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Profile - Ampersand Medical Corp. (OTC BB:AMPM.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
414 North Orleans Street, Suite 510
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: (312) 222-9550
Fax: (312) 222-9580
Email: info@ampersandmedical.com
Employees (last reported count): 22
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 ·Sector: Healthcare
 ·Industry: Medical Equipment & Supplies
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 62%
·Institutional: 0% (1% of float)
(one institution)
·Net Inst. Buying: 20.0K shares (+19.73%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Ampersand Medical Corp. is focused on the design, development and marketing of the InPath System (the System) of products, which are intended to detect, at the earliest possible stage, cancer and cancer-related diseases. The System may be used in a laboratory, clinic or doctor's office. The Company's subsidiary, Samba Technologies, Sarl (Samba), designs, develops and markets Web-enabled software-based systems for image analysis, image capture, and image transmission and management in clinical and industrial applications. Samba also is developing the software used in the System. At year-end 2000, all of the Company's reported revenue had been from the sale of Samba products and services. The Company operates primarily in an industry segment involving medical devices, diagnostics and supplies. All of the Company's operations during the year ended December 31, 2000 were conducted within this segment. The Company expects to continue to focus its operations on this industry segment.
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Financial Summary
Ampersand Medical Corp. is engaged in the design, development and marketing of instruments, disposables, and tests to provide Point of Care cancer screening. AMPM also designs, develops and markets software based systems to provide analysis of images on microscopic slides. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 29% to $697 thousand. Net loss applicable to common rose 81% to $6.9 million. Results reflect the sales of Samba products, offset by higher R&D expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Peter Gombrich, 63
Chairman, CEO of the Corp..
$310K
Leonard Prange
Pres, CFO, Chief Operating Officer, Sec.
224K
Michael Nelson
Sr. VP, Engineering
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Gregory Sachs
Sr. VP, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs
--  
Susan Keesee, Ph.D.
VP, Molecular Research
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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 -- OTC BB:AMPM.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 27-Nov-2000
$0.625
Recent Price$0.81 
52-Week High
on 19-Sep-2000
$3.375
Beta0.73 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)27.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)38.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-67.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-56.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$24.9M
Shares Outstanding30.7M
Float11.7M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.06 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.32 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.07 
Sales (ttm)$0.04 
Cash (mrq)0 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)12.96 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)19.63 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.25M
EBITDA (ttm)-$6.41M
Income available to common (ttm)-$9.68M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating MarginN/A 
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-138.26%
Return on Equity (ttm)-451.34%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.60 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.77 
Total Cash (mrq)$10.0K
Short Interest
Shares ShortN/A 
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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