Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Las Vegas Sands 4th Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants' lines are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, speaker, Daniel Briggs.
Thank you. Please go ahead, sir.
Thank you, operator. Joining me on the call today are Shel Matleston, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rob Goldstein, our President and Chief Operating Officer and Patrick Dumont, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before I turn the call over to Mr. Adelson, please let me remind you that today's conference call will contain forward looking statements that we are making under the Safe Harbor provision of federal securities laws. The company's actual results could differ materially from the anticipated results in those forward looking statements.
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Please note that this presentation is being recorded. With that, let me please turn the call over to Mr. Adelson.
Thank you, Dan. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. We had a great quarter and a great year across all our markets. Companywide adjusted property EBITDA for the Q4 was US1.39 billion dollars an increase of 9% over the prior year. Our cash flow generation is unmatched in our industry with full year 2019 EBITDA of US5.39 billion dollars Nobody has ever heard that before in this industry.
Our capital investment programs in both Macau and Singapore are exceptionally exciting. With over US5 $1,000,000,000 of capital projects which will be completed over the course of the next few years. These investments will further strengthen our leadership position in the premium mass and non gaming segments in Asia. Let's now turn to our financial results by the region. In Macau, adjusted property EBITDA was $811,000,000 in the quarter, an increase of 3% over the prior year.
In contrast to the 8% decline, That's a 3% increase for us in contrast to an 8% decline gross gaming revenue in the Macau market overall, pretty good. We grew our mass gaming revenues by 3% over the prior year with growth in both mass tables and slots. Retail sales remained strong growing by 11% over the prior year. Most importantly, our profitability continues to lead the industry with EBITDA margin reaching 36.2%, up another 140 basis points compared to the prior year. We couldn't be more excited about our investment of US2.2 billion dollars to expand our critical mass of non gaming offerings in Macau.
We believe there is no better market in the world in Macau with regard to the continued deployment of our capital. The initial trial results at both the London Hotel and the Grand Suites at Four Seasons have been very promising and we will update you on our progress in the future. We look forward to making additional investments in Macao as we contribute to Macao's diversification and evolution into Asia's leading leisure and business tourism destination. I would welcome the opportunity to invest 1,000,000,000 of dollars to expand our hotel, entertainment, retail and MICE facilities in Macau. I believe Macau has the opportunity to become the greatest business and leisure tourism destination in the world and the MICE Capital of Asia.
We stand ready to make substantial additional investments to contribute to Macau's future success. In 2019 over 900 MICE events were held in Seres China's properties in Macau with participation from over 900,000 attendees. This is by far the highest number of MICE events and attendees that are hosted by any operator in Macau and indeed we estimate that we represent as much as 90% of the MICE market. Entertainment is another area in which we contribute to Macau's growth and diversification. We continue to lead the Macau market in this respect as it continues its development as the premier entertainment center in Asia.
In 2019, we brought 45 different events to Macau in our Cotai arena featuring top Asian and Western artists. Our leadership in MICE and Entertainment are just two examples of our firm commitment to supporting the government's objective to diversify the economy in Macau. Our market leading investments in non gaming facilities including hotel capacity, large scale retail malls and our theme tourism attractions are designed to attract the widest possible range of visitors to Macau. Having made the largest investment in this economic diversification, We will continue to invest and to work to support the vision for Macau in the future. With the opening of the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macau Bridge and the progress of the Greater Bay initiatives, we truly believe Macau has the potential to become the MICE and leisure capital of Asia.
We fully intend to contribute to that objective to both our existing assets and potential future risks. Let me also address another topic, the evolving situation with the coronavirus. The current situation is unique and serious. A top priority is the health and safety of our employees and guests and we are doing everything we can to support the government both in Macau and China. Our SaaS China team is in close consultation with the relevant healthcare and public safety authorities in Macau and we have implemented significant procedures and safeguards.
We will continue to implement measures in line with government direction and hope for a swift containment of the virus. Now turning to Singapore. Arena Bay Sands adjusted EBITDA was $457,000,000 Rolling volumes were strong and were 16% higher than the prior year. Mass win per day remained solid. The hotel continued to enjoy strong average daily rate and occupancy.
At the same time, annualized retail sales per square foot increased to more than US2000 dollars per square foot. Singapore's leading tourism infrastructure continues to receive significant investment and we are excited to be a part of Singapore's continued growth as a leading business and leisure tourism destination as we develop the Marina Bay Sands expansion. The expansion will include a 15,000 seat state of the art arena for live entertainment events, a hotel tower designed to set a new standard of luxury in the region as well as an additional mice offerings. We continue to make progress on the MBS expansion and will provide additional updates in the future. We will continue to reinvest in Marina Bay Sands to enhance the customer experience in advance of the expansion.
