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Profile - Watts Industries, Inc. (NYSE:WTS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
815 Chestnut Street
North Andover, MA 01845
Phone: (978) 688-1811
Fax: (978) 794-1848
Employees (last reported count): 3,400
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 ·Sector: Basic Materials
 ·Industry: Misc. Fabricated Products
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 ·S&P 600 SmallCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 73%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 4 insider sells; 47.0K shares
  (0.2% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 57% (209% of float)
(181 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 634.0K shares (+4.04%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Watts Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells an extensive line of valves and other products for the water quality, water safety, water flow control and water conservation markets. The Company is a leading manufacturer and supplier of these products in both North America and Europe. The Company's growth strategy emphasizes expanding brand preference with customers, focusing on code development and enforcement, internal development of new valve products and entry into new markets for specialized valves and related products through diversification of its existing business, strategic acquisitions in related business areas, both domestically and abroad, and continued development of products and services for the home improvement, do-it-yourself retail market.
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Financial Summary
Watts Industries designs, manufactures and sells an extensive line of valves for the plumbing and heating and water quality industries. For the six months ended 6/30/01, net sales rose 3% to $271.5 million. Net income decreased 10% to $14.3 million. Revenues reflect additional revenues from the acquisitions of Spacemaker and Heatway. Net income was offset by an increase in cost of sales and an adverse impact from the weaker euro.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Timothy Horne, 62
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$807K$66K
William McCartney, 47
CFO, Sec., Treasurer
306K--  
Lester Taufen, 57
VP, Legal Affairs; Assistant Sec., Gen. Counsel
--  --  
Michael Fifer, 43
Group VP
329K--  
Robert McLaurin, 70
Corp. VP - Asian Operations
--  --  
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.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:WTSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 27-Sep-2000
$9.563
Recent Price$14.80 
52-Week High
on 13-June-2001
$18.19 
Beta0.26 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)22.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)12.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+34.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+80.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$392.5M
Shares Outstanding26.5M
Float7.20M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.24 
Dividend Yield1.62%
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 16-Mar-1994
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$8.96 
Earnings (ttm)$1.10 
Earnings (mrq)$0.26 
Sales (ttm)$19.65 
Cash (mrq)$0.41 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.65 
Price/Earnings (ttm)13.39 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.75 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$524.8M
EBITDA (ttm)$77.6M
Income available to common (ttm)$29.5M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)5.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)10.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)6.02%
Return on Equity (ttm)12.70%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.29 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.56 
Total Cash (mrq)$10.9M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short37.0K
Percent of Float0.5%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
29.0K
Short Ratio2.85 
Daily Volume13.0K
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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