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Profile - RoweCom Inc. (NasdaqNM:ROWE)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
15 Southwest Park
Westwood, MA 02090
Phone: (781) 410-3300
Email: info@rowe.com
Employees (last reported count): 673
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 ·Industry: Business Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 24%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 2 insider buys; 16.0K shares (0.5% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 5% (6% of float)
(26 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 102.0K shares (+15.29%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
RoweCom Inc. is a business-to-business provider of high-quality service and e-commerce solutions for purchasing and managing the acquisition of magazines, newspapers, journals and e-journals, books and other printed sources of commercial, scientific and general interest information and analysis (collectively, knowledge resources). RoweCom offers its clients and their employees easy and convenient access to one of the largest catalogs of knowledge resources on the Internet. RoweCom also provides businesses, academic and other non-profit institutions with a highly effective means of managing and controlling purchases of knowledge resources and reducing costs. RoweCom's services fall into two main categories: library services and desktop services. RoweCom targets clients in knowledge-intense industries, such as business and financial services; biomedical; academic and the federal government; and corporate and professional services.
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Financial Summary
ROWE is a business-to-business provider of e-commerce solutions for purchasing and managing the acquisition of magazines, newspapers, journals, books and other printed sources of commercial, scientific and general interest info. and analysis. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 65% to $149.3 million. Net loss before extraordinary item fell 44% to $16.9 million. Results reflect growth in the client base, partially offset by higher cost of revenues as a percentage of revenues.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY1999 Pay

Richard Rowe, Ph.D., 67
Chairman, CEO
$253K
Jim Krzywicki, 48
COO and Pres, North American Operations
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Rodney Smith
VP-Fin., Treasurer
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Ian Best, 51
VP, CTO
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Charles Germain, 54
Pres of RoweCom Europe, Asia-Pacific & Latin America
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1999 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:ROWEAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 28-Dec-2000
$0.406
Recent Price$0.68 
52-Week High
on 5-Sep-2000
$6.688
Beta2.77 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)39.8K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)22.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-88.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-85.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$8.54M
Shares Outstanding12.6M
Float9.50M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)-$1.52 
Earnings (ttm)-$5.00 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.91 
Sales (ttm)$32.68 
Cash (mrq)$0.46 
Valuation Ratios
Price/BookN/A 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.02 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$406.2M
EBITDA (ttm)-$44.8M
Income available to common (ttm)-$62.0M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-15.3%
Operating Margin (ttm)-13.2%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-47.69%
Return on Equity (ttm)-764.24%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.60 
Debt/EquityN/A 
Total Cash (mrq)$5.74M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short255.0K
Percent of Float2.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
253.0K
Short Ratio8.23 
Daily Volume31.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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