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Paramount Global (PARA)

NASDAQ / Communication Services / Entertainment

Share price

0.52 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

1.7M USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2024, filed Feb 26, 2025
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
9, FY2016 to FY2024
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

-17.0% Computed

From the FY2024 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

n/m Computed

FY2024 accounts, priced at the latest close

Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

n/m Computed

FY2024 accounts, priced at the latest close

Why n/m

Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 13.17B USDFY2016 Net income: 1.26B USDFY2017 Revenue: 13.69B USDFY2017 Net income: 2.32B USDFY2018 Revenue: 26.43B USDFY2018 Net income: 3.46B USDFY2019 Revenue: 27.00B USDFY2019 Net income: 3.31B USDFY2020 Revenue: 25.29B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.42B USDFY2021 Revenue: 28.59B USDFY2021 Net income: 4.54B USDFY2022 Revenue: 30.15B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.10B USDFY2023 Revenue: 29.65B USDFY2023 Net income: -608.0M USDFY2024 Revenue: 29.21B USDFY2024 Net income: -6.19B USD
Revenue Net income9 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
0 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it good

Return on invested capital was -17.0% in FY2024, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of capital" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns below the usual cost of the capital employed.

Today, against the Communication Services sector (85 companies), -17.0% sits at the 11th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -2.0% to 8.8%.

Is it safe

Debt to equity was 0.97 in FY2024, in the band labelled "Within Graham's industrial limit" (0.50 to 1.00), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria.

Today, against the Communication Services sector (112 companies), 0.97 sits at the 55th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 0.23 to 2.14.

Year by year against peers
Whether Paramount Global's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Communication Services sector, year by year. (FY2020 to FY2024, 5 fiscal years of Paramount Global with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Paramount Global's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2024, 9 filed years of Paramount Global)
What could explain it
What in Paramount Global's filed statements could explain the movements. (7 readings drawn from the statement lines Paramount Global filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Paramount Global, and where in its filings. (3 questions for Paramount Global)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Paramount Global's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (10 of sixteen figures read for Paramount Global)

These are PARA’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 FY2024 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, accession 0000813828-25-000005.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

Paramount Global: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax-17.0% ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Return on equity-37.9% ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Return on capital employed, pre-tax-14.4% ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Return on assets-13.4% ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
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 ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Operating margin-18.0% ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Net margin-21.2% ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
PARA -21.2%
NIPG -14.9%TOON -62.3%VIDA -478.3%DLPN -5.5%ANGH -81.4%
-478.3%-5.5%
Net margin: PARA 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

Paramount Global: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.97 ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Current ratio1.30 ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Quick ratio1.30 ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Interest coverage
Why n/m

Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).

n/m ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Altman Z-score0.56 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Net debt13.17B ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Total assets 46.17BTotal liabilities 29.39BShareholders' equity 16.32BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Paramount Global owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2024, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005).

Paramount Global: balance sheet position
Total assets46.17B FiledFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025
Total liabilities29.39B FiledFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025
Shareholders' equity16.32B FiledFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025
Cash2.66B FiledFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025
Total debt15.83B FiledFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025
Net debt13.17B
Current ratio1.30
Debt to equity0.97
  • Interest cover: FY2024: Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (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

Paramount Global: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
P/E on trailing twelve months0.01x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book
Why n/a

A stored zero the filing does not prove, withheld rather than published as if it were a measurement.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Price to sales
Why n/a

A stored zero the filing does not prove, withheld rather than published as if it were a measurement.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

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

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/m

EBITDA is zero or negative, so a multiple of it is not meaningful.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Diluted earnings per share-1868.00 USD FiledFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Graham number
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value PARA 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 Paramount Global today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Paramount Global: valuation
Share price0.52 USD
Market capitalisation1.7M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/m
Graham numbern/m
Diluted earnings per share, FY2024-1868.00 USD

Diluted earnings per share, FY2024: -9.34 as filed, -1868.00 after the 1-for-10 split on 8 Jul 2025 and the 1-for-20 split on 8 May 2026.

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 7, 2017: low 0.00x, median 0.00x, high 323.99x, latest 0.01x. 1,652 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 659 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.

