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[NewEcon]

LightPath Technologies Announces 3rd Quarter Fiscal 2000 Financial Results Company Announces Collimator and Isolator Sales Orders In Excess of $5 Million Since January 2000

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2000 5:59:00 PM EST

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 11, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- LightPath Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:LPTHA), manufacturer of families of high-performance fiber-optic collimator and isolator products, today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2000. Results for the three month and nine month reporting periods as reflected in the Summary Financial Data do not reflect the acquisition of Horizon Photonics, Inc., which was completed in April 2000.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2000, the Company reported total revenues of $333,175 compared to $291,601 for the third quarter of the previous year, a 14% increase. Excluding development fees, product shipments alone increased by 108% over the previous period. Net loss for the quarter was $2,120,287, which includes approximately $780,000 in non-cash stock based compensation charges. Net loss applicable to common shareholders was $3,134,329 or $(0.29) per applicable common share, compared to a net loss of $697,694 and a net loss applicable to common shareholders of $735,712 million or $(0.16) per applicable common share, in the third quarter of the previous year. The Company ended the period with no debt and approximately $42 million in cash compared to $1 million at the end of the same period in 1999. Horizon`s shipments for the quarterly period are not included, however had they been included, LightPath revenues would have been $832,513, which on a pro forma basis would reflect an increase of 185% over the comparable period in 1999.

For the nine-month period ended March 31, 2000, the Company reported a 19% increase in total revenues to $880,075 compared with $736,898 for the comparable period in the previous year. Net loss for the nine month period was $4.1 million, and net loss applicable to common shareholders was $6.3 million or $(0.83) per applicable common share, compared to a net loss of $2.6 million and net loss applicable to common shareholders of $2.8 million or $(0.68) per applicable common share, for the nine-month period of fiscal 1999. The Company has incurred significant non-cash charges for debt discount amortization and stock based compensation, and the net cash used in operations for the nine month period March 31, 2000 was $2.7 million as compared to $2.1 million for the comparable period in 1999. The number of shares outstanding used in the per-share calculations for the three and nine-month period increased by 132% and 85% respectively, from the previous year`s comparable periods due to the conversions of the convertible debentures and preferred stock issued in private placements and the exercise of Class A warrants and other outstanding warrants and options.

The Company also announced that it had posted record product sales orders for the third consecutive quarter and fourth quarter orders have already tripled prior quarters sales orders. During the quarter ended March 31, 2000, the Company recorded sales orders of approximately $420,000 of which over 55% were for telecom component products. This positive trend has continued into the current quarter where through the first six weeks, orders (excluding Horizon) have already totaled approximately $1.3 million of which approximately 93% were for collimator products. Three OEMs account for over 95% of the telecom sales. During the same period, Horizon received sales orders for its telecom component products in the form of free-space isolators totaling approximately $3.6 million. Under the terms of the purchase orders, one OEM has the right to call for additional shipments over a twelve month period, which has the impact of almost doubling the isolator sales backlog.

Don Lawson, President and CEO, commented, "I am pleased with customer response to our products and the increase orders for each successive quarter, along with the additional products and revenue opportunity from the Horizon acquisition. The acceptance of both the collimator and isolator products by a number of OEMs and their projected volume requirements has placed us in a position where expansion of our automated manufacturing capacity has become a top priority. We are also maintaining our gross margins in excess of 50% on all products, which I expect to continue into the next quarter."

LightPath manufactures its proprietary collimator assembly, GRADIUM glass products and other optical telecommunications products at its headquarters in Albuquerque. The Company`s subsidiary, Horizon Photonics, manufactures isolator products utilizing its proprietary automation technology in Walnut, California. LightPath also has on office in Warren, New Jersey for the purpose of development of various optical switch products. The Company has 22 patents, plus 4 more pending, associated with its optical technologies. In addition, various foreign countries had issued a total of 8 patents with 9 patents pending. LightPath common stock trades on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market under the stock symbol LPTHA.

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SOURCE LightPath Technologies, Inc.

