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Missouri casinos ended the fiscal year strong, with a 4.3% increase in adjusted gross revenue compared to the previous June, and total revenue for the fiscal year up 1.2%.
With nearly $161.4 million in AGR, Missouri casinos bested the approximately $154.7 million brought in the previous June. The total, as expected, was well under May’s $177.5 million, which had beat the previous May’s revenue by nearly 9%.
For the fiscal year, Missouri casinos raked in more than $1.9 billion.
St. Louis-area casinos lead the way
Ameristar Casino Resort Spa St. Charles led all of the state’s casinos in June with more than $25.1 million, a slight improvement over the previous June total of a little more than $24.8 million. It was just off the previous month’s total of more than $27.4 million, the high-water mark for the fiscal year.
A pair of St. Louis casinos, Hollywood Casino and River City Casino Hotel, topped the $20 million mark in June, with Hollywood’s AGR of nearly $21.1 million besting last June’s total by 2%, while River City’s nearly $21.5 million surpassed last June’s total by 3%.
Next highest on the list was Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City, the top revenue generator of the Kansas City casinos, with more than $16.5 million AGR, a slight 1% uptick over last June’s numbers. Its total fiscal year revenue of $199.3 million was just $350,000 off last fiscal year’s total.
Century Casino & Hotel Caruthersville, which bills itself as “Missouri’s first non-floating casino,” had the biggest year-over-year gain percentage-wise, building on the previous fiscal year’s $47.1 million-plus with a 14% gain to bring it to nearly $53.8 million for the fiscal year.
That property started seeing massive year-over-year gains in November, coinciding with the grand opening of its land-based 26,000-square-foot casino. The casino’s nearly 600 slot machines and nine live tables enticed visitors from neighboring Arkansas and Tennessee, as well as Missouri residents.
Considering just gains made in June, Horseshoe St. Louis Casino topped all Missouri casinos with a 24% increase, from nearly $11 million in June 2024 to nearly $13.7 million this past month.
The revenue generated from Missouri casinos created a windfall for education and local government, per the state’s gambling regulations. For the fiscal year, more than $361.6 million in gaming proceeds went to Missouri education, while nearly $40.2 million funded local governments.
