MGM Resorts International vs Direxion NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Shares — how do they compare? MGM Resorts International trades at $46.57 (market cap $11.86B), while Direxion NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Shares trades at $118.11. The key difference: MGM Resorts International pays a 0.03% dividend while Direxion NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Shares pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| MGM | QQQE | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $11.86B | — |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Broad Market / Factor |
52-Week High | $50.69 | $122.72 |
52-Week Low | $30.72 | $96.06 |
Enterprise Value | $40.90B | — |
Dividend Yield | 0.03% | — |
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Latest headlines on both assets
MGM Resorts is the largest resort operator on the Las Vegas Strip with 35,000 guest rooms and suites, representing about one fourth of all units in the market. The company's Vegas properties include MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, Cosmopolitan, Luxor, New York-New York, and CityCenter. The Strip contributed approximately 49% of total EBITDAR in the prepandemic year of 2019. MGM also owns U.S. regional assets, which represented 29% of 2019 EBITDAR. we estimate MGM's U.S. sports and iGaming operations are currently a mid-single-digit percentage of its total revenue. The company also operates the 56%-owned MGM Macau casinos with a new property that opened on the Cotai Strip in early 2018. Further, we estimate MGM will open a resort in Japan in 2027.
Read more on MGM →QQQE is an ETF that seeks to track the performance of the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index. Unlike traditional market-capitalization-weighted indexes, this fund assigns equal weight to each of the 100 non-financial companies in the NASDAQ-100 and rebalances quarterly. This equal-weighting scheme reduces concentration risk in the largest technology companies and increases the fund's exposure to smaller-cap and mid-cap companies within the index, providing a differentiated growth profile.
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