E-FINANCE - training companies' financial performance

Training & Development, Oct, 2001 by Peter L. Martin

Company                                            Price    52 Week
eLearning                      Rating    Ticker         8/31       High

Centra Software Inc            Accum     CTRA          $9.85     $17.14
Insightful Corp                NR        IFUL          $3.70      $4.44
Skillsoft Corp                 NR        SKIL         $28.00     $38.94
VCampus Corp                   NR        VCMP          $0.99      $7.38
Wire One Technologies Inc      NR        WONE          $4.53     $11.56
Rwd Technologies Inc           NR        RWDT          $3.00      $8.69
Dow Jones & Co Inc             NR        DJ           $54.88     $64.75
Wiley (John) & Sons            NR        JW.A         $20.15     $23.89
Webex Inc                      Accum     WEBX         $17.27     $58.00
SmartForce Pub Ltd             Buy       SMTF         $29.01     $57.25
DigitalThink Inc               NR        DTHK         $12.20     $47.23
Raindance Communications Inc   NR        RNDC          $1.21     $11.06
Factset Research Systems Inc   NR        FDS          $25.35     $47.49
Polycom Inc                    NR        PLCM         $20.28     $72.25
Eloquent Inc                   NR        ELOQ          $1.14      $5.09
Itc Learning Corp              NR        ITCCE         $0.11      $1.53
Adobe Systems Inc              NR        ADBE         $33.61     $87.31
Docent Inc                     NR        DCNT          $4.95     $27.13
Saba Software Inc              Buy       SABA          $8.25     $33.00
Innodata Corp                  NR        INOD          $2.45      $9.25
Stellent Inc                   NR        STEL         $21.80     $64.00
Click2learn Inc                Accum     CLKS          $3.80     $18.25
Vignette Corp                  NR        VIGN          $6.83     $39.50
Documentum Inc                 NR        DCTM         $14.70     $63.88
Interwoven Inc                 NR        IWOV          $8.15     $68.47
Nuance Communications Inc      NR        NUAN         $10.44    $153.00
Mentergy Ltd                   NR        MNTE          $0.47     $14.44
Macromedia Inc                 NR        MACR         $13.93     $85.25
Speechworks Intl Inc           NR        SPWX          $8.26     $99.50
Prosofttraining.com Inc        Hold      POSO          $1.03     $15.00
Corporate eLearning Average
New Horizons Worldwide Inc     NR        NEWH         $13.37     $23.38
Corporate Executive Brd Co     NR        EXBD         $34.75     $47.25
Learning Tree Intl Inc         NR        LTRE         $23.88     $78.88
Provant Inc                    Hold      POVT          $1.60      $9.00
Corporate Traditional Average
Total Corporate Average
Indices
Russell 2000                                         $468.56    $542.82
S&P 500 Composite                                  $1,133.58  $1,530.01
Nasdaq Composite Index                             $1,805.43  $4,259.87

Company                          52 Week         Mkt    Mon Avg
eLearning                            Low  Cap (mm)   Trdg Vol

Centra Software Inc                $2.75    $247.6    466,855
Insightful Corp                    $1.25     $39.9     36,632
Skillsoft Corp                    $11.75    $443.7    179,105
VCampus Corp                       $0.38     $14.0      5,274
Wire One Technologies Inc          $1.44     $97.1     83,945
Rwd Technologies Inc               $2.35     $45.9     14,470
Dow Jones & Co Inc                $48.10  $3,548.9    252,459
Wiley (John) & Sons               $17.90    $995.2     42,633
Webex Inc                          $5.06    $679.5   637,4329
SmartForce Pub Ltd                $18.13  $1,615.9  1,099,892
DigitalThink Inc                   $5.34    $431.0    506,759
Raindance Communications Inc       $0.74     $57.0    261,529
Factset Research Systems Inc      $22.65    $842.1    194,270
Polycom Inc                       $10.75  $1,694.0  1,013,676
Eloquent Inc                       $0.50     $21.1     96,568
Itc Learning Corp                  $0.10      $0.4      2,267
Adobe Systems Inc                 $24.56  $8,028.2  3,999,528
Docent Inc                         $2.75    $209.3    246,456
Saba Software Inc                  $3.56    $381.8    634,418
Innodata Corp                      $2.12     $52.4    130,964
Stellent Inc                      $14.75    $487.9    484,229
Click2learn Inc                    $1.00     $75.8    101,556
Vignette Corp                      $3.63  $1,687.2  3,487,075
Documentum Inc                     $5.88    $555.6    509,555
Interwoven Inc                     $5.84    $844.0  3,253,814
Nuance Communications Inc          $8.23    $342.8    906,782
Mentergy Ltd                       $0.35      $5.7     27,548
Macromedia Inc                    $13.14    $805.9    877,312
Speechworks Intl Inc               $4.81    $265.2    390,015
Prosofttraining.com Inc            $1.00     $24.2    268,471
Corporate eLearning Average                 $818.0    673,716
New Horizons Worldwide Inc        $11.00    $136.1     43,685
Corporate Executive Brd Co        $24.25  $1,207.5    294,777
Learning Tree Intl Inc            $14.50    $459.5    133,568
Provant Inc                        $1.40     $34.9     56,606
Corporate Traditional Average               $459.5    132,159
Total Corporate Average                     $775.8    610,004
Indices
Russell 2000                     $419.70
S&P 500 Composite              $1,081.19
Nasdaq Composite Index         $1,619.58

Company                                    Return (%)
eLearning                            1-Mo.   3-Mo.     6-Mo.

