LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
At today's price, LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT, INC. (LYV) is priced for +36.4% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At $171.15 the price requires roughly 34% operating-income growth to justify itself, a high bar set against a company that turns only a thin slice of its $20-billion-plus gross flow into reported operating profit. The bet here is on operating leverage, not on the ticket counter. The demand signal is unusually strong: record deferred revenue of $6.6 billion entering 2026 and Q1 revenue up 12% to $3.79 billion, with all three segments growing double digits. The overhang is legal, not operational
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781 institutional managers reported holding LYV in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 82% of the company; the top 10 hold 43%. 107 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 22.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 10% of shares outstanding (9.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
LYV's share count grew 7.7% over the past five years. It pays no dividend.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at LYV over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 18 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
LYV's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -8.7% | -7.1% |
| 2023-11-03 | +6.2% | +4.5% |
| 2024-02-23 | +4.6% | -5.7% |
| 2024-05-03 | +6.1% | +0.7% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
LYV's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-12 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-19 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-11-04 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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