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Profile - Meade Instruments Corp. (NasdaqNM:MEAD)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
6001 Oak Canyon
Irvine, CA 92618
Phone: (949) 451-1450
Fax: (949) 451-1460
Employees (last reported count): 496
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Scientific & Technical Instr.
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 54%
·Institutional: 45% (98% of float)
(130 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 299.0K shares (+3.85%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Meade Instruments Corp. (Meade) is a multinational consumer optics company that designs, manufactures, imports and distributes telescopes, telescope accessories, binoculars and other optical products. Meade produces what it believes to be the broadest and most complete line of telescopes and telescope accessories available. The Company offers more than 50 different telescope models with several different optical configurations, as well as more than 250 accessory products. The Company's telescopes range in aperture from 2 to 16 inches and in retail price from less than $100 to more than $15,000. The Company also offers a complete line of binoculars from small aperture theater glasses to full-size waterproof models at retail price points from approximately $10 to more than $300.
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Financial Summary
Meade Instruments Corp. is a multinational consumer optics company that designs, manufactures, imports and distributes telescopes, telescope accessories, binoculars and other optical products. For the three months ended 5/31/01, revenues decreased 29% to $16.1 million. Net loss totalled $798 thousand vs. income of $1.4 million. Revenues reflect lower sales of less-expensive imported telescopes. Net loss also suffered from unrealized currency exchange losses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2001 Compensation
PayExer

John Diebel, Ph.D., 57
Chairman, CEO
$933K--  
Steven Murdock, 49
Pres, COO, Sec., Director
781K--  
Brent Christensen, 42
CFO, VP-Fin.
399K$547K
Joseph Gordon, Jr., 51
Sr. VP of North American Sales
424K--  
Mark Peterson, 39
VP, Gen. Counsel
419K614K
Dollar amounts are as of 28-Feb-2001 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:MEADAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 10-Apr-2001
$3.00 
Recent Price$5.31 
52-Week High
on 5-Sep-2000
$24.625
Beta2.87 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)31.1K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)16.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-78.4%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-71.1%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$87.5M
Shares Outstanding16.5M
Float7.60M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 20-June-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.01 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.07 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.05 
Sales (ttm)$7.56 
Cash (mrq)$0.12 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.76 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.70 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$116.4M
EBITDA (ttm)$3.32M
Income available to common (ttm)-$881.0K
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-0.8%
Operating Margin (ttm)1.1%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsFeb 28
Most recent quarter31-May-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-1.03%
Return on Equity (ttm)-1.78%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.57 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.36 
Total Cash (mrq)$1.99M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short618.0K
Percent of Float8.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
706.0K
Short Ratio28.09 
Daily Volume22.0K
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-May-2001)

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