Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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May 17, 2010
Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. (ISSI, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-03-31.

Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. has a market cap of $260.53 million; its shares were traded at around $10.38 with a P/E ratio of 15.97 and P/S ratio of 1.69. ISSI is in the portfolios of Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates.

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In February 2008, all of the auctions for our auction-rate securities failed as a result of negative conditions in the global credit markets. Until the auctions are successful, a buyer is found outside of the auction process or the notes are redeemed, the investments are not liquid. We currently believe these securities are not significantly impaired, primarily due to the government backing of the underlying securities. However, if the issuers are unable to successfully close future auctions and their credit ratings deteriorate, we may be required to further adjust the carrying value of these investments and record an impairment charge to earnings for the decline in the fair values. In November 2008, we elected to participate in the Auction Rate Securities Rights offering by the broker through which we purchased our $20.0 million in auction rate securities. These rights will entitle us to sell our auction rate securities to the broker for a price equal to par value plus accrued but unpaid dividends beginning in June 2010. In addition, UBS Bank USA has established a no net cost credit line for us in an amount up to $13.4 million collateralized by our auction rate securities.

From September 2007 through December 2009, we repurchased shares of our common stock in the open market under Rule 10b-18 and pursuant to our tender offers. While we did not repurchase any shares in the three months ended March 31, 2010, in the three months ended December 31, 2009, we repurchased 244,941 shares of our common stock in the open market at an aggregate price of approximately $1.1 million. In addition, in fiscal 2009, we repurchased 2,050,340 shares of our common stock in the open market at an aggregate price of approximately $4.9 million, in fiscal 2008 we repurchased 10,203,282 shares for an aggregate price of $71.1 million which includes 10,000,000 shares we repurchased in January 2008 for an aggregate price of $70 million pursuant to a tender offer and in fiscal 2007, we repurchased 1,181,148 shares for an aggregate price of $7.4 million. At March 31, 2010, we had outstanding authorization from our Board to purchase up to an additional $3.8 million of our common stock from time to time. Although our Board of Directors has determined that these repurchase programs are in the best interests of our stockholders, these repurchases expose us to a number of risks including:

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