Company data sheet · Audacy
Audacy: six lost years, and the economy wasn't the reason.
- Industry
- Radio Broadcasting Stations
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sources
- SEC filings (1998–2024), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to six straight losses. Audacy earned $0.3 billion in 2015–2017. Then it lost money every year from 2018 to 2023: $2.3 billion in all.
- It wasn't the cycle. The losses began in 2018, a year the US economy grew 3.0%. When a company falls while its economy grows, look inside the company first.
- Ahead of almost everyone like it. From 2016 to 2023, its revenue grew 151% in US dollars; the median among 239 large transportation and utility companies grew 46%. It outgrew 85% of them.
- Still smaller than it was. Revenue reached $1.2 billion in 2023, 22% below its 2019 peak of $1.5 billion.
- Leaders came and went. Audacy filed 30 leadership changes since 2016, more than 84% of large transportation and utility companies (the median is 12).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $0.5 billion | $0 billion | |
| 2017 | $0.6 billion | $0.2 billion | |
| 2018 | $1.5 billion | −$0.4 billion | |
| 2019 | $1.5 billion | −$0.4 billion | |
| 2020 | $1.1 billion | −$0.2 billion | |
| 2021 | $1.2 billion | −$0 billion | |
| 2022 | $1.3 billion | −$0.1 billion | |
| 2023 | $1.2 billion | −$1.1 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 75 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (0 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 404 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
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