Atlantic City, NJ may be in the headlines for their troubled casinos, however gaming is under pressure nationwide. Increased competition is driving overall sales, however these gains come primarily at the expense of existing casinos. This is particularly pronounced in the Northeast. Sales remain depressed in mature markets, even those with little new competition, like Las Vegas. The outlook is far from robust due to slow economic growth and demographics. State and local governments rely, at least in part, on tax revenues from gaming. To the extent growth is slow to nonexistent, public sector budgets will continue to be under pressure as well.
Betting the Minimum. Gaming in the U.S. and State Revenues
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Betting the Minimum
Gaming in the U.S. and State
Revenues
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Overview
• Consumer Spending Reset
– Entertainment dollar stabilized, gaming too
• Regional and State Differences
– Increased competition driving growth
– Underlying demand for gaming lower
• Public Revenues
• Outlook
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Methodological Notes
• Publicly available data
– Thus incomplete coverage within states and
across states
• See Excel file for documentation
• Focus primarily on slots
• Focus on net revenues, or casino win
– Gross sales minus prizes, effectively
• Focus on revenues as share of local personal
income
– Misses wealth impact
4. 6%
5%
4%
Entertainment as Share of Income
Consumer Expenditure Survey, BLS
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Entertainment Dollar Stable, But Down
3%
Middle 20%
Overall
1985 1995 2005 2015
0%
-4%
-8%
-12%
-16%
-20%
Entertainment Expenditures 2008-2013
Bottom
20%
2nd
Quintile
Middle
20%
4th
Quintile
Top
20%
5. 1.2%
1.0%
0.8%
0.6%
0.4%
0.2%
U.S. Gambling Expenditures as Share of Disposable
Personal Income
BEA, Tables 2.1, 2.4.5U
Pari-Mutuels
Lotteries
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U.S. Gaming Stabilizing as Well
• Resetting of
gaming
expenditures post
recession
• Stabilized since
mid-2010
• Different patterns
across games
and across
country
0.0%
Casinos
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
6. 0.9%
0.8%
0.7%
0.6%
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
Lotteries as Share of Disposable Income
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Spending Primarily at Casinos
Lotteries Flat
Peaked as share of income in mid-
1990s. Traditional lottery sales
generally flat.
Casinos Keep Some Gains
0.9%
0.8%
0.7%
0.6%
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
Casinos as Share of Disposable Income
Exceptional growth ‘90s thru housing
bubble. Keeping 40% of housing
bubble gains even after recession.
0.0%
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
0.0%
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
7. Southwest
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U.S. Gaming Data
Northeast
Midwest
+ Ohio, Michigan
Gulf
Data Available
8. Source: Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority
45,000,000
40,000,000
35,000,000
30,000,000
25,000,000
20,000,000
Las Vegas Visitor Statistics
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Visitors, lhs Hotel Occupancy Rate, rhs
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Vegas, Baby.
92%
90%
88%
86%
84%
82%
80%
78%
76%
74%
Leisure and Hospitality Taxable Sales
$10.0
$9.5
$9.0
$8.5
$8.0
$7.5
$7.0
Clark County, NV, Inflation-adjusted 2013$
FY2005 FY2007 FY2009 FY2011 FY2013
Billions
• Visitors are back… … and spending money…
9. 0%
-5%
-10%
-15%
-20%
-25%
Vegas, Maybe?
Nevada Slots and the Great Recession
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-30%
Slot Machine Win, 4 Qtr Average
Las Vegas Strip
Downtown Vegas
Other NV
Reno
2007 2009 2011 2013 2015
…on everything except gaming
10. $10
$9
$8
$7
$6
$5
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Northeast
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
New Casinos Cannibalize Existing
Northeast Slot Revenue by State
Rhode Island
Maryland
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Delaware
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
0.36%
0.33%
0.30%
0.27%
0.24%
0.21%
0.18%
$4
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
Billions
Northeast Slot Revenue
Sum of CT, DE, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT
Slot Revenue
Share of Personal Income
11. $4.0
$3.5
$3.0
$2.5
$2.0
$1.5
$1.0
$0.5
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Where Do Mature Markets Land?
