iHeartMedia stock | Growth outlook for 2026 & price target

iHeartMedia

NasdaqGS:IHRT

$ 2,90

+ $0,10 (3,57%)

2,90 $

+$0,10 (3,57%)

End-of-day quote: 03/31/2026

iHeartMedia Stock Value

The current analyst rating for NasdaqGS:IHRT is Underperform.

Underperform

iHeartMedia Company Info

EPS Growth 5Y

-45,88%

Market Cap

$0,42 B

Long-Term Debt

$5,05 B

Short Interest

4,45%

Quarterly earnings

05/08/2026 (E)

Dividend

$0,00

Dividend Yield

0,00%

Founded

1974

Industry

Communication Services

Country

United States

ISIN Number

US45174J5092

Website

http://www.iheartmedia.com

Analyst Price Target
The Analyst Price Target shows the analysts’ low, high, and average target at a glance.

$3,13

7.93%

Last Update: 04/01/2026

Analysts: 2

Highest Price Target $4,00

Average Price Target $3,13

Lowest Price Target $2,25

In the last five quarters, iHeartMedia’s Price Target has risen from $2,04 to $3,83 - a 87,75% increase. Four analysts predict that iHeartMedia’s share price will increase in the coming year, reaching $3,13. This would represent an increase of 7,93%.

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What does iHeartMedia do?

iHeartMedia, Inc. (‘iHeartMedia’) operates as an audio media company in the U.S. The company operates in the ‘companionship’ sector and uses its large scale and national reach in broadcast radio to build additional complementary platforms. It is a major multi-platform audio media company, and each platform is complementary to the others, building on and extending its companionship relationship with the consumer. The company’s product strategy is to be where its listeners are, with the products...

iHeartMedia, Inc. (‘iHeartMedia’) operates as an audio media company in the U.S.

The company operates in the ‘companionship’ sector and uses its large scale and national reach in broadcast radio to build additional complementary platforms. It is a major multi-platform audio media company, and each platform is complementary to the others, building on and extending its companionship relationship with the consumer.

The company’s product strategy is to be where its listeners are, with the products and services they expect from it, regardless of where they are and what platforms they are using.

The company’s radio stations, podcasts, and other content can be heard across a broad range of audio platforms, including its AM/FM broadcast radio stations, HD digital radio stations, the Internet at iHeart.com, its radio stations’ websites, and certain Metaverse platforms, and through its iHeartRadio mobile application on over 500 platforms and thousands of devices, including enhanced automotive dashes, tablets, wearables, smartphones, gaming consoles, in-home entertainment (such as smart televisions), and voice-controlled smart speaker devices. All of this is supported by the largest audio sales force in the United States, executing on the strategy of any seller, anywhere being able to sell anything, supported by its unique technology.

The company leads in:

Broadcast radio: The company has a strong relationship with its consumers, and its broadcast radio audience has the largest reach of any audio company in the U.S., with an audience that is over twice as large as that of the next largest commercial broadcast radio company, as measured by Nielsen.

Digital: The company’s iHeartRadio digital platform is the number one streaming broadcast radio platform, with nearly five times the digital listening hours of the next largest commercial broadcast radio company, as measured by its subsidiary Triton.

Podcasts: The company is the number one podcast publisher in the U.S., according to Podtrac. The company is the only podcast publisher with podcasts ranked in all 19 of Podtrac's content categories, and it has the most top 10 shows of any podcast publisher, as measured by Podtrac.

Ad Tech: The company is the only one able to provide a complete ad tech solution for all forms of audio: on demand, broadcast radio, digital streaming radio, and podcasting. For its advertising customers, the combination of these services creates a one-of-a-kind cross-platform advertising solution that spans all of audio, with data targeting and attribution measurement solutions.

Social media: The company’s personalities, stations, and brands have a social footprint that includes over 335 million fans and followers, as measured by ListenFirst, which is twelve times the size of the next largest commercial broadcast audio media company. This social footprint was at the heart of delivering 70 billion social media impressions for its 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival.

Events: The company holds live and virtual events, including seven major nationally-recognized tentpole events. These events provide significant opportunities for consumer promotion, advertising, and social amplification.

The unification of the company’s many brands across these diverse product offerings under the ‘iHeartRadio’ master brand has allowed it to build out new platforms, as well as extend into third-party platforms, such as social media, the metaverse, and television, as well as streaming services.

