UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D. C.  20549

FORM 10-K


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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

 

For the Fiscal Year Ended: March 31, 2007

 

OR

 

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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Commission File Number: 0-15159

RENTRAK CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Oregon

 

93-0780536

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

or organization)

 

 

 

 

 

7700 NE Ambassador Place, Portland, Oregon

 

97220

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 503-284-7581

 

 

 

Securities Registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

 

Title of each class

 

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share

 

The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (NASDAQ Global Market)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None


Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act: Yes o     No x

Indicate by check mark if the Registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act:  Yes o   No x

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x   No o

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of Registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K, or any amendment to this Form 10-K.   o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer” and “large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

  Large accelerated filer o

 

Accelerated filer x

 

Non-accelerated filer o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).  Yes o  No x

The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates, computed by reference to the last sales price ($11.42) as reported by the Nasdaq Global Market, as of the last business day of the Registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter (September 29, 2006), was $118,343,850.

The number of shares outstanding of the Registrant’s Common Stock as of June 5, 2007 was 10,726,341 shares.

Documents Incorporated by Reference

The Registrant has incorporated into Part III of Form 10-K, by reference, portions of its Proxy Statement for its 2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

 




RENTRAK CORPORATION

2007 FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 1.

 

Business

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 1A.

 

Risk Factors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 1B.

 

Unresolved Staff Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 2.

 

Properties

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 3.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 4.

 

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 5.

 

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 6.

 

Selected Financial Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 7.

 

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 7A.

 

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 8.

 

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 9.

 

Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 9A.

 

Controls and Procedures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 9B.

 

Other Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 10.

 

Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 11.

 

Executive Compensation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 12.

 

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 13.

 

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 14.

 

Principal Accountant Fees and Services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART IV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Item 15.

 

Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signatures

 

 

 

 

 

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PART I

ITEM 1.                             BUSINESS

Forward Looking Statements

Certain information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (including Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations regarding revenue growth, gross profit margin and liquidity) constitutes forward looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Forward looking statements may be identified by the use of forward looking words such as “may,” “will,” “expects,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “estimates” or “continues” or the negative thereof or variations thereon or comparable terminology. Our forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. As such, our actual future results, performance or achievements may differ materially from the results expressed in, or implied by, our forward-looking statements. Please refer to Item 1A. Risk Factors in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for examples of reasons why our actual results may differ materially from our forward-looking statements. We assume no future obligation to update our forward-looking statements or to provide periodic updates or guidance.

Where You Can Find More Information

We file annual, quarterly and other reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended (“Exchange Act”). We also make available, free of charge on our website at www.rentrak.com, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed electronically with the SEC. You can inspect and copy our reports, proxy statements and other information filed with the SEC at the offices of the SEC’s Public Reference Room located at 100 F Street, NE, Washington D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of Public Reference Rooms. The SEC also maintains an Internet website at http://www.sec.gov/ where you can obtain most of our SEC filings. You can also obtain paper copies of these reports, without charge, by contacting Investor Relations at (503) 284-7581.

Overview

We operate in two business segments, our Pay-Per-Transaction (“PPT”) operating division and our Advanced Media and Information (“AMI”) operating division. Accordingly, we report certain financial information by individual segment.

Our PPT Division focuses on managing our business operations that facilitate the delivery of home entertainment content products and provides related rental and sales information for that content to home video specialty stores and other retailers, including grocery stores and convenience stores (“Retailers”), on a revenue sharing basis. Our PPT Division generated 85%, 87% and 88% of total revenues in fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Our AMI Division concentrates on the management and growth of our Essentials Suite™ of business intelligence services, which are no longer in the development stage, as well as operating our direct revenue sharing (“DRS”) services. Our Essentials Suite™ software and services, offered primarily on a recurring subscription basis, provides unique data collection, management, analysis and reporting functions, resulting in business intelligence information valuable to our clients. Our DRS services collect, track, audit and report the results of certain retailers’ direct revenue sharing activity to the respective suppliers under established agreements, on a fee for service basis. Our AMI Division generated 15%, 13% and 12% of total revenues in fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

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PPT Division

We collect, process, analyze and report rental and sales information relating to digital videodiscs (“DVDs”) and videocassettes (“VHSs”) (collectively “Units”) subleased/sublicensed to Retailers. We lease product from various suppliers. Under our PPT System, Retailers that rent Units to consumers generally sublease Units from Rentrak, usually for a low initial fee, and share a portion of each retail rental or sale transaction with us. We share a portion of that rental and sales revenue with our suppliers under the terms of our agreements.

Pay-Per-Transaction System

We distribute Units principally to Retailers through our PPT System. The PPT System has various product programs which enable Retailers to obtain Units at a significantly lower overall cost than if they purchased the Units from traditional video distributors.

After the Retailer is approved for participation in the PPT System, Units are subleased to the Retailer, generally for a low initial fee plus a percentage of revenues generated by the Retailer from rentals and/or sales to consumers. We retain a portion of most fees and remit the remainder to the appropriate motion picture studios or other licensee or owner of the rights to certain video programming content (“Program Suppliers”) that hold the distribution rights to the Units. Due to the lower cost of “bringing Units in the door,” Retailers generally obtain a greater number of Units under the PPT System than they would if they purchased Units directly from a distributor. The intended benefit to the Retailer is a higher volume of rental transactions, as well as a reduction in capital cost and risk. The intended benefit to the Program Supplier is an increase in the total number of Units shipped, resulting in increased revenues and opportunity for profit. The intended benefit to the consumer is the potential of finding more copies of certain newly released hit titles and a greater selection of other titles at Retailers participating in the PPT System (“Participating Retailers”).

Marketing and Relationships with Program Suppliers

We currently market our PPT System throughout the United States and Canada. During fiscal 2007, we offered titles from a number of Program Suppliers including, but not limited to: DreamWorks, LLC; First Look Studios; Genius Products, Inc.; Lions Gate Films, Inc.; Maple Pictures Corp; Paramount Home Entertainment, Inc.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment LLC; and Warner Brothers, including Warner Home Video, Inc., HBO, New Line Cinema, TNT and Lightyear Entertainment. Our arrangements with our Program Suppliers are of varying duration, scope and formality. In some cases, we have obtained Units pursuant to contracts or arrangements with Program Suppliers on a title-by-title basis and in other cases the contracts or arrangements provide that all titles released for distribution by such Program Supplier will be provided to us for the PPT System. Many of our agreements with Program Suppliers may be terminated upon relatively short notice. Therefore, there is no assurance that any of the Program Suppliers will continue to distribute Units through the PPT System, continue to have available for distribution titles which we can distribute on a profitable basis, or continue to remain in business. Even if titles are otherwise available from Program Suppliers, there is no assurance that they will be made available on terms acceptable to us. During the last three years, we have not experienced any material difficulty acquiring suitable Units for our markets on acceptable terms and conditions from Program Suppliers.

During fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, we had several Program Suppliers that supplied product in excess of 10% of our total revenues as follows:

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 

Program Supplier 1

 

20

%

5

%

6

%

Program Supplier 2

 

17

%

14

%

13

%

Program Supplier 3

 

16

%

24

%

36

%

Program Supplier 4

 

12

%

16

%

4

%

 

There were no other Program Suppliers who provided product that generated 10% or more of our total revenues for the years ended March 31, 2007, 2006 or 2005. Additionally, we are currently negotiating with the third Program Supplier listed above in an effort to secure a new revenue sharing agreement. To

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date, however, we have been unable to finalize a new agreement acceptable to both parties. Although management does not believe that our relationships with our remaining significant Program Suppliers will be terminated in the near term, a loss of any of these suppliers could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.

Certain Program Suppliers have requested, and we have provided, financial or performance commitments, including advances or guarantees, as a condition of obtaining certain titles. We determine whether to provide such commitments on a case-by-case basis, depending upon the Program Supplier’s success with such titles prior to home video distribution and our assessment of expected success in home rental distribution. We currently have such guarantees with five Program Suppliers totaling approximately $3.8 million for fiscal 2008. We expect to make these payments during the first two quarters of fiscal 2008. Most of these guarantees were included in cost of sales during fiscal 2007, since we recognize these costs on the release date of a Unit.

Significant Customers

We had one PPT customer that accounted for 19% of our total revenues in fiscal 2005. The agreement with this PPT customer expired in September 2004. There were no other customers that accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue in fiscal 2007, 2006 or 2005.

Distribution of DVDs and VHS Cassettes

Our proprietary Rentrak Profit Maker Software (the “RPM Software”) and Video Retailer Essentials Software (the “VRE Software”) allow Participating Retailers to order Units through their Point of Sale (“POS”) system and provide the Participating Retailers with substantial information regarding all offered titles. Ordering occurs via a networked computer interface (RPM Software) or over the Internet (VRE Software). To further assist the Participating Retailers in ordering, we also produce a monthly product catalog (“Ontrak”).

To be competitive, Participating Retailers must be able to rent their Units on the “street date” announced by the Program Supplier for the title. We contract with a third-party fulfillment provider to distribute our Units via both ground and overnight air courier to assure continued delivery to Participating Retailers on or prior to the street date. The handling and freight costs of such distribution were approximately 3.2%, 3.8% and 4.7% of our cost of sales in fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Computer Operations

To participate in our PPT System, Participating Retailers must install Rentrak-approved computer software and hardware to process all of their rental and sale transactions. Our RPM Software resides on the Participating Retailer’s POS computer system and transmits a record of PPT transactions to us over a telecommunications network. The RPM Software also assists the Participating Retailer in ordering newly released titles and in managing its inventory of Units.

Our information system processes these transactions and prepares reports for Program Suppliers and Participating Retailers. In addition, it determines variations from statistical norms for potential audit action. Our information system also transmits information on new titles and confirms orders made via the RPM Software at the Participating Retailer location.

Auditing of Participating Retailers

From time to time, we audit Participating Retailers in order to verify that they are reporting all rentals and sales of Units on a consistent, accurate and timely basis. Several different types of exception reports are produced weekly. These reports are designed to identify any Participating Retailers whose PPT business activity varies from our statistical norms. Depending upon the results of our analysis of these reports, we may conduct an in-store audit. Audits may be performed with or without notice and any refusal to allow such an audit can be cause for immediate termination from the PPT System. If audit violations are found, the Participating Retailer is subject to fines, audit fees, immediate removal from the PPT System and/or repossession of all leased Units.

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Seasonality

We believe that the home video industry is somewhat seasonal because Program Suppliers tend to theatrically release their most promising movies during two periods of the year, early summer and during the holidays in the fourth calendar quarter. Since the release of movies to home video usually follows the theatrical release by approximately three to five months (although significant variations occur on certain titles), the seasonal peaks of movies for home video also generally occur just prior to and/or during the fourth quarter holidays and in late winter/early spring. We believe our volume of rental transactions and resulting revenues and earnings reflect, in part, this seasonal pattern. However, changes in Program Suppliers’ titles available to Participating Retailers and us may obscure any seasonal effect.

