Finance

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 […]

Out of Home Advertising Values June 2019

Insider was asked about Out of Home values.   Insider has seen average values of 4-6 times billboard revenue and 8-14 times billboard cashflow during a 30 year career lending to Out of Home. The three US public Out of Home advertising companies had a mean gross value of  5.1 times […]

Outfront tops S&P 500 in 2Q 2019

Outfront grew nearly twice as fast as the S&P 500 during the second quarter of 2019 due to strong revenue growth.   Outfront stock (purple) was up 8%, Lamar (green) was flat, Clear Channel Outdoor (blue) was down 12% which the S&P 500 (black) grew 3% during the second quarter. The […]

Becker Boards Buys Relay Outdoor Assets

  Becker Boards has purchased certain assets of Relay Outdoor.  Becker owns a billboard plant in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco.  Insider talked with Mark Becker about the transaction. What assets were involved? Nine sign structures on seven sites with 18 faces primarily in the northwest part of […]

Max Drachman on What Buyers Want

Insider talked with Kalil and Co Broker Max Drachman about what out of home buyers want on last week’s Billboard Insider podcast.  Here’s the exchange. Are buyers focusing on leases, growth opportunities in the market and digital sign potential? The hottest item today is market share.  Buyers aren’t interested…in somebody […]

Max Drachman says the deal market is “incredibly strong.”

The out of home deal market is “incredibly strong” says out of home investment banker Max Drachman on this week’s Billboard Insider podcast.  Max has more than 10 years experience in out of home dealmaking with Kalil & Co. Here are some highlights. Your firm Kalil is also a large […]

Out of Home Lenders and Investors at the 2019 OAAA

Insider counted 4 bankers, 2 equity investors and 5 investment bankers at the 2019 OAAA show.  Here’s a list of who attended and in what capacity.  Keep this in mind the next time you’re searching for money or need an investment banker.     [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement