Inside Asian Gaming
IAG NOV 2022年11月 亞博匯 145 十年之前 woos these value investors. They like the earnings colossus the industry has fashioned over the last decade both for its ability to support robust dividend returns while still funding the capital investment that will drive earnings growth and share price appreciation into the future.” Sean Monaghan, senior Consumer and Gaming Analyst for HSBC out of Singapore, noted at the time that the “breadth of investors from around the world is massively changing,” referring to Macau as becoming “de-risked” and therefore increasingly “investable” for large yield buyers for whom positions in the gaming sector would not have been an option in the past. “Where before you had only a few companies that were listed, and they had high debt and new assets under construction which may not have been producing revenue, or if they were under construction they weren’t producing anything, now all of them are producing tons of cash,” he said. “They have paid off their original investments. Now they’re going into a whole new wave, and the whole gearing structure is radically different from what it was before. The industry from a market cap perspective is so much bigger than what it was, but far more relevant. Before you had difficulty predicting 這 個故事想必每個人 都非常熟悉了。澳 門的博彩股曾一度 為博彩業界其他同 儕所艷羨,但近年 來,由於中國內地打擊跨境賭博、澳門 博彩經營批給重新競投的不確定性,以 及最重要的來自新冠疫情全球大流行的 影響,澳門的博彩股已經被壓低至歷史 最低點。 然而以前並非如此。十年之前, 《亞博匯》2012年11月號的封面故事就 分析了澳門博彩股票,由於過去十年澳 門年增長率達到35%、對接下來幾年可 獲得穩定及可持續回報的預期而產生的 持續吸引力。 儘管令澳門成為全球博彩業中心的 爆炸性增長在2021年有所放緩,但本刊 當時認為,進入該行業的新投資者更樂 於享受一些更小的、更可預測的回報。 有分析師人士認為,澳門「在後者的嚴 重變得越來越合適長期持有」。 「儘管中期來看,收入增長可能 較過去有所放緩,但吸引這些投資者的 是澳門整體現金流的歷史。他們喜歡這 個行業在過去十年中塑造的巨大盈利能 力,技能支持強勁的股息回報,又能為 未來盈利增長和股價升值的資本投資提 供資金。」 匯豐銀行駐新加坡高級消費者和博 彩分析師Sean Monaghan當時指出, 「來自全球各地的投資者範圍正在發生 巨大變化」,他指的是澳門變得「去風險 化」,因此對於高收益的買家而言,澳門 的「投資價值」愈發高企。 「以前只有少數幾家上市公司,負 債很高,在建的新物業可能尚未產生收 入,或者因為在建而沒有收入。但現在所 有這些公司都在產生大量現金。」他表 示:「這些公司已經收回了最初的投資, 目前正進入全新的浪潮,整個傳動結構與 以前完全不同。從市值的角度來看,這個 行業比以前大得多。以前很難預測收益, 但目前預測收益增長則變得十分容易。」 而對於未來的大致估量,本刊當時 也一語中的的預言,澳門將逐漸從以貴賓 博彩為中心的市場,發展為中場博彩為基 礎的市場。
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