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Profile - High Yield Plus Fund Inc. (NYSE:HYP)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Sep 10Dividend payment of $0.063
Location
Gateway Center Three
100 Mulberry Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 367-1495
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 1%
·Institutional: 1% (1% of float)
(8 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 80.0K shares (+121.22%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
The High Yield Plus Fund, Inc. was organized as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary objective is to provide a high level of current income to shareholders. The Fund seeks to achieve this objective through investment in publicly or privately offered high yield debt securities rated in the medium to lower categories by recognized rating services or non-rated securities of comparable quality. As a secondary investment objective, the Fund will seek capital appreciation, but only when consistent with its primary objective. The Fund has agreements with the Investment Adviser and with Prudential Investments Fund Management LLC.
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Financial Summary
HYP is a diversified, closed-end investment company. The Fund's primary objective is to provide a high level of current income to shareholders through investment in publicly or privately offered high yield debt securities. For the fiscal year ended 3/31/01, investment income totalled $15.9 million. Net investment income totalled $12.4 million. Net decrease in net assets resulting from operations totalled $8.2 million. Net asset value per share totalled $5.02.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]

Position
Thomas Mooney, 58Pres, Treasurer
Arthur Brown, 51Sec.
R. Charles Miller, 42Assistant Sec.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:HYPAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 8-Dec-2000
$4.76 
Recent Price$5.62 
52-Week High
on 8-Mar-2001
$7.00 
Beta0.18 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)27.5K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)24.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-15.2%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+13.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$86.8M
Shares Outstanding15.4M
Float15.3M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.75 
Dividend Yield13.35%
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$5.02 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.53 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.40 
Sales (ttm)$1.03 
CashN/A 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.12 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)5.47 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$15.9M
EBITDA (ttm)$14.8M
Income available to common (ttm)-$8.19M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-51.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)93.0%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMar 31
Most recent quarter31-Mar-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-6.47%
Return on Equity (ttm)-9.25%
Financial Strength
Current RatioN/A 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.36 
Total CashN/A 
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short140.0K
Percent of Float0.9%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
106.0K
Short Ratio5.60 
Daily Volume25.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-Mar-2001)

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