(C) 2000 PR Newswire. All rights reserved.

http://www.prnewswire.com

[NewEcon]

Na wer sagt es denn, das Quartalsergebnis gibt richtig Schwung: LPTHA ist schoen im Plus an der NASDAQ. Weiter so, jeden Tag so um die 5% Steigung waere ja nicht gerade schlecht...

[NewEcon]

Wie seht Ihr das LPTHA-Kursziel auf 1 Jahr?

[NewEcon]

Was ist denn los, hat es Euch allen die Sprache verschlagen, jetzt wo unsere LPTHA nicht mehr LPTHA heisst sondern LPTH. Die Aufnahme in den Nasdaq National Market verspricht satte Kursgewinne. Mein Kursziel bis Ende des Jahres: Triple Digit!

[seroone]

Hallo @New Econ!
Ich glaub, da beginnt ein goldenes Ei zu rollen!
Die Storry ist erst am Anfang.
Auf nach Norden.

gruß sero one

[For4]

Wie hat LPTH heute geschlossen?
Bei comdirect gibts nur die Kurse von gestern!

[Student]

Hi!
Du musst bei comdirect LPTH eingeben!(Ohne A)
Schlusskurs 12.7.nasdaq: 45,125$
H/T: 48,75$/44,625$

mfg,
student

[Erbse1]

Hab noch was zu diesem Thema gefunden!
Publication: Lightwave
Article Date: December, 1999
Magazine Volume: 16
Issue: 13
Author(s): *Jeff Montgomery -

Fifty years of fiber optics


Optical fiber as a communication link was in its infancy in 1975. Its advancement since then has been astounding. The bandwidth revolution made feasible by fiber optics will continue its dynamic expansion for decades.


The global-consumption value of communication fiber-optic components accelerated from a paltry $2.5 million in 1975 to what will be an amazing $15.8 billion in 2000, in current dollars (see Fig. 1). Very impressive growth will continue, though at a declining rate, to reach $739 billion by 2025. This growth will be matched by comparable growth of fiber-optic communication-related software. Fiber-optic components plus electronic and other components plus software will combine to support global-communication equipment valued at several trillion dollars in 2025. This expansion of communication capabilities will support continued growth in productivity.


Optoelectronics leading the surge

Active optoelectronic components contributed 16% to total global fiber-optic component value in 1975, and by 2000 these components will climb to a 40% share of total value ($6.29 billion), as noted in Table 1. This amount includes transmitters, receivers, transceivers, optical amplifiers (fiber and semiconductor), and other active components. Dynamic growth will continue, reaching a 52% share ($383 billion) by 2025. Fiber-optic cable deployment will expand less rapidly, with consumption share dropping to 5%. Components not yet significant in the market, and mostly not yet visible, will hold a 24% share of global consumption by the next quarter centennial.


This dramatic expansion of deployed fiber-optic component value underlies the much larger growth of the global broadband-communication network. This network expansion, in turn, has enabled major worldwide increases in transport service revenues, supported by the Internet explosion, massive global-data transfer, and other significant services that were inconceivable in 1975. Without the bandwidth explosion, this massive revenue growth would not have occurred.



The growth of network capacity has been driven by the reasonable expectation of attractive returns on the investment of capital. New technologies (laser diodes, optical-fiber amplifiers, dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM), micro-optoelectromechanical systems, etc.) and government interaction (deregulation and basic R&D support, for example) have been enablers, not drivers. Without expectation of financial, national security (military), or altruistic returns, technologies do not advance beyond demonstration.



It is important to recognize the relatively large impetus for communication bandwidth growth provided by the quest for military superiority. The Internet, for example, originated in, and its development was funded by, national security concerns. Without this need, the Internet would not now exist. Military need is now driving the emergence of tera-FLOP computers in the volume of a small shoebox-a precursor of 2015 commercial desktops, and, incidentally, crammed with very-high-density optical interconnect.


