StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
March 7, 2005
| Stock: |
NMS Communications
Corporation |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
NMSS - Nasdaq - Communications
Equipment |
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| Buy: |
4.75 to 5.00 |
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| Sell: |
9.00 + |
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Info: |
NMS Communications
Corporation is a provider of enabling
technologies, platforms and systems to wireless
and wireline telecommunications operators and
network equipment and application providers. The
Company offers its products through three
business segments: Platform Solutions (PS),
Voice Quality Systems (VQS) and Network
Infrastructure (NI). The PS business unit
consists of products and services, which the
Company refers to as systems building blocks,
which provide connectivity to communications
networks, call processing, real-time media
processing, application programming interfaces
and other application development software
tools. Also included in this business unit are a
multi-application enhanced services delivery
system and a wireless entertainment offering.
The VQS business unit consists of voice quality
enhancement and echo cancellation products,
systems and services. The NI business unit
consists of the wireless access gateway product,
AccessGate. |
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| Financial Info: |
For the fiscal year ended
12/31/04, revenues increased 16% to $101.5
million. Net income totalled $4.1 million vs. a
loss of $56 million |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 2.53, Total Debt/Equity: 0.291, Trailing
P/E: 59.77x, Forward P/E: 12.38x, Price/Book:
3.57, Price/Sales: 2.42 |
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| Share Info: |
There are 47.39
million shares outstanding with 45.90
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 67.38% of the shares outstanding.
There have been no insider purchases and 4 insiders sales totaling
263,000 shares in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC
Filings
As of 2/8/2005, there were 1.7 million shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 1.545 million shares: prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
ADVISORY/NMS
Communications to Demonstrate IP Telephony
Expertise Through Executive Presentations,
Product Demonstrations at Spring VON 2005
Conference & Expo |
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