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 […]
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 […]
OUTFRONT CFO Matt Siegel spoke at Oppenheimer’s 26th annual tech, internet and communications conference last week. Some of the highlights. OUTFRONT’s business We have a major presence in large cities focusing heavily on New York Los Angeles and growing Miami. In transit we have operations and trains commuter rail buses […]
OUTFRONT, like Lamar, revised down revenue guidance on yesterday’s conference call. Here are the results of the OUTFRONT 2Q 2023 earnings release, 2Q 2023 earnings deck and conference call. Revenue increased by 4% to $468 million during the second quarter of 2023. The company’s US media billboard yield increased by […]
Toronto, Canada (Aug 1, 2023) — Place Exchange, the leading SSP for programmatic out-of-home (OOH) media, today announced its integration with OUTFRONT Media in Canada, the latest company to join the list of Place Exchange Canadian partners that make up its vast supply footprint in the country. OUTFRONT Media operates […]
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 […]
The best way to measure your out of home company’s efficiency is by its cash flow margin (e.g. EBIDTA/Revenues). EBIDTA is earnings before interest, depreciation, income taxes and amortization. It represents what you’ve generated in cash from operations before you pay the bank or shareholders. You add back non-cash charges […]
Clear Channel outperformed the stock market for the second quarter of 2023 while Lamar and OUTFRONT lagged the market. Stock performance for Lamar (green), OUTFRONT (purple), Clear Channel Outdoor (blue) and the S&P 500 (black) for the 3 months ended June 30, 2023 Clear Channel Outdoor increased 14.2% during […]
Here’s a listing of the members of the non-executive Board of Directors for OUTFRONT, Clear Channel and Lamar. Five observations: In a pattern which mimics exec pay, OUTFRONT pays board members more than Lamar. Can someone explain why? One could make the case that Lamar board members deserve the […]
Here’s Billboard Insider’s list of who makes what at the public out of home companies. We computed the list based on total compensation in each company’s 2022 14A proxy statement. Three observations: Everyone except Reilly and Wells is down All the execs except Sean Reilly and Scott Wells had pay […]
