Hughes Retail Preferred Tracking Stock (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Hughes Retail Preferred Tracking Stock

Schedule of carrying amounts of net assets transferred from DISH Network to EchoStar and HSS

	EchoStar(1)			HSS			Total
	(In thousands)
Cash	$	—		$	11,404		$	11,404
Property and equipment, net	349,243			82,837			432,080
Current liabilities	(3,479		)	(3,076		)	(6,555		)
Noncurrent liabilities	(30,121		)	(8,713		)	(38,834		)

Transferred net assets	$	315,643		$	82,452		$	398,095

(1)

All of the net assets received by EchoStar as part of the Satellite and Tracking Stock Transaction were immediately transferred to HSS and are being used by our EchoStar Satellite Services segment.

Schedule of net amounts credited to stockholders' equity

	EchoStar			Noncontrolling
	Stockholders			Interest			Total
	(In thousands)
Transferred net assets	$	315,643		$	82,452		$	398,095
Offering costs , net of tax	(2,302		)	(610		)	(2,912		)
Deferred income taxes	(114,525		)	(29,971		)	(144,496		)
Reallocation based on relative liquidation values	(35,300		)	35,300			—

Net increase in stockholders’ equity	$	163,516		$	87,171		$	250,687