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Profile - Opta Food Ingredients,Inc (NasdaqNM:OPTS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
25 Wiggins Avenue
Bedford, MA 01730
Phone: (781) 276-5100
Fax: (781) 276-5101
Email: opusintl@foodscience.com
Employees (last reported count): 108
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Food Processing
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 59%
·Institutional: 33% (81% of float)
(18 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 67.0K shares (+1.92%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Opta Food Ingredients, Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of proprietary food products worldwide to food processors that focus on the dairy, dressings and sauces, cereals, meat and baked goods industries. Opta applies advanced enzymology, protein and carbohydrate chemistries to develop innovative food ingredient products such as fat replacers, bulking agents and other texturizing agents that solve specific customer problems. Opta creates its products through the modification of inexpensive, readily available raw materials to produce food ingredients that it considers to be Generally Recognized As Safe under current U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations. Opta's products are used in more than 50 different applications by over 350 customers, including 12 of the 20 largest U.S. consumer packaged food companies and three of the world's largest quick-service restaurant chains.
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Financial Summary
OPTS is an innovator, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary texturing products sold to food processors in North America who focus on the dairy, dressings/sauces, meat and baked goods categories. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues remained flat at $13.3 million. Net loss rose from $324 thousand to $811 thousand. Revenues reflect a reduction in sales to a major quick service restaurant customer. Higher loss reflects higher cost of revenues as a percentage of sales.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Arthur McEvily, Ph.D., 49
Pres, CEO, Director
$215K
Scott Kumf, 44
COO, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Sec.
190K
Joel Stone, 48
VP of Operations and Manufacturing
172K
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..
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:OPTSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 29-Nov-2000
$1.063
Recent Price$1.55 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$2.375
Beta1.25 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)5,045 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)2,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-34.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-12.4%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$16.8M
Shares Outstanding10.8M
Float4.40M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.67 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.08 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.03 
Sales (ttm)$2.40 
Cash (mrq)$0.68 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.42 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.65 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$25.8M
EBITDA (ttm)$1.62M
Income available to common (ttm)-$910.0K
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-3.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)-5.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-1.99%
Return on Equity (ttm)-2.26%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)5.84 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.06 
Total Cash (mrq)$7.34M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short10.0K
Percent of Float0.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
8,000 
Short Ratio1.11 
Daily Volume9,000 
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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