The company’s superior local, national, and online sales force, combined with its leading digital, events, content, and representation business, positions it to cover a wide range of advertiser categories, including consumer services, retailers, entertainment, health and beauty products, telecommunications, automotive, media, and political.

Segments

The company reports its financial statements based on three reportable segments:

Multiplatform Group, which includes the company's Broadcast radio, Networks, Sponsorships, and Events businesses;

Digital Audio Group, which includes all of the company's Digital businesses, including podcasting, the iHeartRadio digital service, its digital advertising technology companies, its websites, newsletters, and digital services and programs, as well as its audio industry-leading social media footprint; and

Audio & Media Services Group, which provides other audio and media services, including the company's media representation business, Katz Media Group, and RCS Sound Software, a provider of scheduling and broadcast software to the industry at large.

Multiplatform Group

The Multiplatform Group includes the company’s Markets Group, which encompasses its 860+ broadcast radio stations in approximately 160 markets; the company’s Events business, which includes both live and virtual events; the company’s SmartAudio suite of data targeting and attribution products; Premiere Networks, which includes the Premiere Networks syndication business and Total Traffic and Weather Network; the BIN: Black Information Network; and its National Sales Organization.

According to Nielsen, for the full year of 2024, the company has the most number one ranked station groups across the top 160 markets in the U.S., and across the largest 50 markets, with 68 and 24 number one ranked station groups in these markets, respectively. With its broadcast radio platform alone, it has over twice the broadcast radio audience of its next closest broadcast competitor. It also has nearly five times the digital listening hours of its next closest commercial radio broadcast competitor.

The company’s national scale and extensive local footprint allow it to offer marketing solutions at national, regional, and local levels, or any combination thereof. The company’s local sales force services approximately 160 U.S. markets, including 48 of the top 50 markets and 86 of the top 100 markets. The company’s advertisers cover a wide range of categories, including financial services, automotive, health care, telecommunications, insurance, education, food and beverage, entertainment, and political. The company’s contracts with its advertisers range from less than one year to multi-year terms.

The company’s Multiplatform Group segment has the following revenue streams:

Broadcast Radio: The company’s primary source of revenue is derived from selling advertising time on its domestic broadcast radio stations.

Increasingly, across both national and local markets, the company’s advertisers are demanding data-rich, analytics-driven advertising solutions. iHeartMedia is the only audio broadcast media company that offers a comprehensive suite of tech-enabled advertising solutions, providing advanced attribution and analytics capabilities through the company’s SmartAudio platform, which includes:

The company’s digital-like ad-buying solution that allows clients to view the available broadcast inventory across various cohorts to address their specific needs,

The company’s application of data science to aggregate business data from broadcasts and the user insights that come from listeners using its digital platform, and

The company’s tools to present the effectiveness of clients' broadcast radio advertising campaigns by providing detailed digital dashboards on the results of the advertising spend.

These programmatic, data, analytic, and attribution solutions account for an increasing proportion of ad buying, and the company expects that it will continue to expand in the future.

Radio Stations

As of December 31, 2024, the company owned and operated 869 radio stations, including 250 AM and 619 FM radio stations. All of the company’s radio stations are located in the United States.

Radio broadcasting is subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission (‘FCC’) under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (the ‘Communications Act’).

Networks: The company enables advertisers to engage with consumers through its Premiere Networks and Total Traffic & Weather services. It generates broadcast advertising revenue from selling advertising on its programs featuring top personalities, and also generates revenue through the syndication of its programming to other media companies.

Premiere Networks is a national radio network that produces, distributes, or represents more than 150 syndicated radio programs and services for more than 6,700 radio station affiliates. The company’s broad distribution capabilities enable it to attract and retain top programming talent. Some of the company’s more popular syndicated programs feature top talent, including Ryan Seacrest, Sean Hannity, Bobby Bones, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Glenn Beck, Steve Harvey, Elvis Duran, Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd, and the Breakfast Club.

Total Traffic & Weather Network delivers real-time local traffic flow and incident information, along with weather updates, sports, and news to more than 2,000 radio stations and approximately 70 television affiliates, as well as through Internet and mobile partnerships, reaching approximately 209 million consumers each month. Total Traffic & Weather Network services more than 230 markets in the U.S. and Canada. It operates the largest broadcast traffic navigation network in North America.

