Liberty Media (FWONK) stock price is $89.13, down 0.16% on the day, as of Oct 26, 2026. It has a market cap of $20.65Bn and a P/E ratio of 50.62, and is classified in the Live Entertainment industry (Communication Services sector).
Enterprise Value
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P/FCF
Key Stats
Market Cap20.65 Bn
P/E50.62
FCF (Yr)789.00 Mn
ROA (Yr)3.91
EV to EBIT29.49
Net Income (Yr)555.00 Mn
Enterprise Value15.21 Bn
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About
Liberty Media Corporation is primarily engaged in the motorsport and live entertainment industries through its subsidiaries that hold exclusive commercial rights to major racing championships. The company’s core activities involve organizing promoting and monetizing the Formula One World Championship and the MotoGP World Championship. Its operations are headquartered in the United Kingdom and Spain with a global reach that spans multiple continents.
Liberty Media…
Liberty Media Corporation is primarily engaged in the motorsport and live entertainment industries through its subsidiaries that hold exclusive commercial rights to major racing championships. The company’s core activities involve organizing promoting and monetizing the Formula One World Championship and the MotoGP World Championship. Its operations are headquartered in the United Kingdom and Spain with a global reach that spans multiple continents.
Liberty Media Corporation generates revenue primarily from the sale of media rights race promotion fees and sponsorship agreements related to its Formula One and MotoGP championships. Additional income comes from hospitality programs logistics services and the operation of support racing series such as Formula Two Formula Three and Moto2 Moto3. The company’s customers include race promoters broadcasters sponsors and fans who purchase tickets or access digital content.
The company operates through the following segments: Formula 1 and MotoGP.
Formula 1 holds the exclusive commercial rights to the FIA Formula One World Championship and is responsible for organizing races selling media rights securing sponsorships and managing hospitality logistics and support series such as Formula Two and Formula Three.
MotoGP holds the exclusive commercial rights to the FIM Grand Prix World Championship and manages race promotion media rights sponsorship hospitality logistics and support series including Moto2 Moto3 Superbike and women’s road racing championships.
Liberty Media Corporation holds a leading position in global motorsport due to its exclusive long term contracts with the governing bodies of Formula One and MotoGP which secure its rights until the early twenty second century. The company faces competition from other racing series such as NASCAR IndyCar and from broader live entertainment sectors including major sports leagues and concert promoters. Its competitive advantages stem from the global reach of its events strong brand recognition and diversified revenue streams across media rights sponsorship and hospitality.
The company’s customers consist of race promoters that host events broadcasters that televise races sponsors that seek brand exposure and fans who attend events or consume digital content. Specific broadcaster partners include beIN Sports Canal+ DAZN ESPN Sky Viaplay and SuperSport. These relationships provide the majority of its media rights revenue and help sustain its global audience.
Sector:Communication ServicesSector rationaleThe company's primary revenue is derived from the sale of media rights to broadcasters (e.g., ESPN, Sky) and the distribution of live entertainment content, which falls under the 'Film and Television' or 'Live Entertainment' industries of Communication Services. A secondary sector of Consumer Discretionary is justified because the company also generates substantial revenue from ticket sales and hospitality programs sold directly to fans for live events.Industries:Live EntertainmentLive EntertainmentPrimaryLiberty Media operates live entertainment franchises by organizing and promoting the Formula One and MotoGP World Championships. Its revenue is derived from ticket sales for fans, race promotion fees, and the operation of live sporting events.Television BroadcastingTelevision BroadcastingSecondaryThe company generates a significant portion of its revenue from the sale of media rights to broadcasters such as ESPN, Sky, and Canal+ to televise its racing championships.Classified using BQ-MICSCIK: 0001560385
Bull & bear
Investment Thesis
▲ Bull case
Liberty Media's successful completion of the Liberty Live split-off on December 15, 2025 has created a cleaner, more focused asset-backed company structure, allowing management to allocate capital exclusively to its core growth engines in Formula 1 and MotoGP without the drag of non-core assets. This streamlined structure, combined with $1.1 billion remaining in share repurchase authorization as of February 2026, provides significant flexibility to enhance shareholder value through opportunistic buybacks while simultaneously investing in high-return initiatives like the upcoming Madrid Grand Prix and manufacturer returns of Honda and Ford to F1. The split-off also eliminated the drag from Quint's underperformance, which had previously weighed on consolidated results through its volatile event-driven revenue model and seasonal earnings pattern, thereby improving the predictability and quality of Liberty Media's ongoing operations.
