On Wednesday, Shares of Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE:LVS), lost -1.01% to $46.84.
Las Vegas Sands Corp., stated financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.
The company paid a recurring quarterly dividend of $0.65 per common share during the quarter, an improvement of 30.0% contrast to the third quarter of 2014. The company also declared that its next recurring quarterly dividend of $0.65 per common share will be paid on December 31, 2015, to Las Vegas Sands shareholders of record on December 22, 2015. That dividend represents an improvement of 30.0% contrast to the dividend paid in the fourth quarter of 2014. Additionally, since the inception of the company’s share repurchase program in June 2013, the company has returned $2.38 billion to shareholders through the repurchase of 34.0 million shares, counting $80.0 million of common stock (1.7 million shares at a weighted average price of $45.75) during the quarter ended September 30, 2015.
Despite the negative impact of the stronger U.S. dollar, adjusted property EBITDA at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore raised 10.8% year-over-year to $389.7 million in the current quarter, driven by growth in mass play from visitors to Singapore and healthy Rolling Chip volume. Hold-normalized EBITDA raised 12.2% to $411.3 million. The property generated record mass gaming win-per-day in local currency terms while hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA raised 22.4% year-over-year on a constant-currency basis.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. develops, owns, and operates integrated resorts in Asia and the United States. The company owns and operates The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Sands Cotai Central, the Four Seasons Hotel Macao, the Plaza Casino, and the Sands Macao in Macau, the People’s Republic of China.
Shares of Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV), declined -0.82% to $41.04, during its last trading session.
Southwest Airlines Co. has market value of $27.06B while its EPS was booked as $2.32 in the last 12 months. The stock has 659.36M shares outstanding while 78.00% shares of the company were owned by institutional investors. In the profitability analysis, the company has gross profit margin of 69.20% while net profit margin was 8.30%. Beta value of the company was 0.66; beta is used to measure riskiness of the security.
Southwest Airlines Co. operates passenger airlines that provide planned air transportation services in the United States and near-international markets. As of December 31, 2014, it operated 665 Boeing 737 aircraft; and had 12 Boeing 717 aircraft.
Finally, Shares of Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET), ended its last trade with -3.17% loss, and closed at $108.28.
Individuals and employers in Illinois looking for a new health plan will have access to greater choice during this year’s open enrollment. Aetna (NYSE: AET) recently declared that Aetna Whole Health Chicago will be available on GetCoveredIllinois for the 2016 open enrollment commencing November 1, in addition to Illinois businesses.
Aetna Whole Health Chicago is a commercial health care product that provides members with access to highly coordinated care that tracks outcomes, shares data and measures clinical standards to improve quality and efficiency. It provides consumers with more options on GetCoveredIllinois.
Aetna Whole Health Chicago will be available to individuals and businesses through Advocate Health Care’s broad network of 4,000 primary care physicians and specialists at 250 sites of care counting 10 hospitals. Rush Health was the first Illinois hospital system to collaborate with Aetna on Aetna Whole Health Chicago for self-insured and fully insured businesses.
Aetna Inc. operates as a health care benefits company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Health Care, Group Insurance, and Large Case Pensions. The Health Care segment offers medical, pharmacy benefit administration services, dental, behavioral health, and vision plans on an insured basis, and an employer-funded or administrative basis.
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