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Profile - Rural/Metro Corporation (NasdaqSC:RURL)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 28Price hit new 52-week low ($0.61)
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Location
8401 East Indian School Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Phone: (480) 606-3886
Fax: (480) 606-3279
Email: feedback@ruralmetro.com
Employees (last reported count): 7,200
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 29%
·Institutional: 6% (9% of float)
(37 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 214.0K shares (+29.28%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Rural Metro Corp. is a provider of health and safety services, which include "911" emergency ambulance and general medical transport services, fire protection services, and other safety and health care related services, to municipal, residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The Company provides ambulance services in these states and the District of Columbia primarily under the names Rural/Metro Ambulance and Rural/Metro Medical Services and in certain areas of Arizona under the name Southwest Ambulance. I n Latin America, the Company provides urgent home medical care and ambulance transport services under the name Emergencias Cardio Coronarias (ECCO) and provides urgent and primary care services in clinics under the name GEA. The Company provides fire protection services under the name Rural/Metro Fire Department in 10 states and in Latin America.
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Financial Summary
RURL is a provider of health and safety services, which include ``911'' emergency ambulance and general medical transport services, fire protection services and other related services to both domestic and foreign customers. For the nine months ended 3/31/01, revenues fell 13% to $380.2 million. Net loss before extraordinary item and acct. change dcreased 11% to $49.3 million. Results reflect the downsizing of non-emergency service areas and lower provision for doubtful accounts.
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Officers
FY2000 Pay

Cor Clement, 51
Chairman
--  
Jack Brucker, 48
Pres, CEO, Director
$317K
Louis Jekel, 58
Vice Chairman and Sec.
--  
John Banas, III, 37
Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel
126K
Robert Hillier, 52
Sr. VP of HR, CAO
172K
Dollar amounts are as of 30-June-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 -- NasdaqSC:RURLAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 28-Aug-2001
$0.61 
Recent Price$0.68 
52-Week High
on 10-Nov-2000
$3.375
Beta0.93 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)22.4K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)37.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-64.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-52.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$10.1M
Shares Outstanding14.9M
Float10.6M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.15 
Earnings (ttm)-$6.37 
Earnings (mrq)-$1.60 
Sales (ttm)$35.13 
Cash (mrq)$0.42 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.22 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.02 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$515.5M
EBITDA (ttm)-$39.1M
Income available to common (ttm)-$93.5M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-18.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)-13.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJune 30
Most recent quarter31-Mar-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-19.68%
Return on Equity (ttm)-105.28%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.42 
Debt/Equity (mrq)6.34 
Total Cash (mrq)$6.25M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short61.0K
Percent of Float0.6%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
64.0K
Short Ratio3.05 
Daily Volume20.0K
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-Mar-2001)

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