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February 11, 2010

Research Report

Analyst: Vitalie Eremia, CFA Associate: Oxana Sutreac

NEWMARKET TECHNOLOGY, INC.

RATING: BUY

TARGET PRICE: $1.47

Market data $ millions 2008a 2009e 2010f 2011f 2012f

Recent price, $ 0.028 Revenue 95.1 105.6 149.8 193.1 243.1

Market Cap, $ mn 0.5 Operating income 0.9 2.1 7.0 13.3 19.7

Shares out., mn 18.7 Operating margin 0.9% 2.0% 4.7% 6.9% 8.1%

52wk range, $ 0.01 – 1.01 Net income -30.3 0.2 3.2 5.7 6.7

Net margin -31.9% 0.2% 2.1% 2.9% 2.8%

EPS, $ -2.79 0.01 0.13 0.22 0.25

Source: Reuters, SEC filings, analyst estimates

Summary

NewMarket Technology (NewMarket) is an IT services company reselling hardware and software and offering systems integration and other IT services primarily in emerging markets, as well as in USA. The company enjoyed rapid growth before 2008 and aims to resume double-digit growth rates in 2010, having already announced a number of significant contracts. NewMarket is profitable and mostly cash flow positive, and we expect margins and cash flows to improve as the company grows its business. NewMarket’s strategy revolves around emerging markets, especially Latin America, Asia and Africa, which are expected to grow much faster than the mature markets in developed countries due to low saturation, high demand and lack of big competitors dominating developed markets. NewMarket has also announced plans to operate a sort of a business incubator through its Greenfield partnership program, helping emerging technology startups take off with a view of integrating successful ones into its own operations in emerging markets. Three companies currently participate in the program and one of them is being readied for launching commercial operations in Africa. Among the main risks associated with NewMarket we see the complex strategy involving Worldwide Strategies Inc. (see the report for details). While the goals of the strategy are legitimate as it aims to provide long-term investment return to NewMarket shareholders, the exact implementation of these plans remains veiled. Another risk is the company’s operations in Venezuela, whose eccentric leader is notorious for expropriating assets owned by foreign investors. We feel that the company is heavily undervalued as its $0.5 million market value is significantly below its tangible book value of $19 million. Our valuation suggests that NewMarket should be valued at $1.47 per share.


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Table of Contents NewMarket Technology, Inc. ......................................................................................................................... 1

Summary .................................................................................................................................................... 1

Investment Highlights .................................................................................................................................... 3

Investment Risks ........................................................................................................................................... 4

SWOT ............................................................................................................................................................ 5

Valuation ........................................................................................................................................................ 6

Projections ................................................................................................................................................. 6

DCF valuation ............................................................................................................................................ 6

Relative valuation ...................................................................................................................................... 8

Final valuation ............................................................................................................................................ 9

Company Profile .......................................................................................................................................... 10

Products and services ............................................................................................................................. 10

Corporate strategy ................................................................................................................................... 10

Focus on emerging markets................................................................................................................. 10

Focus on emerging technologies – the Greenfield partnership program ............................................. 10

Investor return strategy ........................................................................................................................ 11

Tiered business development approach .............................................................................................. 11

Management team ................................................................................................................................... 12

Financial Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 14

Income Statement .................................................................................................................................... 14

Balance Sheet.......................................................................................................................................... 15

Cash Flows .............................................................................................................................................. 17

Market Overview.......................................................................................................................................... 18

Disclaimer .................................................................................................................................................... 19


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INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Fast revenue growth NewMarket has exhibited outstanding growth since its launch. The company reports that it grew from under $1 million in revenue in 2003 to over $50 million in 2005. It further almost doubled its revenues by 2008, when it recorded $95 million. In recognition of this dynamic development, in 2006, NewMarket received several Technology Fast 500 awards from Deloitte

1: for being the #1 fastest

growing technology company in Texas, the #3 fastest growing technology company in the United States and #5 fastest growing technology company overall in North America. NewMarket intends to resume fast growth in 2010, planning to achieve $150 million in sales and announcing an ambition to reach $1 billion within five years. A recent webcast revealed that in addition to the existing $100 million in revenues and $100 million worth of new contracts signed (see below), NewMarket has another $100 million in 2010 outsourcing service contract pipeline and $200 million in ODM (“Original design manufacturing”) contract pipeline in China

2. NewMarket’s CEO also

announced that a new ODM contract could be announced soon that could become the largest contract in the company’s history and its value could even exceed its current annual revenues

3. With these metrics,

NewMarket plans to reach $300 million in sales in 2011.

