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Profile - Ceres Group, Inc. (NasdaqNM:CERG)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 21Price hit new 52-week low ($3.04)
Location
17800 Royalton Road
Cleveland, OH 44136
Phone: (440) 572-2400
Fax: (440) 572-8380
Email: gvixler@centralreserve.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,100
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 ·Sector: Financial
 ·Industry: Insurance (Life)
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 80%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 55.0K shares (0.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 10% (50% of float)
(23 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 85.0K shares (+4.63%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Ceres Group, Inc. provides a wide array of health and life insurance products. The Company's core businesses are major medical health insurance for individuals, associations and small businesses, as well as senior health, life and annuity products for Americans age 55 and over. The Company also offers a Senior Savers Plus Plan, which provides discounts on extended care and home healthcare services, in addition to the other product and service discounts. To help control medical costs, the Company provides medical cost management services to its insureds. Ceres had over 460,000 certificates and individual policies in force as of December 31, 2000, representing more than 700,000 insureds, including 219,000 major medical group certificates and individual policies.
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Financial Summary
Ceres Group, Inc. markets and delivers a broad range of health and life insurance, medical cost management services and specialty products to individuals, small businesses and the senior market. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenue rose 37% to $346.9 million. Net loss applicable to Common totaled $6.8 million vs. income of $8.4 million. Results reflect new sales, premium rate increases, and the acquisition of Pyramid Life, offset by a $7.1 million write-off.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Peter Nauert, 57
Chairman, CEO, Pres
$1.2M
Charles Miller, Jr., 50
CFO, Exec. VP, Treasurer
305K
Mark Nielsen, 48
Exec. VP, Sr. Health Operations
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Anthony Pino, 53
Exec. VP, Operations
273K
Amy McFadden
Sr. VP-Fin.
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-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 -- NasdaqNM:CERGAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 21-Aug-2001
$3.04 
Recent Price$3.75 
52-Week High
on 2-Oct-2000
$7.313
Beta0.87 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)8,273 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)14.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-42.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-22.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$66.1M
Shares Outstanding17.6M
Float3.50M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 11-July-1985
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$5.39 
Earnings (ttm)$0.05 
Earnings (mrq)$0.03 
Sales (ttm)$37.28 
Cash (mrq)$2.51 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.70 
Price/Earnings (ttm)79.79 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.10 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$669.0M
EBITDAN/A 
Income available to common (ttm)$1.01M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)0.2%
Operating Margin (ttm)0.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)0.19%
Return on Equity (ttm)1.21%
Financial Strength
Current RatioN/A 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.53 
Total Cash (mrq)$43.9M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short9,000 
Percent of Float0.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
0 
Short Ratio2.25 
Daily Volume4,000 
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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