Yahoo / Market Guide - 3Com Corporation

·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 6%
·	Institutional: 50% (53% of float) (629 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Selling: 212.0K shares (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

3Com Corporation is a provider of networking products and solutions. 3Com specializes in products and services that provide straightforward solutions to complex networking challenges, particularly in the areas of broadband connections, wireless network access, and Internet Protocol (IP) telephony. The Company serves three primary customer markets: commercial enterprises with small- to mid-sized locations, consumers, and carriers and network service providers. The Company's commercial products include traditional access products, advanced access products, Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure products, LAN telephony products, and services. The Company's consumer products include broadband connections, home networking products and Internet appliances. The Company's carrier products include enhanced data services and new technologies.

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Financial Summary

3Com Corp. is a provider of broad-based networking systems and services that connect people and organizations to information across both local area networks and wide area networks, including the Internet. For the fiscal year ended 6/1/01, sales fell 35% to $2.82 billion. Net loss from continuing operations totalled $969.9 million, vs. an income of $615.6 million. Revenues reflect weaker industry conditions in the U.S. Net loss reflects increased restructuring charges and a $250 million litigation charge.

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Officers

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	FY2000 Compensation
	Pay	Exer

Eric Benhamou, 44 Chairman	$1.0M	$7.7M
Bruce Claflin, 48 Pres, CEO, Director	879K	352K
Michael Rescoe, 47 CFO, Sr. VP-Fin.	--	--
David Starr, 49 Sr. VP, CIO	--	--
John Hart, 54 Sr. VP, CTO	--	--
Dollar amounts are as of 2-June-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:COMS

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 31-Aug-2001	$`4.00`
Recent Price	$`4.11`
52-Week High on 6-Oct-2000	$`21.172`
Beta	`1.51`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`2.81M`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`2.77M`
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change	`-75.7%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`-67.4%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`1.42B`
Shares Outstanding	`345.6M`
Float	`324.9M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend	none
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 28-Aug-1995

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)	$`7.28`
Earnings (ttm)	-$`2.83`
Earnings (mrq)	-$`1.52`
Sales (ttm)	$`8.18`
Cash (mrq*)	$`5.37`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)	`0.56`
Price/Earnings	N/A
Price/Sales (ttm)	`0.50`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`2.82B`
EBITDA (ttm*)	-$`1.21B`
Income available to common (ttm)	-$`969.9M`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`-34.3%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`-45.4%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	June 1
Most recent quarter (fully updated)	1-June-2001
Most recent quarter (flash earnings)	31-May-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`-19.92%`
Return on Equity (ttm)	`-27.56%`
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)	`2.49`
Debt/Equity (mrq*)	`0.00`
Total Cash (mrq)	$`1.85B`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`4.87M`
Percent of Float	`1.5%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`6.15M`
Short Ratio	`2.37`
Daily Volume	`2.05M`

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