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Profile - BigStar Entertainment (OTC BB:BGST.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 20Earnings Announcement
Location
19 Fulton Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10038
Phone: (212) 981-6300
Fax: (212) 571-9284
Employees (last reported count): 17
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Specialty)
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 28%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 2 insider buys; 123.0K shares (5.8% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 1% (1% of float)
(3 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 19.0K shares (+39.59%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
BigStar Entertainment, Inc. is an online retailer of filmed entertainment products and a provider of information about the filmed entertainment industry and its products. Through its Website, bigstar.com, the Company sells more than 45,000 videos and digital video discs (DVDs) including feature films, children's movies and educational, health and fitness, and instructional videos and provide information on these products. In addition to selling filmed entertainment, bigstar.com features more than 4,500 biographies, 2,200 movie stills and 400 star interviews. bigstar.com also hosts its BigStar Broadband Theater. This feature offers visitors to its Website the ability to stream and view on their computer more than 7,500 movie trailers and 21 feature films. The Company believes that BigStar Broadband Theater provides one of the largest selections of streaming movie trailers and films available on the Web.
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Financial Summary
BigStar Entertainment is an online filmed entertainment superstore. BGST sells products in all popular formats such as videos, DVDs and laserdiscs. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues fell 78% to $1.5 million. Net loss declined 83% to $2.1 million. Revenues reflect lower unit volumes of both vidoecassettes and DVDs. Lower loss reflects reduced sales and marketing expenses due to the Company's decision to move out of the e-tailing business.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

David Friedensohn, 39
CEO and Chairman
$240K
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 -- OTC BB:BGST.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 26-Dec-2000
$0.063
Recent Price$0.105
52-Week High
on 11-Sep-2000
$1.563
Beta0.26 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)15.9K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)17.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-82.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-76.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$835.0K
Shares Outstanding7.96M
Float5.70M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.38 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.88 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.09 
Sales (ttm)$0.47 
Cash (mrq)$0.38 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.28 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.23 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$4.30M
EBITDA (ttm)-$7.24M
Income available to common (ttm)-$8.55M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating MarginN/A 
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-90.31%
Return on Equity (ttm)-131.42%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)4.12 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$3.02M
Short Interest
As of 8-Jan-2001
Shares Short45.0K
Percent of Float0.8%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
22.0K
Short Ratio0.27 
Daily Volume165.0K
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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