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Profile - Bitstream Inc. (NasdaqNM:BITS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
215 First Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 497-6222
Fax: (617) 868-0784
Employees (last reported count): 70
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 ·Industry: Software & Programming
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 32%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 4,000  shares (0.2% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 21% (30% of float)
(14 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 120.0K shares (+6.61%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Bitstream Inc. develops and markets software products and technologies to enhance the creation, transport, viewing and printing of electronic text-based information. The Company is composed of three separate and distinct businesses. Its type and technology business develops and licenses font technology and custom font designs to manufacturers of Internet appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, printers and personal digital assistants. Its e-commerce business (MyFonts.com) showcases the world's fonts in one easy-to-use e-commerce Website operated by Bitstream's wholly owned subsidiary, MyFonts.com, Inc. The third business is Pageflex, in which the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Pageflex, Inc., develops, markets and supports on-demand document composition solutions that automatically produce customized one-to-one marketing collateral, such as datasheets and brochures, directly from XML text and graphics data stored in Web servers and/or databases.
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Financial Summary
Bitstream Inc. develops and markets software products and technologies to enhance the creation, transport, viewing and printing of electronic text based information. BIT's products consist of type products, enabling technologies and TrueDoc, a portable type technology. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues fell 25% to $3.5 million. Net loss rose 36% to $2.2 million. Results reflect decreases in sales in the type and technology segments, and lower margins.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Charles Ying, 54
Chairman and CEO
$150K--  
Anna Chagnon, 34
Pres, COO, Chief Financial Officer, Gen. Counsel
197K--  
John Collins, 61
VP and CTO
145K$93K
Costas Kitsos, 40
VP of Engineering
156K--  
Sang Lee, 38
VP of Sales and Marketing, Pageflex, Inc.
--  --  
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.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:BITSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 3-Apr-2001
$1.375
Recent Price$3.75 
52-Week High
on 5-Sep-2000
$5.688
Beta0.92 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)37.3K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)27.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-25.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+0.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$30.8M
Shares Outstanding8.20M
Float5.60M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.99 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.47 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.12 
Sales (ttm)$0.99 
Cash (mrq)$0.81 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)3.78 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)3.78 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$7.83M
EBITDA (ttm)-$2.80M
Income available to common (ttm)-$3.72M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-47.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)-47.6%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-31.08%
Return on Equity (ttm)-37.55%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)3.44 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$6.55M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short0 
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
2,000 
Daily Volume45.0K
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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