Six Flags

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is an American multinational amusement park company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with administrative offices in Sandusky, Ohio, and Arlington, Texas. It was formed on July 1, 2024, through the merger of Cedar Fair and the former Six Flags company. The company has 34 properties in North America, including 20 amusement parks and 14 water parks with nine on-site resorts. The company also manages two parks in Saudi Arabia. Six Flags is the largest regional amusement park operator in North America and the fifth-largest amusement park operator in the world by attendance, hosting 47.4 million guests in 2025. The company holds exclusive theme park rights to use Warner Bros. intellectual properties such as Looney Tunes and DC Comics, while Peanuts characters are featured at select parks. Six Flags trades under the stock ticker "FUN" on the New York Stock Exchange.

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is an American multinational amusement park company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with administrative offices in Sandusky, Ohio, and Arlington, Texas. It was formed on July 1, 2024, through the merger of Cedar Fair and the former Six Flags company. The company has 34 properties in North America, including 20 amusement parks and 14 water parks with nine on-site resorts. The company also manages two parks in Saudi Arabia. Six Flags is the largest regional amusement park operator in North America and the fifth-largest amusement park operator in the world by attendance, hosting 47.4 million guests in 2025. The company holds exclusive theme park rights to use Warner Bros. intellectual properties such as Looney Tunes and DC Comics, while Peanuts characters are featured at select parks. Six Flags trades under the stock ticker "FUN" on the New York Stock Exchange. ==Background== ====Announcement==== Following initial contact by Cedar Fair in July 2023 and subsequent negotiations, longtime competitors Cedar Fair and Six Flags announced a merger on November 2, 2023. The announcement came at a time when amusement parks struggled to raise attendance after the COVID-19 pandemic, citing the need for financial stability, cost efficiency, and to compete with destination theme parks. Both companies anticipated US$120 million in cost synergies within two years following the merger's completion. Including debt, it would form an enterprise value of US$8 billion, creating a portfolio of 27 amusement parks, 15 water parks, with 9 resort properties, making the newly formed company the largest amusement park operator in North America. Described as a "merger of equals", Cedar Fair shareholders would become majority owners, owning a 51.2% stake in the new company, while Six Flags shareholders would own a 48.8% stake. The merger was executed as an all-stock transaction: each Cedar Fair share was exchanged for one share in the new company, while each Six Flags share was exchanged for 0.58 shares. It was structured through a newly formed holding company named CopperSteel HoldCo, Inc., which both companies would merge into. Upon completion, Cedar Fair and Six Flags would dissolve, and CopperSteel HoldCo, Inc. was to be renamed to Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, trading under Cedar Fair's ticker symbol, FUN, on the New York Stock Exchange. ====Approval==== The board of directors of both companies had approved the merger at the time of initial announcement. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an antitrust review process of the merger on January 22, 2024, and issued a second request for additional information from both companies. On January 25, 2024, the Mexican Federal Competition Commission approved the merger. Six Flags shareholders overwhelmingly voted to approve the merger on March 12, 2024, with approximately 80% of votes cast in favor. The DOJ gave its approval on June 26, 2024, allowing the companies to finalize the merger, which was completed on July 1, 2024. ====Opposition==== Immediately after the merger's announcement, activist investment firm Land & Buildings Investment Management, which held a 1% stake in Six Flags, opposed the merger, stating that the deal "does not maximize value for all shareholders." Since the merger was structured so that Cedar Fair unitholders would hold a 51.2% majority, it did not require a vote by Cedar Fair unitholders. In December 2023, investment firm Neuberger Berman, which held a 3% stake in Cedar Fair, accused the companies of purposefully structuring the deal so that Cedar Fair unitholders were disenfranchised, asserting that the merger would not be approved if Cedar Fair unitholders were allowed to vote. ===Licensed and managed parks=== ==Corporate affairs== Six Flags is a public company, trading under the ticker symbol "FUN" on the New York Stock Exchange. It is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and maintains significant administrative offices at the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. The company is planned to relocate its headquarters to Arlington, Texas, by March 2027. ==Attendance== ===Company attendance=== The following figures refer to the Themed Entertainment Association's amusement park operator rankings by attendance. ===Top ranked parks=== The following figures refer to Six Flags parks that ranked among the top 20 most attended amusement parks in North America per year, as reported by the Themed Entertainment Association. ==See also== Incidents at Six Flags parks ==References== ==External links==

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