Now turning to Las Vegas. Our Las Vegas operations had another great quarter with adjusted EBITDA of US120 $1,000,000 an increase of 20% over the prior year. The hotel, convention and slot segments offset yearly revenue records leading to a record adjusted property EBITDA performance in 2019 of US503 $1,000,000 on a whole normalized basis. Regarding U. S.-China trade relations, Phase 1 of the trade deal between China and the United States has been completed.
The United States and China coming together to work collaboratively on the future of global trade is good for the U. S, it's good for China, and it's good for the rest of the global economy. Finally, we continue to increase the return of capital to shareholders. The dividend remains the cornerstone of our strategy for the return of capital and that dividend has continued to grow. For 2020, the Board of Directors has increased the dividend by $0.08 per share to $3.16 per share.
At the same time, we repurchased US300 $1,000,000 of stock during the quarter, gained dividends, gained buybacks. Thanks again for joining us on the call today. Now we'll take questions.
Your first question comes from the line of Joe Greff of JPMorgan. Your line is open.
Sheldon, good to hear you again. My first question is going to be probably an obvious topic, and to the extent you can talk about it. But just, with regard to the coronavirus, if there is going to be a lengthy impact that dissuades visitation and spend both in Macao and Singapore, how do you manage the fixed operating expense there? How much flex is there in both respective markets? And then, my follow-up question is, relating looking backwards relating to Macau in the 4th quarter, if you were to parse through, maybe you look at it because you have monthly numbers that we don't have access to.
But how much of an impact do you think ComCompros had versus the travel disruption related to government visit in December? And that's all for me. Thank you.
Hi, Joe. It's Rob. I'll take I want to take the first part of the question. There are 2 different markets Macao and Singapore. As you know, Macao visitation based on public reports is down as much as 80%.
It's not nearly as dire in Singapore. There has been some adverse impacts, but nowhere near the same level of problem in Singapore as Macao starts there. As for Opera, you know our business is revenue dependent. There's no way to hide from the fact we employ tens of thousands of people in these markets. And it's an expensive business to operate.
The same way operating leverage swings new directionally and volumes are good, it swings against you at times like this. We're going to do our best. We'll do all the paid time off, all things we can do to mitigate. I think it'd be silly to think that we can make a mature impact on operating costs, they're real. And that's the problem with these businesses when this kind of thing hits.
Having said that, we've been through this before, we've been through a lot of years of problems in Macao and Singapore and Las Vegas when things like this happen. And this storm will pass. We don't know when. We do know when it passes. We'll be 1st in line in each of our markets to be the biggest investor, most aggressive in Macao.
We've shown our strength and our feelings about that market, extraordinary market. When it returns, we'll return with it and do very, very well and keep investing. But I think it'd be foolhardy to think we can reduce cost enough to offset what's happening in the if this 80% decline continues, that's a real problem for any operator. Your second question, I didn't grasp it. I would try
that again. The pace of how October, November December went.
Okay. Well, October was a terrific month in Macau, extraordinary month in Macau. It decelerated as you might imagine with the visit from the President as it has in the past, no surprise there. Deceleration really happened in December. I think that's again predictable.
So I guess you look at the month as the quarter is October extraordinary, November strong and December was soft. No big surprise. I think we reflect the market in that respect, very different place in December than it was in October. And that's all I can say on that issue. It's pretty clear to everybody.
Got it. Thanks, guys. Thank you.
Your next question comes from the line of Thomas Allen of Morgan Stanley. Your line is open.
Hey. So just sticking with Macau and focusing on premium mass, you had really strong premium mass results in the Q3 and then they were down in the Q4. Do you think that was just mostly a function of President Xi visit or something else going on there? Thank you.
Yes. So let's break it apart. UEI, great base mass quarter, I think up almost 9%, 8.9% or something like that. So base mass, we were I think our strongest base mass performance in our history, which we were delighted with and that remains a core part of our success. You're right, the premium mass business was not as strong, but still not a bad performance.
I think what really is happening here, I wouldn't blame on what happened to Mark as much as we are under construction in Four Seasons and in London. And I think as you know this market is based upon product like most gambling, but especially Macau, better product wins a day. We're soon going to open up all the suites of the Four Seasons, all the suites at the Lunder by the end of the year and St. Regis. And I'm pretty confident we'll not just be the leader in premium mass, but by far the leader.
