What is Rentrak Retained Earnings?
Retained earnings is the accumulated portion of net income that is not distributed to shareholders. Rentrak's retained earnings for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was $-30.9 Mil.
Rentrak's quarterly retained earnings
increased
from Mar. 2015 ($-33.8 Mil) to Jun. 2015 ($-32.2 Mil) and
increased
from Jun. 2015 ($-32.2 Mil) to Sep. 2015 ($-30.9 Mil).
Rentrak's annual retained earnings
declined
from Mar. 2013 ($-27.6 Mil) to Mar. 2014 ($-31.8 Mil) and
declined
from Mar. 2014 ($-31.8 Mil) to Mar. 2015 ($-33.8 Mil).
Rentrak Retained Earnings Calculation
Retained Earnings is the accumulated portion of net income that is not distributed to shareholders. Because the net income was not distributed to shareholders, shareholders' equity is increased by the same amount.
Of course, if a company loses, it is called retained losses, or accumulated losses.
Rentrak (NAS:RENT) Retained Earnings Explanation
Historically profitable companies sometimes have negative retained earnings. This is because they have cumulatively paid out more to shareholders than they reported in profits.
For example, in 2011, Microsoft had negative retained earnings. This does not mean the company lost more money than it made over the years. It just means it paid out more money than it earned.
If a company has negative retained earnings, investors should check the 10-year financial results. They should not assume that negative retained earnings prove a company has generally lost money in the past.
Of course, many companies with negative retained earnings have indeed lost money in the past.
Retained Earnings: Warren Buffett's Secret.
One of the most important indicators of durable competitive advantage. Net earnings can be paid out as dividends, used to buy back shares or retained for growth.
If the company loses more than it has accumulated, retained earnings is negative.
If a company isn't adding to its retained earnings, it isn't growing its net worth.
Rate of growth of retained earnings is good indicator whether it's benefiting from a competitive advantage.
Microsoft is negative because it chose to buyback stock and pay dividends.
The more earnings retained, the faster it grows and increases growth rate for future earnings.
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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