Competition

The PPT Division continues to be affected by the changing dynamics in the home video rental market. This market is highly competitive, rapidly changing and influenced greatly by consumer spending patterns and behaviors. The end consumer has a wide variety of choices from which to select their entertainment content. Some examples include renting Units of product from our Participating Retailers, purchasing previously viewed Units from our Participating Retailers, ordering product via online subscriptions and/or online distributors, subscribing to at-home movie channels, purchasing and owning the Unit directly or selecting an at-home “pay-per-view” option and/or “on demand” content. Our PPT system focuses on the traditional “brick and mortar” retailer serviced by a distributor on a wholesale basis: for example, a Retailer purchases Units from a distributor and then offers the Units for rental or sale to the general public. As described in greater detail above, our PPT System offers Participating Retailers an alternative method of obtaining Units. Accordingly, we face intense competition from all of the traditional distributors, including Ingram Entertainment, Inc., Video Product Distributors, Inc. and Entertainment One. These and other traditional distributors have extensive distribution networks, long-standing relationships with Program Suppliers and Retailers, and, in some cases, significantly greater financial resources than us. In the past, certain traditional distributors offered Units to Retailers on a revenue sharing basis. To our knowledge, only one does so today on a very limited basis.

We also face direct competition from the Program Suppliers. All major Program Suppliers sell Units directly to major Retailers, including Blockbuster, the world’s largest chain of home video specialty stores, and to online movie rental subscription services, such as Netflix. We believe many of the major Program Suppliers have direct revenue sharing arrangements with Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, the world’s second largest chain of home video specialty stores, including Hollywood Entertainment. We also believe that certain Program Suppliers have executed direct revenue sharing agreements with several other large Retailers and online movie rental subscription services. We do not believe that the Program Suppliers have executed direct revenue sharing agreements with other smaller Retailers, but there can be no assurance that they will not do so in the future.

We also compete with businesses that use alternative distribution methods to provide video entertainment directly to consumers, such as the following: (1) online movie rental subscription services (2) direct broadcast satellite transmission systems; (3) traditional cable television systems; (4) pay-per-view cable television systems; (5) video-on-demand, or VOD; and (6) delivery of programming via the Internet. Technological improvements in any of these distribution methods, perceived greater convenience by customers, as well as lower pricing models, may make these options more attractive to consumers and thereby materially diminish the demand for Unit rentals. Such a consequence could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Formovies.com

Formovies.com is a website designed and hosted by us, and dedicated to assist consumers in finding a local video store where they can rent and/or purchase the video products they want. Consumers can find a particular movie of their choice by searching on various attributes of that title.

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AMI Division

The AMI Division concentrates on expanding the customer base of our Essentials Suite™ of business intelligence services offered primarily on a recurring subscription basis, as well as operating our Direct Revenue Sharing (“DRS”) services. Through patent pending software systems and business processes, we provide clients services from our Essentials Suite™.

Essentials Suite™

Currently included in the Essentials Suite™ are the following:

·                  Box Office Essentials™ for reporting domestic and international gross receipt theatrical ticket sales;

·                  Home Video Essentials™ for reporting VHS, DVD and game rentals across the U.S. and Canada;

·                  Supply Chain Essentialsä for managing the flow of products and funds at every point in the supply chain until the product reaches the consumer;

·                  OnDemand Essentialsä for measuring and reporting anonymous video on demand (“VOD”) usage data; and

·                  Retail Essentialsä for reporting North American national consumer sales estimations of DVDs, VHS tapes and Universal Media Disks (“UMDs”) to motion picture studios and retailers (“RE clients”).

Box Office Essentials

Box Office Essentials™ primarily reports domestic and international theatrical gross receipt ticket sales to motion picture studios (“BOE clients”) and movie theater owners. Rentrak provides BOE clients with access to box office performance data pertaining to specific motion pictures and movie theater circuits, both real-time and historical. Data is currently collected for virtually all movie theaters in North America, Guam and Puerto Rico and is primarily obtained via electronic connectivity to theater box offices. BOE clients include Buena Vista, Twentieth Century Fox, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros.

Box Office Essentials continues to expand internationally. The international customer base will initially focus on the international distributor community, much as the domestic service successfully targeted motion picture studios in Hollywood, California. In order to successfully implement our current expansion plan, we will require more information technology resources to support the compilation of data content from various territories throughout the world as well as our data processing center located in our Portland office.

Our primary competitor is Nielsen EDI, which is a service of Nielsen Entertainment and part of VNU Media Measurement & Information. A principal difference between our products and our competitor’s is our use of technology to drive content acquisition and real-time data polling from content providers. Since the market in which we operate is comprised of a small number of major customers, client relations and retention are critical. Our competitor has significantly greater financial resources than us, which could cause them to surpass our technological advancements. This, combined with brand name recognition and long-standing relationships with our BOE clients, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to grow this line of business as well as on our results of operations and financial condition.

Home Video Essentials

Home Video Essentials™ measures DVD, VHS and video game rentals from both brick-and-mortar and online channels across North America at the point-of-sale (POS). Home Video Essentials™ covers approximately 50% of the video specialty retailers within the United States, and 90% within the Canadian territories. Clients have 24/7 web-access to current weekly market and title-level projection data on consumer rental spending and activity. Additionally, clients have access to historical data dating back to 2001.

Clients of Home Video Essentials™ include all the home entertainment divisions of the major and mini-major Hollywood studios such as Warner Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Disney), Paramount/DreamWorks Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures

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Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, New Line Cinema Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Entertainment, Walden Media, The Weinstein Company, and Vivendi Visual Entertainment. Microsoft Corporation has been a long-time subscriber to Home Video Essentials’™ video game data.

Home Video Essentials™ is successfully branded, having its weekly information published in the industry trade magazines Video Business, Daily Variety, Home Media Retailing and Billboard Magazine along with consumer visibility in the USA Today, New York Times online and Entertainment Weekly.

Home Video Essentials’™ primary competitors are Adams Media Research (“AMR”) and Home Media Retailing Research (“HMRR”). The main difference between our service and those of our competitors is that we collect daily point-of-sale bar code scan data from video retailers, which provides a more reliable sample base and greater accuracy. This methodology has positioned Home Video Essentials™ as the “gold standard” for measuring North American consumer rental spending and activity within the entertainment industry.

Supply Chain Essentials™

Supply Chain Essentials (“SCE”) is supply chain management software developed by us which allows clients to manage the flow of products and funds at every point in the supply chain until the product reaches the consumer. We host the software for customers’ access under an application service provider’s model and license its use. A typical client for SCE is any company that receives orders (business to business or business to consumer), maintains warehouses and issues purchase orders to vendors.

Companies like SAP, Oracle, Manhattan Associates, High Jump and Red Prairie already offer logistics and supply chain software. To various degrees, these types of software solutions require specialized personnel and IT infrastructure with a relatively high initial investment, making the solution cost prohibitive for smaller to mid-sized companies. Since we host our software, our clients generally pay a monthly service fee which is significantly lower than our competitors’ pricing and makes our offering more attractive to a broader range of customers. Furthermore, our software provides web presence to traditional retail companies, known as “brick and mortar” companies, as well as integration to their existing software infrastructure.

We are targeting our potential clients though both direct sales and strategic alliances with established logistics and supply chain entities. Our solution is developed in house and it does not depend on any third party code. It supports various databases and it integrates with the clients’ existing software. Additionally, our solution can be customized to meet the clients’ needs without losing necessary functionality.

On Demand Essentials

OnDemand Essentials is the first of a new line of products designed to measure and report anonymous video on demand (“VOD”) usage data. Participating distributors in the service represent over 55% of VOD enabled homes and over 70% of all on demand content. We have agreements with and collect data from 14 network operators including: Comcast, Insight, Cablevision, Charter, Suddenlink, Mediacom, Armstrong, Verizon, Service Electric, Atlantic Broadband, Midcontinent, Wide Open West, Elijay and Bresnan Communications.

We are in the development phase of a product extension to track on demand advertising. Several network and operator clients are participating in a beta trial of the service module. Once launched, the product will provide additional revenue opportunities from current and potential OnDemand Essentialsä clients as well as from advertising agencies and advertisers.

Our OnDemand Essentialsä Content Provider site is a transactional tracking and uniform, flexible reporting system that enables users to view and analyze on-demand content across all cable multiple system operators (“MSOs”) with whom we have agreements in place. As of March 2007, we had over 50 clients for the service, including cable networks and studios distributing on demand content to cable companies.

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Rentrak is the clearly established leader in on demand television measurement with no current competitors in the space. Nielsen Media Research has announced plans to track VOD; however, their product has not yet materialized and we believe their model will continue to be a sampling model in comparison to our transactional model.

Retail Essentials™

Retail Essentials™ primarily reports North American national consumer sales estimations of DVDs, VHS tapes, HD DVDs, Blu-ray Discs and Universal Media Disks (“UMDs”) to motion picture studios and retailers (“RE clients”). Through Retail Essentials™, we provide RE clients with access to national consumer sales estimates at the industry level, by format and at the title level. Data is collected from thousands of retail locations in North America via weekly data feeds and projected nationally. Prospective clients for Retail Essentials™ include motion picture studios, talent agencies, production companies and others.

DRS

Our DRS service is tailored to meet the needs of major studios (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, etc.) and major independent program suppliers (Lions Gate Films, Genius Products, etc.) (collectively “DRS clients”) who provide home entertainment content directly to large brick-and-mortar and online retailers (Blockbuster Entertainment, Movie Gallery, Netflix, etc.) (collectively “DRS retailers”) on a revenue sharing basis. For each DRS client, we collect, process, audit, summarize and report the number of rental and previously viewed sales transactions and corresponding retail revenue generated on each title distributed to each DRS retailer on a revenue sharing basis. Additionally, Rentrak conducts periodic physical audits of DRS retailers to insure all DRS inventory is utilized in a manner consistent with the terms of its revenue sharing arrangement with our DRS client.

Our only direct competitor is SuperComm, Inc., a small subsidiary of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (“SPHE”). SuperComm was originally founded in 1991 as a third-party revenue sharing provider to the supermarket segment of the home entertainment business. It was later sold to SPHE, which now relies on it for the services (collection, auditing, analysis, configuring and reporting of data) it requires to manage its DRS relationships. We do not believe that SuperComm provides DRS services to any home entertainment content providers other than SPHE.

There are a number of risks that may adversely affect the size and profitability of our DRS business. First and foremost, our business is dependent on the studios/Program Suppliers maintaining DRS relationships with the largest brick-and-mortar and online retailers. Should content providers end their DRS relationships, they would have no need for our DRS service. Secondly, our current DRS clients could decide to invest the resources necessary to recreate the services we provide, and therefore eliminate us as a third-party service provider. Thirdly, SPHE could decide to invest significant resources to improve SuperComm’s service offering, and take away one or more of our DRS clients. Lastly, should the overall size of the home entertainment rental market contract significantly, and/or the large brick-and-mortar and online retailers’ share of the overall rental market decline significantly, the amount of data we process and audit on behalf of our DRS clients would also be reduced, which would result in a corresponding decrease in our DRS revenues.

Other Division

The Other Division includes revenue and expenses relating to products and/or services which are still in early stages, as well as corporate expenses and other expenses which are not allocated to a specific division. Included in the Other Division as of March 31, 2007 was AdTrakerä, which will capture census-level data regarding viewing patterns of on-demand advertising for reporting to marketers and advertising agencies. AdTraker is anticipated to be combined with OnDemand Essentials services during fiscal 2008.

