Chart: Digital Logic Semiconductor Stocks - Normalized Net Profit Margins

Rob Zenilman submits: Normalized net profit margins in the Digital Logic Semiconductor sector for the most recently reported quarter ranged from 28.8% (QLGC) down to -83.1% (MTLK), with a median value of 6.5%

Note: Normalized net income includes the effect of taxes, but excludes any unusual items.

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			Total	Norm. Net	Norm. Net
		Quarter	Revenue	Profit	Profit
Ticker	Company	Ending	($mm)	($mm)	Margin (%)
AATI	Advanced Analogic Te	03/31/06	$18.29	$2.28	12.4%
ACTL	Actel Corp.	04/02/06	$46.27	$0.31	0.7%
ACTS	Actions Semiconducto	03/31/06	$35.83	$10.12	28.2%
AGR	Agere Systems Inc.	03/31/06	$397.00	$7.50	1.9%
ALTR	Altera Corp.	03/31/06	$292.83	$60.63	20.7%
AMCC	Applied Micro Circui	03/31/06	$66.99	$1.99	3.0%
AMD	Advanced Micro Devic	03/26/06	$1332.16	$168.89	12.7%
AMIS	AMIS Holdings Inc.	04/01/06	$138.60	$8.55	6.2%
ANAD	Anadigics, Inc.	04/01/06	$35.72	-$2.90	-8.1%
ATHR	Atheros Communicatio	03/31/06	$61.08	$7.45	12.2%
ATYT	ATI Technologies Inc	02/28/06	$672.36	$38.38	5.7%
BRCM	Broadcom Corp.	03/31/06	$900.65	$182.92	20.3%
CNXT	Conexant Systems Inc	03/31/06	$242.58	$8.53	3.5%
CRUS	Cirrus Logic Inc.	03/25/06	$42.16	$4.50	10.7%
CTLM	Centillium Communica	03/31/06	$20.25	$0.72	3.6%
CY	Cypress Semiconducto	04/02/06	$249.14	$9.47	3.8%
DLGS	Dialog Semiconductor	12/31/05	$46.23	$3.05	6.6%
EXAR	Exar Corp.	03/31/06	$17.57	$2.35	13.4%
FCS	Fairchild Semiconduc	04/02/06	$409.50	$20.61	5.0%
FSL	Freescale Semiconduc	03/31/06	$1526.00	$136.25	8.9%
GNSS	Genesis Microchip In	03/31/06	$60.86	$0.27	0.4%
HIFN	hi/fn Inc.	03/31/06	$11.72	-$1.56	-13.3%
IDTI	Integrated Device Te	04/02/06	$167.46	-$17.86	-10.7%
INTC	Intel Corp.	04/01/06	$8940.00	$1544.00	17.3%
IRF	International Rectif	03/31/06	$297.08	$24.21	8.1%
LSCC	Lattice Semiconducto	03/31/06	$57.45	-$0.30	-0.5%
LSI	LSI Logic Corp.	03/31/06	$475.88	$26.78	5.6%
MATH	MathStar, Inc.	03/31/06	$0.01	-$2.99	N/A
MCRL	Micrel Inc.	03/31/06	$68.15	$11.54	16.9%
MRVL	Marvell Technology G	01/31/06	$489.02	$73.26	15.0%
MSCC	Microsemi Corp.	04/02/06	$84.85	$16.71	19.7%
MSPD	Mindspeed Technologi	03/31/06	$34.61	-$2.21	-6.4%
MTLK	Metalink Ltd.	03/31/06	$3.07	-$2.55	-83.1%
NVDA	NVIDIA Corp.	04/30/06	$681.81	$91.33	13.4%
OVTI	OmniVision Technolog	01/31/06	$137.28	$24.46	17.8%
PHG	Koninklijke Philips	03/31/06	$8923.55	$208.75	2.3%
PLAY	PortalPlayer Inc.	03/31/06	$72.30	$10.76	14.9%
PMCS	PMC-Sierra Inc.	04/02/06	$87.78	$5.65	6.4%
PXLW	Pixelworks Inc.	03/31/06	$36.56	-$5.20	-14.2%
QCOM	QUALCOMM Inc.	03/26/06	$1834.00	$484.38	26.4%
QLGC	QLogic Corp.	04/02/06	$130.45	$37.60	28.8%
QUIK	QuickLogic Corp.	03/31/06	$9.33	-$0.17	-1.8%
SMSC	Standard Microsystem	02/28/06	$84.63	$16.57	19.6%
TRID	Trident Microsystems	03/31/06	$44.74	$5.71	12.8%
TXCC	TranSwitch Corp.	03/31/06	$9.65	-$1.34	-13.9%
TXN	Texas Instruments In	03/31/06	$3334.00	$570.38	17.1%
VIMC	Vimicro Internationa	03/31/06	$26.41	$2.63	10.0%
VTSS	Vitesse Semiconducto	12/31/05	$53.01	-$7.85	-14.8%
WEDC	White Electronic Des	04/01/06	$27.38	$1.74	6.4%
XLNX	Xilinx Inc.	04/01/06	$472.34	$83.56	17.7%
ZRAN	Zoran Corp.	03/31/06	$112.08	$3.18	2.8%

Data: CapitalIQ

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