Live Nation Entertainment -- The Essentials

By Ken Smith • Monday, January 09 12:01 • Permanent Link

Live Nation Entertainment logged a -2.3% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $70.75 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.3%. LYV's trading volume is 1,180,599 compared to the stock's average volume of 2,247,283.

Live Nation Entertainment trades -29.6% away from its average analyst target price of $100.5 per share. The 14 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $70 to $120, and on average have given Live Nation Entertainment a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying LYV should be aware of the facts below:

Live Nation Entertainment has moved -37.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -16.6%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 0.78, Live Nation Entertainment has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 90.7 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
LYV has a forward P/E ratio of 55.7 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $1.27 per share
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. operates as a live entertainment company.
Based in Beverly Hills, the company has 10,200 full time employees and a market cap of $16,334,759,936.

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