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Profile - Touchstone Applied Sci. (OTC BB:TASA.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
4 Hardscrabble Heights, P.O. Box 382
Brewster, NY 10509
Phone: (845) 277-8100
Fax: (845) 277-3548
Email: info@tasa.com
Employees (last reported count): 172
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Schools
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 77%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 3 insider buys; 75.0K shares (4.0% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 0% (0% of float)
(one institution)
·Net Inst. Buying: 3,000  shares (+50.05%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Touchstone Applied Science Associates, Inc. serves the education market with assessment and instructional products. The Company serves three educational markets: educational assessment and evaluation, educational instruction, and educational delivery. The Company designs, develops, calibrates, publishes, markets and sells educational reading assessment tests to elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. It also provides consulting services to states, schools and textbook publishers. In addition, the Company designs, publishes and distributes affordable "consumable" student workbooks for grades Kindergarten through six, and creates and publishes books and pamphlets for elementary school teachers and parents.
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Financial Summary
TASA develops, publishes and distributes a proprietary line of reading tests specifically to meet clients' specifications to elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities nationwide. For the six months ended 4/30/01, net revenues rose 10% to $5.4 million. Net loss fell 43% to $475 thousand. Revenues reflect the internal growth of the Assessment division. Lower loss reflects decreased general, administrative and interest expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Andrew Simon, 58
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$248K
Denise Stefano, 37
CFO
125K
Peter Duhamel, 55
COO and VP
142K
Michael Beck, 54
VP
201K
Linda Straley, 44
VP-Operations, Sec.
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Oct-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:TASA.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 12-July-2001
$0.12 
Recent Price$0.48 
52-Week High
on 4-Oct-2000
$1.75 
Beta1.10 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)2,864 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)0 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-61.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-48.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.23M
Shares Outstanding2.56M
Float600.0K
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 1 for 4 on 5-Mar-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$2.29 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.30 
Earnings (mrq)$0.07 
Sales (ttm)$5.16 
Cash (mrq)$0.03 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.21 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.09 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$13.3M
EBITDA (ttm)$274.0K
Income available to common (ttm)-$766.0K
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-5.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)-5.0%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsOct 31
Most recent quarter30-Apr-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-4.70%
Return on Equity (ttm)-12.35%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.06 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.31 
Total Cash (mrq)$79.0K
Short Interest
As of 9-July-2001
Shares Short0 
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
4,000 
Daily Volume2,000 
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-Apr-2001)

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