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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Media · CIK 0000832428
$2.49
+2.89% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$219.2M market value
From E.W. SCRIPPS Co's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026 · read the filing
E.W. SCRIPPS broadcasts television and radio. It took in $2.15B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. It spends more than it earns — losing about 5 cents on every dollar of sales.
The financial picture is led by accounting, while profitability, growth and debt remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
A published bankruptcy-risk model places it in its distress range. This is a statistical reading, not a forecast.
Altman Z-Score 0.60
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 E.W. SCRIPPS Co's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
$412.5M → $184.0M
Profit
$146.2M → -$100.9M
Profit margin
5.8% → -4.7%
Free cash flow
$300.4M → $6.5M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 27, 2026
Deteriorated: -55.4%
$412.5M to $184.0MCritical
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: turned negative
$146.2M to -$100.9MCritical
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
SSP rose 2.89% on the latest quote. The average Communication Services company tracked here moved +4.95%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 2.1 points below its sector and 3.9 points above 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 11 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 11 analysts publishing on this company, 1 say buy, 4 say hold, 5 say sell and 1 say strong sell. 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.
No. It lost $100.9M last year, losing about 5 cents on every dollar of sales.
No. Sales shrank 14.3% last year.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 48.3 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.33 in assets. Its operating profit does not cover its interest bill — 0.83x against the interest it owes. A bankruptcy-risk model also places it in its distress range.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it lost $100.9M and generated $53.1M 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, 2026Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 25, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $2.15B | $2.51B | $2.29B | $2.45B | $2.28B | −14.3% |
| Cost of revenue | $1.27B | $1.32B | $1.28B | $1.23B | $1.11B | −3.5% |
| Gross profit | $876.1M† | $1.19B† | $1.01B† | $1.22B† | $1.18B† | −26.3% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 40.7% | 47.4% | 44.0% | 49.7% | 51.6% | −6.6 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $563.0M | $606.2M | $614.8M | $623.2M | $595.1M | −7.1% |
| Operating income | $184.0M | $412.5M | -$753.2M | $428.3M | $400.7M | −55.4% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 8.6% | 16.4% | -32.9% | 17.5% | 17.5% | −7.9 pts |
| Interest expense | $221.0M | $210.3M | $213.5M | $161.1M | $165.2M | +5.1% |
| Income before tax | -$119.5M | $210.0M | -$967.5M | $276.5M | $187.1M | n/m |
| Net income | -$100.9M | $146.2M | -$947.8M | $195.9M | $122.7M | n/m |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | -4.7% | 5.8% | -41.3% | 8.0% | 5.4% | −10.5 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $-1.15 | $1.71 | $-11.25 | $2.35 | $1.49 | n/m |
† 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
Nothing recent
No insider trades, pending-sale notices or 5% stake filings from SSP in the last few months. That is the ordinary case, not a gap.
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.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue -9.2% · Operating margin −250.2 pts · Operating income turned negative — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 2 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.
Coverage from the last 30 days
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 SSP'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. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. 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. 9 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 | 4.0 | 3/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 6.0 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 12, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 4.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 26, 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
3 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
0.60
In the distress 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.
-2.55
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
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: −10.5 pts
5.8% to -4.7%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: -97.8%
$300.4M to $6.5MCritical
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: turned negative
$1.71 to -$1.15Critical
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: -26.3%
$1.19B to $876.1MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −6.6 pts
47.4% to 40.7%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −7.9 pts
16.4% to 8.6%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.
Improved: +17.1%
$23.9M to $27.9MSignificant
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.
Changed: -28.6%
$65.3M to $46.6MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -14.3%
$2.51B to $2.15BNotable
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: +2.7%
85.7M to 88.0MNotable
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 Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$76.6M to -$1.16BCritical
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: $1.12B wider
-$36.0M to -$1.15BCritical
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: −250.2 pts
14.2% to -236.0%Critical
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: −228.1 pts
-6.7% to -234.8%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: $12.09 wider
-$0.41 to -$12.50Critical
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: -58.8%
$31.7M to $13.0MCritical
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: -9.2%
$540.1M to $490.4MNotable
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: -13.3%
$226.4M to $196.3MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −1.9 pts
41.9% to 40.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: +4.7%
87.9M to 92.1MNotable
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.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$24.8M to -$1.16BCritical
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: $1.15B wider
-$1.8M to -$1.15BCritical
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: −240.8 pts
4.8% to -236.0%Critical
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: −234.4 pts
-0.3% to -234.8%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: $12.48 wider
-$0.02 to -$12.50Critical
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: -84.4%
$83.7M to $13.0MCritical
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: -5.1%
$516.9M to $490.4MNotable
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: +2.6%
89.8M to 92.1MNotable
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.
1 other measure 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 4.7% 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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Trailing P/E is not meaningful because the latest trailing earnings are zero or negative. The price-to-book and price-to-sales figures below still provide reference points.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
Completed an acquisition or disposal
Quarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Profit $1.7M narrower · Free cash flow turned positive · Earnings per share $0.02 narrower — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingCompleted an acquisition or disposal · Reported another event
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue -14.3% · Operating margin −7.9 pts · Operating income -55.4% — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results · Reported another event
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Changed the rights attached to its shares · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue -18.6% · Operating margin −11.7 pts · Operating income -69.1% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue -5.8% · Operating margin +4.5 pts · Profit turned negative — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Reported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
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