Linktone Ltd. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

November 2024 | 50 pages | ID: LA35ABED7DABEN
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Abstracts

Linktone Ltd. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Linktone Ltd. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Linktone Ltd. position in the Communication Services Industry.

• The report contains detailed information about Linktone Ltd. 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 Linktone Ltd.. 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 Linktone Ltd. 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 Linktone Ltd. 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 Linktone Ltd. business.

About Linktone Ltd.

Linktone Ltd. provides telecom value-added services (VAS) and online casual game services to consumers and enterprises in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

TELECOMMUNICATION VALUE-ADDED SERVICES

The company provides entertainment-oriented telecom value-added services to mobile phone users over the 2G and 2.5G mobile telecommunications networks in China. It focuses on the development, aggregation, marketing and distribution of user wireless content and applications for access by China’s estimated 747million mobile phone users, primarily through 3 mobile network operators in China, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom. The company also provides certain audio-related services over the fixed line telecom networks in China. Its 2G SMS-based services include ringtones, icons and screen savers, interactive SMS messaging in certain television programs, adventure, action, trivia and fortune-telling games, lunar and Western horoscopes, POP Messaging, jokes, fan clubs, event-driven or entertainment news updates, and a virtual mobile amusement park called WonderWorld.

The company also offers 2.5G services, which include MMS, such as animated cartoons and screensavers, comic strips, magazine-style mobile articles on various topics and event-driven news updates. In addition, its 2.5G offerings include WAP services, such as WAP-based ringtones, screensavers, games and dating services, and Java games, or Java games.

In addition, the company offers audio-related services, such as ‘ringback,’ or ‘RB’ which replaces the common ‘ring-ring’ sound heard by callers with music and sound effects, and IVR services, which allow users to listen to songs, jokes, stories and coverage of major events. Users can send such audio content, along with personal messages, to the mobile phones of their friends or others.

SMS

Ringtones, Icons and Screen Savers: The company’s ringtone, icon and screen saver downloads enable mobile phone users to customize the ringtone of their phones and the image which appears on the phone screens.

The company offers approximately 5,000 ringtones which have been tailor-made for the Chinese market with monophonic, as well as polyphonic (which sounds more like real music than the traditional electronic ringing sounds of mobile phones) capabilities. The company also offers approximately 10,000 icons and screen savers which range in complexity from black-and-white images and monochrome color to color images.

Games: The company offers interactive SMS-based games that can be played on the screens of mobile phones. These games are tailored by its product development department to play on the dial pad of a mobile phone. The company’s game offerings include Endless Battle Space, Mobile Pet and Crystal Ball.

WonderWorld: For a monthly admission price, this service offers users access to a mobile amusement park where users take on a virtual identity, are able to interact with one another, and have access to various games, chat rooms, information and other entertaining services.

Information-related Services: The company offers various information-related services, including POP Messaging, which allows users to receive wireless messages containing information regarding one of various categories of topical information, such as fashion, health and beauty. Users can also receive automatic messages from the company on selected topics, such as jokes, news, and horoscopes.

MMS/WAP/Java

Ringtones, Icons and Screen Savers: The company’s MMS and WAP ringtones allow users to create their own customized ringtones. It also offers approximately 8,000 MMS and WAP color images and color animations.

Games: The company offers games based on the Java and Brew programming languages which offer a way to create 2.5G games. It has approximately 30 Java games available on China Mobile’s mobile network, including fantasy and adventure games such as Category 3 Mission in the Supernatural World, Monkey King Westward Journey, The Goddess Dancer, and Qijue Maken. The company also offers WAP-based card games and games of chance, such as blackjack, poker, and mahjong, as well as WAP-based versions of its SMS games.

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Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. LINKTONE LTD. 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. LINKTONE LTD. 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. LINKTONE LTD. SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. LINKTONE LTD. 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. LINKTONE LTD. COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. Linktone Ltd. Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of Linktone Ltd. and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of Linktone Ltd. and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. Linktone Ltd. Industry Analysis
5.4.1. Communication Services Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. Linktone Ltd. Industry Position Analysis

6. LINKTONE LTD. NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. LINKTONE LTD. EXPERTS REVIEW¹

7.1. Experts Consensus
7.2. Experts Revisions

8. LINKTONE LTD. ENHANCED SWOT ANALYSIS²

9. CHINA 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. LINKTONE LTD. IFE, EFE, IE MATRICES²

10.1. Internal Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.2. External Factor Evaluation Matrix
10.3. Internal External Matrix

11. LINKTONE LTD. PORTER FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS²

12. LINKTONE LTD. VRIO ANALYSIS²

APPENDIX: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF FIGURES

Linktone Ltd. 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
Linktone Ltd. 1-year Stock Charts
Linktone Ltd. 5-year Stock Charts
Linktone Ltd. vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Linktone Ltd. vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Linktone Ltd. Article Density Chart

1 – Data availability depends on company’s security policy.
2 – These sections are available only when you purchase a report with appropriate additional types of analyses.
The complete financial data is available for publicly traded companies.

List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

Linktone Ltd. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Linktone Ltd. Key Executives
Linktone Ltd. Major Shareholders
Linktone Ltd. History
Linktone Ltd. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Linktone Ltd. Offices and Representations
Linktone Ltd. 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
Linktone Ltd. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Linktone Ltd. Capital Market Snapshot
Linktone Ltd. 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
Communication Services Industry Statistics
Linktone Ltd. 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
Linktone Ltd. 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

ANALYSIS FEATURES

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:

1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
5. 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?