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Friday, December 15, 2017

=Sirius (SIRI) sinks after CRB raises royalty payment rate

Shares of Sirius XM Holdings (SIRI) sank 5.8% in very active trade Friday, after the company disclosed that it will have pay higher royalties to play music on its satellite radio programs. Volume ballooned to 74.2 million shares, compared with the full-day average of 16.3 million shares, and enough to make the stock the most actively trade on major U.S. exchanges, according to FactSet.

Sirius said in an SEC filing that the Copyright Royalty Board had determined that starting Jan. 1, 2018, the company will be required to pay a royalty of 15.5% of gross revenue through 2022, up from the 2017 rate of 11.0%. "We anticipate that the [CRB] decision will result in an increase in our aggregate royalty expense on an annual basis beginning in 2018," the company stated in the filing. "We are not yet able to estimate the impact on our financial statements, although the additional royalty expense could be material." The stock has now lost 9.0% since it closed at an 11 1/2-year high of $5.86 on July 31, 2017, but was still up 19.8% year to date, while the S&P 500 (SPX) has gained 19.6%.

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