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Profile - Heller Financial, Inc. (NYSE:HF)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 31Price hit new 52-week high ($53.27)
Aug 15Dividend payment of $0.10
Location
500 West Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Phone: (312) 441-7000
Fax: (312) 441-7367
Email: landerson@hellerfin.com
Employees (last reported count): 2,514
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 ·Industry: Misc. Financial Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 68%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 1,000  shares
·Institutional: 49% (154% of float)
(366 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 5.51M shares (+10.40%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Heller Financial, Inc. is a worldwide commercial finance company providing a broad range of financing solutions to middle-market and small business clients. The Company delivers its products and services principally through two business segments. The Domestic Commercial Finance segment business units have begun to expand their activities into certain other countries, including Canada and the United Kingdom, in order to provide complementary financing products to clients in additional markets. The Company's International Factoring and Asset Based Finance segment, known as Heller International Group, provides factoring services and financings secured primarily by receivables, inventory and equipment.
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Financial Summary
Heller Financial, Inc. is principally engaged in furnishing commerical finance services to businesses in the United States and investing in and operating commercial finance companies throughout the world. For the six months ended 6/30/01, operating revenues rose less than 1% to $525 million. Net income before acct. change applicable to Common rose 2% to $133 million. Results reflect higher average loan receivable balances and a lower effective tax rate.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Richard Almeida, 58
Chairman and CEO
$1.5M
Frederick Wolfert, 46
Pres, COO
789K
Lauralee Martin, 50
CFO, Exec. VP, Director
565K
James Prouty, 50
Pres and CEO of Heller International Group Limited
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Michael Litwin, 53
Exec. VP and Chief Credit and Risk Officer
549K
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 -- NYSE:HFAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 16-Nov-2000
$24.375
Recent Price$53.26 
52-Week High
on 31-Aug-2001
$53.27 
Beta0.87 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)765.5K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)606.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+113.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+186.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$5.17B
Shares Outstanding97.0M
Float30.8M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.40 
Dividend Yield0.75%
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$23.27 
Earnings (ttm)$2.70 
Earnings (mrq)$0.73 
Sales (ttm)$10.66 
Cash (mrq)$6.05 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.29 
Price/Earnings (ttm)19.75 
Price/Sales (ttm)5.00 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.04B
EBITDA (ttm)$485.0M
Income available to common (ttm)$263.0M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)28.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)41.2%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)1.50%
Return on Equity (ttm)12.19%
Financial Strength
Current RatioN/A 
Debt/Equity (mrq)5.97 
Total Cash (mrq)$587.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.76M
Percent of Float5.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
2.08M
Short Ratio1.19 
Daily Volume1.48M
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)

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