Finance

Lamar Announces $400 Million Equity Distribution Agreement

Lamar Advertising Co (NASDAQ:LAMR) announced this week in an 8-K filing that they  have entered into an equity distribution agreement involves major financial institutions, h J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC, Wells Fargo Securities LLC, Truist Securities, Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. as its sales agents. […]

Rules of Thumb for Out of Home

What simple rules of thumb do you use to manage your out of home company?  Here are some of Billboard Insider’s favorites. Out of home lease costs should be less than20% of revenues.  Lease costs may have to be higher in urban areas, but they shouldn’t exceed 20% in rural […]

Catalyst Sells Assets

Remember Catalyst Outdoor, the company headed by Thaddeus Bartkowski.  The company’s business model was to secure high profile locations for digital billboards by providing a dog park or a fountain or local park or city building to a municipality.  Things haven’t gone according to plan…  Here’s what Billboard Insider knows. […]

Public OOH Stocks Trail US Market in 2Q 2024

The public out of home stocks trailed the US market in the second quarter of 2024.  The S&P 500 grew 4%, Lamar grew 1.7%, Clear Channel Outdoor declined 14.5% and OUTFRONT declined 17.7%. Public Out of Home Stock Performance for 3 months ended June 30, 2024.  S&P 500 (black), Lamar […]

Should billboard cashflow include a digital billboard replacement reserve?

Justin Powell of Huntington Outdoor asked the following question after reading our article on Billboard Cashflow: I understand that general depreciation shouldn’t count….but how about digital display replacement costs? Those are real and significant expenses you have every 10 years or so. If you don’t include those what you might actually […]

What’s Billboard Cashflow?

A Billboard Insider Reader writes: “I have always struggled when talking to owners about selling their signs and get the comment of “My cashflow is X and I heard they are selling for 12 times cashflow!” and then trying to explain to them that its Billboard Cashflow which also has […]

SignValue on Daktronics, Inc. Record Fiscal Year

Here are highlights from Daktronics’ 4th quarter and fiscal year 2024 press release. Fiscal Q4 and full year 2024 financial highlights: Sales increased to a new record of $215.9 million for the fiscal fourth quarter, a 2.9 percent increase compared to the fiscal 2024 fourth quarter’s record revenue; full-year sales […]

Three Benefits from the OUTFRONT Canada Sale by SignValue

Yesterday OUTFRONT Media closed the sale of Canadian out of home assets to Bell Media.   Here is an analysis of the OUTFRONT Canada sale sponsored by SignValue. It makes OUTFRONT’s financials easier to understand The sale makes OUTFRONT a domestic US business.  No currency risks and easier to evaluate and […]

OUTFRONT Closes Sale of Canadian Assets to Bell Media

NEW YORK, June 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) and Bell Media Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), announced today that they have closed the sale of OUTFRONT Media’s Canadian business to Bell Media for a purchase price of C$410 million in cash, subject […]

Public OOH Companies are Deleveraging as the Cost of Debt Stabilizes

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 December 2023.  Some observations: The cost of debt has been stable at the public out of home companies, after rising […]