LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT, INC. vs Netflix, Inc., two Entertainment stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Live Nation and Netflix are both entertainment heavyweights, but one owns a subscription library and the other runs a pass-through events machine. Netflix keeps 22.54% of revenue as profit and earns 33.96% on equity; Live Nation keeps 0.33% by design, since ticket money flows to artists and venues. Netflix converts better to cash too, a 3.76% free cash yield against Live Nation's 2.91%. On size Netflix towers, $316.5 billion to Live Nation's $41.7 billion. One sells a global streaming subscription with fat margins, the other moves enormous ticket volume on razor-thin take. Different ways to sit at the center of entertainment.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | LYV | NFLX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $179.86 | $73.38 |
| Market cap | $41.8B | $315.4B |
| Sector | Entertainment | Entertainment |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +35.9% | +21.6% |
| P/E | — | 23.7 |
| P/B | 86.75 | 10.13 |
| P/S | 1.63 | 6.73 |
| EV/EBITDA | 27.7 | 22.2 |
| Revenue growth | +12.7% | +16.7% |
| Operating margin | -9.8% | 32.3% |
| Net margin | 0.3% | 22.5% |
| Return on equity | 17.4% | 34.0% |
| Return on assets | 0.3% | 17.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 8.4% | 24.7% |
| FCF yield | 2.9% | 3.8% |
| Debt / equity | 13.93 | 0.46 |
| Current ratio | 0.88 | 1.41 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.78 | 8.17 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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