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Profile - Altera Corp. (NasdaqNM:ALTR)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
101 Innovation Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: (408) 544-7000
Fax: (408) 954-8186
Email: inv_rel@altera.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,947
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Semiconductors
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 25%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 20.0K shares
 · 2 insider sells; 55.0K shares
·Institutional: 83% (110% of float)
(1,080 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 11.0M shares (+3.35%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Altera Corporation designs, manufactures and markets programmable logic devices (PLDs) and associated development tools. PLDs are semiconductor integrated circuits that customers can program using its proprietary software, which operate on personal computers and engineering workstations. The Company was one of the first suppliers of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) programmable logic devices. Altera offers a broad line of CMOS programmable logic devices that address high-speed, high-density and low-power applications. Its products serve a wide range of markets, including telecommunications, data communications, electronic data processing and industrial applications.
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Financial Summary
Altera Corp. designs, manufactures and markets programmable logic devices (semiconductor integrated circuits) and associated development tools. For the six months ended 6/30/01, sales fell 18% to $502.7 million. Net loss totalled $26.2 million vs. an income of $173.4 million. Results reflect unfavorable economic conditions, reduced spending by communication service providers and $146.9 million in inventory, restructuring and other non-recurring charges.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Rodney Smith, 60
Chairman
$2.6M--  
John Daane, 37
Pres, CEO, Director
7.4M--  
Robert Reed, 54
Vice Chairman
--  --  
Denis Berlan, 50
Exec. VP and COO
1.6M$19.5M
Nathan Sarkisian, 42
Sr. VP and CFO
1.3M8.5M
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:ALTRAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 4-Apr-2001
$18.813
Recent Price$28.40 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$67.125
Beta1.87 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)7.40M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)6.11M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-54.1%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-38.4%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$11.0B
Shares Outstanding386.0M
Float289.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 11-Aug-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$2.97 
Earnings (ttm)$0.71 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.23 
Sales (ttm)$3.13 
Cash (mrq)$2.16 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)9.55 
Price/Earnings (ttm)40.11 
Price/Sales (ttm)9.07 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.27B
EBITDA (ttm)$327.7M
Income available to common (ttm)$297.3M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)23.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)20.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)16.83%
Return on Equity (ttm)23.73%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)3.48 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$833.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short9.38M
Percent of Float3.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
12.6M
Short Ratio1.17 
Daily Volume8.02M
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