Finance

Clear Channel Outdoor – What Might Have Been Is Not What Is

  Clear Channel Outdoor stock finished at $1.66 Friday, down from $10.59 ten years ago.  Over the past decade almost everything that could go wrong did.  Bad ownership.  Bad overseas assets.  No one watching expenses.  Covid. iHeart’s looting One of the first things that you’ll notice is that revenues and […]

Lamar’s Secret Sauce

Lamar’s stock has almost doubled in the past 10 years from $54.11 at December 31, 2014 to $103.98 as of yesterday.  What’s the secret sauce?  Grow revenues and mind expenses.  Lamar’s CEO Sean Reilly says that Lamar’s acquisitions include steel, ad contracts and leases but not buildings or people.  This […]

OUTFRONT’s Lost Decade

  This ten year chart is depressing if you are an OUTFRONT investor.  OUTFRONT closed at $12.37 today down from $26.84 almost 10 years ago on December 31, 2014.   Billboard Insider reviewed 9 years of of OUTFRONT financials to answer the question why a company with such polished people and […]

Public OOH Company M&A Activity Down

Moorgate Capital Partners has compiled an interesting table showing the public OOH company M&A activity from 2019 to 2023.  Some Billboard Insider observations. Acquisitions have slowed dramatically at the public out of home companies.  They closed only $163 million in acquisitions during the first 9 months of 2023, down from […]

Moreno Led Group Buys More Clear Channel Outdoor Stock

Out of home investor Arte Moreno has purchased 14 million more shares of Clear Channel Outdoor stock according to a schedule 13D’s filed with the SEC.  As of yesterday the group owned 10.6% of Clear Channel Outdoor’s common stock with a total investment value of $76 million based on yesterdays […]

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 […]

Scott Wells Will Be Glad to See Interest Rates Fall

Clear Channel Outdoor CEO Scott Wells appeared at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit this week.  A selection of his comments. Clear Channel’s San Francisco market is showing signs of life The end of summer was not particularly robust but people are spending now. I think that the completion of the […]

CCO Execs say Iconic Boards and Airports are Strong

Clear Channel Outdoor CFO Brian Coleman and Clear Channel Outdoor Americas CFO David Sailer appeared at the Bank of America Leveraged Securities Finance Conference this week.  Some of their remarks: Clear Channel Outdoor Americas CFO David Sailer on Clear Channel Outdoor’s US business I’d say the first priority is to […]

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 […]

Out of Home Lease Taxes Decline in Florida

By Jennifer Sloane, The Law Office of Jennifer Sloane, PLC. It’s not often that we get to warn you that your tax liability is going DOWN.  Yes, that’s right … down! If you are an out of home operator in Florida and comply with the State laws requiring a tax […]