Tag: lamar

Debt Costs Up for Out of Home Companies

Moorgate Capital Partners has analyzed out of home leverage and cost of debt trends thru September 2023.  Some chart’s in Moorgate’s report caught Billboard Insider’s eye.  Weighted average debt costs have increased at the public out of home companies over the past two years although the rise has slowed during […]

Lamar Wins 7 Year St Louis Airport Contract

Baton Rouge, LA – November 30, 2023 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR) today announced the company’s airport advertising team has been awarded a 7-year contract to manage all airport advertising at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, the third largest medium-hub airport in the U.S. Lamar will completely overhaul existing […]

Rate this Ad by Wes Frick

Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is provided by […]

Public OOH Companies Trading at 12X Cashflow

Billboard Insider enjoys reading the Media Monthly report from Solomon Partners.  Here’s a snapshot from the Solomon Partners Media Monthly November 2023 report showing how the market is valuing each public out of home company as a multiple of cashflow. The public out of home companies have a median total […]

An Acceptable Hurdle Rate for OOH Projects is 15-25% Depending on Risk

A hurdle rate is the minimum acceptable return on new capital expenditures.  It is the excess cashflow (EBITDA) on a new out of home capital project divided by the incremental cost of the out of home capital project.  Two-thirds of Billboard Insider’s readers have a hurdle rate for new out […]

Bloomington Planning Commissions Stalls Amortization Vote Over Cost Concerns

BSquare Bulletin and Inside Indiana Business report that the Bloomington planning commission has shelved for the time being a proposal to amortize billboards in Bloomington.  The decision to postpone a decision was due to concern over the financial cost of having to pay just compensation.   Lamar’s attorney presented a Briefing […]

Clear Channel Stock Up, Lamar and OUTFRONT Down in 3Q 23

  Clear Channel Stock increased 14% during the third quarter of 2023 versus a 1.5% decline for the S&P 500.  An investor group which includes Artie Moreno, SunChase (e.g William Pope) and Verde (think Ernie Garcia) bought more shares of Clear Channel Outdoor during the quarter.  At 9/28/23 their investment […]

Lamar’s Digital Airport Inventory Available on Vistar’s Programmatic Platform

  Baton Rouge, LA – September 5, 2023 – Lamar Advertising, one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, today announced that the company’s digital airport advertising inventory is now available to be purchased programmatically on Vistar Media. Brands and agencies can now extend the impact of campaigns […]

Third Quarter 2023 Out of Home Dividends

Yesterday Lamar advertising declared a $1.25 quarterly dividend on Class A and B common shares.  This equates to a return of 5.46% per annum return on Lamar’s stock price of $91.58. Outfront declared a $0.30 quarterly dividend which equates to a 10.1% return on stock on a stock price of […]

Billboard Insider Readers have company cashflow margins in excess of 40%

Billboard Insider readers are an efficient bunch to judge from our poll on out of home EBIDTA cashflow margins.  Yesterday we asked readers what their company cashflow margin was.   Most of our readers work at companies with a cashflow margin (EBITDA/Revenues) in excess of 40%.  Billboard Insider suspects this is […]