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Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion SAA3M.MCCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Spain · EUR·Communication Services›Broadcasting

Spanish free-to-air broadcaster operating Antena 3 and La Sexta TV channels plus radio and streaming (Atresplayer).

≈ Spain's Fox/ViacomCBS-style free-to-air broadcasterMomentum leader 92
Mkt cap
$1.52B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
43%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$2.85M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
14.1×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-0.8 pp
WACC 8.1%
Hurdle
+5 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
111 days
25 Feb 2027
Close · EUR€6.00
1D-1.5%
1W+5.1%
1M+5.5%
3M+17.6%
6M+16.3%
YTD+22.9%
1Y+11.7%
ATR %1.9%
52w lowhigh2.3% off high

What Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion does

Spanish free-to-air broadcaster operating Antena 3 and La Sexta TV channels plus radio and streaming (Atresplayer).

Earns mainly from advertising sold around its channels, where audience share sets the price, with radio, streaming and content production adding smaller lines. It competes mainly with Mediaset España for Spain's TV advertising, and publishing group Planeta is its largest shareholder.

In one line: Spain's Fox/ViacomCBS-style free-to-air broadcaster.

Products and services

  • Antena 3 channel
  • La Sexta channel
  • Atresplayer streaming
  • Radio (Onda Cero)
  • Content production/distribution

Customers

  • Advertisers
  • Spanish TV viewers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Media
  • Broadcasting
  • Free-to-air TV + advertising

What could go right

  • TV ad market recovery
  • Streaming subscriber growth

What could go wrong

  • Ad spend cyclicality
  • Streaming competition for eyeballs

Moat: narrow (scale, brand, distribution). National broadcast licence and top audience share, but ad revenue competes with digital platforms.

Headquarters: Madrid, Spain · Founded: 1989 · Employees: 2,647

Named competitors

Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion at a glance

Size Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion (A3M.MC) is a Spain Communication Services company (Broadcasting) with a market value of $1.52B, the 60th largest of 97 Spain companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at €6.00 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 16.3%, against -5.1% for the median peer and +8.2% for the Spain market (cap-weighted) — 2nd highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 0.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +0.3%); the operating margin is 8.0% (peer median 8.3%).

Valuation It trades at 14.1× forward earnings against a peer median of 13.6× (9th cheapest of 17).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 7% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +2%, so the hurdle is +5 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 0.8 points below its cost of capital (8.1% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 25 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026A3M.MC 117Peer median 95
Six months, rebased to 100: Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion financials

Reported figures in EUR; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue€903M€894M€919M€886M€867M
Revenue growth—-3%+4%+2%—
Gross profit€197M€139M€235M€240M€246M
EBITDA€89.8M€87.7M€178M€87.8M€89.3M
Net income€54.7M€62.1M€120M€171M€113M
Free cash flow€122M€89.7M€166M€134M€99.3M
Capital expenditure€31.5M€36.9M€21.0M€29.8M€20.0M
Total debtn/a€202M€176M€188M€322M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%0%+20%TFI301551MMTRWAYMFEA9409SBGINMAXSUNTVNECEVC9412035760ZEEL46769413GTNNRG9404NETWORK18A3M.MC6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%0×100×200×TFIMMTMFEASBGINEC0357604676GTNA3M.MCRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%-10%0%+10%+20%-20%0%20%TFI301551MMTRWAYMFEA9409SBGISUNTVNECEVC94120357609413GTNA3M.MCGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion is the large dot.

Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (A3M.MC vs NFLX vs TEF.MC)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion A3M.MC$1.52B+16%+1%8%14.1×6.9%
Netflix NFLX$260B-28%+15%32%17.7×15.0%
Telefonica TEF.MC$21.4B-16%-11%5%10.8×11.7%

How Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureA3M.MCPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+5.5%+3.4%8th highest of 21
6-month return+16.3%-5.1%2nd highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-2.3%-32.2%highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+0.5%+0.3%11th highest of 21
Operating margin8.0%8.3%10th lowest of 21
Forward P/E14.1×13.6×9th cheapest of 17
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)6.9%1.2%6th most demanding of 17
Growth delivered (Del g)+2.3%+3.9%8th lowest of 17
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+4.7 pp-1.9 pp6th most demanding of 17
ROIC minus cost of capital-0.8 pp-1.0 pp10th highest of 20
EV / EBITDA14.3×7.8×2nd most expensive of 17
Net debt / EBITDA-0.7×0.6×8th least indebted of 19

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion A3M.MCSpain$1.52B+16%+1%8%14.1×6.9%+2.3%
Television Francaise 1 TFI.PAFrance$1.53B-6%-3%8%14.7×-7.5%+2.0%
Hebei Broadcasting Wireless Media 301551.SZChina$1.58B-4%-1%35%n/a20.7%-0.8%
Metropole Television MMT.PAFrance$1.60B-4%-2%11%12.5×-0.9%-0.3%
Rai Way RWAY.MIItaly$1.27B-28%+3%44%12.9×-10.3%+4.8%
MFE-MediaForEurope MFEA.MIItaly$1.83B-26%+90%3%5.0×0.6%+8.9%
TV Asahi 9409.TJapan$2.15B+3%+4%7%14.5×-0.9%+5.1%
Sinclair SBGIUnited States$989M-4%-6%6%230.3×10.9%-11.8%
Newsmax NMAXUnited States$948M+16%+11%-7%n/an/an/a
Sun TV Network SUNTV.NSIndia$2.48B+4%-5%38%14.2×9.5%+6.4%
Nine Entertainment NEC.AXAustralia$895M-15%-18%9%8.2×7.4%-1.3%
Entravision Communications EVCUnited States$830M+26%+71%8%n/a13.5%+5.4%
SKY Perfect JSAT 9412.TJapan$3.13B-50%+8%30%17.2×6.2%-1.8%
CJ ENM 035760.KSSouth Korea$706M-15%-3%2%30.0×-5.1%+8.7%
Zee Entertainment Enterprises ZEEL.NSIndia$651M-32%+6%-1%14.3×1.8%+0.9%
Fuji Media 4676.TJapan$3.62B+2%+9%3%12.1×n/an/a
TV Tokyo 9413.TJapan$582M-15%+2%6%12.7×-18.7%+3.5%
Gray Media GTNUnited States$520M+11%-11%14%2.7×2.2%+5.4%
NRJ NRG.PAFrance$509M-18%-12%8%16.0×n/an/a
Nippon Television 9404.TJapan$4.57B-3%+3%13%12.9×-7.5%+4.4%
Network18 Media & Invest NETWORK18.NSIndia$438M-23%-23%-3%n/an/an/a

Questions

Who are Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion's main competitors?
Named competitors: Mediaset Espana (private or unlisted), RTVE (state, non-listed) (private or unlisted), Netflix (NFLX), Movistar+ (Telefonica) (TEF.MC). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Television Francaise 1 (TFI.PA), Hebei Broadcasting Wireless Media (301551.SZ), Metropole Television (MMT.PA), Rai Way (RWAY.MI), MFE-MediaForEurope (MFEA.MI), TV Asahi (9409.T).
Is Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 14.1× against a peer median of 13.6×, 9th cheapest of 17 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 7% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +2%, so the hurdle is +5 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +16.3% against -5.1% for the median peer; over one year +11.7%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.