LYVLive Nation Entertainment
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: heavy debt (B).
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$534K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -61% · now 10% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can LYV take a bad year?
Live Nation Entertainment carries $130M of net debt at 0.09× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.09×
Net debt / EBITDA · −0.36× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.30
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 2.28×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $9.20B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $9.07B
- Net debt
- $130M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.49B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $801M
- Debt / equity
- 112×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.18×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 30%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- 9.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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