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Lee Enterprises, Inc. filings document the formal disclosures of a Nasdaq-listed local media company with common stock outstanding. The record includes Form 8-K reports on preliminary operating results, Regulation FD materials, executive appointments, annual-meeting voting results, shareholder proposal deadlines, material agreements and capital-structure changes.
Proxy statements and related meeting filings describe board elections, executive compensation, charter and share-authorization matters, stock issuance approvals and shareholder voting mechanics. Other disclosures address the company’s digital-subscription and advertising model, the transition from print media, credit-facility and debt terms, preferred share purchase rights, governance practices and risk factors including advertising demand, subscription trends, technology systems, cybersecurity, labor costs, newsprint and other input costs, competition and Nasdaq listing status.
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.
LEE Enterprises’ major shareholder group led by Gabelli entities has reduced its reported stake to 3.82% of the company. The filing shows beneficial ownership of 847,944 common shares out of 22,169,885 shares outstanding.
The decrease in ownership percentage is attributed to an approximately 15 million share increase in Lee’s outstanding stock following a private placement on February 5, 2026. Key holders include GAMCO Asset Management with 575,658 shares, Gabelli Funds with 232,286 shares, Gabelli Foundation with 23,000 shares, and Teton Advisors with 17,000 shares. The group states it ceased to be a beneficial owner of more than five percent of Lee on February 5, 2026 and continues to use the long‑form Schedule 13D because it may regularly communicate with the company’s management.
Lee Enterprises reported preliminary first-quarter fiscal 2026 results showing a net loss of $5.1 million but significantly stronger operating performance. Total revenue was $130.1 million, down about 10% from a year earlier, while Adjusted EBITDA rose to $12.3 million, an increase of $4.7 million or roughly 61%, helped by a $2 million cyber insurance reimbursement and cost reductions.
Digital businesses continued to reshape the company: total digital revenue was $70.3 million, or 54% of total revenue, with digital-only subscription revenue of $22.7 million and 609,000 digital-only subscribers. The company closed a $50 million private placement of common stock and amended its Berkshire Hathaway–backed credit agreement, cutting the interest rate on its $455 million term loan to 5% from 9% for five years. Lee expects this to save about $18 million of interest annually and up to $90 million over five years, supporting its digital transformation and balance sheet.