{"id":68328,"date":"2017-05-01T17:16:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-returns-to-growth-in-q1-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T17:16:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T09:16:59","slug":"ses-returns-to-growth-in-q1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-returns-to-growth-in-q1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Returns to Growth in Q1 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>In its financial results for the first quarter of 2017, <strong>SES <\/strong>announced revenue of&nbsp;540.6 million euros ($589.5 million), a 12.2 percent increase over the same period last year. Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization margin was 66.2 percent and operating profit margin 34.5 percent (versus 67.6<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>and 32.2 respectively for Q1 2016). Net profit attributable to shareholders increased 11.5 percent to 128.4 million euros ($140 million).<\/p>\n<p>In April, the board of directors approved a restructuring of SES\u2019 go-to-market organization model with the creation of two focused communities: SES Video and SES Networks.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest share of revenue came from the video division at 65 percent. As of March 31, the SES global fleet carried 7,610 total TV channels, which was 4 percent higher than March 31, 2016. SES\u2019s High-Definition (HD) TV channel count grew by 6 percent, year-on-year, to 2,496 channels, while the SES satellite network now also carries 22 commercial Ultra-HD channels.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, SES added seven additional U.S. cable operators to its Ultra-HD trials and launched the first commercial services with Highlands Cable Group and Marquette-Adams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its financial results for the first quarter of 2017, SES announced revenue of&nbsp;540.6 million euros ($589.5 million), a 12.2 percent increase over the same period last year. Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization margin was 66.2 percent and operating profit margin 34.5 percent (versus 67.6&nbsp;and 32.2 respectively for Q1 2016). Net profit attributable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}