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Stagwell Inc
STGW
$2.7B
Mkt Cap
$7.42
+4.65%
Stagwell Inc (STGW) has a current P/E ratio of 78.5, compared to its historical median P/E of 13.8. The stock is currently considered Expensive based on its historical valuation range.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) has a 5-year average return on invested capital (ROIC) of 4.1%. This is below average and may indicate limited pricing power.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) has a market capitalization of $1.9B. It is classified as a small-cap stock.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) does not currently pay a regular dividend. However, the company returns capital to shareholders through share buybacks, with a buyback yield of 8.81%.
Based on historical P/E analysis, Stagwell Inc (STGW) appears expensive. The current P/E of 78.5 is 469% above its historical median of 13.8. The estimated fair value CAGR (P/E method) is -59.3%.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) operates in the Services-Advertising Agencies industry, within the Industrials sector.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) reported annual revenue of $2.9 billion in its most recent fiscal year, based on SEC EDGAR filings.
About Us Stagwell Inc. is the challenger network built to transform marketing. Stagwell delivers scaled creative performance for some of the world’s most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our specialists in over 40 countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for our more than 4,500 clients as of December 31, 2024. Since 2021, Stagwell’s standing in the industry has grown as customers have increasingly recognized our agencies’ outstanding work — leading to accelerating net new business trends — and as we have invested in augmenting our capabilities and geographical reach. Throughout our growth, we have maintained a collaborative spirit that is integral to the Stagwell DNA.
| Segment | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Creativity and Communications | $152M | $591M | $1.22B | $1.17B | $1.33B | 47% |
Digital Transformation | $375M | $401M | $785M | $637M | $718M | 25% |
Performance Media and Data | $253M | $342M | $457M | $295M | $324M | 11% |
Stagwell Marketing Cloud Group | — | $148M | $199M | $236M | $280M | 10% |
Consumer Insights and Strategy | $108M | $165M | $225M | $199M | $190M | 7% |
| Metric | TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 3.0B | 2.9B | 2.8B | 2.5B | 2.7B | 1.5B |
| Net Income | 19M | 29M | 2.3M | - | 20M | 21M |
| EPS | $0.07 | $0.08 | $0.01 | $0.00 | $0.06 | $0.12 |
| Free Cash Flow | 274M | 247M | 124M | 67M | 325M | 192M |
| ROIC | 2.0% | 3.7% | 3.8% | - | 6.6% | 2.4% |
| Gross Margin | - | 36.5% | 35.1% | 35.9% | 37.7% | 38.3% |
| Debt/Equity | 3.11 | 3.11 | 6.93 | 5.98 | 3.12 | 4.33 |
| Dividends/Share | $0.00 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Operating Income | 150M | 159M | 133M | 91M | 159M | 45M |
| Operating Margin | 5.1% | 5.5% | 4.7% | 3.6% | 5.9% | 3.0% |
| ROE | 2.7% | 5.3% | 0.7% | - | 4.6% | 5.8% |
| Shares Outstanding | 251M | 364M | 226M | 244M | 332M | 181M |
| Metric | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income Statement | |||||||||||||
| Revenue | 1.2B | 1.3B | 1.4B | 1.5B | 1.5B | 1.4B | 888M | 1.5B | 2.7B | 2.5B | 2.8B | 2.9B | 3.0B |
| Gross Margin | 34.7% | 33.7% | 32.4% | 32.4% | 32.8% | 32.1% | 35.6% | 38.3% | 37.7% | 35.9% | 35.1% | 36.5% | N/A |
| R&D | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| SG&A | 290M | 322M | 306M | 310M | 349M | 328M | 192M | 424M | 602M | 661M | 712M | 732M | 744M |
