Company Analysis

Urban One, Inc. (UONE)

Nasdaq: UONE · Radio Broadcasting Stations · Silver Spring, MD · filing with the SEC since 1997
Grade3.6
◀ Past 3.3● Present 4.4▶ Future 2.9

The grade of Urban One, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.6/10
◀ Past3.330% of the headline
● Present4.440% of the headline
▶ Future2.930% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

23 warning events since 2017; the latest 2025-08-13.

weight 33% of this tense · 10th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Urban One, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 23 warning events of 4 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 11 times, the latest 2025-08-13); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, 3 times, the latest 2023-04-07); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2025-04-09); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 7 times, the latest 2024-05-10) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-2.3% a year over 8 filed years; profitable in 5 of 8.

weight 45% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Urban One, Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $439 million in fiscal 2018 to $374 million in fiscal 2025, down 2.3% a year; it rose in 2 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 23% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 5 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-2.3%bottom 20% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 10% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 40% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak22.7%bottom 40% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 5.1% a year. 12% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 9 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 70th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Urban One, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 5.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 12% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 9 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-03 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 10% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.4/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -597%: lost 597¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 96%: owes 96¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 48th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Urban One, Inc. lost about 597 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 96 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.9% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 40% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 14% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 30% of 10 in its family; net margin -39.2%.

weight 45% of this tense · 30th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Urban One, Inc.'s standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $374 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 50% by size; a net margin of -39.2% ranks in the bottom 30%; revenue growth of -8.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 10% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$374Mtop 50% of its family
  • net margin-39.2%bottom 30% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-8.2%bottom 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
6.4/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 36% of 7 in its family for leadership.

weight 22% of this tense · 64th percentile among 7 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Urban One, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 18.4 years (top 29%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (top 43%; 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.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge3 in three years among 8 peopletop 43% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed18.4 yearstop 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

2.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 30% of 10 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 30th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Urban One, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $26 million against debt of $430 million leaves -68.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 40% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -1.6% of revenue (bottom 20%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-68.2%bottom 40% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-1.6%bottom 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 33% of 10 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Urban One, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -8.2% a year over the last three filed years against -2.3% over all 8, slowing (bottom 40% of its family); the newest year grew -16.8% (bottom 10%); capital spending grew 14.2% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Urban One, Inc. reported 7 product lines in fiscal 2025: Radio Advertising at $150 million (40%), Cable Television Advertising at $89 million (24%), Cable Television Affiliate Fees at $69 million (18%), and 4 more; 0 of 7 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-6.0 points a yearbottom 40% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-16.8%bottom 10% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending14.2%top 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
1.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 18% of 10 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 18th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Urban One, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $374 million in fiscal 2025 came in 13.6% below the $433 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 10% of its family); net income of $147 million against a prior three-year average of $23 million (bottom 15%); a net margin of -39.2% against -5.3% before (bottom 30%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-13.6%bottom 10% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' averagefive times below its prior average or morebottom 15% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-33.9 pointsbottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

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