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Profile - Vita Food Products, Inc. (AMEX:VSF)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
2222 West Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 738-4500
Fax: (312) 738-6215
Employees (last reported count): 102
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Food Processing
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 57%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 2 insider buys; 2,000  shares
·Institutional: 0% (1% of float)
(2 institutions)
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Business Summary
Vita Food Products, Inc. has been engaged in the sale of specialty food products under the VITA brand name for over 70 years. The Company is a processor of herring products, and cured and smoked salmon products in the United States. The Company's products include a variety of cuts of pickled herring in cream and wine based sauces, and lox and nova salmon. The Company markets other complementary specialty food products, such as cream cheese with salmon, shrimp cocktail, horseradish products, and cocktail and tartar sauces, that it purchases from third party food producers and markets under the VITA brand name pursuant to co-packing arrangements. The Company markets and, in some cases, produces related specialty food products under other brand names, some of which are recognized regional brand names, in certain regions of the United States, which have been licensed to the Company.
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Financial Summary
Vita Food Products processes and sells various herring, and cured and smoked salmon products. VSF also sells other complementary specialty food products. For the six months ended 6/30/01, sales rose 2% to $11.2 million. Net income totaled 112 thousand vs. a loss of $67 thousand. Revenues reflect increased sales of salmon and herring products. Earnings also benefitted from lower expenses for advertising and incentive deals and decreased interest expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Stephen Rubin, 61
Chairman, Pres
$256K
Clark Feldman, 66
Exec. VP, Sec., Director
256K
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 -- AMEX:VSFAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 2-Jan-2001
$1.125
Recent Price$2.51 
52-Week High
on 9-May-2001
$3.00 
Beta-0.34 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)1,227 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)0 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+67.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+124.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$9.35M
Shares Outstanding3.73M
Float1.60M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.91 
Earnings (ttm)$0.25 
Earnings (mrq)$0.01 
Sales (ttm)$6.86 
Cash (mrq)$0.03 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.77 
Price/Earnings (ttm)10.04 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.37 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$25.4M
EBITDA (ttm)$1.75M
Income available to common (ttm)$902.0K
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)3.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)5.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)8.92%
Return on Equity (ttm)30.42%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.79 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.35 
Total Cash (mrq)$102.0K
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short5,000 
Percent of Float0.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
5,000 
Daily Volume0 
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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