Earnings Call Overview: iHeartMedia held its Q2 2025 earnings conference call on August 11, 2025, featuring key executives including CEO Bob Pittman and CFO Rich Bressler, discussing financial performance and future expectations.
Forward-Looking Statements: The call included forward-looking statements about the company's financial outlook, with a reminder that actual results may vary due to various factors, and referenced non-GAAP financial measures available in their SEC filings.
IHRT
$4.41+Infinity%1D
Analyst Views on IHRT
Wall Street analysts forecast IHRT stock price to fall over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for IHRT is 4.50 USD with a low forecast of 4.00 USD and a high forecast of 5.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
4 Analyst Rating
Wall Street analysts forecast IHRT stock price to fall over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for IHRT is 4.50 USD with a low forecast of 4.00 USD and a high forecast of 5.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
0 Buy
3 Hold
1 Sell
Hold
Current: 4.740
Low
4.00
Averages
4.50
High
5.00
Current: 4.740
Low
4.00
Averages
4.50
High
5.00
BofA
Jessica Reif Ehrlich
Neutral
maintain
$3 -> $5
2025-11-13
Reason
BofA
Jessica Reif Ehrlich
Price Target
$3 -> $5
2025-11-13
maintain
Neutral
Reason
BofA analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich raised the firm's price target on iHeartMedia to $5 from $3 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares. The firm increased its multiple to reflect diversified revenue streams from new podcasting partnerships and broadcast programmatic, but awaits "concrete signs of a true inflection" in the Multiplatform Group, the analyst tells investors.
Goldman Sachs
Stephen Laszczyk
Neutral
maintain
$4
2025-11-12
Reason
Goldman Sachs
Stephen Laszczyk
Price Target
$4
2025-11-12
maintain
Neutral
Reason
Goldman Sachs analyst Stephen Laszczyk raised the firm's price target on iHeartMedia to $4 from $1.25 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares. iHeartMedia posted better than expected Q3 results that beat across revenue and adjusted EBITDA and the improved macro and advertising backdrop, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm's increased target reflects an improved macro and advertising backdrop which reduces tail risk of a reset lower in terrestrial advertising revenues and increased visibility into costs efficiencies, Goldman says.
BofA
Neutral
maintain
$3
2025-09-30
Reason
BofA
Price Target
$3
2025-09-30
maintain
Neutral
Reason
BofA raised the firm's price target on iHeartMedia to $3 from $1.90 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares. Following a recent balance sheet restructuring, the firm views the stock as fairly valued and awaits "more concrete signs of a true inflection in the Multiplatform group," the analyst tells investors. The firm anticipates iHeart's Q3 results will largely be in line with company guidance and it maintains its Q3 revenue estimate of $984M, the analyst added in a preview.
BofA
Neutral
maintain
2025-07-02
Reason
BofA
Price Target
2025-07-02
maintain
Neutral
Reason
BofA raised the firm's price target on iHeartMedia to $1.90 from $1.60 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares. BofA sees iHeartMedia's Q2 results largely in line with company guidance, telling investors in a research note that it appears the ad market has stabilized over the course of the quarter as peak tariff uncertainty passes. Podcasting, a bright spot for the company, should continue to be iHeartMedia's fastest growing segment in Q2, the firm says.
About IHRT
iHeartMedia, Inc. is an audio company in the United States. The Company's segments include Multiplatform Group, Digital Audio Group and Audio & Media Services Group. The Multiplatform Group segment includes its Markets Group, which includes its 860+ broadcast radio stations in approximately 160 markets; its Events business, which includes both live and virtual events; its SmartAudio suite of data targeting and attribution products; Premiere Networks, which includes the Premiere Networks syndication business and Total Traffic and Weather Network; Black Information Network (BIN) and its National Sales Organization. The Digital Audio Group segment 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 and its audio social media footprint. The Audio & Media Services Group segment includes Katz Media Group, and RCS Sound Software.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
