Tag: Clear Channel Outdoor

Clear Channel Europe CEO on Europe Asset Sales

Clear Channel Europe CEO, Justin Cochrane was interviewed this month by The Media Leader and we wanted to share some of his insights on is impressions of Clear Channel Europe sales and the move to become a US based business. On the sale of the remaining Europe assets. “I can’t […]

SignValue’s Clear Channel Outdoor at at Glance – June 2023

SignValue has prepared the following analysis of Clear Channel Outdoor’s 2nd Quarter 2023 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 […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Revenue Down 1% in Second Quarter 2023

Airports recovering.  Billboards and northern Europe ho-hum.  Southern Europe underperforming and on the way out.  That’s how you can summarize the results of Clear Channel Outdoor’s 2Q 2023 earnings release, 2Q 2023 investor deck and conference call. Consolidated revenue declined by 1% to $637 million due to reductions in the […]

EBIDTA and Billboard Cashflow and Why You Need to Know the Difference

You’ve probably heard out of home investors, brokers and lenders talk about EBITDA and Billboard cashflow.  It’s important to know the difference. Out of home EBITDA Out of home cashflow or EBITDA is earnings before interest, depreciation, amortization and income taxes.   It’s how much cash your company generates each year […]

First Get the Facts Right…

Vader Capital published a report titled Clear Channel Outdoor: Debt is a Massive Risk.  The analyst thinks the USA out of home industry is in decline.  We’ll quote the report: According to IBISWorld, the US market size is $9.5 billion in 2022, which experienced 2.1% decline a year since 2017. I expect […]

Clear Channel integrates Radar with Data Clean Room

New York, NY – Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO), one of the world’s largest Out-of-Home (OOH) media providers, today announced new partnerships integrating its CCO RADAR® data platform with best-in-class Data Clean Room (DCR) applications and services from Aqfer, Habu, InfoSum and LiveRamp. This next-generation secure data integration revolutionizes first […]

Billboard Insider Readers have company cashflow margins in excess of 40%

Billboard Insider readers are an efficient bunch to judge from our poll on out of home EBIDTA cashflow margins.  Yesterday we asked readers what their company cashflow margin was.   Most of our readers work at companies with a cashflow margin (EBITDA/Revenues) in excess of 40%.  Billboard Insider suspects this is […]

What’s an Appropriate Cash Flow Margin for an Out of Home Company

The best way to measure your out of home company’s efficiency is by its cash flow margin (e.g. EBIDTA/Revenues).  EBIDTA is earnings before interest, depreciation, income taxes and amortization.  It represents what you’ve generated in cash from operations before you pay the bank or shareholders.  You add back non-cash charges […]

Clear Channel Outperforms Market During Second Quarter 2023

Clear Channel outperformed the stock market for the second quarter of 2023 while Lamar and OUTFRONT lagged the market. Stock performance for Lamar (green), OUTFRONT (purple), Clear Channel Outdoor (blue) and the S&P 500 (black) for the 3 months ended June 30, 2023   Clear Channel Outdoor increased 14.2% during […]