CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC (CCO)
Communication Services · Out-of-home (OOH) advertising and outdoor media · NYSE
Clear Channel Outdoor is a leading out-of-home advertising platform connecting advertisers with mass audiences through roadside billboards, street furniture, and airport displays across the U.S.
What CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC does
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings operates as a leading provider of out-of-home (OOH) advertising solutions, offering advertisers access to high-traffic public spaces including roadside billboards, street furniture, and airport displays. The company leverages a diverse portfolio of physical assets to connect advertisers with millions of consumers monthly. The company is transforming its advertising platform through digital display expansion, data analytics integration, and programmatic tools to enable simpler, more measurable campaigns. Following strategic divestitures of international operations since 2021, the company is now primarily focused on its more profitable U.S. business.
Themes: Out-of-home (OOH) advertising, Digital billboard networks, Programmatic advertising, Audience data and targeting, Mass media reach
Fundamentals
- Price$2.38 as of 2026-08-21 close
- Market cap$1.2B as of 2026-08-21
- 1-year return+98.3% 2025-08-21 close $1.20 → 2026-08-21 close $2.38
- P/E59.36 as of 2026-08-24
- Net margin-6.3% as of 2026-08-24
- Gross margin+54.1% as of 2026-08-24
- ROE-160.6% as of 2026-08-24
- Debt / equity38.29 as of 2026-08-24
- Revenue growth (YoY)+29.6% as of 2026-08-24
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+5.1% SEC XBRL
- Beta2.03 as of 2026-08-24
- Last reported earnings2026-08-05 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
Dividend: at least 1 years of non-decreasing per-share dividends (SEC XBRL) — we do not hold the year before it, so the real streak may be longer.
How CCO compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiotop 25% 79 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- net profit marginmiddle range 132 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- operating margintop 25% 132 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- gross marginmiddle range 132 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- return on equitybottom 10% 132 covered Communication Services peers, as of 2026-08-24
- 3-year revenue CAGRmiddle range 121 covered Communication Services peers
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)middle range 114 covered Communication Services peers, as of FY2025
Position among covered Communication Services companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
Dividend coverage
Not assessed — last reported dividend predates the accounts. The most recent fiscal year in which CCO reported a dividend payment is FY2020, while its reported financial statements run through FY2025. Coverage is therefore not assessed for the latest year — an FY2020 ratio would not describe CCO today.
Coverage is derived from reported SEC EDGAR XBRL figures, comparing dividends paid against net income and free cash flow for the SAME fiscal year. It is not shown here because the latest fiscal year with a reported dividend payment (FY2020) is older than the latest year of reported financial statements (FY2025), so any ratio would describe an out-of-date year. Informational only — not financial advice.
How CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC looks technically
CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC (CCO) is trading 5.1% above its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a longer-term uptrend. Its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 226 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal. A strong downtrend is in place — ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 36, with sellers in control. Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 47, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bearish about 10 trading days ago (its momentum flipped negative). It made a new 20-day low about 7 trading days ago. It is 2.5% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year).
Trend
7
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 5.1% above its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a longer-term uptrend | +5.1% |
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| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $2.40 | $2.40 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $2.26 | $2.26 |
| Swing structure | its recent peaks and dips disagree — one of them is rising while the other is not, so there is no clean up or down pattern in the swings | mixed — one of the two is not confirming |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing high 56 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 56 sessions |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 226 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal | 226 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | a strong downtrend is in place — ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 36, with sellers in control | 35.9 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 47, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 47.3 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading in the upper half of its 14-day range ($2.26 to $2.43) — its "stochastic" reading is 71 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been climbing within that range over the last few sessions. | 70.6 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, turned bearish about 10 trading days ago (its momentum flipped negative) | 10 sessions |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $2.44 | $2.44 |
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| From the 52-week high | it is 2.5% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -2.5% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 105.2% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +105.2% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 2.5% below its highest point of the past year | 2.5% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day low about 7 trading days ago | 7 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day low about 7 trading days ago | 7 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $31.14 (set on 2007-01-11) | $31.14 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($1.17 to $2.43), and it has given back only a small part of its rise from last year’s low — 4% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $1.61 to $1.65. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 4.0% |
| From the all-time high | it is 92.4% below its all-time high | -92.4% |
| Nearest price level | it is trading 1.4% above a support level at $2.35 — a price it turned at twice since 2026-02-24, most recently on 2026-03-27. Since 2024-08-21 it has 10 such levels below the current price and 1 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | -1.4% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $0.3625 (set on 2020-03-23) | $0.3625 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 556.6% above its all-time low | +556.5% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are unusually wide versus its own recent history (wider than about 87% of the past ~6 months) | 87th percentile |
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| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $0.0293 between its high and its low — about 1.2% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $0.0293 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $2.33 and $2.46 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $2.33 – $2.39 – $2.46 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 1.2% in a typical session — among the calmest in the catalog. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 1.2% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 4.0 daily ranges above its 200-day average price (5.1% above it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 4.0 daily ranges above its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is about normal versus its 30-day average | 0.68× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts' average price target is unchanged from the prior reading | 0.0% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | the analyst consensus rating is unchanged since the prior reading | unchanged |
