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Lamar acquires five new markets in $418.5M deal

Published 12/21/2018, 12:42 PM
© Reuters.  Lamar acquires five new markets in $418.5M deal
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  • Lamar Advertising (LAMR +0.7%) acquires Fairway Outdoor Advertising's billboard operations in five U.S. markets from GTCR for $418.5M.
  • The acquisition adds more than 8,500 billboard faces in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
  • In addition, the company expects to make quarterly distributions to shareholders in 2019 in the aggregate amount of $3.84 per share, a 5.2% increase over aggregate distributions paid or to be paid in 2018 of $3.65.
  • More details on the acquisition: Lamar sees it adding about $70.0M in revenue in 2019. The purchase price represents about 12x Fairway's trailing EBITDA.
  • Previously: Lamar Advertising -8.4% after Q3 results (Nov. 8)


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