SSP · E.w. Scripps Co - Financials

Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.

Price · SSP

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Annual Quarterly

Income Statement

Line item	FY 2025	FY 2024	FY 2023	FY 2022	FY 2021	FY 2020
Revenue	$2.15B	$2.51B	$2.29B	$2.45B	$2.28B	$1.86B
Cost of Revenue	-	-	-	-	-	-
Gross Profit	-	-	-	-	-	-
R&D	-	-	-	-	-	-
SG&A	$563.00M	$606.18M	$614.77M	$623.16M	$497.75M	-
Total Operating Expenses	$1.97B	$2.10B	$3.05B	$2.02B	$1.55B	$1.45B
D&A	$150.83M	$155.23M	$155.10M	$160.43M	$161.92M	$107.16M
Operating Income	$183.99M	$412.49M	($753.24M)	$428.34M	$400.75M	$303.49M
Interest Expense	$220.97M	$210.34M	$213.51M	$161.13M	$165.16M	$92.99M
Income Tax	($18.63M)	$63.76M	($19.73M)	$80.56M	$71.19M	$55.46M
Net Income	$146.22M	$146.22M	($998.09M)	$145.60M	$73.34M	$269.33M
EPS - Basic	($1.87)	$0.76	($8.90)	$1.29	$0.65	$2.43
EPS - Diluted	($1.87)	$0.76	($8.90)	$1.22	$0.61	$2.41

Balance Sheet

Line item	FY 2025	FY 2024	FY 2023	FY 2022	FY 2021	FY 2020
Cash & Equivalents	$27.92M	$23.85M	$35.32M	$18.03M	$66.22M	$576.02M
Accounts Receivable	$569.31M	$568.19M	$610.54M	$600.10M	$572.52M	$429.02M
Inventory	-	-	-	-	-	-
Accounts Payable	$63.42M	$100.67M	$76.38M	$82.71M	$83.93M	$68.14M
Current Assets	$747.42M	$630.01M	$676.09M	$643.94M	$702.28M	$2.09B
Total Assets	$5.01B	$5.20B	$5.41B	$6.43B	$6.66B	$4.86B
Current Liabilities	$453.60M	$482.39M	$477.82M	$485.00M	$511.88M	$358.46M
Long-term Debt	$2.59B	$2.56B	$2.90B	$2.85B	$3.13B	$2.92B
Total Liabilities	-	-	-	-	-	-
Stockholders' Equity	$1.25B	$1.32B	$1.16B	$2.13B	$1.97B	$1.16B
Retained Earnings	($576.88M)	($476.00M)	($622.22M)	$350.71M	$205.12M	$131.78M

Cash Flow

Line item	FY 2025	FY 2024	FY 2023	FY 2022	FY 2021	FY 2020
Operating Cash Flow	$53.10M	$365.68M	$111.60M	$311.42M	$237.00M	$277.39M
Investing Cash Flow	($12.13M)	($26.54M)	($60.61M)	($66.39M)	($2.46B)	$317.42M
Financing Cash Flow	($36.90M)	($350.61M)	($33.71M)	($327.48M)	$693.48M	$998.18M
CapEx	$46.58M	$65.26M	$59.63M	$45.79M	$60.74M	$44.95M
Free Cash Flow	$6.52M	$300.42M	$51.98M	$265.63M	$176.26M	$232.44M

