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Profile - ADE Corporation (NasdaqNM:ADEX)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 30Conference call: ADE Earnings (Q1 2002)
Aug 29Earnings Announcement
Location
80 Wilson Way
Westwood, MA 02090
Phone: (781) 467-3500
Fax: (781) 467-0500
Email: jge@ade.com
Employees (last reported count): 613
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 ·Industry: Scientific & Technical Instr.
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 52%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 10.0K shares
  (0.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 49% (102% of float)
(71 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 170.0K shares (+2.50%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
ADE Corporation is engaged in the design, manufacture, marketing and service of production metrology and inspection systems for the semiconductor wafer, semiconductor device, data storage and optics manufacturing industries. The Company's systems analyze and report product quality at critical manufacturing process steps, sort wafers and disks, and provide manufacturers with quality certification data upon which they rely to manage processes and accept incoming material. Semiconductor wafer, device and data storage manufacturers use the Company's systems to improve yield and capital productivity. All metrology and inspection systems have the capability to record, print and store measurement data locally, as well as distribute the data via a network for yield and process management, offline analysis, and SEMI standard Silicon Wafer Order Form quality certification.
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Financial Summary
ADE Corporation is engaged in the design, marketing, manufacture and service of metrology and inspection systems for the semiconductor wafer manufacturing industry. For the fiscal year ended 4/30/01, revenues rose 60% to $100.2 million. Net income before accnt. change totalled $2.3 million vs. a loss of $20.4 million. Revenues reflect higher sales in all segments due to an increase in demand for capital equipment. Earnings also reflect improved utilization of direct labor.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 07/31/2001, revenues were 25,371; after tax earnings were -1,191. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Landon Clay, 74
Chairman
--  --  
Robert Abbe, 62
Pres, CEO
$238K--  
Brian James
CFO
--  --  
Chris Koliopoulos, Ph.D., 47
VP and Pres of ADE Phase Shift, Inc.
194K--  
A. Lum, 51
VP and Gen. Mang. of ADE Semiconductor Systems
244K$103K
Dollar amounts are as of 30-Apr-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:ADEXAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 11-Jan-2001
$10.438
Recent Price$11.94 
52-Week High
on 8-Nov-2000
$22.875
Beta0.64 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)19.9K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)10.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-46.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-28.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$162.4M
Shares Outstanding13.6M
Float6.50M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$7.72 
Earnings (ttm)$0.17 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.09 
Sales (ttm)$7.64 
Cash (mrq*)$2.30 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)1.55 
Price/Earnings (ttm)71.50 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.56 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$103.7M
EBITDA (ttm*)$7.01M
Income available to common (ttm)$2.31M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)1.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)1.2%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsApr 30
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
30-Apr-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)1.13%
Return on Equity (ttm)2.25%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)3.34 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.11 
Total Cash (mrq)$30.9M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short20.0K
Percent of Float0.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
39.0K
Short Ratio0.87 
Daily Volume23.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-July-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 30-Apr-2001)

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