{"id":8469,"date":"2026-05-20T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:12:16","slug":"nia-top-sports-pick-sees-massive-tv-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/nia-top-sports-pick-sees-massive-tv-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"NIA&#8217;s #1 Sports Pick Sees Massive TV Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6; color:#222; max-width:740px; margin:0 auto;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">The people running <strong>UFC<\/strong> and <strong>WWE<\/strong>, <strong>Ari Emanuel<\/strong> and <strong>Mark Shapiro<\/strong>, took the money they extracted from <strong>TKO<\/strong> last year through record bonuses and invested it yesterday into NFL franchise <strong>Las Vegas Raiders<\/strong>, buying minority stakes at an enterprise value of approximately <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>$9.9 billion<\/strong><\/span>. This gives the Raiders a valuation multiple of approximately <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">12x revenue<\/span><\/strong>, compared to <strong>Celtic plc (LSE: CCP)<\/strong>, or <strong>CLTFF<\/strong> on the U.S. OTC market, which is trading at an enterprise value of only <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">1.20x revenue<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">Outside of the natural resource sector, <strong>Celtic<\/strong> may represent one of the <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>last great opportunities remaining<\/strong><\/span> in today&rsquo;s market. It was announced this morning (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/16284397\/celtic-hearts-premiership-decider-tv-figures-revealed\/\" style=\"color:#2980b9; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a> to view) that Saturday&#39;s <strong>Celtic vs. <span style=\"color:#ff0099;\">Hearts<\/span><\/strong> match peaked at <strong>1.37 million viewers<\/strong> on Sky Sports in the U.K., making it the <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">highest-rated<\/span> Scottish football match<\/strong> in more than two years since <strong>Celtic vs. Rangers<\/strong> in April 2024 peaked at <strong>1.44 million viewers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">The March 1st, 2026, <strong>Celtic vs. Rangers<\/strong> match peaked at <strong>1.15 million viewers<\/strong>, while even a <strong>Rangers vs. <span style=\"color:#ff0099;\">Hearts<\/span><\/strong> match on February 15th peaked at <strong>674,000 viewers<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/spfl.co.uk\/news\/one-million-plus-viewers-watch-rangers-celtic-th\" style=\"color:#2980b9; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a> to view). With <strong>Celtic<\/strong> and <strong>Rangers<\/strong> now having a legitimate third contender in <span style=\"color:#ff0099;\"><strong>Hearts<\/strong><\/span>, the <strong>Scottish Premiership<\/strong> appears to be <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>rapidly growing<\/strong><\/span> in popularity, which could ultimately lead to <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">far more lucrative<\/span> television rights deals<\/strong> in the future.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">The NFL&rsquo;s <strong>San Francisco 49ers<\/strong> sold a minority stake in the franchise last year at a valuation of approximately <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>$8.5 billion<\/strong><\/span> and then immediately <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>reinvested<\/strong><\/span> part of the proceeds into <strong>Celtic&rsquo;s <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">rival<\/span>, Rangers<\/strong>. Together with <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">billionaire<\/span> U.S. healthcare tycoon Andrew Cavenagh<\/strong>, <strong>49ers Enterprises<\/strong> <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>acquired control<\/strong><\/span> of <strong>Rangers<\/strong> and has since <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>injected significant capital<\/strong><\/span> into the club through two large <strong>private placements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">If the <strong>Scottish Premiership<\/strong> continues to gain momentum globally ahead of the <strong>2026 FIFA World Cup<\/strong> taking place across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, it is difficult to justify why <strong>Celtic plc<\/strong> should continue trading at such a massive valuation discount relative to U.S. professional sports franchises.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><em style=\"font-size:10px; line-height:1.4; display:block; color:#666;\">Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. NIA is not an investment advisor and does not provide investment advice. Always do your own research and make your own investment decisions. NIA&rsquo;s President has purchased 75,000 shares of CCP and intends to buy more shares. This message is meant for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people running UFC and WWE, Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro, took the money they extracted from TKO last year through record bonuses and invested it yesterday into NFL franchise Las Vegas Raiders, buying minority stakes at an enterprise value of approximately $9.9 billion. This gives the Raiders a valuation multiple of approximately 12x revenue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,46],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-ccp","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8473,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}