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Profile - Digital Descriptor System (OTC BB:DDSI.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
446 Lincoln Highway
Fairless Hills, PA 19030
Phone: (267) 580-1075
Fax: (267) 580-1090
Email: contact_us@ddsi-cpc.com
Employees (last reported count): 20
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Software & Programming
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 13%
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Business Summary
Digital Descriptor Systems, Inc. (DDSI) develops, assembles and markets computer installations, consisting of hardware and software, that capture video and scanned images, digitize the image, link the digitized images to text and store the image and text on a computer database that allows for transmitting the image and text by computer or over telephone transmission lines to remote locations. The principal product of DDSI is the Compu-Capture Law Enforcement Program, which is marketed to law enforcement agencies and jail facilities. The program captures a video or scanned image (mug shot) of a subject that is stored by computer application, along with the booking record, physical description and other pertinent information about the subject.
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Financial Summary
Digital Descriptor develops, assembles and markets computer installations (hardware and software), which utilize imaging technology to capture video and scanned images, digitize the image, link the digitized images to text and store and retrieve text. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues fell 48% to $725 thousand. Net loss rose 45% to $1.3 million. Results reflect decreased sales of the SI-3000 product and increased administrative expenditures.
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Officers
FY1996 Pay

Garrett Cohn, 59
Pres, Chief Exec. Officer
$150K
Michael Pellegrino, 48
VP- Fin. and CFO
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Michael Ott, 44
VP of Sales, Sec.
119K
Vincent Moreno, 54
VP- Technology
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1996 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:DDSI.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 20-Dec-2000
$0.063
Recent Price$0.075
52-Week High
on 12-Jan-2001
$0.50 
Beta1.58 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)17.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)19.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-71.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-62.2%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.60M
Shares Outstanding21.3M
Float18.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)-$0.02 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.12 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.03 
Sales (ttm)$0.12 
Cash (mrq)$0.01 
Valuation Ratios
Price/BookN/A 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.64 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$2.35M
EBITDA (ttm)-$1.94M
Income available to common (ttm)-$2.43M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating Margin (ttm)-92.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-123.01%
Return on Equity (ttm)-2350.10%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.57 
Debt/EquityN/A 
Total Cash (mrq)$155.0K
Short Interest
As of 9-June-1997
Shares Short5,000 
Percent of Float0.4%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
0 
Short Ratio0.46 
Daily Volume11.0K
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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