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Profile - Party City Corporation (NasdaqNM:PCTY)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 31Price hit new 52-week high ($8.78)
Location
400 Commons Way
Rockaway, NJ 07866
Phone: (973) 983-0888
Fax: (973) 983-1333
Employees (last reported count): 1,330
Financial Links
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Competitors:
 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Specialty)
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 45%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 3 insider buys; 39.0K shares (0.7% of insider shares)
 · one insider sell; 127.0K shares
  (2.2% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 1% (3% of float)
(14 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 103.0K shares (+35.16%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Party City Corporation operates retail party supplies stores within the continental United States and sells franchises on an individual store and area franchise basis throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain, Portugal and Canada through its network of 451 discount stores. The Company's stores generally range in size from 10,000 square feet to 12,000 square feet. These stores offer a broad selection of merchandise (brand name as well as private-label) for a wide variety of celebratory occasions, including birthday parties, weddings and baby showers, as well as seasonal events such as Halloween, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Graduation, Easter, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's Day, the Super Bowl and the Fourth of July.
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Financial Summary
Party City Corporation operates retail party goods stores within the continental United States and sells franchises on an individual store and area franchise basis. The Company operates 215 Company-owned and 178 franchise locations. For the nine months ended 3/31/01, revenues rose 9% to $301 million. Net income totaled $8 million, up from $355 thousand. Results benefitted from an increase in same store sales and a higher gross profit due to improved buying practices.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 06/30/2001, revenues were 94,921; after tax earnings were 1,928. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Ralph Dillon, 60
Non-Exec. Chairman
--  
James Shea, 55
CEO
$197K
Andrew Bailen, 44
Exec. VP of Merchandising/ Marketing
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Thomas Larson, 53
Sr. VP and CFO
382K
Joseph Zepf
VP, Gen. Counsel, Assistant Sec.
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Dollar amounts are as of 1-July-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 -- NasdaqNM:PCTYAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 12-Jan-2001
$2.76 
Recent Price$8.65 
52-Week High
on 31-Aug-2001
$8.78 
Beta-0.46 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)53.7K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)47.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+149.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+234.4%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$110.1M
Shares Outstanding12.7M
Float7.00M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 20-Jan-1998
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$3.84 
Earnings (ttm)$0.42 
Earnings (mrq)$0.10 
Sales (ttm)$25.32 
Cash (mrq*)$0.94 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)2.25 
Price/Earnings (ttm)20.64 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.34 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$395.9M
EBITDA (ttm*)$27.9M
Income available to common (ttm)$9.96M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)2.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)4.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJuly 1
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
31-Mar-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)6.58%
Return on Equity (ttm)22.05%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.17 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.62 
Total Cash (mrq)$9.84M
Short Interest
As of 8-June-1999
Shares Short561.0K
Percent of Float8.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
561.0K
Daily Volume0 
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   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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