shares of caesars entertainment inc and seaworld entertainment inc slumped wednesday after downgrades from keybanc analyst brett andress who cited growing concerns over the companies’ prospects as a potential economic recession looms andress who covers consumerrelated leisure facilities cut his ratings on casino operator caesars and theme park operator seaworld to sector weight after being overweight on caesars for the past 18 months and on seaworld for at least the past 2 12 years caesars stock czr lost 15 in afternoon trading paring earlier losses of as much as 60 to a 2year low of 3641 in intraday trading seaworld’s stock seas shed 23 but was down as much 52 at a 17month intraday low of 4008 andress acknowledged that he could very well be late with the downgrades but said they could provide “dry power for when the consumer is closer to bottoming” caesar shares already tumbled 455 year to date and seaworld’s stock has sold off 425 while the sp 500 index spx has declined 144 andress believes caesars has “the most relative downside potential” of the gaming companies he covers if the current economic slowdown worsens into a globalfinancialcrisis type recession that’s because of caesars’ high debtleverage profile and similar freecashflow burden “as ggr gross gaming revenue sustaining ataround current levels feels pretty critical to deleveraging bull cases” for seaworld andress said it was a “relative call on destination exposure” as he believes leisure travel could take a hit in the second half of the year and beyond although the company’s earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization ebitda has expanded the past several years “when does the strong pushing on cost cuts and pricing eventually result in a reset” he also downgraded yeti holdings inc yeti  hasbro inc has and vista outdoor inc vsto to sector from overweight but yeti shares gained 14 and vista’s stock rose 06 while hasbro shares slipped 02