Thursday, August 05, 2021
Salem Media (SALM)
Building A Solid Foundation for 2022
Salem Media Group is America’s leading radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher targeting audiences interested in Christian and family-themed content and conservative values. In addition to its radio properties, Salem owns Salem Radio Network, which syndicates talk, news and music programming to approximately 2700 affiliates; Salem Radio Representatives, a national radio advertising sales force; Salem Web Network, a leading Internet provider of Christian content and online streaming; and Salem Publishing, a leading publisher of Christian themed magazines. Salem owns and operates 115 radio stations, with 73 stations in the nation’s top 25 top markets – and 25 in the top 10. Each of our radio properties has a full portfolio of broadcast and digital marketing opportunities.
Michael Kupinski, Director of Research, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.
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Q2 exceeds expectations. Total revenues of $63.8 million beat our forecast of $60.2 million, with a remarkable upside in the Publishing segment up 68.3% YoY. Adjusted EBITDA was $8.7 million compared to our $7.1 million estimate.
Underlying strength in its Q3 outlook. Management guided Q3 revenues to be up 2% to 4%, which is better than our 1.1% decline. Importantly, the company had an extraordinary Q3 2020 given $3.5 million in Political advertising and strong results in SalemNOW from a popular film, Uncle Tom. Excluding the extraordinary year earlier revenues, revenue growth would be a strong 9% to 11%. In spite of higher …
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