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·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 36%
·	Institutional: 67% (104% of float) (209 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Buying: 726.0K shares (+5.88%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

Brown Shoe Company, Inc. is a footwear retailer and wholesaler. The Company provides a broad offering of branded, licensed and private label casual, athletic and dress footwear products for women, children and men. Footwear is sold at a variety of price points through multiple distribution channels both domestically and internationally. The Company operates 1,406 retail shoe stores in the United States and Canada primarily under the Famous Footwear, Naturalizer and F. X. LaSalle names. In addition, through its Wholesale divisions, the Company designs, sources and markets footwear to retail stores domestically and internationally, including department stores, mass merchandisers and specialty shoe stores.

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Financial Summary

Brown Shoe Company provides a broad offering of branded and private label casual, athletic and dress footwear products to men, women, and children. For the 13 weeks ended 5/5/01, revenues rose 10% to $436.1 million. Net income fell 2% to $6.4 million. Revenues reflect increased sales of Naturalizer branded products and private label women's and children's products. Earnings were offset by increased selling and administrative expenses for retail operation.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 13 weeks ended 08/04/2001, revenues were 442,079; after tax earnings were 5,795. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers

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	FY1999 Pay

Ronald Fromm, 49 Chairman, Pres and Chief Exec. Officer	$1.1M
Andrew Rosen, 49 CFO, Treasurer	--
Gary Rich, 49 Pres, Pagoda	829K
David Schwartz, 54 Pres, Brown Shoe Sourcing	811K
Gregory Van Gasse, 49 Pres, Brown Branded	--
Dollar amounts are as of 29-Jan-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc..

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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:BWS

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 24-Oct-2000	$`8.438`
Recent Price	$`15.10`
52-Week High on 4-June-2001	$`20.50`
Beta	`0.41`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`73.7K`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`88.0K`
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change	`+43.8%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`+92.9%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`263.4M`
Shares Outstanding	`17.4M`
Float	`11.2M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)	$`0.40`
Dividend Yield	`2.65%`
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 1-July-1983

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)	$`15.66`
Earnings (ttm)	$`1.86`
Earnings (mrq)	$`0.33`
Sales (ttm)	$`99.31`
Cash (mrq*)	$`2.06`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)	`0.96`
Price/Earnings (ttm)	`8.13`
Price/Sales (ttm)	`0.15`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`1.75B`
EBITDA (ttm*)	$`71.9M`
Income available to common (ttm)	$`32.8M`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`1.9%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`3.0%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	Feb 3
Most recent quarter (fully updated)	5-May-2001
Most recent quarter (flash earnings)	31-July-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`4.45%`
Return on Equity (ttm)	`12.25%`
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)	`1.83`
Debt/Equity (mrq*)	`0.87`
Total Cash (mrq)	$`47.1M`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`392.0K`
Percent of Float	`3.5%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`441.0K`
Short Ratio	`8.17`
Daily Volume	`48.0K`

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