United Online Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Aug 06, 2012
United Online Inc. (UNTD, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2012-06-30.

United Online, Inc. has a market cap of $463.88 million; its shares were traded at around $5.12 with a P/E ratio of 7.21 and P/S ratio of 0.52. The dividend yield of United Online, Inc. stocks is 7.81%.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Pay Accounts. We generate a significant portion of our revenues from our pay accounts and they represent one of the most important drivers of our business model. A pay account is defined as a member who has paid for a subscription to a Content & Media or Communications service, and whose subscription has not terminated or expired. A subscription provides the member with access to our service for a specific term (for example, a month or a year) and may be renewed upon the expiration of each term. One time purchases of our services are not considered subscriptions and thus, are not included in the pay accounts metric. A pay account does not equate to a unique subscriber since one subscriber could have several pay accounts. In addition, at any point in time, our pay account base includes a number of accounts receiving a free period of service as either a promotion or retention tool, such as the subscribers receiving our free NetZero 4G mobile broadband service, and a number of accounts that have notified us that they are terminating their service but whose service remains in effect. In general, the key metrics that affect our revenues from our pay accounts base include the number of pay accounts and ARPU. A pay account generally becomes a free account following the expiration or termination of the related subscription.

ARPU. We monitor ARPU, which is a monthly measure calculated by dividing services revenues generated from the pay accounts of our Content & Media or Communications segment, as applicable, for a period (after translation into U.S. Dollars) by the average number of segment pay accounts for that period, divided by the number of months in that period. The average number of pay accounts is the simple average of the number of pay accounts at the beginning and the end of a period. ARPU may fluctuate significantly from period to period as a result of a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the extent to which promotional, discounted or retention pricing is used to attract new, or retain existing, paying subscribers; changes in the mix of pay services and the related pricing plans; increases or decreases in the price of our services; the timing of pay accounts being added or removed during a period; and the average foreign currency exchange rate between the U.S. Dollar and the Euro.

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