viacom inc-class a (VIA:NASDAQ GS)
viacom inc-class a (VIA) Snapshot
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Open
$69.61
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Previous Close
$68.89
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Day High
$69.61
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Day Low
$68.44
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52 Week High
05/22/13 - $71.58
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52 Week Low
08/3/12 - $47.02
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Market Cap
32.7B
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Average Volume 10 Days
19.2K
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EPS TTM
$4.03
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Shares Outstanding
51.2M
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EX-Date
06/12/13
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P/E TM
17.1x
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Dividend
$1.20
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Dividend Yield
1.64%
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viacom inc-class a (VIA) Details
Viacom Inc. operates as an entertainment content company in the United States and internationally. The company connects with audiences through compelling content on television, motion picture, online, and mobile platforms. It operates in two segments, Media Networks and Filmed Entertainment. The Media Networks segment provides entertainment content and related branded products to advertisers, content distributors, and retailers in various distribution platforms, such as television, online, and mobile devices, as well as through consumer products. It operates approximately 200 TV channels, and digital and mobile TV properties, which include MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, BET, CENTRIC, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, Nick at Nite, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, SPIKE, Tr3s, Paramount Channel, VIVA, and others, as well as a casual games business that includes Web sites, such as AddictingGames.com and Shockwave.com. In addition, this segment operates BET Networks, which provide entertainment, music, news, and public affairs programming to the African-American audience; and BET channel, CENTRIC, BET Gospel, and BET Hip Hop, as well as BET.com, an online destination that offers content and interactive features for news, music, community, culture, and other areas to African-Americans. The Filmed Entertainment segment produces, finances, and distributes motion pictures and other entertainment content under the Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Insurge Pictures, MTV Films, and Nickelodeon Movies brands. It also acquires films for distribution, as well as distributes motion pictures and other entertainment content on DVD and Blu-ray, video-on-demand, subscription video-on-demand, pay and basic cable television, broadcast television, and syndicated television platforms. This segment has a library of approximately 3,300 motion pictures and television programs. The company is headquartered in New York, New York. Viacom, Inc. (NasdaqGS:VIAB) operates independently of CBS Corporation as of December 31, 2005.
Last Reported Date: 11/15/12
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Viacom Inc. is offering to exchange all outstanding unregistered 4.375% senior debentures due 2043 for virtually identical registered debentures. The expiration date of the offer was not disclosed. The company will not receive any proceeds from the issuance of exchange senior debentures. Global Bondholder Services Corp. is the exchange agent and information agent for the exchange offer.
Amazon.com, Inc. and Viacom Inc. announced an expanded multi-year, multi-national digital video licensing agreement to bring hundreds of TV shows and thousands of TV episodes from Viacom to Prime Instant Video. This deal includes a collection of TV shows that customers won't find on any other digital video subscription service. Prime members will now have unlimited instant streaming access to popular kids programming such as Bubble Guppies, The Backyardigans, Team Umizoomi, Blue's Clues and Victorious, along with top-rated shows from MTV and COMEDY CENTRAL like Awkward, Tosh.0 and Workaholics. Prime members will also have access to future episodes of Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, Fairly Odd Parents, Fresh Beat Band and more. LOVEFiLM customers in the UK and Germany will get some of the same great shows later this summer. Select shows from Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. will be available in Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, a service built just for kids that gives them the freedom to explore all their favorite books, games, educational apps, movies and TV shows, while providing parents with the tools they need to manage their kids' screen time.
Viacom, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has approved an increase in its quarterly dividend to $0.30 per share of Class A and B common stock from $0.275 per share. The increase will take effect beginning with Viacom's next quarterly dividend, payable on July 1, 2013 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 14, 2013.
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Industry Average
| Valuation | VIA | Industry Range |
| Price/Earnings | 16.4x |
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| Price/Sales | 2.5x |
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| Price/Book | 4.8x |
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| Price/Cash Flow | 12.4x |
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| TEV/Sales | 1.5x |
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