LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT, INC. vs Tencent Music Entertainment Group, two Entertainment stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where LYV and TME diverge most: on revenue growth, LYV reads +10.9% and TME reads -0.5%; on debt / equity, LYV reads 8.25 and TME reads 0.00. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What LYV's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | LYV | TME |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $170.06 | $7.98 |
| Market cap | $40.1B | $12.6B |
| Sector | Entertainment | Entertainment |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/B | 53.04 | 1.31 |
| P/S | 1.53 | 3.21 |
| EV/EBITDA | 25.0 | 8.9 |
| Revenue growth | +10.9% | -0.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 42.3% |
| Operating margin | 6.8% | 30.7% |
| Net margin | 0.5% | 25.0% |
| Return on equity | 17.8% | 10.2% |
| Return on assets | 0.5% | 7.9% |
| Return on invested capital | 8.9% | 10.2% |
| FCF yield | 3.5% | 10.9% |
| Debt / equity | 8.25 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.85 | 2.09 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.83 | 3.82 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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