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Profile - Westaim Corp. (NasdaqNM:WEDX)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
144-4th Ave., S.W. Suite 1010, Alberta
Calgary, T2P 3N4, Canada
Phone: (403) 237-7272
Fax: (403) 237-6565
Email: info@westaim.com
Employees (last reported count): 650
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Electronic Instruments & Controls
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 1%
·Institutional: 21% (21% of float)
(42 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 2.52M shares (+18.27%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Westaim Corporation is a technology accelerator that ensures its technology investments have the leadership, strategy, and capital to get into the marketplace as quickly as possible. Currently, Westaim has technology investments in the following three sectors of the economy: biomedical (Westaim Biomedical Corp.), semi-conductor/electronics (iFire Technology, Inc.), and e-business software (Savvion). Westaim also has two industrial technologies businesses, Surface Engineered Products Corp. and Aerospace Materials, and two industrial businesses that produce coin blanks and chemicals.
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Financial Summary
WEDX operates in two high technology businesses: iFre Technology, Westaim Biomedical; two industrial technology businesses: Surface Engineered Products and Aerospace Products; two industrial products businesses: Coinage and Chemicals. For the three months ended 3/31/01, revenues fell 37% to $21.1 million. Net loss from continuing operations totaled $8 million vs. an income of $1.5 million. Results reflect decreased sale of the Acticoat product and the absence of a $10.5 million minority sale.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 06/30/2001, revenues were 16,215; after tax earnings were 2,018. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers

Position
Ian DelaneyChairman
Kevin JenkinsPres, CEO, Director
G.A. FitchCFO, Exec. VP
Scott GillisPres, Westaim Biomedical Corp.
Michael GoldsteinPres, iFire Technology Inc.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:WEDXAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 22-Mar-2001
$4.438
Recent Price$4.74 
52-Week High
on 3-Oct-2000
$12.625
Daily Volume (3-month avg)3,909 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)5,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-61.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-48.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$368.4M
Shares Outstanding77.7M
Float76.9M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$3.44 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.37 
Earnings (mrq)$0.03 
Sales (ttm)$1.23 
Cash (mrq*)$1.69 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)1.38 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)3.87 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$92.0M
EBITDA (ttm*)-$20.6M
Income available to common (ttm)-$28.8M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-31.3%
Operating Margin (ttm)-27.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
31-Mar-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-9.25%
Return on Equity (ttm)-10.45%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)10.54 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$153.4M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short0 
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1,000 
Daily Volume3,000 
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 31-Mar-2001)

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