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Recent Events

Aug 21

Conference call: Engineered Support Systems, Inc. Earnings (Q3)

Aug 21

Earnings Announcement

Aug 9

Price hit new 52-week high ($47.21)

July 31

Dividend payment of $0.018

Location

201 Evans Lane
St. Louis, MO 63121

Phone: (314) 553-4000
Fax: (314) 993-4615
Email: dkreher@essihq.com

Employees (last reported count): 2,309

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Ownership

·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 44%
·	Over the last 6 months: · one insider buy; 1,000 shares · 9 insider sells; 198.0K shares (4.6% of insider shares)
·	Institutional: 60% (107% of float) (101 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Buying: 1.46M shares (+20.82%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

Engineered Support Systems, Inc. is a holding company for six wholly owned subsidiaries: Systems & Electronics Inc., Engineered Air Systems, Inc., Keco Industries, Inc., Engineered Coil Company d/b/a Marlo Coil, Engineered Electric Company d/b/a Fermont, and Engineered Specialty Plastics, Inc. The Company and its subsidiaries design and manufacture military support equipment and electronics for the United States Armed Forces. The Company also engineers and manufactures air handling and heat transfer equipment, materials handling equipment and custom molded plastic products for commercial and industrial products. Products are manufactured by the Company within four operating segments: heavy military support equipment, electronics and automation systems, light military support equipment and plastic products.

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Financial Summary

EASI is a designer and manufacturer of military support equipment and electronics for the U.S. armed forces. EASI also engineers and manufactures air handling and heat transfer equipment, material handling equipment and custom molded plastic products for commerical and industrial products. For the six months ended 4/30/01, sales rose 11% to $191.2 million. Net income rose 61% to $8.3 million. Results reflect increased electronic sales and increased operating margin.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 07/31/2001, revenues were 99,208; after tax earnings were 4,812. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers

[Insider Trade Data]

	FY2000 Compensation
	Pay	Exer

Michael Shanahan, Sr., 61 Chairman and CEO	$1.2M	$5.6M
Gerald Potthoff, 60 Pres, COO	466K	--
Gary Gerhardt, 55 Vice Chairman-Admin., CFO	366K	--
Larry Brewer, 58 Sr. VP- Bus. Devel.	191K	--
Steven Landmann, 41 VP-Controller	--	--
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Oct-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.

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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:EASI

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 16-Oct-2000	$`12.40`
Recent Price	$`33.01`
52-Week High on 9-Aug-2001	$`47.21`
Beta	`0.51`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`253.2K`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`218.0K`
Stock Performance
big chart [1d \| 5d \| 3m \| 6m \| 1y \| 2y \| 5y \| max]
52-Week Change	`+106.3%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`+176.8%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`307.5M`
Shares Outstanding	`9.31M`
Float	`5.20M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)	$`0.04`
Dividend Yield	`0.11%`
Last Split: 5 for 4 on 19-Mar-2001

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)	$`9.62`
Earnings (ttm)	$`1.75`
Earnings (mrq)	$`0.46`
Sales (ttm)	$`39.20`
Cash (mrq*)	$`0.22`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)	`3.43`
Price/Earnings (ttm)	`18.89`
Price/Sales (ttm)	`0.84`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`386.0M`
EBITDA (ttm*)	$`45.4M`
Income available to common (ttm)	$`17.2M`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`4.5%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`9.2%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	Oct 31
Most recent quarter (fully updated)	30-Apr-2001
Most recent quarter (flash earnings)	31-July-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`7.40%`
Return on Equity (ttm)	`21.25%`
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)	`1.26`
Debt/Equity (mrq*)	`0.95`
Total Cash (mrq)	$`2.24M`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`647.0K`
Percent of Float	`12.4%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`453.0K`
Short Ratio	`2.79`
Daily Volume	`232.0K`

See Profile Help for a description of each item above; K = thousands; M = millions; mrq = most-recent quarter; ttm = trailing twelve months; (as of 31-July-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 30-Apr-2001)

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