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E.W. Scripps Company (The)

SSP Communication Services Broadcasting

E.W. Scripps Company (The)’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.2 billion, down 14.3% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−9.20%
EPS
−2,049.2%
Free cash flow
−117.9%
Total debt
−4.95%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

2.93 0.05 +1.74%
Market cap
$273.4M
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
−0.2×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
3/9
Altman Z
0.52
Beneish M
−2.55
Dividend safety
n/a
Overview
Financials
Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Bought, $m 8.21
Sold, $m 1.12
Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy — — — 30 — 2 — — — — — —
Sell — — — — — 1 — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 39.95%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 273.38
Revenue ttm 2,093.38
Net income ttm (1,214.50)
Free cash flow ttm 36.21
Net debt Q 2,469.54
Valuation
P/E 0.00
Forward P/E (0.21) (negative: loss-making)
Price / sales 0.13
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 7.54
Price / book 0.00
Financial health
Current ratio Q 1.34
Debt / equity Q 24.77 (above 2: weak)
Interest coverage Q (21.39)
Growth
Revenue growth Q −9.20% (below 0%: shrinking)
Operating income growth Q −1,611.07% (below 0%: shrinking)
EPS, this year −575.40% (below 0%: weak)
EPS, next year A +89.87% (at or above 15%: strong)
Revenue, next year A +1.41%
EPS, past 5 yrs —
EPS, next 5 yrs A +10.00%

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 1.3×, against a ten-year median of 1.7×; over the ten years it ranged from 1.1× in 2025 to 2.5× in 2017.
P/S against its own 10 years 15.62%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 15.99%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 83.80%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Yield
—
Annual rate
—
Payout ratio
—
Growth, 2018–25
−100.0%/yr
  1. 0.15 ’18
  2. 0.15 ’19 +0
  3. 0.15 ’20 +0
  4. 0.00 ’21 −100
  5. 0.00 ’22
  6. 0.00 ’23
  7. 0.00 ’24
  8. 0.00 ’25
paid change on the year, %

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 35 24 28 24
Receivables 611 568 569 526
Inventory — — — —
Other 30 38 150 43
676 630 747 593
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 76 101 63 66
ST’ Debt 16 16 9 —
Other 201 166 173 157
478 482 454 444

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 12.64% 2.97% (4.29%)
Cash Flow 19.60% (28.15%) (44.55%)
Earnings 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value 3.30% 1.39% (16.38%)

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

Q2 FY26 Estimate −0.31 Actual −0.34

Earnings per share against the consensus, by quarter
Quarter Estimate Reported Result
Q3 FY25 −0.16 −0.40 Miss by 0.24
Q4 FY25 0.46 −0.06 Miss by 0.52
Q1 FY26 −0.21 −0.20 Beat by 0.01
Q2 FY26 −0.31 −0.34 Miss by 0.03

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (0.20) (12.68) — — —
’25 (0.22) (0.59) (0.55) (0.51) (1.87)
’24 (0.15) (0.15) 0.37 0.92 1.01
’23 (0.37) (8.10) (0.19) (3.17) (11.84)
’22 0.10 0.32 0.38 0.84 1.62
’21 (0.07) (0.09) 0.50 0.43 0.81
’20 (0.15) (0.27) 0.69 2.89 3.21
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 517 490 — — —
’25 524 540 526 560 2,151
’24 561 574 646 728 2,510
’23 528 583 567 616 2,293
’22 566 594 612 681 2,453
’21 541 565 555 622 2,284
’20 414 359 493 591 1,857
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 4 14 — — —
’25 (3) (11) 22 45 53
’24 45 26 141 153 366
’23 15 10 24 62 112
’22 37 69 90 115 311
’21 50 40 66 80 237
’20 14 61 86 118 277
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 1 (3) — — —
’25 (6) 16 7 31 48
’24 23 3 128 167 321
’23 7 (8) 6 47 52
’22 25 54 82 105 266
’21 46 241 49 65 401
’20 (3) 49 74 110 231
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

