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Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (LYV)

NYSE / Communication Services / Entertainment

Share price

172.51 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

40.19B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 19, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

23.4% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to book

148.29x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

0.8% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 7.83B USDFY2016 Net income: 2.9M USDFY2017 Revenue: 9.69B USDFY2017 Net income: -6.0M USDFY2018 Revenue: 10.79B USDFY2018 Net income: 60.2M USDFY2019 Revenue: 11.55B USDFY2019 Net income: 69.9M USDFY2020 Revenue: 1.86B USDFY2020 Net income: -1.72B USDFY2021 Revenue: 6.27B USDFY2021 Net income: -650.9M USDFY2022 Revenue: 16.68B USDFY2022 Net income: 266.4M USDFY2023 Revenue: 22.73B USDFY2023 Net income: 556.9M USDFY2024 Revenue: 23.16B USDFY2024 Net income: 896.3M USDFY2025 Revenue: 25.20B USDFY2025 Net income: 496.0M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 23.4% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional" (20.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on the capital in the business well above the usual cost of that capital.

Today, against the Communication Services sector (85 companies), 23.4% sits at the 90th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -2.0% to 8.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 3.96x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s operating margin stayed above the median of the Entertainment industry, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2025, 4 fiscal years of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s operating margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (10 readings drawn from the statement lines Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., and where in its filings. (6 questions for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.)

These are LYV’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, accession 0001335258-26-000009.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax23.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Return on equity183.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Return on capital employed, pre-tax10.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Return on assets2.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Operating margin5.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Net margin2.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
LYV 2.0%
P 5.1%ROKU 1.9%WMG 5.4%TKO 4.1%FWONK 12.4%
1.9%12.4%
Net margin: LYV against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity38.39 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Current ratio1.00 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Quick ratio0.99 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Interest coverage3.96x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Altman Z-score2.31 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Net debt3.31B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Total assets 22.91BTotal liabilities 22.02BShareholders' equity 271.0MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Live Nation Entertainment, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009).

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets22.91B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026
Total liabilities22.02B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026
Shareholders' equity271.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026
Cash7.09B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026
Total debt10.40B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026
Net debt3.31B
Current ratio1.00
Debt to equity38.39

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
P/E on trailing twelve months108.94x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book148.29x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Price to sales1.59x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Enterprise value to EBIT34.76x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Enterprise value to EBITDA23.01x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Diluted earnings per share-0.24 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Graham number
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value LYV on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc: valuation
Share price172.51 USD
Market capitalisation40.19B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA23.01x
Graham numbern/m
Diluted earnings per share, FY2025-0.24 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 9, 2017: low 37.54x, median 91.83x, high 7354.00x, latest 108.94x. 1,111 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 1,198 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Live Nation Entertainment, Inc

  1. Pandora Media, Inc. (P)Market cap 44.45B USD
  2. Roku, Inc. (ROKU)Market cap 20.44B USD
  3. Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG)Market cap 16.05B USD
  4. TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (TKO)Market cap 12.87B USD
  5. Formula One Group (FWONK)Market cap 22.77B USD

Same industry (Entertainment) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield0.8% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Free cash flow333.6M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Free cash flow margin1.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
FY2016 Free cash flow: 424.9M USDFY2016 Net income: 2.9M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 385.1M USDFY2017 Net income: -6.0M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 701.8M USDFY2018 Net income: 60.2M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 146.2M USDFY2019 Net income: 69.9M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: -1.30B USDFY2020 Net income: -1.72B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 1.63B USDFY2021 Net income: -650.9M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 1.49B USDFY2022 Net income: 266.4M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 924.4M USDFY2023 Net income: 556.9M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 1.08B USDFY2024 Net income: 896.3M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 333.6M USDFY2025 Net income: 496.0M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
148.29xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
34.76xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.8%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
23.4%FY2025Feb 19, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
38.39FY2025Feb 19, 2026
1.00FY2025Feb 19, 2026
1.59xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
2.31FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.69FY2025Feb 19, 2026
5/9FY2025Feb 19, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Live Nation Entertainment, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202525.20B1.25B496.0M-0.24333.6M5.0%183.0%10-K, Feb 19, 20260001335258-26-000009
FY202423.16B824.5M896.3M2.741.08B3.6%517.3%10-K, Feb 21, 20250001335258-25-000028
FY202322.73B1.08B556.9M1.34924.4M4.8%n/m10-K, Feb 22, 20240001335258-24-000017
FY202216.68B722.0M266.4M0.521.49B4.3%n/m10-K, Feb 23, 20230001335258-23-000014
FY20216.27B-417.9M-650.9M-3.091.63B-6.7%n/m10-K, Feb 23, 20220001335258-22-000019
FY20201.86B-1.65B-1.72B-8.12-1.30B-88.8%n/m10-K, Mar 1, 20210001335258-21-000009
FY201911.55B324.8M69.9M-0.02146.2M2.8%6.1%10-K, Feb 27, 20200001335258-20-000028
FY201810.79B272.5M60.2M-0.09701.8M2.5%5.5%10-K, Feb 28, 20190001335258-19-000024
FY20179.69B91.4M-6.0M-0.48385.1M0.9%-0.5%10-K, Feb 27, 20180001335258-18-000023
FY20167.83B194.9M2.9M-0.23424.9M2.5%0.3%10-K, Feb 23, 20170001335258-17-000031
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 13.9%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 76.8%
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -2.7%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.69 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2026, 0001335258-26-000009
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta0.84 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 24 not met, 5 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Cash-covered dividend; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(10)
  • P/E Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • PEG Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 10 figures could not be read on this company, among them P/E Ratio, PEG Ratio, Eps Growth 5Y. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 5 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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