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Profile - AmerUs Group Co. (NYSE:AMH)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug  6Earnings Announcement
Location
699 Walnut Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone: (515) 362-3600
Fax: (515) 362-3648
Email: marty.ketelaar@amerus.com
Employees (last reported count): 759
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 ·Sector: Financial
 ·Industry: Insurance (Life)
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 4%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 3 insider buys; 2,000  shares (0.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 33% (34% of float)
(205 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 1.06M shares (+7.04%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
AmerUs Group Co. is a holding company engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the business of marketing, underwriting and distributing a broad range of individual life insurance and annuity products to individuals and businesses in 49 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Company also owns a real estate management company in which it conducts limited real estate management, development, syndication and marketing activities. The Company has two reportable operating segments: Life Insurance and Annuities. The Life Insurance segment's primary product offerings consist of whole life, universal life and term life insurance policies. The primary product offerings of the Annuity segment are fixed annuities.
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Financial Summary
AmerUs is engaged through its subsidiaries in the business of marketing and underwriting individual life insurance and annunity products in the U.S. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 5% to $565.7 million. Net income from continuing operations before acct. change rose 72% to $39.2 million. Results reflect annuity business growth, the acquisiton of ILICO, and the absence of $15.3 million in acquisition costs and $6.7 million in reorganization charges.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Roger Brooks, 63
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$1.9M
Mark Heitz, 48
Pres and CEO of AmVestors
1.1M
Gary McPhail, 53
Pres and CEO of AmerUs Life
745K
Victor Daley, 57
Exec. VP, Chief Admin. and HR Officer
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Thomas Godlasky, 45
Exec. VP, CIO
894K
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 -- NYSE:AMHAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 24-Oct-2000
$24.188
Recent Price$30.98 
52-Week High
on 31-May-2001
$37.00 
Beta0.14 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)169.7K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)201.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+22.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+64.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.33B
Shares Outstanding42.8M
Float41.1M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.40 
Dividend Yield1.29%
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$28.38 
Earnings (ttm)$2.35 
Earnings (mrq)$0.57 
Sales (ttm)$34.22 
Cash (mrq)$2.90 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.09 
Price/Earnings (ttm)13.16 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.91 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$976.6M
EBITDAN/A 
Income available to common (ttm)$67.6M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)7.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)14.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)0.58%
Return on Equity (ttm)7.75%
Financial Strength
Current RatioN/A 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.39 
Total Cash (mrq)$113.4M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short779.0K
Percent of Float1.9%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
2.48M
Short Ratio5.12 
Daily Volume152.0K
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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