Revenue
$2.15B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31Operating income
$183.99M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31Free cash flow
$6.52M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31E.W. SCRIPPS Co (SSP) reported revenue of $2.15B and net income of -$100.88M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from E.W. SCRIPPS Co’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Television Broadcasting Stations.
Income
| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2019-12-31 | 2018-12-31 | 2017-12-31 | 2016-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $2.15B | $2.51B | $2.29B | $2.45B | $2.28B | $1.86B | $1.35B | $1.16B | $876.97M | $874.45M |
| Cost of revenue | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Gross profit | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Operating income | $183.99M | $412.49M | -$753.24M | $428.34M | $400.74M | $303.49M | $87.36M | $148.48M | -$1.90M | $128.20M |
| Net income | -$100.88M | $146.22M | -$947.78M | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | -$10.51M | $59.10M |
| Research & development | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Weighted-average diluted shares | shares 88.02M | shares 86.07M | shares 84.27M | shares 87.35M | shares 87.98M | shares 81.83M | shares 80.83M | shares 81.93M | shares 82.05M | shares 83.64M |
| Pretax income | -$119.50M | $209.98M | -$967.51M | $276.46M | $187.09M | $209.02M | $1.00M | $92.67M | -$32.08M | $93.19M |
| Income tax expense | -$18.62M | $63.76M | -$19.73M | $80.56M | $71.19M | $55.46M | $2.92M | $22.78M | -$20.05M | $33.27M |
| Diluted EPS | $-1.87 | $1.01 | $-11.84 | $1.62 | $0.81 | $3.21 | $-0.23 | $0.24 | $-0.16 | $0.80 |
| Selling, general & administrative | $563.00M | $606.18M | $614.77M | $623.16M | $595.10M | $497.75M | $449.88M | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| General & administrative | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Selling & marketing | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
Balance
| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2019-12-31 | 2018-12-31 | 2017-12-31 | 2016-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & equivalents | $27.92M | $23.85M | $35.32M | $18.03M | $66.22M | $576.02M | $32.97M | $107.11M | $148.70M | $134.35M |
| Total assets | $5.01B | $5.20B | $5.41B | $6.43B | $6.66B | $4.86B | $3.56B | $2.13B | $2.13B | $1.74B |
| Current assets | $747.42M | $630.02M | $676.09M | $643.94M | $702.28M | $2.09B | $643.92M | $471.02M | $605.53M | $345.90M |
| Total liabilities | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Current liabilities | $453.60M | $482.39M | $477.82M | $485.00M | $511.88M | $358.46M | $312.03M | $198.06M | $210.79M | $104.13M |
| Total equity incl. NCI | $1.25B | $1.32B | $1.16B | $2.13B | $1.97B | $1.16B | $897.94M | $926.16M | $937.48M | $945.94M |
| Temporary (mezzanine) equity | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Inventory | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Accounts receivable | $569.31M | $568.19M | $610.54M | $600.10M | $572.52M | $429.02M | $387.85M | $281.33M | $245.36M | $178.54M |
| Goodwill | $1.92B | $1.97B | $1.97B | $2.92B | $2.91B | $1.20B | $1.22B | $786.84M | $708.77M | $575.78M |
| Long-term debt | $2.59B | $2.56B | $2.90B | $2.85B | $3.13B | $2.92B | $1.90B | $685.76M | $687.62M | $386.61M |
| Accounts payable | $63.42M | $100.67M | $76.38M | $82.71M | $83.93M | $68.14M | $28.44M | $26.92M | $23.65M | $15.98M |
Cash flow
| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2019-12-31 | 2018-12-31 | 2017-12-31 | 2016-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $53.10M | $365.68M | $111.60M | $311.42M | $237.00M | $277.39M | -$27.45M | $140.91M | $40.85M | $146.49M |
| Capital expenditures | $46.58M | $65.26M | $59.63M | $45.79M | $60.74M | $44.95M | $60.94M | $47.09M | $17.93M | $25.91M |
| Investing cash flow | -$12.13M | -$26.54M | -$60.61M | -$66.39M | -$2.46B | $317.42M | -$1.26B | -$127.48M | -$299.07M | -$73.43M |
| Financing cash flow | -$36.90M | -$350.61M | -$33.71M | -$327.48M | $693.48M | $998.18M | $1.22B | -$55.00M | $272.56M | Unavailable |
| Net change in cash | $4.07M | -$11.47M | $17.29M | -$82.45M | -$1.53B | $1.59B | -$74.15M | -$41.58M | $14.35M | $19.73M |
| Stock-based compensation | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Common dividends paid | Unavailable | Unavailable | $48.00M | $48.00M | $45.07M | $16.57M | $16.37M | $16.40M | $0 | $0 |
| Common share repurchases | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | $0 | $0 | $584.00K | $32.32M | $17.88M | $44.40M |
| Depreciation & amortization | $150.83M | $155.23M | $155.10M | $160.43M | $161.92M | $107.16M | $84.34M | $60.71M | $56.34M | $55.20M |
Derived
| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2022-12-31 | 2021-12-31 | 2020-12-31 | 2019-12-31 | 2018-12-31 | 2017-12-31 | 2016-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free cash flow | $6.52M | $300.42M | $51.98M | $265.63M | $176.26M | $232.44M | -$88.39M | $93.82M | $22.92M | $120.58M |
| Gross margin | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Operating margin | 8.6% | 16.4% | -32.9% | 17.5% | 17.5% | 16.3% | 6.5% | 12.8% | -0.2% | 14.7% |
| FCF margin | 0.3% | 12.0% | 2.3% | 10.8% | 7.7% | 12.5% | -6.5% | 8.1% | 2.6% | 13.8% |
| SBC / revenue | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Current ratio | 1.65x | 1.31x | 1.41x | 1.33x | 1.37x | 5.84x | 2.06x | 2.38x | 2.87x | 3.32x |
| Revenue YoY growth | -14.3% | 9.5% | -6.5% | 7.4% | 22.9% | 37.4% | 16.8% | 32.0% | 0.3% | Unavailable |
| Net margin | -4.7% | 5.8% | -41.3% | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| R&D / revenue | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| CapEx / revenue | 2.2% | 2.6% | 2.6% | 1.9% | 2.7% | 2.4% | 4.5% | 4.1% | 2.0% | 3.0% |
| Long-term debt / equity | 2.07x | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Effective tax rate | Unavailable | 30.4% | Unavailable | 29.1% | 38.1% | 26.5% | 290.5% | 24.6% | Unavailable | 35.7% |
Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open SSP in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.
Source filings
10-Q · Filed 2026-08-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-08View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-27View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-08View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-09View SEC filing
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