Formula 1's 2025 performance demonstrates robust structural growth beyond temporary event-driven benefits, with primary revenue increasing 12% year-over-year to $3,086 million driven by contractual increases across all three primary streams—race promotion (up due to fee escalators), media rights (boosted by F1 TV subscription growth and one-time movie-related revenue), and sponsorship (fueled by new partners like Apple and Standard Chartered plus digital advertising expansion). Critically, team payments as a percentage of pre-team payment Adjusted OIBDA improved from 61.5% in 2024 to 59.7% in 2025, indicating that F1's profitability is scaling more efficiently than its cost base, a trend likely to accelerate with the 2026 regulatory changes introducing next-gen cars and engines that promise closer racing and higher fan engagement, thereby strengthening long-term pricing power and sponsorship appeal.
MotoGP's acquisition is delivering faster-than-expected synergies, with Adjusted OIBDA surging 143% in Q4 2025 and 15% for the full year on a constant currency basis, despite the business only being included from the July 3, 2025 acquisition date. The sport is benefiting from Liberty's commercial expertise, evidenced by two additional races in 2025 (22 vs 20), strategic calendar shifts to major city-center venues like Adelaide (2027) and Buenos Aires, and growth in ancillary revenue streams such as VideoPass subscriptions and hospitality. Management's focus on elevating the race experience and diversifying the geography—highlighted by plans to return to Brazil and expand in existing markets—combined with favorable currency tailwinds and improving operational leverage (SG&A declining slightly year-over-year despite inflation), positions MotoGP for multi-year expansion in both attendance and monetization, particularly as Liberty applies its proven F1 playbook to a sport with similar growth characteristics but lower current penetration.
Liberty Media's balance sheet reflects a disciplined capital structure post-acquisition and split-off, with consolidated leverage improving to 3.6x as of December 31, 2025 from 3.8x the prior year, driven by $1,055 million in cash reserves and declining debt levels ($5,022 million total debt vs $5,056 million prior quarter), even after funding the $3.267 billion MotoGP acquisition. Both F1 (2.8x) and MotoGP (4.7x) operate well within their respective debt covenants, providing ample headroom for further strategic investments or shareholder returns, while the company's ability to generate $1,068 million in Adjusted OIBDA for 2025—up 38% from $774 million in 2024—demonstrates strong cash conversion capacity to support future growth initiatives without compromising financial flexibility.
Liberty Media's successful completion of the Liberty Live split-off on December 15, 2025 has created a cleaner, more focused asset-backed company structure, allowing management to allocate capital exclusively to its core growth engines in Formula 1 and MotoGP without the drag of non-core assets. This streamlined structure, combined with $1.1 billion remaining in share repurchase authorization as of February 2026, provides significant flexibility to enhance shareholder value through opportunistic buybacks while simultaneously investing in high-return initiatives like the upcoming Madrid Grand Prix and manufacturer returns of Honda and Ford to F1. The split-off also eliminated the drag from Quint's underperformance, which had previously weighed on consolidated results through its volatile event-driven revenue model and seasonal earnings pattern, thereby improving the predictability and quality of Liberty Media's ongoing operations.
