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Chime Communications (Chime Communications) Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation : $136.5 Mil (As of Jun. 2015)


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What is Chime Communications Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation?

Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation is the debt and capital lease obligation due more than 12 months in the future. Chime Communications's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was $136.5 Mil.

LT-Debt-to-Total-Asset is a measurement representing the percentage of a corporation's assets that are financed with loans and financial obligations lasting more than one year. The ratio provides a general measure of the financial position of a company, including its ability to meet financial requirements for outstanding loans. It is calculated as a company's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divides by its Total Assets. Chime Communications's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was $136.5 Mil. Chime Communications's Total Assets for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was $624.5 Mil. Chime Communications's LT-Debt-to-Total-Asset for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 0.22.

Chime Communications's LT-Debt-to-Total-Asset increased from Jun. 2014 (0.20) to Jun. 2015 (0.22). It may suggest that Chime Communications is progressively becoming more dependent on debt to grow their business.


Chime Communications Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation Historical Data

The historical data trend for Chime Communications's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation 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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Chime Communications Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation Chart

Chime Communications Annual Data
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Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation
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Chime Communications Semi-Annual Data
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Chime Communications Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation Calculation

Long-Term Debt is the debt due more than 12 months in the future. The debt can be owed to banks or bondholders. Some companies issue bonds to investors and pay interest on the bonds.

Long-Term Capital Lease Obligation represents the total liability for long-term leases lasting over one year. It's amount equal to the present value (the principal) at the beginning of the lease term less lease payments during the lease term.

The interest paid on companies' debt is reflected in the income statement as interest expense. If a company has too much debt and it cannot serve the interest payment on the debt or repay the matured debt, the company risks bankruptcy. Peter Lynch famously said: A company that does not have debt cannot go bankrupt.

A company's long term debt may have different dates of maturity and interest rates, depending on the terms.

Usually a company issues long term debt to pay for its capital expenditures. Borrowing allows the company to do things that otherwise cannot be done with only the capital it has. But debt can be risky.


Chime Communications  (OTCPK:CICPF) Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation Explanation

LT-Debt-to-Total-Asset is a measurement representing the percentage of a corporation's assets that are financed with loans and financial obligations lasting more than one year. The ratio provides a general measure of the financial position of a company, including its ability to meet financial requirements for outstanding loans. A year-over-year decrease in this metric would suggest the company is progressively becoming less dependent on debt to grow their business.

Chime Communications's LT-Debt-to-Total-Asset ratio for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as:

LT-Debt-to-Total-Asset (Q: Jun. 2015 )=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation (Q: Jun. 2015 )/Total Assets (Q: Jun. 2015 )
=136.45/624.545
=0.22

* 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.

Buffett says that durable competitive advantages carry little to no long-term debt because the company is so profitable that even expansions or acquisitions are self financed.

We are interested in long term debt load for the last ten years. If the ten years of operation show little to no long term debt, then the company has some kind of strong competitive advantage.

Warren Buffett's historic purchases indicate that on any given year, the company should have sufficient yearly net earnings to pay all long term within 3 or 4 year earnings period. (e.g. Coke + Moody's = 1yr)

Companies with enough earning power to pay long term debt in less than 3 or 4 years is a good candidate in our search for long term competitive advantage.

BUT, these companies are targets for leveraged buy outs, which saddles the business with long term debt.

If all else indicates the company has a moat, but it has ton of debt, a leveraged buyout may have created the debt. In these cases the company's bonds offer the better bet, in that the company’s earnings power is focused on paying off the debt and not growth.

Important: little or no long term debt often means a Good Long Term Bet


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Chime Communications (Chime Communications) Business Description

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Chime Communications PLC was incorporated in the United Kingdom on January 29, 1986. The Company provides advertising, sports marketing, market research, direct marketing, design and event management consultancy. Its business segments are Sport & Entertainment, Advertising and Marketing Services (AMS), Healthcare, and Insight & Engagement. In sport & entertainment segment CSM Sport & Entertainment works with brands, rights holders, governing bodies, governments and athletes across the globe, CSM specialises in strategic consultancy, rights sales, sponsorship activation, hospitality, branding and wayfinding, athlete management and communications across sporting events. The advertising and marketing services division includes the VCCP Partnership and the Chime Specialist Group. VCCP operates in advertising and marketing services, direct marketing, digital communication, search relations, point of sale, sales promotion, data consultancy and technical design, multimedia content, youth marketing and experiential, marketing consulting, retail and shopper marketing and specialist media planning and buying. The Specialist Group includes agencies operating in niche markets; corporate responsibility and sustainability consultancy; for technology brands; providing customer reference and advocacy and; in professional and financial services. The insight and engagement division brings together researchers, technologists and insight specialists who deliver to clients, in real time, actionable solutions. The division has particular expertise in delivering clients in FMCG, financial services, utilities and retail with experience performance improvement plans, mystery shopping programmes and advertising and brand tracking. The Insight & Engagement division includes specialist brands such as Watermelon - a specialist digital agency, Cherry Picked - a specialist recruitment agency, Facts International - a specialist fieldwork agency and full service agencies Opinion Leader and CIE. In healthcare segment OPEN Health is a healthcare communications and market access group. It comprises ten different specialist businesses that bring a breadth of expertise focused principally on pharma, health device and diagnostic clients. OPEN Health's companies cover aspects of the communications mix including advertising, PR, medical communications, market access consulting, real world data collection, market research and patient engagement programmes.

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