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Largest Content Production Public Companies in France
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Banijay Group, Canal+, Vivendi, Groupe M6 and TF1.
 | Banijay Group NV media and entertainment company. It has over 130 production companies across 23 territories, a multi-genre catalogue boasting over 185,000 hours of original standout programming, and a complementary live entertainment business. | $10 | -17% | $4B | $8B | 1.3x | 7.2x | ||
| Canal+ SA is media and entertainment company and also operates short-form video streaming platforms with Dailymotion. It operates in three business segments, Europe, Africa and Asia, and Content Production, Distribution and Other. Key revenue is generated from Europe which includes subscription-TV, advertising-based television and OTT businesses across France, the Overseas Territories, Poland and also in Central Europe and the Benelux through M7, and the Group’s FTTH business in the Overseas Territories. | $3 | +19% | $3B | $6B | 0.8x | 7.9x | ||
| Vivendi SE is an integrated content, media, and communications group. The company has established itself as a key player in content, media, and entertainment by developing a portfolio of listed and unlisted assets, each a leader in its market. It is present in the video game sector with Gameloft, and also holds a certain percentage of stakes in other companies such as Universal Music Group, Banijay, TIM, MediaForEurope, Telefonica, and Prisca. Its business segments include Gameloft, which derives maximum revenue, and Share of UMG, Corporate, and Other. Geographically, the group generates maximum revenue from North America, followed by EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, Africa), Asia Pacific, and Latin America. | $3 | -22% | $3B | $4B | 11.3x | 20.8x | ||
| Metropole Television SA is a media holding company that owns several television channels, magazines, publications, and movie production firms. Metropole Television SA's flagship channel is M6, a multimedia television network that displays a wide variety of content and includes dramas, news, comedies, films, and documentaries. Furthermore, Metropole owns production houses and operates digital content publications. It has four reportable segments which includes Television, Radio, Production & Audiovisual Rights and Diversification involves distribution of niche products, other online revenues, Interactions division. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue from France and also from Television segment. | $13 | -7% | $2B | $2B | 1.0x | 4.5x | ||
| Television Francaise 1 SA is a television broadcasting company. The firm operates numerous television channels, including TF1, which is the company's flagship channel that broadcasts a variety of television programming. Additionally, the company controls other channels such as LCI, which focuses on news and current events, and Eurosport, the company's sports broadcasting segment. It is also involved in television and film production, publishing, as well as social media services. The company derives maximum revenue through Television. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue in France. | $8 | -20% | $2B | $1B | 0.4x | 1.4x | ||
| Nrj Group is a media company operating as a publisher, producer, broadcaster and marketing its own media spaces. It operates with the brand names NRJ, CHERIE FM, NOSTALGIE and RIRE & SONGS. The company operates two free national channels under the brand name NRJ 12 and CHERIE 25 and a pay channel under the brand NRJ HITS. It also operates an international radio station and production of musical theatre. The company operates in France as well as an outside country either through direct operations or through NRJ / ENERGY brand licenses, the first international radio brand, and/or NOSTALGIE / NOSTALGIA. | $8 | -6% | $640M | $179M | 0.5x | 2.0x | ||
| Gaumont is producer and distributor of motion films. The company produces television programs, cartoon films and series produced by Alphanim; and television drams and series produced by Leonis Productions, Gaumont Television, and Gaumont International Television. The Gaumont group operates in two business sectors which constitute its operating segments: Production and distribution of French feature films, Gaumont’s historical activity; Production and distribution of audiovisual programs via its subsidiaries in France, the United States and Europe; and the Group’s central real estate management and coordination activities. It derives maximum revenue from Production and distribution of audiovisual programs. | $125 | +26% | $391M | $341M | 2.0x | 4.0x | ||
| The Generation Essentials Group is a media and entertainment company. Its publications L’Officiel and The Art Newspaper publish print editions in a total of nearly 28 countries and territories and digital contents. It operate in the movie production sector having produced various Asia-focused movies. It operate in three operating segments: media and entertainment segment, hotel operations, hospitality and VIP services segment and strategic investment segment. Key revenue is generated from strategic investment segment that is engage in proprietary investments and management of portfolio, including listed and unlisted equity shares investments and movie income right investments. | $1 | -- | $53M | $287M | 5.3x | 22.8x | ||
| EuropaCorp SA is engaged in producing and distributing feature films. The company's operating segments include the production and distribution of films, TV films and series, and others. It generates maximum revenue from the Production and distribution of films segment. The Production and Distribution of films segment includes all operations involving films namely distribution to theaters, video release, TV sales, international sales, licensing and partnerships, line production, income from coproduction, and others. | $0 | -19% | $52M | $90M | 2.4x | 3.9x | ||
| Dnxcorp specializes in soft-core adult products and entertainment services on the Internet. Its areas of web include traffic generation, websites and services development, payment solutions, on-demand streaming video solutions, and CRM analyses. | $21 | -13% | $42M | $36M | 1.3x | 4.2x | ||
| Median | $8 | -13% | $1B | $703M | 1.3x | 4.4x |
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