LIVE - Live Ventures Inc Stock Price, Fair Value and News

24.81USD+0.51 (+2.10%)Delayed as of 17 May 2024, 12:07 pm ET

Market Summary

USD24.81+0.51

Delayedas of 17 May 2024, 12:07 pm

2.10%

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LIVE Valuation

Market Cap

76.4M

Price/Earnings (Trailing)

-10.23

Price/Sales (Trailing)

0.18

EV/EBITDA

3.03

Price/Free Cashflow

20.3

LIVE Price/Sales (Trailing)

LIVE Profitability

Operating Margin

31.03%

EBT Margin

-1.97%

Return on Equity

-7.79%

Return on Assets

-1.72%

Free Cashflow Yield

4.93%

LIVE Fundamentals

LIVE Revenue

Revenue (TTM)

431.3M

Rev. Growth (Yr)

30.18%

Rev. Growth (Qtr)

0.88%

LIVE Earnings

Earnings (TTM)

-7.5M

Earnings Growth (Yr)

-310.59%

Earnings Growth (Qtr)

-381.09%

Breaking Down LIVE Revenue

52 Week Range

23.9929.90

(Low)(High)

Last 7 days

0.1%

Last 30 days

-6.6%

Last 90 days

-2.4%

Trailing 12 Months

-10.1%

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LIVE Financial Health

Current Ratio

1.74

Debt/Equity

0.7

Debt/Cashflow

0.21

LIVE Investor Care

Buy Backs (1Y)

0.69%

Diluted EPS (TTM)

-2.38

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Net sales

Year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2024	431.3M	0	0	0
2023	302.2M	325.4M	355.2M	403.8M
2022	284.5M	283.7M	286.9M	280.7M
2021	236.6M	263.3M	273.0M	285.7M
2020	181.6M	177.0M	191.7M	212.2M
2019	207.3M	199.6M	193.3M	182.1M
2018	173.9M	187.2M	199.6M	212.5M
2017	109.7M	131.1M	152.1M	160.2M
2016	61.0M	78.1M	79.0M	91.0M
2015	18.3M	18.5M	33.4M	45.5M
2014	2.5M	4.6M	7.3M	14.7M
2013	2.4M	2.4M	2.4M	2.4M
2012	3.1M	2.6M	2.4M	2.4M
2011	4.2M	4.1M	4.1M	3.7M
2010	0	0	4.2M	4.2M

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Tracking the Latest Insider Buys and Sells of Live Ventures Inc

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Datesorted ascending	Name	Buy/Sell	$ Value	Avg. Price	# Shares	Title
Jun 30, 2023	isaac antonios	sold	-256,018	25.85	-9,904	-
Jun 13, 2023	isaac antonios	sold (taxes)	-379,513	25.14	-15,096	-
Jun 13, 2023	isaac antonios	acquired	379,500	15.18	25,000	-
Aug 15, 2022	isaac jon	bought	57,900	28.95	2,000	ceo and president
Mar 30, 2022	isaac jon	acquired	-	-	1,299,510	ceo and president
Mar 14, 2022	gao dennis	bought	119,521	35.7527	3,343	-
Mar 11, 2022	gao dennis	bought	148,435	35.7675	4,150	-
Sep 28, 2021	stein michael jason	sold	-153,218	38.1614	-4,015	-
Aug 26, 2021	stein michael jason	acquired	141,600	11.8	12,000	sr. vp, general counsel
Aug 19, 2021	isaac jon	bought	-	-	3,500	ceo and president

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Datesorted ascending	Fund Name	Type	% Chg	$ Change	$ Held	% Portfolio
May 15, 2024	MORGAN STANLEY	added	207	38,901	56,071	-%
May 15, 2024	Tower Research Capital LLC (TRC)	reduced	-33.42	-2,896	6,985	-%
May 15, 2024	BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC	added	2.58	92,113	1,124,190	0.02%
May 15, 2024	Royal Bank of Canada	reduced	-23.38	-37,000	159,000	-%
May 14, 2024	Qube Research & Technologies Ltd	unchanged	-	3.00	54.00	-%
May 13, 2024	GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC	added	1.58	26,008	356,773	-%
May 13, 2024	RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC	reduced	-2.46	41,000	1,176,000	-%
May 10, 2024	OSAIC HOLDINGS, INC.	unchanged	-	157	2,697	-%
May 10, 2024	CITIGROUP INC	sold off	-100	-25.00	-	-%
May 10, 2024	WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN	unchanged	-	16.00	270	-%

