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Earnings call · FY2023 Q4

TEGNA INC Q4 FY2023 Earnings Call

TEGNA INC Q4 FY2023 Earnings Call

Concluded Feb 29, 2024
Feb 29, 2024 39 turns
Period
FY2023 Q4
Runtime
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Executive readout · one minute

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Digital Growth via Premion and Octillion 45 Capital Allocation and Shareholder Returns 36 Advertising Recovery 17 Local Sports Rights Acquisition 10 Distribution and Retransmission 7 Cost Efficiency and AI 6

Management tone

Confident

Net tone +62 · low hedging

Grounding quotes
  • “we met or exceeded all our full year 2023 guidance metrics”
  • “we now have affiliate agreements with almost all of our Big 4 subscribers extending through late 2026 or beyond”
  • “Based on current projections, we expect to generate free cash flow between $900 million and $1.1 billion during 2024 and 2025”
  • “we expect political spending to be robust”

Forward guidance

7 guided metrics

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Revenue · derived Q4 $725.85M -20.9% YoY
Net income · derived Q4 $76.13M -65.2% YoY

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Guidance from the call

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Metric Guided
Depreciation expenses Initiated
full year 2024
$56M – $60M
Amortization Initiated
full year 2024
$46M – $48M
Effective tax rate Initiated
full year 2024
23.5% – 24.5%
Capital expenditures Initiated
full year 2024
$62M – $67M
Interest expenses Initiated
full year 2024
$170M – $173M
Two-year free cash flow guidance
2024 and 2025
$900M – $1.1B
Corporate expenses Initiated
full-year 2024
$40M – $45M

Quarter detail

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Capital returned

Buybacks · derived
$325.00M
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