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Profile - CIENA Corporation (NasdaqNM:CIEN)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 31Price hit new 52-week low ($16.90)
Aug 16Earnings Announcement
July 31Fiscal quarter ended
Location
1201 Winterson Road
Linthicum, MD 21090
Phone: (410) 865-8500
Fax: (410) 865-8600
Email: ir@ciena.com
Employees (last reported count): 2,775
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 ·Industry: Communications Equipment
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 8%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 19 insider sells; 534.0K shares
  (2.0% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 68% (73% of float)
(989 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 9.34M shares (+4.41%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
CIENA Corporation is engaged in the intelligent optical networking equipment market. CIENA offers a comprehensive portfolio of products for communications service providers worldwide. CIENA's customers include long-distance carriers, competitive and incumbent local exchange carriers, Internet service providers and wholesale carriers. CIENA offers optical transport and intelligent optical switching systems that enable service providers to provision, manage and deliver high-bandwidth services to their customers.
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Financial Summary
CIENA Corporation designs, manufactures and sells open architecture, DWDM systems for fiberoptic communications networks, optical networking solutions and access systems. For the nine months ended 7/31/01, revenues rose from $571.2 million to $1.24 billion. Net income fell 85% to $8.2 million. Revenues reflect an increase in the number of optical networking customers. Net income reflects the inclusion of a $45.9 million in-process R&D charge.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Patrick Nettles, Ph.D., 57
Chairman
$1.1M--  
Gary Smith, 40
Pres, CEO, Director
569K$9.9M
Joseph Chinnici, 46
Sr. VP-Fin. and CFO
376K17.2M
Stephen Alexander, 41
Sr. VP, CTO
--  --  
Michael McCarthy, III, 35
Sr. VP, Sec.
--  --  
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:CIENAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 31-Aug-2001
$16.90 
Recent Price$17.12 
52-Week High
on 20-Oct-2000
$151.00 
Beta1.57 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)19.0M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)22.4M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-85.1%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-80.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$5.60B
Shares Outstanding327.2M
Float301.0M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 19-Sep-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$11.90 
Earnings (ttm)$0.11 
Earnings (mrq)$0.02 
Sales (ttm)$4.84 
Cash (mrq)$4.27 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.44 
Price/Earnings (ttm)160.00 
Price/Sales (ttm)3.54 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.52B
EBITDA (ttm)$206.8M
Income available to common (ttm)$34.0M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)2.2%
Operating Margin (ttm)6.9%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsOct 31
Most recent quarter31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)1.29%
Return on Equity (ttm)1.67%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)8.52 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$1.40B
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short13.0M
Percent of Float4.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
14.0M
Short Ratio0.99 
Daily Volume13.1M
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)

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