Some advice from Allison Outdoor’s Claude Dicks and Lamar Advertising’s Sean Reilly on Easements taken from In Their Words – Out of Home Executives Talk About Out of Home. Claude Dicks, Allison Outdoor My grandfather always said you can’t control sales, but you can control expenses…Our goal is to not […]
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Sean Reilly: Covid cost us 3 years of growth and we’re going to make it back in 2
At yesterday’s Morgan Stanley conference Lamar CEO Sean Reilly said that Covid cost Lamar three years worth of growth and that the company will make it back in two. Here’s a selection of his comments. What’s down? Amusement entertainment and sports runs around 8-9% of our book of business and […]
Lamar Revenues Down 7% in 4Q 2020
Lamar’s rural billboard plant is recovering fastest from Covid and the company is resuming capital expenditures and acquisitions. Here are the results of Lamar’s fourth quarter 2020 earnings release and conference call. Revenues declined by 7% to $429 million. CEO Sean Reilly said fourth quarter revenues came in better than […]
Lamar Honors African American Firsts During Black History Month
Baton Rouge, LA – February 2, 2021 – In celebration of Black History Month, Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, today announced that the company will use its national digital Out of Home network to honor and recognize African American men […]
Lamar to Pay $0.50 per Share 4Q Dividend
Lamar announced its December 2020 dividend at $0.50 per share. This equates to a dividend yield of 2.5% on Lamar’s current share price of $80. Lamar paid a $1 per share dividend prior to covid which equated to a 4-5% yield. The company cut the dividend from $1.00 prior to […]
Lamar Revenue Down 15% in Third Quarter 2020
Lamar is recovering from covid faster than OUTFRONT, Clear Channel Outdoor or JCDecaux and will aggressively deploy digital billboards in 2021. Here are the results of the Lamar 3rd quarter earnings release and conference call. Revenues declined 15% to $386 million during the third quarter of 2020. This was an […]
Sean Reilly: Time to play a little offense.
Lamar CEO Sean Reilly said Lamar will resume capital expenditures and acquisitions in an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference. On spending money again. The first thing is beginning to play a little offense…we are beginning to do that by freeing up some capexp dollars and some acquisition dollars…that’s […]
Lamar revenue down 22% in second quarter 2020
Lamar revenues declined 22% during the second quarter 2020. Revenues have improved but the company projects revenues will be down 13-14% for the full year 2020. Here are the results from Lamar’s 2Q 2020 earnings release. Revenues declined 22% to $347 during the second quarter of 2020. CEO Sean Reilly […]
Lamar Cuts Dividend in Half
Baton Rouge, LA – May 28, 2020 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, announces that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.50 per share payable on June 30, 2020, to stockholders of record of […]
The Great American Road Trip Summer
Sean Reilly predicted 2020 will be the Great American Road Trip Summer in a May 12 interview at the JP Morgan Global Technology Media and Communications Conference: This summer it’s clear to me for a variety of reasons that we’re going to see a record for miles driven…People are not […]



















