LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) Debt-to-Equity : 1.67 (As of Jun. 2015)

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What is LookSmart Debt-to-Equity?

LookSmart's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €0.80 Mil. LookSmart's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €0.62 Mil. LookSmart's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €0.85 Mil. LookSmart's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 1.67.

A high debt to equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings as a result of the additional interest expense.

The historical rank and industry rank for LookSmart's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:LOKB' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0 Med: 0 Max: 0
Current: 1.67

FRA:LOKB's Debt-to-Equity is not ranked
in the Interactive Media industry.
Industry Median: 0.15 vs FRA:LOKB: 1.67

LookSmart Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

The historical data trend for LookSmart's Debt-to-Equity can be seen below:

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LookSmart Debt-to-Equity Chart

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0.07

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0.04

LookSmart Quarterly Data
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Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.02	0.01	0.04	0.53	1.67

Competitive Comparison of LookSmart's Debt-to-Equity

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, LookSmart's Debt-to-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-Equity data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

LookSmart's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, LookSmart's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where LookSmart's Debt-to-Equity falls into.

LookSmart Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

LookSmart's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(0.071	+	0)	/	1.96
	=	0.04

LookSmart's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(0.801	+	0.624)	/	0.854
	=	1.67

LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) Business Description

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LookSmart Ltd was organized in 1996 and is incorporated in the State of Delaware. The Company is a search advertising network solutions Company that provides relevant solutions for search advertising customers. It operates in a large online search advertising ecosystem serving ads that target user queries on partner sites. It operates in the middle of this ecosystem, acquiring search queries from a variety of sources and matching them with the keywords of its search advertising customers. The Companys largest category of customers has been intermediaries, the majority of which purchase clicks to sell into the affiliate networks of the large search engine providers. Another category of customers are direct advertisers and their agencies whose objective is to obtain conversions or sales from the clicks. The last category of customers is self-service advertisers that sign-up online and pays by credit card. It offers search advertising customers targeted, pay-per-click (PPC) search via a monitored search advertising distribution network using the Companys AdCenter platform technology. The Companys search advertising network includes publishers and search advertising customers, including intermediaries and direct advertising customers and their agencies as well as self-service customers in the United States and certain other countries. The Companys application programming interface (API) allows search advertising customers and their advertising agencies to connect any type of marketing or reporting software with minimal effort for easier access, management, and optimization of search advertising campaigns. It also offers publishers licensed private-label search advertiser network solutions based on its AdCenter platform technology (Publisher Solutions). Publisher Solutions consist of hosted auction-based ad serving with an ad backfill capability that allows publishers and portals to manage their advertiser relationships, distribution channels and accounts. The Companys trademarks include LookSmart. It is subject to a number of domestic state and federal laws that affect companies conducting business on the Internet.