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NY Times (NYT) Efforts Place the Stock Favorably, Up 18% YTD

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We are midway into the first month of the year, and The New York Times Company NYT is off to a solid start. A glimpse of the share price movement reveals that it has increased roughly 18.4% year to date, outperforming the industry’s growth of 11.1% and S&P 500’s advance of approximately 5.1%. Certainly, endeavors undertaken places the stock favorably for 2018. But before analyzing them let’s evaluate all that is going on in the industry and how the same has impacted the company.

A Brief Background

The U.S. newspaper publishing industry has been grappling with sinking advertising revenues. The downturn in the industry witnessed in the last few years aggravated with a fall in print readership, as readers started opting for online news, consequently making the print-advertising model increasingly redundant. The New York Times Company has been contemplating new avenues of revenue generation to counter the dwindling advertising revenues.

The New York Times Company’s print advertising revenue fell 20.1% in the third quarter of 2017, following a decline of 10.5% in the preceding quarter. Total advertising revenue decreased 9% during the quarter under review. The company hinted that total advertising revenue in the final quarter is likely to decline in the high-single digits.

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Nevertheless, the company is fast acclimatizing to the changing face of the multiplatform media universe, and has already included mobile and reader application products in portfolio. Other publishing companies such as New Media Investment Group Inc. NEWM, Gannett Co., Inc. GCI and The McClatchy Company MNI are also trying to adapt to different revenue generating ways.

Strategies Undertaken

The New York Times Company has been realigning cost structure and streamlining operations to increase efficiencies. It has offloaded assets that bear no direct relation with the core operations in order to concentrate on online activities.

Pay As You Read

The New York Times Company is concentrating on online activities, as evident from its pay-and-read model. Its pricing system for NYTimes.com was launched on Mar 28, 2011. The company notified that the number of paid digital subscribers reached 2,487,000 at the end of the third quarter of 2017 — rising 154,000 sequentially and 59.1% year over year.

Subscription revenue grew 13.6% to $246.6 million, primarily owing to increase in the number of subscriptions to the digital-only products and a rise in the home delivery price of The New York Times. Revenue from digital-only subscriptions jumped 46.3% to $85.7 million. Management now projects total subscription revenue to increase in the high-teens in the fourth quarter.

Digital advertising revenue surged 11% to $49.2 million, after witnessing an increase of 22.5% in the preceding quarter. Higher digital advertising revenue came on the back of rise in revenues from mobile platform, programmatic buying channels and branded content, partly offset by a fall in traditional website display advertising.

Focus on Other Verticals

The company is not only gearing up to become an optimum destination for news and information but is also now focusing on service journalism, with verticals like Cooking, Watching and Well. In this regard, it recently acquired The Wirecutter and its sister site, The Sweethome that recommends people about technology gear, home products and other consumer services. The company also acquired a digital marketing agency and portfolio company, HelloSociety, from Science Inc., which complements its T Brand Studio that helps in creating digital ad innovation and branded content. Further, it has launched digital subscriptions for NYT Cooking, its popular recipe site and app.

Currently, the stock carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). So investors with a long-term horizon may hold on to the stock. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

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