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Recent Events Aug 31 Price hit new 52-week low ($29.02) July 27 Conference call: Veeco Instruments Earnings (Q2 2001) Location 100 Sunnyside Blvd. Woodbury, NY 11797 Phone: (516) 677-0200 Fax: (516) 677-0252 Email: dwasser@veeco.com Employees (last reported count): 1,333 Financial Links  ·Top Institutional Holders  ·Top Mutual Fund Holders  ·Analyst Upgrade/Downgrade History  ·Historical Quote Data  ·Free Annual Report  ·Raw SEC Filings at sec.gov Competitors:  ·Sector: Technology  ·Industry: Semiconductors Company Websites  ·Home Page  ·Employment  ·Yahoo! Category  ·Search Yahoo! for related links... Ownership · Insider and 5%+ Owners: 28% · Over the last 6 months:  · one insider sell; 1,000  shares · Institutional: 85% (117% of float) (318 institutions) · Net Inst. Buying: 466.0K shares (+2.17%) (prior quarter to latest quarter) More From Market Guide  ·Highlights  ·Performance  ·Ratio Comparisons

Business Summary Veeco Instruments Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and services a broad line of equipment primarily used by manufacturers in the optical telecommunications, data storage and semiconductor/research industries. These industries produce computer integrated circuits, personal computers, hard disk drives, network servers, fiber optic networks, digital cameras, television set-top boxes and personal digital assistants. The Company's Process Equipment products precisely deposit or remove (etch) various materials in the manufacturing of advanced thin film magnetic heads for the data storage industry and optical telecommunications components. Veeco's Metrology equipment is used to provide critical surface measurements on semiconductor devices, thin film magnetic heads and disks used in hard drives and in optical telecommunications and research applications. More from Market Guide: Expanded Business Description Financial Summary VECO designs, manufactures, markets and services a line equipment primarily used by manufacturers in the data storage, optical telecommunications and semiconductor industries. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 27% to $240.7 million. Net income before accounting change totaled $22.9 million, vs. a loss of $8.1 million. Revenues reflect an increase in Ion Tech sales in the U.S. and abroad. Earnings reflect lower merger and restructuring related expenses. More from Market Guide: Significant Developments Officers [Insider Trade Data] FY2000 Compensation Pay Exer Edward Braun, 61 Chairman, Pres, CEO $660K --   John Rein, Jr., 54 CFO, Exec. VP-Fin., Sec., Treasurer 324K $1.8M Kenneth Barry, 49 Pres, New York Process Equipment Operations --   --   Don Kania, Ph.D., 46 Pres, Metrology Group 386K 1.3M Emmanuel Lakios, 39 Pres, Worldwide Field Operations 404K 2.2M 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. More from Market Guide on Officers & Directors: Expanded List, Bios, Compensation, Options

Price and Volume 52-Week Low on 31-Aug-2001 $29.02  Recent Price $29.24  52-Week High on 28-Sep-2000 $117.00  Beta 2.05  Daily Volume (3-month avg) 425.3K Daily Volume (10-day avg) 459.0K Stock Performance big chart [1d | 5d | 3m | 6m | 1y | 2y | 5y | max] 52-Week Change -67.3% 52-Week Change relative to S&P500 -56.1% Share-Related Items Market Capitalization $725.3M Shares Outstanding 24.8M Float 17.9M Dividends & Splits Annual Dividend none  Last Split none	Per-Share Data Book Value (mrq) $12.45  Earnings (ttm) $1.24  Earnings (mrq) $0.40  Sales (ttm) $17.29  Cash (mrq) $3.54  Valuation Ratios Price/Book (mrq) 2.35  Price/Earnings (ttm) 23.50  Price/Sales (ttm) 1.69  Income Statements Sales (ttm) $438.2M EBITDA (ttm) $54.4M Income available to common (ttm) $31.5M Profitability Profit Margin (ttm) 7.2% Operating Margin (ttm) 11.6% Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Ends Dec 31 Most recent quarter 30-June-2001	Management Effectiveness Return on Assets (ttm) 7.54% Return on Equity (ttm) 11.06% Financial Strength Current Ratio (mrq) 3.07  Debt/Equity (mrq) 0.04  Total Cash (mrq) $87.9M Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001 Shares Short 1.62M Percent of Float 9.0% Shares Short (Prior Month) 1.24M Short Ratio 4.09  Daily Volume 396.0K
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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