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Profile - Artificial Life, Inc. (OTC BB:ALIF.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 14Earnings Announcement
Location
885 Third Ave. Suite 2921
New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 829-4386
Fax: (212) 829-4335
Email: rp@artificial-life.com
Employees (last reported count): 275
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Software & Programming
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 62%
·Institutional: 1% (2% of float)
(9 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 25.0K shares (+61.01%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Artificial Life, Inc. develops, markets and supports "intelligent" software robots (bots). The Company's bots, known as "SmartBots," are software programs that it is developing to automate and simplify business-related Internet functions such as Web navigation, direct sales and marketing, e-mail automation, user profiling, knowledge management, sales response and call center automation, electronic customer relationship management and wealth planning and portfolio management. The Company is also developing products for applications in data mining, statistical analysis and customer service to support the functionality of the SmartBot products. The Company announced that it has shut down its operations in Russia and that its German and Swiss subsidiaries will file for bankruptcy protection. The Company has also laid off almost all of its global and United States staff. Global expenses have been cut back over 80%. The Company has also entered into merger talks with certain companies.
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Financial Summary
ALIF develops, markets, and supports intelligent software robots (bots) that are used to automate and simplify time-consuming and complex business-related Internet functions. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues decreased 61% to $1.7 million. Net loss increased 25% to $7.4 million. Revenues suffered from the downturn in the global Internet markets and the negative business climate. Net loss reflects the Company's global cost cutting program and downsizing.
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Officers
FY1999 Pay

Eberhard Schoneburg, 43
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$264K
Robert Pantano, 39
CFO
122K
Frank Namyslik
COO, Director
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Marcus Hilka
VP-R&D
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Richard Bonn
CIO
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1999 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:ALIF.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 7-June-2001
$0.30 
Recent Price$0.57 
52-Week High
on 5-Sep-2000
$19.188
Beta1.10 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)19.1K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)6,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-96.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-95.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$6.12M
Shares Outstanding10.7M
Float4.10M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)-$0.25 
Earnings (ttm)-$1.37 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.32 
Sales (ttm)$0.95 
Cash (mrq)$0.00 
Valuation Ratios
Price/BookN/A 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.60 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$9.82M
EBITDA (ttm)-$11.3M
Income available to common (ttm)-$14.1M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating MarginN/A 
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-192.43%
Return on Equity (ttm)-365.67%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.03 
Debt/EquityN/A 
Total Cash (mrq)$30.0K
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short38.0K
Percent of Float0.9%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
35.0K
Short Ratio2.71 
Daily Volume14.0K
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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