Awards In addition to the 2006 Deloitte awards mentioned above, NewMarket boasts several others. Namely, the company was awarded the Tech Titans #1 award in 2007, and #5 in 2008, and it was a finalist in the 2007 Dallas Chamber International Business Achievement Awards. NewMarket also ranks 279

th in the 2009

VAR 500 ranking for the third year in a row (with slight variations in exact rank). These awards illustrate NewMarket’s leadership and can serve as a marketing tool for recruiting new customers.

Major new contracts In recent months, NewMarket has announced several multimillion deals that should help the company reach its $150-million revenue goal in 2010. Most recently, the company announced a three-year $36-million contract in China. This contract followed earlier announcements of two similar contracts: another $30-million contract in China and a $33-million contract in Latin America (both for three-year terms). These three contracts translate into $33 million in average annual revenues – one-third of NewMarket’s current annual sales! With such pace of new contract signing, reaching the $150 million goal should not be difficult to achieve.

Focus on recurring revenues NewMarket has announced its increased focus on growing recurring revenues, as well as on extending the average term of contracts beyond one year. The new CEO, Mr. Noller, has announced that progress was being made in this regard and that the percentage of recurring contracts in the company’s revenues is growing. This focus should help stabilize NewMarket’s revenues and make them more resilient to temporary market fluctuations. A greater degree of revenue predictability should also allow management to focus on other areas of company development, such as signing up new customers and expanding presence to new markets and market segments.

1 All awards information as reported by the company.

2 Contract pipeline apparently refers to contracts being negotiated, but not yet finalized.

3 Of course there are no guarantees for that, as warned by the Safe Harbor disclaimer relating to forward-looking statements at the

beginning of the webcast.

Source: company reports, analyst estimates (Q4-09).

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Focus on emerging markets NewMarket’s strategy revolves around exploiting opportunities in emerging markets, where competition is scarce, local expertise is weak and demand is growing. This strategy can be traced through the company’s expanding global network, which includes operations in Asia, Latin America and Africa. NewMarket expects to register 100% revenue growth from these markets in 2010.

Global presence NewMarket is bidding on monetizing high-growth regional opportunities and its global network illustrates the company’s outreach. NewMarket has regional operations in North America, Asia and Latin America, and is expanding into East Africa. China has proved as a high-growth market for NewMarket already, with two three-year contracts announced recently that total $66 million – two-thirds of the company’s annual turnover. International expansion pursues the goal of benefiting not only from emerging market trends but also from diversifying regional risks away.

Diversified product portfolio In addition to diversified geographic markets, NewMarket also has a diversified product portfolio. The company offers Systems Integration and Infrastructure services, Telecommunications services, Security solutions, and Healthcare solutions. NewMarket re-sells, installs, customizes and supports products from Microsoft, SAP, BAAN, SSA Global, and many other software companies, as well as emerging technologies from its subsidiary, affiliate, and partner products and services.

Experienced Management NewMarket’s management has decades of experience in technology and operational management – assets that are required to realize the company’s strategy involving start-ups and emerging markets. The company’s founder and chairman (and ex-CEO as of February 2010), Philip Verges has extensive experience in the technology field, having worked for the US Military and in private companies developing communication technologies. The newly appointed CEO, Bruce Noller, has over 25 years of financial, operational and marketing experience and has international management consulting experience in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Canada, Latin America and Europe.

Greenfield partner program NewMarket has announced its Greenfield partner program, through which the company will partner with promising technology startups and help them take off by providing them with back office and other resources. Successful companies will become part of the NewMarket universe and will be developed until their maturity is reached (i.e. sustainable profitable operations). Such business model should provide additional diversification, a source of revenue growth and economies of scale.

