Media and Entertainment Stocks

About Media and Entertainment Stocks

Streaming broke the economics of this group and the market has not forgiven it. The old arrangement was a cable bundle paying reliable fees for content. The new one demands enormous content spending to win subscribers who cancel the month the show ends. Most of the traditional media complex de-rated hard and has not come back.

The exceptions are worth separating out. Live entertainment cannot be streamed away, so concert promoters, venues and sports rights have held their value far better than the studios have. And owning content beats distributing it, because a library keeps earning while a distribution deal has to be renegotiated on somebody else's terms.

Content accounting is the trap here. Production costs are capitalized and written off over years, so reported profit and cash actually leaving the building can disagree for a very long time. Anyone valuing these off earnings without looking at cash flow is reading a number the accounting policy chose.

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