| EBIT | 88M | 72M | 48M | 132M | N/A | 79M | 84M | 45M | 159M | 91M | 133M | 159M | 150M |
| Op. Margin | 7.2% | 5.4% | 3.5% | 8.7% | N/A | 5.6% | 9.4% | 3.0% | 5.9% | 3.6% | 4.7% | 5.5% | 5.1% |
| Net Income | -21M | -35M | -46M | 206M | -132M | -5.3M | 56M | 21M | 20M | N/A | 2.3M | 29M | 19M |
| Net Margin | -1.7% | -2.7% | -3.3% | 13.6% | -9.0% | -0.4% | 6.3% | 1.4% | 0.7% | N/A | 0.1% | 1.0% | 0.6% |
| Non-Recurring | 0 | 6.5M | 49M | 4.8M | 52M | 9.0M | -771K | 43M | 127M | 106M | 1.7M | -1.8M | -1.8M |
| Returns on Capital | |||||||||||||
| ROIC | 25.0% | 51.4% | 22.8% | 27.6% | N/A | 6.4% | 14.2% | 2.4% | 6.6% | N/A | 3.8% | 3.7% | 2.0% |
| ROE | 5.6% | 7.0% | 8.0% | -52.1% | 50.3% | 1.9% | 88.1% | 5.8% | 4.6% | N/A | 0.7% | 5.3% | 2.7% |
| ROA | -1.4% | -2.2% | -2.9% | 12.6% | -8.0% | -0.3% | 4.0% | 0.8% | 0.5% | N/A | 0.1% | 0.7% | 0.4% |
| Cash Flow | |||||||||||||
| Op. Cash Flow | 165M | 161M | -46M | 72M | 17M | 87M | 138M | 201M | 348M | 81M | 143M | 291M | 325M |
| Free Cash Flow | 139M | 138M | -75M | 39M | -3.0M | 68M | 133M | 192M | 325M | 67M | 124M | 247M | 274M |
| Owner Earnings | 53M | 47M | -172M | -76M | -130M | 17M | 97M | 48M | 183M | -119M | -61M | 66M | 94M |
| CapEx | 26M | 24M | 29M | 33M | 20M | 19M | 4.7M | 8.8M | 23M | 14M | 19M | 44M | 50M |
| Maint. CapEx | 95M | 97M | 105M | 124M | 129M | 38M | 41M | 78M | 131M | 143M | 152M | 171M | 174M |
| Growth CapEx | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D&A | 95M | 97M | 105M | 124M | 129M | 38M | 41M | 78M | 131M | 143M | 152M | 171M | 174M |
| CapEx/OCF | 20.7% | 14.6% | N/A | 45.9% | 117.3% | 21.5% | 8.8% | 4.4% | 6.5% | 17.6% | 13.2% | N/A | 15.6% |
| Capital Allocation | |||||||||||||
| Dividends Paid | 38M | 42M | 33M | 284K | 196K | 56K | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dividend Yield | 1.9% | 2.1% | 2.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Share Buybacks | 5.4M | 2.4M | 3.4M | 1.8M | 776K | 601K | 0 | 841K | 70M | 224M | 108M | 134M | 164M |
| Buyback Yield | 0.5% | 2994.2% | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.4% | N/A | N/A | 0.0% | 4.3% | 12.4% | 6.1% | 0.0% | 8.8% |
| Stock-Based Comp | 18M | 18M | 21M | 24M | 18M | 31M | 0 | 75M | 33M | 57M | 52M | 54M | 57M |
| Debt Repayment | 656K | 534K | 507K | 404K | 0 | 0 | 22M | 15M | 0 | 844K | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Balance Sheet | |||||||||||||
| Net Debt | 630M | 667M | 909M | 837M | 992M | 1.0B | 179M | 1.4B | 1.3B | 2.0B | 2.2B | 2.3B | 2.1B |
| Cash & Equiv. | 113M | 61M | 28M | 46M | 31M | 107M | 92M | 184M | 221M | 120M | 131M | 105M | 115M |
| Long-Term Debt | 743M | 728M | 936M | 883M | 954M | 888M | 198M | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.1B | 1.4B | 1.3B | 1.4B |
| Debt/Equity | -1.68 | -1.27 | -1.63 | -4.14 | -3.28 | -5.01 | 0.76 | 4.33 | 3.12 | 5.98 | 6.93 | 3.11 | 3.11 |
| Interest Coverage | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 2.1 | N/A | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Equity | -441M | -575M | -575M | -214M | -311M | -231M | 359M | 371M | 499M | 357M | 332M | 758M | 705M |
| Total Assets | 1.6B | 1.6B | 1.6B | 1.7B | 1.6B | 1.8B | 1.0B | 4.1B | 4.0B | 3.8B | 3.9B | 4.2B | 4.2B |
| Total Liabilities | 2.0B | 2.1B | 2.1B | 1.9B | 1.9B | 2.0B | 615M | 3.1B | 3.0B | 2.9B | 3.1B | 3.4B | 3.5B |
| Intangibles | 86M | 72M | 85M | 71M | 68M | 55M | 186M | 959M | 908M | 818M | 837M | 834M | 823M |
| Retained Earnings | -490M | -536M | -582M | -340M | -465M | -481M | 0 | -7.0M | 22M | 21M | 12M | 33M | 20M |
| Working Capital | -269M | -418M | -313M | -233M | -153M | -198M | 29M | -288M | -337M | -349M | -232M | -318M | -254M |
