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Profile - Fox Entertainment Group (NYSE:FOX)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 16Earnings Announcement
Location
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 852-7111
Fax: (212) 852-7145
Email: tmueller@newscorp.com
Employees (last reported count): 11,000
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 ·Industry: Motion Pictures
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 83%
·Institutional: 16% (93% of float)
(391 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 1.33M shares (+1.17%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. is a multi-faceted entertainment company with operations in five business segments: Filmed Entertainment; Television Stations; Television Broadcast Network; Other Television Businesses; and Cable Network Programming. Fox Filmed Entertainment, one of the world's largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, produces, finances, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world under a variety of arrangements. FOX has 200 affiliated stations, including 23 full power television stations that are owned by subsidiaries of the Company (the Fox Television Stations), which reach, during prime time, approximately 99% of all United States television households. The Company holds interests in cable network programming businesses in the areas of news, sports, general entertainment, family entertainment and movies.
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Financial Summary
Fox Entertainment Group is principally engaged in the development, production and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programs, television broadcasting and cable network programming. For the 39 weeks ended 3/31/01, revenues rose 3% to $6.3 billion. Net income before acct. change fell 79% to $32 million. Results reflect increased revenues from cable network programming, offset by costs related to restructuring of the WebMD agreement.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 06/30/2001, after tax earnings were 174. (Preliminary; reported in millions of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]

Position
K. Rupert Murdoch, 69Chairman and CEO
Peter Chernin, 49Pres, COO
David DeVoe, 53CFO, Sr. Exec. VP, Director
Chase Carey, 46Co-COO
Arthur Siskind, 61Sr. Exec. VP, Gen. Counsel
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:FOXAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 30-Nov-2000
$15.438
Recent Price$24.52 
52-Week High
on 14-Sep-2000
$30.875
Beta1.39 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)657.2K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)585.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-18.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+9.7%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$17.8B
Shares Outstanding724.1M
Float123.6M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$10.78 
Earnings (ttm)$0.28 
Earnings (mrq)$0.24 
SalesN/A 
Cash (mrq*)$0.06 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)2.27 
Price/Earnings (ttm)86.03 
Price/SalesN/A 
Income Statements
SalesN/A 
EBITDA (ttm*)$1.14B
Income available to common (ttm)$206.0M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating Margin (ttm)7.6%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJune 30
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
31-Mar-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)1.17%
Return on Equity (ttm)2.60%
Financial Strength
Current RatioN/A 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.14 
Total Cash (mrq)$0 
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.14M
Percent of Float0.9%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
977.0K
Short Ratio2.74 
Daily Volume415.0K
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)

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