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Profile - Qualstar Corporation (NasdaqNM:QBAK)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 31Price hit new 52-week low ($5.00)
Aug 23Conference call: Qualstar Corporation Q4/FYE Earnings
Aug 23Earnings Announcement
Location
3990-B Heritage Oak Court
Simi Valley, CA 93063
Phone: (805) 583-7744
Employees (last reported count): 95
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Computer Storage Devices
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 53%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 4 insider sells; 235.0K shares
  (3.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 21% (45% of float)
(19 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 168.0K shares (+5.99%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Qualstar Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and sells automated magnetic tape libraries used to store, retrieve and manage electronic data primarily in network computing environments. The Company's tape libraries provide storage solutions for organizations requiring backup, recovery and archival storage of critical electronic information. The Company's tape libraries also can provide near-online storage as an alternative to disk drives. The Company offers tape libraries for multiple tape drive technologies, including those using Advanced Intelligent Tape, DLT, and quarter inch cartridge tape drives and media. The Company recently announced tape libraries for the Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium tape drives and media.
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Financial Summary
Qualstar Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and sells automated magnetic tape libraries used to store, retrieve and manage electronic data primarily in network computing environments. For the nine months ended 3/31/01, revenues rose 16% to $40.5 million. Net income rose 8% to $6 million. Revenues reflect an increase in demand for existing tape library models. Earnings were partially offset by an increase in salaries and employee benefits.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 06/30/2001, revenues were 11,103; after tax earnings were 772. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

William Gervais, 57
Pres, CEO, Director
$191K--  
Matthew Natalizio, 45
CFO, VP
--  --  
Daniel Thorlakson, 57
VP-Operations
199K--  
Richard Nelson, 57
VP- Engineering, Sec., Director
157K--  
Robert Covey, 52
VP of Marketing
172K$490K
Dollar amounts are as of 30-June-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 -- NasdaqNM:QBAKAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 31-Aug-2001
$5.00 
Recent Price$5.00 
52-Week High
on 20-Oct-2000
$16.00 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)14.1K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)15.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-61.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-48.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$63.0M
Shares Outstanding12.6M
Float5.90M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$3.47 
Earnings (ttm)$0.53 
Earnings (mrq)$0.06 
Sales (ttm)$4.05 
Cash (mrq*)$1.97 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)1.44 
Price/Earnings (ttm)9.43 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.23 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$51.6M
EBITDA (ttm*)$12.5M
Income available to common (ttm)$6.73M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)13.0%
Operating Margin (ttm)22.6%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJune 30
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
31-Mar-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)15.63%
Return on Equity (ttm)16.75%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)35.87 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$27.1M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short3,000 
Percent of Float0.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
3,000 
Short Ratio0.19 
Daily Volume16.0K
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, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 31-Mar-2001)

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