LEE ENTERPRISES LEE

Publishing, Communication Services

$6.32

−2.32%

Market cap: $140.9M
PE: n/m; a loss over the last year
Forward PE: n/m; not a meaningful number
Price to sales: 0.3×
EV/EBIT: 20.7×
Revenue, 12 months: $517.1M; −11% on a year ago
Net margin: −1.8%
Free cash flow yield: −0.4%

LEE ENTERPRISES trades at 0.3× sales. Its trailing earnings are negative, so it has no PE. Revenue was $517.1M over the last twelve months, down 11% on a year earlier with a −2% net margin.

Charts

Financials

Income statement for LEE, by quarter
Income statement	Q4 FY23	Q1 FY24	Q2 FY24	Q3 FY24	Q4 FY24	Q1 FY25	Q2 FY25	Q3 FY25	Q4 FY25	Q1 FY26	Q2 FY26	Q3 FY26
	$164M−15%	$155.7M−16%	$146.6M−14%	$150.6M−12%	$158.6M−3%	$144.6M−7%	$137.4M−6%	$141.3M−6%	$139.1M−12%	$130.1M−10%	$122M−11%	$126M−11%
	$10.9M	$7.8M−30%	−$4.6M	$4.9M−60%	−$3.7M	−$3.4M	−$4.5M−1%	$4.7M−5%	−$1.5M−60%	$5.2M	$8.5M	$8.6M+85%
Interest expense	$10.3M+0%	$10.1M−3%	$10.2M−3%	$10.1M−2%	$10.8M+5%	$10.3M+2%	$9.9M−3%	$10.1M+1%	$10.1M−6%	$10.2M−0%	$7.6M−23%	$5.6M−45%
Pre-tax income	−$438K−95%	$1.5M−35%	−$14.5M+95%	−$4.5M	−$13.7M+3017%	−$13M	−$13.8M−5%	−$4.4M−3%	−$11.5M−16%	−$4.2M−68%	$1.7M	$6.6M
	$888K	$248K−44%	−$2.8M+37%	−$849K	−$4.2M	$3.2M+1208%	−$1.8M−37%	−$2.7M+223%	−$5.6M+35%	$931K−71%	$3.4M	$1.4M
Net income	−$2M−72%	$688K−37%	−$12.2M+107%	−$4.3M	−$10.1M+409%	−$16.7M	−$12.5M+3%	−$1.9M−55%	−$6.4M−36%	−$5.6M−67%	−$2.1M−83%	$4.7M
	−$0.34−72%	$0.12−37%	−$2.06+104%	−$0.73	−$1.65+385%	−$2.80	−$2.07+1%	−$0.31−58%	−$1.05−36%	−$0.92−67%	−$0.16−92%	$0.21
	5.8M+1%	5.9M+1%	5.9M+2%	5.9M−1%	6.1M+4%	6M+1%	6M+2%	6.1M+4%	6.1M+0%	6.1M+2%	13.8M+128%	22.3M+265%

EPS, diluted: Q4 FY10 and Q4 FY11: quarter's net income to common over its shares, to the cent, the shares from counts implied by EPS, near the year's EPS less the nine months'. 5 periods, Q4 FY21 to Q4 FY25: quarter's net income to common over its shares, to the cent.

Diluted shares: 8 periods, Q4 FY11 to Q4 FY25: a loss quarter: its basic count, share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days. 7 periods, Q4 FY14 to Q4 FY21: share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days.

From each company's 10-Q and 10-K filings, the newest version of each figure. Quarters are as filed (a fourth quarter is the year less its first nine months), fiscal years as the 10-K prints them, restated where a later 10-K restated them, and balance sheet lines as of the period's end. A quarter whose 10-Q isn't filed yet is from the company's results release. Growth is on the same period a year earlier. A dash is a period with no figure for the line: the filing doesn't print it, or it hasn't been read yet.

Peers

Companies in Publishing nearest LEE ENTERPRISES' size, closest first.

Company	Market cap	PE	Its 10y median PE	P/S	Revenue growth	Net margin
LEELEE ENTERPRISES	$140.9M	n/m	6.8×	0.3×	−11%	−1.8%
PMTSCPI Card	$310.1M	23.4×	13.3×	0.5×	+17%	2.3%
ACCOACCO BRANDS	$421.8M	7.4×	9.5×	0.3×	−1%	3.7%
EBFEnnis	$573.2M	14.8×	14.0×	1.4×	+2%	9.8%
SCHLScholastic	$708.8M	27.5×	31.1×	0.5×	−3%	3.6%
DLXDeluxe	$1.1B	10.7×	15.3×	0.5×	+0%	4.8%
Peer median	$573.2M	14.8×	14.0×	0.5×	+0%	3.7%