Advanced services

The growth of communication bandwidth over the past quarter-century, and the forecasted growth, mimics the dynamic growth pattern of digital electronic integrated circuits (ICs). In the IC world, we saw very strong continued growth of element quantities, partly offset by falling function prices, supporting strong growth of the markets for end products dependent on ICs and related services. In the digital device realm, the perennial question has been who will need, a decade ahead, such huge quantities of smaller/faster/cheaper computers, copiers, facsimile machines-and the demand has continued. Those who say the recent growth in Internet traffic (and the related expansion of network bandwidth and the supporting equipment) is unprecedented need only to look at the history of the electronic IC and the dynamic growth of equipment and services which the IC made possible.



Similarly, a long lineup of bandwidth-dependent products and services will be spawned and will achieve impressive growth, supported by the rapidly falling cost of transport per gigabit-kilometer. This lineup will include:




Video entertainment in the form of digital-TV-based, life-size, high-definition, 3D, lifelike color, supported by major advances in program generation, using tens of megabits per receiver
Videophone, a service that will see large 3D color screens in over 100 million homes worldwide by 2025
Videoconferencing, one-on-one via the Internet to desktop, laptop, and group-to-group
Massive, instantaneous, continuous global data transfer among millions of businesses large and small and intraoffice operation of multiple high-end interconnected workstations to form supercomputers
Data collection from instrumentation for industrial, residential, business, and military applications.



Globalization continues

The economics and governmental actions of the world`s nations (especially those most advanced) will be come much more interdependent.



Global Networks: A few global subscriber-to-subscriber carriers will dominate global communication. TeleGlobe is a template. AT&T will become a leading global carrier. This globalization will be accomplished through acquisitions, mergers, and partnerships plus new builds and be supported by massive deployment of terrestrial and submarine utility (for lease) fiber cable. Cellular (terrestrial and satellite), satellite long-haul, and cable networks will become integrated into the multipurpose subscriber-to-subscriber networks. Local-exchange carriers will become increasingly irrelevant. Private global optical networks will proliferate. Communication (voice, data, and graphics/ video) to anyone, anywhere, any time, at low cost, will be feasible with a pocket transceiver. Language translation, voice to hard copy, party location/connection, speech recognition, and other expanded services will become common. With continuing merging of networks and expansion of throughput, network interfaces increasingly will accommodate all signal formats on a single channel. Network equipment will become multiprotocol. Equipment vendors correspondingly will merge into larger vendors providing this equipment.



Global Businesses: The merging of common-interest business operations will continue. The dominant communication-dependent businesses will have production, research, management, and customer-interface operations widely dispersed around the globe, supported by high-bandwidth, instantaneous communication. The physical location of knowledge workers will change radically, with major expansion of telecommuting. Small-office/home-office optical-fiber connections will be common, which will support a significant shift in demographics: Hundreds of thousands of workers will relocate to areas of lower cost and/or more pleasant housing. Commuting traffic will be substantially reduced. The upward trend in business travel will level off.



Globalization of government: Developed countries increasingly will coordinate worldwide economic, military, humanitarian, and other activities through global cooperative groups such as the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, North American Free Trade Association, United Nations, military co-ops such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and other linkages.


Increased role of small subscribers

As we enter the next century, large businesses, plus government and education, dominate fiber-optic communication. Yet over 90% of North American businesses are now small or medium businesses (less than 100 or 100-499 employees, respectively) with only minor fiber connections. Low-cost, ubiquitous broadband communication will support strong growth in the number of small businesses, including home business offices. Telecommute offices will also proliferate. These, plus over 200 million global residential subscribers by 2025, will have fiber connections. Competition will drive business fiber connections to greater reliability through diverse access to buildings (pioneered by Metropolitan Fiber Systems, mesh/ring networks, and optical switches).



Fiber-optic high-bandwidth networks will free communication from transport capacity and cost limits. Digital communication will join digital data processing in a merged stream of strongly expanding market value of products and services.


