Investment Opportunities
In this article, IU Einstein Karim Rahemtulla looks at the impact the recession has had on casinos. He also identifies three potential casino stocks to buy.
With pandemic restrictions easing up, Las Vegas and many other gambling hot spots are seeing booming business. The stocks tell a different story, though.
Casino stocks are getting hammered. Many are trading at pre-pandemic levels.
That doesn’t make much sense.
Recession or no recession, these companies aren’t going out of business – but they sure are being priced that way!
You know who is investing in casinos? Insiders. That’s who.
Casino Stocks to Buy
Insiders at Caesars Entertainment (Nasdaq: CZR) and Bally’s (NYSE: BALY) have been scooping up shares. In fact, Bally’s is trying to buy back 20% of its own outstanding shares at current levels.
Think about it for a minute… Why would insiders AND the company itself be buying shares in the open market at current and higher levels? There are three options…
- They’re stupid.
- The shares are overvalued.
- They smell a bargain.
I vote for No. 3 – and so should you.
Bear markets are famous for making people rich. That’s right – rich!
How so?
Well, as Warren Buffett (who is buying stocks in select companies right now) says, “I like my stocks like I like my socks: on sale.”
I agree.
The truth is…
Bear markets are the absolute best times to get knee-deep in stocks. And the worse things get, the deeper you should wade in.
Someone once said, “Stocks are the only thing people don’t buy when they are on sale.”
Action Plan: Right now, casino stocks are on sale. Take a look at Caesars and Bally’s if you want domestic exposure and Wynn Resorts (Nasdaq: WYNN) if you want exposure to both Las Vegas and Macau, Asia’s gambling capital!
In The War Room, we bring you longer-term opportunities like these every day. We also bring you short-term trades to take advantage of quick swings. In fact, my colleague Bryan Bottarelli has been crushing short-term trades lately. He’s posted a 90% win rate on short-term trades in 2022.
Karim began his trading career early… very early. While attending boarding school in England, he recognized the value of the homemade snacks his mom sent him every semester and sold them for a profit to his fellow classmates, who were trying to avoid the horrendous British food they were served.
He then graduated to stocks and options, becoming one of the youngest chief financial officers of a brokerage and trading firm that cleared through Bear Stearns in the late 1980s. There, he learned trading skills from veterans of the business. They had already made their mistakes, and he recognized the value of the strategies they were using late in their careers.
As co-founder and chief options strategist for the groundbreaking publication Wall Street Daily, Karim turned to long-term equity anticipation securities (LEAPS) and put-selling strategies to help members capture gains. After that, he honed his strategies for readers of Automatic Trading Millionaire, where he didn’t record a single realized loss on 37 recommendations over an 18-month period.
While even he admits that record is not the norm, it showcases the effectiveness of a sound trading strategy.
His focus is on “smart” trading. Using volatility and proprietary probability modeling as his guideposts, he makes investments where risk and reward are defined ahead of time.
Today, Karim is all about lowering risk while enhancing returns using strategies such as LEAPS trading, spread trading, put selling and, of course, small cap investing. His background as the head of The Supper Club gives him unique insight into low-market-cap companies, and he brings that experience into the daily chats of The War Room.
Karim has more than 30 years of experience in options trading and international markets, and he is the author of the bestselling book Where in the World Should I Invest?
