Tag: outfront

OUTFRONT Revenues up 4% in 2Q 2023

OUTFRONT, like Lamar, revised down revenue guidance on yesterday’s conference call.  Here are the results of the OUTFRONT 2Q 2023 earnings release, 2Q 2023 earnings deck and conference call. Revenue increased by 4% to $468 million during the second quarter of 2023.  The company’s US media billboard yield increased by […]

Place Exchange Partners with OUTFRONT in Canada

Toronto, Canada (Aug 1, 2023) — Place Exchange, the leading SSP for programmatic out-of-home (OOH) media, today announced its integration with OUTFRONT Media in Canada, the latest company to join the list of Place Exchange Canadian partners that make up its vast supply footprint in the country. OUTFRONT Media operates […]

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 […]

Who’s Who at the Public Company Out of Home Boards

Here’s a listing of the members of the non-executive Board of Directors for OUTFRONT, Clear Channel and Lamar.   Five observations: In a pattern which mimics exec pay, OUTFRONT pays board members more than Lamar.  Can someone explain why?  One could make the case that Lamar board members deserve the […]

Who Makes What at the Public Out of Home Companies

Here’s Billboard Insider’s list of who makes what at the public out of home companies.  We computed the list based on total compensation in each company’s 2022 14A proxy statement. Three observations: Everyone except Reilly and Wells is down All the execs except Sean Reilly and Scott Wells had pay […]

Circle Graphics Produces Huge OUTFRONT Dallas Wall Vinyl

Billboard Insider was impressed by a 12,700 square foot vinyl wall project which Circle Graphics executed on behalf of OUTFRONT Dallas.  We talked with Trend Mullet, VP of Operations at Circle Graphics Ohio factory to learn more about the project. Circle Graphics recently printed a giant Dallas wall vinyl with […]

Jeremy Male: We think there’s less activity this year in terms of tuck-ins

Some of the highlights from OUTFRONT CEO Jeremy Male’s talk at the 51st Annual JP Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference last week. What’s up and what’s down Travel was certainly right up there as was legal as well as auto. Health was strong also in Q1. When you […]