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Profile - Visionics Corporation (NasdaqNM:VSNX)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
5600 Rowland Road
Minnetonka, MN 55353
Phone: (952) 932-0888
Fax: (952) 932-7181
Email: invest@visionics.com
Employees (last reported count): 163
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Security Systems & Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 22%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 20.0K shares
  (0.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 14% (18% of float)
(27 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 1.36M shares (+28.73%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Visionics Corporation is a worldwide producer of identification technologies and systems. Through its respective business lines, FaceIt, live scan and IBIS, the Company designs and manufacturers forensic quality biometric identification systems and develops and deploys facial recognition technology. The FaceIt technology enables a broad range of products and applications built by partners (OEMs, VARs and system integrators). These include enhanced CCTV systems, identity fraud applications and authentication systems for information security, access control, travel, banking and e-commerce. The TENPRINTER and FingerPrinter CMS are live scan systems used by government agencies, law enforcement, airports, banks and other commercial institutions. The IBIS is a remote identification system that combines expertise in biometric capture and connectivity, and is capable of capturing both forensic quality fingerprints and photographs for transmission to law enforcement and other legacy databases.
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Financial Summary
VSNX develops and deploys facial recognition technology and designs and manufactures fingerprint biometric identification systems. For the nine months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 30% to $22.3 million. Net loss before acct. change rose from $612 thousand to $3.8 million. Revenues reflect higher FaceIt license and live scan maintenance revenues. Net loss reflects lower gross margins and higher sales, marketing and product development costs and $2.2 million in merger related costs.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]

Position
Joseph Atick, Ph.D.Chairman, Pres, CEO
Robert GallagherCFO
Paul Griffin, Ph.D.CTO
Michel HalboutyVP- Manufacturing and Operations
Robert BridigumVP of New Product Devel., DBI Division
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:VSNXAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 4-Apr-2001
$3.375
Recent Price$5.03 
52-Week High
on 6-July-2001
$7.84 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)78.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)51.0K
Stock Performance
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26-Week Change-17.9%
26-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-10.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$124.3M
Shares Outstanding24.7M
Float19.3M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.51 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.16 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.03 
Sales (ttm)$1.31 
Cash (mrq)$0.31 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)9.96 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)3.83 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$30.7M
EBITDA (ttm)-$2.78M
Income available to common (ttm)-$3.74M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-12.2%
Operating Margin (ttm)-12.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsSep 30
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-18.79%
Return on Equity (ttm)-37.29%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.06 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.00 
Total Cash (mrq)$7.70M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short137.0K
Percent of Float0.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
221.0K
Short Ratio2.14 
Daily Volume64.0K
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