Galaxy Entertainment Group’s first-half profit climbed nine fold after the Macau casino operator drew more Chinese visitors to a gambling resort it set up last year. Net income for the six months ended June rose to us$ 445 million from us$ 48.7 million a year earlier. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, surged to us$ 605.8 million from us$ 232 million for the six months.
The company opened the Galaxy Macau resort on the city’s Cotai strip in May last year. It plans to invest us$ 2 billion to almost double the size of that gambling center in the Chinese city to compete with rivals including Sands China, Wynn Macau and Melco Crown Entertainment First-half revenue doubled to us$ 3.64 billion.
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