Q3 2025 Starz Entertainment Corp Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Starz Entertainment Corp (STRZ) reported strong financial and operational performance for the third quarter of 2025.
- The company is executing its post-separation growth strategy, focusing on increasing margins to 20% by the end of 2028.
- Starz is rebuilding its content library through ownership, which improves cost structure and generates incremental international revenue.
- The company announced a structural change in its Canadian operations, moving to a content licensing agreement with Bell Canada, which will generate international licensing revenue.
- Starz achieved US OTT subscriber growth, adding 110,000 subscribers in the quarter, driven by successful content like 'Blood of My Blood' and 'Ballerina'.
- Adjusted OIBDA was down $11 million sequentially due to higher advertising and marketing costs.
- The company faces significant headwinds in the media industry, including potential consolidation and integration challenges.
- Starz's leverage remains relatively high at 3.4 times, with plans to reduce it to 3.1 times by year-end.
- The transition to a new cash flow management system post-separation has resulted in some cash flow fluctuations.
- The company will no longer report Canadian subscribers due to the new licensing structure, which may impact transparency in subscriber metrics.
Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the STARZ third-quarter 2025 earnings call. (Operator Instructions) Please be advised at today's conference is being recorded.
I would now like to hand the conference over to your host today, Nilay Shah, with STARZ Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us for STARZ Entertainment's fiscal 2025 third-quarter earnings call. We'll begin with opening remarks from our President and CEO, Jeffrey Hirsch, followed by remarks from our CFO, Scott MacDonald. Also joining us on the call today is Alison Hoffman, President of STARZ Networks.
After our opening remarks, we'll open the call for questions.
The matters discussed on the call include forward-looking statemen, including those regarding expected future performance. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially and adversely from those described in the
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