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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. CCO

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.6B
▲ 6.6% YoY
$19.9M
$32.0M

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings offers out-of-home advertising across high-traffic public spaces, through a portfolio of assets that includes roadside billboards, street furniture and airport displays. As of December 31, 2025, it had operations in 81 Designated Market Areas, including 43 of the top 50 U.S. markets. As of December 31, 2025, it employed approximately 1,900 people, with approximately 1,700 in the U.S. and the remainder primarily in Spain. It operates two reportable business segments: America, which includes its U.S. roadside billboard and street furniture operations, and Airports, which includes its U.S. and Caribbean airport advertising operations. As of December 31, 2025, its America segment operated more than 48,200 displays across 28 U.S. DMAs, primarily concentrated in larger markets. As of December 31, 2025, its Airports segment operated 12,782 displays, including 2,583 digital displays.

Written from the business description in CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.6 · Net income 0.0
1.5B3.0B-0.4B-0.8B
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
+5.1%
−2.9%
−5.4%
−3.6%
−89.3%
+11.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −2.9% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

2 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 19.4% · Net 1.5%
10%20%-10%-20%-30%
200920172025
ROE
FY2013 · ROE -16.0%
-10%-20%-30%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on equityNot applicable: equity was zero or negative in this period, so return on equity has no meaning.
Gross margin53.4%
Operating margin19.4%
Net margin1.5%
EBITDAUSD 485.6M

Return on equity has no reading this year — return on capital employed, just below, still does: 9%.

Cash & shareholders

·
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 32.0
150M300M-100M-200M
200920172025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2020 · Dividends 0.0 · Net buybacks ·
1B2B
201020122014201620182020
Dividends paid·
Net buybacks·
Share of profit·
Consecutive raises·

Total assetsUSD 3.8B
CashUSD 190.0M
Gross debtUSD 5.1B
Net debtUSD 4.9B
Current ratio1.28×

Equity was zero or negative — liabilities equaled or exceeded assets. No ratio is shown.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

The share count changed between 2015 and 2019, but the exact year can't be marked here — the underlying count wasn't on file for every year in that stretch.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
CCO, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B1.61.51.41.41.81.92.72.72.62.72.83.02.92.93.02.82.7
Operating income $B0.30.30.20.30.1−0.30.30.30.20.60.30.30.30.30.30.2−0.8
EBITDA $B0.50.50.40.40.3−0.00.60.60.61.00.60.70.70.70.70.6−0.4
Income tax $B0.0−0.0−0.0−0.1−0.0−0.10.10.0−0.30.10.0−0.00.0−0.10.00.0−0.1
Net income $B0.0−0.2−0.3−0.1−0.4−0.6−0.4−0.2−0.60.1−0.1−0.0−0.0−0.20.0−0.1−0.9
Free cash flow $B0.0−0.1−0.1−0.0−0.3−0.3−0.0−0.0−0.10.10.10.10.20.10.20.30.3
EPS, diluted $0.04−0.37−0.65−0.20−0.93−1.25−0.88−0.60−1.780.37−0.27−0.03−0.14−0.540.11−0.26−2.46
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.08◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %—————−0−0−14−52559−0−1825−413−11850−0—
ROE %————————————−16.0−11.51.6−3.2−31.4
Shares out B◌◌◌◌◌◌0.01◌◌◌0.32◌◌◌0.320.32◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures · 1 divergence in 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. 1 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures1 divergent
ActivityServices-Advertising
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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