INVESTMENT RISKS

Assets in Venezuela NewMarket has a subsidiary in Venezuela, which serves the Latin American market and accounts for 8% of the company’s revenues and 6% of its total assets (as of Q3-09). While we are not familiar with the subsidiary’s relationship with local authorities, given the Venezuelan President’s past practices, we must note that risk of forced nationalization exists for NewMarket’s assets.

Appearance on the Regulation SHO “Threshold Security List” NewMarket’s stock has been listed on the above mentioned list due to the fact that a certain volume of failed naked short covers has been reached in 5 consecutive trading days. While this can hardly affect the operational performance of the company, it may in theory be associated with negative developments, at

Venezuela8%

Singapore2%

China42%

Brazil16%

USA32%

Q3-09 revenue


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least in the view of investors. Another possibility is a case of abusive naked short selling that may pursue an artificial depreciation of NewMarket’s share price. However, it is difficult to elucidate the true reason for the naked shorts on NewMarket’s stock and investors should just be aware of the situation.

Penny stock limitations As NewMarket’s stock trades under $5 per share on the OTC market, it is subject to Penny Stock rules, limiting the liquidity of the shares and potentially limiting investor’s ability to fully realize investment gains in a timely manner.

Confusing development strategy NewMarket has announced a multi-layered development strategy involving Worldwide Strategies Inc. (WWSG) and transferring businesses from NewMarket to WWSG, with subsequently issuing stock dividends to NewMarket shareholders. The strategy is not clearly defined on the company website and is only described in a series of webcasts with limited amount of details as to how exactly it will be implemented. This uncertainty may confuse and deter investors, at least until more information becomes available (a final deal with WWSG is expected to be reached soon). In addition, the costs of implementing this strategy are unknown, as well as how much management attention it will require (and management should be focused on growing sales and developing new operations at the same time). Please refer to the Company Overview section of this report for more details.

SWOT

Strengths Weaknesses

Profitable cash flow-positive operations

Diversified product portfolio

Diversified geographic markets

Experienced management

Recurring revenues

Growth stalled in recent years

Opportunities Threats

High growth potential in emerging markets

Emerging technology potential from Greenfield partnerships

Risk of expropriation in Venezuela

Share-related risks (penny stock and naked shorts)

WWSG-related strategy may not yield expected results or may be too costly to implement

Competition should toughen in emerging markets


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VALUATION

NewMarket is a growing company, it has announced a complex development strategy and has ambitious growth plans, all of which complicates valuation as there are many uncertain factors in the equation. We have constructed our projections based on the company’s public releases and took into account its corporate strategy that is based on operations in emerging markets, which should develop much more dynamically than the mature markets in developed countries. Our valuation is based on a combination of absolute valuation (DCF) and several relative valuation techniques.

Projections

NewMarket has voiced its plans to report $150 million in revenues in 2010, $300 million in 2011 and reach $1 billion in sales within five years. Our projections are not as bold, but we do believe that fast growth is more than possible, especially in the light of several new contract announcements in recent months. Revenue and income forecast

Source: company reports, analyst estimates.

DCF valuation

To build our DCF model, made the following assumptions for the model inputs:

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Stock Price, $ 0.028 Shares Outstanding, 000s 18,660.4 Market cap, $ 000s 522.5 Book Value of Net Debt, $ 000s 4,446.4 Enterprise value, $ 000s 4,968.9 Beta 2.56 Market premium 4.5% Risk free rate 3.7% Cost of Equity 15.2% Long-term Equity Weight 91.7% Cost of Debt 9.0% Long-term Tax rate 38.0% Tax Effected Cost of Debt 5.6% Long-term Debt Weight 8.3% WACC 14.4% Terminal growth 2.0% Forward diluted shares, 000s 28,166

Source: SEC filings, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, US Treasury, analyst estimates.

To calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) we used the book value of equity instead of market value as the latter resulted in very high leverage (net debt of over $4 million was compared to a market cap of just $0.5 million) and led to a WACC of just 6.6%, which we think is far too low. We should mention that NewMarket’s beta is roughly double the size of the median beta for peers (see below for peer data). FCF forecast $ millions 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Revenue 105.6 149.8 193.1 243.1 298.9 358.7 419.7 478.5 531.1 573.6 602.3 614.3 Revenue growth 11.0% 41.9% 28.9% 25.9% 23.0% 20.0% 17.0% 14.0% 11.0% 8.0% 5.0% 2.0% EBIT 2.1 7.0 13.3 19.7 27.9 37.9 44.4 50.6 56.2 60.7 63.7 65.0 EBIT margin 2.0% 4.7% 6.9% 8.1% 9.3% 10.6% 10.6% 10.6% 10.6% 10.6% 10.6% 10.6% EBIT*(1-tax) 2.1 6.9 10.3 12.2 17.3 23.5 27.5 31.4 34.8 37.6 39.5 40.3 (+) Dep & Amort

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2.2 -0.6 5.1 4.7 8.5 13.7 17.5 21.8 26.2 30.7 34.8 38.3

Terminal value 315.3 Discounted cash flow

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Discounted terminal value

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DCF valuation DCF valuation $ millions

DCF stream 70.7 DC terminal value 71.8 Total DC Enterprise Value 142.5 (Less) Net Debt 4.4 Equity Value 138.1 Price target, $ 4.90

The sensitivity of the DCF valuation to long-term growth rate and WACC is shown below:


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WACC

LT Growth ↓ 12.4% 14.4% 16.4% 1.0% 6.04 4.69 3.73 2.0% 6.39 4.90 3.87 3.0% 6.83 5.15 4.02

Even the conservative forecast of just 1% long-term growth rate (beyond the FCF forecast horizon) and of 16.4% WACC results in a share value which is much higher than the current market price.

Relative valuation

For relative valuation we used four multiples-based techniques: P/E, EV/Sales, EV/EBITDA and P/B. As peers we picked publicly traded companies that offer IT systems integration services. These companies are much larger than NewMarket and may not be fully comparable, but we believe that they are nonetheless relevant. Peer companies

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NCI, Inc. (NCIT)

Longtop Financial Technologies Limited (LFT)

Ness Technologies Inc. (NSTC)

CIBER, Inc. (CBR)

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (CTSH)

ATOS ORIGIN (ATO.PA)

LOGICA (LOG.L)

CAP GEMINI (CAP.PA) Peers’ market data (in respective currencies): Ticker Currency Price Mkt Cap, mn EV, mn TTM sales, mn

NCIT $ 25.68 346.2 375.2 445.4

LFT $ 33.23 1,717.7 1,495.5 130.1

NSTC $ 5.60 215.3 216.1 547.4

CBR $ 3.21 223.2 271.5 1,055.0

CTSH $ 46.34 13,657.0 12,257.7 3,278.7

ATO.PA € 31.91 2,224.8 2,790.1 5,349.1

LOG.L £ 1.15 1,840.7 2,386.1 3,694.7

CAP.PA € 30.83 4,746.5 4,775.5 8,712.0

Source: Yahoo Finance, Euronext, SEC filings

Peer multiples (2010e): Ticker P/E EV/Sales EV/EBITDA* P/B (tangible)

NCIT 14.4 0.7 n/a 552.11

LFT 21.2 6.9 n/a 6.60

NSTC 13.7 0.4 n/a 3.15

CBR 10.4 0.3 n/a 4.91

CTSH 22.9 3.1 n/a 5.73

ATO.PA 11.9 0.5 5.5 n/m

LOG.L 10.6 0.7 8.1 n/m

CAP.PA 12.2 0.6 6.2 4.38

Median 12.9 0.6 6.2 5.32

* EBITDA forecasts available only for European companies (from Yahoo Finance France)

4 The last three companies in the list are listed on European exchanges and their stock symbols here are as reported by Yahoo!

Finance.


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Source: based on analyst consensus data from Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Finance France.