Candlestick patterns
1
| Since a doji | 8 sessions ago it opened and closed at almost the same price after trading through a wider range — a "doji", the classic picture of buyers and sellers finishing the session level | 8 sessions ago |
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Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it closed lower in its latest session, after a session that did not close lower — a single down day rather than a run | 1 session down |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock lagged the market by 3.2 percentage points (the stock lost 0.8% while the market gained 2.3%) | -3.2% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 3.9 percentage points (the stock lost 0.8% while the market gained 3.1%) | -3.9% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock lagged the market by 11.9 percentage points (the stock lost 0.8% while the market gained 11.1%) | -11.9% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock beat the market by 77.9 percentage points (the stock gained 98.3% while the market gained 20.5%) | +77.8% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 2 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bullish state: a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day, trading above its 200-day average — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 2 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 4 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: a strong downtrend, with sellers in control, MACD momentum is negative, lagging the market over 6 months, trading below the Ichimoku cloud — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 4 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading 1.0% below the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-07-16 and projected forward over today's price, the side traders read as an established downtrend, with the band above acting as the level that would have to be cleared. The band itself is thin, spanning 0.2% of the share price, which is taken to mean a barrier that gives way easily. | -1.0% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is sitting right on the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is roughly break-even. That average is $2.37 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 157 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | +0.3% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is 1% above the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-08-05 (its 10-Q), so the typical buyer over that stretch is showing a gain. That average is $2.35 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 13 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | +1.3% |
Price levels it has turned at before
CCO last closed at $2.38 on 2026-08-21. Since 2024-08-21 it has turned at 10 prices below its last close and 1 above; the 3 nearest below and the nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $2.35 | Support | 1.4% below the last close | turned there twice · 2026-02-24 to 2026-03-27 |
| $2.42 | Resistance | 1.6% above the last close | turned there four times · 2026-03-18 to 2026-06-26 |
| $2.28 | Support | 4.3% below the last close | turned there twice · 2026-01-02 to 2026-01-29 |
| $2.02 | Support | 15.0% below the last close | turned there twice · 2025-11-06 to 2025-12-30 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
No Elliott-wave labelling currently fits its swings: the recent highs and lows do not satisfy the three rules a five-wave count has to obey, so there is no count to show rather than a count we are unsure about.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-08-21.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading above the 200-day moving average · Near the 52-week high · lagging the market · Least volatile (2% or less typical daily range) · Trading at this year’s average price paid (anchored VWAP) · Trading below the Ichimoku cloud | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · macd · breakout · fifty two week high low
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-08-21. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Consensus ratingHold (3.00 mean, 1=Strong Buy…5=Strong Sell) — 2 analysts
- Mean price target$2.43 range $2.43 – $2.43
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-08-18. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["High financial leverage with $5.1 billion in long-term debt and negative stockholders' deficit of $3.4 billion, creating significant refinancing and solvency risks","Currently unprofitable with negative net margins (-5.55%) and ongoing operating losses from continuing operations despite revenue growth","Pending acquisition by consortium of Mubadala Capital and TWG Global at $2.43 per share may not close as expected due to regulatory approvals, Hart-Scott-Rodino requirements, and CFIUS review"]
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
0 open-market purchases and 8 open-market sales by insiders in the last 90 days.
- Last 90 days0 buys · 8 sells ($63M) — 1 selling insider
- Last 180 days0 buys · 8 sells ($63M) — 1 selling insider
Activity heuristic: net selling (a transparent product heuristic from the counts above, not a prediction or advice)
Most recent open-market transaction: 2026-06-15. As of 2026-08-24.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about CCO's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Institutional ownership (13F)
5 institutional 13F filers reported holding CCO as of 2026-03-31 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 5
- Reported shares held 15,569,412
- Reported value $36,899,506
reported quarterly holdings change (2025-12-31 → 2026-03-31): 0 new, 2 increased, 3 decreased, 0 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
Short interest (FINRA)
CCO had 25,712,865 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
CCO had 5.05% of its shares outstanding sold short as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (percent of FLOAT would be higher — float is not disclosed in the source). FINRA reported 4.62 days to cover at the same settlement.
- Reported short interest (shares) 25,712,865
- Short interest (% of shares outstanding) 5.05%
- Prior settlement (shares) 34,665,784
- Reported change -25.83%
- Days to cover (reported) 4.62
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-07-31 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Outfront Media
- Lamar Advertising
- iHeartMedia (advertising division)
- Gannett (digital advertising)
- Meredith Corporation (media platforms)
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Frequently asked questions
What does CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC (CCO) do?
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings operates as a leading provider of out-of-home (OOH) advertising solutions, offering advertisers access to high-traffic public spaces including roadside billboards, street furniture, and airport displays. The company leverages a diverse portfolio of physical assets to connect advertisers with millions of consumers monthly.
What sector is CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC (CCO) in?
CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC (CCO) is classified in the Communication Services sector. Its industry is Out-of-home (OOH) advertising and outdoor media. It trades on NYSE.
Who are CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC's (CCO) competitors?
Notable peers of CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC (CCO) include Outfront Media, Lamar Advertising, iHeartMedia (advertising division), Gannett (digital advertising) and Meredith Corporation (media platforms). This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Is CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC (CCO) overbought or oversold right now?
CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR HOLDINGS INC (CCO) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 47, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-08-21). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on CCO come from?
Fundamentals and prices come from market data, as of 2026-08-24; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: market data, as of 2026-08-24. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-08-21.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.