Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
NXSTHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYNexstar Media Group, Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Consistent Strategic Buyer deploying $60M across 3 disclosed transactions, down 57% vs the prior cycle · primary market Media & Education.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$60M
vs $138M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
3
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Consistent Strategic Buyer
Meaningful spend appears across repeat years.
Composite score
78
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $3.4B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 18d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 18d
- 368 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 1 divestiture 8-K
- Latest event 14y ago; heavily discounted
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
- 2 NT late filings
- Latest event 18y ago; heavily discounted
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 368 8-Ks
- Filed within 18d
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $18.1B
- 10-Q 18d ago
- 4 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $2,146M · Peak count: 11
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | $22M | $22M | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | 2 | $38M | $19M | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2021 | 1 | $138M | $138M | N/A |
| 2020 | 11 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Geographic Expansion20%
- Horizontal Consolidation20%
- Bolt On20%
- Tuck In20%
- Platform20%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- horizontal_consolidation
- bolt_on
- tuck_in
- platform
- technology_acquisition
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Our growth may be limited if we are unable to implement an acquisition strategy and our operating results may be adversely affected if we are unable to successfully integrate any future acquisition;”
“Owning or providing services to more than one station in a given market enables us to broaden our audience share, enhance our revenue share and achieve significant operating efficiencies.”
“Duopoly markets broaden audience share by providing programming from multiple networks with different targeted demographics.”
“Our growth strategy for The CW is three-fold: improve and diversify programming, accelerate digital growth, reduce costs”
“The acquisition solidifies Nexstar’s revenue opportunities as the largest owner of The CW-affiliated stations”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Media & Education
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $31.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $74.8B
- Recent vs prior
- −57%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
NXST trades at a -0.1-turn discount to the Media & Education peer median of 12.1×.
- EV / Revenue
- 3.5×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 7.8×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.1×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.6× | 2.0× | -0.2× | $8.8B | $55M | |
| 19.2× | 1.5× | -3.6× | $25.6B | $196M | |
Nexstar Media Group, Inc.NXST | 12.0× | 3.5× | 7.8× | $5.1B | $60M |
| 4.9× | 1.8× | 2.2× | $37.2B | $100M | |
| 3.0× | 0.2× | 14.1× | $2.1B | $14M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Media & Education. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)252026-02-27
- 10-Q (quarterly)702026-05-08
- 8-K (event)3682026-05-07
- Proxy / DEF 14A352026-04-30
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- watch
Late-filing notice
2008-08-122 NT 10-K/10-Q filings on file.
- watch
Divestiture / strategic-alternatives 8-K
2012-08-231 8-K filing matching divestiture / strategic-alternatives language.
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
- info
Signal
Spin/Carve candidate
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.