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Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. (MSGS)

NYSE / Communication Services / Entertainment

Share price

404.66 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

9.74B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Aug 13, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
12, FY2014 to FY2026
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

1.7% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

1264.56x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

0.6% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 1.32B USDFY2017 Net income: -72.7M USDFY2018 Revenue: 1.56B USDFY2018 Net income: 141.6M USDFY2019 Revenue: 1.63B USDFY2019 Net income: 11.4M USDFY2020 Revenue: 603.3M USDFY2020 Net income: -182.4M USDFY2021 Revenue: 415.7M USDFY2021 Net income: -14.0M USDFY2022 Revenue: 821.4M USDFY2022 Net income: 51.1M USDFY2023 Revenue: 887.4M USDFY2023 Net income: 47.8M USDFY2024 Revenue: 1.03B USDFY2024 Net income: 58.8M USDFY2025 Revenue: 1.04B USDFY2025 Net income: -22.4M USDFY2026 Revenue: 1.15B USDFY2026 Net income: 7.8M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
0 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 1,264.56x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2026 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Communication Services sector (108 companies), 1,264.56x sits at the 100th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 7.82x to 41.28x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 1.7% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of capital" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns below the usual cost of the capital employed.

Today, against the Communication Services sector (85 companies), 1.7% sits at the 46th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -2.0% to 8.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 1.37x in FY2026, in the band labelled "Distress territory" (below 1.50x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit barely covers.

Year by year against peers
Whether Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.'s operating margin stayed above the median of the Entertainment industry, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2025, 4 fiscal years of Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.'s operating margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.)
What could explain it
What in Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (9 readings drawn from the statement lines Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., and where in its filings. (7 questions for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.)

These are MSGS’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 FY2026 annual report: 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-056812.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax1.7% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Return on equity
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Return on capital employed, pre-tax3.2% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Return on assets0.5% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
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 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Operating margin2.5% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Net margin0.7% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
MSGS 0.7%
NXST 2.2%SPHR 2.7%LLYVK -22.8%MSGE 6.2%LION -7.5%
-22.8%6.2%
Net margin: MSGS 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

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/m

Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

n/m ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Current ratio0.50 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Quick ratio0.50 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Interest coverage1.37x ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Altman Z-score3.71 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Net debt995.8M ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Total assets 1.54BTotal liabilities 1.80BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity (zero or below, not drawn)
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Madison Square Garden Sports Corp owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812).

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp: balance sheet position
Total assets1.54B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026
Total liabilities1.80B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026
Shareholders' equity-263.3M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026
Cash164.5M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026
Total debt1.16B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026
Net debt995.8M
Current ratio0.50
Debt to equityn/m
  • Debt to equity: FY2026: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

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

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings1264.56x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
P/E on trailing twelve months1264.56x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Price to sales8.51x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Enterprise value to EBIT374.45x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Enterprise value to EBITDA337.30x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Price to earnings over growth
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 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Diluted earnings per share0.32 USD FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Graham number
Why n/a

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

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value MSGS 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 Madison Square Garden Sports Corp today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp: valuation
Share price404.66 USD
Market capitalisation9.74B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA337.30x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per share, FY20260.32 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 22.62x, median 77.82x, high 1301.06x, latest 1264.56x. 1,368 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 1,155 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 Madison Square Garden Sports Corp

  1. Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NXST)Market cap 5.07B USD
  2. Sphere Entertainment Co. (SPHR)Market cap 3.91B USD
  3. Liberty Live Group (LLYVK)Market cap 9.17B USD
  4. Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSGE)Market cap 3.77B USD
  5. Lionsgate Studios Corp. (LION)Market cap 3.28B USD

Same industry (Entertainment) and size band (Mid, 2B to 10B), 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

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield0.6% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Free cash flow61.3M USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Free cash flow margin5.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Dividend yield0.005% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Payout ratio6.1% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
FY2017 Free cash flow: 179.3M USDFY2017 Net income: -72.7M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 25.7M USDFY2018 Net income: 141.6M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: -27.6M USDFY2019 Net income: 11.4M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: -358.9M USDFY2020 Net income: -182.4M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: -35.8M USDFY2021 Net income: -14.0M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 177.1M USDFY2022 Net income: 51.1M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 151.3M USDFY2023 Net income: 47.8M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 90.7M USDFY2024 Net income: 58.8M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 88.0M USDFY2025 Net income: -22.4M USDFY2026 Free cash flow: 61.3M USDFY2026 Net income: 7.8M 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.

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
1264.56xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
374.45xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
0.6%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
1.7%FY2026Aug 13, 2026
0.005%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2026Aug 13, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
0.50FY2026Aug 13, 2026
8.51xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
3.71FY2026Oct 15, 2026
-2.50FY2026Aug 13, 2026
7/9FY2026Aug 13, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 12 filed fiscal years on record, FY2014 to FY2026, 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, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports Madison Square Garden Sports Corp filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp: 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
FY20261.15B28.9M7.8M0.3261.3M2.5%n/m10-K, Aug 13, 20260001628280-26-056812
FY20251.04B14.8M-22.4M-0.9388.0M1.4%n/m10-K, Aug 12, 20250001636519-25-000027
FY20241.03B146.0M58.8M2.4490.7M14.2%n/m10-K, Aug 13, 20240001636519-24-000015
FY2023887.4M85.2M47.8M1.89151.3M9.6%n/m10-K, Aug 17, 20230001636519-23-000009
FY2022821.4M86.1M51.1M2.10177.1M10.5%n/m10-K, Aug 18, 20220001636519-22-000009
FY2021415.7M-78.4M-14.0M-0.58-35.8M-18.9%n/m10-K, Aug 19, 20210001636519-21-000010
FY2020603.3M-93.9M-182.4M-7.62-358.9M-15.6%n/m10-K, Aug 31, 20200001636519-20-000025
FY20191.63B-58.2M11.4M0.48-27.6M-3.6%0.4%10-K, Aug 20, 20190001636519-19-000019
FY20181.56B-18.2M141.6M5.9425.7M-1.2%5.6%10-K, Aug 17, 20180001636519-18-000010
FY20171.32B-56.3M-72.7M-2.18179.3M-4.3%-3.0%10-K, Aug 17, 20170001636519-17-000010
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: -1.5%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2017 and 2026, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2017 and 2026, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: -11.2%

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

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.50 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Aug 13, 2026, 0001628280-26-056812
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta0.57 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 23 not met, 7 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
None of the named tests.
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; ROIC at or above WACC; 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); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Deep value; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); Low beta, profitable; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(9)
  • Debt to Equity: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).
  • P/B Ratio: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Equity: Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.
  • 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.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.
  • Price Tangible Book: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 9 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, P/B Ratio, PEG Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 7 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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