I think the success of the other products in the market demonstrate what happens when you build quality product in Macau, people shop for it. I think our 4 Seasons product, which is extraordinary, 2 90 keys, base the size of room between 2,4000 feet, St. Regis equally powerful and Londoner, I think we're looking at a whole new offering from SCL once these things open up. So I'm very confident our premium mass business will reflect as our base mass business strong growth in the time ahead. As you know, we're the biggest investor in Macao, we're the most committed and these $2,200,000,000 worth of investments that Sheldon, the Board authorized will pay off enormously in 2021 and beyond and 2020 as well.
Thanks, Rob. And then just as my follow-up, Vegas revenue was really strong, your strongest quarter of the year, but margins were a little light at 25% versus first half is 29%. Was there anything unique going on there?
No, I just think you're seeing a shift to more non I mean, our business as you know is driven by we have a gaming component, but the non gaming is powerful. If we can make a $500,000,000 a year in Vegas every year, I'd be okay with that, the margins fall a few points. I think what you're saying is one thing you should realize that our business is that we are driven I mean forget the rooms and the slot machines and the gaming business, but look at our revenues coming out convention center, almost $200,000,000 this year of revenue coming out of banquets and convention related services, which is extraordinary. And I think that's becoming more and more indicative of where our business is heading. So I would gladly as we keep going and I think we will keep going towards a 500 beyond, I would gladly trade a few points of margin for more growth in non gaming.
Our gaming performance is good, but as you know visitation from Asia is not as strong at the super high end baccarat, which has been one of the strengths in Las Vegas. But again, we're delighted with a $500,000,000 year. And if we trade a point or 2 of margin here and there, we're pretty happy. Nothing extraordinary, nothing out of the ordinary. Thanks, Rob.
Sure.
The next question comes from the line of Carlo Santarelli of Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.
Hey, good afternoon guys and thanks. Sheldon, for the first time that I can recall at least, you talked a little bit in your prepared remarks about the trade war and obviously the signing of Phase 1 of the deal. Is that something and I don't know with all the other things going on right now in the market it's it would have been discernible. But do you feel that was something that maybe has provided a little bit of a governor on results in Macau and something that you're optimistic as the resolution of Phase 1 and potentially subsequent phases play out, you will start to see maybe a better cadence of business across the high end for the market?
I think that it's the perception that the China the trade negotiation with China and the contradictions that are inherent there, are just perceived. I don't think that they're doing very much. I think people think that if President Trump puts on tariffs on different imports from China that and then China reciprocates by putting tariffs on the stuff in from the U. S. I talked to my friend, Stephen Mnuchin, when I was at the White House for the signing of the China trade agreement and he says that they're moving forward, probably moving forward faster than what people expect for Phase 2 of the resolution of the so called trade war.
So although it's perceived to be a problem, it's in reality it's not causing much of a problem. Understood.
Paul, can I just follow-up Rob, I'll just jump in and just echo a comment on that? No question we hear from customers in Asia the importance of resolution trade war, especially for entrepreneurs and business people who reside primarily in the premium mass segment, which is so important to the success of Macao. Primarily in the premium mass segment, which is so important to the success of Macau. So it's very, very helpful and bodes well for the future of our business and our competitors in Macau. Great.
Thank you both. And then just as a quick
obviously, the situation right now is difficult to handicap with everything that's going on. But in the event Macau were to decide that maybe the best approach would be to close the casinos temporarily until things stabilize. My understanding is that maybe business interruption insurance wouldn't apply here. Do you guys kind of have a view of how that potentially could play out if that were to be the path that's followed?
Well, I'll ask Patrick to respond to that.
So, how are you? I appreciate the question. I think right now it's too early to say. I think each operator has different risk management programs. And so I'm not sure where you have the information coming from, but I think it's something we'll take a look at.
Hopefully that's not something it ever comes down to. We do have a very robust risk management program here. We're actually one of the largest acquirers of certain types of risk products in the market or in various markets. So I think we're very proud of that. I think we try to protect our balance sheet, try to protect our operations.
That being said, I don't think we can comment specifically on the clauses of our policy and the likelihood of that type of event or the coverage that we have, We are prepared. The other thing to note is we're very fortunate to have a very strong balance sheet. We're very fortunate to have liquidity on hand. And I think we're looking to manage through this in the best way that we can and support whatever initiatives from the government that we need to. The other thing is, I think in the long run, we're very cautious with our balance sheet and we expect variability in our markets and this is something that unfortunately comes up periodically and we have to deal with.
