CUMULUS MEDIA INC financial metrics

Professional SEC-based dashboard for profitability, financial health, and growth with transparent scoring logic. Latest period: Q3 2025.

Symbol
CMLS on OTC
Location
Atlanta, GA
Fiscal year end
31 December
Latest financial report
30 Oct 2025

Quick Takeaways

  • CMLS - CUMULUS MEDIA INC financial facts are built from SEC company filings data.
  • Latest metrics period on this page: Q3 2025.
  • Headline metric: Return On Equity -330%.

What Changed

  • Return On Equity YoY change: <span class="text-green-600">+581%</span>.
  • Most recent SEC facts end date: 30 Sep 2025.

Why This Matters

  • This gives a beginner-friendly first read before you inspect detailed formulas and metric tables.
  • Every metric card links to a deeper SEC-backed history page for verification.

Official SEC Source

Based on latest 10-Q/10-K

Facts and ratios are grounded in SEC company facts linked to the latest 10-Q/10-K cycle.

See Original Filing

Latest SEC snapshot (2025-09-30) highlights Return On Equity -329.9%, Return On Assets -24.3%, and Operating Margin -31.3%.

Financial Quality Score

Transparent 0-100 scoring model based on profitability, financial health, and growth factors.

26.3/100

Weak Confidence high

Return On Equity

-330%

Metric score 0.0/100

Return On Assets

-24%

Metric score 0.0/100

Financial Health

Current Ratio
1.74x
Quick Ratio
1.47x
Debt to Equity
-40.1x

Strengths

Current Ratio and Quick Ratio

Watchpoints

Return On Equity, Return On Assets, and Operating Margin

Key metrics snapshot

Profitability

Metric Latest value YoY change
Return On Equity -330% +581%
Return On Assets -24% +133%
Operating Margin -31% +240%

Financial Health

Metric Latest value YoY change
Current Ratio 1.74x -8%
Quick Ratio 1.47x -10%
Debt-to-equity -40.1x -1015%

Growth

Metric Latest value YoY change
Revenues YoY -6.9%
NetIncomeLoss YoY -97%

Share Metrics

Metric Latest value YoY change
Common Stock, Shares, Outstanding 17,440,084 +2.7%
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Basic 17,440,084 +3%
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Diluted 17,440,084 +3%

Additional Metrics

Metric Latest value YoY change
Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax $772,197,000 -6.9%
General and Administrative Expense $70,627,000 -6.4%
Operating Income (Loss) $241,691,000 -216%
Nonoperating Income (Expense) $65,134,000 -21%
Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations before Income Taxes, Noncontrolling Interest $306,825,000 -136%
Income Tax Expense (Benefit) $10,150,000 -151%
Earnings Per Share, Basic -17 -97%
Earnings Per Share, Diluted -17 -97%
Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value $90,414,000 +73%
Accounts Receivable, after Allowance for Credit Loss, Current $134,182,000 -20%
Assets, Current $265,363,000 +4.3%
Property, Plant and Equipment, Net $121,912,000 -27%
Operating Lease, Right-of-Use Asset $102,082,000 -3.9%
Intangible Assets, Net (Excluding Goodwill) $581,654,000 -30%
Other Assets, Noncurrent $7,206,000 -40%
Assets $1,078,217,000 -21%
Liabilities, Current $152,309,000 +13%
Deferred Income Tax Liabilities, Net $3,817,000 -74%
Operating Lease, Liability, Noncurrent $96,250,000 -4.9%
Other Liabilities, Noncurrent $7,939,000 +38%
Liabilities $1,135,135,000 +0.67%
Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit) $370,252,000 -403%
Stockholders' Equity Attributable to Parent $56,918,000 -124%
Liabilities and Equity $1,078,217,000 -21%
Common Stock, Shares, Issued 23,255,195 +3.5%
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Restricted Cash and Restricted Cash Equivalents $90,414,000 +73%
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, at Federal Statutory Income Tax Rate, Percent 0.21 0%
Operating Lease, Liability, Current $27,660,000 +4.6%
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized 100,000,000 0%

How we score

This score is transparent and deterministic. We weight profitability, financial health, and growth metrics, then renormalize weights when SEC data is missing.

Metric Weight V1 threshold
ROIC205% to 20%
ROE158% to 25%
ROA102% to 10%
Operating Margin55% to 25%
Current Ratio121.0x to 2.0x
Quick Ratio80.8x to 1.5x
Debt to Equity100.3x to 2.0x (lower is better)
Revenue YoY10-10% to +20%
Net Income YoY10-10% to +20%

How Calculated (standard_v1)

Metrics are computed with a market-consensus convention designed for cross-portal comparability.

  • TTM Operating Income / TTM Revenues
  • Current Assets / Current Liabilities (latest instant quarter)
  • (Current Assets - Inventory) / Current Liabilities; fallback: (Cash+Short-Term Investments + Accounts Receivable) / Current Liabilities
  • Total Debt / Stockholders Equity (latest instant quarter; shared unit; freshest series)
  • TTM Net Income / Average Equity (current quarter + same quarter previous year) / 2
  • TTM Net Income / Average Assets (current quarter + same quarter previous year) / 2
  • TTM NOPAT / Average Invested Capital, where NOPAT=Operating Income*(1-tax rate), Invested Capital=Equity+Total Debt-Cash & ST Investments
  • TTM Revenues YoY
  • TTM Net Income YoY