$0.0
2000 2004 2008 2012
Billions
Mature Gaming Destinations Suffer
Slot Machine Win
New Jersey
Connecticut
State Peak
Year
Peak Slot
Revenues
(Net)
2014
Slots
%
CT 2007 $1.722 b $1.096 b -36%
DE 2006 $0.652b $0.354 b -46%
NJ 2006 $3.804 b $1.921 b -50%
12. $2.5
$2.0
$1.5
$1.0
$0.5
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Even Pennsylvania Slowing
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
$0.0
-6.3% past
2 years
FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014
Billions
Pennsylvania Gross Terminal Revenue
Initial 7 Casinos Newer Casinos (5 total) Share of Income, rhs
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And Here Comes Massachusetts
• MA accounts for ~12%
of regional personal
income & population
• 3 casinos on the way
• How much will the
market grow
compared with
cannibalization?
– Rhode Island Study
• MA casinos lower FY17
revenues by 30-42%
http://massgaming.com/about/expanded-gaming-act/
14. 0.7%
0.6%
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
Midwest Slot Revenues
Revenue as Share of Personal Income
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin
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Midwest
• Most of region avoided
big recessionary
losses, but sales as
share of income
continue to fall
• Illinois the exception
with large declines
• Indiana and Missouri
seeing large declines in
2013 and 2014 (Ohio
impact?)
0.0%
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
15. 0.45%
0.40%
0.35%
0.30%
0.25%
0.20%
0.15%
0.10%
0.05%
Ohio and Michigan Casinos
Share of Personal Income
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Buckeyes Rising, Wolverines Slowing
• Detroit’s commercial
casinos were doing
relatively well
– Windsor helping
• Ohio voters
approved casinos in
2009, opened in
2012
– Likely to grow further
0.00%
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
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West Virginia Squeezed
Country Roads Don’t Take You Home
West Virginia Casino
Atlantic City
New Casinos & Racinos
17. West Virginia Feeling the Impact
$1,400
$1,300
$1,200
$1,100
$1,000
$900
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$800
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Millions
West Virginia Video Lottery (Gross Sales)
-18% from
peak
Now -23%
Neighboring Casinos Opened: PA MD OH
18. 5%
4%
3%
2%
Gulf Coast Revenues
Share of Personal Income
Mississippi
Louisiana
(Riverboats, Casino, Racinos)
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Gulf Coast
• Louisiana sales
eroding as share of
sales
• Mississippi seeing
larger declines
• Florida racinos in
1%
2007 added some
regional competition 0%
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
19. 1.2%
1.0%
0.8%
0.6%
0.4%
0.2%
Southwest Revenues
Share of Personal Income
Colorado
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Southwest
• Colorado’s mining
town casino’s seeing
slow erosion
• Arizona’s boom and
bust not limited to
housing
• New Mexico
performing relatively
New Mexico
Arizona
0.0% well…
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
20. $200
$150
$100
$50
New Mexico Tribal Casino Net Win
Millions of Inflation-adjusted 2013$, 4 Qtr MA
Navajo Nation
Mescalero Apache &
Pueblo of Pojoaque
11 Tribal Compacts in Place in 2003
Jicarilla Apache, Ohkay Owingeh, Pueblos of
Acoma, Isleta, Laguna, Sandia, San Felipe,
Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Taos, Tesque
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…But Even New Mexico is Flat
• For mature
market, New
Mexico is a
success
• Casino win is
effectively flat for
7 years
• Growth driven
by new casinos
– Take market share $0
2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013
21. $18
$17
$16
$15
$14
$13
$12
$11
$10
$9
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Oregon Is No Exception
$8
Jan-01 Jan-05 Jan-09 Jan-13
Millions
Oregon Video Lottery Sales
Weekly Net Sales, 52 Week Moving Average
Line Games
Introduced
