Q3 2024 Liberty Media Corp Earnings Call

In This Article:

Participants

Gregory Maffei; President, Chief Executive Officer, Director; Liberty Media Corp

Brian Wendling; Principal Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer; Liberty Media Corp

Presentation

Operator

Welcome to Liberty Media Corporation 2024 for third quarter earnings call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen only mode.
Afterwards, we will conduct a question-and-answer session at that time if you have a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference will be recorded November 7th.
I would now like to turn the call over to Shane Kleinstein to Senior Vice President of Investor Relations.
Please go ahead.

Thank you, Good morning.
Before we begin, we'd like to remind everyone that this call includes certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Actual events or results could differ materially due to a number of risks seven 10 K 10 Q filed by Liberty Media Corporation with the SEC.
These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this call, and Liberty Media Corporation expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in Liberty Media Corporation expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based on today's call will discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures for Liberty Media Corporation, including adjusted EBITDA, The required definitions and reconciliation for Liberty Media Corporation Schedule one can be found at the end of the earnings press release issued today, which is available on our website.
Now I would like to turn the call over to Gregory B. Maffei, Liberty's President and CEO you're reporting today.

Gregory Maffei

Thank you and good morning, speaking on the call, we will also have or the ones President and CEO, Stefano Domenicali, and Liberty Media Corporation Chief Accounting and Principal Financial Officer, Brian J. Wendling with So let me start with a couple of corporate updates.
You may we completed the Sirius XM merger on the 9th of September. I look forward remaining involved as Board Chair and a shareholder series, but Liberty Media Corporation's ties are cut. We also announced some updates to our voting and governance of the Atlanta Braves Holdings, and we are transitioning services directly to the Atlanta Braves Holdings team.
They held their earnings call yesterday; this is the next step in their evolution as a standalone private company. And I want to thank all the Atlanta Braves Holdings management team for their partnership over the years.
It's been so for now let me turn to the underlying businesses beginning with Formula One Group and looking at it from some corporate update perspective, we refinanced the F one day.
The term loan B was refinanced its over Block 200 bps. We expect to stay down to silver plus 175 bps upon the deleveraging post the Moto GP transaction, we raise incremental $850 million term loan B and $150 million term loan A. commitments to fund that Moto GP transaction. All of that is deal content.
We also issued $949 million flock shares, replacing the equity consideration to the sellers in the transactions that will directly be id in cash.
We issued that stock at a 4% discount to the market price, and it was placed with long-term holders. A complete those transactions complete the necessary funding for a MotoGP acquisition. And we expect that leverage to be between 3.4times to 4 times, assuming a year-end close on that. But our MotoGP deal, the effluent season itself remains highly competitive. Both the constructor, some drivers' championship are coming down the final races.
We've seen also some of the incredible financial performance of former the one year to date with revenue up 15% and adjusted EBIDA up 21%.
We've seen double digit growth across all of our revenue streams, boosted by two additional races. And we benefited from new partners, signed contractual uplifts in our contracts and the performance of F1 TV at our hospitality products.
I know we signed several new commercial agreements, which will begin next year. LVMH and MX were introduced to F1 through LBGP in terms of their relationship, but now they've become broader partners with F1.
We feel that partners continue to be attractive to the growth of the sport in the U.S. and our younger demographic, which is also grow. And correspondingly, we feel good about the pipeline for commercial activity in 2026. We all look forward to the LVGP. in the coming weeks.
We expect will be another great spectacle for spend spectacle for fans attending and watching at home. We will have a free daytime fan experience, which will bring energy and welcome local Las Vegas, France to F1. and we expect great entertainment, including ludicrous Las, so in one Republic.
Now let me turn briefly and give you a Moto GP transaction update. We are making progress with the European Commission, which is our only remaining regulatory jurisdictional hurdle, and we continue to expect the year-end close.
And looking at the underlying Moto GP. business, the Valencia race was canceled due to the tragic flooding in that region. Our thoughts for the entire community, we give credit to Carmelo and the management team at Moto GP for their quick and thoughtful response.
They will pivot since the final race will be in Barcelona. It will be hosted there in solidarity with both NCO, then that will be the final race of the season. Various initiatives are also underway there to support relief efforts for over a lengthy during that weekend.
Both MotoGP racing has continued to be great with only 24 point separating the Title five participants.
Attendance is trading well with 2.9 million attendees year to date, which is plus 9% on a like-for-like basis. six races have set all-time attendance records this year. And looking at the business update, Moto GP extended its rights agreement with FIM their regulator until 2060.
They've announced their 2025 Moto GP calendar with 22 races across 18 countries and expect to release a new brand identity post season. We look forward to more exciting race thing and Liberty Media Corporation's involvement.
Turning briefly to quit.
As you may recall, Q3 is a seasonally light quarter. We've seen strong H1 experiences during the quarter, and we are also seeing positive movement across Moto GP and kind of projects that they are selling profitability. The quarter was partially by off offset by softness at different sporting goods.
And there was an agreement with a rights holder, which was subsequently terminated by mutual agreement, which impacted our third-quarter results and just touching on Live Nation.
They've had strong performance through the first half despite fewer stadium concerts. They are set up very well 2025, which will be a monster stadium. But I won't comment further on results because OIV did not released their earnings until Tuesday.
And with that, I'll turn it over to Brian for more on our financial results.