NSR
Releases
Industry
First
Report
Assessing
Satellite
Operator
Financial
Metrics
Jan
31,
2012
NSR's
Satellite
Operator
Financial
Analysis
study,
released
today,
is
an
industry
first
analysis
of
key
qualitative
and
quantitative
metrics
that
assess
all
the
prime
financial
criteria
of
Fixed
Satellite
Services
(FSS)
operators.
The
metrics
analyzed
range
widely
including
overall
revenues,
cash
flows,
capital
expenditure
requirements,
debt
levels,
return
on
their
satellite
fleets,
and
many
others.
While
primarily
concentrated
on
the
top
publicly
reporting
FSS
operators,
this
study
offers
analysis
on
twenty-three
of
the
industry's
leading
FSS
players
for
select
metrics.
"Not
only
has
NSR
sought
to
perform
an
extensive
financial
assessment
of
the
leading
publicly
reporting
operators,"
said
Patrick
M.
French,
Senior
Analyst
for
NSR
and
report
author.
"This
study
also
provides
ranking
of
each
operator's
performance
in
each
metric
against
their
peers,
detailed
analysis
of
their
score,
and
a
complete
set
of
statistically-grounded
fundamental
financial
benchmarks
for
the
FSS
industry
that
have
great
utility
in
business
planning
and
possible
future
M&A
or
IPO
activity
in
the
industry."
"NSR
points
to
positive
trends
in
the
financial
metrics
for
nearly
every
FSS
operator
analyzed,"
said
French.
"This
indicates
that
not
only
is
the
FSS
sector
robust
in
financial
terms,
but
that
operators
are
focused
on
continued,
incremental
performance
improvements
as
well
as
investing
strongly
into
future
growth."
By
combining
publicly
reported
financial
data
with
in-depth
knowledge
of
the
FSS
sector,
NSR
has
created
an
independent,
systematic,
step-by-step
financial
analysis
of
the
FSS
sector
in
greater
detail
than
ever
before
available
in
the
industry.
About
the
Report
Satellite
Operator
Financial
Analysis
is a
multi-client
report
now
available
from
NSR.
This
report
is a
first-of-its-kind
assessment
of
the
key
financial
metrics
for
the
leading
global
and
regional
fixed
satellite
services
(FSS)
operators.
The
report
includes
an
operator-by-operator
assessment
and
cross
comparison
analysis
of
common
and
unique
financial
metrics
to
determine
true
performance,
health
and
outlook
of
the
satellite
operator
community.
The
study
offers
a
wealth
of
data
and
industry
analysis
that
will
be
valuable
to
industry
insiders
as
well
as
institutions
that
need
to
better
understand
the
FSS
sector's
financial
performance.
