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The SEC filings page for Lee Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEE) brings together the company’s official regulatory disclosures, giving investors structured access to its financial reporting, capital plans, and governance updates. Lee identifies itself as a smaller reporting company and files a range of documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including annual and quarterly reports, current reports on Form 8-K, registration statements, and proxy materials.
Through its Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings, Lee details operating revenue by category, including print and digital advertising and marketing services, print and digital subscription revenue, and other print and digital revenue. These reports also describe Total Digital Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA, Cash Costs, and other metrics related to its digital-first subscription platform, as well as information about its term loan under a Credit Agreement with BH Finance.
Current reports on Form 8-K provide timely disclosure of material events. Recent 8-K filings reference preliminary quarterly results, expectations about sustainability without reliance on print media within a multi-year period, the intent to pursue a rights offering, the cancellation of a special meeting of stockholders, and executive transitions such as the resignation of the Chief Financial Officer. These filings often incorporate press releases and presentation materials that expand on Lee’s digital transformation and financing strategy.
Lee has also filed a registration statement on Form S-1 related to a proposed rights offering of common stock and a definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for a special meeting of stockholders to consider amendments to its certificate of incorporation. Those amendments include increasing authorized common stock, establishing a class of non-voting common stock, and authorizing blank check preferred stock, which the company links to its ability to execute financing transactions.
In addition, Forms 3, 4, and 5 referenced in Lee’s communications provide information on beneficial ownership and changes in holdings by directors and executive officers, allowing users to track insider transactions and equity incentives. On Stock Titan, AI-powered tools can help summarize lengthy filings, highlight key risk factors, explain complex capital structure changes, and surface important trends in Lee’s digital revenue mix and debt profile, so that readers can review the substance of Lee’s SEC disclosures more efficiently.
Quint Digital Ltd, a more than 10% owner of LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc, reported a series of open-market purchases of common stock. On March 2, 2026, it bought a total of 20,454 shares at prices between $8.75 and $9.25 per share, increasing its direct holdings to 3,234,800 shares.
LEE Enterprises director and 10% owner David Henry Hoffmann reported open-market purchases of a total of 44,110 shares of common stock over three days. He bought 15,200 shares on February 26, 2026 at $9.03 per share, 13,710 shares on February 25, 2026 at $8.64, and 15,200 shares on February 24, 2026 at $8.84, based on weighted average prices. After these transactions, his directly held stake increased to 11,017,249 shares, and a separate entry shows 618,900 shares held indirectly by a trust as of February 24, 2026.
Lee Enterprises, Incorporated is moving its 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to April 6, 2026, a date more than 30 days earlier than the prior year’s meeting. Because of this schedule change, the company has set a new deadline for shareholder proposals.
Stockholder proposals intended for inclusion in the company’s 2026 proxy statement under SEC Rule 14a-8 must be received at Lee’s principal executive offices by March 2, 2026. The company will disclose the record date, time, and location of the meeting in its forthcoming proxy statement.
Lee Enterprises director and 10% owner David Henry Hoffmann reported open-market purchases of company common stock. He bought 10,600 shares on February 19, 2026 at $7.81, 10,600 shares on February 20, 2026 at $9.11, and 15,200 shares on February 23, 2026 at $8.91, totaling 36,400 shares. After the latest purchase, his direct holdings rose to 10,973,139 shares, and an additional 618,900 shares were held indirectly by a trust as of February 19, 2026. One trade price is disclosed as a weighted average, with full trade details available on request.
LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc director and more than 10% owner David Henry Hoffmann reported open-market purchases of the company’s common stock. On February 13, 17, and 18, 2026, he bought a total of 27,299 shares at prices around $7.10–$7.17 per share.
Following these transactions, Hoffmann directly owned 10,936,739 shares of common stock. A separate line also shows 618,900 shares held indirectly by a trust as of February 13.
Lee Enterprises director David Hoffmann filed an initial Form 3 reporting his beneficial ownership in the company’s common stock. He reports direct ownership of 10,909,440 shares of Lee Enterprises common stock.
He also reports indirect beneficial ownership of 618,900 common shares held by the Jerrilyn M. Hoffmann Revocable Trust dated May 30, 2001, for which his spouse, Jerrilyn Hoffmann, is the sole trustee. The Form 3 is filed jointly by a “group” of reporting persons identified in an exhibit.
Lee Enterprises executive Joshua Paul Rinehults has filed an initial ownership report. In this Form 3, he reports beneficial ownership of 2,178 shares of Lee Enterprises common stock as of the event date of February 3, 2026.
Rinehults is identified as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer, and all reported shares are held as direct ownership rather than through an intermediary entity. The filing establishes his baseline equity position as a company officer under insider reporting rules.
Lee Enterprises reported quarterly operating revenue of $130.1 million, down 10.0% year over year, but sharply reduced its net loss to $5.1 million from $16.2 million. Cost-cutting lowered operating expenses 15.5%, lifting operating results to a $5.2 million profit and increasing Adjusted EBITDA to $12.3 million from $7.6 million.
Digital businesses remain central: total digital revenue was $70.3 million, or 54.1% of revenue, while digital-only subscription revenue grew 5.3% to $22.7 million and digital-only subscribers reached 609,000. Cash was $12.6 million and long-term debt under the BH Finance term loan was $455.5 million.
After quarter-end, Lee closed a private placement of 16,000,000 shares at $3.25, raising about $50.0 million to support working capital and general purposes. A related credit amendment cut the term loan margin from 9.00% to 5.00% for five years and reset excess cash flow thresholds, easing near-term interest and liquidity pressure. Leadership changes accompanied the financing, with the CEO set to retire, the COO becoming Interim CEO, and a new Interim CFO appointed.
Quint Digital Ltd, a more than 10% owner of Lee Enterprises, Inc., reported a major open‑market purchase of common stock. On February 5, 2026, it bought 2,451,346 shares at $3.25 per share. After this transaction, Quint Digital directly owns 3,214,346 Lee Enterprises shares.
A footnote notes that Ritu Kapur and Vidur Bahl also beneficially own 250 and 30,205 Lee Enterprises common shares, respectively, separate from Quint Digital’s reported holdings.