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WiderThan Co(WTHN)

 
123Jump Rating: - Value Gap   Underwriters: J. P. Morgan & Co.
      Merrill Lynch & Co.
Status: Priced  
 
Address: FiledDate: 11/18/2005
     
  Filed Price Range ($): $14.00-16.00
       
Telephone: Filed Offer Amount ($ Million): $110.40
       
Fax: Shares Offered (Millions): 6
       
Websites: Shares Outstanding (Millions):
       
Management: IPO Date: 12/09/2005
     
  Final Offer Price ($): $12.00
       
Industry: Entertainment Services Final Offer Size (Millions of Shares): 0.00
       
Employees: Final Offer Amount ($ Million): $0.00
       
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Major Stock Holders   (Prior To Offering)

Name

Class A
i-Hatch Ventures, L.P. 12.50%
Nokia Venture Partners II, L.P. 16.50%
SAIF Capital Limited 10.70%
SK Telecom 13.40%
SK Telecom and Tae Won Chey 20.10%

Major Stock Holders  (After Offering)

Name

Common Stock Class A Class B Class C Class L ADS
i-Hatch Ventures, L.P. NA 16.80% NA NA NA NA
Melody Share Corporation NA 43.80% NA NA NA NA
Nokia Venture Partners II, L.P. NA 22.30% NA NA NA NA
SK Telecom and Tae Won Chey NA 8.60% NA NA NA NA
Tae Won Chey NA 8.60% NA NA NA NA

Business Environment

Mobile entertainment services enable users to engage in a range of entertainment activities, such as personalizing their mobile phones through ringback tones, ringtones and images as well as listening to music, playing games, watching videos and accessing news, weather, financial, sports and other information. The global mobile entertainment market has grown to become a multibillion dollar market and is expected to continue to grow rapidly as a result of increased wireless subscriber penetration, the introduction of new, more sophisticated services and the aggressive promotion of these services by wireless carriers. According to market analyses conducted in February 2005 by Juniper Research, a leading industry research firm, the combined size of sports, infotainment, music and game segments of the mobile entertainment services market is expected to grow from $9.2 billion in 2004 to $37.7 billion in 2009.

Wireless carriers are aggressively launching and promoting these mobile entertainment services as they are increasingly viewing them as future growth drivers for their businesses. These carriers face intense competition from other wireless carriers, wireline carriers and cable-based voice service providers, which has resulted in pricing pressure, increasing customer churn and declining voice revenues. Particularly in mature markets that are approaching saturated penetration rates, wireless carriers are expected to increase their focus on mobile data, a large subset of which is mobile entertainment that encompasses ringtones, ringback tones, music-on-demand, mobile games logos, images, video clips, news and sports information, to address competition and declining average revenue per user from voice services to generate additional revenues.

As network and mobile handset capabilities have improved, mobile entertainment services have continued to evolve from simple monophonic ringtones to more complex applications like ringback tones, music-on-demand and multi-player networked games. The ease of access and functionality of the applications have also improved, whereby users can access applications on demand by downloading them to their mobile phones and can also enjoy a real-time interactive experience. The two key categories of the mobile entertainment services market today are music and games.

Company Strategy
The Company is a leading provider of integrated mobile entertainment solutions for wireless carriers.

Product/Services Portfolio
The Company offers its carrier customers a broad range of services that fall within four general categories: carrier application services, content services, professional and other services, and system sales. The carrier application services are services that the Company provides to wireless carriers which, at their core, involve applications that enable or facilitate the delivery of mobile entertainment content. The Company provides these services either as a managed service or as a service bureau.

In November 2004, using the music-on-demand carrier application service that the Company provides, SK Telecom launched “MelOn”, which is among the world’s first music-on-demand service that provides users with access to a music source from any place that has Internet connectivity. Depending on the type of subscription, the MelOn service enables subscribers to listen to a wide range of song titles by downloading or streaming to a personal computer, certain MP3-enabled mobile phones and certain portable audio players that are equipped with a digital rights management system that is authorized by SK Telecom and bars unauthorized use of copyrighted material.

Together with VeriSign, Inc., the Company offers an inter-carrier messaging service which routes and delivers SMS messages between wireless carriers within the United States and internationally to multiple wireless devices, under the brand name of Metcalf. This service allows subscribers with any text messaging capable handset to send and receive text messages to and from subscribers on other networks. The Company also provides other types of messaging services, including e-mail messaging, multi-media messaging, voice messaging and multimedia application gateway management.

The Company provides a mobile phone-based broadcasting application service to SK Telecom. Subscribers to this application can automatically receive news updates with full color graphics on the browser pages of their mobile phones (assuming such phones are embedded with client software that enables reception), and can also download information in a variety of categories on an on-demand basis.

The Company’s content services involve the delivery of content, such as ringtones, ringback tones and mobile games, to wireless subscribers through application service providers. The Company’s music content offerings primarily include ringtones, ringback tones and music for music-on-demand services. As a publisher, the Company offers various categories of games including sports, action, role-playing, card and trivia that it licenses from third-party developers.

Investment Analysis
Revenues increased by 74.4% to US$70.1 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2005 from US$40.2 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2004.

Total costs and expenses increased by 64.5% to US$62.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2005 from US$37.7 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2004.

Cost of system sales decreased by 17.7% to US$4.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2005 from US$4.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2004.

Operating income increased to US$8.0 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2005 from US$2.5 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2004.

Net income increased to US$5.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2005 from US$1.9 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2004.

Income Data 
Year Revenues Costs Oper Income Taxes Net Income EPS
2002 43366 40379 2987 1153 1935 0.13000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125
2003 59044 50836 8208 2583 5989 0.479999999999999982236431605997495353221893310546875
2004 62832 56633 6199 2156 3949 0.2600000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625
2005 70075 62032 8043 2552 5871 0.330000000000000015543122344752191565930843353271484375
*As of period Ended Sept 30, 2005

Balance Sheet Data

Year

Cash Acct Recv. Inventory Total Cur Assets Total Cur Liability PPE Total Assets LT Debt SH Equity
2003 10826 12771 0.00 26038 14262 4646 32280 0.00 11657
2004 17817 18763 0.00 40657 21767 8119 73364 0.00 23376
2005 18853 24797 0.00 65260 38398 9280 98634 0.00 29087
*As of period Ended Sept 30, 2005

Cash Flow Summary

Year

Net Cash-Ops Net Cash-Inv Net Cash-Fin Net Change
2002 760 -5641 5126 475
2003 9969 -1905 0.00 8033
2004 10048 -5931 720 6991
2005 -5004 -4155 10678 1036
*As of period Ended Sept 30, 2005
 

 


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