Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NXST)
Insiders filed in the last 90 days, but none of those trades qualified for scoring — round-trip buys and filings whose price is far off the market are excluded.
Profitable, but on a thin margin.
- Revenue
- $6.96B
- Net income
- $188.0M
- Net margin
- 2.7%
Heavily indebted for what it earns.
- Total debt
- $12.09B
- Cash
- $218.0M
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 7.77x
Comfortably covers what is due within a year.
- Current assets
- $2.00B
- Current liabilities
- $1.28B
- Current ratio
- 1.56
The business funds itself from operations.
- Operating cash flow
- $894.0M
- Free cash flow
- $743.0M
- FCF margin
- 10.7%
Not funding itself by issuing shares.
- Shares outstanding
- 30.6M
- Share growth (1y)
- 0.8%
Five pillars — profitability, leverage, liquidity, cash generation, dilution & runway — each scored 0–20 from the company’s own income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow statement, then scaled to 100. A pillar the statements cannot answer is left out rather than guessed; fewer than three and no score is shown.
NXST Income Statement
| Fiscal Period | Q2 2026 | Q1 2026 | Q4 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q1 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period Ending | Jun 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Dec 31, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 |
| Revenue | 3.08 B | 1.40 B | 1.29 B | 1.20 B | 1.23 B | 1.23 B |
| Revenue Growth (YoY) | 150.61 % | 13.13 % | -13.32 % | -12.30 % | -3.15 % | -3.89 % |
| Cost of Revenue | 1.09 B | 732.00 M | 758.00 M | 752.00 M | 557.00 M | 551.00 M |
| Gross Profit | 1.99 B | 664.00 M | 531.00 M | 446.00 M | 672.00 M | 683.00 M |
| SG&A Expense | 457.00 M | 0.00 | 208.00 M | 270.00 M | 262.00 M | 257.00 M |
| R&D Expense | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Operating Expenses | 1.63 B | 399.00 M | 275.00 M | 271.00 M | 459.00 M | 463.00 M |
| Operating Income | 362.00 M | 265.00 M | 256.00 M | 175.00 M | 213.00 M | 220.00 M |
| Pretax Income | 177.00 M | 153.00 M | -214.00 M | 96.00 M | 130.00 M | 138.00 M |
| Tax Provision | 64.00 M | -7.00 M | -44.00 M | 31.00 M | 39.00 M | 41.00 M |
| Net Income | 120.00 M | 164.00 M | -166.00 M | 70.00 M | 97.00 M | 108.00 M |
| EPS (Basic) | 3.69 | 5.40 | -5.63 | 2.18 | 3.09 | 3.41 |
| EPS (Diluted) | 3.66 | 5.09 | -5.64 | 2.14 | 3.06 | 3.37 |
| Shares Outstanding | 30.61 M | 30.37 M | 30.33 M | 30.36 M | 30.38 M | 30.53 M |
Quarterly figures; YoY compares the same fiscal quarter a year earlier. Source: public market data.