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Profile - Persistence Software (NasdaqNM:PRSW)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 23Price hit new 52-week low ($0.30)
Location
1720 South Amphlett Boulevard
Third Floor
San Mateo, CA 94402
Phone: (650) 372-3600
Fax: (650) 341-8432
Email: ir@persistence.com
Employees (last reported count): 152
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Software & Programming
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 45%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 4 insider buys; 35.0K shares (0.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 23% (42% of float)
(50 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 313.0K shares (+6.31%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Persistence Software, Inc is a provider of transactional application servers and dynamic Web-content acceleration servers, which is software that processes transactions between users and back-end computer systems in electronic commerce systems. By caching data, or moving information stored in back-end computer systems closer to users, the Company's software reduces network traffic, resulting in both better network performance and faster transaction processing. In addition, its PowerTier application servers implement Sun Microsystems' full Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard to enable businesses to deploy sophisticated Java applications, which readily scale or accommodate rapidly increasing numbers of users. Its Dynamai Web content accelerator improves the speed and scalability of electronic commerce Websites that rely heavily on dynamically generated content using technologies such as Java Server Pages and Active Server Pages.
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Financial Summary
Persistence Software is a provider of transactional application servers -software which processes transactions between users and back-end computer systems for electronic commerce systems. For the six months ended 6/30/01, total revenues fell 5% to $9.6 million. Net loss rose 14% to $11.4 million. Revenues reflect lower license revenue due to continued weakness in the technology sector. Loss also reflects increased amortization and reorganization expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Christopher Keene, 40
Chairman and CEO
$230K
Christine Russell, 51
CFO and Sec.
208K
Ed Murrer
Sr. VP of Marketing
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Mark Palmer, 51
Sr. VP, Worldwide Field Operations
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James Barton, 37
VP of Strategic Technology and CTO
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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..
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:PRSWAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 23-Aug-2001
$0.30 
Recent Price$0.35 
52-Week High
on 6-Sep-2000
$18.00 
Beta2.22 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)70.5K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)55.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-98.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-97.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$7.01M
Shares Outstanding20.0M
Float11.0M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.58 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.92 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.32 
Sales (ttm)$1.25 
Cash (mrq)$0.47 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.61 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.28 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$24.7M
EBITDA (ttm)-$14.1M
Income available to common (ttm)-$18.2M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-73.4%
Operating Margin (ttm)-76.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-61.34%
Return on Equity (ttm)-89.07%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.73 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.17 
Total Cash (mrq)$9.48M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short20.0K
Percent of Float0.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
24.0K
Short Ratio0.23 
Daily Volume89.0K
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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