Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:LYV) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 2, 2023 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Amy Yong - Head, Investor Relations

Michael Rapino - President and CEO

Joe Berchtold - President and CFO

Conference Call Participants

Brandon Ross - LightShed Partners

Stephen Laszczyk - Goldman Sachs

David Karnovsky - JPMorgan

Ashton Welles - Evercore ISI

David Joyce - Seaport Research

Operator

Good afternoon. My name is John, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Live Nation’s Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Call.

And I would now like to turn the call over to Amy Yong, Head of Investor Relations. You may begin your conference.

Amy Yong

Good afternoon. And welcome to the Live Nation third quarter 2023 earnings conference call. Joining us today is our President and CEO, Michael Rapino; and our President and CFO, Joe Berchtold. We will start with prepared remarks from Michael and then we will take your questions.

Before we begin, we would like to remind you that this afternoon’s call will contain certain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including statements related to the company’s anticipated financial performance, business prospects, new developments and similar matters.

Please refer to Live Nation’s SEC filings, including the risk factors and cautionary statements included in our most recent filings on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K for a description of risks and uncertainties that could impact the actual results.

Live Nation will also refer to some non-GAAP measures on this call. In accordance with the SEC Regulation G, Live Nation have provided definitions of these measures and a full reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measures in the earnings release or website supplement, which also contains other financial or statistical information to be discussed on this call. The release reconciliation and website supplement can be found under the Financial Information section on Live Nation’s website.

And with that, I will now turn it over to our President and CEO, Michael Rapino.

Michael Rapino

Thank you for joining us. As you can see from our results, the structural tailwinds behind our business are accelerating faster than ever and as a fan demand truly globalizes and artist were able throw more broadly than ever, this is still in an unprecedented global desire for concerts. This is happening at all levels with both casual and diehard fans and from small clubs to massive stadium events.