| Current Assets | 552M | 494M | 490M | 543M | 590M | 622M | 366M | 1.0B | 1.0B | 1.0B | 1.1B | 1.2B | 1.2B |
| Current Liabilities | 822M | 912M | 803M | 776M | 743M | 820M | 337M | 1.3B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.5B | 1.5B |
| Per Share Data | |||||||||||||
| EPS | -0.22 | -0.36 | -0.45 | 1.86 | -1.16 | -0.13 | 0.39 | 0.12 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 0.07 |
| Owner EPS | 0.53 | 0.47 | -1.67 | -0.69 | -1.13 | 0.41 | 0.67 | 0.27 | 0.55 | -0.49 | -0.27 | 0.18 | 0.38 |
| Book Value | -4.43 | -5.76 | -5.58 | -1.93 | -2.72 | -5.49 | 2.46 | 2.05 | 1.50 | 1.46 | 1.47 | 2.08 | 2.81 |
| Cash Flow/Share | 1.66 | 1.62 | -0.45 | 0.65 | 0.15 | 2.06 | 0.95 | 1.11 | 1.05 | 0.33 | 0.63 | 0.80 | 0.77 |
| Dividends/Share | 0.38 | 0.42 | 0.32 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0.00 |
| Shares Out. | 99.6M | 99.9M | 103.0M | 110.8M | 114.4M | 42.0M | 145.7M | 180.9M | 332.0M | 244.3M | 225.9M | 363.8M | 250.8M |
| Valuation | |||||||||||||
| P/E Ratio | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2.6 | N/A | N/A | 13.8 | 124.3 | 81.3 | N/A | 783.8 | N/A | 108.2 |
| P/FCF | 15.1 | 15.4 | N/A | 28.0 | N/A | 1.7 | 2.9 | 8.4 | 6.2 | 24.8 | 12.1 | N/A | 6.8 |
| EV/EBIT | 19.0 | 9.3 | 25.6 | 10.5 | 114.9 | 12.3 | 10.5 | 81.0 | 16.2 | 31.3 | 22.5 | N/A | 26.2 |
| Price/Book | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2.2 | 7.1 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | N/A | 2.6 |
| Price/Sales | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | N/A | 0.6 |
| FCF Yield | 13.4% | 172805.5% | -22.9% | 7.1% | -1.6% | 34.1% | 17.2% | 7.3% | 20.1% | 3.7% | 7.0% | N/A | 14.7% |
| Market Cap | 1.0B | 80K | 330M | 543M | 191M | 199M | 778M | 2.6B | 1.6B | 1.8B | 1.8B | 0 | 1.9B |
| Avg. Price | 20.08 | 20.66 | 15.07 | 9.36 | 5.55 | 2.63 | 1.95 | 5.70 | 7.09 | 6.12 | 6.68 | 0.00 | 7.42 |
| Year-End Price | 21.05 | 21.24 | 6.40 | 9.80 | 2.64 | 2.70 | 2.62 | 8.94 | 6.03 | 6.78 | 6.64 | 0.00 | 7.42 |
Stagwell Inc passes 1 of 9 quality checks, indicating weak fundamentals.
Stagwell Inc trades at 78.5x trailing earnings, compared to its 15-year median P/E of 13.8x, suggesting it is currently Expensive relative to its historical range. On a free-cash-flow basis, the stock trades at 8.7x vs a median of 8.4x. The company's 5-year average ROIC is 4.1% with a gross margin of 36.7%. Total shareholder yield (buybacks) is 8.8%. At current prices, the estimated annualized return to fair value is -14.1%.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) has a net profit margin of 1.0%. This is a modest margin.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) generated $247 million in free cash flow in its most recent fiscal year. Positive free cash flow supports dividends, buybacks, and debt reduction.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.11. This indicates higher leverage, which may increase financial risk.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) reported earnings per share (EPS) of $0.08 in its most recent fiscal year.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) has a return on equity (ROE) of 5.3%. This indicates moderate shareholder returns.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) has a 5-year average gross margin of 36.7%. This indicates decent pricing power.
The Ledger Terminal provides 16 years of financial data for Stagwell Inc (STGW), sourced directly from SEC EDGAR filings. This includes income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and key financial ratios.
Stagwell Inc (STGW) has a book value per share of $2.08, based on its most recent annual SEC filing.