Formula 1's 2025 performance demonstrates robust structural growth beyond temporary event-driven benefits, with primary revenue increasing 12% year-over-year to $3,086 million driven by contractual increases across all three primary streams—race promotion (up due to fee escalators), media rights (boosted by F1 TV subscription growth and one-time movie-related revenue), and sponsorship (fueled by new partners like Apple and Standard Chartered plus digital advertising expansion). Critically, team payments as a percentage of pre-team payment Adjusted OIBDA improved from 61.5% in 2024 to 59.7% in 2025, indicating that F1's profitability is scaling more efficiently than its cost base, a trend likely to accelerate with the 2026 regulatory changes introducing next-gen cars and engines that promise closer racing and higher fan engagement, thereby strengthening long-term pricing power and sponsorship appeal.
MotoGP's acquisition is delivering faster-than-expected synergies, with Adjusted OIBDA surging 143% in Q4 2025 and 15% for the full year on a constant currency basis, despite the business only being included from the July 3, 2025 acquisition date. The sport is benefiting from Liberty's commercial expertise, evidenced by two additional races in 2025 (22 vs 20), strategic calendar shifts to major city-center venues like Adelaide (2027) and Buenos Aires, and growth in ancillary revenue streams such as VideoPass subscriptions and hospitality. Management's focus on elevating the race experience and diversifying the geography—highlighted by plans to return to Brazil and expand in existing markets—combined with favorable currency tailwinds and improving operational leverage (SG&A declining slightly year-over-year despite inflation), positions MotoGP for multi-year expansion in both attendance and monetization, particularly as Liberty applies its proven F1 playbook to a sport with similar growth characteristics but lower current penetration.
Liberty Media's balance sheet reflects a disciplined capital structure post-acquisition and split-off, with consolidated leverage improving to 3.6x as of December 31, 2025 from 3.8x the prior year, driven by $1,055 million in cash reserves and declining debt levels ($5,022 million total debt vs $5,056 million prior quarter), even after funding the $3.267 billion MotoGP acquisition. Both F1 (2.8x) and MotoGP (4.7x) operate well within their respective debt covenants, providing ample headroom for further strategic investments or shareholder returns, while the company's ability to generate $1,068 million in Adjusted OIBDA for 2025—up 38% from $774 million in 2024—demonstrates strong cash conversion capacity to support future growth initiatives without compromising financial flexibility.
Liberty Media's dependence on Formula 1 remains dangerously concentrated, with F1 contributing 86% of consolidated Adjusted OIBDA ($946 million of $1,068 million) in 2025, leaving the company highly vulnerable to any disruption in the sport's popularity, regulatory changes, or manufacturer commitment—despite management's optimistic commentary about Honda and Ford returning to the grid, the long-term viability of hybrid power units and the cost cap framework remains untested under sustained financial pressure from teams, and any failure to deliver on promised 2026 regulatory changes could trigger fan disengagement and sponsor attrition, especially given that primary F1 revenue is heavily skewed toward media rights (31.3%) and sponsorship (21.7%), both of which are cyclical and tied to broader advertising market health.
The MotoGP acquisition, while showing strong top-line growth, carries significant integration and profitability risks that are being understated, particularly as the business continues to rely on Euro-denominated revenue (majority of income streams) while carrying substantial debt ($1,173 million in credit facilities as of December 31, 2025), resulting in a leverage ratio of 4.7x—materially higher than F1's 2.8x—and exposing Liberty to dual risks of unfavorable currency exchange rates (which already impacted constant currency growth adjustments) and rising interest costs if global monetary policy remains restrictive, especially since MotoGP's SG&A only declined 1% year-over-year despite inflationary pressures, suggesting limited operating leverage and potential for cost overruns as Liberty attempts to replicate its F1 commercial model in a sport with fundamentally different economics and lower baseline margins.
