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Profile - A.M. Castle & Co. (AMEX:CAS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Aug 17Dividend payment of $0.12
Location
3400 North Wolf Road
Franklin Park, IL 60131
Phone: (847) 455-7111
Fax: (847) 455-0587
Email: amcastle@amcastle.com
Employees (last reported count): 2,000
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 ·Sector: Basic Materials
 ·Industry: Misc. Fabricated Products
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 ·S&P 600 SmallCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 85%
·Institutional: 62% (416% of float)
(100 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 303.0K shares (+3.35%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
A. M. Castle & Co. is a metals service center company. The Company provides a complete range of inventories as well as preprocessing services to a wide variety of customers. The Company's business activities fall into one identifiable core business segment as approximately 91% of all revenues are derived from the distribution of its specialty metals products. These products are purchased, warehoused, processed and sold using essentially the same systems, facilities, sales force and distribution network. Since 1998, sales mix of the Company's core business came from Carbon and Stainless and Non-Ferrous Metals. These metals are inventoried in many forms, including round, hexagon, square and flat bars; plates; tubing; shapes, and sheet and coil.
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Financial Summary
CAS is an industrial distributor of specialty metals such as carbon, alloy and stainless steels, aluminum, nickel alloy, titanium, copper and brass. CAS also distributes a broad range of industrial plastics. For the six months ended 6/30/01, net sales fell 12% to $342.2 million. Net income fell 86% to $930 thousand. Revenues reflect the general slowdown in the manufacturing sector and a decrease in tons sold. Net income also reflects lower operating margins and higher debt levels.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Michael Simpson, 62
Chairman
$234K
G. Thomas McKane, 56
Pres, CEO, Director
1.7M
M. Bruce Herron, 55
Exec. VP, COO
250K
Henry Winters, 59
VP-Operations
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Edward Culliton, 59
VP, CFO
223K
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 -- AMEX:CASAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 20-Apr-2001
$8.00 
Recent Price$11.59 
52-Week High
on 21-June-2001
$14.50 
Beta0.27 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)11.4K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)6,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+13.1%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+51.7%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$164.1M
Shares Outstanding14.2M
Float2.10M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.48 
Dividend Yield4.14%
Last Split: 5 for 4 on 28-May-1996
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$8.88 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.52 
Earnings (mrq)$0.01 
Sales (ttm)$49.66 
Cash (mrq)$0.18 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.30 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.23 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$699.2M
EBITDA (ttm)-$2.11M
Income available to common (ttm)-$7.34M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-1.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)-1.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-1.70%
Return on Equity (ttm)-5.52%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.65 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.35 
Total Cash (mrq)$2.60M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short27.0K
Percent of Float1.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
27.0K
Short Ratio5.40 
Daily Volume5,000 
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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