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Aug 23

Earnings Announcement

Location

2140 Merritt Drive
Garland, TX 75041

Phone: (972) 840-6600
Fax: (972) 864-7878
Email: smorrow@morrowpr.com

Employees (last reported count): 2,500

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·Sector: Technology
·Industry: Software & Programming

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Ownership

·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 50%
·	Institutional: 53% (107% of float) (32 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Buying: 22.0K shares (+1.27%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

Software Spectrum, Inc. is a global business-to-business software services provider that delivers comprehensive information technology solutions to organizations throughout North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. The Company sells personal computer (PC) software through volume licensing and maintenance agreements, or right-to-copy arrangements, and full-packaged PC software products, and provides technical support services to software publishers, Internet service providers and other organizations. The Company has established supply arrangements with major personal computer software publishers, including Microsoft, IBM/Lotus, Novell, Attachmate, Symantec and Adobe Systems. The Company markets software titles for IBM, IBM-compatible and Macintosh personal computers, including software for all major operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Linux and Novell Netware.

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Financial Summary

Software Spectrum is a global B-to-B software lincensing and service provider that delivers IT solutions to organizations in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. For the fiscal year ended 4/30/01, net sales rose 21% to $1.21 billion. Net income from continuing operations fell 35% to $4.3 million. Revenues reflect the Company's strong competitive position with global enterprises. Earnings were offset by lower gross margins due to price competition and increased S/G/A costs.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 07/31/2001, revenues were 288,313; after tax earnings were 321. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers

[Insider Trade Data]

	FY2001 Pay

Judy Odom, 48 Chairman, CEO	$829K
Keith Coogan, 49 Pres, COO, Director	506K
James Brown, 44 CFO, VP	286K
Roger King, 48 Exec. VP, Sales and Marketing and Pres of Product Services	390K
Robert Mercer, 49 VP, CIO	--
Dollar amounts are as of 30-Apr-2001 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:SSPE

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 17-Nov-2000	$`5.50`
Recent Price	$`10.219`
52-Week High on 5-Mar-2001	$`13.50`
Beta	`1.27`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`6,636`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`11.0K`
Stock Performance
big chart [1d \| 5d \| 3m \| 6m \| 1y \| 2y \| 5y \| max]
52-Week Change	`-19.1%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`+8.6%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`32.8M`
Shares Outstanding	`3.21M`
Float	`1.60M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend	none
Last Split	none

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)	$`17.95`
Earnings (ttm)	$`1.28`
Earnings (mrq)	$`0.10`
Sales (ttm)	$`368.55`
Cash (mrq*)	$`4.80`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)	`0.57`
Price/Earnings (ttm)	`7.97`
Price/Sales (ttm)	`0.03`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`1.24B`
EBITDA (ttm*)	$`19.1M`
Income available to common (ttm)	$`4.28M`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`0.3%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`0.7%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	Apr 30
Most recent quarter (fully updated)	30-Apr-2001
Most recent quarter (flash earnings)	31-July-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`1.74%`
Return on Equity (ttm)	`6.89%`
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)	`1.03`
Debt/Equity (mrq*)	`0.06`
Total Cash (mrq)	$`10.1M`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`249.0K`
Percent of Float	`15.6%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`249.0K`
Short Ratio	`31.12`
Daily Volume	`8,000`

See Profile Help for a description of each item above; K = thousands; M = millions; B = billions; mrq = most-recent quarter; ttm = trailing twelve months; (as of 31-July-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 30-Apr-2001)

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