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Profile - Measurement Specialties (AMEX:MSS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
80 Little Falls Road
Fairfield, NJ 07004
Phone: (973) 808-1819
Fax: (973) 808-1787
Email: info@mssusa.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,636
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Scientific & Technical Instr.
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 17%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 3 insider buys; 46.0K shares (2.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 36% (43% of float)
(92 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 601.0K shares (+12.73%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Measurement Specialties Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of sensors and sensor-based, consumer products. The Company produces a wide variety of sensors that use advanced technologies to measure precise ranges of physical characteristics, including pressure, motion, force, displacement, angle, flow, and distance. The Company has two segments: a Sensor business and a Consumer Products business. The Sensor business designs, manufactures, and markets sensors for original equipment manufacturer applications. The Consumer Products business manufactures and markets sensor-based consumer products.
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Financial Summary
Measurement Specialties designs, develops, produces and sells electronic sensor products for high volume industrial applications, body-weight, kitchen, postal scales, tire pressure gauges and distance estimators. For the three months ended 6/30/01, net sales increased 59% to $25.9 million. Net income rose 13% to $1.4 million. Revenues reflect the acquisition of IC Sensors. Earnings were partially offset by costs of acquisitions and higher variable expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Joseph Mallon, Jr., 55
Chairman, CEO
$366K--  
Damon Germanton, 57
Pres, COO, Sec., Director
366K--  
Kirk Dischino, 41
CFO, Treasurer and Assistant Sec.
235K--  
Mark Cappiello, 46
VP of Sales and Marketing
252K$2.5M
Steven Petrucelli, 48
CTO, Director
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Mar-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 -- AMEX:MSSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 3-July-2001
$10.22 
Recent Price$15.25 
52-Week High
on 3-Nov-2000
$31.125
Beta0.63 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)137.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)92.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-21.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+4.7%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$175.1M
Shares Outstanding11.5M
Float9.50M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 23-Oct-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.18 
Earnings (ttm)$1.01 
Earnings (mrq)$0.15 
Sales (ttm)$12.46 
Cash (mrq)$0.06 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)4.80 
Price/Earnings (ttm)15.08 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.22 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$112.7M
EBITDA (ttm)$18.2M
Income available to common (ttm)$9.12M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)8.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)13.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMar 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)12.03%
Return on Equity (ttm)41.23%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.81 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.43 
Total Cash (mrq)$528.0K
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.58M
Percent of Float16.6%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
0 
Short Ratio9.46 
Daily Volume167.0K
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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