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No. of Funds

Recent SEC filings of Live Ventures Inc

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Date Filed	Form Type	Document
May 14, 2024	10-Q	Quarterly Report
May 13, 2024	8-K	Current Report
Apr 30, 2024	8-K	Current Report
Apr 16, 2024	8-K	Current Report
Apr 16, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Feb 08, 2024	8-K	Current Report
Feb 08, 2024	10-Q	Quarterly Report

Peers (Alternatives to Live Ventures Inc)

Name	Mkt Capsorted ascending	Revenue	Price %, 1M	Returns, 1Y	P/E	P/S	Rev 1-Yr	Inc 1-Yr
LARGE-CAP
HD	339.7B	152.7B	2.39%	17.25%	22.44	2.23	-3.01%	-11.47%
LOW	132.9B	86.4B	1.75%	12.13%	17.21	1.54	-11.01%	20.02%
DHI	49.7B	37.1B	3.36%	34.44%	10.01	1.34	10.12%	-4.19%
NVR	24.1B	9.7B	0.45%	31.86%	14.68	2.49	-6.32%	-0.14%
FND	12.7B	4.4B	9.97%	30.15%	56.69	2.9	0.72%	-24.86%
MID-CAP
MHK	7.7B	11.0B	10.43%	25.07%	-18.62	0.7	-4.50%	-196.49%
IBP	6.2B	2.8B	-4.11%	90.18%	24.66	2.19	2.57%	4.80%
WHR	5.0B	19.3B	-12.86%	-29.02%	12.52	0.26	-0.81%	119.97%
CVCO	3.1B	1.9B	4.03%	26.55%	18.13	1.68	-14.77%	-30.65%
CCS	2.8B	3.9B	8.19%	27.55%	9.55	0.71	-8.36%	-30.22%
LEG	1.6B	4.6B	-29.19%	-62.41%	-10.34	0.36	-8.52%	-158.15%
SMALL-CAP
AMWD	1.5B	1.9B	2.37%	76.86%	12.55	0.8	-10.13%	53.07%
BZH	895.3M	2.1B	7.46%	33.36%	5.58	0.42	-8.40%	-19.84%
BSET	124.8M	369.0M	4.09%	1.23%	-21.48	0.34	-22.39%	-109.49%
CRWS	52.2M	86.7M	-3.23%	-3.42%	11.07	0.6	9.53%	-34.99%

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Income Statement (Last 12 Months)

(In Thousands)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Thousands)
Income Statement (Quarterly)																					(In Thousands)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Revenue	0.9%	118,626	117,593	103,547	91,516	91,122	68,986	73,780	68,269	69,706	75,158	70,542	69,095	70,890	62,454	60,816	42,472	46,431	42,001	46,076	47,043	46,973
Cost Of Revenue	2.3%	83,159	81,266	73,702	59,347	59,514	47,042	50,871	45,920	44,753	47,542	44,904	44,029	44,400	40,185	36,614	25,759	28,655	25,375	32,437	27,797	28,322
Gross Profit	-2.4%	35,467	36,327	29,845	32,169	31,608	21,944	22,909	22,349	24,953	27,616	25,638	25,066	26,490	22,269	24,202	16,713	17,776	16,626	13,639	19,246	18,651
Operating Expenses	10.7%	36,305	32,786	29,476	26,608	26,656	17,377	21,702	16,485	16,504	17,209	16,496	16,834	15,365	14,978	16,325	10,723	14,708	13,139	18,328	15,437	16,605
S&GA Expenses	26.9%	6,481	5,107	3,249	3,382	4,039	2,777	2,979	3,078	3,350	3,052	2,888	3,040	2,800	2,699	3,495	2,502	3,007	2,330	3,374	3,246	3,811
EBITDA Margin	-23.0%	0.06*	0.07*	0.08*	0.08*	0.09*	0.14*	0.15*	0.19*	0.22*	0.19*	0.18*	0.17*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Interest Expenses	0.1%	4,167	4,163	3,974	3,485	3,235	2,047	1,660	674	933	890	861	965	1,293	1,223	1,030	2,228	-	1,187	1,368	1,484	1,496
Income Taxes	-443.3%	-1,217	-224	109	297	550	615	-973	1,365	3,523	2,960	1,281	2,703	3,228	1,450	2,633	1,423	629	195	-2,956	562	202
Earnings Before Taxes	-396.5%	-4,498	-906	-4,455	1,357	2,108	2,459	-1,608	4,837	18,881	9,506	10,526	12,636	11,923	2,459	7,060	5,008	2,510	742	-10,451	2,042	675
EBT Margin	-319.8%	-0.02*	0.00*	0.00*	0.01*	0.03*	0.09*	0.11*	0.15*	0.18*	0.16*	0.14*	0.13*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Net Income	-381.1%	-3,281	-682	-4,564	1,060	1,558	1,844	-635	3,472	15,358	6,546	7,199	9,938	8,695	5,279	4,476	3,585	1,881	547	-7,495	1,480	473
Net Income Margin	-166.0%	-0.02*	-0.01*	0.00*	0.01*	0.02*	0.07*	0.09*	0.11*	0.14*	0.11*	0.11*	0.11*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Free Cashflow	-220.0%	-7,459	6,217	-610	11,229	6,306	4,972	-8,268	4,792	-3,426	1,174	-5,375	8,287	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Balance Sheet