Great. Thank you, Patrick.
Hope it goes away and resolves quick enough. It's not an issue for us.
Understood, for sure. Thank you, guys.
Thanks, Carlo.
Your next question comes from the line of Stephen Grambling of Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.
Hi, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. I guess one other follow-up on the coronavirus. Is there any way to frame or is there any impact that we should be anticipating as it relates to the construction projects that you have underway now? Or is that still something that we should generally be thinking is on track or regardless of the current disruption can be still accelerated to be on track?
Thanks.
Stephen, hi, it's Rob. We don't anticipate any slowdown as a result of the virus. Obviously, it depends on what happens in Macao. But as we speak today, we saw no indication at all of that. And we're full speed ahead on all of our projects in Macau.
That's great. And then one other quick clarification on Singapore, obviously very strong results. If you look at your customer database there, is any of that can you tell if any of that is folks that are transitioning out of Macau to because of the Hong Kong disruption or otherwise? Or what do you think is kind of driving that underlying strength?
Great property and great management. No, I don't think we have it. We really can't determine it.
You mentioned our good looks. Yes. We can't determine that.
I think Singapore has always been for us a it's such an interesting place, great country to visit, culturally in sync with the foreign visitation. As you know, the increased levy entrance has made us pivot more and more towards foreign visitation and we continue to grow that property in terms of quality of product and entertainment and service to make it more desirable for that customer. So whether I don't know if they're pivoting to any place, but I think we want to make that product so damn good that people want to come more often to Singapore. It's an incredible product in so many ways, a great country to operate in, very favorable to foreign visitation. So we're very pleased about it.
And I think our strength there, I believe, will continue to grow. I think as we invest more, again, our history has always been the same. We invest heavily in the right places and Singapore is the right place. We're making a huge commitment both in towers 1, 2 and 3 as well as our new addition, the arena, etcetera. So I think our future in Singapore is very bright and that's why we're putting 1,000,000,000 of dollars to work there.
Makes sense. That's super helpful. Thanks so much and best of luck. Thank you.
Your next question comes from the line of Felicia Hendrix of Barclays. Your line is open.
Hi, thank you so much. So Rob, just digging back into the premium mass performance in the Q4, if you look at your premium mass growth year over year in like each month of the quarter, Would it be fair to say that December was the major driver of the year over year decline just because of the visitation decline and then so the low kind of around the prison cheese visit or was it similar throughout the quarter? And then I was also wondering if there is any way you could share with us how things were going the 1st 19 days or so of January prior to the outbreak?
Sure. To your question, December clearly was the problem child of the quarter. I think that's true of all of our competitors in the market as well. That was it was a great October. We thought we were heading for a massive quarter and then it slowly declined as the quarter went on.
As for the we didn't feel any effect from this virus the 1st 21 days. It was a pretty if this call had been a week or 2 ago, it would be a whole different type of conversation, but very strong in January. I think the market was strong, visitation was good. So it's a real comeuppance to have this whole thing, the visitation being down, I think it's 80% market wide at this point. But there was no signs in early January of this disruption.
It's a recent occurrence.
Yes. And can I and
I know you guys focus is mainly on the mass side, but just within those 1st 21 days, did you see any like change in behavior on VIP? Like is there any reason why we should think once we get past this outbreak and all that kind of stuff that you could we could see some improvement in VIP year over year?
Yes, Felicia, we don't want to break out the 1st 21 days other than say visitation was strong and it reflected more of a 4th quarter trend. VIP as you know is an enigma. We don't know when it gets better. I've been wrong so often in predicting its demise. I won't make that mistake again.
I think VIP will resurrect. I think Sheldon's comments about the trade war are indicative of a market that entrepreneurs who populate the VIP segment be a junket or an unwilling direct are influenced by their businesses and their success. And I think there's a day in the future where premium mask will blossom, keep blossom, but it's more product driven. I think the trade war is resolutionally very helpful in China and very helpful for Macau in general.
Your next question comes from the line of Shaun Kelley of Bank of America. Your line is open.
Hi, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for taking my question. So just to go back to the coronavirus and a few of the prepared remarks. Sheldon, I think you mentioned that there you're implementing measures in line with government policies. Could you just give us maybe a little bit better sense of what some of those policies or contingency planning looks like at this stage?
I mean, again, I think we all know they stop short of ordering full closures, but just kind of what's the interaction been with the government and how are they kind of helping to smooth over and work with you on the situation right now?
