Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. vs LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT, INC., two Entertainment stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Life Time runs premium fitness clubs; Live Nation runs concerts and ticketing. Both sell access to a live experience, but the margins tell different stories. Life Time keeps a healthy 12.53% of revenue as profit, while Live Nation keeps 0.33% because most ticket revenue passes through to artists and venues by design. On cash the picture flips: Life Time is spending heavily on new clubs and runs a negative 1.32% free cash yield, while Live Nation converts at a positive 2.91%. Life Time earns 11.98% on equity and carries modest debt at 0.47 times. Life Time is the club builder investing ahead, Live Nation the high-volume events machine.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | LTH | LYV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $41.88 | $179.86 |
| Market cap | $9.5B | $41.8B |
| Sector | Entertainment | Entertainment |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +24.0% | +35.9% |
| P/E | 24.5 | — |
| P/B | 2.96 | 86.75 |
| P/S | 3.09 | 1.63 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.4 | 27.7 |
| Revenue growth | +12.7% | +12.7% |
| Operating margin | 17.1% | -9.8% |
| Net margin | 12.5% | 0.3% |
| Return on equity | 12.0% | 17.4% |
| Return on assets | 4.8% | 0.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.9% | 8.4% |
| FCF yield | -1.3% | 2.9% |
| Debt / equity | 0.47 | 13.93 |
| Current ratio | 0.53 | 0.88 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.57 | 6.78 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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