Companies like Paramount Global

  1. NIP Group Inc. (NIPG)Market cap 6.8M USD
  2. Kartoon Studios Inc. (TOON)Market cap 33.6M USD
  3. Vidaroo Corp (VIDA)Market cap 23.0M USD
  4. Dolphin Entertainment, Inc. (DLPN)Market cap 13.0M USD
  5. Anghami Inc. (ANGH)Market cap 29.6M USD

Same industry (Entertainment) and size band (Nano, under 50M), 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

Paramount Global: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield
Why n/m

Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Free cash flow489.0M USD ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Free cash flow margin1.7% ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Dividend yield
Why n/a

The newest cash flow statement on file ended more than fifteen months ago, so it says nothing about today's yield.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Payout ratio
Why n/a

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

n/a ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
FY2016 Free cash flow: 1.49B USDFY2016 Net income: 1.26B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 2.08B USDFY2017 Net income: 2.32B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 3.12B USDFY2018 Net income: 3.46B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 885.0M USDFY2019 Net income: 3.31B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 1.97B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.42B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 599.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 4.54B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: -139.0M USDFY2022 Net income: 1.10B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 147.0M USDFY2023 Net income: -608.0M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 489.0M USDFY2024 Net income: -6.19B 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.

Paramount Global: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
n/mFY2024Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
n/aFY2024Oct 15, 2026
n/a A stored zero the filing does not prove, withheld rather than published as if it were a measurement.
n/aFY2024Oct 15, 2026
n/a Operating profit is zero or negative, so there is no profit for a buyer's price to be a multiple of.
n/mFY2024Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
-17.0%FY2024Feb 26, 2025
n/aFY2024Oct 15, 2026
n/a The newest cash flow statement on file ended more than fifteen months ago, so it says nothing about today's yield.
0.97FY2024Feb 26, 2025
1.30FY2024Feb 26, 2025
n/aFY2024Oct 15, 2026
n/a A stored zero the filing does not prove, withheld rather than published as if it were a measurement.
n/mFY2024Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
0.56FY2024Oct 15, 2026
-2.64FY2024Feb 26, 2025
3/9FY2024Feb 26, 2025

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2024, the newest full year on file. 9 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2024, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 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

9 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2024, read from the annual reports Paramount Global filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Paramount Global: 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
FY202429.21B-5.27B-6.19B-1868.00489.0M-18.0%-37.9%10-K, Feb 26, 20250000813828-25-000005
FY202329.65B-451.0M-608.0M-204.00147.0M-1.5%-2.7%10-K, Feb 28, 20240000813828-24-000007
FY202230.15B2.34B1.10B322.00-139.0M7.8%4.8%10-K, Feb 16, 20230000813828-23-000005
FY202128.59B6.30B4.54B69400.00599.0M22.0%20.3%10-K, Feb 15, 20220000813828-22-000005
FY202025.29B4.14B2.42B39200.001.97B16.4%15.8%10-K, Feb 24, 20210000813828-21-000005
FY201927.00B4.15B3.31B53600.00885.0M15.4%25.1%10-K, Feb 20, 20200000813828-20-000013
FY201826.43B5.06B3.46B55600.003.12B19.2%33.1%10-K, Feb 15, 20190000813828-19-000006
FY201713.69B5.34B2.32B35900.002.08B39.0%117.3%10-K, Feb 20, 20180000813828-18-000018
FY201613.17B2.90B1.26B28100.001.49B22.0%34.2%10-K, Feb 17, 20170000813828-17-000005
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2024: 10.5%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2016 and 2024, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2016 and 2024, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2024: -13.0%

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

Paramount Global: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.64 ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Piotroski F-score3/9 ComputedFY2024 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025, 0000813828-25-000005
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta0.07 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 23 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
None of the named tests.
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC
Not measured
High yield, low payout; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(13)
  • P/B Ratio: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.
  • P/E Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • PEG Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • 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.
  • EV/EBITDA: EBITDA is zero or negative, so a multiple of it is not meaningful.
  • Interest Coverage: Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).
  • Dividend Yield: The newest cash flow statement on file ended more than fifteen months ago, so it says nothing about today's yield.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • P/S Ratio: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.
  • Dividend Streak: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.

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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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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

A thesis is your reason for owning it, in your words, with the figures that must stay true. Checking those figures every night against the newest filed accounts, and telling you once when one breaks, is what the subscription adds.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 13 figures could not be read on this company, among them P/B Ratio, P/E Ratio, EV/EBIT. 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.
  • We hold 9 filed fiscal years rather than 10, so the run above is shorter than a full decade and is counted as what it is.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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