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Top 5 Companies in the Casinos & Gaming Industry Offering Investors the Best Value (UWN, CNTY, LACO, BYD, MPEL)

Written on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 3:12am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Casinos & Gaming industry as measured by the price to book ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
Nevada Gold & Casinos (AMEX:UWN) has a price to book ratio of 0.3x based on a current price of $0.9 and a book value per share of $2.64.
Century Casinos (NASDAQ:CNTY) has a price to book ratio of 0.5x based on a current price of $2.09 and a book value per share of $4.58.
Lakes Entertainment (NASDAQ:LACO) has a price to book ratio of 0.5x based on a current price of $2.18 and a book value per share of $4.53.
Boyd Gaming (NYSE:BYD) has a price to book ratio of 0.6x based on a current price of $7.61 and a book value per share of $13.57.
Melco Crown Entertainment (NASDAQ:MPEL) has a price to book ratio of 0.8x based on a current price of $3.9 and a book value per share of $4.7.
SmarTrend is bearish on shares of BYD and our subscribers were alerted to Sell on June 07, 2010 at $11.40. The stock has fallen 33.2% since the alert was issued.

Keywords: keywords: amex:uwn nevada gold & casinos price to book ratio

Ticker(s): CNTY LACO BYD MPEL UWN

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