Relative valuation: P/E valuation $

EPS FY2010e 0.13 Peers' multiple (median), 2010 12.9 Price target, $ 1.68

EV/Sales valuation $ millions

Sales FY2010e 149.8 Peers' multiple (median), 2010 0.6 Enterprise value 90.8 (Less) Net Debt 4.4 Equity Value 86.4 Price target, $ 3.07

EV/EBITDA valuation $ millions

EBITDA FY2010e 7.2 Peers' multiple (median),TTM 6.2 Enterprise value 44.6 (Less) Net debt 4.4 Equity value 40.2 Price target, $ 1.43

P/B valuation $ millions

Tangible book value, latest reported 19.0 Peers' multiple (median) (MRQ) 5.3 Equity value 100.7 Price target, $ 3.58

Final valuation

Equally weighted average of the five valuation techniques results in $2.93 per share. We believe that this target warrants a discount to allow for the possibility that NewMarket will develop less dynamically than planned (although our forecasts already are more modest than the company’s own plans). We believe that 50% is quite a conservative discount, resulting in a fair value of NewMarket’s share of $1.47, which is over 50 times larger than the current market price, but we don’t believe it is not an overestimation.


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COMPANY PROFILE

NewMarket Technology Inc. provides various information technology services and resells products from recognized brands globally. The company was established in 1997 as a family business and has grown to almost $100 million in annual revenues. NewMarket is listed on the OTC Pinksheets market under the symbol NWMT.

Products and services

NewMarket offers an array of IT services to its customers:

Systems integration and technology infrastructure services;

Computer hardware distribution from brand partners such as Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco, Sony, Epson, Canon and Sanyo;

Reselling of operating systems and various software from Microsoft, Red Hat, Sybase, IBM, BEA, Veritas and others;

Telecommunication services: VoIP and traditional telephony, as well as providing the necessary infrastructure and hardware for a complete implementation;

Data security solutions;

Healthcare technology solutions. In addition to the above, pursuant to its Greenfield partnership program, NewMarket partners with emerging technology companies and thus the range of available products and services is being expanded.

Corporate strategy

NewMarket has adopted a multi-layered strategy to take the company from the current $100 million in annual sales to $1 billion in five years’ time.

Focus on emerging markets

NewMarket is focusing on emerging markets as its primary customer base. This approach offers a number of important advantages, such as:

Lack of competition, especially from large well-established companies that saturate western markets;

Economic growth in emerging markets fuels demand for NewMarket’s services;

Lack of supply may offer premium pricing opportunities in unsaturated markets;

Relatively fast pace of economic growth should allow quick revenue expansion;

Diversification of revenues across regions – many developing economies suffered significantly less during the 2008-2009 global downturn than western markets.

Currently, NewMarket has active operations in China, Singapore, Venezuela and Brazil, and is working on launching operations in East Africa.

Focus on emerging technologies – the Greenfield partnership program

NewMarket has announced its Greenfield partnership program, whereby the company partners with technology startups and provides them with various resources, such as back office, organizational structure and others, acting as a business incubator. The company plans to help such companies develop into successful operations, not least by taking their technologies to emerging markets, and then integrate the ones that succeed into NewMarket. This approach should help NewMarket build a diversified technology portfolio and increase revenues, although it will require extra resources and additional risk as there is no guarantee that every Greenfield partner will be successful. Currently, NewMarket has several Greenfield partners:


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NuMobile: software solutions for the mobile computing and smartphone market (North America, South America, China and East Africa).

Alternet: mobile payment and m-commerce systems and solutions that tie together telecom operators, financial institutions, and payees such as mass public transportation and utility providers (North America, South America, China and East Africa).

NovaEnergy: oil, gas, electric and alternative energy solutions (North America and East Africa).

Investor return strategy

This is where things get a little confusing. NewMarket recognizes that the OTC market is not exactly the most efficient one when it comes to long-term investing due to the disconnect between the company’s operational performance and the performance of the share price. However, NewMarket has decided to turn this weakness into a strength and is promoting what it calls “milestone investment”. This approach relies on share price spikes that occur when positive news releases are published and aims to offer short-term investment return opportunities.

