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National CineMedia Q4 2025 earnings summary

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Q4 2025 earnings summary26 Feb, 2026

Executive summary

  • Fourth quarter revenue grew 8% year-over-year to $93.2 million, driven by increased advertiser demand and platform investments, outpacing attendance growth.

  • Q4 attendance reached 107.4 million, up 7% year-over-year, aided by an extra week despite a 7% box office decline.

  • Adjusted OIBDA for Q4 was $37.2 million, exceeding guidance and up 6% from the prior year.

  • Operating income rose to $23.8 million from $20.0 million year-over-year; net income increased to $29.3 million ($0.31 per diluted share).

  • Share repurchases totaled 4.1 million shares in 2025 at an average price of $5.41, with additional buybacks in early 2026.

Financial highlights

  • Q4 total revenue: $93.2 million, up 8% year-over-year; national advertising revenue: $76 million, up nearly 10%.

  • Q4 Adjusted OIBDA: $37.2 million, up 6% from prior year; unlevered free cash flow: $6.1 million.

  • Full year 2025 revenue: $243.2 million, up 1%; national advertising revenue: $194.5 million, up 3.5%.

  • Full year Adjusted OIBDA: $39.1 million, down from $45.7 million, reflecting first-half headwinds.

  • Operating expenses increased to $69.4 million in Q4, mainly due to higher attendance-related costs.

Outlook and guidance

  • Q1 2026 revenue expected between $32.5 million and $36.5 million; Adjusted OIBDA projected between negative $13 million and negative $10 million.

  • Guidance reflects absence of holiday week, reduced beverage revenue, and Olympic-related advertising shifts.

  • Management anticipates a strong 2026 film slate and continued growth in cinema advertising.

  • 4Q'25 revenue and adjusted OIBDA were within management's guidance range.

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National CineMedia Inc offers digital in-theater advertising and entertainment content, concessions promotions, and other programming to its theater partners; and advertising representation services to advertisers, advertising agencies, and advertising networks. It operates through three segments: Network, Cinema Media, and Film Advertising. The Network segment provides exhibitors with network software platform used to schedule and playback advertisements and entertainment on the cinema screens into a network of theaters; conducts meetings or events in theaters for third party clients; licenses the CinemaSync platform to exhibitors that enables exhibitors to synchronize advertisements and related information on tablets; sells advertising inventory; offers Software as a Service-based suite of applications to enable its theater partners to manage their businesses. The Cinema Media segment sells theatre circuits for placement of their pre-show content on individual theater screens. The Film Advertising segment offers integrated marketing services in connection with the distribution of feature films from studios to theaters.

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