NXSTNexstar Media Group, Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (1.1×), but margins compressing and returns that lean on debt.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
Leverage-amplified, a high assets-to-equity ratio does much of the work. ROE 11% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is NXST?
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. earns 6.0% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.0 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 18%
Operating margin · Communication Services median 7.6% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.08×
Cash conversion · 1.66× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +1.3%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 31% |
| FY2021 | 25% |
| FY2022 | 25% |
| FY2023 | 14% |
| FY2024 | 23% |
| FY2025 | 17% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 55%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 18%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 3.2%
- Free cash flow margin
- 13%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $5.88B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $743M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $188M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.0%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.