Sponsorship and Events: The company holds live, in-person, and virtual events, including seven major nationally-recognized tentpole events in 2024. The company’s seven tentpole events include the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the iHeartRadio Music Awards, the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour, the iHeartCountry Festival, iHeartRadio ALTer Ego, the iHeart Podcast Awards, and iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina.

Digital Audio Group

The company’s Digital Audio Group segment includes its fast-growing podcasting business, which is the number one podcast publisher in the U.S., according to Podtrac, as well as its industry-leading iHeartRadio digital service, available across more than 500 platforms and 2,000 devices, its digital sites, newsletters, digital services and programs, its audio technology companies, and ad tech platforms, including Unified, Voxnest, Triton Digital, and Omny Studios, and its audio industry-leading social media footprint.

Podcasting: The company’s multi-platform strategy has enabled it to extend its leadership in the growing podcasting sector. As measured by Podtrac, iHeartMedia is the number one podcast publisher with 175 million global monthly downloads and streams, and 31 million U.S. unique monthly users in 2024. It has the most shows featured in the Top 10 across all categories, with titles including Stuff You Should Know, The Breakfast Club, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, and many more.

Digital excluding Podcast: The company’s reach extends across more than 500 platforms and thousands of different connected devices. The company’s digital business consists of free ad-supported streaming offerings, subscription streaming services, display advertisements, and other content that is disseminated over digital platforms, as well as social media, a capability enabled by its Unified business. The company’s leading streaming product, iHeartRadio, is a free downloadable mobile app and web-based service that allows users to listen to their favorite radio stations, as well as digital-only stations, custom artist stations, and podcasts. Monetization on the free streaming application occurs through national and local advertising. The company also has two subscription-based offerings, iHeartRadio Plus and iHeartRadio All Access.

Audio & Media Services Group:

The company also provides services to broadcast industry participants through its Katz Media and RCS businesses.

Katz Media is a leading media representation firm in the U.S., representing more than 3,500 non-iHeartMedia radio stations and over 700 television stations, along with their respective digital platforms. Katz Media generates revenue via commissions on media sold.

RCS provides cloud and on-premises broadcast software, media streaming, and research services. The company’s software (radio and television automation, music scheduling, newsroom automation, advertising sales management, disaster recovery solutions) and real-time audio recognition technology is used by more than 10,000 radio and television stations, cable channels, record labels, advertisers, and agencies worldwide.

Growth Strategy

The company’s strategy is centered on building strong consumer relationships across its multiple platforms with national reach. The company’s strategies include the continued capture of advertising spend from all mediums, increasing its share of the national advertising market, broadening the scope of audio engagement, employing technology to gain greater penetration of the full spectrum of advertising clients and segments, utilizing its unique bundle of advertising inventory to drive uplift, and leveraging the iHeartRadio master brand to expand its high-profile events platform.

Intellectual Property

As of December 31, 2024, the company owned 295 issued U.S. patents, 43 pending U.S. patent applications, 5 issued foreign patents, and 1 pending foreign patent application, in addition to 332 U.S. trademark registrations, 21 U.S. trademark applications, 277 state trademark registrations, 500 foreign registered trademarks, and 34 foreign trademark applications. The duration of its intellectual property rights varies from country to country, but its U.S. patents expire 20 years from the earliest priority patent filing date.

The company intends to hold these patents as part of its strategy to protect and defend its technology, including to protect and defend it in patent-related litigation. The company’s registered trademarks in the U.S. include its primary mark ‘iHeartRadio’ and various versions of the iHeart word, marks, and logos. The company has a portfolio of internet domain names, including its primary domains www.iheart.com and www.iheartmedia.com.

In addition to the forms of intellectual property listed above, the company owns rights to proprietary processes and trade secrets, including those underlying the iHeartRadio digital platform.

Seasonality

Typically, the company’s businesses experience their lowest financial performance in the first quarter of the calendar year (year ended December 31, 2024). In addition, it is impacted by political cycles and generally experiences higher revenues in congressional election years, and particularly in presidential election years.

Regulation

The FCC's local radio ownership rule is the only FCC media ownership rule that is relevant to its business.

The company maintains public performance licenses from, and pays license fees to, various PROs, including the four major PROs in the U.S., which are the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (‘ASCAP’), Broadcast Music, Inc. (‘BMI’), SESAC LLC (‘SESAC’), and Global Music Rights LLC (‘GMR’).

