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Profile - Mercury Interactive Corp. (NasdaqNM:MERQ)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 30Price hit new 52-week low ($25.80)
Location
1325 Borregas Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Phone: (408) 822-5200
Fax: (408) 523-9911
Email: annemarie@merc-int.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,418
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Software & Programming
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 23%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 3 insider sells; 100.0K shares
  (0.5% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 94% (123% of float)
(918 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 4.94M shares (+5.92%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Mercury Interactive Corporation is a provider of integrated performance management solutions that enable businesses to test and monitor their Web-based applications. Its software products and hosted services help Global 2000 companies enhance the user experience by improving the performance, availability, reliability and scalability of their Web-based applications. Its hosted services provide its customers a cost-effective solution that quickly meets business needs without dedicating significant time and internal resources. Its integrated performance management solutions enable customers to more quickly identify and correct problems before users experience them. Its hosted services provide outsourced load testing and Web performance monitoring services that complement its software products.
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Financial Summary
Mercury Interactive is a provider of integrated performance management solutions that enable businesses to test and monitor their Internet applications, helping to improve the performance, availability, reliability and scalability of Web sites. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 44% to $186.7 million. Net income rose 15% to $25.5 million. Results reflect an increase in services provided to customers, partially offset by increased amortization.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Amnon Landan, 42
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$1.1M--  
Sharlene Abrams, 43
CFO, VP of Fin. and Admin.
322K$7.8M
Kenneth Klein, 41
COO, Director
464K12.7M
Douglas Smith, 49
Exec. VP, Corp. Devel.
165K--  
Moshe Egert, 36
Pres of European Operations
320K8.5M
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-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:MERQAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 30-Aug-2001
$25.80 
Recent Price$27.01 
52-Week High
on 2-Oct-2000
$162.50 
Beta1.30 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)4.33M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)3.71M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-78.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-71.4%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$2.25B
Shares Outstanding83.2M
Float64.1M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 14-Feb-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$4.19 
Earnings (ttm)$0.74 
Earnings (mrq)$0.10 
Sales (ttm)$3.96 
Cash (mrq)$5.22 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)6.44 
Price/Earnings (ttm)36.60 
Price/Sales (ttm)6.82 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$363.7M
EBITDA (ttm)$72.7M
Income available to common (ttm)$68.0M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)18.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)18.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)7.90%
Return on Equity (ttm)22.99%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.84 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.43 
Total Cash (mrq)$434.3M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short3.85M
Percent of Float6.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
4.81M
Short Ratio0.84 
Daily Volume4.58M
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 30-June-2001)

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