What does the company do?
Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation is a supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) that are utilized primarily by manufacturers of networking systems for carrier, enterprise and storage communications applications. The Company designs, develops and markets a portfolio of semiconductor products. Its end user customers include communications and enterprise original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Ericsson, Fujitsu Limited, HP, Hitachi Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., IBM, NEC Corporation, Nortel Networks Corporation, Nokia Siemens Networks B.V., Tellabs, Inc. and ZTE Corporation. As of September 30, 2008, it operated four domestic design centers in the United States in California, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas, and four international design centers in Denmark, Germany, India, and Taiwan. On October 29, 2007, the Company sold a portion of its storage products business to Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
How much does the company sell and earn?
Investors need to know how much stuff or services a company sells, and how much of that total it keeps as income (or profit) to grow its business or return to shareholders. The more of each, the better. In general, look for companies that sell and earn more than peers.
- Vitesse Semicon one-year sales: 194.35 Mil.
Difference from the average for the Electronic Equipment group: -99.48% - Vitesse Semicon one-year income: -175.38 Mil.
Difference from the average for the Electronic Equipment group: 92.95%| Sales & Income (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
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| Sales | 194.35 Mil | 37.59 Bil | | Income | -175.38 Mil | -2.49 Bil |
How fast is the company growing?
- Vitesse Semicon one-year sales growth: -20.90%.
Difference from the average for the Electronic Equipment group: -10.70 pct. pts.| Sales & Income Growth (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
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| Sales Growth | -20.90% | -10.20% | | Income Growth | NA | -18.00% |
How profitable is the company?
Investors prefer companies that increase profit margins -- the percentage of sales that they keep -- every year. This is accomplished either by lowering expenses or raising prices. Look for companies that consistently find ways to squeeze more profits out of sales than their peers.
- Vitesse Semicon one-year net profit margin: -90.2%
Difference from the company's 5-year average net profit margin: -70.6 pct. pts.
Difference from the average for the Electronic Equipment group: -81.9 pct. pts.
| Net profit margins (%) |
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| Company | -90.2% | | Company 5-Yr Avg. | -19.6% | | Industry | -8.3% |
How is the company's financial health?
The debt/equity ratio shows how much a firm has borrowed as a percentage of its stock equity. The lower, the better.
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