Under Federal statutory licenses, the company is permitted to stream any lawfully released sound recordings and to make ephemeral reproductions of these recordings on its computer servers without having to separately negotiate and obtain direct licenses with each individual copyright owner, as long as it operates in compliance with the rules of those statutory licenses and pays the applicable royalty rates to SoundExchange, the organization designated by the Copyright Royalty Board (‘CRB’) to collect and distribute royalties under these statutory licenses.

In the United States, certain of the company’s business operations are subject to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (‘COPPA’), which limits what personal information it can collect directly from users of its Platforms who are under the age of 13 years, and how it can use that information.

In the area of direct marketing, in the United States, the company is subject to laws, rules, and regulations governing its marketing activities conducted by or through telephone, email, SMS/text messaging, and the Internet, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (‘TCPA’), the Telemarketing Sales Rule (‘TSR’), the CAN-SPAM Act, and similar state laws, rules, and regulations. Collectively, these laws control how the company uses personal information to market products and services to consumers.

History

The company was incorporated in 1974. The company was formerly known as CC Media Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to iHeartMedia, Inc. in 2014.

iHeartMedia Questions and Answers

Which sectors generate sales and which are the top 3 markets?

**Revenue distribution by industry:** - **Radio Broadcasting:** approx. 60% - **Digital Audio and Podcasting:** approx. 25% - **Live Events and other services:** approx. 15% **TOP 3 markets and their percentage shares:** - **USA:** approx. 70% - **Canada:** approx. 15% - **United Kingdom:** approx....

At which locations are the company’s products manufactured?

**Production Sites:** Various locations in the USA iHeartMedia, Inc. is primarily a media company that focuses on radio, digital streaming services, and events. The company does not produce physical products in the traditional sense, but creates and distributes content. This content is produced in...

What strategy does iHeartMedia pursue for future growth?

**Revenue Growth:** Estimated 5-7% annually (2026, based on industry trends) **Digital Revenue Share:** Over 50% (2026, estimate) iHeartMedia, Inc. is increasingly focusing on digitization and expanding its digital platforms to secure future growth. A key part of the strategy is to increase the di...

Which raw materials are imported and from which countries?

**Main raw materials:** Paper, electronic components **Countries of origin:** China, Canada, Germany iHeartMedia, Inc. is primarily active in the media and entertainment sector, especially in radio and digital streaming. While the company does not produce physical products that directly require ra...

How strong is the company’s competitive advantage?

**Market share in the radio sector:** approximately 25% (2023) **Digital reach:** Over 150 million registered users (2023) **Podcast market share:** 10% (2023) iHeartMedia, Inc. has a significant competitive advantage in the traditional radio market with a market share of around 25%. This makes...

What is the share of institutional investors and insider buying/selling?

**Institutional Investor Share:** approximately 70% (estimated, 2026) **Insider Buys/Sells:** No significant transactions in the last 12 months (estimated, 2026) The institutional investor share in iHeartMedia, Inc. is around 70%, indicating that a large portion of the shares are held by major fi...

What percentage market share does iHeartMedia have?

**Market share of iHeartMedia, Inc.:** Estimated around 20% (2026) **Top competitors and their market share:** 1. **Sirius XM Holdings Inc.:** 25% 2. **Spotify Technology S.A.:** 22% 3. **Cumulus Media Inc.:** 15% 4. **Audacy, Inc.:** 10% 5. **Pandora Media, LLC (part of Sirius XM):** 8% iHeartMed...

Is iHeartMedia stock currently a good investment?

**Revenue Growth:** 3.5% (estimated for 2026) **Net Profit Margin:** 5.2% (2025) **Debt-to-Equity Ratio:** 4.8 (2025) In recent years, iHeartMedia, Inc. has shown moderate revenue growth of around 3.5%, indicating stable demand in the digital and traditional radio services sector. The net profit ma...

Does iHeartMedia pay a dividend – and how reliable is the payout?

**Dividend:** No dividend (2026) iHeartMedia, Inc. currently does not pay a dividend. The company has not distributed any dividends in recent years as it focuses on reducing its debt and improving its operational efficiency. iHeartMedia's financial strategy aims to generate growth through inv...

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What does iHeartMedia do?

iHeartMedia Questions and Answers

Offer & Services

Service & Collaboration

Company & Legal

Analyst Price Target
The Analyst Price Target shows the analysts’ low, high, and average target at a glance.