Paris, October 1st, 2024 – JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that its majority-owned subsidiary JCDecaux Top Media SA has acquired from its founders 70% of IMC, a leading OOH company in Central America and the number one outdoor advertising company in Costa […]
YESCO Financial Solutions provides financing for out of home companies developing new digital billboard sites. Billboard Insider talked with Tony Hull, President, YESCO Financial Solutions about out of home financing. YESCO can help with someone’s first out of home project. Independent billboard operators choose YESCO Financial Solutions because we’re fast, flexible […]
Last Friday’s Billboard Insider readers poll shows that a large majority of out of home companies use debt financing to grow. 76% Billboard Insider readers said they use debt financing to grow their out of home companies. 24% of Billboard Insider readers said they don’t use debt. To receive […]
Yesterday Billboard Insider ran an article which discusses trends in the lending markets. The lending markets are important because many out of home companies rely on debt to finance capital expenditure and acquisitions. Debt has 3 benefits: It allows you to grow faster than you can using your own funds. […]
Here are three charts which give an overview of trends in the credit markets. This is important to many out of home companies because they rely on bank financing to help fund capital expenditures and acquisitions. The first chart shows that a modest majority of lenders have been tightening their […]
Dynamic Outdoor Media , a sister company of Choice Media, has purchased the Eastern New Mexico digital billboard assets of The Pink Popsicle company. The acquisition involved two digital billboard faces and increases Dynamic Media’s plant to 252 total faces, including 22 digital faces. Ty and Shanna Jones, the owners, […]
Here’s a summary of who’s paying what out of home stock dividends,prepared and analyzed by SignValue Some observations. Lamar’s dividend yield of 4.28% is slightly above the 4.25% average dividend yield for Lamar over the past five years. OUTFRONT’s dividend yield of 6.73% is in line with the 6.77% average […]
Moorgate Capital Partners produces an outstanding quarterly report on the out of home advertising industry. Here are some charts from the report which caught Billboard Insider’s eye. Public Company M&A Activity is down. Lamar, OUTFRONT and Clear Channel Outdoor have done only $45 million in acquisitions during the first half […]
Here are excerpts from Clear Channel CEO Scott Wells comments that last week’s City 2024 Global TMT Conference, prepared and analyzed by SignValue What’s been done and what’s still to do to right-size Clear Channel Outdoor? At the beginning of 2022 we started the European part of it. Our goal […]
Here are some of OUTFRONT CEO Jeremy Male’s comments at last weeks Citi Global TMT Conference, excerpted and analyzed by SignValue. 2025 priorities: adding digitals, reducing leverage and improving efficiency A key area of focus we will continue to be…digital development…it’s probably the best deployment of capital in terms of […]
