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Profile - Blue Square-Israel Ltd. (NYSE:BSI)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 23Price hit new 52-week high ($15.35)
Aug 15Earnings Announcement
Location
2 Ha' Amal Street
Rosh Ha'ayin, 48092, Israel
Phone: (888) 572-4698
Email: bsi-ho@bsi.co.il
Employees (last reported count): 7,400
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Grocery)
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 79%
·Institutional: 2% (8% of float)
(20 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 332.0K shares (+98.54%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Blue Square-Israel Ltd. is a food retailer in the State of Israel, operating 169 (as of November 2000) supermarkets directly and through its controlled subsidiaries. The Company's stores offer a broad range of food and beverages, housewares, cosmetics and consumer products and operate under the names Co-Op, Super Center, Zil V'Zol and Shefa Mehadrin and Mega. The Company operates several formats, including supermarkets, hypermarkets and pharmacies, tailoring store sizes and product ranges to meet the preferences of each format's target customers. Many of the Company's supermarkets offer specialty departments such as full-service bakeries, delicatessens, prepared foods and fresh meat and fish departments, and certain supermarkets also contain concession operations that sell a variety of goods.
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Financial Summary
Blue Square-Israel Ltd. is a food retailer in the State of Israel, operating 169 supermarkets, directly and through its controlled subsidiaries. For the three months ended 3/31/01, revenues increased 8% to NIS1.3 billion. Net income from cont'd operations fell 30% to NIS30.4 million. Revenues reflect the contribution from the Passover holiday season. Earnings were offset by the absence of one time gains recorded in the previous period.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 06/30/2001, revenues were 1,424,093; after tax earnings were 44,853. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of Shekel.)

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Officers

Position
David BrodetActing Chairman
Yoram Dar, 49Pres, CEO
Zvi Bochman, 49CFO
Haim Gershon, 55VP, Operations Division
Michal Reis, 47VP of Trade and Marketing Division
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:BSIAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 1-Nov-2000
$9.00 
Recent Price$14.89 
52-Week High
on 23-Aug-2001
$15.35 
Beta0.09 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)12.1K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)2,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+28.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+72.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$571.8M
Shares Outstanding38.4M
Float8.10M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$7.71 
Earnings (ttm)$0.78 
Earnings (mrq)$0.28 
Sales (ttm)$33.00 
Cash (mrq*)$0.09 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)1.93 
Price/Earnings (ttm)19.14 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.45 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.27B
EBITDA (ttm*)$66.1M
Income available to common (ttm)$29.9M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)2.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)5.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
31-Mar-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)4.51%
Return on Equity (ttm)10.13%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)0.84 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.48 
Total Cash (mrq)$49.5M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short10.0K
Percent of Float0.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
9,000 
Short Ratio0.40 
Daily Volume25.0K
ADR Information
Shares/ADR1
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, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 31-Mar-2001);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 4.25 Shekel/Dollar

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