Finance

Link Media Revenue up with Acquisitions

Boston Omaha reported second quarter 2019 earnings.  Here are the results from the company’s Link Media Holdings out of home subsidiary.  Link Media CEO Jim McLaughlin tells Insider: “Link is performing well on all inventory, but especially the Link legacy inventory (pre Tammy Lynn, Key and Waitt), where revenue increases […]

Landmark US Out of Home Acquisitions Slow in 2019

Landmark Infrastructure Partners LP reported financial results for the second quarter of 2019.  Here’s an update on Landmark’s out of home portfolio. Revenues and Net income from Outdoor Advertising totaled $5.2 million and $4.0 million respectively for the three months ended June 30, 2019.  Out of home revenues accounted for […]

Lamar Revenues up 6.9% in 2Q 2019

Lamar had a nice quarter although revenue growth lagged Outfront and Clear Channel.  Here are the results of the second quarter 2019 earnings release and conference call. Net revenue increased 6.9% to $449 million during the second quarter of 2019.  Acquisition adjusted net revenue increased 2.4%.  Local revenue was up […]

Outfront Revenues Up 14.5% in 2Q 2019

Outfront had a great financial quarter.  Here are the results of the earnings release, conference call and earnings deck. Revenues increased 14.5% to $460 million during the second quarter of 2019 due to growth in digital revenues and billboard yields.  National revenue were up 20%, local revenues up 10%. US […]

SignValue’s Paul Wright on Out of Home Brokerage Fees

Insider wrote about out of home brokerage fees yesterday.   SignValue’s Paul Wright had comments on the article. In response to your article on brokerage fees, I just wanted to share our policy/experience. Fee Amount You’re about right on brokerage fees. We sometimes charge less than 1% on large deals and fees […]

Clear Channel Execs on US Growth, Divestitures and the Equity Issue

There were lots of questions on yesterday’s Clear Channel Outdoor conference call.  Here are some of the more interesting comments. Clear Channel Outdoor America CEO Scott Wells dissects 9% US growth We really saw growth across all channels and all product lines.  It was a balanced growth quarter.  We saw […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Americas Revenue Up 9%

Clear Channel Outdoor’s strong second quarter in the US was hurt by weak results overseas.  Here are the highlights from the company’s second quarter earnings release and conference call. Consolidated revenue increased by 1.1% to $719 million during the second quarter of 2019 when adjusted for FX movements.  A 9.1% […]

Insider’s Thoughts On Clear Channel’s Stock Offering

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. announced this week plans for underwriting a public offering of 100 million shares of their common stock.  After reviewing the prospectus, Insider thought it would be worthwhile to pass along some thoughts. Use of Proceeds Insider has written about CCO’s high leverage.  The good news […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Announces Proposed Stock Offering

SAN ANTONIO, July 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCO) (“Clear Channel Outdoor”), one of the world’s largest outdoor advertising companies, today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) of its common stock.  Clear Channel Outdoor is proposing to sell 100 million shares of common stock […]

PJ Solomon on Out of Home Values based on 2019 estimated cashflow

Yesterday, PJ Solomon published a calculation of the value of the public out of home companies as a multiple of estimated 2019 cashflow. The public out of home companies are trading at 11 times 2019 estimated cashflow. Focus Media (a chinese out of home company which trades on the Shenzhen […]