Corporate and other expenses, while showing improvement in Q4 2025 with Adjusted OIBDA turning positive at $12 million, remain a structural drag on consolidated results, with full-year Adjusted OIBDA of only $5 million versus a $17 million loss in 2024, and this improvement is largely driven by non-recurring items such as $33 million in Grand Plaza Plaza rental income and Quint's seasonal event revenue (19 events in Q4 2025), which is inherently volatile and not scalable—Quint's financials were only included through December 15, 2025 due to the Liberty Live split-off, meaning any ongoing costs or liabilities associated with its former operations could resurface as contingent obligations, and the company has not provided clear guidance on how it will sustain profitability in this segment without relying on one-time real estate gains or volatile event-based income.
Despite the $1.1 billion share repurchase authorization, Liberty Media's capital allocation priorities appear misaligned with long-term value creation, as evidenced by zero repurchases between November 2025 and January 2026 despite the authorization being in place, and the company's continued investment in speculative ventures—such as the F1 movie-related one-time revenue boost and unproven geographic expansions in MotoGP (e.g., Adelaide city-center GP in 2027)—suggests management may be prioritizing growth at all costs over capital discipline, especially given that Adjusted OIBDA growth of 38% year-over-year was driven more by acquisition integration (MotoGP) and one-time benefits than organic core business expansion, raising concerns that the current earnings momentum may not be sustainable without continued M&A or non-recurring tailwinds.
Liberty Media's dependence on Formula 1 remains dangerously concentrated, with F1 contributing 86% of consolidated Adjusted OIBDA ($946 million of $1,068 million) in 2025, leaving the company highly vulnerable to any disruption in the sport's popularity, regulatory changes, or manufacturer commitment—despite management's optimistic commentary about Honda and Ford returning to the grid, the long-term viability of hybrid power units and the cost cap framework remains untested under sustained financial pressure from teams, and any failure to deliver on promised 2026 regulatory changes could trigger fan disengagement and sponsor attrition, especially given that primary F1 revenue is heavily skewed toward media rights (31.3%) and sponsorship (21.7%), both of which are cyclical and tied to broader advertising market health.
The MotoGP acquisition, while showing strong top-line growth, carries significant integration and profitability risks that are being understated, particularly as the business continues to rely on Euro-denominated revenue (majority of income streams) while carrying substantial debt ($1,173 million in credit facilities as of December 31, 2025), resulting in a leverage ratio of 4.7x—materially higher than F1's 2.8x—and exposing Liberty to dual risks of unfavorable currency exchange rates (which already impacted constant currency growth adjustments) and rising interest costs if global monetary policy remains restrictive, especially since MotoGP's SG&A only declined 1% year-over-year despite inflationary pressures, suggesting limited operating leverage and potential for cost overruns as Liberty attempts to replicate its F1 commercial model in a sport with fundamentally different economics and lower baseline margins.
Corporate and other expenses, while showing improvement in Q4 2025 with Adjusted OIBDA turning positive at $12 million, remain a structural drag on consolidated results, with full-year Adjusted OIBDA of only $5 million versus a $17 million loss in 2024, and this improvement is largely driven by non-recurring items such as $33 million in Grand Plaza Plaza rental income and Quint's seasonal event revenue (19 events in Q4 2025), which is inherently volatile and not scalable—Quint's financials were only included through December 15, 2025 due to the Liberty Live split-off, meaning any ongoing costs or liabilities associated with its former operations could resurface as contingent obligations, and the company has not provided clear guidance on how it will sustain profitability in this segment without relying on one-time real estate gains or volatile event-based income.
Despite the $1.1 billion share repurchase authorization, Liberty Media's capital allocation priorities appear misaligned with long-term value creation, as evidenced by zero repurchases between November 2025 and January 2026 despite the authorization being in place, and the company's continued investment in speculative ventures—such as the F1 movie-related one-time revenue boost and unproven geographic expansions in MotoGP (e.g., Adelaide city-center GP in 2027)—suggests management may be prioritizing growth at all costs over capital discipline, especially given that Adjusted OIBDA growth of 38% year-over-year was driven more by acquisition integration (MotoGP) and one-time benefits than organic core business expansion, raising concerns that the current earnings momentum may not be sustainable without continued M&A or non-recurring tailwinds.