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Speed Commerce (Speed Commerce) EBITDA : $-20.4 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2015)


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What is Speed Commerce EBITDA?

Speed Commerce's EBITDA for the three months ended in Dec. 2015 was $-6.8 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was $-20.4 Mil.

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Speed Commerce's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2015 was $-1.21. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was $-4.48.

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Speed Commerce EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Speed Commerce's EBITDA can be seen below:

* 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.

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Speed Commerce EBITDA Chart

Speed Commerce Annual Data
Trend Mar06 Mar07 Mar08 Mar09 Mar10 Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15
EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10.30 -7.88 -4.01 0.12 -14.73

Speed Commerce Quarterly Data
Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15
EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.26 -13.39 1.51 -1.75 -6.77

Competitive Comparison of Speed Commerce's EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Speed Commerce's EV-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-to-EBITDA 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.


Speed Commerce's EV-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Speed Commerce's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Speed Commerce's EV-to-EBITDA falls into.


Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Speed Commerce's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2015 is calculated as

Speed Commerce's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Mar. 2015, Speed Commerce's EBITDA was $-14.7 Mil.

Speed Commerce's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Speed Commerce's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Dec. 2015, Speed Commerce's EBITDA was $-6.8 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-20.4 Mil.

* 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.

Sometimes companies may have already deducted Depreciation and Amortization from Gross Profit. In this case Depreciation and Amortization needs to be added back when calculating EBITDA.

Speed Commerce  (OTCPK:SPDC) EBITDA Explanation

EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals Operating Income. Operating Income is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.

While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.

The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.

EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:

Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners

EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses.. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.

A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.

Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.


Be Aware

Although depreciation is not a cash cost it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.

EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies. Also Price-to-EBITDA is sometimes used in valuations.


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Speed Commerce (Speed Commerce) Business Description

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Address
1303 East Arapaho Road, Suite 200, Richardson, TX, USA, 75081
Speed Commerce Inc is a provider of flexible end-to-end e-commerce services to retailers and manufacturers. It provides Web platform development and hosting, order management, fulfillment, logistics and contact center services, which provide clients with transaction-based services and information management tools. It manages fulfillment center from four facilities located in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and Texas, utilizing automation technology, such as unit sortation, pick-to-pack conveyors and radio frequency (RF) scanning.
Executives
Richard Willis director, officer: President and CEO 7400 49TH AVE. NORTH, NEW HOPE MN 55428
Bradley J. Shisler director 7400 49TH AVENUE NORTH, NEW HOPE MN 55428
Rebecca Lynn Atchison director 10355 PECAN PARK BOULEVARD, AUSTIN TX 78729
Kathleen P Iverson director 5900 GOLDEN HILLS DRIVE, GOLDEN VALLEY MN 55416
Steven R Becker other: Member of a 13(d) 10% Group 5525 NAKOMA DRIVE, DALLAS TX 75209
Northern Right Capital Management, L.p. other: Member of a 13(d) 10% Group 9 OLD KINGS HWY. S., 4TH FLOOR, DARIEN CT 06820
Bc Advisors Llc other: Member of a 13(d) 10% Group 500 CRESCENT COURT, SUITE 230, DALLAS TX 75201
Becker Drapkin Partners, L.p. other: Member of a 13(d) 10% Group 500 CRESCENT COURT, SUITE 230, DALLAS TX 75201
Northern Right Capital (qp), L.p. other: Member of a 13(d) 10% Group 9 OLD KINGS HWY. S., 4TH FLOOR, DARIEN CT 06820
Matthew A Drapkin other: Member of a 13(d) 10% Group 10 CORBIN DRIVE, 3RD FLOOR, DARIEN CT 06820
David Dalvey director C/O BLUE ROCK ADVISORS, INC., 80 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET SUITE 3915, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55402

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