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Balance Sheet																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Assets	-0.6%	434	437	422	360	365	279	279	263	225	219	212	199	196	191	197	156	159	137	122	126	132
Current Assets	0.2%	185	185	183	152	156	137	135	129	110	105	99.00	93.00	97.00	91.00	96.00	65.00	67.00	52.00	56.00	57.00	62.00
Cash Equivalents	-19.4%	4.00	6.00	4.00	4.00	4.00	13.00	5.00	4.00	6.00	10.00	5.00	11.00	12.00	7.00	9.00	6.00	1.00	2.00	3.00	2.00	3.00
Inventory	-1.1%	131	132	131	114	115	97.00	98.00	96.00	79.00	74.00	71.00	61.00	62.00	65.00	65.00	43.00	47.00	37.00	39.00	40.00	43.00
Net PPE	-	-	-	-	65.00	67.00	63.00	65.00	52.00	41.00	37.00	36.00	33.00	32.00	31.00	32.00	25.00	26.00	22.00	23.00	24.00	24.00
Goodwill	0%	77.00	77.00	76.00	71.00	70.00	41.00	41.00	-	41.00	41.00	41.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	37.00	37.00	-	-
Liabilities	0.2%	338	337	322	256	262	181	181	165	130	137	137	131	139	142	154	116	123	102	88.00	83.00	91.00
Current Liabilities	2.9%	106	103	98.00	73.00	75.00	59.00	56.00	57.00	57.00	63.00	65.00	56.00	55.00	53.00	57.00	54.00	59.00	48.00	35.00	29.00	33.00
Long Term Debt	-	-	-	-	-	68.00	60.00	60.00	58.00	39.00	40.00	38.00	45.00	53.00	58.00	63.00	39.00	42.00	35.00	48.00	49.00	51.00
LT Debt, Current	-	-	-	-	-	30.00	26.00	19.00	18.00	20.00	18.00	16.00	8.00	10.00	12.00	12.00	18.00	21.00	16.00	8.00	-	-
LT Debt, Non Current	-	-	-	-	-	68.00	60.00	60.00	58.00	39.00	40.00	38.00	45.00	53.00	58.00	63.00	39.00	42.00	35.00	48.00	-	-
Shareholder's Equity	-3.6%	96.00	99.00	100	105	103	98.00	97.00	98.00	95.00	82.00	75.00	68.00	58.00	49.00	44.00	40.00	37.00	35.00	34.00	42.00	41.00
Retained Earnings	-8.6%	35.00	38.00	39.00	44.00	43.00	41.00	40.00	40.00	37.00	21.00	15.00	8.00	-2.28	-11.02	-16.43	-20.90	-24.49	-26.37	-27.35	-19.17	-20.65
Additional Paid-In Capital	0.1%	69.00	69.00	69.00	69.00	69.00	65.00	65.00	65.00	65.00	65.00	65.00	65.00	65.00	64.00	64.00	64.00	64.00	64.00	64.00	64.00	64.00
Shares Outstanding	-0.4%	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minority Interest	-	-	-	-	-0.45	-0.45	-0.45	-0.45	-0.45	-0.45	-0.45	-0.45	-0.45	-0.44	-0.40	-0.27	-	-	-	-	-	-
Float	-	-	-	-	-	41.00	-	-	-	55,026	-	-	-	31.00	-	-	-	9.00	-	-	-	15.00