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Trademarks, Copyrights, Proprietary Rights and Patents

We have registered our “RENTRAK,” “PPT,” “Pay Per Transaction,” “Entertainment Essentials,” “Box Office Essentials,” “Home Video Essentials,” “Supply Chain Essentials,” “On Demand Essentials,” “Video Game Essentials,” “Retail Essentials,” “AdEssentials,” “Business Intelligence Essentials,” “ForMovies,” “ForMovies.com,” “DigiTrak,” “Ontrak,” “Fastrak,” “RPM,” “Videolink+” and other marks under federal trademark laws. We have applied and obtained registered status in several foreign countries for many of our trademarks. We have filed applications to register additional marks in the “Essentials” trademark family. Our trademark registrations will remain valid for an unlimited period, as long as we continue using the trademarks in commerce or as long as we intend to resume use of the mark during any period of non-use. We claim a copyright on our RPM Software and consider it to be proprietary. We have also filed notice and claim a copyright on our Essentials software. Our copyright in our software will last for at least 95 years from the first sale or licensing of the software. Our trademarks, copyrights and other proprietary rights give us the power to prevent competitors from competing with us unfairly. We believe that our intellectual property is important to our marketing efforts and the competitive value of our services and we intend to take appropriate action to halt any infringement and protect against improper usage.

We have applied for patents related to certain of our proprietary technologies, primarily for our Essentials Suite™ of products. We believe our proprietary technologies provide us with advantages over our competitors’ technologies.

Employees

As of March 31, 2007, including all subsidiaries, we employed 213 full-time employees and 35 part-time employees. We consider our relations with our employees to be good.

Financial Information About Industry Segments

See Note 15 of Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information regarding our business segments and revenue by product line.

Geographic Information

All of our revenues are generated within the United States and Canada, with Canada accounting for less than 10% of total revenues. All of our long-lived assets are located within the United States.

ITEM 1A.                    RISK FACTORS

If our efforts to attract, retain and grow our base of retailers participating in our PPT system are not successful, our operations may be adversely affected.

The success of our current PPT Division business depends on traditional “brick and mortar” retailers actively participating in our PPT System. Declines in the numbers of Participating Retailers and the volumes of Units leased by Participating Retailers from us could ultimately lead to reductions in revenue and have an adverse impact on our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

Our Participating Retailers could establish relationships with Program Suppliers and enter into direct revenue sharing agreements.

If our Participating Retailers formed direct revenue sharing relationships with Program Suppliers, the need for our PPT system would be greatly reduced, which could have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and liquidity.

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If the financial stability of our Participating Retailers and their performance of their obligations under our PPT System declines, our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows may be adversely impacted.

Our ultimate success is highly dependent on the successful operations of our Participating Retailers. If their business declines due to changes in customer behavior, competition, management issues or other factors, they may be unable to meet their financial obligations to us. This could negatively affect our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.

A loss of a significant Program Supplier, our ability to retain our base of Participating Suppliers along with the quality and volumes of content they provide, and adverse changes in terms of our revenue sharing agreements with Program Suppliers could result in a decline in revenues and results of operations and have an adverse impact on our financial condition.

We rely on our Program Suppliers for Units we sublease to Participating Retailers. A decrease in the number of Program Suppliers participating in our system, a decline in the financial stability of our Program Suppliers and/or a decline in the quality and volume of the content they produce could result in a reduction in overall Units available to Participating Retailers. Additionally, many of our agreements with Program Suppliers may be terminated upon relatively short notice. Therefore, there is no assurance that any of the Program Suppliers will continue to distribute Units through the PPT System, continue to have titles available which we can distribute on a profitable basis, or continue to remain in business. Even if titles are otherwise available from Program Suppliers, there is no assurance that they will be made available on terms acceptable to us. A loss of any of our significant suppliers or a change in any one of the above conditions could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.

If our efforts to attract, retain and grow our base of clients who subscribe to our Essentials™ services are not successful, we may not be able to expand those lines and our operations may be adversely affected

The success of our AMI Division depends on effective software solutions, marketing, sales and customer relations in regards to existing services as well as our clients’ acceptance of future enhancements and new services. If we are unable to retain existing clients and/or secure new clients, our operating costs may exceed our revenues, which could have an adverse impact on our results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

We may be unable to obtain requisite data and other content to source our systems which provide our Essentials™ services.

Our Essentialsservices rely on data which is collected from a wide variety of sources. Once received, the data must be reviewed, processed and, at times, converted to our required file format. If we are unable to obtain quality data feeds and/or process that data timely, we may not be able to meet the needs of our clients. Thus, we could lose clients, which would have an adverse impact on our ability to grow our Essentialslines of business, which could have an adverse impact on our results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

Our Essentials™ services are highly dependent on Information Technology resources.

If we are unable to attract, hire and retain high quality information technology personnel at reasonable rates, we may not be able to timely meet the needs of existing clients and may not be able to enhance existing services or develop new lines of business. This could have an adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

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The market for on demand advertising has been slow to develop and may not evolve for several years.

The success of our on demand ad tracking module is dependent on the market adoption of on demand advertising, the rollout of dynamic ad insertion technology by the operator and the automation of files regarding the location of advertising in on demand content. If the market does not evolve, we risk failing to meet our internal financial projections, resulting in an inability to recoup our investment.

Our DRS business is dependent on the studios maintaining direct revenue sharing relationships with the largest brick-and-mortar and online retailers.

We currently collect, process, audit, summarize and report transactional data relating to rental and sales activity of Units at very large traditional and online retailers who have revenue sharing agreements directly with major studios. A change in these relationships or declines in general in the overall size of the home entertainment rental market could potentially reduce the need for our services and the quantity of data we process, which would result in a corresponding reduction in our DRS revenues, our results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

We face intense competition in the markets in which we operate and those in which we are currently developing new service offerings.

Some of our competitors have extensive distribution networks, long-standing relationships with our suppliers and customers, stronger brand name recognition and significantly greater financial resources than us. These factors may enable our competition to have increased bargaining and purchasing power relating to resources that could enable them to operate in a more cost effective manner and/or to surpass our technological advancements. This could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and our ability to grow our lines of business.

Our PPT business is greatly influenced by 1) technological advancements, 2) consumer behaviors and demand and 3) changes in the industries in which we operate.

The markets in which our PPT division operates are highly competitive, rapidly changing and influenced greatly by consumer spending patterns and behaviors. The end consumer has a wide variety of choices from which to select their entertainment content. Some examples include renting Units of product from our Participating Retailers, ordering product directly via online subscriptions and/or online distributors, subscribing to at-home movie channels, purchasing and owning the Unit directly or selecting an at-home “pay-per-view” option. Our systems primarily rely on the end consumer choosing to obtain Units from traditional “brick and mortar” retailers. Technological advancements, changes in distribution methods as well as lower pricing models may make other options more attractive to consumers and thereby materially diminish the demand for obtaining Units via traditional retailers. Such a consequence could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Our services are highly dependent on the effective and efficient usage of technology and our overall information management infrastructure.

If we are unable to acquire, establish and maintain our information management systems to ensure accurate, reliable and timely data processed in an efficient and cost effective manner, we may not be able to meet the needs of existing clients or our shareholders and may not be able to enhance existing services or develop new lines of business. This could have an adverse effect on our business and long-term growth.

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The loss of our executive officers and key employees could have an adverse impact on our business and development initiatives.

We believe that the development of our business has been, and will continue to be, dependent on certain key executives and employees of Rentrak. The loss of any of these individuals could have a material adverse effect upon our business and development, and there can be no assurance that adequate replacements could be found in the event of their unavailability.

ITEM 1B.                    UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None.

ITEM 2.                             PROPERTIES

We maintain our headquarters in Portland, Oregon where we lease 55,500 square feet of office space. The lease for this space expires on December 31, 2016. We also maintain an office in Los Angeles, California where we lease 4,000 square feet of space utilized for our Box Office Essentials business. The lease for this space expires in July 2009. We anticipate that these spaces will be adequate for our near-term business needs.

ITEM 3.                             LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

We may from time to time be a party to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of our business. In the opinion of management, the amount of any ultimate liability with respect to these potential actions is not expected to materially affect our financial condition or results of operations. We currently have no material outstanding litigation.

ITEM 4.                             SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

No matter was submitted to a vote of our security holders during the fourth quarter of the fiscal year covered by this report.

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PART II

ITEM 5.                             MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

Stock Price and Dividends

Our common stock, $.001 par value, is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market, where its prices are quoted under the symbol “RENT.” As of June 5, 2007 there were approximately 231 holders of record of our common stock.

The following table sets forth the reported high and low sales prices of our common stock for each of the quarters in the last two fiscal years as regularly quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market:

Fiscal 2007

 

High

 

Low

 

Quarter 1

 

$

12.58

 

9.50

 

Quarter 2

 

12.42

 

9.72

 

Quarter 3

 

16.25

 

10.19

 

Quarter 4

 

16.50

 

13.92

 

 

Fiscal 2006

 

High

 

Low

 

Quarter 1

 

$

11.09

 

$

8.30

 

Quarter 2

 

10.00

 

8.20

 

Quarter 3

 

9.89

 

7.83

 

Quarter 4

 

11.45

 

8.98

 

 

Holders of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends if, as, and when declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available therefor, subject to the dividend and liquidation rights of any preferred stock that may be issued.

No cash dividends have been paid or declared during the last eight fiscal years. The present policy of the Board of Directors is to retain earnings to provide funds for operation and expansion of our business. We do not intend to pay cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

Information regarding securities authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans is included in Item 12.

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Stock Performance Graph

This chart compares the five year cumulative total return on our common stock with that of the Nasdaq U.S. index, and a group of peer companies selected by us. The chart assumes $100 was invested on March 31, 2002, in our common stock, the Nasdaq U.S. index and the peer group, and that any dividends were reinvested. The peer group is composed of companies within the video distribution business as follows: Hastings Entertainment, Inc., Blockbuster, Inc., Movie Gallery, Inc. and Netflix, Inc. The peer group index utilizes the same methods of presentation and assumptions for the total return calculation as does Rentrak and the Nasdaq U.S. Index. All companies in the peer group index are weighted in accordance with their market capitalizations.

