Stagwell (STGW) Will Host 2025 Virtual Investor Day and Announce $5 Billion Revenue Target by End of FY29
NEW YORK, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Stagwell (NASDAQ:STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, will host its 2025 Investor Day virtually during which executives will outline the company's vision and strategic priorities for its next phase of growth. In conjunction with Investor Day, Stagwell will announce initiatives targeting $5 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2029, a plan to implement $80 to $100 million of cost savings, and simplifying its capital structure.
A livestream of the virtual Investor Day will be available starting at 10 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) today (April 2, 2025). To register for or join the live broadcast, visit https://stagwellinvestorday2025.splashthat.com/. A recording will be available after the webcast at https://www.stagwellglobal.com.
Today's sessions will include presentations from Stagwell Chairman and CEO Mark Penn, Chief Financial Officer Frank Lanuto, Chief Investment Officer Jason Reid, and additional leaders from across the diverse portfolio, as well as sessions on Stagwell's growth drivers and a Q&A.
"We are holding this Investor Day because I think Phase I of our growth is now complete and we are entering Phase II that will take us to the next level," shared Penn. "Three years ago, many doubted we would be at this nearly $3B level. We proved them wrong. We are today the world's fastest-growing major advertising holding company."
$5 Billion Revenue Target by End of 2029: Stagwell will unveil its "5 x 5" initiative for its next phase of growth: $5 billion in revenue and $1 billion in adjusted EBITDA within the next five years. The company plans to achieve this ambitious goal without expanding debt ratios.
$80 to $100 Million of Cost Savings: Stagwell has identified approximately $80 to $100 million of cost-saving opportunities largely coming from the implementation of AI-driven technologies that it believes will allow employees to work more efficiently. These initiatives are expected to be fully implemented over the next 18 to 24 months, with $60 to $70 million of the cost saving steps completed by the end of 2025 and reflected in FY26 results. The company plans to implement the remainder of the savings by the end of 2026. These steps will have a meaningful impact on adjusted EBITDA.
Simplifying Capital Structure: The two-class share structure is being eliminated with conversion of all Class C shares to Class A publicly traded common stock. This change will result in a simplified capital structure with only a single class of outstanding common stock and that should make the stock more attractive to additional indexes and funds.
Restructuring of the Business Units: Stagwell is in the process of reorganizing its lines of business internally and externally to be more in line with how clients buy Stagwell's services and products today. The adjusted reporting lines are expected to be: Marketing Services; Media and Commerce; Advocacy, which includes political and nonpolitical communications; Digital Transformation; and the Stagwell Marketing Cloud. It is anticipated that financial reporting will be streamlined under this new structure when the changes go into effect later this year.
Enhancing Data with Palantir: Stagwell is partnering with Palantir to combine the capabilities of the Stagwell ID Graph with Palantir's tools to enhance performance media targeting using Palantir's advanced data analysis and AI capabilities. This comes on top of the partnership with Adobe to deploy advanced content management that together will be part of the suite of new data and content services that will be offered to clients later this year.
Stagwell's Inaugural Chief AI Officer: Stagwell will appoint John Kahan as the network's inaugural Chief AI Officer. Reporting to Penn, Kahan will spearhead the integration and development of artificial intelligence across Stagwell's global network. Kahan brings nearly four decades of experience in data and artificial intelligence from his tenure at Microsoft and IBM.
Affirming Full Year 2025 Guidance: Stagwell will reiterate guidance after encouraging data from the first two months of the year. ...
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