Centra Software Inc                   -39.8   -29.1      64.2
Insightful Corp                        16.0    73.7     107.7
Skillsoft Corp                        -19.2    -9.5      71.0
VCampus Corp                          -37.1   -41.4       5.1
Wire One Technologies Inc             -20.5   -15.5      34.2
Rwd Technologies Inc                   -9.1   -36.0     -30.4
Dow Jones & Co Inc                     -3.6    -1.6     -10.9
Wiley (John) & Sons                    -1.2    -0.2      -4.1
Webex Inc                             -24.6     9.0      54.4
SmartForce Pub Ltd                    -25.1     3.6     -20.4
DigitalThink Inc                      -15.9    48.8      41.4
Raindance Communications Inc           -1.6    -6.2     -44.7
Factset Research Systems Inc          -23.5   -36.8     -18.8
Polycom Inc                           -20.3   -18.2      -6.8
Eloquent Inc                           13.9    54.1      14.0
Itc Learning Corp                     -15.4   -45.0     -58.6
Adobe Systems Inc                     -10.3   -15.5      15.6
Docent Inc                            -21.6   -36.5     -36.6
Saba Software Inc                     -35.8   -30.6      -5.7
Innodata Corp                         -26.4   -59.1     -51.0
Stellent Inc                           -7.5   -39.6     -14.9
Click2learn Inc                       -25.8   133.1      19.2
Vignette Corp                         -14.0   -16.5      10.9
Documentum Inc                         -1.7     5.2     -31.2
Interwoven Inc                        -20.8   -55.0     -50.8
Nuance Communications Inc             -22.1   -30.9     -54.6
Mentergy Ltd                          -14.5   -71.5     -76.5
Macromedia Inc                        -19.0   -37.5     -52.5
Speechworks Intl Inc                  -27.2   -36.6     -49.7
Prosofttraining.com Inc               -16.3   -51.4     -91.1
Corporate eLearning Average           -14.6   -13.1      -9.1
New Horizons Worldwide Inc             -2.3   -27.7      -9.7
Corporate Executive Brd Co            -16.4     2.9      -2.8
Learning Tree Intl Inc                  4.0     1.2     -46.9
Provant Inc                           -11.1   -34.7     -71.2
Corporate Traditional Average          -6.5   -14.6     -32.7
Total Corporate Average               -13.7   -13.3    --11.8
Indices
Russell 2000                           -3.3    -5.6      -1.2
S&P 500 Composite                      -6.4    -9.7      -8.6
Nasdaq Composite Index                -10.9   -14.5     -16.1

Company                             Return (%)
eLearning                      12-Mo.      YTD

Centra Software Inc                7.2   154.2
Insightful Corp                   64.4   132.2
Skillsoft Corp                    57.7    49.3
VCampus Corp                     -86.4    16.7
Wire One Technologies Inc        -41.5    -0.7
Rwd Technologies Inc             -62.8    -2.0
Dow Jones & Co Inc               -12.3    -3.1
Wiley (John) & Sons                1.4    -6.3
Webex Inc                        -68.8   -17.3
SmartForce Pub Ltd               -44.2   -22.8
DigitalThink Inc                 -64.2   -28.5
Raindance Communications Inc     -89.0   -30.9
Factset Research Systems Inc     -25.9   -31.6
Polycom Inc                      -63.9   -37.0
Eloquent Inc                     -76.8   -37.1
Itc Learning Corp                -92.3   -38.9
Adobe Systems Inc                -48.3   -42.2
Docent Inc                          NA   -43.4
Saba Software Inc                -71.2   -47.6
Innodata Corp                     -3.8   -55.5
Stellent Inc                     -51.9   -57.3
Click2learn Inc                  -75.0   -61.0
Vignette Corp                    -82.1   -62.1
Documentum Inc                   -58.9   -70.4
Interwoven Inc                   -83.0   -75.3
Nuance Communications Inc        -92.1   -75.8
Mentergy Ltd                     -96.2   -76.5
Macromedia Inc                   -79.8   -77.1
Speechworks Intl Inc             -89.2   -83.2
Prosofttraining.com Inc          -92.3   -91.5
Corporate eLearning Average      -52.5   -27.4
New Horizons Worldwide Inc       -37.3    -3.6
Corporate Executive Brd Co        -2.1   -12.6
Learning Tree Intl Inc           -65.1   -51.8
Provant Inc                       76.5   -62.6
Corporate Traditional Average    -45.3   -32.7
Total Corporate Average          -51.6   -28.0
Indices
Russell 2000                     -12.9    -3.1
S&P 500 Composite                -25.3   -14.1
Nasdaq Composite Index           -57.1   -26.9
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