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Profile - Star Scientific, Inc. (NasdaqNM:STSI)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
801 Liberty Way
Chester, VA 23836
Phone: (804) 530-0535
Email: webmaster@starscientific.com
Employees (last reported count): 180
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Tobacco
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 89%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 267.0K shares
  (0.5% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 1% (11% of float)
(35 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 126.0K shares (+14.64%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Star Scientific, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Star Tobacco & Pharmaceuticals, Inc. are engaged in: the development of scientific technology for the curing of StarCured tobacco so as to prevent, retard or significantly reduce the formation of carcinogenic toxins present in tobacco and tobacco smoke, primarily, the tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNAs); the development of tobacco products that deliver substantially less carcinogenic toxins, namely TSNAs, along with enlarged health warnings and comparative content information; the manufacture and sale of four discount cigarette brands, which currently contain only a small portion of its very low-TSNA StarCured tobacco; the development of very low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products, i.e., moist snuff and hard snuff tobacco, using the StarCured tobacco curing process to produce cured tobacco with very low levels of carcinogenic TSNAs; and the research and continued development of smoking cessation products.
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Financial Summary
STSI manufactures and sells tobacco products. STSI is also involved in the research and development of less harmful tobacco products and smoking cessation products. For the six months ended 6/30/01, net sales fell 9% to $81 million. Net income rose 37% to $5.1 million. Revenues reflect a decrease in sales of cigarettes. Earnings were offset by a decrease in marketing and distribution expenses attributable to a smaller sales force.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Paul Perito, 64
Chairman, Pres, COO
$1.9M
Jonnie Williams, 44
CEO, Director
2.7M
Christopher Miller, 42
CFO, Director
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Paul Lamb, lll, 68
Pres, CEO of ST&P
--  
David Dean, 41
VP of Sales and Marketing
383K
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 -- NasdaqNM:STSIAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 4-Apr-2001
$0.875
Recent Price$2.23 
52-Week High
on 30-Apr-2001
$4.80 
Beta115.67 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)37.2K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)34.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-44.2%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-25.2%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$133.2M
Shares Outstanding59.7M
Float6.60M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.51 
Earnings (ttm)$0.19 
Earnings (mrq)$0.04 
Sales (ttm)$3.53 
Cash (mrq)$0.04 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)4.35 
Price/Earnings (ttm)11.99 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.63 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$215.3M
EBITDA (ttm)$21.6M
Income available to common (ttm)$11.4M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)5.3%
Operating Margin (ttm)8.9%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)17.36%
Return on Equity (ttm)46.77%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.49 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.89 
Total Cash (mrq)$2.44M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short30.0K
Percent of Float0.5%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
30.0K
Short Ratio1.00 
Daily Volume30.0K
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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