Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (LEE)
Communications · NMS
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 05:28 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Lee Enterprises, Incorporated trades at $6.95. We do not hold enough of the inputs to value this company with the confidence the estimate implies, so we publish no fair value for it rather than a number we would not defend.
Our moat model scores it 30 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
LEE dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | $5.70 | 3 |
| 2007 | $7.30 | 4 |
| 2006 | $7.20 | 4 |
| 2005 | $7.20 | 4 |
| 2004 | $7.20 | 4 |
| 2003 | $6.90 | 4 |
| 2002 | $6.80 | 4 |
| 2001 | $6.80 | 4 |
| 2000 | $6.50 | 4 |
| 1999 | $6.00 | 4 |
| 1998 | $5.70 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
About Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, a digital-first subscription and marketing services company, provides local news and information, and advertising services in the United States. The company offers digital subscription platforms; daily and weekly newspapers; and niche products for national and international news are accessible across digital and print formats through websites and mobile applications. It also provides subscription services through digital and print subscriptions; and omni-channel marketing solutions, including digital, print, programmatic, video, and social media campaigns. In addition, the company offers commercial printing, distribution, and other digital services through SaaS content management solution. Lee Enterprises, Incorporated was founded in 1890 and is based in Davenport, Iowa.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
Super investor ownership
2 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Mario Gabelli, GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL$5.24M · 0.1% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$115.9K · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
LEE peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Publishing), then in the same sector.
- NYT The New York Times Company
- PSO Pearson plc
- WLYB John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- SPGNY Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA
- TDAY USA TODAY Co., Inc.
- SCHL Scholastic Corporation
- GOOGL Alphabet Inc.
- META Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Common questions
Which funds own LEE?
2 of the institutions we track reported a position in LEE in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
Where does SteadyShares get its LEE data?
Fundamentals for LEE come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 05:28 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 63/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.