Tag: Clear Channel Outdoor

3 More Things About Clear Channel Outdoor

Clear Channel Outdoor priced its 100 million share stock offering at $3.50 last Friday.  That means it will raise $400 million if underwriters exercise their shares.  Insider learned three things about Clear Channel Outdoor from the Prospectus. Billboards in the US, Street Furniture abroad. Billboards account for 61% of Americas […]

New and Noted: Hollywood Billboards, Autonomous Car Delays and Pay for Engagement

Everyone wants a billboard to promote their Emmy chances says Hollywood Reporter.  Good news for Clear Channel Outdoor, OUTFRONT Media, Ace Outdoor and the other Sunset Strip and LA operators.  Space on the Sunset Strip is now worth $75,000-150,000 for 4 weeks. Hold the Hype on autonomous cars says the […]

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 […]

New and Noted July 15, 2019

Seeking Alpha reports that Wolfe Research’s Marci Ryvicker has downgraded Clear Channel Outdoor from Outperform to Sector Perform, saying a potential asset sale “is likely to take more time than we had anticipated.” Insider’s take:  Debt/cashflow is 8.0.  A sustainable level of debt/cashflow is 4.0.  Internal cashflow growth won’t be […]

Ubimo Adds Head of Practice for OOH Solutions

Over the past few years, OOH has been the only “traditional” ad format to experience steady growth. This grow this due in part to the rise of digital OOH (DOOH) media, and in part to the advent of better audience identification and targeting tools available to the sector. The rate […]

80’s Nostalgia, Simba’s Return and the Mighty US Women’s Soccer Dynasty

By Rainbow Kirby, Clear Channel Outdoor.  Reprinted with permission from the Clear Channel Outdoor Blog. All they do is WIN, WIN, WIN. Of course, we’re referring to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. Throughout their journey in the 2019 World Cup, powerful imagery of the team clad in bright red […]

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 […]

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 […]