comScore, which has been trying to put its financial house in order since accounting issues cropped up, said it has formed a special committed to do a long-term strategic review of the company.
The review process is being driven by Starboard Value LP, which owns 4.9% of comScore stock.
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comScore also said it has delayed reporting its financial results and plans to settle lawsuits against it for $27.2 million in cash, which would come from the company’s insurers, and $82.8 million in stock.
The media measurement company has not released financial statement since its accounting issues emerged. That has resulted in the comScore’s shares being delisted from public exchanges. The company said Monday its efforts to restate its earnings for 2015, 2106 and 2017 in March 2018 at the earliest. The company noted that it is also working on preparing its financial statements from 2017.
Earlier this year, the company said that the cost of the investigation and redoing its financial statements was about $30 million.
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“We regret the need to extend further the date for filing our restated financials and we share the frustration of our stockholders,” said CEO Gian Fulgoni. “However, to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the past four years of financial information we will be reporting and to ensure that we are also able to include audited financial statements for 2017, the Board has determined that additional time is needed. In the meantime, I firmly believe in comScore's future based on the compelling opportunities we see for organic growth within our existing and new products.
The financial irregularities came to light after comScore acquired Rentrak, a move that some saw as having the potential to make the new combined company a challenger to Nielsen, which dominates the media measurement industry.
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