Finance

Lamar Increases Quarterly Dividend

BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, announces that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.40 per share payable on September 30, 2024 to stockholders of […]

Looking Ahead With Stark Capital

Insider is listening on Friday morning to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell give his strongest signal yet that interest-rate cuts are coming soon, saying the central bank intends to act to stave off a further weakening of the U.S. labor market.  Of course, the overall economy is important, but the […]

Debt costs stable and leverage declining for public OOH companies

Here are two tables, prepared by Moorgate Capital Partners, which calculate the weighted average cost of debt and leverage (net debt/adjusted cashflow) for the public out of home companies as of June 2024.  Some observations: Debt costs were stable at the three public OOH companies during the second quarter of 2024. […]

SignValue’s Lamar Advertising at a Glance – 2024 Q2 Overview

SignValue has prepared the following analysis of Lamar Advertising’s 2nd quarter 2024 financials.   If you have questions contact Paul Wright, CEO, SignValue, paul@signvalue.com, 480-657-8400.   To receive a free morning newsletter with each day’s Billboard insider articles email info@billboardinsider.com with the word “Subscribe” in the title.  Our newsletter is free and […]

Verde Outdoor Media Buys Great Outdoor Advertising

TEMPE, AZ (Aug. 19, 2024) Verde Outdoor Media (VOM), a leading outdoor and online advertising company, announced today the acquisition of Great Outdoor Advertising (GOA), an independent out-of-home operator in the Northeast. This strategic expansion increases VOM’s portfolio to over 1,600 billboard faces across 10 states, further strengthening its network […]

The Current M&A Market Presents Opportunities

A midwest out of home executive reminds Billboard Insider that there are opportunities in the current M&A market. I read your article about M&A and I think it has slowed down, but I have looked at a few deals this year and because the bigger guys aren’t as active, and […]

The out of home M&A market is quiet.

Anybody else noticed how quiet the OOH M&A market is?  Billboard Insider has noticed a slowdown in new tombstones and purchase announcements.  The slowdown has two causes. High interest rates. The prime rate has almost tripled since 2020 from 3.25% in March 2020 to 8.5% today.   Look what the […]

Link Media Revenues up 5.5% in 2nd Qtr 2024

Boston Omaha released 2Q 2024 financials yesterday.  Here are the financial results for Link Media Outdoor, Boston Omaha’s wholly owned out of home advertising subsidiary, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue. Revenue increased 5.5% to $11.3 million for 2Q 2024 (3 months ended June 30, 2024) due to an improvement in […]

Inflation and Out of Home

You need to keep track of inflation when you are negotiate ad contract renewals and out of home leases. Inflation is averaging 3.25% per year for the first 6 months of 2024.  If you are not getting annual ad contract rate increases of at least 3% your margins will start […]

Lamar Revenues Up 4.5% in 2Q 2024

Lamar’s CEO Sean Reilly summarized the second quarter as follows: “The trends that we observed in Q1 held in Q2 strong demand from local and regional advertisers more than offset softness in some national customers allowing us to deliver solid consolidated revenue growth.”  Here are the results of Lamar’s 2Q […]