MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO SELL OPERATIONS OF GOLD STRIKE TUNICA FOR $450 MILLION

Buy worth represents an approximate 11 occasions a number of on common Adjusted Property EBITDA from 2019-2021

LAS VEGAS, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — MGM Resorts Worldwide (NYSE: MGM) (“MGM Resorts” or the “Firm”) right this moment introduced that it has reached an settlement to promote the operations of Gold Strike Tunica (“Gold Strike”) to Cherokee Nation Leisure Gaming Holdings, LLC (“CNE”), a subsidiary of Cherokee Nation Companies, for $450 million in money, topic to customary changes.

“I wish to thank all of our Gold Strike workers who’ve constantly delivered world-class gaming and leisure experiences to our visitors,” stated Invoice Hornbuckle, CEO & President, MGM Resorts Worldwide.  “Gold Strike is a superb property with a vivid future forward.  Strategically, although, we determined to slim our focus in Mississippi to a single resort – Beau Rivage – and dedicate extra of our time and assets in the direction of persevering with to drive success at that main, world-class resort and on line casino.”

For the twelve months ended December 31, 2021, Gold Strike reported web earnings of $81.1 million and Adjusted Property EBITDAR of $115 million¹, reflecting advantages from sure market particular elements within the final yr.  Pre-pandemic, Gold Strike reported Adjusted Property EBITDAR of $67 million in 2019.  On the closing of the transaction, MGM Resorts’ grasp lease settlement with VICI Properties Inc. (NYSE: VICI), which at present consists of Gold Strike, can be amended to cut back annual lease by $40 million. The Firm expects web money proceeds after taxes and estimated charges to be roughly $350 million. 

“This can be a nice end result for the Firm as we’re capable of reprioritize future capital expenditures towards alternatives that may improve the shopper expertise at our different places,” stated Jonathan Halkyard, CFO & Treasurer, MGM Resorts Worldwide.  “We admire VICI, as the true property proprietor of Gold Strike, working constructively with CNE to facilitate a brand new lease settlement.” 

Gold Strike opened in 1994 and was acquired by MGM Resorts in 2005. At 32 tales tall, the long-lasting property is among the most recognizable buildings in Tunica and towers above all different constructions. When it was constructed the gold tower was reported to be the tallest constructing in Mississippi. 

The transaction is anticipated to shut within the first half of 2023, topic to regulatory approvals and different customary closing circumstances.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP served as authorized counsel to MGM Resorts.

About MGM Resorts Worldwide
MGM Resorts Worldwide (NYSE: MGM) is an S&P 500® international leisure firm with nationwide and worldwide places that includes best-in-class resorts and casinos, state-of-the-art conferences and convention areas, unbelievable dwell and theatrical leisure experiences, and an intensive array of restaurant, nightlife and retail choices. MGM Resorts creates immersive, iconic experiences via its suite of Las Vegas-inspired manufacturers. The MGM Resorts portfolio encompasses 33 distinctive lodge and gaming locations globally, together with among the most recognizable resort manufacturers within the business. The Firm’s 50/50 enterprise, BetMGM, LLC, presents U.S. sports activities betting and on-line gaming via market-leading manufacturers, together with BetMGM and partypoker. The Firm is at present pursuing focused enlargement in Asia via the built-in resort alternative in Japan. By means of its “Targeted on What Issues: Embracing Humanity and Defending the Planet” philosophy, MGM Resorts commits to making a extra sustainable future, whereas striving to make an even bigger distinction within the lives of its workers, visitors, and within the communities the place it operates. The worldwide workers of MGM Resorts are pleased with their firm for being acknowledged as one among FORTUNE® Journal’s World’s Most Admired Firms®. For extra data, please go to us at www.mgmresorts.com. Please additionally join with us @MGMResortsIntl on Twitter in addition to Fb and Instagram.

