Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (CCO)

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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 12 warning events of 4 kinds: a bankruptcy or receivership notice (8-K item 1.03, the latest 2018-03-15); a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, 4 times, the latest 2026-10-14); a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 5 times, the latest 2026-10-14); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 2 times, the latest 2018-05-11) (its current reports).

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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.7 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025, down 5.5% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 49% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 2 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-16 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read. Leverage: it owed about 189 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 4% by size; a net margin of 1.2% ranks in the top 17%; revenue growth of 5.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Wells, Scott (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2015-03-05, 11.7 years (top 19% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.5 years (top 42%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (bottom 32%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $190 million against debt of $5.1 billion leaves -128.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2% of revenue (top 43%) (its annual report).

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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 5.1% a year over the last three filed years against -5.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 11% of its family); the newest year grew 6.6% (top 32%); capital spending grew -23.4% a year (bottom 14%) (its annual reports). Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Americas at $1.2 billion, Airports at $407 million. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 75% of revenue (its annual report).

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Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.1% above the $1.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 37% of its family); net income of $20 million against a prior three-year average of $196 million (top 12%); a net margin of 1.2% against -13.5% before (top 21%) (its annual reports).