Worldwide Strategies Inc. Strategic investors are planned to be catered through a special structure involving off-loading stable and profitable business operations to a second company listed on a national exchange in return for its preferred stock that will be “dividended” through to NewMarket shareholders. National exchange listing pursues the goal of providing investors with a “higher quality” stock that better suits long-term investing (e.g. less volatile than OTC-listed stock). The second company is going to be Worldwide Strategies Inc. (WWSG), which is currently no more than an empty shell company listed on the OTC market. Negotiations are apparently still ongoing between it and NewMarket. In a recent webcast (webcasts are NewMarket’s alternative to full press releases) the company has described its first planned transaction with WWSG. We have represented it graphically below. Proposed Worldwide Strategies transaction:

Steps 1 and 3 are supposed to become regular as NewMarket offloads its mature operations to WWSG, but it remains unclear to us how exactly the stock of WWSG will be transferred to NWMT shareholders (step 3).

Tiered business development approach

NewMarket has announced a three-tier approach to developing its businesses that brings together the sub-strategies we mentioned above. The scheme below describes this approach:

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We must admit that this strategy seems to be very ambitious and its implementation remains somewhat unclear (the WWSG part), but the ultimate goals and underlying principles have been clearly defined and make sense.

Management team5

Philip M. Verges – Founder, Chairman, ex-CEO A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Mr. Verges served in the U.S. Army with distinction in a wide variety of important engagements to include research and development of counter terrorism communication technologies and practices. After fulfilling his post-graduate military duties for the United States, Mr. Verges elected to pursue the private sector and was honorably discharged with the rank of captain. Mr. Verges' career after the Army included time in the Computer Sciences Research and Development Department of General Motors as an employee of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Mr. Verges’ first business start-up experience was also at EDS in a new division concentrating on call center technology in financial institutions. Later, Mr. Verges added to his start-up experience at a $30 million technology services business with the responsibility to open a new geographic region. In 2008, Mr. Verges was recognized as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist and a Tech Titans Corporate CEO Finalist. In addition to leading NewMarket, Mr. Verges is also a public speaker, giving several talks a year on topics ranging from emerging technologies to financial markets. Mr. verges was NewMarket’s CEO until February 2010.

Bruce A. Noller – CEO & Board Member Mr. Noller brings over 25 years of financial, operational and marketing experience to NewMarket. Prior to joining NewMarket, Mr. Noller served as President of Noller and Associates Inc., a Dallas-based Accounting and Tax firm. Prior to founding his own firm in 1994, he served as Vice President for Integrated Control Systems, a worldwide management consulting firm. During that time, Mr. Noller proposed and oversaw engagements with a variety of industries including healthcare, distribution, manufacturing, retail, banking, insurance, mining and telecommunications. Mr. Noller has international management consulting experience in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Canada, Latin America and Europe. Mr. Noller holds an MBA from the University of North Texas.

5 Source of management information: NewMarket.

Greenfield partnership

program

• Emerging technology startups developed

NewMarket

• Successful Greenfield partner businesses merged into NewMarket operations

Worldwide Strategies

• Mature NewMarket businesses off-loaded to WWSG


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Philip J. Rauch – Chief Financial Officer & Board Member Prior to his appointment at NewMarket, Mr. Rauch held the positions of chief operating officer and chief financial officer for Defense Technology Systems, Inc., a U.S.-based company that designs, manufactures and installs safety and security equipment for domestic and international business communities. Prior to his tenure at Defense Technology Systems, Mr. Rauch was vice president of business operations at AboveNet, and from 1993 to 1997, he served as CFO of Columbus Construction. Mr. Rauch also served as CFO for F. Garofalo Electric Co., a Local #3 IBEW engineering and construction company.


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FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

Income Statement

During the past five years NewMarket has turned in a profit every year except in FY2008, which was affected by lower gross margin, as well as impairments and write-downs: impairment of goodwill ($7.2 million), impairment of software ($2.8 million) and write-downs of bad debt and receivables ($18.6 million). Revenues have stalled in recent years after an extraordinary ascent. Selected income statement indicators: $ millions, except per share data 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Q1-09 Q2-09 Q3-09

Total revenue 25.0 50.1 77.6 93.1 95.1 19.3 24.5 31.7 Year-over-year growth 100.7% 54.8% 19.9% 2.1% -7.6% 7.8% -2.1%

