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Location

One Univac Lane, P.O. Box 755
Windsor, CT 06095

Phone: (860) 285-6100
Fax: (860) 285-6412
Email: cthutter@advo.com

Employees (last reported count): 3,900

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Competitors:
·Sector: Services
·Industry: Advertising

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Index Membership

·S&P 600 SmallCap

Ownership

·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 19%
·	Over the last 6 months: · one insider sell; 4,000 shares (0.1% of insider shares)
·	Institutional: 88% (108% of float) (298 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Buying: 425.0K shares (+2.32%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

ADVO, Inc. is a direct mail marketing company primarily engaged in soliciting and processing printed advertising from retailers, manufacturers and service companies for targeted distribution by both shared and solo mail, as well as hand delivery, to consumer households in the United States on a national, regional and local basis. ADVO also provides ancillary services in conjunction with its direct mail marketing programs and also provides private carrier (hand) delivery in certain markets. In addition, the Company provides direct-mail advertising solutions for local neighborhood businesses utilizing an envelope format. The Company's client base consists of national and local grocers, fast food chains, drug stores and local retailers.

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Financial Summary

ADVO, Inc. is a direct marketing firm engaged in soliciting and processing printed advertising from retailers, manufacturers and service companies for targeted distribution. For the nine months ended 6/30/01, revenues increased 2% to $851.1 million. Net income rose 4% to $36.6 million. Revenues benefitted from growth in shared mail pieces delivered and pricing and volume gains. Earnings also reflects a decrease in bad debt provisions.

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Officers

[Insider Trade Data]

	FY2000 Compensation
	Pay	Exer

Gary Mulloy, 55 Chairman and CEO	$918K	--
Donald McCombs, 44 Exec. VP, CFO	403K	$283K
Myron Lubin, 60 Exec. VP- Strategic Bus. Devel.	451K	124K
Julie Abraham, 42 Sr. VP-Fin., Controller	--	--
David Stigler, 57 Sr. VP--Chief Legal and Public Affairs Officer and Gen. Counsel and Sec.	--	--
Dollar amounts are as of 30-Sep-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 -- NYSE:AD

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 20-Apr-2001	$`30.05`
Recent Price	$`36.40`
52-Week High on 3-Jan-2001	$`48.00`
Beta	`0.34`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`87.9K`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`62.0K`
Stock Performance
big chart [1d \| 5d \| 3m \| 6m \| 1y \| 2y \| 5y \| max]
52-Week Change	`-12.6%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`+17.3%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`740.0M`
Shares Outstanding	`20.3M`
Float	`16.5M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend	none
Last Split: 5 for 4 on 8-Mar-1993

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)	-$`0.15`
Earnings (ttm)	$`2.43`
Earnings (mrq)	$`0.60`
Sales (ttm)	$`55.44`
Cash (mrq)	$`1.48`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book	N/A
Price/Earnings (ttm)	`14.98`
Price/Sales (ttm)	`0.66`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`1.15B`
EBITDA (ttm)	$`98.8M`
Income available to common (ttm)	$`50.3M`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`4.4%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`8.6%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	Sep 30
Most recent quarter	30-June-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`17.00%`
Return on Equity	N/A
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)	`1.37`
Debt/Equity	N/A
Total Cash (mrq)	$`30.0M`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`583.0K`
Percent of Float	`3.5%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`633.0K`
Short Ratio	`8.21`
Daily Volume	`71.0K`

See Profile Help for a description of each item above; K = thousands; M = millions; B = billions; mrq = most-recent quarter; ttm = trailing twelve months; (as of 30-June-2001)

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