Ratios

Metric	FY 2025	FY 2024	FY 2023	FY 2022	FY 2021	FY 2020
Profitability
Gross margin	-	-	-	-	-	-
Operating margin	8.6%	16.4%	-32.9%	17.5%	17.5%	16.3%
EBITDA margin	15.6%	22.6%	-26.1%	24.0%	24.6%	22.1%
Net margin	6.8%	5.8%	-43.5%	5.9%	3.2%	14.5%
Free cash flow margin	0.3%	12.0%	2.3%	10.8%	7.7%	12.5%
FCF / Net income	0.04	2.05	-0.05	1.82	2.40	0.86
R&D / Revenue	-	-	-	-	-	-
SG&A / Revenue	26.2%	24.2%	26.8%	25.4%	21.8%	-
Effective tax rate	-14.6%	30.4%	-	35.6%	49.3%	17.1%
Return on assets	2.9%	2.8%	-18.4%	2.3%	1.1%	5.5%
Return on equity	11.7%	11.1%	-86.3%	6.8%	3.7%	23.2%
Return on invested capital	4.8%	7.4%	-14.7%	5.5%	4.0%	6.2%
Liquidity
Current ratio	1.65	1.31	1.41	1.33	1.37	5.84
Quick ratio	1.65	1.31	1.41	1.33	1.37	5.84
Cash ratio	0.06	0.05	0.07	0.04	0.13	1.61
Leverage
Debt / Equity	2.07	1.94	2.51	1.34	1.59	2.51
Debt / Assets	0.52	0.49	0.54	0.44	0.47	0.60
Debt / EBITDA	7.72	4.51	-	4.85	5.56	7.12
Interest coverage	0.8x	2.0x	-3.5x	2.7x	2.4x	3.3x
Equity multiplier	4.02	3.94	4.68	3.02	3.38	4.18
Liabilities / Assets	-	-	-	-	-	-
Efficiency
Asset turnover	0.43	0.48	0.42	0.38	0.34	0.38
Inventory turnover	-	-	-	-	-	-
Days sales outstanding	97d	83d	97d	89d	92d	84d
Days inventory outstanding	-	-	-	-	-	-
Days payable outstanding	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cash conversion cycle	-	-	-	-	-	-
Valuation
P / E	-	2.2x	-	8.1x	23.9x	4.8x
P / B	0.3x	0.1x	0.4x	0.4x	0.6x	0.8x
P / S	0.2x	0.1x	0.2x	0.4x	0.6x	0.5x
EV / EBITDA	8.7x	4.7x	-	6.3x	7.7x	8.0x
Growth
Revenue growth (YoY)	-14.3%	9.5%	-6.5%	7.4%	22.9%	30.5%
Revenue CAGR (3y)	-4.3%	3.2%	7.3%	19.9%	37.7%	29.0%
Revenue CAGR (5y)	3.0%	12.0%	21.3%	23.2%	19.3%	21.0%
Gross profit growth (YoY)	-	-	-	-	-	-
Operating income growth (YoY)	-55.4%	-	-	6.9%	32.0%	363.1%
Net income growth (YoY)	0.0%	-	-	98.5%	-72.8%	-
EPS growth (YoY)	-	-	-	100.0%	-74.8%	-
EPS CAGR (3y)	-	7.6%	-	-	36.4%	-
EPS CAGR (5y)	-	-	-	-	-5.1%	-
FCF growth (YoY)	-97.8%	478.0%	-80.4%	50.7%	-24.2%	-
FCF CAGR (5y)	-51.1%	-	-9.9%	63.2%	8.3%	24.1%
Book value growth (YoY)	-5.5%	14.0%	-45.7%	8.1%	69.4%	29.5%

Sales by segment

From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2025-12-31.

Business segments

$2.15B total

Local Media Segment$1.33B · 61.7%

Scripps Networks$804.22M · 37.4%

All Other Segments$19.87M · 0.9%

Product / service

$3.54B total

Advertising$1.35B · 38.2%

Core Advertising Revenue$1.33B · 37.6%

Distribution Revenue$758.68M · 21.4%

Other Revenue$37.54M · 1.1%

Product And Service Other$37.54M · 1.1%

Political Advertising Revenue$21.87M · 0.6%

Stability scores

Piotroski F-score

FY 2025 · 9-point quality

4/9

Neutral

✓Net income positive
✓Operating cash flow positive
✓ROA improved YoY
✗Cash flow > net income
✗Long-term debt decreased
✓Current ratio improved
✗No share dilution
-Gross margin improved
✗Asset turnover improved

Peer comparison

Same SIC group: Television Broadcasting Stations

Company	Revenue (last FY)	Net margin	ROE
NXST	$4.95B	2.2%	5.3%
PARAA,PARA	-	-	-
LSXMA	$4.48B	12.4%	7.2%
GTN	$3.10B	-2.7%	-3.9%
TGNA	$2.71B	8.1%	7.0%

Comparing E.W. SCRIPPS Co against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.

Dividends

$0.00/share trailing 12 months

Ex-date	Per share
Dec 14, 2020	$0.0376
Sep 14, 2020	$0.0376
Jun 12, 2020	$0.0376
Mar 13, 2020	$0.0376
Dec 12, 2019	$0.0376
Sep 12, 2019	$0.0376
Jun 13, 2019	$0.0376
Mar 14, 2019	$0.0376
Dec 13, 2018	$0.0376
Sep 13, 2018	$0.0376
Jun 14, 2018	$0.0376
Feb 28, 2018	$0.0376
Apr 1, 2015	$0.7744
Aug 27, 2008	$0.1001
Jul 1, 2008	$76.7558
May 28, 2008	$0.2802
Feb 27, 2008	$0.2802
Nov 28, 2007	$0.2802
Aug 29, 2007	$0.2802
May 23, 2007	$0.2802
Feb 21, 2007	$0.2402
Nov 21, 2006	$0.2402
Aug 23, 2006	$0.2402
May 26, 2006	$0.2402