Why IAC’s CEO Sees MGM Resorts as a ‘Phenomenal Business’

Joey Levin, chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp

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IAC/InterActiveCorp

took a 12% stake in

MGM Resorts International

in August 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, when many restrictions were still in place.

IAC made the investment because it had “pretty high confidence” that MGM (ticker: MGM) “had enough capital to get to the other side,” and that it would bounce back from Covid lockdowns as people started traveling again, IAC Executive Officer
Joey Levin
says in an interview as part of Barron’s Investing in Tech conference Wednesday.

“When we invested in MGM, it was…

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