LYV

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Live Nation Entertainment Inc. Common Stock
Communication Services · Entertainment · NYSE · United States
$167.12-0.72%
Market cap $38.9BNext earnings 2026-11-03Updated Sep 19, 2026
FAIR VALUE · CONSENSUS
$167.12+0.0%
confidence-weighted across 2 of 6 models
Now $167.12
$167.12
$47.10$79.83
AvoidSilver63
Price vs fair value
110.0% above
-52.4% to fair value
ACCE score
53
out of 100
Analysts
83% buy
23 covering
P/E
0.0x
forward 119.0x
1-year return
+1.5%
Dividend yield
0.00%
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Overview

Investor warnings · 5 flags
  • high
    Extreme leverage risk
    Debt/Equity of 4.51 signals heavy leverage; combined with operating margin of -9.9%, debt servicing capacity is strained.
  • high
    Earnings collapse
    Earnings YoY down 56.1% and QoQ down 39.9%; net margin barely positive at 0.3% despite 12.2% revenue growth.
  • high
    Elevated short interest
    Short interest at 15.3% of float indicates significant bearish conviction from sophisticated market participants.
  • moderate
    Insider selling pressure
    Insiders sold $26.25M with zero buys in last 10 disclosed transactions, suggesting lack of internal confidence at current prices.
  • moderate
    Stretched forward valuation
    Forward P/E of 500x implies near-zero near-term earnings recovery; EV/EBITDA of 28.7x expensive for negative operating margin business.
Reports in 43 days, last quarter beat by 0.8%.

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Price

+1.2% · 1Y

Valuation

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Wall Street consensus

Bullish83% buy · 23 covering analysts
Strong buy 15 Buy 4 Hold 3 Sell 0 Strong sell 1
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Where it sits vs peers

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
P/Ebetter than 100% of peers
low 0.0x0.0xhigh 116.7x
ROEbetter than 100% of peers
low 3%18%high 18%
Div yieldbetter than 33% of peers
low 0.0%0.0%high 1.9%

Algorithmic peers (6)

TickerCompanyMcapP/EROED/EYieldQuality
TKOTKO Group Holdings Inc. Class A Common Stock$35.8B66.27.1%1.011.6%-Compare
UMG.ASUniversal Music Group$30.4B81.97.7%0.631.9%-Compare
FOXAFox Corporation Class A Common Stock$27.2B16.914.3%0.570.9%-Compare
FOXFox Corporation Class B Common Stock$24.3B15.214.3%0.571.0%-Compare
FWONKLiberty Media Corporation Series C Liberty Formula One Common Stock$23.7B116.72.7%0.660.0%-Compare
ROKURoku Inc. Class A Common Stock$22.8B64.813.1%-0.270.0%-Compare

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News and Record

Reports in 43 days, last quarter beat by 0.8%.

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Recent performance

1 week
-1.8%
1 month
-9.3%
3 months
-2.4%
6 months
+12.3%
YTD
+17.3%
1 year
+1.5%

SEC filings

40 filings
August 2026
Aug 25
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-08-24
Aug 7
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-08-06
Aug 7
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-08-06
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