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Profile - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 27Price hit new 52-week high ($43.99)
Aug 23Conference call: Barnes & Noble, Inc. Earnings (Q2)
Aug 23Earnings Announcement
Aug  4Fiscal quarter ended
Location
122 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 633-3300
Fax: (212) 675-0413
Email: mkeating@bn.com
Employees (last reported count): 48,000
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Specialty)
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 400 MidCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 38%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 10 insider sells; 2.17M shares
  (7.9% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 74% (120% of float)
(402 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 8.04M shares (+13.98%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Barnes & Noble, Inc. is a bookseller with 908 bookstores and 978 video game and entertainment software stores, as of February 3, 2001. Of the 908 bookstores, 569 operate under the Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Bookstop and Bookstar trade names (32 of which were opened in fiscal 2000), and 339 operate under the B. Dalton Bookseller, Doubleday Book Shops and Scribner's Bookstore trade names. Through its approximate 36% interest in barnesandnoble.com llc (Barnes & Noble.com), the Company sells books on the Internet on America Online's proprietary network, the Yahoo! Inc. directory and Microsoft Network. The Company, through its acquisitions of Babbage's Etc. LLC and Funco, Inc., is a video game and PC entertainment software specialty retailer, operating its video game and entertainment software stores under the Babbage's, Software Etc., GameStop and FuncoLand trade names, a Website (gamestop.com) and Game Informer, a video game magazine.
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Financial Summary
BKS is engaged in the retail sale of trade books, mass market paperbacks, children's books, off-price bargain books and magazines through 908 bookstores and and 978 videogame and entertainment software stores. For the 26 weeks ended 8/4/01, revenues rose 13% to $2.06 billion. Net loss increased 3% to $13.2 million. Results reflect increased video game sales, offset by lower margins in the Video Game and Entertainment Software stores.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2001 Pay

Leonard Riggio, 60
Chairman and CEO
$800K
Stephen Riggio, 46
Vice Chairman
--  
Maureen O'Connell, 39
CFO
472K
Michael Berry, 52
Pres of Barnes & Noble Booksellers
--  
J. Alan Kahn, 54
COO
971K
Dollar amounts are as of 3-Feb-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 -- NYSE:BKSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 12-Oct-2000
$16.438
Recent Price$40.47 
52-Week High
on 27-Aug-2001
$43.99 
Beta1.03 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)860.5K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)966.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+116.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+190.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$2.70B
Shares Outstanding66.8M
Float41.4M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 23-Sep-1997
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$12.04 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.81 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.03 
Sales (ttm)$70.92 
Cash (mrq*)$0.39 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)3.36 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.57 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$4.62B
EBITDA (ttm*)$275.0M
Income available to common (ttm)-$52.4M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-1.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)2.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsFeb 3
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
4-Aug-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-2.00%
Return on Equity (ttm)-6.62%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.68 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.84 
Total Cash (mrq)$26.1M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short6.42M
Percent of Float15.5%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
7.10M
Short Ratio7.75 
Daily Volume829.0K
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