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Profile - Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
200 Wilmot Road
Deerfield, IL 60015
Phone: (847) 940-2500
Fax: (847) 914-2654
Email: investor.relations@walgreens.com
Employees (last reported count): 74,000
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Drugs)
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 1%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 5 insider sells; 87.0K shares
  (0.8% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 59% (59% of float)
(1,332 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 17.6M shares (+2.87%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Walgreen Company is a drugstore retailer that, as of November 30, 2000, served customers in 43 states and Puerto Rico through 3,259 retail drugstores and three mail service facilities. The Company's Website, www.walgreens.com, provides service and information to Internet customers. The Company expects to open 500 new stores in fiscal 2001 and have a total of 6,000 drugstores by the year 2010. The drugstores are engaged in the retail sale of prescription and non-prescription drugs, and carry additional product lines such as general merchandise, cosmetics, toiletries, household items, food and beverages. Customer prescription purchases can be made at the drugstores as well as through the mail, telephone and the Internet.
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Financial Summary
Walgreen Company is principally engaged in the retail drugstore business. As of 5/01, the Company operated 3,424 retail drugstores and two mail service facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico. For the nine months ended 5/01, sales rose 16% to $18.34 billion. Net income rose 19% to $668.7 million. Revenues reflect higher comparable store sales and the opening of new stores. Net income also reflects lower headquarters and advertising expenses and a $22.1 million litigation settlement gain.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

L. Daniel Jorndt, 59
CEO and Chairman
$2.5M--  
David Bernauer, 56
Pres and COO
1.3M$1.6M
Roger Polark, 52
CFO, Sr. VP
--  --  
Jeffrey Rein, 48
Exec. VP of Marketing
--  --  
Jerome Karlin, 58
Exec. VP
851K619K
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Aug-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:WAGAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 17-July-2001
$31.00 
Recent Price$34.35 
52-Week High
on 31-Oct-2000
$45.75 
Beta0.65 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)3.16M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1.99M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+2.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+37.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$35.0B
Shares Outstanding1.02B
Float1.01B
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.14 
Dividend Yield0.41%
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 16-Feb-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$4.91 
Earnings (ttm)$0.86 
Earnings (mrq)$0.21 
Sales (ttm)$23.09 
Cash (mrq)$0.10 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)6.99 
Price/Earnings (ttm)39.90 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.49 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$23.7B
EBITDA (ttm)$1.37B
Income available to common (ttm)$885.3M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)3.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)5.8%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsAug 31
Most recent quarter31-May-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)11.57%
Return on Equity (ttm)19.67%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.51 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.07 
Total Cash (mrq)$98.7M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short10.0M
Percent of Float1.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
9.51M
Short Ratio3.26 
Daily Volume3.07M
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