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Profile - Coherent, Inc. (NasdaqNM:COHR)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
5100 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone: (408) 764-4000
Fax: (408) 764-4800
Email: investor.relations@cohr.com
Employees (last reported count): 2,839
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 ·Industry: Semiconductors
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 600 SmallCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 31%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 3 insider sells; 97.0K shares
  (1.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 75% (109% of float)
(310 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 140.0K shares (+0.66%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Coherent, Inc. is a provider of photonics-based solutions to the commercial, scientific and telecom markets. Founded in 1966, Coherent sells products in over 80 countries and has 23 production, research and service facilities worldwide. Coherent provides its solutions to a broad base of commercial customers, including many Fortune 500 manufacturers, and scientific customers, including prestigious universities. In the commercial arena, Coherent products serve a wide range of manufacturing and instrumentation applications that include optical telecommunication, semiconductor manufacturing, inspection and test, advance packaging, reprographics, and a variety of precision instrumentation applications in the biotechnology and semiconductor processing industries. In the electro-optical scientific market, scientists use Coherent lasers to enhance their research efforts in such diverse fields as engineering, genetics, biology, chemistry and physics.
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Financial Summary
Coherent, Inc. is a global leader in the design, manufacture and sale of lasers, laser systems, precision optics and related accessories. For the 39 weeks ended 6/30/01, sales increased 32% to $363 million. Net income from continuing operations and before acct. change rose 53% to $27.7 million. Revenues reflect higher sales volumes in commercial solid state products. Earnings reflect higher interest, dividends and investments income due to secondary public offering.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Henry Gauthier, 60
Chairman
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Bernard Couillaud, Ph.D., 56
Pres, CEO, Director
$972K$768K
Robert Quillinan, 53
CFO, Exec. VP, Director
461K983K
John Ambroseo, Ph.D., 39
COO
630K1.1M
Kevin McCarthy, 44
Exec. VP, CIO
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Dollar amounts are as of 30-Sep-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:COHRAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 26-Oct-2000
$25.00 
Recent Price$35.40 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$81.063
Beta0.51 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)203.1K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)149.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-55.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-40.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.00B
Shares Outstanding28.3M
Float19.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 2-Mar-1998
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$21.84 
Earnings (ttm)$2.54 
Earnings (mrq)$0.23 
Sales (ttm)$18.05 
Cash (mrq)$13.81 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.62 
Price/Earnings (ttm)13.94 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.96 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$517.9M
EBITDA (ttm)$62.9M
Income available to common (ttm)$72.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)14.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)11.1%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsSep 30
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)10.45%
Return on Equity (ttm)15.28%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)4.80 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.15 
Total Cash (mrq)$390.8M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short835.0K
Percent of Float4.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
886.0K
Short Ratio5.35 
Daily Volume156.0K
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 30-June-2001)

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