Finance

Lamar Announces $150 Million Add-on Debt Offering

BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lamar Advertising Company (LAMR) announced today that it is seeking to raise approximately $150.0 million through an institutional private placement of additional 4% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Notes”) by its wholly owned subsidiary, Lamar Media Corp (“Lamar Media”). The Notes […]

Dealmakers say out of home multiples stable

Last Friday OUTFRONT CFO Matt Siegal suggested that out of home multiples are lower.  Five investment bankers tell insider that there hasn’t been a dramatic shift in multiples. Max Drachman, Kalil and Co I believe there are many executives that would agree with Matt on feeling an acquisition today would […]

Forgiveness: You Might Want To Wait

Insider has reported on  the Payroll Protection Program in which the SBA was tasked with supporting small businesses through a loan program that was ultimately funded to the tune of $659 billion.  The PPP program was due to expire at midnight on June 30 with funds remaining, but just hours […]

Who Cut What During the Second Quarter of 2020

How has COVID impacted the spending of the US public out of home companies?  Here’s Insider’s analysis. Expenses Down 26% Now is not a good time to ask for a raise.  The big three cut their expenses by a total of $284 million or 26% during the the second quarter […]

Eccleshare: We expect to be down in the low thirties third quarter.

Who would think that the management of a major public out of home company would celebrate a 35% revenue decline but COVID has changed everyone’s perspective.  Here are comments of Clear Channel Outdoor Worldwide CEO William Eccleshare and CFO Brian Coleman on last Friday’s earnings call. William Eccleshare on the […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue Down 55% in Second Quarter 2020

Better than JCDecaux but worse than OUTFRONT or Lamar or Link Media was how you could summarize Clear Channel Outdoor’s second quarter 2020. Here are the results from the second quarter 2020 earnings release. Consolidated revenue declined 55% to $315 million during the second quarter of 2020.  Americas was down […]

Link Media Revenues Down 7% in 2Q 2020

Boston Omaha, the public parent of Link Media Outdoor released second quarter 2020 financials.  Here are the results of the second quarter 2020 earnings release.  We’ve broken out Link Media’s performance below. Link Media Outdoor Performance for Second Quarter 2020 (000’s) Link Media Outdoor revenues declined 7% to $6.7 million […]

Lamar revenue down 22% in second quarter 2020

Lamar revenues declined 22% during the second quarter 2020.  Revenues have improved but the company projects revenues will be down 13-14% for the full year 2020.  Here are the results from Lamar’s 2Q 2020 earnings release. Revenues declined 22% to $347 during the second quarter of 2020.  CEO Sean Reilly […]

OUTFRONT Revenue Down 49% in 2Q 2020

OUTFRONT’s urban and transit plant had a 49% drop in revenue and cashflow during the second quarter of 2020 and CEO Jeremy Male expect third quarter revenues to be down 35-40% from the prior year.  Here are the results from the OUTFRONT earnings release, OUTFRONT investor presentation and OUTFRONT earnings call. […]