How to buy Cumulus Media stock | 6.47

Cumulus Media Inc is a broadcasting business based in the US. Cumulus Media shares (CMLS) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Cumulus Media employs 3,139 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$940.2 million.

How to buy shares in Cumulus Media

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3. Search for Cumulus Media. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: CMLS. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Cumulus Media reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$6.47, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Cumulus Media, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Cumulus Media. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Cumulus Media's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Cumulus Media's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$6.47, which is 54.56% down on its pre-crash value of USD$14.24 and 50.12% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$4.31.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Cumulus Media shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$318.02 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$457.23.

Cumulus Media share price

Use our graph to track the performance of CMLS stocks over time.

Cumulus Media shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	USD$6.47
52-week range	USD$3 - USD$18.15
50-day moving average	USD$5.1465
200-day moving average	USD$4.6766
Wall St. target price	USD$7.67
PE ratio	1.4886
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$3.02

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Is it a good time to buy Cumulus Media stock?

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Cumulus Media price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $6.47 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-23)	-20.02%
1 month (2020-10-30)	27.87%
3 months (2020-08-28)	20.26%
6 months (2020-05-29)	25.15%

1 year (2019-11-29)	-62.69%
2 years (2018-11-30)	-42.74%
3 years (2017-11-26)	N/A
5 years (2015-11-26)	N/A

Is Cumulus Media under- or over-valued?

Valuing Cumulus Media stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Cumulus Media's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Cumulus Media's P/E ratio

Cumulus Media's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 1x. In other words, Cumulus Media shares trade at around 1x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Cumulus Media's EBITDA

Cumulus Media's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$121.2 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Cumulus Media's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Cumulus Media financials

Revenue TTM	USD$940.2 million
Operating margin TTM	7.54%
Gross profit TTM	USD$704.3 million
Return on assets TTM	2.48%
Return on equity TTM	-6.08%
Profit margin	-2.74%
Book value	$20.278
Market capitalisation	USD$104.2 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Cumulus Media shares

There are currently 741,803 Cumulus Media shares held short by investors – that's known as Cumulus Media's "short interest". This figure is 6.6% up from 696,118 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Cumulus Media shares can be evaluated.

Cumulus Media's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Cumulus Media's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Cumulus Media shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Cumulus Media shares traded daily (recently around 94617.729591837). Cumulus Media's SIR currently stands at 7.84. In other words for every 100,000 Cumulus Media shares traded daily on the market, roughly 7840 shares are currently held short.

However Cumulus Media's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Cumulus Media shares, or, against the total number of tradable Cumulus Media shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Cumulus Media's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Cumulus Media shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.065% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Cumulus Media shares, roughly 65 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Cumulus Media.

Find out more about how you can short Cumulus Media stock.

Cumulus Media share dividends

We're not expecting Cumulus Media to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Cumulus Media's shares ever split?

Cumulus Media's shares were split on a 1:8 basis on 13 October 2016. So if you had owned 8 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Cumulus Media shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 700% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Cumulus Media shares which in turn could have impacted Cumulus Media's share price.

Cumulus Media share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Cumulus Media's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3 up to $18.15. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Cumulus Media's is 1.7671. This would suggest that Cumulus Media's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Cumulus Media overview

Cumulus Media Inc., an audio-first media and entertainment company, owns and operates radio stations in the United States. It operates through two segments, Cumulus Radio Station Group and Westwood One. The company offers content through approximately 428 owned-and-operated stations in 87 United States media markets; and approximately 8,000 broadcast radio stations affiliates and various digital channels. Cumulus Media Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Cumulus Media is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 13.673% of Cumulus Media shares are held by insiders and 100.918% by institutions.

• How many people work for Cumulus Media?

  Latest data suggests 3,139 work at Cumulus Media.

• When does the fiscal year end for Cumulus Media?

  Cumulus Media's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Cumulus Media based?

  Cumulus Media's address is: 3280 Peachtree Road, NW, Atlanta, GA, United States, 30305

• What is Cumulus Media's CUSIP number?

  Cumulus Media's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 231082801