 

 

Base
Period

 

Indexed Returns
Year Ended

 

Company/Index

 

03/31/02

 

03/31/03

 

03/31/04

 

03/31/05

 

03/31/06

 

03/31/07

 

Rentrak Corporation

 

$

100.00

 

$

73.43

 

$

125.28

 

$

158.27

 

$

145.86

 

$

223.27

 

Nasdaq U.S. Index

 

100.00

 

73.02

 

109.08

 

110.00

 

129.82

 

135.23

 

Peer Index

 

100.00

 

75.44

 

97.99

 

73.02

 

56.12

 

60.32

 

 

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ITEM 6.       SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

 

 

Year Ended March 31,

 

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

Statement of Operations Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PPT Division

 

$

90,590

 

$

81,301

 

$

86,806

 

$

65,958

 

$

67,067

 

AMI Division

 

15,408

 

12,093

 

11,709

 

7,550

 

3,397

 

Other Division(1)(2)

 

 

 

23

 

4,624

 

15,420

 

Total revenues

 

105,998

 

93,394

 

98,538

 

78,132

 

85,884

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of sales

 

72,492

 

65,111

 

69,882

 

60,090

 

71,347

 

Selling and administrative expense

 

24,938

 

22,241

 

20,046

 

16,357

 

14,434

 

Net loss (gain) from litigation settlements

 

 

 

225

 

 

(362

)

Asset impairment

 

 

 

27

 

 

844

 

Total operating expenses

 

97,430

 

87,352

 

90,180

 

76,447

 

86,263

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations

 

8,568

 

6,042

 

8,358

 

1,685

 

(379

)

Other income

 

1,514

 

1,014

 

322

 

233

 

179

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income tax (provision) benefit and loss from discontinued operations

 

10,082

 

7,056

 

8,680

 

1,918

 

(200

)

Income tax (provision) benefit

 

(4,034

)

(2,590

)

(3,437

)

(479

)

56

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations

 

6,048

 

4,466

 

5,243

 

1,439

 

(144

)

Loss from discontinued operations

 

 

 

 

(129

)

(583

)

Net income (loss)

 

$

6,048

 

$

4,466

 

$

5,243

 

$

1,310

 

$

(727

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic income (loss) per share from continuing operations

 

$

0.57

 

$

0.42

 

$

0.52

 

$

0.15

 

$

(0.02

)

Basic loss per share from discontinued operations

 

 

 

 

(0.01

)

(0.06

)

Basic net income (loss) per share

 

$

0.57

 

$

0.42

 

$

0.52

 

$

0.14

 

$

(0.08

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diluted income (loss) per share from continuing operations

 

$

0.54

 

$

0.40

 

$

0.49

 

$

0.14

 

$

(0.02

)

Diluted loss per share from discontinued operations

 

 

 

 

(0.01

)

(0.06

)

Diluted net income (loss) per share

 

$

0.54

 

$

0.40

 

$

0.49

 

$

0.13

 

$

(0.08

)

Shares used in per share calculations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

10,632

 

10,575

 

10,081

 

9,600

 

9,641

 

Diluted

 

11,170

 

11,047

 

10,592

 

10,119

 

9,641

 

 

 

 

March31,

 

 

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 

2004

 

2003

 

Balance Sheet Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working capital

 

$

38,155

 

$

30,907

 

$

25,802

 

$

14,633

 

$

11,485

 

Total assets

 

60,372

 

54,328

 

45,083

 

36,203

 

31,488

 

Long-term liabilities

 

2,338

 

 

51

 

235

 

668

 

Stockholders’ equity

 

41,566

 

35,481

 

29,933

 

18,796

 

16,047

 

 


(1)          Other Division revenue in fiscal 2004 and 2003 primarily represents revenue from our fulfillment center, 3PF.com, which was sold in fiscal 2004.

(2)          We did not have any revenues from our Other Division in 2007 as Supply Chain Essentialsä, OnDemand Essentialsä and Retail Essentialsä moved from the Other Division to the AMI Division during the first quarter of fiscal 2007. Accordingly, revenue related to these products in 2006, 2005 and 2004 was reclassified to the AMI Division for comparison purposes.

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ITEM 7.                             MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Business Trends

Our corporate structure includes separate Pay-Per-Transaction (“PPT”) and Advanced Media and Information (“AMI”) operating divisions and, accordingly, we report certain financial information by individual segment under this structure.

Our PPT Division focuses on managing our business operations that facilitate the delivery of home entertainment content products (DVDs, VHS tapes, etc.) and related rental and sales information for the content to home video specialty stores and other retailers, on a revenue sharing basis.  We lease product from various suppliers, typically motion picture studios. Under our PPT System, retailers sublease that product from us and rent it to consumers. Retailers then share a portion of each retail rental transaction with us and we share a portion of revenue with the studio. Since we collect, process and analyze rental and sales information at the title level, we report that information to both the studio and the respective retailers.

Our AMI Division concentrates on the management and growth of our Essentials Suite™ of business intelligence services, as well as operating our direct revenue sharing (“DRS”) services. Our Essentials Suite™ software and services, offered on a recurring subscription basis, provide unique data collection, management, analysis and reporting functions, resulting in business intelligence information valuable to our clients. Our DRS services collect, track, audit and report the results to the respective suppliers under established agreements on a fee for service basis.  During the first quarter of fiscal 2007, Supply Chain Essentialsä, OnDemand Essentialsä and Retail Essentialsä moved from the Other Division to the AMI Division as these lines were considered to be no longer in the development stage.

The PPT Division

The financial results from the PPT Division continue to be affected by the changing dynamics in the home video rental market. This market is highly competitive and influenced greatly by consumer spending patterns and behaviors. The end consumer has a wide variety of choices from which to select their entertainment content. Some examples include renting Units of product from our Participating Retailers, purchasing previously viewed Units from our Participating Retailers, ordering product via online subscriptions and/or online distributors, subscribing to at-home movie channels, purchasing and owning the unit directly or selecting an at-home “pay-per-view” or “on- demand” option. Our PPT system focuses on the traditional “brick and mortar” retailer. We believe that our system successfully addresses the many choices available to consumers and affords our Participating Retailers the opportunity to stock their stores with a wider selection of titles and a greater supply of popular box office releases.  Most of our arrangements are structured so that most Participating Retailers pay minimal upfront fees and lower per transaction fees in exchange for ordering Units of all titles offered by a particular Program Supplier (referred to as “output” programs). Since these programs usually result in more overall Units rented, our Retailers’ revenue and the corresponding share with the studios have increased. These programs are, in part, an economic response to the changing dynamics of the home video rental market.  We expect the growth of these output programs to continue, and believe that they will be financially beneficial for the Participating Retailers, Program Suppliers and us.

Our base of Participating Retailers continues to be strong and we are implementing strategies to obtain new Participating Retailers and Program Suppliers in an effort to further stabilize and grow our overall PPT revenue and earnings streams.

Currently, we are continuing negotiations with our third largest Program Supplier. To date, however, we have been unable to finalize a new agreement with this supplier. We continue to be in good standing with our remaining Program Suppliers and we make on-going efforts to enhance those business relationships through improvement of current services offered and the development of new service offerings. We are also continually seeking to develop business relationships with new Program Suppliers. In November 2005, based on our successful involvement with a major studio in Canada, we entered into a revenue sharing agreement which extends product offerings to Participating Retailers in the United States. This agreement was effective for titles released beginning in January 2006, giving our U.S. Participating Retailers access to the large

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volume of high quality entertainment that this major studio has been delivering for years, and yielding 20% of our total revenues in fiscal 2007. Also, in October 2006, we began offering product from a major studio to our U.S. Participating Retailers yielding 5.6% of our total revenues in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007. Additional Program Suppliers represented 17%, 16% and 12% of our total revenues in fiscal 2007. As is typical of our agreements with Program Suppliers, our relationships with these Program Suppliers may be terminated without cause upon thirty days’ written notice by either party.

AMI and Other Divisions

We are also allocating significant resources towards our business intelligence service offerings, both those services that are currently operational as well as those that are in various stages of development.  Our suite of business intelligence services has been well received in the various targeted markets to date, as our offerings fit well with the needs identified by those market participants. Our Essentialsä business intelligence service offerings which are fully operational and no longer in significant stages of development, realized a revenue increase of 28% during fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006. We intend to continue to invest in our existing, as well as new, business intelligence services in the near-term as we expand the markets we serve and our service lines, which likely will lower our earnings. Longer-term, we believe these services will provide significant future revenue and earnings streams and contribute to our overall success.

Sources of Revenue

Revenue by segment includes the following:

PPT Division

·                  order processing fees generated when Units are ordered by and distributed to retailers;

·                  transaction fees generated when retailers rent Units to consumers; additionally, certain arrangements include guaranteed minimum revenues from our customers; we recognize the guaranteed minimum revenue on the street (release) date in accordance with Statement of Position 00-2, “Accounting by Producers or Distributors of Films,” (“SOP 00-2”) provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met;

·                  sell-through fees generated when retailers sell previously-viewed rental Units to consumers; and

·                  buy-out fees generated when retailers purchase Units at the end of the lease term.

AMI Division

·                  direct revenue sharing fees from data tracking and reporting services provided to Program Suppliers (“DRS”);

·                  revenues from Box Office Essentialsä;

·                  revenues from Home Video Essentialsä;

·                  revenues from Supply Chain Essentialsä;

·                  revenues from OnDemand Essentialsä; and

·                  revenues from Retail Essentialsä.

Other Division

·                  revenue relating to other products and/or services which are still in the development stage, including AdTrakerä, which will capture census-level data regarding viewing patterns of on-demand advertising for reporting to marketers and advertising agencies.

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Results of Operations

 

 

Year Ended March 31, (1)

 

 

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 

(Dollars in thousands)

 

Dollars

 

% of 
revenues

 

Dollars

 

% of
revenues

 

Dollars

 

% of 
revenues

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 PPT Division

 

$

90,590

 

85.5

%

$

81,301

 

87.1

%

$

86,806

 

88.1

%

 AMI Division

 

15,408

 

14.5

 

12,093

 

12.9

 

11,709

 

11.9

 

 Other Division

 

 

 

 

 

23

 

 

 

 

105,998

 

100.0

 

93,394

 

100.0

 

98,538

 

100.0

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Cost of sales

 

72,492

 

68.4

 

65,111

 

69.7

 

69,882

 

70.9

 

 Selling and administrative

 

24,938

 

23.5

 

22,241

 

23.8

 

20,046

 

20.3

 

 Net loss on litigation settlement

 

 

 

 

 

225

 

0.2

 

 Asset impairment

 

 

 

 

 

27

 

 

 

 

97,430

 

91.9

 

87,352

 

93.5

 

90,180

 

91.5

 

Income from operations

 

8,568

 

8.1

 

6,042

 

6.5

 

8,358

 

8.5

 

Other income (expense):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Interest income

 

1,521

 

1.4

 

1,016

 

1.1

 

333

 

0.3

 

 Interest expense

 

(7

)

 

(2

)

 

(11

)

 

 

 

1,514

 

1.4

 

1,014

 

1.1

 

322

 

0.3

 

Income before income tax provision

 

10,082

 

9.5

 

7,056

 

7.6

 

8,680

 

8.8

 

Income tax provision

 

4,034

 

3.8

 

2,590

 

2.8

 

3,437

 

3.5

 

Net income

 

$

6,048

 

5.7

%

$

4,466

 

4.8

%

$

5,243

 

5.3

%

 


(1) Percentages may not add due to rounding.

Certain results of operations information by segment was as follows:

 

PPT

 

AMI

 

Other(1)

 

Total

 

Year Ended March 31, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sales to external customers

 

$

90,590

 

$

15,408

 

$

 

$

105,998

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

49

 

1,257

 

430

 

1,736

 

Income (loss) from operations

 

14,410

 

5,982

 

(11,824

)

8,568

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended March 31, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sales to external customers

 

$

81,301

 

$

12,093

 

$

 

$

93,394

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

42

 

1,545

 

 

1,587

 

Income (loss) from operations

 

12,086

 

4,189

 

(10,233

)

6,042

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year Ended March 31, 2005(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sales to external customers

 

$

86,806

 

$

11,709

 

$

23

 

$

98,538

 

 


(1)       Includes revenue and expenses relating to products and/or services which are still in early stages, as well as corporate expenses and other expenses which are not allocated to a specific segment.

