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COPYRIGHT 2003 Adams Business Media
The Cooper Companies, Inc.
21062 Bake Parkway, Suite 200
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Phone: 949-597-4700
Fax: 949-597-0662
COO: NYSE
Price: $30.16 (as of 04/09/03)
Market Cap: 89.4 Mil
Sector: Medical Devices
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
The Cooper Companies is a medical device company operating in two attractive specialty markets: contact lenses in the vision care market through CooperVision, and diagnostics and devices used in women's healthcare through CooperSurgical. In both these markets, Cooper offers proprietary, patented and, where possible, differentiated products. At CooperVision, the company develops new products and improves manufacturing processes through research and engineering. Its business development activities focus on geographic expansion and, occasionally, product acquisition. At CooperSurgical, the company developes new products internally, licenses innovative technology and continues to consolidate the highly fragmented women's healthcare market through product and company acquisitions.
INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT
B. Norris Battin
21062 Bake Parkway, Suite 200
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Phone: 949-597-4700
Fax: 949-768-3688
ir@coopercos.com
INVESTMENT RESEARCH THESES
"We continue to recommend Cooper with an Outperform rating as one of our favorite ideas in the contact lens industry. The company reported a strong better-than-expected fiscal first quarter 2003 (January) with total revenue of $94 million, up 62% (+56% in constant currency), beating our $86 million forecast and EPS of $0.44, beating both our $0.41 and the Street consensus estimate of $0.42, exceeding its pre-release, and increasing its fiscal year guidance."
--Suey Wong, Robert W. Baird & Co., February 27, 2003
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