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Vail Resorts Boosts Digital Offering, Unveils My Epic Pro
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Vail Resorts, Inc. (MTN - Free Report) has unveiled My Epic Pro for Ski and Ride School, a new technology that will be available in the My Epic app from the 2025/2026 season.
MTN stock inched up 1.8% during Monday’s trading hours, after the announcement of the new digital innovation.
Perks of MTN’s My Epic Pro
My Epic Pro will ensure a seamless, connected and next-level experience for the company’s child and adult group lesson participants, offering digital check-in, real-time lesson updates, photo sharing, skills tracking, milestone badges and more. Through the My Epic app, this new technology will be available at Vail Mountain, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone.
The perks highlight direct-to-lesson digital check-in for Ski and Ride School, real-time Ski and Ride School updates and photos during the lesson accompanied by tracking progress and unlocking next-level adventure with the gamification of ski and snowboard skills progression.
In the upcoming years, Vail Resorts plans to focus on expanding this technology to more mountain resorts and lesson types, including private lessons. Future updates that the company plans to incorporate include the ability to book, modify and cancel lesson reservations in the My Epic app, in-lesson video sharing and much more.
Vail Resorts’ Digital Innovation Bodes Well
MTN maintains a regular streak of ensuring technological advancements to support its data-driven approach, guest experience and corporate infrastructure. The investments are made in network-wide scalable technology to enhance analytics, e-commerce and guest engagement, and self-service capabilities to improve guests’ online experience.
The company made a breakthrough in its guest experience and sales trends by launching the My Epic app at the beginning of its fiscal 2024. The My Epic app offers features like Mobile Pass, mobile lift tickets, interactive trail maps, real-time and predictive lift line wait times and other personalized statistics to enhance the guest experience. Also, other digital innovations comprising My Epic Assistant and My Epic Gear have significantly reduced friction in the guest experience. These strategic investments have resulted in a decline in lift-line wait times year over year for the last three seasons. Since the start of the 2024/2025 season, lift lines of more than 10 minutes have occurred approximately 3% of the time, including during weekends and holidays.
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Shares of Vail Resorts have lost 14.5% in the year-to-date period compared with the Zacks Leisure and Recreation Services industry's 7% decline. The downtrend is likely to have been caused by weather-related risks affecting Australian resorts’ contribution and foreign exchange risks. However, the company is poised to benefit from its offerings such as Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Epic Day Pass and Epic Coverage products in the upcoming period.
MTN’s Zacks Rank & Key Picks
Vail Resorts currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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Vail Resorts Boosts Digital Offering, Unveils My Epic Pro
Vail Resorts, Inc. (MTN - Free Report) has unveiled My Epic Pro for Ski and Ride School, a new technology that will be available in the My Epic app from the 2025/2026 season.
MTN stock inched up 1.8% during Monday’s trading hours, after the announcement of the new digital innovation.
Perks of MTN’s My Epic Pro
My Epic Pro will ensure a seamless, connected and next-level experience for the company’s child and adult group lesson participants, offering digital check-in, real-time lesson updates, photo sharing, skills tracking, milestone badges and more. Through the My Epic app, this new technology will be available at Vail Mountain, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone.
The perks highlight direct-to-lesson digital check-in for Ski and Ride School, real-time Ski and Ride School updates and photos during the lesson accompanied by tracking progress and unlocking next-level adventure with the gamification of ski and snowboard skills progression.
In the upcoming years, Vail Resorts plans to focus on expanding this technology to more mountain resorts and lesson types, including private lessons. Future updates that the company plans to incorporate include the ability to book, modify and cancel lesson reservations in the My Epic app, in-lesson video sharing and much more.
Vail Resorts’ Digital Innovation Bodes Well
MTN maintains a regular streak of ensuring technological advancements to support its data-driven approach, guest experience and corporate infrastructure. The investments are made in network-wide scalable technology to enhance analytics, e-commerce and guest engagement, and self-service capabilities to improve guests’ online experience.
The company made a breakthrough in its guest experience and sales trends by launching the My Epic app at the beginning of its fiscal 2024. The My Epic app offers features like Mobile Pass, mobile lift tickets, interactive trail maps, real-time and predictive lift line wait times and other personalized statistics to enhance the guest experience. Also, other digital innovations comprising My Epic Assistant and My Epic Gear have significantly reduced friction in the guest experience. These strategic investments have resulted in a decline in lift-line wait times year over year for the last three seasons. Since the start of the 2024/2025 season, lift lines of more than 10 minutes have occurred approximately 3% of the time, including during weekends and holidays.
Image Source: Zacks Investment Research
Shares of Vail Resorts have lost 14.5% in the year-to-date period compared with the Zacks Leisure and Recreation Services industry's 7% decline. The downtrend is likely to have been caused by weather-related risks affecting Australian resorts’ contribution and foreign exchange risks. However, the company is poised to benefit from its offerings such as Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass, Epic Day Pass and Epic Coverage products in the upcoming period.
MTN’s Zacks Rank & Key Picks
Vail Resorts currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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SRAD has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 83.3%, on average. The stock has surged 100.6% in the past year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for SRAD’s 2025 sales and earnings per share (EPS) implies growth of 15.7% and 94.7%, respectively, from the year-ago levels.
Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. (LTH - Free Report) presently sports a Zacks Rank of 1. LTH has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 21.6%, on average. The stock has soared 112.4% in the past year.
The consensus estimate for LTH’s 2025 sales and EPS implies growth of 12.9% and 37.9%, respectively, from the year-ago levels.
RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (RICK - Free Report) currently sports a Zacks Rank of 1. RICK has a trailing four-quarter negative earnings surprise of 62.9%, on average. The stock has lost 15.6% in the past year.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for RICK’s fiscal 2025 sales and EPS indicates an increase of 2.5% and 1,278.8%, respectively, from the year-ago levels.