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STV - Owner of Scottish ITV licences well-placed to ride advertising recovery; prospective PE just 7.1

October 2024

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • STVG
  • Price:
  • 261p
One of Warren Buffett’s most successful early investments was ABC, one of the three giant TV networks dominating mid-1980s America, reaching nearly every household. At the time, satellite TV and the internet were merely distant concepts, leaving advertisers with few alternatives but to spend more, resulting in significant gains for Buffett when ABC was acquired by Walt Disney in 1996. STV shares similarities with ABC in that it dominates Scottish free-to-air television through its ownership of the Channel 3/ITV public broadcaster licences for Central and Northern Scotland. Five years ago, it surpassed the BBC to become the market leader with a 22% share, more than three times that of Channel 4. To put it into perspective, the aver ...

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