Echostar Net Income Falls in 2013; Transfers 80% of Hughes Consumer Business to Dish
Englewood, Colo., February 21-2014-- EchoStar Corporation today reported total revenue of US$ 808 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2013 compared to US$ 786 million for the corresponding period in 2012. Total revenue for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013 was US $3.282 billion compared to US $3.122 billion for the corresponding period in 2012. EchoStar reported net income attributable to EchoStar shareholders of US$ 4.5 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.05 for the quarter ended December 31, 2013, compared with net income attributable to EchoStar shareholders of US$ 26.2 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.28 during the corresponding period in 2012.
For the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013, net income attributable to EchoStar shareholders was US$ 2.5 million and diluted earnings per share was $0.03 compared to net income attributable to EchoStar shareholders of US$ 211 million and diluted earnings per share of $2.40 for the corresponding period in 2012.
EchoStar also announced that it has reached agreement with DISH Network Corporation for a strategic transaction, effective March 1, 2014. EchoStar and its subsidiaries will receive five satellites along with related liabilities for in-orbit incentive payments to the manufacturers of certain of those satellites, and approximately US$ 11 million in cash from DISH in exchange for two issues of preferred tracking stock. The Preferred Tracking Stock will track the residential retail satellite business of Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar, including certain operations, assets, and liabilities related to th business collectively, the “Hughes Retail Group” or “HRG”. As of December 31, 2013 the HRG had approximately 635,000 U.S. retail satellite broadband subscribers.
EchoStar and DISH have entered into a long-term operating lease agreement for transponder services to DISH on the satellites to be received by EchoStar and its subsidiaries.
The DISH owned satellites being transferred to EchoStar are EchoStar I, EchoStar VII, EchoStar X, EchoStar XI and EchoStar XIV. The satellites together have an estimated weighted average remaining useful life of approximately nine years. As a result, EchoStar’s owned and leased fleet will expand to a total of 17 satellites. EchoStar is expecting to generate approximately $145 million of incremental revenue from the new satellites in 2014.
DISH will receive Preferred Tracking Stock that represents 80% of the economic value of HRG, while EchoStar will retain the remaining 20% of the aggregate economics of HRG.
EchoStar will continue to own all assets associated with the delivery of its satellite broadband service including Spaceway 3 and EchoStar XVII, its high capacity, next-generation broadband satellite and will retain all of the economics associated with the provisioning and management of the satellite broadband service offering, including wholesale services, according to the company.
Echostar was spun out of DISH Network in 2008.
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