(2)       The depreciation and amortization and operating income (loss) segment information for fiscal 2005 is not included as it would be impracticable to do so.

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Additional results of operations information by segment was as follows:

 

 

Year Ended March 31, (1)

 

 

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 


(Dollars in thousands)

 


Dollars

 

% of 
segment
revenues

 


Dollars

 

% of
segment
revenues

 


Dollars

 

% of 
segment
revenues

 

PPT Division

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenues

 

$     90,590

 

100.0

%

$     81,301

 

100.0

%

$     86,806

 

100.0

%

Cost of sales

 

70,255

 

77.6

 

63,538

 

78.2

 

68,848

 

79.3

 

Gross margin

 

$

20,335

 

22.4

%

$

17,763

 

21.8

%

$

17,958

 

20.7

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMI Division

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenues

 

$

15,408

 

100.0

%

$

12,093

 

100.0

%

$

11,709

 

100.0

%

Cost of sales

 

2,237

 

14.5

 

1,573

 

13.0

 

1,034

 

8.8

 

Gross margin

 

$

13,171

 

85.5

%

$

10,520

 

87.0

%

$

10,675

 

91.2

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Division

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenues

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

23

 

100.0

%

Cost of sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross margin

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

23

 

100.0

%

 


(1) Percentages may not add due to rounding.

Revenue

Revenue increased $12.6 million, or 13.5% to $106.0 million in fiscal 2007 compared to $93.4 million in fiscal 2006 and decreased $5.1 million, or 5.2%, in fiscal 2006 compared to $98.5 million in fiscal 2005.

We realized increases in revenue across all of our major product lines in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006.

The decrease in revenue in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 was primarily due to decreases in transaction fees and sell-through fees, partially offset by increases in order processing fees and our Essentials Suiteä of business intelligence services as described more fully below.

PPT Division

PPT revenues increased $9.3 million, or 11.4% in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 and decreased $5.5 million, or 6.3% in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. Detail of our PPT Division revenue by service line was as follows (in thousands):

Year Ended March 31,

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 

Order processing fees

 

$

9,136

 

$

7,546

 

$

5,015

 

Transaction fees

 

65,212

 

59,062

 

64,335

 

Sell-through fees

 

15,356

 

13,714

 

16,323

 

Other

 

886

 

979

 

1,133

 

 

 

$

90,590

 

$

81,301

 

$

86,806

 

 

Order processing fees increased $1.6 million, or 21.1%, in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 due partially to two new output programs with major suppliers, which went into effect in January and March 2006, as well as increased volumes and quality of content from some of our existing Program Suppliers. These stronger product offerings resulted in higher order processing fees per Unit in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006. These fees increased to $1.24 per Unit in fiscal 2007 compared to $1.13 per Unit in fiscal 2006, resulting in an increase of $0.8 million in revenues. In addition, the number of Units shipped with release dates in each period increased by 11% to 7.4 million Units in fiscal 2007 compared to 6.6 million Units in fiscal 2006, which contributed to a $0.8 million increase in revenue.

Order processing fees increased $2.5 million, or 50.5%, in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 due to a new output program with a major supplier, which was effective April 1, 2005 and another new output program that was effective in September 2005. The terms of these new agreements, and their utilization by our Participating Retailers during fiscal 2006, resulted in higher order processing fees per unit

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compared with fiscal 2005. These fees increased to $1.13 per Unit in fiscal 2006, compared to $0.64 per Unit in fiscal 2005, resulting in an increase of $3.3 million. Partially offsetting this increase was a decrease in Units shipped to 6.6 million Units during fiscal 2006 compared to 7.8 million Units in fiscal 2005, which contributed to an approximate $0.8 million decrease in revenue based on fiscal 2005 per Unit fees. In fiscal 2005, we shipped 1.5 million Units to a major Participating Retailer whose contract expired in September 2004. Excluding the impact of this contract, overall Units shipped to other Participating Retailers increased 5% in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005, primarily due to the addition of the new output programs mentioned above.

Transaction fees increased $6.2 million, or 10.4%, in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 primarily due to increased transactions related to output programs that began during the last quarter of fiscal 2006 as discussed above. Rental transactions at our Participating Retailers increased 13% in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006, while the rate per transaction remained relatively flat. A portion of the rental transactions were from arrangements which included minimum guarantees. For fiscal 2007, our rental transaction volume increase of 13% was reduced by rental guarantee transaction fees previously recognized in fiscal 2006, which resulted in a net increase in transactions fees of 10%.

Transaction fees decreased $5.3 million, or 8.2%, in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. The decrease in transaction fees in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 was primarily due to the loss of a significant Participating Retailer whose contract expired in September 2004, partially offset by increased fees related to the new output programs discussed above. Fees from this significant Participating Retailer were $15.2 million in fiscal 2005. Excluding the impact of this Participating Retailer, transaction fees from all other Participating Retailers increased $9.9 million, or 20%, in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005.

Sell-through fees increased $1.6 million, or 12.0%, in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 primarily due to higher volumes of product available for sale to our Participating Retailers.

Sell-through fees decreased $2.6 million, or 16.0%, in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. We realized an approximate $4.1 million decrease in sell-through fees due to the loss of the significant Participating Retailer mentioned above. This decrease was partially offset by a $1.4 million, or 12% increase, due to an increase in the number of Units shipped to other Participating Retailers.

AMI Division

Revenues from our AMI division increased $3.3 million, or 27.4%, in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 and increased $0.4 million, or 3.3% in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005.

Our Essentialsä business intelligence service offerings, which include those services that management considers fully operational and no longer in significant stages of development, saw  revenue increases of $1.7 million, or 27.7%, in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 and of $1.3 million, or 27.2%, in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. Revenues related to our Essentialsä business intelligence service offerings have increased primarily due to our continued investment in, and marketing of, these offerings.

DRS revenues increased $1.6 million, or 27.1%, in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 due to increases in the number of transactions processed by us and the addition of new customers.

DRS revenues decreased $0.9 million, or 13.4%, in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 due to a decrease in the total number of DRS rental transactions processed. This decrease resulted from a decline in the number of DRS rental transactions processed for one of our major studios in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 due to a change in the relationship between the studio and one of its direct revenue sharing customers.

Other Division

We did not have any revenues from our Other Division in fiscal 2007 as Supply Chain Essentialsä, OnDemand Essentialsä and Retail Essentialsä moved from the Other Division to the AMI Division during the first quarter of fiscal 2007. Accordingly, revenue related to these products in fiscal 2006 and fiscal 2005 was reclassified to the AMI Division for comparison purposes.

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A new revenue stream, AdTrakerä, is still in development and has not generated any revenue to date.

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales consists of order processing costs, transaction costs, sell-through costs, handling and freight costs in the PPT Division and costs in the AMI Division associated with certain Essentialsä business intelligence service offerings. These expenditures represent the direct costs to produce revenues.

In the PPT Division, order processing costs, transaction costs and sell through costs represent the amounts due to the Program Suppliers that hold the distribution rights to the Units. Freight costs represent the cost to pick, pack and ship orders of Units to the Participating Retailers. Our cost of sales can also be impacted by the release dates of Units with guarantees. We recognize the guaranteed minimum costs on the release date. The terms of some of our agreements result in 100% cost of sales on titles in the first month in which the Unit is released, which results in lower margins during the initial portion of the revenue sharing period. Once the Unit’s rental activity exceeds the required amount for these guaranteed minimums, margins generally expand during the second and third months of the Unit’s revenue sharing period.  However, since these factors are highly dependent upon the quality, timing and release dates of all new products, margins may not expand to any significant degree during any period.  As such, it is difficult to predict the ultimate impact programs with guaranteed minimums will have on future results of operations in any reporting period.

In the AMI Division, a portion of the Essentialsä business intelligence service offerings costs represent costs associated with the operation of a call center for our Box Office Essentialsä services, as well as costs associated with amortizing capitalized internally developed software used to provide the corresponding services and direct costs incurred to obtain, cleanse and process data and maintain our systems.

Cost of sales increased $7.4 million, or 11.3%, to $72.5 million in fiscal 2007 compared to $65.1 million in fiscal 2006 and decreased $4.8 million, or 6.8%, in fiscal 2006 compared to $69.9 million in fiscal 2005. Cost of sales as a percentage of revenue was 68.4% in fiscal 2007, 69.7% in fiscal 2006 and 70.9% in fiscal 2005.

The increase in cost of sales in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 was primarily due to the increase in revenues discussed above.

The decrease in cost of sales as a percentage of revenue in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 was primarily due to higher PPT revenue discussed above and an increase in AMI revenue as a percentage of total revenue. Revenue from our AMI Division generates higher gross margins than revenue from our PPT Division.

The decrease in cost of sales in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 was primarily due to the decrease in revenues discussed above. The decrease in cost of sales as a percentage of revenue was primarily due to improved margins for the PPT segment, offset by lower margins in the AMI segment. The PPT segment experienced lower cost of sales as a percentage of revenue primarily as a result of the higher order processing fees related to the new output programs mentioned above. The higher order processing fees per Unit from most of these new output programs generate minimal corresponding costs, which resulted in improved margins. The higher costs for the AMI segment primarily related to reduced DRS revenue as well as increased costs associated with the operation of our call center.

Selling and Administrative

Selling and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation and benefits, development, marketing and advertising costs, legal and professional fees, communications costs, depreciation and amortization of tangible fixed assets and software, real and personal property leases, as well as other general corporate expenses.

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Selling and administrative expenses increased $2.7 million, or 12.1%, to $24.9 million in fiscal 2007 compared to $22.2 million in fiscal 2006 and increased $2.2 million, or 10.9%, in fiscal 2006 compared to $20.0 million in fiscal 2005.

The increase in selling and administrative expenses in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 was primarily due to increases in compensation and related expenses due to expansion of our existing and new lines of business. In addition, fiscal 2007 included $856,000 of stock-based compensation expense related to stock options and deferred stock units in connection with the implementation of SFAS No. 123R compared to zero in fiscal 2006. See also Note 11 of Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

As a percentage of revenues, selling and administrative expenses decreased to 23.5% in fiscal 2007 compared to 23.8% in fiscal 2006, primarily due to increased revenues over which fixed costs are spread, partially offset by the increases noted above.

The increase in selling and administrative expenses in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 was primarily due to a $1.4 million increase in expenditures related to our continued investment in the development and marketing of our Essentialsä business service offerings and a $0.3 million increase in our bonus accrual. Additionally, selling and administrative expenses in fiscal 2006 included a non-cash charge of $0.2 million related to the fair value of stock options granted to a consultant. These increases were offset in part by lower fees for Sarbanes-Oxley related consulting services in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. Additionally, in fiscal 2005, we recovered $0.4 million related to an embezzlement, which was discovered in March 2004.

