E.W. SCRIPPS Co (NASDAQ:SSP)
Insiders here have filed 3 Form 4s in the last 90 days, but all of them are share awards, grants or other non-market transactions. Those are compensation, not a decision to buy, so they are not scored.
Loses money on what it sells.
- Revenue
- $2.11B
- Net income
- -$1.16B
- Net margin
- -54.9%
Heavily indebted for what it earns.
- Total debt
- $2.53B
- Cash
- $83.4M
- Debt / equity
- 17.74
Covers near-term obligations, without much room.
- Current assets
- $627.7M
- Current liabilities
- $444.8M
- Current ratio
- 1.41
The business funds itself from operations.
- Operating cash flow
- $194.0M
- Free cash flow
- $148.3M
- FCF margin
- 7.0%
Not funding itself by issuing shares.
- Shares outstanding
- 92.7M
- Share growth (1y)
- 5.6%
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.
SSP Income Statement
| Fiscal Period | Q3 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q1 2026 | Q4 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q2 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period Ending | Sep 30, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | Dec 31, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 |
| Revenue | $544.86 M | $490.40 M | $516.87 M | $560.26 M | $525.85 M | $540.08 M |
| Revenue Growth (YoY) | 3.61 % | -9.20 % | -1.43 % | -23.08 % | -18.64 % | -5.85 % |
| Cost of Revenue | $286.36 M | $294.07 M | $346.14 M | $483.19 M | $311.31 M | $313.69 M |
| Gross Profit | $258.50 M | $196.33 M | $170.73 M | $77.06 M | $214.54 M | $226.39 M |
| SG&A Expense | $140.24 M | $147.09 M | $145.83 M | $0.00 | $137.76 M | $143.39 M |
| R&D Expense | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Operating Expenses | $191.22 M | $1.35 B | $145.83 M | $56.53 M | $176.92 M | $149.79 M |
| Operating Income | $67.29 M | -$1.16 B | $24.90 M | $20.53 M | $37.62 M | $76.60 M |
| Pretax Income | $11.63 M | -$1.21 B | -$4.45 M | -$40.75 M | -$37.19 M | -$25.11 M |
| Tax Provision | -$26.03 M | -$57.02 M | -$2.66 M | -$12.24 M | -$4.23 M | $10.85 M |
| Net Income | $37.66 M | -$1.17 B | -$1.79 M | -$28.50 M | -$32.96 M | -$35.96 M |
| EPS (Basic) | $0.22 | -$12.68 | -$0.20 | -$0.51 | -$0.55 | -$0.59 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $0.21 | -$12.68 | -$0.20 | -$0.51 | -$0.55 | -$0.59 |
| Shares Outstanding | 92.70 M | 92.09 M | 89.77 M | 88.76 M | 87.77 M | 87.92 M |
Quarterly figures; YoY compares the same fiscal quarter a year earlier. Source: public market data.