Insider wrote about out of home brokerage fees yesterday. SignValue’s Paul Wright had comments on the article. In response to your article on brokerage fees, I just wanted to share our policy/experience. Fee Amount You’re about right on brokerage fees. We sometimes charge less than 1% on large deals and fees […]
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 […]
Becker Boards has purchased certain assets of Relay Outdoor. Becker owns a billboard plant in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco. Insider talked with Mark Becker about the transaction. What assets were involved? Nine sign structures on seven sites with 18 faces primarily in the northwest part of […]
Few banks understand the market for small out of home loans. Metro Phoenix bank is changing that with a strategy which is targeting $1-10 million out of home loans nationwide. Metro Phoenix bank is a member of the OAAA. Insider talked with Metro Phoenix founder and CEO Steve Haggard about […]
Signvalue co-founder Paul Wright talked about Landmark, Outfront, Clear Channel and Link on this week’s Billboard Insider Podcast Landmark I think that they represent a threat to the industry but not as big a threat as I initially thought…They’re really looking for long term leases that have solid revenue streams…They […]
Paul Wright of Signvalue makes three predictions for out of home in 2019. We anticipate the out of home industry to become more closely integrated with technology. In addition to operational efficiencies like upgrading lighting to LED, adding sensors, digital displays and dabbling in programmatic buying, we expect to see […]
Last Friday Insider posted on Billboard Cashflow and how it differs from EBIDTA. Valuation Expert Paul Wright of Signvalue points out the limits of using Billboard Cashflow for valuation with these comments on last friday’s post: This is a great discussion of the term Billboard Cash Flow and why most banks […]
Most of you may have noticed a number of acquisition related articles recently on our Insider web site. As a thought experiment we started listing them for the year. This is the list we created with links to the articles, and we stopped after we had only gone back as […]
Lots of comments on last Friday’s Billboards Are Not Passive Income post. Insider made the point that there’s nothing passive about the billboard business and if you want to make lots of money with little effort you should do something else. Here’s a selection. Paul Wright, Sign Value We occasionally […]
Insider was aware that Steve & Sue Sullins, owners of X-Mark Outdoor in Corsicana TX and long time friends of the industry, were looking for a buyer for their billboard plant. That sale was recently finalized and we had a chance to talk with Steve about the transaction and his […]
