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manquerlast Sunday at 11:06 PM1 replyview on HN

Real Madrid alone is more than $5B ? Maybe you mean to say league association is worth 5B ? That seems too high the association does not have lot of margins they pass through most of their revenue to the clubs .

The last domestic TV deal they signed recently was worth $6B for 5 seasons or so, which is what you are proposing they buy.

In enterprise value terms that $1B/year growing 6 %YoY is worth a lot more than $5B.

In contrast Cloudflare has a $2.5B revenue albeit growing much faster but also has much smaller earnings or free cash flow, I.e. money they are not spending to make their current revenue.


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hunterpayneyesterday at 12:35 AM

Here are RMs financials...https://www.realmadrid.com/en-US/news/club/latest-news/notic...

They make about $25m a year in profit. Cloudflair actually looses a small amount of money on 2.5x the revenue. However, Cloudflairs market cap is about 100x that of RM's and that's because they have a growing business, in a growing industry and can easily become profitable when needed. That's probably not possible for RM and their very pricey lineup of players.

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