WALT DISNEY CO/ vs LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT, INC., two Entertainment stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Both are pillars of the live and filmed entertainment world, but they earn money in opposite ways. Disney owns the content, the parks, and the streaming catalog, and keeps 8.14% of revenue as profit. Live Nation is a promoter and ticketing pipe where 0.33% of revenue lands as net income because the rest passes through to artists and venues. Disney converts to cash at a 4.06% free cash yield against Live Nation's 2.91%. On scale, Live Nation is the larger revenue mover but the smaller company by market value, $41.7 billion to Disney's $175.1 billion. Owned intellectual property on one side, a high-volume events machine on the other.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | DIS | LYV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $95.59 | $179.86 |
| Market cap | $169.4B | $41.8B |
| Sector | Entertainment | Entertainment |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +35.9% |
| P/E | 15.3 | — |
| P/B | 1.47 | 86.75 |
| P/S | 1.74 | 1.63 |
| EV/EBITDA | 9.3 | 27.7 |
| Revenue growth | +3.4% | +12.7% |
| Operating margin | 18.3% | -9.8% |
| Net margin | 8.1% | 0.3% |
| Return on equity | 6.9% | 17.4% |
| Return on assets | 3.9% | 0.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.8% | 8.4% |
| FCF yield | 4.2% | 2.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.41 | 13.93 |
| Current ratio | 0.68 | 0.88 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.91 | 6.78 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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