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Profile - General DataComm Indus. (OTC BB:GDII.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Aug 28Price hit new 52-week low ($0.08)
Location
Park Road Extension
Middlebury, CT 06762
Phone: (203) 574-1118
Fax: (203) 758-9129
Email: christine.byrne@gdc.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,118
Financial Links
 ·Raw SEC Filings at sec.gov
Competitors:
 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Communications Equipment
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 30%
·Institutional: 23% (33% of float)
(38 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 1.50M shares (+25.56%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
General DataComm Industries, Inc. is a worldwide provider of wide area networking and telecommunications products and services. The Company is focused on providing multiservice provisioning solutions using ATM switching and multiservice access products. The Company designs, assembles, markets, installs and maintains products and services that enable telecommunications common carriers, corporations, and governments to build, improve and more cost-effectively manage their global telecommunications networks. The Company sells and leases its products primarily to corporations, governments and common carriers (telephone and cable companies) through its own worldwide sales and service organizations as well as original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, local distributor networks and value-added resellers.
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Financial Summary
General DataComm provides net-working and tele-communication products and services, with focuses on multi-service provisioning solutions using ATM switching and multiservice access products. For the six months ended 3/31/01, revenues fell 33% to $59.9 million. Net loss applicable to Common rose 83% to $28.7 million. Results reflect the negative conditions in the networking industry and the charges for the Company's restructuring activities.
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Officers
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Charles Johnson, 73
Chairman and CEO
$617K--  
Ross Belson, 64
Pres, COO
302K--  
William Henry, 51
CFO, VP-Fin.
180K$16K
P. John Woods, 52
Pres, VITAL Network Services, L.L.C.
189K65K
Frederick Cronin, 69
VP, Corp. Technology
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 30-Sep-2000 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 -- OTC BB:GDII.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 28-Aug-2001
$0.08 
Recent Price$0.36 
52-Week High
on 15-Sep-2000
$6.375
Beta1.25 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)96.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)173.0K
Stock Performance
52-Week Change-93.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-91.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$11.7M
Shares Outstanding32.4M
Float22.7M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 25-May-1984
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)-$0.21 
Earnings (ttm)-$1.79 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.48 
Sales (ttm)$4.84 
Cash (mrq)$0.02 
Valuation Ratios
Price/BookN/A 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.07 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$138.1M
EBITDA (ttm)-$30.0M
Income available to common (ttm)-$51.3M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-36.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)-29.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsSep 30
Most recent quarter31-Mar-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-39.17%
Return on Equity (ttm)-364.35%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.60 
Debt/EquityN/A 
Total Cash (mrq)$770.0K
Short Interest
As of 9-July-2001
Shares Short3.78M
Percent of Float16.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
3.91M
Short Ratio28.43 
Daily Volume133.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-Mar-2001)

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