Tag: Craig Berry

New Billboard Development is Hot

By Chris Stark and Craig Berry, Stark Capital Solutions  Being heavily involved in both the brokerage and lending markets, Stark Capital Solutions has a unique perspective to analyze and account for certain industry trends.  The booming M&A market has been well publicized over the past 6-12 months.  However, our 2021 […]

How Much Debt is Too Much?

At the most recent Independent Billboard Operators (IBO) Conference in Pittsburgh, Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg moderated a fantastic panel discussion on industry merger and acquisition activity.  During the discussion, Dave made some comments related to his thoughts on the healthy amount of debt for a billboard company.  At Stark Capital […]

What are OOH companies borrowing for?

By Chris Stark and Craig Berry, Stark Capital Solutions With more than two-decades of industry experience, we at Stark Capital Solutions have had our fair share of questions being asked by operators all around the country interested in what other billboard companies are up to.  Most often they want to […]

The SignValue/Billboard Insider 2021 List of OOH Lenders

Out of Home financing is a specialized form of finance.  To save you the time and trouble of having to educate your lender on the ins and out of out of home here’s an alphabetical list of 51 out of home lenders prepared by SignValue and Billboard Insider.   We’ve included […]

More on Towers and Out of Home

By Craig Berry, Stark Capital Solutions Stark Capital focuses in two niche Industries: Billboards and Cell Towers.  Our two cents on the comment: “Towers are selling for 20-30 times tower cash flow, and typically getting over 20 offers per engagement” is a very accurate assessment of the current Tower M&A […]

Where Can I Find Billboards for Sale?

Where can I find billboards for sale?  This is the third most viewed Billboard Insider post. The topic remains of interest to judge from the phone calls Insider receives.  Here’s a refresh of the ways to find billboards for sale. Do-it-yourself.  This means driving around or doing the internet research […]

How OOH Lenders Are Reacting to Coronavirus

The economy and the OOH industry has had a strong run over the last ten years.  Cash flows are strong, profits are up and our values have been at all time highs. It has been good times for banks too, especially in the last two years. Their profits have been […]