Cashflow (Last 12 Months)

(In Thousands)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Thousands)
Cashflow (Quarterly)																					(In Thousands)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Cashflow From Operations	-172.9%	-5,741	7,872	-11.00	11,828	7,924	6,254	-4,444	5,593	1,007	4,244	-3,011	11,288	13,243	7,668	10,716	11,504	3,572	2,999	4,267	7,800	-1,263
Share Based Compensation	0%	50.00	50.00	50.00	287	109	-	-	-	19.00	18.00	259	-57.00	270	17.00	19.00	19.00	19.00	29.00	32.00	32.00	31.00
Cashflow From Investing	46.1%	-1,718	-3,189	-25,156	-1,899	-35,547	-1,282	-7,377	-25,156	-4,433	-3,070	-2,951	-9,001	-2,211	-3,258	-5,784	-580	-1,767	-645	-2,151	-1,096	-488
Cashflow From Financing	286.4%	6,379	-3,423	25,929	-10,550	19,026	3,193	12,795	16,998	-415	4,193	61.00	-3,650	-6,336	-6,162	-1,637	-6,731	-1,811	-3,533	-1,852	-7,579	841
Buy Backs	178.5%	298	107	3.00	349	17.00	622	472	444	2,084	-	12.00	26.00	-	383	267	674	416	343	257	310	302

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LIVE Income Statement

2024-03-31

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF (LOSS) INCOME (UNAUDITED) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2024	Mar. 31, 2023	Mar. 31, 2024	Mar. 31, 2023
Income Statement [Abstract]
Revenue	$ 118,626	$ 91,122	$ 236,219	$ 160,108
Cost of revenue	83,159	59,514	164,425	106,556
Gross profit	35,467	31,608	71,794	53,552
Operating expenses:
General and administrative expenses	29,824	22,617	57,503	37,217
Sales and marketing expenses	6,481	4,039	11,588	6,816
Total operating expenses	36,305	26,656	69,091	44,033
Operating income (loss)	(838)	4,952	2,703	9,519
Other expense:
Interest expense, net	(4,167)	(3,235)	(8,330)	(5,282)
Other Income	507	391	223	330
Total other expense, net	(3,660)	(2,844)	(8,107)	(4,952)
(Loss) income before provision for income taxes	(4,498)	2,108	(5,404)	4,567
(Benefit) provision for income taxes	(1,217)	550	(1,441)	1,165
Net (loss) income	$ (3,281)	$ 1,558	$ (3,963)	$ 3,402
(Loss) income per share:
Basic (in usd per share)	$ (1.04)	$ 0.50	$ (1.25)	$ 1.10
Diluted (in usd per share)	$ (1.04)	$ 0.49	$ (1.25)	$ 1.08
Weighted average common shares outstanding:
Basic (in shares)	3,154,771	3,143,911	3,159,180	3,101,007
Diluted (in shares)	3,154,771	3,184,982	3,159,180	3,137,625

LIVE Balance Sheet

2024-03-31

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Mar. 31, 2024	Sep. 30, 2023
Assets
Cash	$ 4,489	$ 4,309
Trade receivables, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $1.1 million at March 31, 2024 and $1.6 million at September 30, 2023	45,510	41,194
Inventories, net	130,980	131,314
Income taxes receivable	0	1,116
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	4,430	4,919
Total current assets	185,409	182,852
Property and equipment, net	78,432	80,703
Right of use asset - operating leases	64,867	54,544
Deposits and other assets	1,579	1,282
Intangible assets, net	26,942	26,568
Goodwill	76,639	75,866
Total assets	433,868	421,815
Liabilities:
Accounts payable	26,466	27,190
Accrued liabilities	33,180	31,826
Income taxes payable	322	0
Current portion of lease obligations - operating leases	13,459	11,369
Current portion of lease obligations - finance leases	361	359
Total current liabilities	106,384	97,821
Lease obligation long term - operating leases	56,678	48,156
Lease obligation long term - finance leases	33,023	32,942
Deferred taxes	10,320	14,035
Other non-current obligations	5,795	4,104
Total liabilities	338,000	321,680
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' equity:
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized, 3,148,135 and 3,164,330 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively	2	2
Paid in capital	69,487	69,387
Treasury stock common 676,258 and 660,063 shares as of March 31, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively	(8,610)	(8,206)
Retained earnings	34,996	38,959
Total stockholders' equity	95,868	100,135
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	433,868	421,815
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock
Stockholders' equity:
Series E convertible preferred stock, $0.001 par value, 200,000 shares authorized, 47,840 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively, with a liquidation preference of $0.30 per share outstanding	0	0
Treasury stock Series E preferred 80,000 shares as of March 31, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively	(7)	(7)
Nonrelated Party
Liabilities:
Current portion of long-term debt and noted payable related parties	31,396	23,077
Long-term debt, net of current portion	75,322	78,710
Related Party
Liabilities:
Current portion of long-term debt and noted payable related parties	1,200	4,000
Long-term debt, net of current portion	10,124	6,914
Related Party \| Seller Notes
Liabilities:
Seller notes - related parties	$ 40,354	$ 38,998

