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Profile - Verity, Inc. (NasdaqNM:VRTY)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 10Price hit new 52-week low ($8.75)
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Location
894 Ross Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Phone: (408) 541-1500
Fax: (408) 960-7698
Email: info@verity.com
Employees (last reported count): 524
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Software & Programming
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 600 SmallCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 18%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 5 insider sells; 420.0K shares
  (6.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 84% (102% of float)
(336 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 1.12M shares (+3.62%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Verity, Inc. is engaged in powering business portals. These include corporate portals used for sharing information within an enterprise, e-commerce portals for online selling, and market exchange portals for Business-to-Business activities. Business portals provide personalized information to employees, partners, customers and suppliers. The Company's product suite enables organizations to turn corporate intranets and extranets into a powerful knowledge base or corporate portal, making business information accessible and reusable across the enterprise.
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Financial Summary
Verity Inc. develops, markets and supports knowledge retrieval software products for corporate internet and extranets, online publishers and e-commerce providers, OEMs and independent software vendors. For the fiscal year ended 5/31/01, revenues rose 51% to $145.0 million. Net income rose 2% to $33.8 million. Results reflect increased sales from the Company's portal solutions and enterprise application businesses, partially offset by increased staffing and personnel related expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Gary Sbona, 57
Chairman, CEO
$63K$9.2M
Anthony Bettencourt, III, 39
Pres, Director
421K3.0M
Todd Yamami, 33
CFO, VP
154K1.5M
Stephen Young, 51
COO
--  --  
Ashok Chandra, 51
Sr. VP of Devel. and New Bus. Activities
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 31-May-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:VRTYAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 10-Aug-2001
$8.75 
Recent Price$10.60 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$47.00 
Beta2.22 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)729.5K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)283.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-76.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-68.7%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$376.6M
Shares Outstanding35.5M
Float29.1M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 6-Dec-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$7.51 
Earnings (ttm)$0.92 
Earnings (mrq)$0.25 
Sales (ttm)$3.96 
Cash (mrq)$3.95 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.41 
Price/Earnings (ttm)11.51 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.68 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$145.0M
EBITDA (ttm)$44.8M
Income available to common (ttm)$33.8M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)23.3%
Operating Margin (ttm)29.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMay 31
Most recent quarter31-May-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)12.87%
Return on Equity (ttm)14.88%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)5.16 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$138.9M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short2.13M
Percent of Float7.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1.29M
Short Ratio2.86 
Daily Volume745.0K
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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