Intangible assets are defined as identifiable non-monetary assets that cannot be seen, touched or physically measured. IntraLinks Holdings's intangible assets for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was €270.3 Mil.
IntraLinks Holdings Intangible Assets Historical Data
The historical data trend for IntraLinks Holdings's Intangible Assets 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.
Intangible assets are defined as identifiable non-monetary assets that cannot be seen, touched or physically measured. Examples of intangible assets include trade secrets, copyrights, patents, trademarks. If a company acquires assets at the prices above the book value, it may carry goodwill on its balance sheet. Goodwill reflects the difference between the price the company paid and the book value of the assets.
If a company (company A) received a patent through their own work, though it has value, it does not show up on its balance sheet as an intangible asset. However, if company A sells this patent to company B, it will show up on company B's balance sheet as an intangible asset.
The same applies to brand names, trade secrets etc. For instance, Coca-Cola's brand is extremely valuable, but the brand does not appear on its balance sheet, because the brand was never acquired.
Some intangibles are amortized. Amortization is the depreciation of intangible assets.
Many intangibles are not amortized. They may still be written down when the company decides the asset is impaired.
Whenever you see an increase in goodwill over a number of years, you can assume it's because the company is out buying other businesses above book value. GOOD if buying businesses with durable competitive advantage.
If goodwill stays the same, the company when acquiring other companies is either paying less than book value or not acquiring. Businesses with moats never sell for less than book value.
Intangibles acquired are on balance sheet at fair value.
Internally developed brand names (Coke, Wrigleys, Band-Aid) however are not reflected on the balance sheet.
One of the reasons competitive advantage power can remain hidden for so long.
Be Aware
Companies may change the way intangible assets are amortized, and this will affect their reported earnings.
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IntraLinks Holdings (FRA:098) Business Description
IntraLinks Holdings Inc was incorporated in Delaware as Intralinks, Inc. in June 1996. The Company is a provider of Software-as-a-Service solutions for secure content management and collaboration within and among organizations. Its cloud-based solutions enable organizations to control, track, search and exchange time-sensitive information inside and outside the firewall. Its customers rely on its solutions to manage large amounts of electronic information, accelerate information intensive business processes, reduce time to market, optimize critical information workflow, meet regulatory and risk management requirements and collaborate with business counterparties in a secure, auditable and compliant manner. It helps its customers eliminate many of the inherent risks and inefficiencies of using email, fax, courier services and other existing solutions to collaborate and exchange information. The Company sell their solutions through a mix of field and inside sales, a referral network and a select group of channel partners. The Company delivers its solutions through a cloud-based model, making them available on-demand over the Internet using a multi-tenant SaaS architecture in which a single instance of its software serves all of its customers. The Company has built a secure and scalable, cloud-based, multi-tenant platform upon which it develops solutions that allow customers to collaborate, manage and exchange critical information across organizational and geographic boundaries. It integrates content management, collaboration and social networking software into one platform that supports business collaboration and content exchange. The Intralinks Platform scales from the needs of small groups and individuals within one organization to large teams of people across multiple enterprises, financial institutions and governmental agencies. Its platform helps transform a wide range of slow, expensive and information-intensive tasks into streamlined, efficient and real-time business processes. The Company competes with a multitude of service providers, including both virtual data room providers and enterprise software providers.Its trademarks include Intralinks, Intralinks Connect, Intralinks DealNexus, Intralinks Dealspace, Intralinks Debtspace, Intralinks Fundspace, Intralinks Studyspace, Intralinks VIA.
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