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Profile - ScanSoft, Inc. (NasdaqNM:SSFT)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
9 Centennial Drive
Peabody, MA 01960
Phone: (978) 977-2000
Fax: (978) 977-2057
Email: investor_relations@scansoft.com
Employees (last reported count): 245
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 ·Industry: Software & Programming
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 44%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 2 insider buys; 20.0K shares
·Institutional: 20% (36% of float)
(29 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 4.61M shares (+31.12%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
ScanSoft, Inc., incorporated as Visioneer, Inc. in March 1992, is a provider of digital imaging software products for retail, OEM and corporate markets. ScanSoft's products capture and convert paper documents and photos into digital documents and images, and enhance a user's ability to organize and share digital documents and images in the office, at home and on the Internet. Generally, ScanSoft's products are based on proprietary or patented optical character recognition (OCR) and/or image processing technologies designed to address the needs of a broad group of users ranging from consumers and small office to medium-sized businesses and large corporations.
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Financial Summary
ScanSoft is a developer of digital imaging software for the small office/home office markets. SSFT's products capture and convert paper documents and photographs into digital documents and images. For the six months ended 6/30/01, sales rose 30% to $27.9 million. Net loss fell 72% to $11.3 million. Sales reflect the acquisition of Caere on 3/13/99. Lower loss reflects the absence of a $18.3 million in-process research and development charges and higher margins.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Paul Ricci, 44
Chairman, CEO
$110K
Michael Tivnan, 48
Pres, COO, Director
330K
Richard Palmer, 50
CFO, Sr. VP
181K
Wayne Crandall, 42
Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing
249K
Ben Wittner, Ph.D., 43
Sr. VP of R&D
163K
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..
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:SSFTAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 29-Dec-2000
$0.375
Recent Price$1.57 
52-Week High
on 6-Sep-2000
$2.875
Beta2.63 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)73.1K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)59.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-39.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-18.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$79.9M
Shares Outstanding50.9M
Float28.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$1.50 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.53 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.09 
Sales (ttm)$1.19 
Cash (mrq)$0.16 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.05 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.32 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$55.5M
EBITDA (ttm)$3.55M
Income available to common (ttm)-$24.6M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-44.3%
Operating Margin (ttm)-42.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-22.13%
Return on Equity (ttm)-29.27%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.17 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$7.97M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short129.0K
Percent of Float0.5%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
128.0K
Short Ratio1.65 
Daily Volume78.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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