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Lamar Advertising Company Announces Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2026 Operating Results

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LAMR Lamar Advertising Company reported strong second-quarter results that exceeded expectations, with significant increases in net revenues, operating income, net income, Adjusted EBITDA, and cash flow metrics. The company is raising its full-year guidance for diluted AFFO per share, indicating positive future performance.

Lamar Advertising Company Announces Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2026 Operating Results Three Month Results

Six Month Results

BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lamar Advertising Company (the “Company” or “Lamar”) (Nasdaq: LAMR), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, announces the Company’s operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026.

“Our business is in a great place right now. As our results demonstrate, customers appreciate our ability to connect them with their audiences and to deliver messages that resonate,” Lamar chief executive Sean Reilly said. “With second-quarter results that exceeded our expectations and strong pacings for the balance of 2026, we are raising our guidance for full-year diluted AFFO per share to a range of $8.75 to $8.90.”

Second Quarter Highlights

Second Quarter Results

Lamar reported net revenues of $616.7 million for the second quarter of 2026 versus $579.3 million for the second quarter of 2025, a 6.5% increase. Operating income for the second quarter of 2026 increased $10.3 million to $208.0 million as compared to $197.7 million for the same period in 2025. Lamar recognized net income of $164.6 million for the second quarter of 2026 as compared to net income of $155.0 million for the same period in 2025, an increase of $9.6 million. Net income per diluted share was $1.58 and $1.52 for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2026 was $303.4 million versus $278.4 million for the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 9.0%.

Cash flow provided by operating activities was $252.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2026 versus $229.5 million for the second quarter of 2025, an increase of $22.9 million. Free cash flow for the second quarter of 2026 was $218.7 million as compared to $199.1 million for the same period in 2025, a $19.6 million increase.

For the second quarter of 2026, funds from operations, or FFO, was $236.8 million versus $225.3 million for the same period in 2025, an increase of 5.1%. Adjusted funds from operations, or AFFO, for the second quarter of 2026 was $247.9 million compared to $225.3 million for the same period in 2025, an increase of 10.1%. Diluted AFFO per share increased 8.1% to $2.40 for the three months ended June 30, 2026 as compared to $2.22 for the same period in 2025.

Acquisition-Adjusted Three Months Results

Acquisition-adjusted net revenue for the second quarter of 2026 increased 6.1% over acquisition-adjusted net revenue for the second quarter of 2025. Acquisition-adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2026 increased 7.3% as compared to acquisition-adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2025. Acquisition-adjusted net revenue and acquisition-adjusted EBITDA include adjustments to the 2025 period for acquisitions and divestitures for the same time frame as actually owned in the 2026 period. See “Reconciliation of Reported Basis to Acquisition-Adjusted Results”, which provides reconciliations to GAAP for acquisition-adjusted measures.

Six Month Results

Lamar reported net revenues of $1.14 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus $1.08 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2025, a 5.5% increase. Operating income for the six months ended June 30, 2026 decreased $34.9 million to $354.0 million as compared to $388.9 million for the same period in 2025. Lamar recognized net income of $266.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 as compared to net income of $294.2 million for the same period in 2025, a decrease of $27.8 million. The 9.4% decrease in net income for the six months ended June 30, 2026 as compared to 2025 was primarily related to the $67.8 million gain recorded for the sale of Lamar’s equity interest in Vistar Media, Inc. (“Vistar”) in 2025, offset by an additional gain of $8.0 million recorded in 2026 for the same sales transaction. Net income per diluted share was $2.58 and $2.87 for the six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Adjusted EBITDA for the six months ended June 30, 2026 was $529.7 million versus $488.6 million for the same period in 2025, an increase of 8.4%.

Cash flow provided by operating activities was $399.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 as compared to $357.2 million for the same period in 2025, an increase of $42.6 million. Free cash flow for the six months ended June 30, 2026 was $371.1 million as compared to $320.2 million for the same period in 2025, a $50.9 million increase.

For the six months ended June 30, 2026, funds from operations, or FFO, was $404.6 million versus $381.5 million for the same period in 2025, an increase of 6.0%. Adjusted funds from operations, or AFFO, for the six months ended June 30, 2026 was $425.5 million compared to $389.6 million for the same period in 2025, an increase of 9.2%. Diluted AFFO per share increased 8.1% to $4.12 for the six months ended June 30, 2026 as compared to $3.81 for the same period in 2025.

Liquidity

As of June 30, 2026, Lamar had $720.2 million in total liquidity that consisted of $652.2 million available for borrowing under its revolving senior credit facility and $68.0 million in cash and cash equivalents. There was $90.0 million in borrowings outstanding under the Company’s revolving credit facility and $250.0 million outstanding under the Accounts Receivable Securitization Program as of the same date.

