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Profile - Vitesse Semiconductor (NasdaqNM:VTSS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 21Price hit new 52-week low ($13.07)
Location
741 Calle Plano
Camarillo, CA 93012
Phone: (805) 388-3700
Fax: (805) 388-7565
Email: invest@vitesse.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,105
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Semiconductors
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 16%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 3 insider sells; 90.0K shares
  (0.3% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 71% (84% of float)
(861 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 3.46M shares (+2.50%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. is a supplier of high-performance integrated circuits (ICs) principally targeted at systems manufacturers in the communications markets. The Company is also a supplier of ICs to other markets such as the automatic test equipment (ATE) market. The Company offers several products that address the needs of high-performance communications systems at the 622 Mb/s, 1.0 Gb/s, 1.25 Gb/s, 2.5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s data rates for the SONET, ATM, IP, Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet markets. Among the products offered in this area are multiplexers, demultiplexers, framers, switch cores, clock generation and recovery circuits, forward error correction circuits, laser drivers optoelectronic receivers and amplifiers. The Company's major customers include Alcatel, Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, LTX, Lucent, Nortel, Sycamore and Tellabs.
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Financial Summary
VTSS is a supplier of high-performance integrated circuits targeted at systems manufacturers in the communications and automatic test equipment markets. For the nine months ended 6/30/01, revenues increased 14% to $347 million. Net loss before extraordinary item totaled $59.7 million vs. income of $16.3 million. Revenues reflect growth in unit shipments of existing products and the introduction of new products. Net loss reflects a higher amortization of goodwill charge.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Pierre Lamond, 70
Chairman
--  --  
Louis Tomasetta, Ph.D., 52
Pres and CEO, Director
$682K$15.3M
Christopher Gardner, 40
COO, VP
317K1.8M
Eugene Hovanec, 48
VP, Fin. & CFO
477K5.0M
James Mikkelson, 52
VP, Technology Devel., CTO
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 30-Sep-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:VTSSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 21-Aug-2001
$13.07 
Recent Price$14.60 
52-Week High
on 6-Oct-2000
$93.25 
Beta2.52 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)6.12M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)5.12M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-83.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-77.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$2.78B
Shares Outstanding190.5M
Float160.0M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 21-Oct-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$6.51 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.26 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.41 
Sales (ttm)$2.67 
Cash (mrq)$2.42 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.24 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)5.46 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$485.0M
EBITDA (ttm)$25.2M
Income available to common (ttm)-$48.1M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-9.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)-12.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsSep 30
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-2.49%
Return on Equity (ttm)-4.17%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)7.28 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.54 
Total Cash (mrq)$454.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short4.88M
Percent of Float3.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
5.79M
Short Ratio0.94 
Daily Volume5.21M
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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