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Profile - Aspect Communications (NasdaqNM:ASPT)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
1310 Ridder Park Drive
San Jose, CA 95131
Phone: (408) 325-2200
Fax: (408) 325-2260
Email: invest@aspect.com
Employees (last reported count): 2,740
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 ·Industry: Software & Programming
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 ·S&P 600 SmallCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 42%
·Institutional: 70% (120% of float)
(201 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 376.0K shares (+1.05%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Aspect Communications Corporation (Aspect) is a provider of customer relationship portals, contact servers for managing dynamic customer contact transactions across wired and wireless communication channels. The Company's Aspect Customer Relationship Portal allows businesses to manage customer contacts dynamically and turn them into relationships, opportunities and customer loyalty. Aspect delivers a complete software-based multi-channel contact center, which sits at the core of a company's eCRM strategy.
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Financial Summary
ASPT is a provider of customer relationship portals, contact servers for managing dynamic customer contact transactions across wired and wireless communications channels. For the six months ended 6/01, revenues fell 17% to $227.9 million. Net loss totaled $92.2 million, up from $12.1 million. Revenues suffered from an industry wide slowdown and the transformation of the business model. Net losses also reflect increased marketing initiatives and $20.1 million in restructuring charges.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Beatriz Infante, 47
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$620K--  
Betsy Rafael, 39
CFO, Exec. VP-Fin., Chief Admin. Officer
--  --  
Rod Butters, 43
Group Pres, Worldwide Market Devel., Sales and Services
375K--  
Gary Smith, 55
COO
806K--  
Gary Barnett, 47
Exec. VP, eCRM Applications and CTO
352K$778K
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-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:ASPTAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 4-Apr-2001
$3.50 
Recent Price$4.81 
52-Week High
on 14-Sep-2000
$25.375
Beta0.74 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)214.2K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)105.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-80.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-73.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$248.5M
Shares Outstanding51.7M
Float30.0M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 29-Jan-1997
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.70 
Earnings (ttm)-$2.25 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.89 
Sales (ttm)$10.56 
Cash (mrq)$2.67 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.30 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.46 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$542.4M
EBITDA (ttm)-$96.4M
Income available to common (ttm)-$115.4M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-21.3%
Operating Margin (ttm)-20.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-18.59%
Return on Equity (ttm)-40.87%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.74 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.96 
Total Cash (mrq)$137.7M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.27M
Percent of Float4.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1.42M
Short Ratio4.71 
Daily Volume270.0K
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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