Revised Guidance

We are updating our 2026 guidance issued in February 2026. We now expect diluted earnings per share for fiscal year 2026 to be between $5.95 and $5.99, with diluted AFFO per share between $8.75 and $8.90. See “Supplemental Schedules Unaudited REIT Measures and Reconciliations to GAAP Measures” for reconciliation to GAAP.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding sales trends. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: (1) our significant indebtedness; (2) the state of the economy and financial markets generally, and the effect of the broader economy on the demand for advertising, including economic changes that may result from new or increased tariffs, trade restrictions or geopolitical tensions, including war and armed conflicts; (3) the continued popularity of outdoor advertising as an advertising medium; (4) our need for and ability to obtain additional funding for operations, debt refinancing or acquisitions; (5) our ability to continue to qualify as a Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) and maintain our status as a REIT; (6) the regulation of the outdoor advertising industry by federal, state and local governments; (7) the integration of companies and assets that we acquire and our ability to recognize cost savings or operating efficiencies as a result of these acquisitions; (8) changes in accounting principles, policies or guidelines; (9) changes in tax laws applicable to REITs or in the interpretation of those laws; (10) our ability to renew expiring contracts at favorable rates; (11) our ability to successfully implement our digital deployment strategy; and (12) the market for our Class A common stock. For additional information regarding factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in our forward-looking statements, we refer you to the risk factors included in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, as supplemented by any risk factors contained in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and our Current Reports on Form 8-K. We caution investors not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this document. These statements speak only as of the date of this document, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the statements, except as may be required by law.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company has presented the following measures that are not measures of performance under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”): adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“adjusted EBITDA”), free cash flow, funds from operations (“FFO”), adjusted funds from operations (“AFFO”), diluted AFFO per share, outdoor operating income, acquisition-adjusted results and acquisition-adjusted consolidated expense. Our management reviews our performance by focusing on these key performance indicators not prepared in conformity with GAAP. We believe these non-GAAP performance indicators are meaningful supplemental measures of our operating performance and should not be considered in isolation of, or as a substitute for their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.

Our Non-GAAP financial measures are determined as follows:

Adjusted EBITDA, FFO, AFFO, diluted AFFO per share, free cash flow, outdoor operating income, acquisition-adjusted results and acquisition-adjusted consolidated expense are not intended to replace other performance measures determined in accordance with GAAP. Free cash flow, FFO and AFFO do not represent cash flows from operating activities in accordance with GAAP and, therefore, these measures should not be considered indicative of cash flows from operating activities as a measure of liquidity or of funds available to fund our cash needs, including our ability to make cash distributions. Adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, FFO, AFFO, diluted AFFO per share, outdoor operating income, acquisition-adjusted results and acquisition-adjusted consolidated expense are presented as we believe each is a useful indicator of our current operating performance. Specifically, we believe that these metrics are useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because (1) each is a key measure used by our management team for purposes of decision making and for evaluating our core operating results; (2) adjusted EBITDA is widely used in the industry to measure operating performance as it excludes the impact of depreciation and amortization, which may vary significantly among companies, depending upon accounting methods and useful lives, particularly where acquisitions and non-operating factors are involved; (3) adjusted EBITDA, FFO, AFFO, diluted AFFO per share and acquisition-adjusted consolidated expense each provides investors with a meaningful measure for evaluating our period-over-period operating performance by eliminating items that are not operational in nature and reflect the impact on operations from trends in occupancy rates, operating costs, general and administrative expenses and interest costs; (4) acquisition-adjusted results is a supplement to enable investors to compare period-over-period results on a more consistent basis without the effects of acquisitions and divestitures, which reflects our core performance and organic growth (if any) during the period in which the assets were owned and managed by us; (5) free cash flow is an indicator of our ability to service debt and generate cash for acquisitions and other strategic investments; (6) outdoor operating income provides investors a measurement of our core results without the impact of fluctuations in stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization and corporate expenses; and (7) each of our Non-GAAP measures provides investors with a measure for comparing our results of operations to those of other companies.

Our measurement of adjusted EBITDA, FFO, AFFO, diluted AFFO per share, free cash flow, outdoor operating income, acquisition-adjusted results and acquisition-adjusted consolidated expense may not, however, be fully comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. Reconciliations of adjusted EBITDA, FFO, AFFO, diluted AFFO per share, free cash flow, outdoor operating income, acquisition-adjusted results and acquisition-adjusted consolidated expense to the most directly comparable GAAP measures have been included herein.

Conference Call Information

A conference call will be held to discuss the Company’s operating results on Thursday, August 6, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. central time. Instructions for the conference call and Webcast are provided below:

Conference Call

General Information

Founded in 1902, Lamar Advertising (Nasdaq: LAMR) is one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in North America, with over 360,000 displays across the United States and Canada. Lamar offers advertisers a variety of billboard, interstate logo, transit and airport advertising formats, helping both local businesses and national brands reach broad audiences every day. In addition to its more traditional out-of-home inventory, Lamar is proud to offer its customers the largest network of digital billboards in the United States with over 5,700 displays.

(1) Utilized to calculate earnings per share in accordance with GAAP.

(2) Utilized to calculate AFFO per share. Includes the weighted average outstanding units of Lamar LP (the Company’s operating partnership) that are held by limited partners of Lamar LP other than the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Lamar Media Corp. Upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, these units of Lamar LP are redeemable for cash or, at the Company’s option, shares of the Company’s Class A common stock on a one-for-one basis.

The guidance provided above is based on a number of assumptions that management believes to be reasonable and reflects our expectations as of August 6, 2026. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates as a result of various factors, and we refer to the cautionary language regarding “forward-looking statements” included in the press release when considering this information.