Well, the government wants us to measure the temperature of the visitation and to see if there's anybody that's got the virus and they requested that we put masks on all our dealers, everybody in the casino. We've done that. And whatever else, whatever other details. Rob, are there
any other details? No, that's Sheldon is right. Across the board, all of our employees now have masks in all the areas. And to Sheldon's point, screening is part of our business now today and Wilford and Grant and the team are in constant contact with the government. We speak daily and the government our job is to protect our employees, our team there and to help the government every way possible to be good corporate citizens and respect the people of Macau, respect people of China and be as contributory as we can to the resolution of this crisis.
And we've done that. We're there. We've actually looking into our contribution, a monetary contribution into helping into China and Macau, taking our dealers. So that's job 1. And we are in constant communication to mask
When I walk in here, I think I'm going in and operating with them. Everybody's got masks.
It started with dealers, but then went into everybody and masks are in short supply. We're trying to get more supplies to make contributions. And Sheldon and the family have asked us to look into what else we can do to help Macao recover and help the government.
Great. Thank you for the color. And then just as my follow-up, but to switch gears a little bit. Obviously, there's been plenty of questions about the impact on just the financial performance from President Xi's visit, but it felt like a pretty big policy shift as he really, I think, shined a pretty positive light on Macau's future role. Could you just give us maybe a little bit more color on your take on kind of how that commentary went?
Any conversations with the new Chief Executive? Just how the just general tenor of policy is moving forward with Macau under the kind of the new administration, that'd be great.
We so we don't I'll say this, we've been there for what 18 years, 19 years and I think Sheldon's contribution, this company's contribution as the biggest investor in Macao speaks for itself. We are raging bulls on Macao's future. We think the last 20 years were great. We look forward to being the biggest investor in the next 20 years. And our goal is to invest 1,000,000,000 of dollars in Macao.
We have had conversations with government repeatedly about our desire to invest heavily to make Macao everything it can be. It's already the most important city in the world, in the gaming world. We want to see it become the most important city in the MICE leisure destination business. We like to see more families, more kids, more everybody. And that takes more rooms, that takes more MICE space, that takes more retail, more leisure activity.
This city has the potential with the airports and the bridge, the infrastructure to become the most visited city in the world. It could happen. It had the rooms. The demand is there. The supply has to grow.
We had 49 point something almost 40,000,000 people come in 2019.
Yes. I mean Sheldon has been very vocal about his willingness to invest heavily. We've spoken to government over the years about that. There's no surprise that we feel. And as the authors of the current, the Cotai success story, I think Sheldon has listened to pretty well.
We can't speak to what the government plans to do. We don't know. We simply wait for their advice and their direction and we adhere to that. But we've been very vocal on our willingness to invest. We want to see Macau reach full potential.
I think in Macau, it's in its infancy. Vegas in the mid-90s, we built The Venetian was considered a mature city. And it turns out the next 25 years are way better than the 1st 25 years. I think Macao is in that same point where as good as it looks today, Macau has so much potential to do so much more. And we have been raging components of that city's growth and that city's maturation beyond gaming into a non gaming destination.
That's our hope. That's our desire. We await the advice and direction of the government, but Mr. Allison and the Board is excited to invest in Macao's big, big future.
Thank you very much.
Your next question comes from the line of Robin Farley of UBS. Your line is open.
Great. Thank you. I wanted to ask about Singapore, just thinking about how I wonder if some of that increase was helped by the slowdown in Macau in December. Can you quantify or just in some ballpark term, was the December increase in Singapore up a lot more than the other months in the quarter?
I missed the last part Robin, but I don't think we can quantify. It's very hard to sit there very honestly and tell you that the downturn in Macao drove customers into Singapore. I think what drives people into Singapore is Singapore. It's a very desirable destination. It's a very desirable building.
We think we can continue to grow farm visitation. We continue to invest heavily in making the product better in terms of service and quality of room. So I don't look to Macau's demise to help Singapore's growth. I think
And I didn't mean I just meant there was to some degree was the month of December in Singapore up more than October November were?
We don't want to break it out, but I think we'll treat the quarter as a whole. I don't think I wouldn't break it out. I wouldn't do it anyway, but I don't think you need to. The quarter was solid across the board. It was Singapore had a nice solid rowing business, a non rowing business, strong visitation.
It's just a good month, a good quarter in Singapore across the board. I don't think Singapore, you might look at obviously as this virus continues that might be an interesting thing to look at the future, but we believe Singapore unto itself is a powerful product and a powerful country that will prosper and grow as we reinvest heavily in it.
