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Profile - PictureTel Corporation (NasdaqNM:PCTL)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
100 Minuteman Road
Andover, MA 01810
Phone: (978) 292-5000
Fax: (978) 292-3300
Email: investor@pictel.com
Employees (last reported count): 820
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Communications Equipment
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 41%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 2.02M shares
  (8.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 44% (75% of float)
(98 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 3.92M shares (+14.23%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
PictureTel Corporation develops, manufactures and markets a full range of visual and audio collaboration solutions. Visual collaboration employs videoconferencing, video streaming and data collaboration technologies to facilitate meeting environments that may incorporate video, audio and real-time and archived multimedia data. PictureTel markets a complete line of videoconferencing systems, multi-location servers, peripheral equipment and a full suite of enterprise-wide services. PictureTel is organized into two business segments, videoconferencing products and videoconferencing services.
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Financial Summary
PictureTel develops, manufactures, markets and services visual communications and collaboration software that enables users to hold face-to-face meetings through a telephone. For the six months ended 6/30/01, total revenues fell 22% to $98.5 million. Net loss fell 73% to $16.7 million. Revenues reflect a decrease in personal/desktop system sales. Lower loss reflects lower operating expenses due to headcount reductions and on-going cost reduction efforts.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY1999 Pay

Norman Gaut, 62
Chairman, CEO
$377K
Lewis Jaffe
Pres, COO
--  
Dalton Edgecomb
CFO
--  
Ned Semonite
Exec. VP of Marketing
--  
Jon Kosheff
Exec. VP, Operations
--  
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1999 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 -- NasdaqNM:PCTLAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 4-Apr-2001
$1.75 
Recent Price$4.93 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$9.938
Beta1.41 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)537.6K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)525.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-46.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-28.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$263.4M
Shares Outstanding53.4M
Float31.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 15-Nov-1995
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.85 
Earnings (ttm)-$1.61 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.19 
Sales (ttm)$4.82 
Cash (mrq)$0.76 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)5.82 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.02 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$216.8M
EBITDA (ttm)-$60.0M
Income available to common (ttm)-$68.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-28.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)-33.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-36.13%
Return on Equity (ttm)-225.97%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.31 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.92 
Total Cash (mrq)$40.5M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short424.0K
Percent of Float1.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
548.0K
Short Ratio1.12 
Daily Volume380.0K
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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