New shareholder in Tropicana owner
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2000 | 11:04 a.m.
Dimensional Fund Advisors, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based investment firm, reported a new stake in Aztar Corp. of Phoenix.
The California fund reported ownership of 2.67 million shares of Aztar stock, a 6.11 percent stake in the company. It was the first ownership filing by Dimensional.
No indication was given on how many shares Dimensional owned prior to reaching the 5 percent reporting threshold.
Aztar owns the Tropicana hotel-casino on the Strip and operates the Ramada Express in Laughlin. The company also operates casinos in Atlantic City, Missouri and Indiana.
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