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Profile - Covista Communications (NasdaqNM:CVST)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
150 Clove Road, 8th Floor
Little Falls, NJ 07424
Phone: (973) 812-1100
Fax: (973) 812-0698
Email: investor-relations@covistacom.com
Employees (last reported count): 212
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Communications Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 78%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 3.24M shares (48.2% of insider shares)
 · 2 insider sells; 1.06M shares
  (15.8% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 2% (8% of float)
(15 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 43.0K shares (+27.39%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Covista Communications Inc. is a regional facilities-based long distance telecommunications and Internet service provider servicing both the commercial and wholesale marketplace. The Company's retail segment operates principally in the Northeast, primarily servicing small and medium-sized businesses. The Company's products and services include a broad range of voice, data and Internet solutions. The wholesale division provides domestic and international termination services to carriers worldwide at competitive rates. The Company currently owns and operates two long distance switches, in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. In addition, the Company currently owns and operates two carrier grade routers, a remote access server and an e-mail server located in New York City and Northern New Jersey for its Internet service offerings. Covista has a Network Operations Center in Northern New Jersey, to monitor and control its New Jersey network and to coordinate its various services.
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Financial Summary
CVST is a regional facilities-based long distance telecommunications provider servicing both the commercial and wholesale marketplace, and offering a broad range of voice, data and Internet services. For the three months ended 4/30/01, net sales fell 7% to $29.4 million. Net loss totaled $4.6 million, up from $1.5 million. Revenues reflect a decrease in retail minutes sold. Higher loss also reflects increased administrative costs and lower gross margins.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Henry Luken III, 40
Chairman
--  --  
A. John Leach, Jr., 38
Pres, CEO, Director
$225K--  
Thomas Gunning, 63
CFO, VP, Treasurer, Sec.
159K$58K
Kevin Alward
COO, Director
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Jan-2001 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:CVSTAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 27-Dec-2000
$0.625
Recent Price$5.30 
52-Week High
on 14-Sep-2000
$9.125
Beta-0.11 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)4,136 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)3,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-41.1%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-21.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$60.5M
Shares Outstanding11.4M
Float2.50M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 16-July-1998
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.71 
Earnings (ttm)-$1.53 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.56 
Sales (ttm)$17.31 
Cash (mrq)$0.40 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)7.42 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.31 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$130.9M
EBITDA (ttm)-$12.0M
Income available to common (ttm)-$11.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-8.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)-9.2%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJan 31
Most recent quarter30-Apr-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-28.40%
Return on Equity (ttm)-125.48%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.73 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.10 
Total Cash (mrq)$4.57M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1,000 
Percent of Float0.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1,000 
Short Ratio0.33 
Daily Volume3,000 
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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