Wynn Stock Declines as Macau Project Is Delayed
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Wynn Resorts (WYNN) - Get Report stock is retreating by 2.53% to $60 in afternoon trading on Wednesday, after delaying the opening of its $4.1 billion Wynn Palace by three months.
The company now expects the project to open in the Cotai area of Macau on June 25, 2016. Previously, Wynn had said the project would be completed on March 25, 2016.
Wynn Palace is CEO Steve Wynn's second integrated luxury resort in Macau. The first was the 2006 launch of Wynn Macau, according to the website.
The hotel will include 1,700 rooms and suites spanning 28 floors.
Based in Las Vegas, Wynn Resorts is a developer, owner and operator of destination casino resorts which integrate accommodations and amenities, including fine dining, premium retail offerings, distinctive entertainment and convention facilities.
Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates WYNN RESORTS LTD as a Hold with a ratings score of C-. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
We rate WYNN RESORTS LTD (WYNN) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed - some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. Among the primary strengths of the company is its expanding profit margins over time. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, weak operating cash flow and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share.
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- 37.48% is the gross profit margin for WYNN RESORTS LTD which we consider to be strong. Regardless of WYNN's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 7.40% trails the industry average.
- WYNN, with its decline in revenue, underperformed when compared the industry average of 1.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 27.3%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- Despite any intermediate fluctuations, we have only bad news to report on this stock's performance over the last year: it has tumbled by 64.12%, worse than the S&P 500's performance. Consistent with the plunge in the stock price, the company's earnings per share are down 61.17% compared to the year-earlier quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 61.5% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $191.41 million to $73.77 million.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $159.18 million or 59.80% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: WYNN
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