Net Loss on Litigation Settlement

The net loss on litigation settlement of $0.2 million in fiscal 2005 relates to the settlement of a disagreement with a fulfillment provider which arose in connection with the sale of our 3PF.Com assets. The $0.2 million includes $0.1 million in damages and related interest for full settlement of all the claims and the complete mutual release from any further obligations of either party and $0.1 million of legal fees.

Asset Impairment

Asset impairment of $27,000 in fiscal 2005 relates to the write-off of capitalized software development costs for two projects which management determined would not be completed or placed in service.

Interest Income

Interest income was $1.5 million, $1.0 million and $0.3 million, respectively, in fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005. The increases in interest income primarily related to higher interest rates and higher average cash and investment balances in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 and in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. The higher interest rates were due to both higher market rates and the investment of our cash in higher-yield investments. Our average combined cash and investment balance was $30.2 million, $25.2 million and $13.6 million for fiscal 2007, fiscal 2006 and fiscal 2005, respectively.

Income Taxes

Our effective tax rate was 40.0%, 36.7% and 39.6%, respectively, in fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005. Our effective tax rate differs from the federal statutory tax rate primarily due to state income taxes. The 36.7% effective tax rate in fiscal 2006 benefited from the utilization of net operating loss carryforwards and capital loss carryforwards, most of which were fully utilized by March 31, 2006, and which previously had been reserved against.

Inflation

We believe that the impact of inflation was minimal on our business in fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005.

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our sources of liquidity include our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, cash expected to be generated from future operations and investment income and our $15.0 million line of credit. Based on our current financial projections and projected cash needs, we believe that our available sources of liquidity will be sufficient to fund our current operations, the continued current development of our business intelligence services and other cash requirements through at least March 31, 2008.

Cash and cash equivalents decreased $4.3 million to $11.4 million at March 31, 2007 compared to $15.7 million at March 31, 2006. This decrease resulted primarily from the use of $6.9 million for the purchase of marketable securities, $3.2 million for the purchase of property and equipment and $1.9 million for the repurchase of our common stock, partially offset by $5.9 million provided by operations and $1.0 million provided by notes payable. Our current ratio was 3.3:1.0 at March 31, 2007 and 2.6:1.0 at March 31, 2006.

Accounts receivable, net of allowances, increased $1.7 million to $20.0 million at March 31, 2007 compared to $18.3 million at March 31, 2006, due primarily to higher revenues on our Essentialsä lines of business which led to higher balances on accounts from our Essentialsä customers, as well as the timing of billings to customers of the PPT Division.

During fiscal 2007, we spent $3.2 million on property and equipment, including $1.2 million for the capitalization of internally developed software for our business intelligence service offerings. The remaining expenditures were primarily for new accounting software and costs associated with our corporate headquarter office renovations. As further discussed below, we have received reimbursements totaling $1.8 million from our landlord, the state of Oregon and the Portland Development Commission to offset these expenditures. See also Note 6 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

We anticipate spending a total of approximately $4.6 million on property and equipment in fiscal 2008, including approximately $3.2 million for the capitalization of internally developed software, primarily for our business intelligence service offerings. Other capital expenditures in fiscal 2008 will be primarily for computer equipment.

Accounts payable decreased $1.8 million to $13.7 million at March 31, 2007 compared to $15.5 million at March 31, 2006 primarily due to the timing of Program Supplier and other vendor payments.

Deferred rent, current and long-term, of $1.1 million at March 31, 2007 represents amounts received for qualified renovations on our corporate headquarters and free rent for the first three months of the lease term. The deferred rent is being amortized against rent expense over the term of the related lease and totals approximately $29,000 per quarter. See also Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates — Landlord Incentives” below.

Notes payable of $1.0 million at March 31, 2007 represents a loan from the Portland Development Commission (“PDC”), a $58,000 conditional grant from the PDC and a loan from the State of Oregon related to our corporate headquarters renovations. The loan from the PDC of $0.7 million does not bear interest until it becomes due, which is January 1, 2009, and contains provisions relating to forgiveness if we meet certain requirements. If the loan is not forgiven, it will accrue interest at the rate of 8.5% per annum beginning on the date that it becomes due. However, if the loan is forgiven, no interest will accrue. Similar terms apply to the conditional grant of $58,000.  The loan from the State of Oregon of $0.2 million bears interest at the rate of 5% per annum and contains provisions relating to forgiveness if we meet certain requirements. See also Note 6 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

In January 2006, our board of directors adopted a share repurchase program authorizing the purchase of up to 1,000,000 shares of our common stock. Through March 31, 2007, 193,500 shares had been repurchased under this plan at an average price of $10.07 per share and 806,500 shares remained available for purchase. This plan does not have an expiration date.

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We currently have a secured revolving line of credit for $15.0 million, with a maturity of December 1, 2007. Interest on the line of credit is at our choice of either the bank’s prime interest rate minus 0.5 percent or LIBOR plus 1.5 percent. The credit line is secured by substantially all of our assets. The line of credit includes certain financial covenants requiring: (1) a consolidated pre-tax income to be achieved each fiscal quarter of a minimum of $1.00, and consolidated after-tax income not less than $1.00 on an annual basis, determined at fiscal year end; (2) a minimum current ratio of 1.5:1.0, measured quarterly; and (3) a maximum debt-to-tangible net worth ratio of 1.5:1.0, measured quarterly. Based upon the financial results reported as of, and for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, we determined that we were in compliance with the financial covenants at March 31, 2007. At March 31, 2007, we had no outstanding borrowings under this agreement.

Contractual Payment Obligations

A summary of our contractual commitments and obligations as of March 31, 2007 was as follows (in thousands):

 

Payments Due By Fiscal Period

 


Contractual Obligation

 


Total

 


2008

 

2009 and
2010

 

2011 and
2012

 

2013 and
beyond

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating leases

 

$

10,840

 

$

1,140

 

$

2,212

 

$

2,082

 

$

5,406

 

PDC loan and conditional grant(1)

 

748

 

 

748

 

 

 

State of Oregon loan(1)

 

207

 

 

207

 

 

 

Program Supplier guarantees

 

3,826

 

3,826

 

 

 

 

Management contracts(2)

 

1,138

 

1,138

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

16,759

 

$

6,104

 

$

3,167

 

$

2,082

 

$

5,406

 

 


(1)       The loan from the PDC of $0.7 million does not bear interest until it becomes due and contains provisions relating to forgiveness if we meet certain requirements. If the loan is not forgiven, it will accrue interest at the rate of 8.5% per annum beginning on the date that it becomes due, which is January 1, 2009. However, if the loan is forgiven, no interest will accrue. Similar terms apply to the conditional grant of $58,000. The loan from the State of Oregon of $0.2 million bears interest at the rate of 5% per annum and contains provisions relating to forgiveness if we meet certain requirements.

(2)       Most of the contracts with executive management have a one-year initial term. The above amounts do not include any additional payments which may be required in the event of termination or a change in control. See also our definitive proxy statement for our 2007 annual meeting for details of our 2007 executive compensation.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of our financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. Our estimates are based on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Following is a discussion of our critical accounting estimates. See Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, Significant Accounting Policies, for additional information.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Credit limits are established through a process of reviewing the financial history and stability of each customer. We regularly evaluate the collectibility of accounts receivable by monitoring past due balances. If it is determined that a customer may be unable to meet its financial obligations, a specific reserve is established based on the amount we expect to recover. An additional general reserve is provided based on aging of accounts receivable and our historical collection experience. If circumstances change related to specific customers, overall aging of accounts receivable or collection experience, our estimate of the recoverability of accounts receivable could materially change. Our allowance for doubtful accounts totaled $596,000 and $461,000, respectively, at March 31, 2007 and 2006.

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Program Supplier Reserves

We have entered into guarantee contracts with certain Program Suppliers providing titles for distribution under our PPT system. These contracts guarantee the Program Suppliers minimum payments per Unit shipped that are recoupable based on revenue-sharing activity. In some cases, these guarantees are paid in advance. For amounts not paid in advance, we record a liability for the gross amount of the guarantee due to the Program Supplier on the street date in accordance with Statement of Position 00-2, “Accounting by Producers or Distributors of Films” (“SOP 00-2”). For guarantees paid in advance, the unearned portion of the guarantees is included as Advances to Program Suppliers on our consolidated balance sheets.  Using historical experience and year to date rental experience for each title, we estimate the projected revenue to be generated under each guarantee. We have historically been able to reasonably estimate shortages after 30 to 60 days of rental activity. We then establish a Program Supplier reserve for titles that are projected to experience a shortage under the provisions of the guarantee. The Program Supplier reserve is netted against Advances to Program Suppliers on our consolidated balance sheets. We continually review these factors and make adjustments to the reserves as needed. The balance in this reserve totaled $0.02 million and $0.03 million, respectively, at March 31, 2007 and 2006.

Deferred Taxes

We account for income taxes in accordance with SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” In accordance with SFAS No. 109, deferred tax assets arise from the tax benefit of amounts expensed for financial reporting purposes but not yet deducted for tax purposes and from unutilized tax credits and NOL carry forwards. We evaluate our deferred tax assets on a regular basis to determine if a valuation allowance is required. To the extent it is determined the recoverability of the deferred tax assets is unlikely, we will record a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets. As of March 31, 2007 and 2006, we had a valuation allowance of $0.1 million and $0.6 million, respectively, recorded against our Canadian net operating loss carryforwards. Net deferred tax assets (liabilities) totaled $(0.3) million and $0.4 million, respectively, as of March 31, 2007 and 2006.

Landlord Incentives

We maintain our headquarters in Portland, Oregon. On December 2, 2005, we renewed our current lease. The new lease term began on January 1, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2016. During fiscal 2007, we renovated our headquarter offices and expanded our occupancy from 48,000 square feet to approximately 55,500 square feet. Our new lease contains provisions relating to an allowance from our landlord associated with the costs of our improvements, as well as three months of free rent. These landlord incentives totaled $1.1 million at March 31, 2007, are recorded as deferred rent and are being amortized at the rate of approximately $29,000 per quarter, as a reduction to lease expense over the lease term. The leasehold improvements are recorded as assets and are included in Property and Equipment on the consolidated balance sheet. The leasehold improvements are being depreciated over their economic lives, which are estimated to be 10 years.

Stock-Based Compensation

On April 1, 2006, we adopted SFAS No. 123R, “Share-Based Payment,” which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all share-based payment awards granted to our employees and directors, including employee stock options and deferred stock units (“DSUs”) based on the estimated fair value of the award on the grant date.  Upon the adoption of SFAS No. 123R, we maintained our method of valuation for stock option awards using the Black-Scholes valuation model, which we had used historically for the purpose of providing pro forma financial disclosures in accordance with SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.” As of March 31, 2007, unrecognized stock-based compensation related to outstanding, but unvested, options and DSUs was $0.7 million, which will be recognized over the weighted average remaining vesting period of 2.8 years.

The use of the Black-Scholes valuation model to estimate the fair value of stock option awards requires us to make judgments on assumptions regarding the risk-free interest rate, expected dividend yield, expected term and expected volatility over the expected term of the award. The assumptions used in calculating the fair value of share-based payment awards represent management’s best estimates, but these estimates involve inherent uncertainties and the application of expense could be materially different in the future.

