“We’ve done very well in an industry that has a tailwind behind it” was how Jeremy Male prefaced his comments at the Citibank Global TMT West Conference yesterday. Some other comments. On Digital Signs We’re converting pretty much every opportunity we can develop. We’re looking to get a minimal IRR […]
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Red Star Outdoor Acquires 8 Total Outdoor Faces in Chicago
Red Star Outdoor, the iconic Chicago Out-of–Home Company, today announced the acquisition of select assets from Total Outdoor in Chicago, further cementing their dominance as the Independent Outdoor leader in the DMA, further cementing their dominance as the Independent Outdoor leader in the DMA. Red Star is known for controlling […]
Clear Channel Outdoor and Lamar Outperform Market for Fourth Quarter of 2019.
What can we say about out of home stocks? The last quarter belonged to Clear Channel Outdoor. The last year belonged to OUTFRONT. The last five years belonged to Lamar. Here’s the data. Last quarter (3 months ended December 31, 2019) Clear Channel Outdoor up 15%. Lamar up 10%. The […]
Standard Outdoor For Sale?
Last week Standard Outdoor, a subsidiary of Standard Diversified, purchased the remaining Fairway Outdoor assets. Looks to Insider like Standard Outdoor itself is for sale. This paragraph is tucked into a November 18, 2019 Standard Diversified press release announcing a merger and reorganization. Emphasis ours. Prior to the consummation of […]
Fairway Closes Sale of Remaining Assets to Standard Diversified
Fairway Outdoor has closed on the sale of its remaining markets in Kentucky and the Southeastern United States (Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana) to Standard Outdoor. The transaction is estimated at $40-45 million for approx 2,600 bulletins, 750 posters and 30 digitals. The sale marks private equity firm GTCR’s exit from […]
Clear Channel Reviewing Sale of China Operations
On Friday Clear Channel Outdoor announced that it was “conducting a preliminary strategic review” of its 50.9% state in Clear Media, the Chinese out of home company. That’s investment banker speak for “let’s look into selling our Chinese operations.” Clear Media Business Clear Media operates a bus shelter advertising network […]
US Out of Home Revenues Outpace Economy Again
US Out of home revenues have outpaced the US economy for four straight quarters as you can see in the chart below. In the third quarter of 2019 out of home revenues grew almost twice as fast as the US economy. What accounts for the increase? A transfer of ad […]
Landmark Shifting Away from Site Acquisitions
Landmark has shifted from lease and easement purchases to higher return, higher growth development initiatives. Here are the results from the third quarter 2019 earnings release and earnings call. Revenue declined by by $3.1 million (17%) to $14.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2019 due to the […]
Senior Debt at OUTFRONT, Lamar, Clear Channel and Link Media
This week OUTFRONT Media issued $500 million of 4.625% senior notes to retire $450 million of 5.875% notes. Insider thought you might want to see how this note issue stacks up with the senior debt of the other public out of home companies. As you can see from the debt […]
OUTFRONT Announces Pricing Of Senior Notes Offering
OUTFRONT announced this week that two of its wholly-owned subsidiaries priced a private offering of $500.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 4.625% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “notes”). The notes are to be sold at an issue price of 100.0% of the principal amount. The offering is expected to […]