Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) Q4 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) Q4 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

Petr Huřťák

Wed, February 25, 2026 at 12:26 PM GMT+9 2 min read

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Outdoor advertising company Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE:CCO) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what investors should know.

Clear Channel Outdoor beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $405.6 million, up 8.1% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for next quarter slightly topping analysts’ expectations but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Clear Channel Outdoor’s revenue to grow 5.2% year on year, improving from the 2.6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

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Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Clear Channel Outdoor has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Clear Channel Outdoor’s peers in the advertising & marketing services segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. QuinStreet delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 1.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.2%, and MediaAlpha reported a revenue decline of 3.2%, falling short of estimates by 2.9%. QuinStreet traded up 10.7% following the results while MediaAlpha was also up 15.6%.

Read our full analysis of QuinStreet’s results here and MediaAlpha’s results here.

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