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Profile - Credence Systems Corp. (NasdaqNM:CMOS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 15Conference call: Credence Systems Earnings (Q3 2001)
Aug 15Earnings Announcement
Location
215 Fourier Avenue
Fremont, CA 94539
Phone: (510) 657-7400
Fax: (510) 623-2560
Email: investcmos@credence.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,213
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Semiconductors
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 400 MidCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 43%
·Institutional: 88% (155% of float)
(383 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 2.31M shares (+4.17%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Credence Systems Corporation designs, manufactures, sells and services automatic test equipment (ATE) used for testing semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs). The Company also develops, licenses and distributes related software products. Credence serves a broad spectrum of the semiconductor industry's testing needs through a wide range of products that test digital logic, mixed-signal, non-volatile memory and radio frequency semiconductors. The Company utilizes its proprietary technologies to design products that are intended to provide a lower total cost of ownership than many competing products currently available while meeting the increasingly demanding performance requirements of the ATE market. Its products are primarily designed to test semiconductors that are produced in high volume. Its customers include major semiconductor manufacturers as well as assembly and test services companies.
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Financial Summary
Credence Systems Corp. designs, manufactures, sells and services automatic test equipment used in the production of semiconductors. CMOS also develops, licenses and distributes related software products. For the six months ended 4/30/01, net sales fell 35% to $166.5 million. Net loss totaled $29 million vs. an income of $50.4 million. Results reflect a dramatic downturn in the semiconductor sector, a $45 million excess inventory charge and increased amortization.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 07/31/2001, revenues were 18,762; after tax earnings were -22,439. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Graham Siddall, 54
Chairman, CEO
$1.3M$985K
David Ranhoff, 44
Pres, COO
688K5.3M
John Detwiler, 39
CFO, Sr. VP, Sec.
--  --  
Dave O'Brien, 43
Sr. VP, CIO
--  --  
George DeGeer, 53
Sr. VP, of the Consumer Mixed Signal Bus. Line
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Oct-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 -- NasdaqNM:CMOSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 18-Oct-2000
$14.75 
Recent Price$16.88 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$60.688
Beta1.84 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)790.3K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)720.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-71.4%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-61.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.01B
Shares Outstanding59.9M
Float34.1M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 18-May-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$13.19 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.11 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.43 
Sales (ttm)$7.56 
Cash (mrq*)$2.60 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)1.28 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.23 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$405.4M
EBITDA (ttm*)$102.4M
Income available to common (ttm)-$2.39M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-0.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)13.8%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsOct 31
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
30-Apr-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-0.30%
Return on Equity (ttm)-0.35%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)4.79 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$98.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short2.45M
Percent of Float7.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
4.52M
Short Ratio2.75 
Daily Volume890.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-July-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 30-Apr-2001)

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