🎙️ $2.20 | -1.79% | Aug 19, 2025 🎙️

🔔 Trigger: CEO Keeps Buying (Like He Knows Something We Don’t)

Over the past few months, CEO Bob Pittman has gone shopping for his own stock like it’s on clearance:

• Aug 2025 — Bought 117,371 shares @ $2.19 💸

• May 2025 — Bought 200,000 shares @ $1.22 (timing = chef’s kiss 🤌)

• March 2025 — Bought 200,000 shares @ $1.60

Total? Lots of insider buys — classic “vote of confidence.”

Not to mention other insiders (like CFO Richard Bressler) have also topped up.

👉 Translation: The bosses aren’t just spinning tunes, they’re betting real money on the comeback.

🏦 Institutions Still Love This Beat

When BlackRock, Vanguard, and Goldman Sachs are in your corner, you’re not dead yet.

• Institutional ownership: 86%+ of shares.

• Insider ownership: 7.7% (strong skin in the game).

• Top holders include: Allianz, Global Media & Entertainment, Vanguard, BlackRock.

Basically, big money still has IHRT on the playlist.

🔍 For iHeartMedia (IHRT)'s Institutional Ownership breakdown, see here. 

🎧 Who Is iHeartMedia?

• 🎵 #1 Audio Company in the U.S. (reaches 9 out of 10 Americans every month).

• 📻 Runs 870+ radio stations across the country.

• 📱 iHeartRadio app on 2,000+ devices (yep, even your grandma’s smart fridge probably has it).

• 🎤 #1 Podcast publisher in the world (bigger than #2 and #3 combined).

• 🎶 Hosts iconic live music events + dominates broadcast, streaming, podcasts, and ad tech.

Fun stat: iHeart reaches more people per month than TikTok. Even teenagers. 🤯

📊 Financial Pulse Check

Full-Year 2024:

• Revenue: $3.9B (up 3% YoY).

• Digital audio: +9% growth (podcasts +28%).

• GAAP loss shrank, adjusted EBITDA up to $706M.

Q2 2025:

• Revenue: $934M (+0.5%).

• EBITDA: $156M (+3.9%).

• Podcasts still booming; traditional radio lagging.

Outlook: Flat revenue expected for 2025 (non-political year). But digital & podcasts = real growth drivers.

👉 Want the full picture? Dive into iHeartMedia (IHRT)'s financials here.

⚠️ The Static (Risks)

• 📉 Growth is anemic: Radio = flat; ad market = meh.

• 🏦 Debt mountain: Debt-to-equity is a scary -297%. Debt/EBITDA = 11.7x. Yikes.

• 💸 Cash crunch: Cash-to-debt ratio is 0.04. Might need capital raises.

• 🎶 Aging audience: Boomers love AM/FM. Gen Z… not so much. Podcasts must keep delivering.

• 📉 Stock still more than 90% below ATH ($28.24).

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🚀 Why Bulls Still Tune In

• Insider buys scream confidence.

• Digital is crushing: podcasts up double digits.

• Debt restructuring bought time.

• Stock looks cheap by P/E and P/S, with momentum building.

🎤 Final Take

iHeart isn’t dead — it’s just remixing. 🎶
If digital + podcasts keep growing and debt doesn’t drown them, IHRT could pull off a comeback tour.

But make no mistake: This is speculative. Start small, add on real proof of recovery.

📻 Because sometimes, even the oldies station has a hit left in it.

⚠️ Disclaimer

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We laugh, we analyze, we meme. We just sell jokes and opinions — and yes, we’re billing your sense of humor. 🎪💸 
We’re not financial advisors. We’re FUNancial advisors. 
Invest at your own risk — preferably with headphones on 🎧 — always DYOR, hold the FOMO, and don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose.

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