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Profile - WorldGate Communications (NasdaqNM:WGAT)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
3190 Tremont Avenue
Trevose, PA 19053
Phone: (215) 354-5100
Fax: (215) 354-1046
Email: jcrivelli@wgate.com
Employees (last reported count): 300
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Broadcasting & Cable TV
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 31%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 5 insider buys; 120.0K shares (1.7% of insider shares)
 · 3 insider sells; 30.0K shares
  (0.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 14% (20% of float)
(104 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 1.11M shares (+52.23%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
WorldGate Communications Inc. provides interactive television (ITV) products and services to the cable television industry. ITV is a rapidly growing sector of the cable television industry, with its focus on deploying services or applications to allow television viewers to interact with programs, advertisements and other content on their television sets. Viewers input information via wireless keyboards or other remote control devices. The Company offers its customers (cable operators who want to offer ITV applications to their subscribers) a wide array of ITV applications and related services and products. These include WorldGate Application Launcher Interface, Cableware 2000, WorldGate Service, and Channel HyperLinking.
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Financial Summary
WGAT provides a new TV-based Internet service enabling cable subscribers to access the Internet through their televisions and link from television programming and advertising to websites. For the six months ended 6/30/01, sales rose 72% to $8.9 million. Net loss fell 11% to $19.4 million. Results reflect subscriber growth from the commercial deployment of interactive TV products, partially offset by a loss on an unconsolidated entity.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Hal Krisbergh, 53
Chairman and CEO
$486K--  
Gerard Kunkel
Pres
--  --  
James Agnello, 47
CFO, VP
--  --  
Gerard Kunkel, 42
Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing
237K$212K
Joseph Augenbraun, 36
Sr. VP, Engineering
231K--  
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:WGATAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 18-May-2001
$2.25 
Recent Price$2.75 
52-Week High
on 15-Sep-2000
$26.625
Beta2.63 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)221.3K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)57.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-88.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-83.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$64.8M
Shares Outstanding23.6M
Float16.3M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$1.54 
Earnings (ttm)-$2.04 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.38 
Sales (ttm)$0.99 
Cash (mrq)$0.99 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.78 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.78 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$22.9M
EBITDA (ttm)-$45.8M
Income available to common (ttm)-$47.2M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating MarginN/A 
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-68.77%
Return on Equity (ttm)-86.89%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)3.44 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.03 
Total Cash (mrq)$23.4M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short923.0K
Percent of Float5.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
939.0K
Short Ratio13.78 
Daily Volume67.0K
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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