Full Year 2025 Metropole Television SA Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Metropole Television SA (MTPVY) reported a strong EBITDA of EUR214 million with a current operating margin of 17%, indicating robust profitability.
- The company achieved significant growth in streaming revenues, up 27% to EUR126 million for 2025, showcasing successful transformation efforts.
- Video advertising revenue outperformed the market, declining only 3.1% compared to an 8% market drop, with a market share increase to 27%.
- M6+ digital development showed impressive growth, with streaming revenues increasing by 73% over two years and consumption exceeding 600 million hours viewed.
- The audio division maintained a high EBITDA margin of 24.4%, with strong performance from key shows and a notable presence in the podcast market.
- Overall advertising revenues faced downward pressure, with a decline in video advertising revenues and a challenging market environment.
- The EBITDA margin for the Video division slightly deteriorated to 16.6% from 17.4%, impacted by a slowdown in advertising revenues.
- Profitability in the diversification segment declined by about EUR4 million, primarily due to lower contributions from the SPF franchise business.
- The company faced a significant impairment of EUR35.5 million on intangible assets related to the SPF franchise legacy brands.
- Cash and cash equivalents decreased to EUR216 million from EUR332 million the previous year, reflecting financing operations and investments.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the presentation of Group M6's annual results for 2025. (Operator Instructions)
I will now give the floor to Mr. David Larramendy, the CEO of the Group. You have the floor.
Thank you. Good evening, everyone. We are delighted I'm with Jérôme Lefébure here. We are happy to introduce the results for the year 2025 and to talk about the year 2026 that has already started. For 2026, only 2 figures to remember.
That was a good year with an EBITDA of EUR214 million for a current operating margin of 17%, and EBITDA margin, which is relatively high amongst our peers. If we take more figures for consolidated sales, EUR1.256 billion with EUR225 million of non-advertising revenues. So slightly over EUR1 billion in advertising revenues, EUR1.032 billion. And then I'll come back to the breakdown of advertising revenues for the main messages.
We still have robust growth in streaming and the transformation of our model. You
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