entertainment venues, and gray-market gambling. [13] Barriers to entry are high — limited licenses and approved locations, heavy construction and maintenance costs, suitability requirements, scarce well-located land, and the loyalty databases and convention/entertainment scale that incumbents already own.

The last several years rewrote the map:

• Mega-mergers. Eldorado Resorts bought Caesars in 2020 for $17.3 billion to create the largest U.S. casino company by property count. [23] In May 2026, Fertitta Entertainment agreed to acquire Caesars for about $17.6 billion (including assumed debt), taking it private. [20]

• Rebrands and roll-ups. Penn National became PENN Entertainment; Twin River became Bally's, which rolled up regional casinos before Standard General took control in 2025. [15]

• The sale-leaseback wave. Operators sold their real estate to the two gaming REITs (VICI, GLPI) to raise capital, permanently separating operations from ownership — including Golden Entertainment's 2026 sale of seven resorts' real estate to VICI as it went private. [16][24][25]

• Digital land grab. Operators built or bought online arms — BetMGM (MGM), ESPN Bet (PENN), Caesars Digital — chasing the fast-growing online market and defending their brands.

Consolidation can improve marketing scale, loyalty economics, and purchasing power. It can also add rent, debt, and integration risk, and raise the stakes on any weak property or regulatory setback.

9. Risks

• Cyclicality. Discretionary spending falls in recessions; casino resorts carry high operating and (now) rent leverage, so cash flow drops faster than revenue.

• Fixed charges. Post sale-leaseback, many operators owe escalating rent no matter the environment — on top of debt service, labor, maintenance, and capital spending — a downside amplifier the old owned-real-estate model lacked.

• Hold volatility. Short-term casino win can swing sharply on luck even when wagering volume is steady, producing lumpy quarterly results.

• Regulatory and tax risk. License loss, ownership restrictions, higher gaming taxes, or compact changes can each impair earnings and asset value; several states have floated tax increases. [33]

• Local competition and new supply. A new license, resort expansion, tribal facility, or digital option can weaken a property's catchment area; overbuilding turns a growth story into a share fight.

• Digital substitution. iGaming and mobile sports betting grow the overall market but compete for the same customer wallet, potentially siphoning play from physical floors. [13]

• Geographic concentration. Wynn (and the now-Asian Las Vegas Sands) are heavily exposed to Macau and Chinese policy; Strip-heavy names ride Las Vegas visitation. [34]

• Cybersecurity, weather, and insurance. A systems outage, data breach, or AML failure can halt operations and trigger enforcement; severe weather, water constraints, public-health events, and rising insurance costs can hit destination properties. [32][11]

• Private-market opacity. Private operators disclose less, and direct-property investments are illiquid and hinge on local licenses and financing.

10. How to invest, and the outlook

Public routes. Investors can own the operators (MGM, Caesars, Wynn, PENN, Boyd, Red Rock, Monarch, Full House, Bally's) for direct exposure to gambling and travel demand — cyclical, operationally levered, and, for Wynn, a Macau bet as much as a U.S. one. Or they can own the landlords (VICI, GLPI): as REITs with long, triple-net, rent-escalating leases and near-100% occupancy, they offer a bond-like, dividend-oriented profile with far less operating risk than the casinos they house — a very different risk/return. There is no pure-play casino-hotel index fund, but broad consumer-discretionary and REIT funds hold these names, and thematic gaming ETFs (exchange-traded funds) exist.

What to check. For operators: property-level win, hold, occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR; the gaming vs. non-gaming mix; labor and customer-acquisition costs and capital spending; net debt and lease-adjusted leverage; and local supply and license durability. For REITs: tenant concentration, rent coverage, lease terms and escalators, debt maturities, and each major tenant's financial and regulatory health — a REIT can look diversified by property count while depending on a few big tenants. [24][25] Start with each company's annual Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Private routes. Direct ownership of tribal resorts is not available to outside investors. Private equity (Apollo's Venetian) and private-credit lending to casino developers are the main non-public channels, generally open only to institutions and accredited investors; underwrite the license, local demand, site access, construction budget, operator capability, lease terms, and exit route.

