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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCO)

NYSE / Communication Services / Advertising Agencies

Share price

2.42 USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026

Market capitalisation

1.23B USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026
Market data
Oct 14, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 26, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
16, FY2009 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

n/a Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Why n/a

The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.

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Valuation

Price to earnings

60.50x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

2.7% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 2.68B USDFY2016 Net income: 135.1M USDFY2017 Revenue: 2.59B USDFY2017 Net income: -644.3M USDFY2018 Revenue: 2.72B USDFY2018 Net income: -218.2M USDFY2019 Revenue: 2.68B USDFY2019 Net income: -363.3M USDFY2020 Revenue: 1.85B USDFY2020 Net income: -582.7M USDFY2021 Revenue: 1.77B USDFY2021 Net income: -433.8M USDFY2022 Revenue: 1.38B USDFY2022 Net income: -96.6M USDFY2023 Revenue: 1.43B USDFY2023 Net income: -310.9M USDFY2024 Revenue: 1.51B USDFY2024 Net income: -179.3M USDFY2025 Revenue: 1.60B USDFY2025 Net income: 19.9M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
2 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 60.50x at the close of 2026-10-14 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Communication Services sector (108 companies), 60.50x sits at the 84th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 7.82x to 41.28x.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 0.79x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Distress territory" (below 1.50x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s operating margin stayed above the median of the Advertising Agencies industry, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2025, 5 fiscal years of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s operating margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (10 readings drawn from the statement lines Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (11 of sixteen figures read for Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.)

These are CCO’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, accession 0001334978-26-000010.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Return on equity
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Return on capital employed, pre-tax9.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Return on assets0.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Operating margin19.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Net margin1.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
CCO 1.2%
DLX 3.9%QNST 6.3%CMPR 2.6%MNTN -2.2%CRTO 7.4%
-2.2%7.4%
Net margin: CCO against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/m

Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Current ratio1.28 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Quick ratio1.28 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Interest coverage0.79x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Altman Z-score-1.70 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Net debt6.28B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Total assets 3.83BTotal liabilities 7.22BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity (zero or below, not drawn)
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010).

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets3.83B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Total liabilities7.22B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Shareholders' equity-3.41B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Cash190.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Total debt6.47B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026
Net debt6.28B
Current ratio1.28
Debt to equityn/m
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings60.50x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
P/E on trailing twelve months59.75x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Price to sales0.75x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Enterprise value to EBIT24.08x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Enterprise value to EBITDA15.40x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Diluted earnings per share0.04 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value CCO on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc: valuation
Share price2.42 USD
Market capitalisation1.23B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA15.40x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per share, FY20250.04 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 12.57x, median 59.38x, high 302.50x, latest 59.75x. 258 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 2,263 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

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Same industry (Advertising Agencies) and size band (Small, 300M to 2B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield2.7% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Free cash flow32.0M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Free cash flow margin2.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
FY2016 Free cash flow: 78.7M USDFY2016 Net income: 135.1M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: -64.1M USDFY2017 Net income: -644.3M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: -23.8M USDFY2018 Net income: -218.2M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: -17.9M USDFY2019 Net income: -363.3M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: -262.0M USDFY2020 Net income: -582.7M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: -281.5M USDFY2021 Net income: -433.8M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: -44.7M USDFY2022 Net income: -96.6M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: -135.3M USDFY2023 Net income: -310.9M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: -62.6M USDFY2024 Net income: -179.3M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 32.0M USDFY2025 Net income: 19.9M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
60.50xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/mFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
24.08xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
2.7%FY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2025Feb 26, 2026
n/a The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
n/aFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
n/mFY2025Feb 26, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
1.28FY2025Feb 26, 2026
0.75xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
-1.70FY2025Oct 14, 2026
-2.91FY2025Feb 26, 2026
5/9FY2025Feb 26, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2009 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 14, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20251.60B310.6M19.9M0.0432.0M19.4%n/m10-K, Feb 26, 20260001334978-26-000010
FY20241.51B279.2M-179.3M-0.37-62.6M18.6%n/m10-K, Feb 24, 20250001334978-25-000008
FY20231.43B216.8M-310.9M-0.65-135.3M15.1%n/m10-K, Feb 26, 20240001334978-24-000006
FY20221.38B255.9M-96.6M-0.20-44.7M18.5%n/m10-K, Feb 28, 20230001334978-23-000006
FY20211.77B58.8M-433.8M-0.93-281.5M3.3%n/m10-K, Feb 24, 20220001334978-22-000010
FY20201.85B-292.4M-582.7M-1.25-262.0M-15.8%n/m10-K, Feb 25, 20210001334978-21-000007
FY20192.68B252.9M-363.3M-0.88-17.9M9.4%n/m10-K, Feb 27, 20200001334978-20-000003
FY20182.72B251.8M-218.2M-0.60-23.8M9.3%n/m10-K, Mar 5, 20190001334978-19-000005
FY20172.59B232.3M-644.3M-1.78-64.1M9.0%n/m10-K, May 3, 20180001334978-18-000006
FY20162.68B631.9M135.1M0.3778.7M23.6%n/m10-K, Feb 23, 20170001334978-17-000004
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -5.5%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -19.1%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -21.9%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -9.5%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.91 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2026, 0001334978-26-000010
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta1.44 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 21 not met, 7 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Deep value; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(14)
  • Debt to Equity: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).
  • P/B Ratio: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Equity: Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price Tangible Book: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 14 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, P/B Ratio, Return on Invested Capital. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 7 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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