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Profile - Symbol Technologies (NYSE:SBL)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
July 25Price hit new 52-week low ($11.60)
July 26Conference call: Symbol Technologies Earnings (Q2 2001)
Upcoming Events
Oct  5Dividend payment of $0.01
Location
One Symbol Plaza
Holtsville, NY 11742
Phone: (631) 738-2400
Fax: (631) 738-4704
Employees (last reported count): 6,000
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Computer Peripherals
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 49%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 5,000  shares
 · 2 insider sells; 788.0K shares
  (0.7% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 82% (161% of float)
(635 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 28.2M shares (+17.78%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Symbol Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, sells and services scanner-integrated mobile and wireless information management systems that consist of mobile computing devices, wireless local area networks (WLAN), bar code reading devices, network appliance devices, peripheral devices, software and programming tools. The Company's systems are designed to provide solutions to customer-specific needs in information transactions. They are used in a variety of applications, from collecting information at remote locations and transmitting information between these locations and the user's central data processing facility, to facilitating e-commerce transactions by accessing and collecting price and product information at the point of activity for storing or placing orders via the Internet. Several Symbol devices also connect wirelessly to WANs.
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Financial Summary
Symbol Technologies, Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture marketing and servicing of scanner integrated mobile and wireless information management systems. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues increased 20% to $790.4 million. Net loss totaled $31.7 million vs. an income of $67.9 million. Revenues reflect increased sales of scanner products. Loss reflects a $110 million charge for the writedown of the Company's radio frequency infrastructure.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Jerome Swartz, 60
Chairman and Chief Scientist
$2.1M$4.2M
Tomo Razmilovic, 58
Pres, CEO, Director
2.1M10.8M
Raymond Martino, 62
Vice Chairman, Director
--  --  
Leonard Goldner, 53
Exec. VP, Gen. Counsel
733K9.3M
Kenneth Jaeggi, 55
Sr. VP-Fin., CFO
743K11.9M
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 -- NYSE:SBLAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 25-July-2001
$11.60 
Recent Price$13.50 
52-Week High
on 6-Mar-2001
$37.333
Beta1.09 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)1.74M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)832.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-51.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-35.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$3.07B
Shares Outstanding227.6M
Float116.1M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.02 
Dividend Yield0.15%
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 17-Apr-2001
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$5.26 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.80 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.27 
Sales (ttm)$7.04 
Cash (mrq)$0.31 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.57 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.92 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.58B
EBITDA (ttm)-$208.9M
Income available to common (ttm)-$168.5M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-10.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)-14.0%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-9.49%
Return on Equity (ttm)-15.78%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.85 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.33 
Total Cash (mrq)$71.3M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short8.03M
Percent of Float6.9%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
11.7M
Short Ratio2.73 
Daily Volume2.94M
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