Gross profit 11.5 18.6 21.9 25.8 20.3 3.0 5.3 6.1 SG&A expenses (10.3) (14.7) (16.6) (19.8) (19.0) (3.2) (3.2) (4.5) Other operating expenses (0.9) (0.2) (0.8) (0.8) (0.5) 0.0 (0.0) (0.0) Operating income 0.3 3.6 4.5 5.2 0.9 (0.2) 2.0 1.6 Interest expenses (0.2) (0.4) (0.5) (0.6) (1.1) (0.2) (0.3) (0.3) Bad debt expense (0.2) - - - (6.3) - - - Impairment of assets - - - (1.5) (22.4) - - - Other non-operating expenses 0.2 (0.2) 2.3 4.9 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.8 Net income 0.2 2.9 5.9 7.3 (30.3) (0.5) 1.2 1.6 EPS (diluted), $ 0.03 0.32 0.55 0.69 (2.79) (0.03) 0.08 0.08

Year-over-year growth 1019.3% 72.0% 26.6% -502.6% -132.8% 11.2% -42.9%

Gross margin 46.1% 37.0% 28.2% 27.7% 21.4% 15.6% 21.6% 19.2% Operating margin 1.3% 7.3% 5.7% 5.6% 0.9% -0.8% 8.3% 5.0% Net margin 0.6% 5.8% 7.6% 7.9% -31.9% -2.6% 4.9% 4.9%

Source: company reports, analyst calculations.

Evolution of NewMarket’s annual and quarterly revenue and income:

Source: company reports.

The company derives revenue from 3 business segments that had the following share in total revenue in FY2008:

Programming services – 94%;

Service agreements – 3%;

Hardware and software sales – 3%. China has the largest share of NewMarket’s revenues, with USA second:

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Revenues by geographic location for Q3-2009:

Note: USA derived on residual basis from other segment data. Source: company reports.

In Q3-FY2009 the SG&A expenses have increased 40% year-over-year due to the increase in number of employees in the Latin American and Chinese branches.

Balance Sheet

NewMarket’s balance sheet is dominated by goodwill and trade receivables that represented 28% and 40% of all assets, respectively, as of September 30, 2009. Cash and cash equivalents have averaged at 8% of total assets in recent years. Selected balance sheet items: $ thousands 2007 2008 Q3-2009

Trade and other receivables 20,730 17,974 21,668 Cash and cash equivalents 5,202 4,961 3,715 Other current assets 6,084 5,650 5,681

Total current assets 32,016 28,586 31,063 Goodwill 22,345 15,104 15,104 Tangible assets 1,012 803 783 Other non-current assets 19,707 6,962 6,684

Total non-current assets 42,052 22,066 21,788 Total assets 75,080 51,455 53,635

Current borrowings 5,041 5,604 4,673 Trade and other payables 4,178 8,038 7,244 Other current liabilities 3,599 2,761 3,964

Total Current liabilities 12,818 16,404 15,880 Total non-current liabilities 3,970 3,921 3,488 Equity 58,292 31,131 34,266 Total equity and liabilities 75,080 51,455 53,635

Source: company reports.

Unlike revenues, NewMarket’s assets are concentrated in the US, with China and Brazil having sizable shares too:

Venezuela8%

Singapore2%

China42%

Brazil16%

USA32%


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Geographic distribution of assets as of September 30, 2009:

Note: USA derived on residual basis from other segment data. Source: company reports.

Equity financed more than half of total assets as of September 30, 2009. Equity financing is currently the company’s main source of external funding as management is not willing to undertake long-term borrowing due to unstable revenue flow and difficult predictability of demand. The financial gearing ratio has averaged at 1.5 during the past five years. The recent increase in the gearing ratio is due to the decrease in net income and increase in client receivables. Leverage ratios: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Q1-09 Q2-09 Q3-09

Total debt to assets 32.4% 36.4% 30.1% 22.4% 39.5% 36.6% 35.9% 36.1% Total debt to equity 47.9% 57.2% 43.0% 28.8% 65.3% 57.8% 56.0% 56.5% Return on assets 0.6% 5.6% 9.1% 9.8% -59.0% -1.0% 2.4% 2.9% Return on equity 0.9% 8.9% 13.0% 12.6% -97.5% -1.6% 3.7% 4.5% Financial gearing 1.5 1.6 1.4 1.3 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.6


