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CUMULUS MEDIA INC CMLS

Radio Broadcasting Stations · CIK 0001058623 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$741.70M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
-$138.14M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
-$41.57M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$1.60MMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$0.09Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / revenue0.0×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

8.9× earnings today, against a median of 8.9× across 3 years on record. In line with its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2022-06-30$144.00M8.9×
2021-06-30$295.80M17.1×
2019-06-30$231.60M3.8×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Radio Broadcasting Stations filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
FCF margin-5.6%14th
SBC / revenue0.3%20th
Revenue YoY growth-10.3%22th
Current ratio1.54x67th
Operating margin-18.6%33th
CapEx / revenue2.7%57th
Net margin-27.1%43th

CUMULUS MEDIA INC (CMLS) reported revenue of $741.70M and net income of -$200.70M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 7 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from CUMULUS MEDIA INC’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Radio Broadcasting Stations.

Income

CUMULUS MEDIA INC income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-31
Revenue$741.70M$827.08M$844.55M$953.51M$916.47M$816.22M$1.11B
Cost of revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$3.50M
Gross profitUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating income-$138.14M-$239.66M-$41.28M$79.79M$69.12M-$10.60M$166.21M
Net income-$200.70M-$283.25M-$117.88M$16.24M$17.28M-$59.72M$61.26M
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 17.38Mshares 16.87Mshares 17.27Mshares 20.02Mshares 20.93Mshares 20.32Mshares 20.28M
Pretax income-$202.48M-$293.02M-$100.70M$19.60M$20.26M-$78.97M$83.52M
Income tax expense-$1.78M-$9.76M$17.18M$3.37M$2.98M-$19.25M$22.26M
Diluted EPS$-11.55$-16.79$-6.83$0.81$0.83$-2.94$3.02
Selling, general & administrative$378.06M$376.84M$377.03M$383.38M$376.83M$367.70M$461.22M
General & administrative$67.46M$80.69M$70.01M$62.47M$74.82M$49.20M$57.99M
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

CUMULUS MEDIA INC balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-31
Cash & equivalents$81.98M$63.84M$80.66M$63.80M$177.03M$271.76M$15.14M
Total assets$940.96M$1.12B$1.44B$1.61B$1.72B$1.86B$1.76B
Current assets$242.85M$248.05M$286.90M$345.27M$406.52M$502.96M$380.68M
Total liabilities$1.13B$1.11B$1.15B$1.20B$1.30B$1.46B$1.31B
Current liabilities$157.94M$133.78M$143.74M$145.61M$139.81M$129.04M$139.56M
Total equity incl. NCI-$191.52M$6.95M$286.58M$408.40M$419.50M$397.59M$455.22M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
InventoryUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Accounts receivable$134.14M$161.99M$180.71M$210.25M$196.93M$201.28M$242.60M
GoodwillUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$0
Long-term debt$694.81M$669.04M$672.42M$714.46M$798.92M$967.66M$1.01B
Accounts payable$14.58M$10.58M$13.74M$8.15M$4.89M$5.25M$861.00K

Cash flow

CUMULUS MEDIA INC cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-31
Operating cash flow-$21.34M-$3.12M$31.66M$78.48M$68.52M$33.21M$104.27M
Capital expenditures$20.24M$19.46M$24.81M$31.06M$29.09M$14.87M$29.47M
Investing cash flow-$7.86M-$4.23M-$6.82M-$26.24M-$1.54M$64.36M$117.59M
Financing cash flow$47.34M-$9.47M-$51.61M-$121.84M-$161.71M$157.18M-$234.89M
Net change in cash$18.14M-$16.82M-$26.77M-$69.60M-$94.73M$254.75M-$13.03M
Stock-based compensation$2.50M$4.71M$5.27M$6.23M$5.19M$3.34M$5.30M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchasesUnavailable$0$7.79M$31.86M$0UnavailableUnavailable
Depreciation & amortization$54.34M$59.12M$58.18M$56.39M$53.54M$52.29M$52.55M

Derived

CUMULUS MEDIA INC derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-31
Free cash flow-$41.57M-$22.58M$6.85M$47.42M$39.43M$18.34M$74.80M
Gross marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating margin-18.6%-29.0%-4.9%8.4%7.5%-1.3%14.9%
FCF margin-5.6%-2.7%0.8%5.0%4.3%2.2%6.7%
SBC / revenue0.3%0.6%0.6%0.7%0.6%0.4%0.5%
Current ratio1.54x1.85x2.00x2.37x2.91x3.90x2.73x
Revenue YoY growth-10.3%-2.1%-11.4%4.0%12.3%-26.7%Unavailable
Net margin-27.1%-34.2%-14.0%1.7%1.9%-7.3%5.5%
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue2.7%2.4%2.9%3.3%3.2%1.8%2.6%
Long-term debt / equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rateUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable17.2%14.7%Unavailable26.7%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open CMLS in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-14View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-04-29View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-04-10View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-30View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-01View SEC filing

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Reconciliation checks needing review

1 period on this page do not reconcile under this site’s normalization. Read that as a limitation here before an observation about the company: the figures are the filer’s own, the filings linked above are authoritative, and a difference usually means the concepts this site selected do not match how this filer presents its statements. Nothing is adjusted to make a check pass.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2019-12-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.