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| Despite a tougher year-over-year comparable, the company continues to manage its expenses, generate record financial performance and return capital to our shareholders |
| I think everybody around here is pretty positive and pretty excited about the Super Bowl event |
| So while there is some short-term disruption, the upside is we’ve been very successful with this formula in other properties like Red Rock |
| We’ve seen great success with our new high limit rooms and new amenities |
| In addition to showing strong financial results, 2023 was a year in which we continued to validate our long-term growth strategy across the Las Vegas Valley by welcoming our Durango and Wildfire Fremont properties to the Red Rock family |
| The successful openings of these properties not only validates our long-term growth strategy within the Las Vegas Valley, it also demonstrates the power of our own development pipeline and real estate bank, which now consists of over 441 acres of developable land positioned in highly favorable areas across the Las Vegas Valley |
| The dividend reflects our board and management team's continued confidence in the resilience of our business model and the strength of the Las Vegas locals market |
| And I will caution, they are super strong numbers but they're not the numbers that we coming out of the pandemic that were 60 plus percent year-over-year increases |
| In executing this strategy, the team delivered another strong quarter across all business lines, with this quarter marking the 14th consecutive quarter that the Las Vegas operations delivered adjusted EBITDA margins in excess of 45% |
| With our best-in-class assets and locations, coupled with our development pipeline of seven owned sites located in the most desirable locations in the Las Vegas Valley, we have an unparalleled growth story that will allow us to double the size of our portfolio and capitalize on the very favorable long-term demographic trends and high barriers to entry that characterize the Las Vegas locals market |
| But we've always said this is a several year ramp to get the stabilization, and so we think we're well on track to hit that target |
| And again, as Frank said, the team did a fantastic job |
| But yes, given the demographic in the area, table drop is stronger than we expected initially |
| And the great success we’ve seen at Durango with what we did there and trying to bring Sunset up to that level |
| Obviously the results were better than we and consensus were expecting from an EBITDA perspective of EBITDA $13 million – a little over $13 million year-over-year |
| Before we get into any of the details, we are proud to say that the fourth quarter represented another strong quarter for the company by any measure |
| While we are still in early days, we are extremely pleased with the resort's opening |
| So I think that's one of the long-term benefits as the town continues to grow, is I think we have probably the best traffic ingress, egress, car counts of anyone in the market |
| Our newest destination is located off the 215 Expressway and Durango Drive in Southwest Las Vegas Valley, within the fastest growing area in the Las Vegas Valley with a very favorable demographic profile and no unrestricted gaming competitors in the five-mile radius |
| A strength coupled with strong spend per visit across the majority of our card to play allowed us to enjoy record fourth quarter revenue and profitability across our gaming segments |
| Turning to the non-gaming segments, both hotel and food and beverage continued to grow year-over-year and deliver record revenue and profitability in the fourth quarter |
| Our hotel division experienced its highest quarterly revenue and profit in our company's history, driven by our team's success on continuing to drive higher occupancy and ADR across our hotel portfolio |
| Food and beverage experienced its highest quarterly revenue and profit in our company's history, driven by higher average check and cover counts across our food and beverage outlets and the continued strength of our catering business |
| Our catering revenue continues to remain strong as this quarter represented the 10th consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year growth in this business line |
| With regard to our group sales, despite a difficult year-over-year comparison, we continue to see positive momentum in this business, driven by growth in both room nights and ADR as our pipeline continues to grow into 2024 |
| When comparing our results to last year's fourth quarter, we continue to see upside from strong visitation and play in our local, regional and national segments |
| These results demonstrate the resilience of our business model, the sustainability of our operating margins, and the ability of our management team to execute on our long-term growth strategy while taking a balanced approach to returning capital to our shareholders |
| But the good thing is the company has more optionality from a growth standpoint with deals and pieces of real estate that we control and we can bring online whenever we think it fits, but really consistent where we've been in the past |
| As the property thus far has grown the surrounding market has attracted new customers to our brand and has been profitable since day one |
| And so reconfiguring our race and sports books to be more experiential has been a huge success |
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| Our adjusted EBITDA margin was 48%, a decrease of 134 basis points from the prior year's fourth quarter |
| Our full year adjusted EBITDA margin was 47.9%, a decrease of 134 basis points from the prior year |
| Our full year adjusted EBITDA margin was 43.3%, a decrease of 143 basis points from the prior year |
| Our adjusted EBITDA margin was 43.5% for the quarter, a decrease of 133 basis points from the prior year's fourth quarter |
| We do still struggle a bit with energy costs |
| Our cost of goods sold year-over-year in the quarter actually went down |
| It’s very difficult at the beginning, when we opened Durango |
| If you kind of look at your margin profile throughout 2023 from a same-store basis, margins were kind of down in that 100 to 200 basis point range over the 2Q and the 3Q |
| And then the other thing you see is Durango being in a new market that was underpenetrated and lacks additional competition |
| But the first focus for us there was to have a smooth opening, have good word of mouth on the street, have people want to go there and we’ll worry about getting the efficiencies over the course of the next two to three quarters |
| Summer is a bit soft |
| Our labor as a percentage of revenue went down |
| So, Steve or Scott, if I could maybe ask, I mean, Durango has been kind of beat dead here a little bit |
| And so we had to incur additional preopening expenses |
| Steve, you mentioned about some disruption in the first half of this year at Palace Station |
| And again, that was a little bit larger than we anticipated due to the delay |
| And with the increases that will come with the new contracts, we're definitely going to have to look and make sure that we're competitive |
| But those are below the line and we wouldn't expect any going forward with regard to Durango |
| And really it never will stop |
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