secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     LIVE VENTURES Inc (LIVE)
CIK:        0001045742
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-02-12T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-007547
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Live Ventures Q1 revenue down 2.7% to $108.5M; operating income up 353% to $3.5M
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- Net loss of $0.1M ($0.02 EPS) vs net income of $0.5M ($0.16 EPS) prior year; prior year had $3.5M non-recurring gains.
- Adjusted EBITDA rose 35.7% to $7.8M from $5.7M; gross margin improved 90 bps to 32.6%.
- Retail-Flooring revenue fell 20.2% to $25.3M; operating loss widened to $3.7M from $2.2M on store closures and housing softness.
- Steel Manufacturing completed $47M refinancing; segment revenue down 4.3% but operating income up 34.8% to $1.6M.
- Flooring Manufacturing operating income surged 257% to $2.3M; Retail-Entertainment segment revenue up 11% to $23.6M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000162828026007547/0001628280-26-007547-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045742/000162828026007547/live-20260212.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-007547

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