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Live Ventures (Live Ventures) EBITDA

: $34.3 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)
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Live Ventures's EBITDA for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $8.7 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $34.3 Mil.

During the past 12 months, the average EBITDA Growth Rate of Live Ventures was -23.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was 5.70% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was 32.40% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the EBITDA Growth Rate using EBITDA data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA Growth Rate of Live Ventures was 90.70% per year. The lowest was -98.50% per year. And the median was 5.70% per year.

Live Ventures's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $2.75. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $10.78.

During the past 12 months, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Live Ventures was -23.90% per year. During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 9.80% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 30.30% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the EBITDA per share growth rate using EBITDA per Share data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Live Ventures was 70.60% per year. The lowest was -47.00% per year. And the median was 26.60% per year.


Live Ventures EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Live Ventures's EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Live Ventures Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.35 28.19 51.46 44.04 33.27

Live Ventures Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
EBITDA Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.70 9.84 9.20 6.53 8.70

Competitive Comparison

For the Home Improvement Retail subindustry, Live Ventures's EV-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Live Ventures EV-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Live Ventures's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Live Ventures's EV-to-EBITDA falls into.


Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Live Ventures's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Live Ventures's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Sep. 2023, Live Ventures's EBITDA was $33.3 Mil.

Live Ventures's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Live Ventures's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Dec. 2023, Live Ventures's EBITDA was $8.7 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $34.3 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Sometimes companies may have already deducted Depreciation and Amortization from Gross Profit. In this case Depreciation and Amortization needs to be added back when calculating EBITDA.

Live Ventures  (NAS:LIVE) EBITDA Explanation

EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals Operating Income. Operating Income is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.

While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.

The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.

EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:

Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners

EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses.. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.

A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.

Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.


Be Aware

Although depreciation is not a cash cost it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.

EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies. Also Price-to-EBITDA is sometimes used in valuations.


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Live Ventures (Live Ventures) Business Description

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Address
325 East Warm Springs Road, Suite 102, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 89119
Live Ventures Inc is a holding company for diversified businesses. It is focused on acquiring and operating profitable companies in various industries. The company operates in the business segments of Retail, which includes direct sales of entertainment and appliance products and services, Flooring Manufacturing, Steel Manufacturing, which includes the sale of steel plates, ground flat stock, and drill rods, and Corporate and Other. It derives key revenue from the Flooring Manufacturing segment which includes the manufacturing of carpets and rugs, yarn products, as well as a reseller of hard surface flooring products. Geographically the activities are carried out throughout the United States.
Executives
John Isaac director, 10 percent owner 501 W. BROADWAY, SUITE A212, SAN DIEGO CA 92101
Dennis Gao director 325 E. WARM SPRINGS ROAD, SUITE 102, LAS VEGAS NV 89119
David Lee Verret officer: Chief Accounting Officer 5900 COPPER CANYON DR., THE COLONY TX 75056
Michael Jason Stein officer: Sr. VP, General Counsel 325 E WARM SPRINGS ROAD, LAS VEGAS NV 89119
Rodney Dale Spriggs officer: CEO, Vintage Stock, Inc. 3703 RED FOX RUN, JOPLIN MO 64804
Eric Adam Althofer officer: COO 7707 DEERFIELD MANOR DR, CHARLOTTE NC 28270
Thomas Robert Sedlak officer: CEO Precision Industries, Inc. 87 PORTER HILL ROAD, WASHINGTON PA 15301
Godfrey Weston A Jr officer: CEO, Marquis Industries, Inc. PO BOX 1308, CHATSWORTH GA 30705
Virland A Johnson officer: Chief Financial Officer 20488 N 86 LANE, PEORIA AZ 85382
Richard Butler director 4840 EAST JASMINE ST., SUITE 105, MESA AZ 85205
Tyler Sickmeyer director 1440 HOTEL CIRCLE NORTH, #423, SAN DIEGO CA 92108
Isaac Capital Group, Llc 10 percent owner 501 W. BROADWAY, #A212, SAN DIEGO CA 92101
Clarke Thomas J Jr director 11534 VILLA VASARI, PALM BEACH GARDENS FL 33418
Antonios Isaac director 3525 DEL MAR HEIGHTS RD., #765, SAN DIEGO CA 92130
John Kocmur director, 10 percent owner 2490 EAST SUNSET ROAD, SUITE 100, LAS VEGAS NV 89120

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