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Profile - Samsonite Corporation (NasdaqSC:SAMC)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Sep  5Earnings Announcement
Location
11200 East 45th Avenue
Denver, CO 80239
Phone: (303) 373-2000
Fax: (303) 373-6300
Email: investor_relations@samsonite.com
Employees (last reported count): 7,150
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 ·Industry: Apparel/Accessories
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 36%
·Institutional: 34% (54% of float)
(27 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 98.0K shares (+1.42%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Samsonite Corporation is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of luggage. The Company sells its products using a number of brand names, including Samsonite and American Tourister, and offers a broad range of luggage and luggage-related products. These include suitcases, garment bags, business cases, computer cases, casual bags and sports bags. The Company also manufactures and sells luxury luggage, casual bags, clothing, shoes and accessories under the Samsonite Black Label and Hedgren brands. The Company licenses its brand names for use on products that include travel accessories, leather goods, handbags, clothing and furniture. Customers include specialty stores featuring luggage products, department stores that carry luggage, retail chain stores, catalog showrooms, mass merchants, premium sales (sales direct to business), Internet retailers and discounters. The Company also sells certain products directly to consumers through its retail stores in the United States and Europe.
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Financial Summary
SAMC manufactures and distributes luggage, including softside and hardside suitcases, garment bags, business cases, and other travel bags under the Samsonite, American Tourister and Lark brand names. For the three months ended 4/30/01, sales fell less than 1% to $192.1 million. Net loss applicable to Common before extraordinary items rose 48% to $14.9 million. Revenues reflect lower sales in the Americas. Higher loss reflects the consolidation of some manufacturing facilities.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Luc Van Nevel, 54
Pres, CEO
$910K
Richard Wiley, 44
CFO, Treasurer, Sec.
405K
Giuseppe Fremder, 48
Pres of Samsonite SpA and Pres of Samsonite Black Label
268K
Marc Matton, 52
Pres and Managing Director of Samsonite Europe
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Thomas Sandler, 54
Pres of the Americas Division
485K
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Jan-2001 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 -- NasdaqSC:SAMCAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 28-Dec-2000
$1.00 
Recent Price$1.65 
52-Week High
on 30-Mar-2001
$4.906
Beta0.57 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)5,773 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)7,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-62.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-49.4%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$32.6M
Shares Outstanding19.8M
Float12.7M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)-$4.78 
Earnings (ttm)-$2.34 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.76 
Sales (ttm)$39.69 
Cash (mrq)$0.52 
Valuation Ratios
Price/BookN/A 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.04 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$783.6M
EBITDA (ttm)$51.3M
Income available to common (ttm)-$46.2M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-1.2%
Operating Margin (ttm)6.0%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJan 31
Most recent quarter30-Apr-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-1.75%
Return on EquityN/A 
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.96 
Debt/EquityN/A 
Total Cash (mrq)$10.3M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short181.0K
Percent of Float1.4%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
202.0K
Short Ratio20.11 
Daily Volume9,000 
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-Apr-2001)

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