Near-term outlook (forward-looking). The industry enters the mid-2020s off record commercial and tribal gaming revenue — $78.7 billion commercial in 2025 and $46.2 billion tribal in fiscal 2025 — but growth is broadening away from the Las Vegas Strip, whose 2024 gaming win slipped slightly even as Nevada set a state record of $15.6 billion, toward regional, locals, and especially online markets. [5][7][8] Analysts broadly expect digital sports betting and iGaming to keep growing (though decelerating) and tend to favor Macau-exposed and digital-forward names over Strip-dependent ones in the near term, while regional casinos face tougher comparisons and possible online cannibalization. [34] The ground-truth federal data provide no code-specific forecast for NAICS 721120, so broader gaming growth should not be treated as a guaranteed forecast for every casino hotel. Mature resorts should stay economically durable, but returns are likely to be property-specific: scarce licenses, strong local or destination demand, effective reinvestment, disciplined leverage, and rent that stays supportable through a weaker cycle.

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[1] U.S. Census Bureau, "NAICS 721120 Casino Hotels" (and 713210 Casinos except Casino Hotels; 721110 Hotels and Motels; 713290 Other Gambling Industries) — definitions and scope, 2022 NAICS. https://www.census.gov/naics/?details=721120&input=721120&year=2022

[2] U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (CBP), 2023 — establishments, employment, annual and first-quarter payroll for NAICS 721120. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html

[3] U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, concentration/comparative statistics and methodology for NAICS 721120 — firms, receipts, CR4/CR8/CR20/CR50, HHI; government-owned casino-hotel exception. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census.html

[4] U.S. Small Business Administration, Table of Small Business Size Standards (by NAICS), 2023 — $40M receipts threshold for 721120. https://www.sba.gov/document/support-table-size-standards

[5] American Gaming Association, "Commercial Gaming Revenue Hits $78.7 Billion in 2025, Driving Record $18.1 Billion in Gaming Taxes Nationwide," Feb. 2026. https://www.americangaming.org/commercial-gaming-revenue-hits-78-7-billion-in-2025-driving-record-18-1-billion-in-gaming-taxes-nationwide/

[6] American Gaming Association, "2024 Commercial Gaming Revenue Reaches $71.9B," Feb. 2025 — prior record and casino/sports/iGaming segment split. https://www.americangaming.org/2024-commercial-gaming-revenue-reaches-71-9b-marking-fourth-straight-year-of-record-revenue/

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[9] BetUS, "The High Rollers: Top 5 Largest Casino Companies by Revenue in 2024" (MGM, Caesars, Wynn, Sands). https://www.betus.com.pa/online-casino/the-wise-guy/news/the-high-rollers-top-5-largest-casino-companies-by-revenue-in-2024/

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[11] Wynn Resorts, Inc., Form 10-K — international/Macau exposure and weather/insurance risk factors, U.S. SEC EDGAR. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001174922

[12] Boyd Gaming Corp., FY2024 results (Form 8-K / annual report), U.S. SEC EDGAR. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=906553

[13] PENN Entertainment, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year 2024 — total revenue $6,578.1M; competition and discretionary-spending discussion. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=921738

[14] Macrotrends, "Red Rock Resorts Revenue" (2024 annual revenue ~$1.94B). https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/RRR/red-rock-resorts/revenue

[15] Business Wire / Nasdaq, "Bally's Corporation Completes Transactions With Standard General and The Queen Casino & Entertainment," Feb. 2025 (rollover election; shares continue on NYSE as BALY). https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250207357507/en/

[16] Golden Entertainment, "Golden Entertainment Completes Transition to Return to Private, Family-Owned Operation," 2026 (VICI acquired real estate of seven resorts, ~$1.16B, and leased back). https://goldenent.com/Assets/pdf/news_releases/golden-entertainment-completes-transition-to-return-to-private-family-owned-operation.pdf

