LVS
LAS VEGAS SANDS CORPEvidence as of 2026-09-03Overview · LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP
Las Vegas Sands Corp., together with its subsidiaries, develops, owns, and operates integrated resorts in Macao and Singapore. It owns and operates The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, the Londoner Macao, The Parisian Macao, The Plaza Macao and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip, and the Sands Macao in Macao, the People's Republic of China; and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. The company's integrated resorts feature ac…
Management team
- Mr. D. Zachary Hudson J.D. · Executive VP, Global General Counsel & SecretaryFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Randy A. Hyzak · Executive VP & CFOFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Patrick Dumont · President, COO & DirectorFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Robert Glen Goldstein · Chairman, CEO & TreasurerFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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−0.3 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
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Editor's note
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The evidence balance is Mixed ( -0.3 of a possible +2; was -0.3 before debate) · confidence high. Revenues fell from $ 3,585,000,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-22) to $ 3,154,000,000 in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-07-22), and operating income declined from $ 904,000,000 to $ 618,000,000 over the same quarters, producing quarter‑over‑quarter operating‑margin compression from about 25.2% to about 19.6%. Net income fell from $ 567,000,000 in Q1 2026 to $ 346,000,000 in Q2 2026 and diluted EPS declined from $ 0.85 to $ 0.53, while weighted‑average diluted shares outstanding dropped from 671,000,000 to 656,000,000 concurrent with reported repurchases of $ 753,000,000 in Q1 2026.
The balance sheet items recorded total assets of $ 21,176,000,000 as of 2026-03-31 falling to $ 19,909,000,000 as of 2026-06-30, and stockholders’ equity declining from $ 1,198,000,000 to $ 581,000,000. Valuation and market‑structure snapshots survive: trailing‑twelve‑month EBITDA $ 4,394,000,000 and EV/EBITDA 7.96; trailing FCF $ 1,477,000,000 and P/FCF 19.78; trailing EPS $ 2.57 and P/E 17.33; implied free‑cash‑flow growth tied to today’s price 8.73%; market cap $ 28,848,610,735 and enterprise value $ 34,968,612,735 with cash $ 3,376,000,000 and long‑term debt $ 9,496,002,000. Coverage also records institutional buying (Rakuten, Empowered Funds, and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board), an ETF holding of 0.02% reported in IVV as of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00, recent share‑price weakness (52‑week low) and the company’s public discussion of global development plans, dividend reinstatement, and about US$ 6.00 billion in repurchase authorization.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
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Revenues fell from $3,585,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) to $3,154,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001300514-26-000046Operating income declined from $904,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) to $618,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001300514-26-000046Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
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LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP appears as a holding in the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) with a reported weight of 0.02% of the fund's assets.
ETF constituents · market dataThe ETF membership record is timestamped 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00, indicating the holding and weight are reported as of 2 September 2026.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Coverage notes Las Vegas Sands operates integrated resorts combining casino gaming, hotels, and convention facilities (descriptive company operations).
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-09-02Multiple distinct filings reported institutional buying: Rakuten Investment Management acquired 48,796 shares in the second quarter and Empowered Funds LLC acquired 235,216 shares in the second quarter, according to separate articles summarizing 13F/Form 13F activity.
News · thelincolnianonline.com · 2026-08-31Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The model reports an implied free cash flow growth rate of 8.73% that today's price would justify under the stated discount and terminal assumptions.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice-to-free-cash-flow (P/FCF, trailing twelve months) is 19.78.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
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Several pieces of the record together support a constructive interpretation: reported active share repurchases coincided with a meaningful reduction in diluted share count (fundamentals-4), multiple institutional investors added sizeable positions in Q2 (news-1, news-2), and the company retains substantial buyback authorization and discussed dividend reinstatement alongside global development plans (news-4). These company- and market-level signals sit alongside what the valuation items show: positive trailing EBITDA and free cash flow, an EV/EBITDA of 7.96, trailing FCF per share of $2.25 and an implied FCF growth rate of 8.73% at the current price (valuation-2, valuation-4, valuation-5, valuation-0), which together indicate available cash generation and valuation metrics that can support capital return activity. The quarter-to-quarter operating and earnings declines (fundamentals-0, fundamentals-1, fundamentals-2, fundamentals-3) are documented in an SEC filing and are factual, but they are single-quarter comparisons; when juxtaposed with multi-quarter trailing EBITDA/FCF and recent institutional buying, the overall evidence can be read in a favorable light for investors focusing on cash generation and capital return dynamics.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.37
20 surviving claims rest on 9 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 30% of them, and 98% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set rests on a moderate number of distinct sources but a fairly large surviving claim count; one analyst contributes nearly one-third of the surviving claims and the desk’s conclusions were almost entirely upheld in debate. That concentration and high survival rate imply the read carries informational weight but also vulnerability: source concentration and analyst dependence reduce how robustly these claims can be generalized without additional independent verification.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
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11 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
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Read by Mercer−0.7 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
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Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
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Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
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Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
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1 record· 0 cited
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