Company: CCO
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001334978-25-000037
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Company: Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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 preparation of our financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that impact the reported amounts of revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities, and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. These estimates and judgments are based on historical experience and assumptions that management believes are reasonable under the circumstances. We regularly evaluate these estimates, as they form the basis for judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses, that may not be readily apparent from other sources. Since future events cannot be predicted with certainty, actual results may differ from these estimates, and such differences could be material.

There have been no material changes to the critical accounting estimates, management's judgments and assumptions, and the potential effects if actual results differ from the assumptions that were disclosed in Item 7 of our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K, except that the critical accounting estimate set forth under “Goodwill” is updated as follows:

Goodwill

We perform an impairment test on goodwill at least annually, as of July 1, or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate potential impairment. Our impairment testing is based on a discounted cash flow approach, which estimates future cash flows expected to be generated by the related assets, discounted to their present value using a risk-adjusted discount rate. Terminal values are also estimated and discounted to their present value.

Assessing the recoverability of goodwill requires significant judgment and assumptions, including revenue growth rates; earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) margins; and the discount rate. These assumptions are based on our budgets, business plans, economic projections and marketplace data. The following assumptions were used in our annual impairment test performed as of July 1, 2025, which did not result in any impairment, to determine the fair value of our reporting units:

•Expected cash flows for the initial 4.5-year period were based on detailed, multi-year forecasts from each operating segment, reflecting the advertising outlook across our businesses.

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•Cash flows were projected to grow at a perpetual growth rate of 3.0%.

•A discount rate of 10.0% was applied to each reporting unit.

Based on this analysis, a hypothetical 10% reduction in the estimated fair value of each reporting unit with goodwill would not have resulted in an impairment.

Additionally, the table below shows the decrease in the fair value of each reporting unit that would have resulted from a 100-basis-point decrease in revenue growth and E