Component advancement continues

Over the past decade, major progress in fiber-optic component performance has been achieved. Optical-fiber amplifiers and DWDM systems have evolved into widespread use. Laser-diode modulation rates have multiplied from 622 Mbits/sec to 10 Gbits/sec, with 40 Gbits/sec now in an introductory phase. Fiber performance has improved. These trends will continue, resulting in a total usable singlemode transmission band of over 400 nm that will support over 1000 wavelength channels with modulation rates of 160 Gbits/sec (see Fig. 2).


Other advancements include:

Transparent optical-crossconnect switches that support instantaneous traffic-flow reconfiguration and disaster recovery and that scale to 1024x1024-channel nonblocking interconnect
Continued evolution from discrete components to integrated "supercomponents" to hybrid optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs) to monolithic OEICs, all with increased performance and lower cost
The all-optical network (AON), spanning continents with high-data-rate, highly meshed DWDM without regeneration
All-optical packet switches, including Internet routers
Increased capacity via subcarrier modulation



The most dynamic growth in fiber-optic component value over the next quarter-century will be achieved by passive components. Their consumption value will expand at an average 20% per year, as noted in Table 1, to reach $141 billion by 2025. Passive components include connectors, couplers/ splitters, filters, and optical ("transparent") switches, as detailed in Table 2, plus a share of the "other components" category. (The other components category includes miscellaneous components now known but holding small market shares, such as remotely tunable passive components, plus components not yet emerged into the commercial market, such as subnanosecond optical packet header switches.)


The annual growth rate of fiber-optic cable deployment value exceeded 100% per year in the early years of the bandwidth revolution but has been continually shrinking. This trend will continue, reaching near-zero by 2025, and averaging only 9% per year between 2000 and 2025.



Networks will continue to evolve to include global subscriber-to-subscriber networks; consolidation to a few global networks, supported by utility fiber cables; anyone, anywhere, any-time instant instrument-to-instrument voice, video, and data interconnect; and global communication throughput capacity (gigabits x kilometers) expansion by over 10,000 times the year 2000 level. Petabit links will become common.



Just as the growth in bandwidth has mimicked that in ICs, so too have fiber-optic components, to date, remained at the same level of technology and integration as occupied by electronics through the mid-`60s. Electronic circuits consisted of vacuum tubes, discrete resistors/capacitors/inductors, switches, and wire. That all changed with the invention and introduction of the transistor and its next step, the IC, forging a watershed era of electronics. Without solid-state ICs, the current level of electronic equipment technology (and the services this equipment enables) would have been inconceivable.



Although very impressive OEIC results have been demonstrated (especially in the late `80s) by major laboratories worldwide, this technology has yet to reach significant production. Thus, in fiber-optic component use, we are still in the discrete-component, "bolt-together" assembly era. Production quantities and performance limits, however, are now sufficient to encourage phasing into OEIC production. Alcatel, Lucent, Bookham, and others are now moving into volume production of hybrid OEIC transceivers, which will have significant impact on equipment designs in 2000 and the years beyond. By 2025, 2.5-Gbit/sec transceivers will be available at below $10.



Optoelectronic integration will evolve from hybrid to monolithic multichannel units. Sub-nanosecond, highly integrated monolithic optical switches will be available at less than $1 per switch point. High-throughput optical-network switches (ATM, digital crossconnect, and Internet router) will evolve from optical/electronic/optical architecture to transparent optical-channel switches. The rapidly falling per-function cost made feasible by this evolution of fiber-optic component integration will enable dramatic, economically attractive emergence of networks having greatly expanded capacity and capability in applications ranging from micron-level to global reach.


Extreme volatility ahead

The communication industry in the United States, as it relates to fiber optics, can be roughly explained as consisting of six levels (see Fig. 3). Before MCI pricked the monopoly bubble, the industry was tightly regulated; exhibited modest, steady, easily forecasted growth of services; was performance (versus cost) oriented; featured slowly evolving technology (courtesy of Bell Laboratories); and relied on quasi-proprietary telecommunications equipment. The monopoly grasp gradually weakened over the past quarter-century, resulting in the breakup of the U.S. Bell System and the emergence of cable-TV and cellular-phone service providers, plus local-exchange bypass (competitive access provider) networks, rapid expansion of MCI and Sprint, and other contributions.