3
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TTM Jun ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 874 877 1,157 1,351 1,857 2,284 2,453 2,293 2,510 2,151 2,093 +10.5% 2,181 1,974 2,243 +1.4%
Gross margin, % 60.38 73.93 52.61 48.07 49.95 51.56 49.71 44.03 47.37 40.74 40.36 (19.6) pt
EBT 93 (32) 93 1 209 187 276 (968) 210 (120) (1,291) n/m
EBT margin, % 10.66 (3.66) 8.01 0.07 11.25 8.19 11.27 (42.20) 8.37 (5.56) (61.65) (16.2) pt
Net income 67 (15) 20 (18) 269 123 196 (948) 146 (101) (1,214) n/m
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 10.49 10.69 14.22 16.72 22.81 27.74 29.48 27.21 29.27 24.43 22.73 +9.8%
Earnings 0.80 (0.16) 0.24 (0.23) 3.21 0.81 1.62 (11.84) 1.01 (1.87) (13.94) n/m
Cash flow 1.76 0.50 1.73 (0.34) 3.41 2.88 3.74 1.32 4.27 0.60 0.91 (11.2%)
Capex (0.31) (0.34) (0.67) (1.06) (0.58) 1.99 (0.55) (0.71) (0.52) (0.06) (0.52) (16.4%)
Free cash flow 1.45 0.16 1.06 (1.40) 2.83 4.87 3.20 0.62 3.74 0.54 0.39 (10.3%)
Book value 11.35 11.43 11.38 11.11 14.29 23.93 25.60 13.72 15.37 14.16 1.09 +2.5%
Shares, m 83 82 81 81 81 82 83 84 86 88 90 +0.6%
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 24.01 0.00 68.39 0.00 4.84 25.13 8.09 0.00 2.23 0.00 0.00 13.3
P/S 1.85 1.45 1.11 0.94 0.67 0.70 0.45 0.29 0.08 0.16 0.13 0.8
P/B 1.71 1.36 1.38 1.41 1.07 1.02 0.64 0.90 0.21 0.42 0.00 1.0
EV/Sales 2.15 2.07 1.61 2.33 1.37 2.03 1.61 1.54 1.09 1.36 1.31 1.7
EV/FCF 15.59 79.32 21.06 (27.83) 11.07 11.58 14.90 68.67 8.56 61.79 76.80 26.5
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 146 41 141 (27) 277 237 311 112 366 53 84 (10.7%)
Capex (26) (28) (54) (86) (47) 164 (45) (60) (45) (5) (48) (15.9%)
Free cash flow 121 13 87 (113) 231 401 266 52 321 48 36 (9.8%)
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 242 395 273 332 1,736 190 159 198 148 294 150 +2.2%
Net debt 259 545 582 1,882 1,308 3,048 2,854 2,877 2,552 2,566 2,470 +29.0%
Shareholders’ equity 946 937 926 898 1,163 1,970 2,131 1,156 1,318 1,246 101 +3.1%
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 3.94 (0.68) 0.96 (0.65) 6.40 1.27 2.22 (16.86) 1.65 (3.22) (29.31) (7.2) pt
ROIC 6.65 (0.08) 6.15 1.96 7.68 4.99 5.37 (11.67) 6.66 3.02 (25.60) (3.6) pt
ROE 7.28 (1.39) 2.19 (2.02) 26.13 5.39 8.88 (81.14) 10.67 (19.03) (462.40) (26.3) pt
People
People Employees 4,100 4,100 3,950 5,900 5,400 5,600 5,700 5,200 5,000 4,600 — +1.3%
Revenue/emp, $m 0.21 0.21 0.29 0.23 0.34 0.41 0.43 0.44 0.50 0.47 — +9.1%
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

E.W. Scripps Company (The) vs peers in Broadcasting (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
SBGI Sinclair, Inc. $1.0B 10.3× 12.3× +15.52% (above 0%: growing) n/m +287.93% (above 0%: growing) 0.00% 15.01% Compare
NMAX Newsmax Inc. $958.4M 142× — (loss-making) +16.53% (above 0%: growing) n/m +94.72% (above 0%: growing) 43.12% 2.41% Compare
FUBO fuboTV Inc. $839.7M — (loss-making) 9.5× +37.99% (above 0%: growing) n/m +82.02% (above 0%: growing) 7.28% (1.80%) Compare
GTN.A Gray Media Inc. $671.6M — (loss-making) 2.0× +8.68% (above 0%: growing) n/m +2,750.00% (above 0%: growing) 29.56% 16.21% Compare
GTN Gray Media Inc. $515.9M — (loss-making) 2.0× +8.68% (above 0%: growing) n/m +2,750.00% (above 0%: growing) 29.56% 16.21% Compare
IHRT iHeartMedia, Inc. $327.0M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +4.67% (above 0%: growing) n/m +448.77% (above 0%: growing) 59.01% 3.63% Compare
SSP E.W. Scripps Company (The) $273.4M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −9.20% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −117.88% (below 0%: shrinking) 40.03% (236.04%)
CURI CuriosityStream Inc. $149.5M 253× 15.9× +22.26% (above 0%: growing) +1,002.94% (above 0%: growing) −249.16% (below 0%: shrinking) 72.84% 39.49% Compare
CAST FREECAST INC $67.6M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) — n/m +57.24% (above 0%: growing) 62.97% (4,759.85%) Compare
Median of peers $593.7M 142× 9.5× +15.52% — +191.33% 36.34% 9.32%

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Pay and ownership Proxy statement filed 20 March 2026

Chief executive’s pay

Year Total pay Actually paid $100 invested
2025 7.24m 8.66m 26.08
2024 4.35m (2.48m) 14.45
2023 5.31m 290.14k 52.24
2022 15.04m 10.68m 86.26
2021 7.35m 9.46m 126.55
Total pay is as the Summary Compensation Table states it; actually paid revalues the year’s share awards at its end, as the SEC’s pay-versus-performance rule asks. $100 invested is what $100 in the company’s shares at the start of the earliest year shown was worth at each year’s end. Read the proxy statement

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