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Investments (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2020
Equity Method Investments, and Investments in Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract] |
Carrying Amount of Investments, By Category | The Company's investments consisted of the following:
|  | September 30, 2020 |  | March 31, 2020
|  | (Amounts in millions)
Investments in equity method investees |  | $ | 30.7 |  |  | $ | 34.3 |
Other investments(1) |  | 1.4 |  |  | 6.0 |
|  | $ | 32.1 |  |  | $ | 40.3 |
________________ (1)Includes investments in equity securities without readily determinable fair values of nil and $5.4 million at September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2020, respectively.
Summarized Balance Sheet | Summarized financial information for the Company's equity method investees on an aggregate basis is set forth below:
| September 30, 2020 |  | March 31, 2020
| (Amounts in millions)
Current assets | $ | 146.6 |  |  | $ | 138.3 |
Non-current assets | $ | 188.0 |  |  | $ | 162.0 |
Current liabilities | $ | 180.6 |  |  | $ | 167.3 |
Non-current liabilities | $ | 104.6 |  |  | $ | 102.2 |
Summarized Statement of Income |
| Three Months Ended |  | Six Months Ended
| September 30, |  | September 30,
| 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2020 |  | 2019
| (Amounts in millions)
Revenues | $ | 22.3 |  |  | $ | 47.0 |  |  | $ | 46.8 |  |  | $ | 77.2 |
Gross profit | $ | 7.1 |  |  | $ | 16.2 |  |  | $ | 13.8 |  |  | $ | 24.3 |
Net loss | $ | (16.1) |  |  | $ | (8.6) |  |  | $ | (33.8) |  |  | $ | (31.0) |
Gain (Loss) on Investments | The following table summarizes the components of the gain (loss) on investments:
| Three Months Ended |  | Six Months Ended
| September 30, |  | September 30,
| 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2020 |  | 2019
| (Amounts in millions)
Unrealized gains (losses) on equity securities held as of September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively | $ | 0.3 |  |  | $ | (0.4) |  |  | $ | 0.8 |  |  | $ | (0.3) |
Impairments of other investments(1) | (5.0) |  |  | — |  |  | (5.0) |  |  | — |
Gain on sale of other investments | — |  |  | — |  |  | 4.6 |  |  | — |
| $ | (4.7) |  |  | $ | (0.4) |  |  | $ | 0.4 |  |  | $ | (0.3) |
________________________ (1)Impairments of other investments represents impairments of equity securities without readily determinable fair values that were written down to their estimated fair value.

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