Great Recession
+ Smoking Ban
0.8%
0.7%
0.6%
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.2%
Oregon Video Lottery
Share of Personal Income, 4 Qtr Avg
2000 2005 2010 2015
22. 1.4%
1.2%
1.0%
0.8%
0.6%
0.4%
0.2%
Sales as Share of Personal Income
Montana
Video Gambling Machines
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Northern Plains
• Even states that
have
outperformed
economically see
losses and/or
slower growth
• Montana has
regained about
half of losses
• South Dakota at
or near all-time
high, but flat past
7 years
0.0%
South Dakota
Slot Revenues
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
23. $9
$8
$7
$6
$5
$4
$3
$2
$1
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Public Revenues
$0
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Billions
States' Reliance on Gaming
Tax Collections, 2013$, 1951-2013, U.S. Census
Pari-Mutuels
Amusements
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.0%
States' Reliance on Gaming
Share of All States Total Tax Collections, U.S. Census
Pari-Mutuels
Amusements
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
24. $10
$9
$8
$7
$6
$5
$4
$3
$2
$1
Commercial Casino Tax Revenues
Millions of inflation adjusted dollars, $2012
American Gaming Association: State of the States
Existing States in 1999
CO, IA, IL, IN, LA, MI, MO, MS, NJ, NV, SD
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Commercial Casino Taxes
$0
New States
DE, FL, KS, ME,
MD, NM, NY, OH,
OK, PA, RI, WV
1999 2002 2005 2008 2011
25. 1 – 1.9%
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Gambling Revenue as Share of
State’s Own-Source Revenue, FY09
> 5%
3.5 – 4.9%
2 – 3.4%
< 1%
Source: Rockefeller Institute
26. Inflation-adjusted 2013$, Census, Federal Reserve
$150,000
$130,000
$110,000
$90,000
$70,000
Median Family Struggling
Income
Net Worth
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2.5%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
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Outlook, General
• Stagnant incomes
• Consumer preferences
– Gaming vs other entertainment
– Table vs Slot
23.0
22.5
22.0
21.5
21.0
Demographic Impact on Gaming Intensity
Barnes et al (2011) and U.S. Census Bureau
Average Lottery Gaming
Days per Year
Lottery Gaming
Population Growth
• Slow gaming pop growth
• Intensity to fall with aging pop
• More of an upper bound due to
possible generational trends
$50,000
1985 1995 2005 2015
0.0%
20.5
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040
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Outlook, Scenarios
• Scenario 1: Optimistic
• Stronger economy results in more broad-based gains.
Consumers are confident, increase discretionary
spending. Return to previous growth path.
• Scenario 2: Some Improvements
• As consumer budgets repaired, increase spending on
entertainment and gaming. Growth rates pick up,
however remain below gains in income.
• Scenario 3: Slow Growth
• No acceleration in gaming growth rates. Increase more
in-line with the adult population than macroeconomic
variables like jobs or income.
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Outlook, Oregon
• No real increase in establishments or video lottery
terminals since 2008
• Video lottery sales as share of income back to pre-line
game period
• Previous forecasts more in-line with Scenario 2.
Some growth rate improvement, but still below
income gains
• Possible forecast change to Scenario 3. Tie sales
outlook to growth in adult population and/or recent
years’ sales.
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Summary
• Increased competition drives sales higher
– Final shakeout in market share unknown
• Masks underlying industry trends
• Key factors
– Stagnant incomes
– Consumer preferences
– Demographics
• Tax revenue outlook follows sales
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Contact Information
www.OregonEconomicAnalysis.com
@OR_EconAnalysis
Josh Lehner, Economist
joshua.lehner@oregon.gov
(503) 378 - 4052