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Sportsbooks Thrive Despite Odds: Caesars' Earnings Surge
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5/2/2025
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all right finally sam let's close it out i know the year and sports betting went on the side of
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the books we don't love to say that but that's the reality of the situation so i'm gonna guess
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that uh i'm sorry the public public excuse me totally backwards there the public ended up
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winning all the money not so unusual that yeah it's so unusual yeah usually the sports books are
00:20
built or building another hotel these days uh so let me recant the football season went in favor
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the public march madness went in favor of the public so when caesars put their numbers out
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how did they look yeah everyone was expecting another bad quarter and that was kind of the
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vibes around the investment community uh march madness all the favorites won nfl historically
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bad but caesars actually did pretty well they just reported their uh second or their first quarter
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earnings yesterday and they pulled in 43 million dollars of profit in their digital segment uh
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compared to just five million in the same quarter last year so that's almost five times as much
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despite the awful quarter of march badness um so the obvious question is how did they do that uh it
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seems that they as well as other companies kind of knew that they had to do something to fight this
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unlucky streak and uh stop investors from being spooked about what they usually call one-time headwinds
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that kept happening and you know the answer is always craig you know you drive people to more
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parlays these higher margin bets which people love to bet um parlays as a percentage of all bets were
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up about three percent from last year uh which you know goes into everything caesars has done with the
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promos and you see that every sports book now there's no longer you know the free bets on a single
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bet are very minimal compared to parlays um so that helped drives uh hold up from 6.7 percent to about
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7.5 percent that's the win margin that the sports book takes and even though uh betting volume was
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actually down a little bit uh year over year kind of shows that caesars you know they they figured out
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a way to make more out of less and i think the investment community is going to be really
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encouraged and uh i wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see similar results uh for draft kings and
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fan duel bet mgm and everyone else when they report their earnings but again kind of a surprise after
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the very very chalky march badness and an encouraging sign for the sports books especially caesars which
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is actually doing pretty well right now in their digital segment when we expected everything to
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be a disaster so it's a fascinating one
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