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Profile - Ask Jeeves, Inc. (NasdaqNM:ASKJ)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
5858 Horton Street, Suite 350
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone: (510) 985-7400
Fax: (510) 985-7418
Email: ir@ask.com
Employees (last reported count): 565
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 ·Industry: Business Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 26%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 6 insider buys; 102.0K shares (1.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 8% (11% of float)
(100 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 1.57M shares (+102.42%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Ask Jeeves, Inc. provides natural language question answering technologies and services. The Company's proprietary technology, combined with human intelligence, creates an interaction centered on understanding users' specific needs and interests and connecting them to the most relevant information, products and services. The Company delivers its natural language question answering technologies and services through its own Websites at Ask.com, AJKids.com and DirectHit.com. Through the Company's Web Properties Group, Ask Jeeves provides a highly targeted medium for advertisers to reach online users. The Company also syndicates services to portals, infomediaries and content and destination sites to help companies increase e-commerce and advertising revenue. Through its Business Solutions Group, the Company develops and maintains customized automated search, natural language question answering and intelligent advisor services on numerous corporate Websites.
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Financial Summary
Ask Jeeves develops and deploys online personal service infrastruce to provided real-time access to information, products and services allowing for an intuitive interaction with customers. For the six months ended 6/01, revenues decreased 18% to $35.8 million. Net loss totalled $399.1 million, up from $89.2 million. Revenues reflect lower advertising sales due to weaker economic conditions. Higher loss reflects a $339.2 million charge for the impairment of assets.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Garrett Gruener, 46
Chairman
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A. George Battle, 57
CEO, Director
$16K
Adam Klein, 49
Pres, Interim Pres of Web Properties
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Steven Sordello, 32
CFO
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George Lichter, 48
Pres of Ask Jeeves International
264K
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 -- NasdaqNM:ASKJAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 6-Apr-2001
$0.75 
Recent Price$0.97 
52-Week High
on 5-Sep-2000
$33.875
Beta6.81 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)257.4K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)123.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-96.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-95.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$35.7M
Shares Outstanding36.9M
Float27.3M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$1.91 
Earnings (ttm)-$13.96 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.58 
Sales (ttm)$2.46 
Cash (mrq)$1.64 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.51 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.40 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$87.8M
EBITDA (ttm)-$429.9M
Income available to common (ttm)-$499.6M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating MarginN/A 
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-121.47%
Return on Equity (ttm)-145.94%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.33 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.18 
Total Cash (mrq)$60.2M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short539.0K
Percent of Float2.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
704.0K
Short Ratio1.88 
Daily Volume287.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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