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Profile - Vital Signs, Inc. (NasdaqNM:VITL)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug  9Earnings Announcement
Aug  7Dividend payment of $0.04
Location
20 Campus Road
Totowa, NJ 07512
Phone: (973) 790-1330
Fax: (973) 790-3307
Email: kstone@vital-signs.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,124
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 ·Sector: Healthcare
 ·Industry: Medical Equipment & Supplies
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 600 SmallCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 65%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 3 insider sells; 121.0K shares
  (1.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 39% (111% of float)
(164 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 321.0K shares (+6.04%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Vital Signs, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets single-patient use medical products for the anesthesia, respiratory, critical care, sleep therapy and emergency markets. The Company's products include, among others, face masks, a variety of single-patient use anesthesia breathing circuits, customized anesthesia kits, fiberoptic laryngoscope system, manual resuscitators, blood pressure cuffs, heated humidification systems, continuous positive airway pressure systems and other respiratory and critical care products. With the acquisition of Breas Medical AB in 1999 and National Sleep Technologies, Inc. in 2000, Vital Signs' product focus has been expanded into the sleep therapy and personal ventilation markets.
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Financial Summary
Vital Signs, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets single-patient use products for the anesthesia, respiratory, critical care and emergency care markets. For the nine months ended 6/30/01, net sales rose 13% to $124 million. Net income fell 58% to $3.7 million. Revenues reflect an increase in units sold and the acquisition of National Sleep Technologies, Inc. Earnings were offset by $20.4 million in impairment charges.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Terence Wall, 59
Pres, CEO
$254K
Herbert Javer
CFO
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Joseph Thomas, 64
Pres, Thomas Medical Products, Inc., Director
151K
Barry Wicker, 60
Exec. VP of Sales
173K
Joseph Bourgart
Exec. VP, New Bus. Devel.
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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..
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:VITLAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 5-Sep-2000
$18.00 
Recent Price$29.00 
52-Week High
on 4-May-2001
$42.75 
Beta0.10 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)87.7K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)55.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+56.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+110.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$374.5M
Shares Outstanding12.9M
Float4.50M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.16 
Dividend Yield0.55%
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$11.87 
Earnings (ttm)$0.73 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.65 
Sales (ttm)$13.05 
Cash (mrq)$1.90 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.44 
Price/Earnings (ttm)39.56 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.22 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$164.6M
EBITDA (ttm)$13.9M
Income available to common (ttm)$8.96M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)5.4%
Operating Margin (ttm)7.1%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsSep 30
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)4.92%
Return on Equity (ttm)6.06%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)3.15 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.06 
Total Cash (mrq)$24.5M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short463.0K
Percent of Float10.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
164.0K
Short Ratio4.68 
Daily Volume99.0K
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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