Corus Entertainment (B)CJR.B.TOBUYJul 05, 2017Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 04, 2026. Market Open.
Since last summer there has been a recession in advertising for television and this has been a problem for Chorus. There are longer term headwinds since subscribers are moving more to streaming services. Chorus has STACK TV but it is an uphill battle against some of the big companies. It sold its animation studio to help reduce debt load but debt is still pretty high. The stock is too risky.
He is Short another company in the industry, and is looking at this as an offset. It’s a pretty decent free cash flow generator. Their legacy business in radio is a cash flow machine. The content business is not particularly good in that margins are being ground down by things like Netflix. This has enough interesting media properties outside of just the content, that it is an interesting cash flow vehicle, and is probably worth owning.