AskMeNow, Inc. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis
- The report contains detailed information about AskMeNow, Inc. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
- Another part of the report is a SWOT-analysis carried out for AskMeNow, Inc.. It involves specifying the objective of the company's business and identifies the different factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. SWOT-analysis helps to understand company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats against it.
- The AskMeNow, Inc. financial analysis covers the income statement and ratio trend-charts with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis. The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency. This sort of company's information will assist and strengthen your company’s decision-making processes.
- In the part that describes AskMeNow, Inc. competitors and the industry in whole, the information about company's financial ratios is compared to those of its competitors and to the industry. The unique analysis of the market and company’s competitors along with detailed information about the internal and external factors affecting the relevant industry will help to manage your business environment. Your company’s business and sales activities will be boosted by gaining an insight into your competitors’ businesses.
- Also the report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements. The latter are correlated with pertinent news and press releases, and annual and quarterly forecasts are given by a variety of experts and market research firms. Such information creates your awareness about principal trends of AskMeNow, Inc. business.
About AskMeNow, Inc.
AskMeNow Inc., through its subsidiary, InfoByPhone, Inc., provides users with access to information on mobile cellular devices in the United States and Canada. The company offers information services and content through its AskMeNow service to mobile devices.
Products and Services
AskMeNow Alerts
The company has developed an information alert service that enables users to receive content that they would like without having to submit a question to AskMeNow. This service is operating with a selection of its content partners and provides a daily push of automated content. Users could select from a range of information based on their personal interests, preferences, and availability from its content partners, and have content sent directly to their device at pre-arranged times.
AskMeNow Enterprise
Utilizing licensed software from Expert System, the company offers an AskMeNow enterprise solution that enables telecommunications companies to automate access to customer service data using a natural language query system.
ConTEXTual Marketing / Ad Services
AskMeNow Ad Services offers marketers and advertisers a platform for messaging customers. Its customers are mobile; messages are targeted and reach users while on the go. The company offers advertisers and marketers various ways to ConTEXTually Market through the AskMeNow Ad Services.
Brand Texting - Corporate or product brand names can be positioned for awareness on a cost per message basis and sent to targeted users.
Vertical Texting - Advertisers can bid on keywords and information categories (verticals) so that their product or service can be marketed exclusively to users who ask questions that concern their desired vertical, and use particular keywords. Vertical texting is the third screen equivalent of paid search and allows marketers to relay their brands message directly to those interested in their vertical.
Performance Texting - Pay per performance (inquiry) based program - text messaging targeted users with message to contact advertiser.
Coupon Texting - Electronic coupons text messaged back to users and redeemable at a given location. They could be sent to individualized users at time of decision and point of purchase.
Sales and Marketing
The company has relation ships with carriers, handset manufacturers, resellers, and content providers in North America.
Canadian Carriers: The company has a contract with the major Canadian carrier, Rogers Wireless, and in the proposal stage with two of the carriers in Canada. Rogers Wireless has launched its product as an application for Blackberry devices.
U.S. Carriers: The company has a distribution agreement with Alltel Wireless, a cellular carrier with approximately 10 million users.
Handango: The company has distributor relationship with Handango, an online reseller of applications for mobile devices. Handango sold its application to approximately 1,000 customers.
Strategic Alliances
The company has the following strategic relationships: Custom Weather, Sports Network, Maps.com, W3Data for 411 information, Hotels.com, StubHub.com, FlyteComm.com, Cinema-Source.com, Shopping.com, Astrology.com, Distributive Networks, Reuters, Mobile Streams, and Baseball-Reference.com.
Competition
The companys competitors include OnStar, telephone-carrier supported 411, Yahoo, Google, 4INFO, and Jump Tap.
History
AskMeNow Inc. was founded in 2004.
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1. ASKMENOW, INC. COMPANY PROFILE
1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History
2. ASKMENOW, INC. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units
3. ASKMENOW, INC. SWOT ANALYSIS
3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats
4. ASKMENOW, INC. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
4.1. Financial Statements
4.1.1. Income Statement
4.1.2. Balance Sheet
4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
4.2.1. Profitability
4.2.2. Margin Analysis
4.2.3. Asset Turnover
4.2.4. Credit Ratios
4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot
5. ASKMENOW, INC. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
5.1. AskMeNow, Inc. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of AskMeNow, Inc. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of AskMeNow, Inc. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. AskMeNow, Inc. Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Industry Snapshot
5.4.2. AskMeNow, Inc. Industry Position Analysis
6. ASKMENOW, INC. NEWS & EVENTS
6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events
7. ASKMENOW, INC. EXPERTS REVIEW1
7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions
8. ASKMENOW, INC. ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS2
9. UNITED STATES PESTEL ANALYSIS2
9.1. Political Factors
9.2. Economic Factors
9.3. Social Factors
9.4. Technological Factors
9.5. Environmental Factors
9.6. Legal Factors
10. ASKMENOW, INC. IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES2
10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix
11. ASKMENOW, INC. PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS2
12. ASKMENOW, INC. VRIO ANALYSIS2
APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS
LIST OF FIGURES
AskMeNow, Inc. Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Profit Margin Chart
Operating Margin Chart
Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Debt to Equity Chart
Current Ratio Chart
AskMeNow, Inc. 1-year Stock Charts
AskMeNow, Inc. 5-year Stock Charts
AskMeNow, Inc. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
AskMeNow, Inc. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
AskMeNow, Inc. Article Density Chart
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AskMeNow, Inc. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
AskMeNow, Inc. Key Executives
AskMeNow, Inc. Major Shareholders
AskMeNow, Inc. History
AskMeNow, Inc. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
AskMeNow, Inc. Offices and Representations
AskMeNow, Inc. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
AskMeNow, Inc. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
AskMeNow, Inc. Capital Market Snapshot
AskMeNow, Inc. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Industry Statistics
AskMeNow, Inc. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
AskMeNow, Inc. Consensus Recommendations1
Analyst Recommendation Summary1
Price Target Summary1
Experts Recommendation Trends1
Revenue Estimates Analysis1
Earnings Estimates Analysis1
Historical Surprises1
Revenue Estimates Trend1
Earnings Estimates Trend1
Revenue Revisions1
SWOT Analysis
SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.
Enhanced SWOT Analysis
Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:
- How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
- How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
- How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
- How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?
Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.
PESTEL Analysis
PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.
Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.
Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:
- Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
- Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
- Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
- Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
- Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
- Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?
IFE, EFE, IE Matrices
The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.
The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.
The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.
Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.
Porter Five Forces Analysis
The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:
- What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
- Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
- What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
- How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
- How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?
VRIO Analysis
VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:
- Tangible resources
- Financial
- Physical
- Technological
- Organizational
- Intangible resources
- Human
- Innovation and Creativity
- Reputation
- Organizational capabilities
The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:
- Valuable?
- Rare?
- Costly to imitate?
- Organized properly?