About Cherokee Nation Companies:
Cherokee Nation Companies is the tribally owned holding firm of the most important Indian Nation in the USA. The Cherokee Nation and its companies make use of 11,000 individuals. CNB blends its heritage of ingenuity with fashionable enterprise expertise to unravel advanced challenges, serve purchasers nationwide and to stay one of many drivers of Cherokee Nation’s prosperity and stability. CNB owns corporations within the consulting, well being sciences, hospitality, actual property, expertise, distribution and logistics, engineering, manufacturing, building and environmental providers industries. For extra data, please go to www.CherokeeNationBusinesses.com or comply with CNB on Fb, Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Cherokee Nation Leisure:
Cherokee Nation Leisure is the gaming and hospitality firm of the Cherokee Nation. The corporate owns and operates Onerous Rock Lodge & On line casino Tulsa and 9 Cherokee Casinos, together with a horse racing monitor, three resort resorts, three golf programs and different retail operations. For extra data go to www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com and www.cherokeecasino.com.

Ahead Wanting Statements:
Statements on this launch that aren’t historic details are forward-looking statements, throughout the that means of the Personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, and contain dangers and/or uncertainties, together with these described within the Firm’s public filings with the Securities and Trade Fee. Ahead-looking statements could be recognized by means of forward-looking terminology corresponding to “believes,” “expects,” “may,” “might,” “will,” “ought to,” “seeks,” “doubtless,” “intends,” “plans,” “professional forma,” “tasks,” “estimates” or “anticipates” or the destructive of those phrases and phrases or related phrases or phrases which might be predictions of or point out future occasions or traits and that don’t relate solely to historic issues. The Firm has primarily based forward-looking statements on administration’s present expectations and assumptions and never on historic details. Examples of those statements embrace, however aren’t restricted to, the Firm’s expectations relating to the closing of the sale and any advantages anticipated to be acquired from the sale, together with the Firm’s anticipated web money proceeds. Ahead-looking statements depend upon assumptions, knowledge or strategies which may be incorrect or imprecise, and the Firm might not have the ability to understand them. The Firm doesn’t assure that the transaction or different occasions described herein will occur as described (or that they may occur in any respect). These forward-looking statements contain numerous dangers and uncertainties. Among the many vital elements that would trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these indicated in such forward-looking statements embrace dangers associated to the Firm’s capacity to finish the transaction on the phrases described herein or all, the satisfaction of the closing circumstances, together with the receipt of regulatory approvals, to which the completion of the transaction is topic, which may delay or stop the completion of the transaction, the continued impression of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Firm’s enterprise, the results of financial circumstances and market circumstances within the markets during which the Firm operates and competitors with different vacation spot journey places all through the USA and the world, the design, timing and prices of enlargement tasks, dangers referring to worldwide operations, permits, licenses, financings, approvals and different contingencies in reference to progress in new or present jurisdictions and extra dangers and uncertainties described within the Firm’s Kind 10-Okay, Kind 10-Q and Kind 8-Okay studies (together with all amendments to these studies). In offering forward-looking statements, the Firm is just not endeavor any responsibility or obligation to replace these statements publicly because of new data, future occasions or in any other case, besides as required by legislation. If the Firm updates a number of forward-looking statements, no inference must be drawn that it’s going to make extra updates with respect to these different forward-looking statements.

Non-GAAP Monetary Measures
This press launch consists of Adjusted Property EBITDAR for Gold Strike Tunica, which is a “non-GAAP monetary measure” as outlined in Regulation G below the Securities Trade Act of 1934, as amended. Schedules that reconcile the non-GAAP monetary measure for 2019 to essentially the most immediately comparable monetary measure calculated and offered in accordance with Usually Accepted Accounting Ideas in the USA can be found within the Firm’s earnings launch, dated February 12, 2020, that was furnished with the SEC and is obtainable on our web site at www.mgmresorts.com. As well as, this press launch features a a number of primarily based on common Adjusted Property EBITDA. Adjusted Property EBITDA is Adjusted Property EBITDAR much less lease of $40 million. For a reconciliation of 2021 Adjusted Property EBITDAR to web earnings see footnote 1 to this press launch.

MGM RESORTS CONTACTS

Funding Group:
ANDREW CHAPMAN, Director of Investor Relations
(702) 693-8711, [email protected]

Information Media:
BRIAN AHERN, Government Director of Communications
[email protected]

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