Blackstone to sell Cosmopolitan hotel, casino for $5.65B

  • Blackstone (NYSE:BX) confirms an agreement to sell the Cosmopolitan casino and hotel on the Las Vegas Strip for $5.65B, a deal that makes it the firm's most profitable single asset ever.
  • The private equity firm bought the property for ~$1.8B seven years ago and paid an additional $500M on upgrades, renovating the almost 3,000 guest rooms and adding new restaurants and bars.
  • Its total profits after the sale come to ~$4.1B, including cash flow from the casino and hotel's operations, Blackstone (BX) told investors in a letter reviewed by the WSJ.
  • Under the transaction, Blackstone (BX) is selling the hotel and casino operations to MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM) for ~$1.6B. A partnership, including a Blackstone real estate investment trust, will acquire the underlying real estate for ~$4B, the letter said.
  • The property acquisition group also includes Stonepeak Partners, an infrastructure-focused investment firm, and the Cherng Family Trust, a Las Vegas-based family office for the founders of the Panda Restaurant Group .
  • The transaction is expected to close in early 2022.
  • The hotel was almost 87% occupied for the month of September through Friday, the WSJ reported, with average daily room rates at $448, according to Blackstone.

    Over the current book year the total revenue will be 9.08 billion USD (consensus estimates). This is quite more than 2021's revenue of 6.1 billion USD.

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    The analysts expect for 2021 a net profit of 4.7 billion USD. According to most of the analysts the company will have a profit per share for this book year of 3.78 USD. The price-earnings-ratio equals 30.37.

    Per share the analysts are expecting a dividend of 3.22 USD per share. Thus the dividend yield equals 2.8 percent. The average dividend yield of the health care companies equals a moderate 1.27 percent.

    Blackstone Group Inc 's market capitalization is around 77.06 billion USD. 121

    On Tuesday the stock closed at 114.81 USD.

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