Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NXST)

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.4 billion in fiscal 2017 to $4.9 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.3% a year; it rose in 6 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 8.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 63% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 61 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 81 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 6.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s standing among 14 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $4.9 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 35% by size; a net margin of 2.2% ranks in the top 39%; revenue growth of -1.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 46% (its annual reports).

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Sook, Perry A (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-08-18, 20.2 years (top 5% of its family); the 23 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.1 years (bottom 17%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 23 people in charge now (top 35%; 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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Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $280 million against debt of $6.2 billion leaves -54.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 11% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 15% of revenue (top 35%) (its annual report).

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1.7% a year over the last three filed years against 9.3% over all 9, slowing (bottom 29% of its family); the newest year grew -8.5% (bottom 38%); capital spending grew -1.9% a year (top 37%) (its annual reports). Nexstar Media Group, Inc. reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Distribution Service at $2.9 billion (59%), Advertising at $2.0 billion (40%), Other at $66 million (1%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $4.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 10.1% below the $5.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 32% of its family); net income of $109 million against a prior three-year average of $680 million (bottom 41%); a net margin of 2.2% against 13% before (bottom 23%) (its annual reports).