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Profile - William Lyon Homes (NYSE:WLS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 23Price hit new 52-week high ($15.00)
Location
4490 Von Karman Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Phone: (949) 833-3600
Fax: (949) 476-2178
Employees (last reported count): 497
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 ·Sector: Capital Goods
 ·Industry: Construction Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 62%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 8,000  shares
  (0.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 25% (65% of float)
(16 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 76.0K shares (+2.82%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
William Lyon Homes and its subsidiaries primarily are engaged in designing, constructing and selling single family detached and attached homes in California, Arizona and Nevada. Since it's founding in 1956, the Company has sold over 51,000 homes. The Company conducts its homebuilding operations through five geographic divisions (Southern California, San Diego, Northern California, Arizona and Nevada), including both wholly owned projects and projects being developed in unconsolidated joint ventures. The Company believes that it is one of the largest homebuilders in California in terms of both sales and homes delivered in 2000. Approximately 78% of the Company's home closings were derived from its California operations. In 2000, the Company and its unconsolidated joint ventures had delivered 2,666 homes.
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Financial Summary
William Lyon Homes and subsidiaries are engaged in design, construction and sale of single family detached and attached homes in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. For the six months ended 6/30/01, net sales rose 10% to $180.8 million. Net income before extraordinary item rose 6% to $15.7 million. Revenues reflect the sale of two commercial sites in Southern California and Arizona. Earnings were partially offset by an increase in cost of land sold.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

William Lyon, 78
Chairman, CEO
$495K--  
Wade Cable, 52
Pres, COO, Director
1.0M$192K
Richard Robinson, 54
Sr. VP-Fin.
--  --  
Nancy Harlan, 54
Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel
--  --  
Douglas Bauer, 39
Sr. VP and Northern California Division Pres
205K--  
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.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:WLSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 14-Sep-2000
$6.188
Recent Price$13.90 
52-Week High
on 23-Aug-2001
$15.00 
Beta0.25 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)11.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)7,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+109.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+181.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$147.2M
Shares Outstanding10.6M
Float4.00M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 1 for 5 on 11-Nov-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$11.18 
Earnings (ttm)$3.75 
Earnings (mrq)$0.90 
Sales (ttm)$40.98 
Cash (mrq)$2.85 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.24 
Price/Earnings (ttm)3.71 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.34 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$434.4M
EBITDA (ttm)$24.4M
Income available to common (ttm)$39.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)9.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)5.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)11.46%
Return on Equity (ttm)40.97%
Financial Strength
Current RatioN/A 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.85 
Total Cash (mrq)$30.2M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short6,000 
Percent of Float0.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
7,000 
Short Ratio0.86 
Daily Volume7,000 
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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