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Compensation expense is only recognized on awards that ultimately vest. However, we have not reduced the stock-based compensation expense for estimated forfeitures as there is no basis for estimating future forfeitures as most unvested options are held by members of senior management and the Board of Directors.  We update for forfeitures as they occur and recognize any changes to accumulated compensation expense in the period of change. If actual forfeitures are significant, our results of operations could be materially impacted.

New Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 3 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of the impact of new accounting pronouncements.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

Other than disclosed above under Contractual Payment Obligations, we do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that is material to investors.

ITEM 7A.                    QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

We have considered the provisions of Financial Reporting Release No. 48 “Disclosure of Accounting Policies for Derivative Financial Instruments and Derivative Commodity Instruments, and Disclosure of Quantitative and Qualitative Information about Market Risk Inherent in Derivative Financial Instruments, Other Financial Instruments and Derivative Commodity Instruments.” We had no holdings of derivative financial or commodity instruments at March 31, 2007.

A review of our other financial instruments and risk exposures at March 31, 2007 revealed that we had exposure to interest rate risk related to our cash deposits and marketable securities. We utilized sensitivity analyses to assess the potential effect of this risk and concluded that near-term changes in interest rates should not materially adversely affect our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

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ITEM 8.         FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Board of Directors and Stockholders

Rentrak Corporation

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Rentrak Corporation as of March 31, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended March 31, 2007. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Rentrak Corporation as of March 31, 2007 and 2006, and the results of their consolidated operations and their consolidated cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended March 31, 2007 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting for stock-based compensation as a result of adopting Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment (Revised 2004), effective April 1, 2006.

Our audits were conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole. The financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15 is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements. This schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the effectiveness of Rentrak Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2007, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) and our report dated June 4, 2007 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP

 

 

Portland, OR

June 4, 2007

 

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Rentrak Corporation and Subisdiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In thousands, except per share amounts)

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2007

 

2006

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Current Assets:

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

11,351

 

$

15,666

 

Marketable securities

 

22,105

 

14,832

 

Accounts receivable, net of allowances for doubtful accounts of $596 and $461

 

19,965

 

18,314

 

Note receivable

 

385

 

 

Advances to program suppliers, net of program supplier reserves of $23 and $32

 

166

 

225

 

Deferred income tax assets

 

77

 

110

 

Other current assets

 

574

 

607

 

Total Current Assets

 

54,623

 

49,754

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property and Equipment, net of accumulated  depreciation of $6,325 and $5,876

 

5,097

 

3,623

 

Deferred Income Tax Assets

 

 

312

 

Other Assets

 

652

 

639

 

Total Assets

 

$

60,372

 

$

54,328

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

 

 

 

 

 

Current Liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$

13,707

 

$

15,493

 

Taxes payable

 

125

 

972

 

Accrued liabilities

 

455

 

532

 

Deferred rent, current portion

 

90

 

 

Accrued compensation

 

1,631

 

1,366

 

Deferred revenue

 

460

 

484

 

Total Current Liabilities

 

16,468

 

18,847

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred Rent, long-term portion

 

1,050

 

 

Deferred Income Tax Liabilities

 

333

 

 

Notes Payable

 

955

 

 

Total Liabilities

 

18,806

 

18,847

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commitments and Contingencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholders’ Equity:

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 10,000 shares authorized; none issued

 

 

 

Common stock, $0.001 par value; 30,000 shares authorized; shares issued and outstanding:  10,724 and 10,697

 

11

 

11

 

Capital in excess of par value

 

48,155

 

48,069

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income

 

132

 

181

 

Accumulated deficit

 

(6,732

)

(12,780

)

Total Stockholders’ Equity

 

41,566

 

35,481

 

Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

 

$

60,372

 

$

54,328

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Rentrak Corporation and Subisdiaries

Consolidated Income Statements

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

 

 

 

For the Year Ended March 31,

 

 

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenue

 

$

105,998

 

$

93,394

 

$

98,538

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of sales

 

72,492

 

65,111

 

69,882

 

Selling and administrative

 

24,938

 

22,241

 

20,046

 

Net loss from litigation settlements

 

 

 

225

 

Asset impairment

 

 

 

27

 

 

 

97,430

 

87,352

 

90,180

 

Income from operations

 

8,568

 

6,042

 

8,358

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income (expense):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

1,521

 

1,016

 

333

 

Interest expense

 

(7

)

(2

)

(11

)

 

 

1,514

 

1,014

 

322

 

Income before income taxes

 

10,082

 

7,056

 

8,680

 

Provision for income taxes

 

4,034

 

2,590

 

3,437

 

Net income

 

$

6,048

 

$

4,466

 

$

5,243

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic net income per share

 

$

0.57

 

$

0.42

 

$

0.52

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diluted net income per share

 

$

0.54

 

$

0.40

 

$

0.49

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shares used in per share calculations:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

10,632

 

10,575

 

10,081

 

Diluted

 

11,170

 

11,047

 

10,592

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Rentrak Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income

For The Years Ended March 31, 2007, 2006 and 2005

(In thousands, except share amounts)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital

 

Other

 

 

 

Total

 

 

 

Common Stock

 

In Excess

 

Comprehensive

 

Accumulated

 

Stockholders’

 

 

 

Shares

 

Amount

 

of Par Value

 

Income

 

Deficit

 

Equity

 

Balance at March 31, 2004

 

9,739,537

 

$

9

 

$

41,094

 

$

181

 

$

(22,489

)

$

18,795

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

5,243

 

5,243

 

Common stock issued pursuant to stock plans

 

522,557

 

1

 

2,394

 

 

 

2,395

 

Common stock used to pay for option exercises

 

(25,381

)

 

(270

)

 

 

(270

)

Issuance of common stock

 

308,200

 

 

2,774

 

 

 

2,774

 

Income tax benefit from stock option exercises

 

 

 

996

 

 

 

996

 

Balance at March 31, 2005

 

10,544,913

 

10

 

46,988

 

181

 

(17,246

)

29,933

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

4,466

 

4,466

 

Common stock issued pursuant to stock plans

 

152,423

 

1

 

707

 

 

 

708

 

Fair value of options granted to non-employee

 

 

 

219

 

 

 

219

 

Income tax benefit from stock option exercises

 

 

 

155

 

 

 

155

 

Balance at March 31, 2006

 

10,697,336

 

11

 

48,069

 

181

 

(12,780

)

35,481

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

6,048

 

6,048

 

Unrealized loss on foreign currency translation

 

 

 

 

(49

)

 

(49

)

Comprehensive income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,999

 

Common stock issued pursuant to stock plans

 

321,359

 

 

465

 

 

 

465

 

Common stock used to pay for option exercises and taxes

 

(114,172

)

 

(131

)

 

 

(131

)

Common stock issued pursuant to warrant exercise

 

12,705

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred stock units granted to Board of Directors

 

 

 

358

 

 

 

358

 

Stock-based compensation expense - options

 

 

 

498

 

 

 

498

 

Common stock repurchased

 

(193,500

)

 

(1,948

)

 

 

(1,948

)

Income tax benefit from stock option and warrant exercises

 

 

 

844

 

 

 

844

 

Balance at March 31, 2007

 

10,723,728

 

$

11

 

$

48,155

 

$

132

 

$

(6,732

)

$

41,566

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Rentrak Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(In thoisands)

 

 

 

For the Year Ended March 31,

 

 

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

$

6,048

 

$

4,466

 

$

5,243

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash flows provided by operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Gain) loss on disposition of assets

 

37

 

 

(1

)

Tax benefit from stock option and warrant exercises

 

844

 

155

 

996

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

1,736

 

1,587

 

1,078

 

Amortization of discount on marketable securities

 

(421

)

(181

)

 

Abandonment of capitalized software projects

 

 

 

27

 

Adjustment to allowance for doubtful accounts

 

 

1

 

28

 

Stock-based compensation

 

856

 

 

 

Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation

 

(358

)

 

 

Deferred income taxes

 

679

 

637

 

2,303

 

Options granted to non-employee

 

39

 

179

 

 

(Increase) decrease in:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts and notes receivable

 

(2,036

)

(3,887

)

934

 

Advances to program suppliers

 

59

 

960

 

3,003

 

Income taxes receivable and prepaid taxes

 

 

580

 

(512

)

Other current assets

 

(127

)

159

 

(625

)

Increase (decrease) in:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

(1,786

)

3,063

 

(2,977

)

Accrued liabilities and compensation

 

(828

)

620

 

762

 

Deferred rent

 

1,140

 

 

 

Deferred revenue and other liabilities

 

6

 

54

 

(6

)

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

5,888

 

8,393

 

10,253

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchase of marketable securities

 

(6,852

)

(14,651

)

 

Purchase of property and equipment

 

(3,233

)

(1,966

)

(1,806

)

Proceeds from sale of assets

 

 

 

1

 

Purchase of equity investment

 

 

 

(475

)

Note receivable payments received

 

183

 

486

 

412

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

(9,902

)

(16,131

)

(1,868

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Payments on capital lease obligation

 

 

(40

)

(36

)

Proceeds from notes payable

 

955

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock

 

334

 

708

 

2,124

 

Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation

 

358

 

 

 

Issuance of common stock to non-employees

 

 

 

2,774

 

Repurchase of common stock

 

(1,948

)

 

 

Collection of note receivable, related party

 

 

753

 

 

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities

 

(301

)

1,421

 

4,862

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents

 

(4,315

)

(6,317

)

13,247

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning of year

 

15,666

 

21,983

 

8,736

 

End of year

 

$

11,351

 

$

15,666

 

$

21,983

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental cash flow information:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid during the year for interest

 

$

 

$

3

 

$

11

 

Cash paid during the year for income taxes, net of  refunds received

 

3,356

 

592

 

518

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental non-cash information:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts Receivable converted to Note Receivable

 

$

385

 

$

 

$

 

Common Stock withheld in payment of exercise price for  stock options and warrants

 

1,537

 

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Rentrak Corporation and Subsidiaries

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Note 1.          Overview

Rentrak Corporation is located in Portland, Oregon. We have two operating divisions, the Pay-Per-Transaction (“PPT”) Division and Advanced Media and Information (“AMI”) Division as well as an Other Division. 

Our PPT Division focuses on managing our business operations that facilitate the delivery of home entertainment content products (DVDs, cassettes, etc.) and related rental and sales information for the content to home video specialty stores and other retailers, on a revenue sharing basis.  We lease product from various suppliers, typically motion picture studios. Under our PPT System, retailers sublease that product from us and rent it to consumers. Retailers then share a portion of each retail rental transaction with us and we share a portion of revenues with the studio. Since we collect, process and analyze rental and sales information at the title level, we report that information to both the studio and the respective retailers.

Our AMI Division concentrates on the management and growth of our Essentials Suite™ of business intelligence services, as well as operating our direct revenue sharing (“DRS”) services. Our Essentials Suite™ software and services, offered on a recurring subscription basis, provide unique data collection, management, analysis and reporting functions, resulting in business intelligence information valuable to our clients. Our DRS services collect, track, audit and report the results to our suppliers under established agreements on a fee for service basis. During the first quarter of fiscal 2007, Supply Chain Essentialsä, OnDemand Essentialsä and Retail Essentialsä moved from the Other Division to the AMI Division as these lines were considered to be no longer in the development stage.

