Live Ventures Incorporated (LIVE) Stock

Live Ventures Incorporated (LIVE) is a Consumer Discretionary stock trading at $9.05 (as of 2026-08-20), with a market capitalization of $27.80M. Figures are sourced from first-party U.S. SEC EDGAR filings and market data.

Live Ventures Incorporated and its subsidiaries operate flooring and steel manufacturing and retail businesses in the United States. The flooring segment manufactures carpets, rugs, and yarn products and resells hard surface flooring; the steel segment manufactures and sells tool and die steel; and the retail segment runs specialty entertainment stores that trade in movies, games, music, and collectibles for customers.

Understand Live Ventures Incorporated: how it makes money

Live Ventures makes and sells flooring products (carpets, rugs, and yarn) and steel manufacturing products, and also operates retail businesses in the United States, earning money from flooring manufacturing sales and hard surface flooring resale, plus steel sales and retail revenue.

The profit model is driven by a mix of manufacturing scale (flooring and steel) and a retail/channel strategy that combines direct-to-end-user activity with dealer and home-center sales, plus hard surface flooring resale tied to flooring demand across residential, niche commercial, and hospitality end-markets.

Revenue by segment (latest quarter)
Flooring Mfg	$0.0B
Steel Mfg	$0.0B
Retail Ent	$0.0B
Retail Floor	$0.0B
Corp/Other	$0.0B

Business quality (Weak): Clear operating split is available across flooring manufacturing, steel manufacturing, and retail, but the provided KPIs emphasize revenue and store count rather than margin drivers, and the latest quarter shows a negative operating margin.

Bull case

Multi-segment revenue base: Revenue is sourced from both manufacturing (flooring and steel) and retail (retail entertainment and retail flooring), which can help diversify business performance.
Flooring manufacturing has both production and resale elements: The Flooring Manufacturing segment not only manufactures carpets, rugs, and yarn, it also resells hard surface flooring products, giving it more ways to participate in flooring demand.

Bear case

Operating profitability is currently weak: In the latest quarter, operating margin was -2.0%, indicating the business did not convert gross profit into operating profit.
Retail execution risk: The retail footprint includes a measurable number of retail entertainment stores (73.0), so results may be sensitive to store-level demand and the ability to maintain an adequate store base.

Valuation — source: SEC EDGAR (first-party)
Price	$9.05
Market Cap	$27.80M
EV / EBITDA	0.8
Price / Book	0.30
Price / Sales	0.07
FCF Yield	90.7%
DCF Value (model)	$59.40
DCF Upside vs Price	556.4%

Profitability & Growth — source: SEC EDGAR
Revenue (TTM)	$444.94M
Net Margin	5.1%
Revenue Growth (YoY)	-3.2%
EPS Growth (YoY)	-119.4%
FCF Growth (YoY)	-43.6%

Financial Health — source: SEC EDGAR
Altman Z-Score	1.63 (distress)

Valuation vs Sector & Industry
Sector P/E (Consumer Discretionary)	20.5
Industry P/E (Retail)	19.5

Smart-Money Activity — SEC Form 4 / 13F / Congressional disclosures
Top Institutional Holder	VANGUARD GROUP INC ($898126.00)
Institutional Holders Tracked	10

Company
Sector	Consumer Discretionary
Industry	Retail
CEO	Jon Isaac
Employees	1,429
Country	US
IPO Date	2002-01-29

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Data as of 2026-08-20.

Figures sourced from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) filings and market data. Not personalized investment advice.