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Profile - Volt Information Sciences (NYSE:VOL)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 31Price hit new 52-week low ($16.05)
Upcoming Events
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Location
560 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 704-2400
Fax: (212) 704-2417
Email: voltinvest@volt.com
Employees (last reported count): 40,000
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 ·S&P 600 SmallCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 46%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 6,000  shares
·Institutional: 35% (64% of float)
(147 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 1,000  shares
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Volt Information Sciences, Inc. operates staffing services, telecommunications and information solutions, and prepress publishing systems businesses through five operating segments. The Staffing Services segment provides a broad range of employee staffing services. The Telephone Directory segment publishes and licenses telephone directories and provides telephone directory production and related services. The Telecommunications Services Segment is an international, full-service provider of turnkey solutions to the telecommunications, cable and related industry. The Computer Systems segment provides directory assistance outsourcing services, directory assistance content, computer-based directory assistance systems and other database management solutions, and third party IT services. The Electronic Publication and Typesetting Systems Segment designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, markets, sells and services computerized imagesetting and publication systems equipment and software.
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Financial Summary
Volt Information Sciences operates in three major businesses, consisting of five operating segments: Staffing Services, Telephone Directory, Telecommunication Services, Computer Systems, and Electronic Publication and Typesetting Systems. For the six months ended 5/6/01, revenues rose 2% to $1.06 billion. Net income fell 91% to $1 million. Results reflect higher Staffing Services segment sales, offset by the development of new ProcureStaff services.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

William Shaw, 76
Pres, Chairman, and CEO
$386K$1.8M
Jerome Shaw, 74
Exec. VP, Sec., Director
386K--  
James Groberg, 72
Sr. VP and CFO
350K--  
Steven Shaw, 41
Sr. VP, Director
309K--  
Jack Egan, 51
VP, Corp. Accounting and CAO
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 29-Oct-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:VOLAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 31-Aug-2001
$16.05 
Recent Price$16.05 
52-Week High
on 6-Sep-2000
$35.063
Beta1.33 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)15.7K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)6,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-52.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-36.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$244.2M
Shares Outstanding15.2M
Float8.20M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 28-May-1997
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$17.42 
Earnings (ttm)$1.33 
Earnings (mrq)$0.19 
Sales (ttm)$145.44 
Cash (mrq*)$2.35 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)0.92 
Price/Earnings (ttm)12.09 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.11 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$2.23B
EBITDA (ttm*)$69.5M
Income available to common (ttm)$20.4M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)0.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)1.9%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsNov 3
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
6-May-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-Apr-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)2.82%
Return on Equity (ttm)7.92%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.44 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.57 
Total Cash (mrq)$35.7M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short57.0K
Percent of Float0.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
56.0K
Short Ratio3.56 
Daily Volume16.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-Apr-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 6-May-2001)

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