[17] Monarch Casino & Resort, "Monarch Casino & Resort Reports Strong Financial Results for Q4 and Full Year 2024" — net revenue $522.2M. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/monarch-casino-resort-inc-reports-strong-financial-results-q4-and-full-year-2024

[18] Churchill Downs Incorporated, "Reports 2024 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results," Feb. 2025. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/02/19/3029135/12388/en/Churchill-Downs-Incorporated-Reports-2024-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-Results.html

[19] Full House Resorts, Inc., Form 10-K, U.S. SEC EDGAR — regional casinos and casino hotels. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=891482

[20] Caesars Entertainment / Fertitta Entertainment, "Caesars Entertainment Enters Into Agreement to Be Acquired by Fertitta Entertainment," May 2026 — ~$17.6B all-cash deal, $31.00/share, go-shop through Jul. 11, 2026. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fertitta-entertainment-announces-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-caesars-entertainment-in-17-6-billion-transaction-302783985.html

[21] Gaming Intelligence, "Las Vegas Sands completes sale of The Venetian Resort for $6.25bn," Feb. 2022. https://www.gamingintelligence.com/finance/manda/152806-las-vegas-sands-completes-sale-of-the-venetian-resort-for-6-25bn/

[22] Apollo Global Management, "Apollo Funds Complete the Acquisition of The Venetian Resort Las Vegas," 2022. https://ir.apollo.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/23/apollo-funds-complete-the-acquisition-of-the-venetian

[23] PR Newswire, "Eldorado Resorts and Caesars Entertainment Complete Merger," Jul. 2020 — $17.3B transaction. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eldorado-resorts-and-caesars-entertainment-complete-merger-301096281.html

[24] VICI Properties Inc., Form 10-K/10-Q — portfolio of ~93 experiential assets (~54 gaming) under triple-net leases; 2026 addition of Golden's real estate. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1705696

[25] Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc., Form 10-K — ~68 gaming facilities across ~20 states, tenants and lease structure. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1575965

[26] Seminole Gaming / Hard Rock International, "About Us" — Seminole Tribe of Florida ownership and operation. https://seminole.hardrock.com/about-us

[27] Mohegan / Mohegan Sun, "About Mohegan Sun" — Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut ownership. https://mohegansun.com/about-mohegan-sun.html

[28] Choctaw Casinos & Resorts — Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma ownership; hotel branding partnerships do not change ownership. https://www.choctawcasinos.com/newsroom/

[29] Chickasaw Nation / WinStar World Casino and Resort — tribal ownership and operation, Oklahoma. https://www.chickasaw.net/

[30] Financial Models Lab, "Casino Resort / Casino Hotel KPIs" (EBITDAR, hold, handle/drop, occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, non-gaming mix), corroborated by MGM Resorts quarterly operating disclosures. https://financialmodelslab.com/blogs/kpi-metrics/casino-resort

[31] National Indian Gaming Commission, "Indian Gaming Regulatory Act" — IGRA framework, Class III gaming, Tribal-State compacts. https://www.nigc.gov/office-of-general-counsel/laws-and-regulations/indian-gaming-regulatory-act

[32] Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and IRS Publication 3908 — Bank Secrecy Act Title 31 casino compliance; CTR ($10,000) and SAR ($5,000) thresholds. https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidance/casino-or-card-club-compliance-program-assessment; https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p3908.pdf

[33] State of Nevada, "Nevada Revised Statutes, Chapter 463 — Licensing and Control of Gaming" (gaming license as revocable privilege). https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-463.html

[34] CDC Gaming and Morningstar, 2025 U.S. gaming stock outlooks — digital growth, Macau exposure, Las Vegas revenue-share and cannibalization discussion. https://cdcgaming.com/; https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/2025-us-gaming-industry-trends