New York, NY – Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO), one of the world’s largest out of home (OOH) media providers, and Big Brothers Sisters of America (BBBSA), the preeminent one-to-one youth mentoring organization in the United States, today announced the launch of a nationwide digital out-of-home (DOOH) media campaign timed […]
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OUTFRONT WIns Lawsuit Against San Jose, CA
The San Jose Spotlight reported that Outfront Media won a lawsuit against the city of San Jose after contending that San Jose did not follow proper procedure when they bid out the construction of two digital billboards south of Highway 101 on San Jose Mineta International Airport property. That bid wws […]
Out of Home Stocks Exceed Market in 4Q 2023
Public out of home companies beat the market during the fourth quarter of 2023. OUTFRONT was up 38% on news that transit ridership is creeping up. Lamar was up 27%. Clear Channel Outdoor was up 15% with a sharp improvement after the company reaffirmed fourth quarter revenue guidance (November 8) […]
Billboard Insider’s Top 5 Stories of 2023
Here are Billboard Insider’s 5 most viewed stories during 2023. The most viewed Billboard Insider story during 2023 was our analysis of the purchase of a large block of Clear Channel Outdoor stock by an investor group which includes Artie Moreno and Verde Outdoor… Look Who Bought Clear Channel Outdoor […]
Which Out of Home Company Invests Wisely?
After reviewing Billboard Insider’s 10 year financial analysis of Lamar, OUTFRONT and Clear Channel Outdoor, out of home investment banker Jim Johnsen writes, “Thanks for interesting analysis Dave. How about looking at an ROA and an ROE statistic as well as Free cash flow per share? That would give us […]
CCO Appoints New EVP Replacing Brian Coleman, Reaffirms Guidance
David Sailer to Assume Role effective March 1, 2024 Brian Coleman to Transition to Consultant Role Focused on Strengthening Company’s Balance Sheet Company Reaffirms Guidance for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year of 2023 SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO) (the “Company”) today announced that David Sailer, currently the Executive […]
Clear Channel Outdoor – What Might Have Been Is Not What Is
Clear Channel Outdoor stock finished at $1.66 Friday, down from $10.59 ten years ago. Over the past decade almost everything that could go wrong did. Bad ownership. Bad overseas assets. No one watching expenses. Covid. iHeart’s looting One of the first things that you’ll notice is that revenues and […]
Public OOH Company M&A Activity Down
Moorgate Capital Partners has compiled an interesting table showing the public OOH company M&A activity from 2019 to 2023. Some Billboard Insider observations. Acquisitions have slowed dramatically at the public out of home companies. They closed only $163 million in acquisitions during the first 9 months of 2023, down from […]
Moreno Led Group Buys More Clear Channel Outdoor Stock
Out of home investor Arte Moreno has purchased 14 million more shares of Clear Channel Outdoor stock according to a schedule 13D’s filed with the SEC. As of yesterday the group owned 10.6% of Clear Channel Outdoor’s common stock with a total investment value of $76 million based on yesterdays […]
Debt Costs Up for Out of Home Companies
Moorgate Capital Partners has analyzed out of home leverage and cost of debt trends thru September 2023. Some chart’s in Moorgate’s report caught Billboard Insider’s eye. Weighted average debt costs have increased at the public out of home companies over the past two years although the rise has slowed during […]