About Live Ventures Inc

Live Ventures Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the flooring and steel manufacturing, and retail businesses in the United States. The company's Flooring Manufacturing segment manufactures and sells carpets and rugs, and yarn products focusing on the residential, niche commercial, and hospitality end-markets; and resells hard surface flooring products. This segment serves flooring dealers, home centers, and other flooring manufacturers, as well as directly to end users. Its Steel Manufacturing segment manufactures and sells pre-finished de-carb free tool and die steel products, such as deluxe alloy plates, deluxe tool steel plates, precision ground flat stock products, and drill rods. This segment serves steel distributors and steel service centers. The company's Retail segment operates 63 specialty entertainment retail storefronts that offer entertainment products, including new and pre-owned movies, video games, and music products, as well as ancillary products, such as books, comics, toys, and collectibles. It buys, sells, and trades in new and pre-owned movies, music, video games, electronics, and collectibles through 35 Vintage Stock, 3 V-Stock, 13 Movie Trading company, and 12 EntertainMart retail locations in Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah, as well as sells new and used movies, video games, music, and toys through Website, vintagestock.com. This segment also offers services to customers, such as rentals, special orders, disc and video game hardware repair services, and other services. Its Corporate and Other segment provides product and service for new customers. Live Ventures Incorporated was incorporated in 1968 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CEO	Mr. Jon Isaac
WEBSITE	liveventures.com
INDUSTRY	Home Improvement Retail
EMPLOYEES	952

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What is the fair value of LIVE stock?

You can check LIVE's fair value in chart for subscribers. The fair value of Live Ventures Inc is provided for various growth and macro-economic scenarios from very pessimiatic to very optimistic assumptions. These fair values are estimates from Grufity's Fair Value model based on company's past performance. However, past performance of Live Ventures Inc is no guarantee of future performance. These fairvalue estimates should only be used as one of the inputs in your stock analysis. We provide model's historical fair value estimates for LIVE so that you know how good or bad the model has been in the past so you can discard it if needed. There are others that provide fair values of stocks such as wallmine, finbox, gurufocus and finviz. Most provide point in time estimates. We provide a history of our models fair value estimates so that you can get a sense of it's usefulness. Otherwise this data point is of little use.

Is Live Ventures Inc a good stock to buy?

The fair value guage provides a quick view whether LIVE is over valued or under valued. Whether Live Ventures Inc is cheap or expensive depends on the assumptions which impact Live Ventures Inc's fair value. We provide several scenarios of inflation and growth to encompass these range of assumptions for LIVE.

What is Live Ventures Inc's Price to Earnings (PE) and Price to sales (PS) ratio?

As of Thu May 16 2024, LIVE's PE ratio (Price to Earnings) is -10.23 and Price to Sales (PS) ratio is 0.18. The price to earnings and price to sales ratio are two most important valuation metrics for any company. PE ratio tell us the number of years of earnings investors are ready to pay for owning the company. Historically, S&P500 price to earnings ratio has fallen below 12 during periods of gloom and gone past 30 during periods of euphoria. LIVE PE ratio will change depending on the future growth rate expectations of investors.

What is 5 year return on Live Ventures Inc's stock?

In the past 10 years, Live Ventures Inc has provided 0.031 (multiply by 100 for percentage) rate of return.