Fast company growth warrants a deeper look at turnover and cash conversion cycle as it is common to aggressively grow sales at the cost of lengthening the latter. The receivables collection period gradually increased by 2008 (more than doubling since 2004), but seems to have recovered somewhat during 2009. Inventories have a minor stake in the cash conversion cycle, NewMarket primarily being an IT services company. In 2008 the company maintained liquidity by increasing the days payables outstanding by 17 days, thus decreasing the cash conversion cycle and improving the cash flows. Activity ratios Days 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Q1-09 Q2-09 Q3-09

Receivables collection period 32.4 69.3 64.1 64.4 73.3 75.5 59.4 56.2 Days sales of inventory 7.0 14.1 5.8 11.5 9.0 9.2 14.4 11.0 Days payables outstanding 60.0 108.7 21.8 22.3 38.7 29.5 36.3 25.4 Cash conversion cycle (20.6) (25.3) 48.1 53.6 43.6 55.2 37.5 41.8


Liquidity indicators weakened in 2008 with decreasing net working capital and cash on hand, but have recovered somewhat in Q3-2009 (except the cash position). Liquidity indicators: $ thousands 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Q1-09 Q2-09 Q3-09

Current ratio 1.4 1.4 2.2 2.5 1.7 1.9 1.7 2.0 Working capital 2,199 6,141 10,018 19,198 12,182 12,098 11,132 15,183 Cash 2,556 3,107 3,294 5,202 4,961 4,276 4,277 3,715


Venezuela6%

Singapore3%

China21%

Brazil21%

USA49%


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Cash Flows

Company’s cash flows show an irregular pattern. In 2008 losses were offset by non-cash impairments and write-downs, and working capital changes. CFI comprise cash flows used for advances to subsidiaries, receivables advance or proceeds from sales of PPE. CFF mainly reflect short-term sources of financing. Key cash flow indicators: $ thousands 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Q1-09 Q2-09 Q3-09

CFO 268 1,488 2,679 -3,790 7,769 -918 3,362 -1,693 CFI -1,852 -2,555 -603 2,187 -3,943 -125 -364 -77 CFF 2,475 1,894 -2,746 4,252 -2,401 0 -336 -580 Net Cash Flow 924 551 188 1,908 -241 -685 1 -563



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MARKET OVERVIEW

Economists predict a worldwide economic recovery in 2010 that will include a ramp up in global IT spending. Forecasts vary between analysts but the overall theme is the same – one of growth. IDC predicts that the worldwide IT spending will grow in 2010 by 3%

6, Gartner’s outlook talks about a 4.6%

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increase and Forrester has an even more optimistic outlook for global IT markets with an 8.1% rise8.

The total predicted volume of worldwide IT spending also differs, probably reflecting differing definitions of IT spending. Thus, IDC forecasts that the market will reach $1.48 trillion in 2010, Gartner - $3.4 trillion and Forrester - $1.6 trillion. Generally, forecasters do not see a recovery to 2008 record levels of IT spending before 2011, but all agree that 2010 will be a year of improvement in IT spending from 2009. Regionally, emerging markets are expected to show highest growth rates because of low market penetration, large domestic customer base, skilled and cheap workforce, as well as government stimulus packages. 2010 regional IT spending growth forecasts:

Sources: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22192510 (Canada as North America), http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1284813 (USA as North America), http://smart-data-centers.tmcnet.com/topics/Smart-Data-Centers/articles/72632-it-market-rebound-2010-forrester-research.htm (Canada as North America).

Growth rates predictions for IT market segments in 2010 also vary:

6 Source : http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22192510

7 Source : http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1284813

8 Source : http://smart-data-centers.tmcnet.com/topics/Smart-Data-Centers/articles/72632-it-market-rebound-2010-forrester-

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2010 global IT spending growth by segments:

Sources : http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/74415-mixed-forecast-it-spending-increase-2010-but-how.htm, http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1284813, http://smart-data-centers.tmcnet.com/topics/Smart-Data-Centers/articles/72632-it-market-rebound-2010-forrester-research.htm (Canada as North America)

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