NeuStar / NSR

About NeuStar

46000 Center Oak Plaza, Sterling, Va. 20166
www.neustar.biz | 571-434-5400 | Founded: 1996

Industry: Information Technology | Category: Public Companies

It was a big year for NeuStar. The company went public in June, raising $605 million in one of the better-performing local initial public stock offerings of the year.
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus, which brought NeuStar public after buying it from defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. in 1999, retained a stake in the business. Warburg, along with two other private equity firms that owned stakes in NeuStar, received all of the IPO proceeds.
In September, NeuStar won a contract to manage a database that eventually could allow more than 1.5 billion people to exchange e-mail, pictures and video on their mobile phones. Under an agreement with the GSM Association, a trade group, NeuStar will operate the databases that direct content for more than 680 GSM mobile-phone providers in about 210 countries. GSM, the Global System for Mobile Communications, is the most popular mobile-phone technology outside the United States and is used by U.S. carriers Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile.
NeuStar's shares got a big bump on Wall Street in February of this year, rising 4 percent after the company reported a threefold rise in fourth-quarter profit, to $13.8 million in 2005 from $4.2 million in 2004. For the year, NeuStar earned $55.4 million (72 cents per share) on revenue of $242.5 million. That was up from a profit of $45.4 million, or 57 cents per share, on revenue of $165 million in 2004.
In a conference call to discuss results, NeuStar chief executive Jeffrey E. Ganek said the performance was driven by strong demand for the company's services from Internet phone-calling providers, cable TV telephony providers and other new wireless players. "As long as these macro trends continue, customers' needs for NeuStar services will continue to grow," he said.

2005 Financial Data

Revenues: $242,469,000 | Net Income: $55,398,000
Asssets: $281,771,000 | Earnings Per Share: $0.72
Total employees: 509 | Local employees: 426