The communication industry has shifted from turbulent to chaotic over the 1995-2000 span under the impact of the U.S. Telecommunication Deregulation Act (which sparked deregulation and privatization worldwide), plus the explosive emergence of Internet services, service providers, and subscribers. This time period has also seen impressive technology advancement, plus the surge of investment capital into North America as it retreated from Asia and Eastern Europe. We have seen a flood of new company startups, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings.


Shakedown and shakeout

Substantial shakedown and shakeout will occur over the next quarter-century, as investment funding returns to a more normal global distribution and as the startups of the `90s phase into head-to-head competition with established vendors. Major corporations that have had little involvement in optical communications to date are now planning aggressive entry.



Traditional local-exchange carriers will wither and/or will be absorbed into global fiber-optic network competitors. Services (voice, video, data, and Internet) and service providers (local-exchange and long-haul telecommunications, cable TV, direct-broadcast satellite, and cellular) will coalesce into a few full-service global networks earning over 80% of communication service revenue.



The past decade has brought a major increase in the transiency of people, especially professionals. This major relocation of professionals between countries, as well as within countries, will expand, which will support the advancement of technology and commerce but have serious social implications relative to individual sense of community.



Jeff Montgomery is chairman of ElectroniCast Corp. (San Mateo, CA).

[seroone]

Hi,@New Econ!

Zu deiner Frage: Mein Kursziel bis Dezember 120-160Euro!

Gruß, auch an Erbse und allen anderen LEIGHT PATH Fans.
sero one

[NewEcon]

Seroone, 160 Euro hoert sich aber ambitioniert an. Ich wäre schon zufrieden, wenn LPTH bis Ende 2000 3-stellig steht.

[seroone]

Darum mein Kursziel!
LIGHT PATH ist ein sog."Start-up-Unternehmen" und wird in den nächsten Jahren zu den High-Flighern zählen.
Die US-Hightech-Schmiede ist im Besitz revolutionärer Patenten und einer bahnbrechender Technologie im Bereich der Lasertechnik.
Damit ist ein entscheidender Durchbruch gelungen, optische Systeme im Bereich des Telekomunikations- und Internetmarkt zur Verfügung zu stellen.
Und schon gehören große institutionelle Anleger wie Citigroup,J.P.Morgen und Pain Webber zu den Aktienkäufern (wenn auch einstweilen nur mit kleinen Aktienpaketen).
Auch große Unternehmen wie ANTEC kooperieren bereits mit LIGHT PATH im Bereich hybrieder fiber/coaxial Breitbandtechnologie und LIGHT PATH rüstet weiter auf!
Seit dem Einbruch im April, geht er für diesen revolutionären Tietel im Kurs wieder aufwärts.
Es gäbe noch vieles zu schreiben,....

Ich hoffe, ich konnte mein Kursziel erläutern und @wernär 120-160 ist ja dreistellig.

mfg
01

[seroone]

Sorry, nicht @wernär sondern @New Econ, New Econ ich hoffe ich hab´s
jetzt.
01

[NewEcon]

mit 3-stellig habe ich so um die 100 gemeint. Wenn LPTH auf 160 geht, auch nicht schlecht.

[seroone]

Diese Aktie ist ein muß!
LIGHTPATH holt Schwung für neue Höhen.
Die 70Euro werden jetzt in Angriff genommen.

Gruß
01

[seraleone]

Die Konsolidierung bei LIGHTPATH scheint in Kürze überstanden zu sein.
Ein Einstieg in LIGHTPATH wird bald mit steigendem Kurs belohnt.

Gruß
seraleone

[MDTBB]

was heißt bald??? wollte gestern fast aussteigen um meinen Gewinn zu sichern und weiter unten wieder zugreifen!
Hast Du irgendwelche Neuigkeiten?

Meinst Du die 40 hällt? Wenn nicht befürchte ich, daß wir wieder Richtung 25 marschieren!!