Students competing in the CFA Institute Research Challenge. Date 01.26.2011 Ticker: ● NASDAQ: CSTR Price: ● $47.33 Coinstar, Inc. Recommendation: ● BUY Price Target: ● $67.34 Highlights We initiate coverage on Coinstar, Inc. with a BUY rating. Our 12-month target price is $67.34, which implies a 47.28% upside from today’s share price of $47.33 1 . Coinstar is scheduled to announce earnings after the market closes February 6, 2012. We expect management to report 4Q revenues of $476
Abstract In 1991 Coinstar was founded by Jens Molbak along with two of his Stanford classmates. Eleven years later, Coinstar had 10,000 coin counting machines in operation around the country. In 2005 Coinstar entered a joint venture with McDonald’s. Redbox was established as a separate corporation. Coinstar completed the purchase of Redbox in 2009. By 2012, Coinstar had over 35,400 Redbox kiosks in operation throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Coinstar has experienced exponential
CoinStar, Inc Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2012 Anthony Baker Strayer University Accounting 100 ACC100 Professor Sondra Smith December 15, 2013 CoinStar, Inc. Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2012 CoinStar Inc., renamed Outerwall, Inc. in July 2013, is a leading provider of automated retail products. Redbox movie and game kiosks and CoinStar coin counting kiosks headline Outerwalls’ automated retail products and services but other venues, such as coffee kiosks and electronic device recycling
convenience stores, and fast food restaurants. The company announced in February 2012 it will set up a few hundred kiosks in Canada in the coming months to aid in its decision on whether to jump fully into the Canadian market.[3] A subsidiary of Coinstar Inc., Redbox had 34.5% market share of discs rented, as of Q2 2011, as stated by the NPD Group.[4] Contents * 1 History * 2 Kiosk design and operation * 3 Movie studio lawsuits * 4 See also * 5 References * 6 External links | History
Redbox Case Study Redbox’s Strategy Main Elements of Redbox Strategy includes: * Attract customers with a combination of low price and convenience (strong focus on customer experience) * $1.00 per day rental price is considerably cheaper than the $4.50 rental fee charged by many movie rental outlets * The location and convenience of Redbox DVDs has considerable appeal; an estimated 150 million people per week walk within 10 feet of one of Redbox’s nearly 20,000 locations
Puerto Rico Cohort 6 Business Strategy Assignment Prof. Logan By: Jessica Oliveras May 5, 2012 REDBOX POINT The Redbox’s Strategy in the Movie Rental Industry case describes how successful REDBOX has been by being the leading company in self-serve DVD rental business. They strategically placed kiosks where the customers where shopping regularly. This enable them to obtain $263MM in revenues (includes DVDXpress)
Generation “Y” Consumed Many people tend to agree that teenagers are not the most responsible consumers. With that statement being made, the majority of those people are correct. Teens make a huge contribution to Washington’s economy, and, in 2006, it was recorded that nationwide teens spent $179 billion dollars (Tengtio). After all, this age cohort is one of the most sought after market segments for both researchers and marketing practitioners. People can understand why, with the billions
Verizon SWOT Analysis Introduction Verizon Communications Inc. as it is known today is one of the largest mobile providers in the world and came about in 2000 from a merger between two telecommunications giants, GTE and Bell Atlantic. Both companies had strong histories with mergers and acquisitions, and this merger was amongst the largest in business history. GTE had revenues of around $25 billion, and Bell Atlantic had revenues of nearly$33 billion, making the newly formed corporation
Netflix Introduction Founded in 1997 by its current CEO, Reed Hastings, in 2009, Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) was the world’s largest online subscription-based DVD rental company based in Los Gatos, CA. It offered its 10 million customers an access to more than 100,000 DVD titles in more than 200 genres. Starting at $9.99 per month, different price levels were currently offered by Netflix, each which allows its subscribers to possess different amount at a time with no late fees. (Netflix, 2009)
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