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PORTS to PLAY: Razon dwarfs Tanco in Ports, but Tanco's PLUS beats Razon's BLOOM in Gaming

  We’ve been blogging for free. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us! Disclaimer:  This is for informational purposes and is  not  investment advice. Figures are taken from company disclosures and exchange data; valuation ratios include the author’s calculations based on cited inputs. In Philippine business lore, Enrique Razon Jr. is the undisputed king of the quayside. In ports, the narrative is almost too easy: global scale, big ships, big contracts, big reputation. But business has a way of humbling neat hierarchies—because in gaming, the scoreboard flips. Eusebio Tanco, best known in ports as the Asian Terminals counterweight to ICTSI’s colossus, is the one running away with the casino-and-clicks race. The punchline is stark: Razon’s Bloomberry Resorts ended 2025 in the red , while Tanco’s DigiPlus is posting surging revenues and hefty profits —with cash piling up fast enough to fund dividends and buybacks in the same breath.  Bloomberry: Bigger ...

Bloomberry’s 2025: Expansion Meets a Soft Patch — and the Margin Squeeze Shows

  We’ve been blogging for free. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us! Disclaimer:  This is for informational purposes and is  not  investment advice. Figures are taken from company disclosures and exchange data; valuation ratios include the author’s calculations based on cited inputs. Bloomberry Resorts Corp. (BLOOM) ended 2025 with a set of numbers that read like a case study in timing risk: the group added a new earnings pillar through Solaire Resort North (SR North) and rolled out MegaFUNalo! , its broad-mass digital gaming platform—both of which raised the cost base—just as the legacy Solaire Entertainment City operation ran into a VIP-led downturn and a weaker hold rate . The result was a sharp compression in EBITDA and a marked decline in operating cash flow , pushing the company into the red for the year.  The headline: from profit to loss, with EBITDA taking the brunt Bloomberry swung to a net loss of about ₱2.6 billion in 2025 from a ro...