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Atmel (ATML) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities : $210 Mil (As of Dec. 2015)


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What is Atmel Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities?

Atmel's quarterly cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities increased from Jun. 2015 ($196.36 Mil) to Sep. 2015 ($218.74 Mil) but then stayed the same from Sep. 2015 ($218.74 Mil) to Dec. 2015 ($210.25 Mil).

Atmel's annual cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities declined from Dec. 2013 ($279.06 Mil) to Dec. 2014 ($206.94 Mil) but then increased from Dec. 2014 ($206.94 Mil) to Dec. 2015 ($210.25 Mil).


Atmel Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Historical Data

The historical data trend for Atmel's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Atmel Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Chart

Atmel Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities
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Atmel Quarterly Data
Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15
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Atmel Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Calculation

Cash and cash equivalents are the most liquid assets on the balance sheet. Cash equivalents are assets that are readily convertible into cash, such as money market holdings, short-term government bonds or Treasury bills, marketable securities and commercial paper.

Marketable Securities are very liquid securities that can be converted into cash quickly at a reasonable price.


Atmel  (NAS:ATML) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Explanation

Marketable securities are very liquid as they tend to have maturities of less than one year. Furthermore, the rate at which these securities can be bought or sold has little effect on their prices.

A high number means either:

1) The company has competitive advantage generating lots of cash

2) Just sold a business or bonds (not necessarily good)

A low stockpile of cash usually means poor to mediocre economics.

There are 3 ways to create large cash reserve.

1) Sell new bonds or equity to public

2) Sell business or asset

3) It has an ongoing business generating more cash than it burns (usually means durable competitive advantage)

When a company is suffering a short term problem, Buffett looks at cash or marketable securities to see whether it has the financial strength to ride it out.

Important: Lots of cash and marketable securities + little debt = good chance that the business will sail on through tough times.

Test to see what is creating cash by looking at past 7 yrs of balance sheets. This will reveal how the cash was created.


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Atmel (ATML) Business Description

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Atmel Corp was originally incorporated in California on December 5, 1984 and was reincorporated in Delaware in October 1999. The Company designs, develops and supplies microcontrollers, which are self-contained computers-on-a-chip. It organizes its business into four reportable operating segments; Microcontrollers, Nonvolatile Memories, Radio Frequency, and Application Specific Integrated Circuits. Its Microcontrollers segment includes Atmel's maXTouch capacitive touch product families and its general purpose microcontroller and microprocessor families, AVR 8-bit and 32-bit products, ARM based products, Atmel's 8051 8-bit products, designated commercial wireless products, including low power radio and SOC products that meet Zigbee and Wi-Fi specifications and optimized products for mobile sensor hub, smart energy, touch button and LED lighting applications. Its Nonvolatile Memories segment includes electrically erasable programmable read-only "EEPROM" and erasable programmable read-only memory "EPROM" devices. Its Radio Frequency and Automotive segment includes automotive electronics, wireless and wired devices for industrial, consumer and automotive applications and foundry services. Its Application Specific Integrated Circuits segment includes custom application specific integrated circuits designed to meet specialized single-customer requirements for its high performance devices, including products that provide hardware security for embedded digital systems, products with military and aerospace applications and application specific standard products for space applications, power management and secure cryptographic memory products. The Company markets its products in various countries to a diverse base of OEMs serving commercial markets. It also sells its products to OEM accounts through its direct sales force, using manufacturers' representatives or through national and regional distributors. It sells its products in United States, Asia and Europe. Throughout its product line, the Company competes with a number of semiconductor manufacturers, such as Cypress, Freescale, Infineon, Intel, Microchip, NXP Semiconductors, ON Semiconductor, Renesas, Samsung, Silicon Labs, Spansion, STMicroelectronics, Synaptics, and Texas Instruments. The Company relies on patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as nondisclosure agreements and other methods to protect its proprietary technologies and processes.
Executives
Steven Laub director, officer: President & CEO 5555 NE MOORE CT., HILLSBORO OR 97124
Stephen A Skaggs officer: SVP & CFO 5555 NE MOORE CT., HILLSBORO OR 97124
Charles Carinalli director
David Sugishita director 2325 ORCHARD PARKWAY, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Jack L Saltich director 9460 NORTH 57TH STREET, PARADISE VALLEY AZ 85253
Papken Der Torossian director 1250 RELIANCE WAY, FREMONT CA 94539
Jamie Samath officer: VP & Corporate Controller NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR, 2900 SEMICONDUCTOR DR, M/S C1-640, SANTA CLARA CA 95051
Stephen Cumming officer: VP Finance and CFO 2325 ORCHARD PARKWAY, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Walter Lifsey officer: EVP & Chief Operating Officer C/O GATES INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION PLC, 1144 FIFTEENTH STREET, SUITE 1400, DENVER CO 80202
T Peter Thomas director 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, 2-290 MENLO PARK CA 94025
Francis P Barton director C/O INVENTERGY GLOBAL, INC., 900 E. HAMILTON AVENUE, SUITE 180, CAMPBELL CA 95008

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