For the quarter ended March 2025, Live Nation (LYV) reported revenue of $3.38 billion, down 11% over the same period last year. EPS came in at -$0.32, compared to -$0.53 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -2.89% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3.48 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being -$0.34, the EPS surprise was +5.88%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Live Nation performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Concerts - Estimated Attendance - Total: 22.31 million compared to the 23.37 million average estimate based on five analysts.
- Ticketing - Total Fee-Bearing Number of Tickets Sold: 77.49 million versus the five-analyst average estimate of 79.59 million.
- Concerts - Estimated Events - Total: 11.3 million versus 11.75 million estimated by five analysts on average.
- Concerts - Estimated Attendance - North America: 9.05 million compared to the 11.15 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Concerts - Estimated Events - International: 4.23 million compared to the 4.3 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Concerts - Estimated Events - North America: 7.07 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of 7.51 million.
- Concerts - Estimated Attendance - International: 13.26 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of 12.57 million.
- Ticketing - Total Non-Fee-Bearing Number of Tickets Sold: 77.63 million compared to the 84.7 million average estimate based on three analysts.
- Revenue- Concerts: $2.48 billion versus $2.51 billion estimated by seven analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -13.7% change.
- Revenue- Other and Eliminations: -$12.80 million versus the seven-analyst average estimate of -$13.63 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -11.1%.
- Revenue- Sponsorship & Advertising: $216.10 million versus the seven-analyst average estimate of $216.47 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +2.3%.
- Revenue- Ticketing: $694.70 million compared to the $773.21 million average estimate based on seven analysts. The reported number represents a change of -3.9% year over year.
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Shares of Live Nation have returned -1.6% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -0.7% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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