What is SoundBite Communications, Shares Outstanding (EOP)?
Shares outstanding are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them. SoundBite Communications,'s shares outstanding for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2013 was 16.50 Mil.
SoundBite Communications,'s quarterly shares outstanding
increased
from Dec. 2012 (16.40 Mil) to Mar. 2013 (16.50 Mil).
It means SoundBite Communications,issued new shares from Dec. 2012 to Mar. 2013 .
SoundBite Communications, Shares Outstanding (EOP) Historical Data
The historical data trend for SoundBite Communications,'s Shares Outstanding (EOP) 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.
Competitive Comparison of SoundBite Communications,'s Shares Outstanding (EOP)
For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, SoundBite Communications,'s Shares Outstanding (EOP), along with its competitors' market caps and Shares Outstanding (EOP) 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.
SoundBite Communications,'s Shares Outstanding (EOP) Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, SoundBite Communications,'s Shares Outstanding (EOP) distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where SoundBite Communications,'s Shares Outstanding (EOP) falls into.
Shares outstanding are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them. They have voting rights and represent ownership in the corporation by the person that holds the shares. They should be distinguished from treasury shares, which are shares held by the corporation itself, having no exercisable rights.
Shares outstanding can be calculated as either basic or fully diluted. The fully diluted shares outstanding count includes diluting securities, such as options, warrants or convertibles.
A company may buy back shares or issue shares in any fiscal period. If a company buys back shares, we should observe that the total number of shares decline. If the company issues new shares, the number of shares outstanding increases.
Usually the presence of treasury shares and a history of buyback are good indicators that company has competitive advantage. But studies have shown that companies usually buy back at wrong time. Buying back shares below its intrinsic value increases value for remaining shareholders. Buying back overvalued shares destroys value for existing shareholders.
Be Aware
Warren Buffett looks for consistency and upward long term trend. Because of share repurchase it is possible for net earnings trend to differ from EPS trend. He preferred net income over EPS. The companies with durable competitive advantage companies report higher % net earnings to total revenues.
Important: If a company is showing net earnings history greater than 20% on total revenues, it is probably benefiting from a long term competitive advantage.
If net earnings is less than 10%, likely to be in a highly competitive business.
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SoundBite Communications, (FRA:4S9) Business Description
SoundBite Communications, Inc. was founded in Delaware in April 2000. The Company provides an on-demand, multi-channel proactive customer communications service that enables organizations to design, execute and measure communication campaigns for a variety of marketing, customer care, payment and collection processes. Clients use its SoundBite Engage platform to communicate with their customers through voice, text and email messages that are relevant, timely, personalized and engaging. Its service is provided using a multi-tenant architecture, which enables a single customer communications platform to serve all of its clients cost-effectively. Clients use the SoundBite Engage platform to create and manage campaigns for a variety of marketing, customer care, payments and collections processes. A campaign is a series of communications with a targeted group of customers, typically for a defined period of time. The targeted group is identified by a contact list containing customer-specific attributes, including first and last names, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and other information specific to the campaign. The Company's service is provided using a multi-tenant architecture, which enables a single PCC platform to serve all of its clients cost-effectively. To use its service, an organization does not need to invest in or maintain new hardware or to hire and manage dedicated information technology staff. The Company's Client Management organization helps clients select service features and adopt best practices that would enable the clients to use its multi-channel PCC platform effectively. The organization provides varying levels of support, such as managing entire campaigns, providing optimization recommendations and supporting self-service clients. It offers a range of services that includes script development, campaign strategy, professional voice talent recording, custom reporting and detailed analysis of campaign results. The Company serves its clients from three third-party hosting facilities, which are located in Ashburn, Virginia; Somerville, Massachusetts; and Toronto, Ontario. The Company's business operations are affected, directly or indirectly, by a range of U.S. federal and state laws and regulations that restrict customer communications activities using its service, its handling of information and other aspects of its business.
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