Our Other Division includes revenue relating to other products and/or services which are still in the development stage, including AdTrakerä, which will capture census-level data regarding viewing patterns of on-demand advertising for reporting to marketers and advertising agencies. The Other Division also includes corporate and administrative costs.

Note 2.          Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Rentrak Corporation, its majority owned subsidiaries, and those subsidiaries in which we have a controlling interest after elimination of all intercompany accounts and transactions.

Management Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. We consider our most critical accounting policies to be those that require the use of estimates and assumptions, specifically, accounts receivable reserves, Program Supplier guarantee reserves, judgments regarding realization of deferred tax assets, and estimates related to stock-based compensation. 

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Revenue Recognition

We follow Statement of Position (“SOP”) 00-2, “Accounting by Producers or Distributors of Films,” and recognize revenue when all of the following conditions are met:

·         Persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists;

·         The products or services have been delivered;

·         The license period has begun (which is referred to as the “street date” for a product);

·         The arrangement fee is fixed or determinable; and

·         Collection of the arrangement fee is reasonably assured.

PPT agreements generally provide for an initial order processing fee and continuing transaction fees based on a percentage of rental revenues earned by the retailers upon renting the Units to their customers. Initial order processing fees cover the direct costs of accessing Units from Program Suppliers and handling, packaging and shipping of the Units to the retailer. Once the Units are shipped, we have no further obligation to provide services to the retailer.

We recognize order processing fees as revenue on the street date and recognize transaction fees when the Units are rented to the consumers, provided all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.  Certain arrangements include guaranteed minimum revenues from our customers. In these arrangements, we recognize the guaranteed minimum revenue on the street date, provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met.

We recognize other services revenue, including direct revenue sharing (“DRS”) and business intelligence services revenue, ratably over the period of service.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

We consider all highly liquid investments purchased with a maturity of three months or less at acquisition to be cash equivalents. We have funds deposited in various financial institutions in excess of the federal funds deposit insurance limits. 

Marketable Securities

We classify our marketable securities as held-to-maturity, and, accordingly, they are reported at amortized cost with earnings included as a component of interest income. Dividend and interest income is recognized when earned. Realized gains and losses are included in earnings and are derived using the specific identification method for determining the cost of securities sold.

We periodically evaluate whether declines in fair values of our investments below their cost are “other-than-temporary.” This evaluation consists of qualitative and quantitative factors regarding the severity and duration of the unrealized loss, as well as our ability and intent to hold the investment until a forecasted recovery occurs. If we determine that an “other-than-temporary” impairment has occurred, the security will be written-down to fair value, which will then be the new cost basis. The write-down will be included currently as a realized loss as a component of other income (expense). The new cost basis will not be changed for subsequent recoveries in fair value.

Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Trade accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and do not bear interest. The allowance for doubtful accounts is our best estimate of the amount of probable credit losses in our existing accounts receivable.

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Credit limits are established through a process of reviewing the financial history and stability of each customer. We regularly evaluate the collectibility of accounts receivable by monitoring past due balances. If it is determined that a customer may be unable to meet its financial obligations, a specific reserve is established based on the amount we expect to recover. An additional general reserve is provided based on aging of accounts receivable and our historical collection experience. If circumstances change related to specific customers, overall aging of accounts receivable or collection experience, our estimate of the recoverability of accounts receivable could materially change. We are able to recover certain bad debts from our Program Suppliers. Such recoveries are recorded as reductions to expense when they are fixed and determinable pursuant to the Program Supplier contract.

During 2005, one of our customers filed a petition for relief under Chapter 7 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The balance this customer owed us on its account was approximately $588,000 and was written off in fiscal 2006 and substantially recovered. This had no material impact on net income in fiscal 2006.

No customer accounted for 10% or more of our accounts receivable balance as of March 31, 2007 or 2006.

We do not have any off-balance sheet credit exposure related to our customers.

Fair Value of Financial Assets and Liabilities

We estimate the fair value of our monetary assets and liabilities based upon comparison of such assets and liabilities to the current market values for instruments of a similar nature and degree of risk. Our monetary assets and liabilities include cash, marketable securities, accounts and notes receivable and accounts payable. Based on the short-term nature of these instruments, we estimate that the recorded value of all our monetary assets and liabilities approximates fair value as of March 31, 2007 and 2006.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

Pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” long-lived assets, such as property, plant and equipment, capitalized software and purchased intangibles subject to amortization, are required to be reviewed for impairment annually or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its estimated future cash flows, an impairment charge is recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset. Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying value or fair value less costs to sell, and depreciation ceases. In fiscal 2005, we recorded an impairment charge of $27,000 related to the write-off of capitalized software development costs for two projects which management determined would not be completed and placed in service. 

Property and Equipment

Depreciation of property and equipment is computed on the straight-line method over estimated useful lives of three to seven years for furniture and fixtures, three to ten years for equipment and, prior to April 1, 2007, three years for capitalized software. Effective April 1, 2007, we increased the estimated lives of our capitalized software to five years based on a review of our previous usage of such internally developed software. Historically, we have been able to utilize the systems we have put in place for a period of at least five years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the lives of the underlying leases or the service lives of the improvements, whichever is shorter. Property and equipment is reviewed for impairment in accordance with SFAS No. 144 as discussed above.

Landlord Incentives

On December 2, 2005, we renewed our headquarters building lease in Portland, Oregon. The new lease term began on January 1, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2016. During fiscal 2007, we renovated our

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headquarter offices and expanded our occupancy from 48,000 square feet to approximately 55,500 square feet. Our new lease contains provisions relating to an allowance from our landlord associated with the costs of our improvements. These landlord incentives totaled $0.9 million at March 31, 2007, were recorded as deferred rent and are being amortized at the rate of approximately $22,000 per quarter as a reduction to rent expense over the lease term. The leasehold improvements, which totaled $1.0 million, net of accumulated amortization, at March 31, 2007, are recorded as assets and are included in Property and Equipment on the consolidated balance sheet. The leasehold improvements are being depreciated over their economic lives, which are estimated to be 10 years.  We also received three months of free rent totaling $0.2 million. This is also included in deferred rent and is being amortized over the lease term.

Capitalized Software

We account for capitalized software in accordance with SOP 98-1,Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use.” Capitalized software, included in Property and Equipment, net, consists of costs to purchase and develop internal-use software, as well as costs to develop internal software which is used by us to provide various services to clients within our expanding Essentials Suite™ of services. These services provide unique data collection, management, analysis and reporting functions, resulting in business intelligence information valuable to our clients. For example, our Box Office Essentials™ business line reports domestic and international gross receipt theatrical ticket sales to motion picture studios and movie theatre owners. Our OnDemand Essentials™ business line measures and reports anonymous video on demand (“VOD”) usage data to our clients. Such internal and external costs to develop the internal software used to support these services are capitalized after the technological and business feasibility of the project is determined and the preliminary project stage is completed. We continue to develop our internal software systems in order to expand our service offerings. Once we begin to utilize such software in our products, these costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated economic life of the software. Effective April 1, 2007, we increased the estimated useful life of capitalized software from three to five years based on a review of our previous usage of such internally developed software. Historically, we have been able to utilize the systems we have put in place for a period of at least five years. Capitalized software is reviewed for impairment in accordance with SFAS No. 144 as discussed above. Changes in technology could affect our estimate of the useful life of such assets.  See Note 5.

Income Taxes

We account for income taxes in accordance with SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.”  Under the asset and liability method specified by SFAS No. 109, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the temporary differences between the financial statement basis and tax basis of assets and liabilities as measured by the enacted tax rates for the years in which the taxes are expected to be paid.  We evaluate our deferred tax assets on a regular basis to determine if a valuation allowance is required. To the extent it is determined the recoverability of the deferred tax assets is unlikely, we record a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets. As of March 31, 2007 and 2006, we had a valuation allowance of $0.1 million and $0.6 million, respectively, recorded against our Canadian net operating loss carryforwards and net deferred tax assets (liabilities) totaled $(0.3) million and $0.4 million, respectively.

Program Supplier Reserves 

We have entered into guarantee contracts with certain Program Suppliers providing titles for distribution under our PPT system. These contracts guarantee the Program Suppliers minimum payments per Unit shipped that are recoupable based on revenue-sharing activity. In some cases, these guarantees are paid in advance. For amounts not paid in advance, we record a liability for the gross amount of the guarantee due to the Program Supplier on the street date in accordance with SOP 00-2. For guarantees paid in advance, the unearned portion of the guarantees is included as Advances to Program Suppliers on our consolidated balance sheets. Using historical experience and year to date rental experience for each title, we estimate the projected revenue to be generated under each guarantee. We have historically been able to reasonably estimate shortages after 30 to 60 days of rental activity. We then establish a Program Supplier reserve for titles that are projected to experience a shortage under the provisions of the guarantee. The Program Supplier reserve is netted against Advances to Program

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Suppliers on our consolidated balance sheets. We continually review these factors and make adjustments to the reserves as needed. The balance in this reserve totaled $0.02 million and $0.03 million, respectively, at March 31, 2007 and 2006.

Foreign Currency Translation

Adjustments from translating foreign functional currency financial statements into U.S. dollars are included in Cumulative Other Comprehensive Income in the consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income. Transaction gains and losses that arise from exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than the local currency are included as a component of Selling and Administrative expenses in our consolidated statements of operations. 

Earnings Per Share

Basic net income per share (“EPS”) and diluted EPS are computed using the methods prescribed by SFAS No. 128, “Earnings per Share.”  Following is a reconciliation of the shares used for the basic EPS and diluted EPS calculations for fiscal 2007, 2006 and 2005 (in thousands):

 

Year Ended March 31,

 

 

 

2007

 

2006

 

2005

 

Basic EPS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding

 

10,632

 

10,575

 

10,081

 

Diluted EPS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effect of dilutive stock options

 

538

 

472

 

511

 

 

 

11,170

 

11,047

 

10,592

 

 

Options not included in diluted EPS because the exercise price of the options was greater than the average market price of the common shares for the period were zero in fiscal 2007 and 0.2 million in each of fiscal 2006 and 2005.

Stock-Based Compensation

Effective April 1, 2006, we adopted SFAS No. 123R, “Share-Based Payment.” We elected to use the modified prospective transition method as provided by SFAS No. 123R and, accordingly, financial statement amounts for the prior periods have not been restated to reflect the fair value method of expensing stock-based compensation. Under this method, the provisions of SFAS No. 123R apply to all awards granted or modified after the date of adoption. In addition, the unrecognized expense of awards not yet vested at the date of adoption is recognized in net income in the periods after the date of adoption using the Black-Scholes valuation method over the remainder of the requisite service period. Prior to April 1, 2006, we accounted for stock options using the intrinsic value method as prescribed by Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees.” See also “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” in Part II, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

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We provided disclosures of net income and earnings per share as if the method prescribed by SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation,” had been applied in measuring compensation expense in prior years as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):

Year Ended March 31,

 

2006

 

2005

 

Net income, as reported

 

$

4,466

 

$

5,243

 

Deduct – total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under the fair value based method for all awards, net of related tax effects

 

(824

)

(860

)

Net income, pro forma

 

$

3,642