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Advanced Machine Vision Corporation, (Nasdaq: ARCCA, or AMVC after 7/1/97) is a designer and manufacturer of high-speed defect-detection and sorting systems, based in Medford, Ore. A significantly revised senior management team was recruited in 1994, who refined the Company's focus from its former "technology holding company" orientation to its current vision-systems niche, as reflected in the recent name change. Applications for the Company's sorting equipment include: food product sorting, tobacco leaf inspection, plastics separation and/or color monitoring, and wood chip sorting. At present, the food processing applications make up roughly half of the Company's sales.
With the acquisition of Eugene, Ore.-based Ventek, ARCCA intends to pursue several applications in the near term for the forest products industry that should increase yields and improve the quality of plywood products. By combining its camera and inspection technology with Ventek's hardware platform, the Company believes it can continue building market presence not just in defect detection, but also during several stages of the veneer manufacture process. This strategy is indicative of ARCCA's overall goal to leverage its vision technology into a variety of industrial applications, diversifying its exposure to industry cycles and expanding the potential customer base. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE 09/29 Advanced Machine Vision Buys Back 1.8M Restricted Cmn Shrs
MEDFORD, Ore. (Dow Jones)--Advanced Machine Vision Corp. (AMVC) reacquired 1.8 million out of 2 million restricted common shares. In a press release Monday, the company said it issued the restricted shares to certain officers on Jan. 10 in order to retain their services. The officers retired the stock to reduce the number of shares outstanding and to increase shareholder value, the company said. Since the year began, the company has retired $9.2 million in debt, including 8 million shares with the current buyback. Advance Machine Vision, which had 13,398,000 shares outstanding as of June 30, designs, makes and sells compliant vision systems. (END) DOW JONES NEWS 09-29-97 02:24 PM $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Advanced Machine Vision Corp.Repurchases 1,000,000 Shares of Stock and 640,000 Warrants
businesswire.com BW) (ADVANCED-MACHINE-VISION)(AMVC) Advanced Machine Vision Corp. Repurchases 1,000,000 Shares of Stock and 640,000 Warrants Business Editors MEDFORD, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 1997--Advanced Machine Vision Corporation (Nasdaq-AMVC) announced today that it had purchased in a private transaction 1,001,640 shares of AMV's outstanding Class A Common Stock and 640,000 warrants to purchase Class A Common Stock for total consideration of $1.9 million. William J. Young, AMV's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "The purchase represents a reduction of approximately 7.5% in the number of outstanding shares and the elimination of another 640,000 potentially issuable shares." Advanced Machine Vision Corporation is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of standard and CE compliant vision systems used to control manufacturing processes through high-speed product inspection, defect identification and removal at production which generate quality yield rates superior to other process and control methods. AMV's operations are comprised of two wholly-owned subsidiaries, SRC VISION, Inc. and Ventek, Inc., both utilizing proprietary image processing technologies.
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Subj: Possible merger By: cashheavy Date: Nov 28 1997 5:14 A.M PST Reply To: Msg. 1 by YahooFinance Don't forget that the recent stock & warrent buyback, reduction in long term debt could mean something else - POSSIBLE MERGER. A potential merger partner could be directing AMVC what to do to improve balance sheet prior to merger.
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Financial Snapshot
Data current through 11/28/1997 Advanced Machine Vsn Cp Exchange: NASDAQ Ticker: AMVC Dow Jones Industry Group: Industrial Tech State: Oregon Number of Employees: 184
Stock Price Most Recent Close Price($) 2.22 52-Week High($) 2.50 52-Week Low($) 1.19 Price Change Last 52 Weeks 26.9% Price Change Year-to-Date 31.4% Beta, Up Market 2.65 Beta, Down Market 2.51
Share Data EPS Last 12 Months($) 0.53 5-Yr Annual EPS Growth NC Indicated Dividend Rate($) 0.00 5-Yr Annual Dividend Growth NC Market Value($ Mil) 24 Shares Outstanding 10,597,000
Financial Strength Current Ratio 2.3 Debt/Equity 78%
Corporate Performance Revenues Last 12 Mos($ Mil) 32.6 Earnings Last 12 Mos($ Mil) 8.6 Profit Margin 26.4% Return on Equity 79.6% Return on Assets -17.2% Revenue/Assets 129%
Valuation Ratios P/E Ratio 4.2 Dividend Yield 0.0% Payout Ratio NC Price/Book Value 291% Price/Revenue 72%
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