Merlin Entertainments, operator of Alton Towers and Legoland, is 2.6% higher at 425.8p after analysts at JP Morgan moved from underweight to neutral and raised their price target to 464p.
See articleHarrah's Entertainment, the operator of Caesar's Palace and other top casinos, revealed it had received a buy-out offer of around $15 billion from two private-equity firms.
SeaWorld is one of the largest entertainment park operators in the United States after the Walt Disney Company.
Merlin Entertainments, the operator of Legoland, fell 6.4p to 447.5p as JP Morgan Cazenove moved from overweight to neutral, saying: We continue to see Merlin's combination of like for like sales growth, the Midway rollout, and new Legoland parks as attractive over the long term.
The fund owns shares of Harrah's Entertainment, the casino operator that caters to the middle class.
In November, Harrah's Entertainment, the casino operator, withdrew its initial public offering after prospective investors said the company was not worth what its private equity owners claimed.
Among its recently announced assignments is that of Tropicana Entertainment, the casino operator that has become the largest corporate bankruptcy filing this year.
Merlin Entertainment, the private operator of the London Eye, announced last autumn that the drinks giant would take over from energy firm EDF as the monument's new sponsor, succeeding a previous deal with British Airways.
Were Harrah's Entertainment, a casino operator, to cut capital spending to "maintenance" levels sufficient just to keep the business running, its interest coverage would rise from an estimated 0.8 times to a less sweaty-palmed 1.3 times.
Park Place Entertainment, the casino operator, said yesterday that its quarterly profit would fall below forecasts because of weakness at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, weather damages to its properties on the Gulf Coast and a canceled contract with Enron.
Park Place Entertainment, a casino operator, adjusted its net income after writing down the value of its Las Vegas Hilton and writing off bonds from the Aladdin Hotel & Casino.
