Q3 Dowgate commentary2 Nov 2025 09:40
AUDIOBOOM (BOOM LN) - CORE HOLDING UPDATE
Audioboom was the key driver of Q3 returns as the company quickly integrated its first bolt-on acquisition which had been acquired on very attractive terms. Synergies are particularly compelling because Audioboom can deploy its showcase engine into acquired back catalogues where the incumbent publisher has no such program to generate new revenues, and as a platform structure supplementary cost synergies are obvious. The market has begun to understand this and reprice the potential of future selffunded deals now that Audioboom is forecast to become meaningfully cash generative next year and beyond. At 0.7x EV/Sales Audioboom shares had been trading at a material discount to transaction multiples of 2 to 4x sales and even after a strong rally ended the quarter not much north of 1x Sales. The Onward team were thus not totally shocked post period end to see Sky News break a story that the business was drawing acquisition attention itself from iHeartMedia and Fox Corp. The same attractions of Audioboomβs own M&A deal have flagged the possible upside in a larger party acquiring the whole group itself given its paltry public markets multiple.