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Profile - Lifeline Systems, Inc. (NasdaqNM:LIFE)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
111 Lawrence Street
Framingham, MA 01702
Phone: (508) 988-1000
Fax: (508) 988-1001
Email: info@lifelinesys.com
Employees (last reported count): 700
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Communications Equipment
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 76%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 7 insider sells; 31.0K shares
  (0.7% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 54% (221% of float)
(42 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 63.0K shares (+1.86%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Lifeline Systems, Inc. provides 24-hour personal response monitoring services to its subscribers, primarily elderly individuals with medical or age-related conditions as well as physically challenged individuals. These subscribers communicate with the Company through products it designs and markets, consisting principally of a communicator that connects to the telephone line in the subscriber's home and a personal help button, which is worn or carried by the individual subscriber and which, when activated, initiates a telephone call from the subscriber's communicator to the Company's central monitoring facilities. As of December 31, 2000, Lifeline was monitoring approximately 313,000 subscribers and estimates it serves, along with its customers, more than 400,000 subscribers in a North American personal emergency response services market estimated by the Company to serve between 550,000 and 600,000 subscribers as of December 31, 2000.
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Financial Summary
LIFE provides 24-hour personal response monitoring services to its subscribers, primarily elderly individuals with medical or age-related conditions as well as physically challenged individuals. For the six months ended 6/30/01, total revenues rose 18% to $45.7 million. Net income rose 28% to $2.5 million. Revenues reflect higher number of subscribers and increased prices. Earnings also reflect improved operating margin.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

L. Dennis Shapiro, 67
Chairman
--  --  
Ronald Feinstein, 55
Pres, CEO, Director
$406K--  
Dennis Hurley, 54
CFO, Sr. VP-Fin., Treasurer
187K--  
Richard Reich, 54
Sr. VP, CIO
213K$22K
Donald Strange, 54
Sr. VP of Sales
183K28K
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 -- NasdaqNM:LIFEAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 20-Sep-2000
$11.00 
Recent Price$19.34 
52-Week High
on 5-July-2001
$20.20 
Beta0.11 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)9,545 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)9,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+30.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+74.4%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$119.3M
Shares Outstanding6.17M
Float1.50M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 16-July-1991
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$7.70 
Earnings (ttm)$0.58 
Earnings (mrq)$0.21 
Sales (ttm)$14.12 
Cash (mrq)$0.88 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.51 
Price/Earnings (ttm)33.06 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.37 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$88.4M
EBITDA (ttm)$14.2M
Income available to common (ttm)$3.73M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)4.2%
Operating Margin (ttm)6.9%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)5.86%
Return on Equity (ttm)8.52%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.87 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.15 
Total Cash (mrq)$5.45M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1,000 
Percent of Float0.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1,000 
Short Ratio0.09 
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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