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Profile - Digital Lightwave, Inc. (NasdaqNM:DIGL)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 21Price hit new 52-week low ($12.75)
Location
15550 Lightwave Drive
Clearwater, FL 33760
Phone: (727) 442-6677
Fax: (727) 442-5660
Email: ir@lightwave.com
Employees (last reported count): 181
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 ·Industry: Communications Equipment
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 60%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 7 insider sells; 310.0K shares
  (1.6% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 49% (122% of float)
(255 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 3.44M shares (+18.59%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Digital Lightwave, Inc. designs, develops and markets a portfolio of portable and embedded products and technologies for monitoring, maintaining and installing fiber-optic circuits and managing fiber-optic networks. Network operators and other communications service providers use fiber optics to provide increased network bandwidth to transmit voice traffic, as well as other non-voice traffic such as Internet, data and multimedia video transmissions. Through its products, the Company provides communications service providers and equipment manufacturers with capabilities to cost-effectively deploy and manage fiber-optic networks to address the demand for bandwidth. The Company's family of products is organized into two product lines, Network Information Computers and Network Access Agents.
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Financial Summary
Digital Lightwave, Inc. designs, develops, markets and supports diagnostic products for monitoring, maintaining and managing fiberoptic telecommunications networks and transmission equipment. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues increased 70% to $68.9 million. Net income totaled $22.3 million, up from $10.4 million. Revenues reflect increased shipments of units due to higher customer demand. Earnings also reflect more efficient production methods.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY1999 Compensation
PayExer

Gerry Chastelet, 53
Chairman, Pres and CEO
$3.3M$2.9M
Steven Grant, 40
Exec. VP- Fin., CFO and Sec.
2.1M1.9M
George Matz, 50
Exec. VP, Global Sales
2.3M2.0M
Ali Haider, 49
Sr. VP, Engineering
823K646K
Joe Fuchs, 49
VP- Quality Management
426K270K
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1999 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:DIGLAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 21-Aug-2001
$12.75 
Recent Price$14.75 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$93.984
Beta3.61 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)1.82M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1.90M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-83.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-77.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$458.6M
Shares Outstanding31.1M
Float12.4M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.15 
Earnings (ttm)$1.34 
Earnings (mrq)$0.28 
Sales (ttm)$3.98 
Cash (mrq)$1.46 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)4.69 
Price/Earnings (ttm)11.04 
Price/Sales (ttm)3.71 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$128.9M
EBITDA (ttm)$50.2M
Income available to common (ttm)$43.3M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)33.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)36.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)54.35%
Return on Equity (ttm)62.75%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)11.86 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.01 
Total Cash (mrq)$45.4M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short3.75M
Percent of Float30.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
3.31M
Short Ratio2.09 
Daily Volume1.79M
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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