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Riverbed Technology (FRA:UHH) Return-on-Tangible-Equity : Negative Tangible Equity% (As of Dec. 2014)


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What is Riverbed Technology Return-on-Tangible-Equity?

Return-on-Tangible-Equity is calculated as Net Income divided by its average total shareholder tangible equity. Total shareholder tangible equity equals to Total Stockholders Equity minus Intangible Assets. Riverbed Technology's annualized net income for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2014 was €161.3 Mil. Riverbed Technology's average shareholder tangible equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2014 was €-162.1 Mil. Therefore, Riverbed Technology's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2014 was Negative Tangible Equity%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Riverbed Technology's Return-on-Tangible-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:UHH's Return-on-Tangible-Equity is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 5.305
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Return-on-Tangible-Equity only.

Riverbed Technology Return-on-Tangible-Equity Historical Data

The historical data trend for Riverbed Technology's Return-on-Tangible-Equity 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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Riverbed Technology Return-on-Tangible-Equity Chart

Riverbed Technology Annual Data
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Return-on-Tangible-Equity
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Riverbed Technology Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Riverbed Technology's Return-on-Tangible-Equity

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Riverbed Technology's Return-on-Tangible-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Return-on-Tangible-Equity 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.


Riverbed Technology's Return-on-Tangible-Equity Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Riverbed Technology's Return-on-Tangible-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Riverbed Technology's Return-on-Tangible-Equity falls into.



Riverbed Technology Return-on-Tangible-Equity Calculation

Riverbed Technology's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as

Return-on-Tangible-Equity=Net Income/( (Total Tangible Equity+Total Tangible Equity)/ count )
(A: Dec. 2014 )  (A: Dec. 2013 )(A: Dec. 2014 )
=Net Income/( (Total Stockholders Equity - Intangible Assets+Total Stockholders Equity - Intangible Assets )/ count )
(A: Dec. 2014 )  (A: Dec. 2013 )(A: Dec. 2014 )
=57.798/( (-204.498+-108.402 )/ 2 )
=57.798/-156.45
=Negative Tangible Equity %

Riverbed Technology's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as

Return-on-Tangible-Equity=Net Income/( (Total Tangible Equity+Total Tangible Equity)/ count )
(Q: Dec. 2014 )  (Q: Sep. 2014 )(Q: Dec. 2014 )
=Net Income/( (Total Stockholders Equity - Intangible Assets+Total Stockholders Equity - Intangible Assets)/ count )
(Q: Dec. 2014 )  (Q: Sep. 2014 )(Q: Dec. 2014 )
=161.328/( (-215.763+-108.402)/ 2 )
=161.328/-162.0825
=Negative Tangible Equity %

* 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.

In the calculation of annual Return-on-Tangible-Equity, the net income of the last fiscal year and the average total shareholder tangible equity over the fiscal year are used. In calculating the quarterly data, the net income data used here is four times the quarterly (Dec. 2014) net income data. Return-on-Tangible-Equity is displayed in the 10-year financial page.


Riverbed Technology  (FRA:UHH) Return-on-Tangible-Equity Explanation

Return-on-Tangible-Equity measures the rate of return on the ownership interest (shareholder's tangible equity) of the common stock owners. It measures a firm's efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders' tangible equity (shareholders equity minus intangibles). Return-on-Tangible-Equity shows how well a company uses investment funds to generate earnings growth. Return-on-Tangible-Equitys between 15% and 20% are considered desirable.


Be Aware

Net Income is used.

Because a company can increase its Return-on-Tangible-Equity by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high Return-on-Tangible-Equity companies. Like Return-on-Tangible-Asset, Return-on-Tangible-Equity is calculated with only 12 months data. Fluctuations in company's earnings or business cycles can affect the ratio drastically. It is important to look at the ratio from a long term perspective.

Asset light businesses require very few assets to generate very high earnings. Their Return-on-Tangible-Equitys can be extremely high.


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Riverbed Technology (FRA:UHH) Business Description

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Riverbed Technology Inc was incorporated in Delaware on May 23, 2002. The Company provides application performance infrastructure. It offers a platform to give enterprises visibility to deliver, control, and optimize IT resources across the hybrid enterprise. The Company's Application Performance Platform is a set of solutions that help ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues are diagnosed and cured before end users even notice. The platform delivers application performance infrastructure solutions with a focus on two key areas: Application Acceleration and Performance Management. Wide area network (WAN) optimization for application acceleration includes Riverbed SteelHead - WAN optimization solution, and Riverbed SteelFusion (formerly Granite) - branch converged infrastructure; and Riverbed SteelApp- application delivery controller (ADC). Riverbed SteelCentral - a performance management suite that combines its application-aware network performance management and application performance management control suite. The SteelCentral product line combines its former Cascade products and the products acquired from OPNET Technologies, Inc (OPNET). These solutions can be flexibly delivered as appliances, software, and services. The Company's customers include manufacturing, finance, technology, government, architecture, engineering and construction, professional services, utilities, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, media and retail industries. The Company sells its products and support through channel partners and its field sales force. It outsources manufacturing of all hardware products. Its primary competitors include Cisco Systems, Blue Coat Systems, Citrix Systems, and F5 Networks, Netscout Systems, Computer Associates (NetQos) and Compuware. It also faces competition from a large number of smaller private companies and new market entrants. Its registered trademarks in the U.S. include, but are not limited to, Riverbed, SteelHead, RiOS, Cascade OPNET, SteelFusion, SteelCentral, AppResponse, AppInternals and Wireshark.Its patent portfolio includes 195 issued U.S. patents and 46 issued foreign patents. The Company's products and services are subject to a variety of government regulations, including export controls, import controls, environmental laws, laws relating to the use of conflict minerals, and required certifications.

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