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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Media · CIK 0001142417
$164.83
-2.48% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$5.00B market value
From NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP, INC.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026 · read the filing
NEXSTAR MEDIA broadcasts television and radio. It took in $4.95B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 2 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability needing attention and growth and debt weaker.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 4 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$1.7M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Several areas of financial weakness.
From NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP, INC.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
$722.0M → $109.0M
Profit margin
13.4% → 2.2%
Earnings per share
$23.58 → $3.59
Cash
$144.0M → $280.0M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 27, 2026
Deteriorated: -84.9%
$722.0M to $109.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
NXST fell 2.48% on the latest quote. The average Communication Services company tracked here moved +4.95%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 7.4 points below its sector and 1.4 points below the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 14 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 14 analysts publishing on this company, 5 say strong buy, 7 say buy and 2 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 2 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $109.0M last year.
No. Sales shrank 8.5% last year.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 6.8 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.23 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It paid out more than it earned — 207 cents for every dollar of profit. A payment above earnings has to be funded from somewhere else, so it is worth checking whether that can continue. It paid out 25% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
WeakNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $109.0M and generated $891.0M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 27, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 27, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 27, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 27, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 28, 2024Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $4.95B | $5.41B | $4.93B | $5.21B | $4.65B | −8.5% |
| Selling, general and administrative | $1.06B | $1.09B | $1.10B | $1.10B | $1.02B | −2.3% |
| Operating income | $849.0M | $1.27B | $708.0M | $1.31B | $1.18B | −33.0% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 17.2% | 23.5% | 14.4% | 25.2% | 25.3% | −6.3 pts |
| Income before tax | $150.0M | $959.0M | $401.0M | $1.22B | $1.09B | −84.4% |
| Net income | $109.0M | $722.0M | $346.0M | $971.0M | $834.0M | −84.9% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 2.2% | 13.4% | 7.0% | 18.6% | 17.9% | −11.2 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $3.59 | $23.58 | $9.41 | $23.68 | $19.22 | −84.8% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 2,823 shares at $165.69 ($467.7K)
Holds 11,726 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 6,250 shares
Holds 23,355 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +62.2% · Profit margin −1.9 pts · Operating income +70.0% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 5 subsidiaries named in its 10-K. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-27. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from NXST's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 27, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 3.3 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 7.3 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2023 |
| FY2020 | 8.7 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Mar 1, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
2.30
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −11.2 pts
13.4% to 2.2%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -84.8%
$23.58 to $3.59Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +94.4%
$144.0M to $280.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -33.0%
$1.27B to $849.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: −6.3 pts
23.5% to 17.2%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: -32.8%
$1.10B to $743.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -8.5%
$5.41B to $4.95BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +62.2%
$1.23B to $1.99BCritical
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +70.0%
$213.0M to $362.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: +81.9%
$6.28B to $11.41BCritical
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +23.7%
$97.0M to $120.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +21.4%
$3.21 to $3.90Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: −1.9 pts
7.9% to 6.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -6.8%
$234.0M to $218.0MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +1.9%
30.2M to 30.8MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +42.8%
$1.40B to $1.99BCritical
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -42.5%
$379.0M to $218.0MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +36.6%
$265.0M to $362.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -26.8%
$164.0M to $120.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −5.7 pts
11.7% to 6.0%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -27.5%
$5.37 to $3.90Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
4 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 9.1% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
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Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 11.1x — investors pay $11.1 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Sold on the open market — 2,465 shares at $185.82 ($458.0K)
Holds 20,890 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 300 shares at $186.80 ($56.0K)
Holds 4,383 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 4,008 shares at $187.46 ($751.4K)
Holds 1,792 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 12,235 shares at $162.26 ($2.0M)
Holds 899,044 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 2,823 shares ($467.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 2,465 shares ($458.0K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 300 shares ($56.0K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 4,008 shares ($751.4K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
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Held a shareholder vote · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Revenue +13.1% · Operating margin +1.1 pts · Profit +51.9% — against Q1 FY2025
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Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Completed an acquisition or disposal · Took on a direct financial obligation · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue -8.5% · Operating margin −6.3 pts · Profit -84.9% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
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Revenue -12.3% · Operating margin −9.9 pts · Operating income -47.8% — against Q3 FY2024
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Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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