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Las Vegas Sands brings casinos, hotels, shopping and convention facilities together in large resorts. Through its majority-owned subsidiary Sands China, it operates Macao properties including The Venetian Macao and The Londoner Macao; in Singapore, it owns and operates Marina Bay Sands. Casino patrons supply most of its revenue, with the business focused on mass-market players, including higher-spending guests, rather than solely on VIPs. Guests also pay for rooms, dining and entertainment, while shops pay rent to occupy its malls.
The business depends on visitors traveling to these two markets, with mainland China supplying a significant number of gaming patrons. Travel and visa policies therefore affect customer access. Casino operations also require government concessions and licenses: losing those rights would prevent the affected properties from continuing their gaming business.
The parent company has few operations of its own. Cash reaches it mainly through royalties, dividends and distributions from its operating subsidiaries, whose debt agreements can restrict payments to the parent.
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Las Vegas Sands also depends on Singapore tourism and casino spending at Marina Bay Sands, which generated 56% of its 2025 property EBITDA and competes with Genting Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment competes with Las Vegas Sands for mass-market and premium guests at Macao casino resorts, so both depend on visitor spending, particularly from Chinese travelers. Melco’s Macao revenue is the relevant line to watch: that market generated a significant majority of its revenue in each of 2023–2025.
Wynn Resorts’ Wynn Palace and Wynn Macau compete with Las Vegas Sands’ Macao resorts for guests’ casino and luxury-stay spending. Their separately reported results offer a view of Macao gaming and premium resort demand, rather than Wynn’s US business.
Studio City competes with Las Vegas Sands’ Macao resorts for mass-market gaming and leisure visitors through its entertainment-led Cotai resort; a Melco subsidiary runs its casino, while Studio City runs the non-gaming businesses. Watch its mass-market table-game gross gaming revenue, which rose from US$1.13 billion in 2024 to US$1.26 billion in 2025, for a read on the customer spending Sands prioritizes.
MGM Resorts International competes with Las Vegas Sands for Macao visitors’ casino and resort spending through MGM China’s two casino properties. MGM China’s results are the relevant comparison for Sands’ Macao business, rather than MGM’s broader hotel, casino and online gaming operations.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. earningsThis company
Las Vegas Sands earns from casino play as well as hotel stays and mall tenants, and this report will show whether guest spending is supporting both sides of its resort business.
Read casino revenue alongside hotel and mall revenue. Growth in both casino and non-gaming revenue would show visitors spending across gambling, stays and shopping; casino growth without comparable hotel and mall growth would show that gains rely more on gambling than on the broader resort offer.
MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL earningsMGM
MGM Resorts’ MGM China runs two Macao casino resorts, and its Macao results will show whether visitor spending in Sands’ competing market is holding up or weakening.
Focus on MGM China’s Macao business, especially whether casino revenue and visitor volumes hold up. Both holding steady would point to resilient visitor spending in the market Sands’ Macao resorts share; both weakening would mean a less supportive setting for Sands’ competition for those visitors.
