What is Rentrak Financial Strength?
Rentrak has the Financial Strength Rank of 0.
GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:
1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its
Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3.
Altman Z-Score.
Rentrak has no long-term debt (1).
Rentrak's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was 0.00.
As of today, Rentrak's Altman Z-Score is 0.00.
(1) Note: An indication of "no long-term debt" does not necessarily mean that the company has no long-term debt obligations; it could be due to missing data in the quarterly or annual report. Use caution when interpreting this information.
Competitive Comparison of Rentrak's Financial Strength
For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Rentrak's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Rentrak's Financial Strength Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Rentrak's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Rentrak's Financial Strength falls into.
Rentrak Financial Strength Calculation
GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors
A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.
1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.
Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:
Rentrak's Interest Expense for the
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $0.0 Mil. Its Operating Income for the
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $1.7 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was $0.0 Mil.
Rentrak's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 is
| Rentrak had no long-term debt (1). |
The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
Rentrak's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 is
3. Altman Z-Score.
Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.
The zones of discrimination were as such:
When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.
Rentrak has a Z-score of 0.00, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Rentrak (Rentrak) Business Description
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Rentrak Corp is an Oregon corporation and was incorporated in 1977. It is a media measurement and information company serving the entertainment, television, video and advertising industries. The Company's Software as a Service technology merges census-based television viewership information from over 100 million TVs and devices with consumer behavior and purchase information across multiple platforms, devices and distribution channels. It also measures box office results from more than 125,000 movie screens in 47 countries. The Company processes and aggregates billions of data transactions from multiple screens wherever entertainment content is viewed, whether at the box office, on a television screen, over the internet, on a smart phone or other portable device. It measures live TV, recorded TV, Video-On-Demand and whether the content is free, purchased, rented, recorded, downloaded or streamed from multiple channels. These content databases provide stable and granular viewership information across every screen and are anonymously matched with third-party consumer segmentation and purchase databases using privacy compliant methodologies. By linking multiscreen viewership information with information about the products viewers consume and prefer, the Company provides its clients, such as content producers, distributors, advertisers and advertising agencies, with the knowledge necessary to effectively manage their businesses, program and market their networks and precisely target and sell their advertising inventory. Additionally, certain clients of the Company use the databases to populate programmatic buying systems. These systems automate the buying process and introduce efficiencies for both advertising agencies and their clients. The Company's media measurement services are distributed through patent pending software systems and business processes into two areas within the entertainment industry: - Movies Everywhere and TV Everywhere. The Company's Entertainment Essentials services are: TV Everywhere including TV Essentials and StationView Essentials; OnDemand Everywhere includes OnDemand Essentials, Over the Top measurement products and related products; Movies Everywhere includes domestic and international Box Office Essentials, PostTrak and PreAct; and Other Services include Studio Direct Revenue Sharing and other products relating to content in the home video rental industry. The Company's primary competitors are Nielsen, Kantar and TiVo. It owns two patents directed to techniques for extracting revenue information from point-of-sale terminals, as well as nine patents for linear data collection, projections and analysis. Among the linear TV patents are two for our sophisticated TV-off methodology, which accurately accounts for cases when the TV is turned off but the set-top box.
Executives
| David I. Chemerow |
officer: Chief Operating Officer & CFO |
PLAYBOY ENT., INC. - H. SHAPIRO, 680 N LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO IL 60611 |
| Brent David Rosenthal |
director |
C/O WR HUFF ASSET MANAGEMENT, 67 PARK PLACE, MORRISTOWN NJ 07960 |
| Ralph R Shaw |
director |
3438 SW BRENTWOOD DRIVE, PORTLAND OR 97201 |
| William Paul Livek |
director, officer: Chief Executive Officer |
P O BOX 18888, PORTLAND OR 97218 |
| William E Engel |
director |
C/O RENTRAK CORPORATION, 7700 NE AMBASSADOR PLACE, PORTLAND OR 97220-1393 |
| Plc Wpp |
10 percent owner |
SEA CONTAINERS, 18 UPPER GROUND, LONDON X0 SE1 9GL |
| Patricia A. Gottesman |
director |
C/O WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT, INC., 1241 EAST MAIN STREET, STAMFORD CT 06902 |
| Wpp Luxembourg Gamma Three S.a.r.l. |
10 percent owner |
124 BOULEVARD DE LA PETRUSSE, LUXEMBOURG N4 L-2330 |
| Anne Macdonald |
director |
200 CARILLON PARKWAY, ST PETERSBURG FL 33716 |
| Michelle Spencer |
officer: Sr VP Finance & Dep. CFO |
RENTRAK CORPORATION, 7700 NE AMBASSADOR PLACE, PORTLAND OR 97220 |
| Christopher T Wilson |
officer: President, National Linear TV |
7700 NE AMBASSADOR PLACE, PORTLAND OR 97220 |
| Richard Hochhauser |
director |
|
| Paul A Rosenbaum |
director, officer: Chairman of the Board |
2945 NW LURAY TERRACE, PORTLAND OR 97210 |
| Thomas D Allen |
director |
2101 E FOURTH ST, STE 202, SANTA ANA CA 92705 |
| Cecil D Andrus |
director |
350 N NINTH STREET, SUITE 202, BOISE ID 83702 |
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