Lee Enterprises, Incorporated

LEE Communication Services Publishing

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $562.3 million, down 8.02% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 10.9%, EPS grew 167.7%, free cash flow fell 36.2% and total debt was flat, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for five consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

6.42 0.31 −4.61%
Market cap
$150.0M
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
−4.8×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
3/9
Altman Z
0.12
Beneish M
−2.83
Dividend safety
n/a

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (LEE) P/E ratio

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Lee Enterprises, Incorporated has no meaningful P/E ratio: its trailing twelve-month earnings is negative. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.0× (October 2026) to 40.4× (January 2015) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years.

P/E ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
FY2025 0.0× —
FY2024 0.0× —
FY2023 0.0× —
FY2022 0.0× —
FY2021 5.7× —
FY2020 0.0× —
FY2019 8.2× 149.92%
FY2018 3.3× (24.31%)
FY2017 4.3× (24.08%)
FY2016 5.7× 20.19%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
Jun 2026 0.0× —
Mar 2026 0.0× —
Dec 2025 0.0× —
Sep 2025 0.0× —
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.0× High 40.4×
Ten-year median 3.4×
Current reading's percentile 39

P/E ratio against peers

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LEE Lee Enterprises, Incorporated n/m
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NYT The New York Times Company compare 28.0×
Publishing industry median 13.7×
Communication Services sector median 16.7×
Market median 18.1×

What P/E ratio is

Price to Earnings Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual profit per share.

Stock Price ÷ EPS (Basic) (TTM)

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