Look at the mall in Singapore, If that mall were in the United States, it would be the highest grossing mall in the country, dollars 2,000 a foot. Now we have a mall in the Four Seasons in Macau that does like $5,000 a foot and say in U. S. Dollars in sales. So it's been on all the other malls on Orchard Road.
The
malls we've
done over there, we think there's a lot of room to grow though. We honestly believe we can do a lot better in Singapore and that's why we're investing future in Singapore.
Okay. Thank you. And then just my follow-up question and I feel like Dan is going to say the answer to this is buried in Slide 84 or something that is like hard to get through all in 10 minutes before the call starts.
I apologize for all the trade barriers.
Well, no, no, it's great. But I hope if it is buried in there that you'll be kind. But the question was just thinking about the pace of the quarters this year and the potential disruption at the Londoner, just how should we think about like when to expect like maybe more disruption versus less disruption in the quarters? And actually is a slower environment right now a time to accelerate some of the disruption and say let's get that out of the way?
That's a great the second part of your question, fast paced, I am curious if there's an opportunity. We don't have the answer today, but I've asked the team to explore that very question. Is there a chance to accelerate construction process in Macau during this slowdown? I don't know the answer to that. So I won't represent.
I will tell you, I haven't been there a couple of weeks ago in London and walked through it. It was comical and I thought of people in this call, as I walked through dust and jackhammers and construction everywhere and the customers who sat in the middle of the casino playing like crazy. And I did laugh myself. I said, I feel like I'm making up a bad story here to say disruption will happen. I think it will happen.
I just don't understand why people keep coming. I guess the rooms are so valuable. We're right now in the middle of building 10 new restaurants with the middle of blowing up a casino over there and redoing it. We're in the middle of all the London rooms on construction, St. Regis, there's a lot of people in that building working on to make it disruptive and yet they're not being disrupted.
We keep getting visitations. The quarter was very, very good. And I hope I'm a liar and wrong that this market will eventually stop coming to the SEC as it transitions into London. However, having been there and saw my own two eyes, I had to stop and chuckle how busy it was and the rooms remain again Macau is underserved from a lodging perspective. You realize that when you walk to London, you realize people are sleeping there.
They're not necessarily coming from the properties. It's not a destination property, but they're sleeping there and they're gambling there. And it's just extraordinary to watch. If that building went in Las Vegas, it wouldn't be a soul in there. But in China, it was a much different story.
So we continue to tell you that when you build a brand new casino, brand new facade, redo 1200 Keys, build the St. Regis, rip the facade off, someday there'll be some disruption. I just don't know when.
Okay. That sounds great.
We didn't address that. Dan would have had a slide, but we didn't think of that.
Thank you.
All right. Thank you, Robin.
Your last question comes from the line of Jared Shojaian of Wolfe Research. Your line is open.
Hi, good afternoon everybody. Thanks for your question. In terms of the visitation declines, are you seeing that more on the mass side or the VIP side? And then for my follow-up, I know the coronavirus is quite unique. I don't know if there's any precedent or anything historically that would suggest, call it one time interruptions normally lead to pent up demand.
Is that something you're thinking about? Thank you.
Sure. 2 things. We cannot at the level of visitation decline we're experiencing, I think the facility for us to break out it's 80% of the market. It's every segment is being affected. Let's not try to be cute about this.
It's across the board, every segment is in decline for every property. There's no way to be any more honest than that. As for pent up demand, I'm a big believer in pent up demand. The fact there and in fact this is killing Chinese New Year's. I think when this does resolve, whether it's next month or next quarter, I don't want it resolved.
I don't pretend to know. There's a very good article in the journal today about the history of these viruses in the last 60, 70 years and they get solved with the Hong Kong flu, the Russian flu, the Asian flu, the flu I have around 12 years old, they resolve and they will resolve this time whether that's February or March, I don't know. But when it does resolve, Macau is going to get very, very, very busy because whether you know it or not these folks like to gamble and we have the biggest and best properties in Macao. They will come back in force and it's a very, very wonderful market. We're delighted to be there.
It's a very strong government that we like working with and I think the brighter day will come very quickly for Macau. We just don't know when that happens, but you can count on pent up demand. Believe me you, there will be a lot of people there the day that virus resolved and we'll be happy to serve them and welcome them back. So it's a fair question, a good question and I have a very strong answer. Yes, pent up demand is a real issue in places like Macau.
All right. Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.