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Profile - Vodafone Group Plc (NYSE:VOD)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 20Dividend payment of $0.102
Aug 17Price hit new 52-week low ($17.97)
Location
The Courtyard, 2-4 London Road
Newbury, Berkshire
RG14 1JX, UK
Phone: (800) 233-5601
Email: ir@vodafone.co.uk
Employees (last reported count): 56,800
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 43%
·Institutional: 7% (12% of float)
(1,068 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 17.6M shares (+4.46%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Vodafone Group Plc is a wireless telecommunications company with worldwide operations through its subsidiary, joint venture and associated undertakings. Vodafone also has interests in wireless telecommunications businesses in the Middle East and Africa. The Company provides a full range of wireless telecommunications services, including cellular, personal communications services, paging and data communications. Vodafone has interests in 25 countries across five continents. Based on venture customers at March 31, 2000, Vodafone had more than 39.1 million customers, excluding paging customers, and served markets covering a total population of around 411.8 million people worldwide. Vodafone's operations are divided into the geographic areas of Europe, Middle East and Africa; the United Kingdom, and the United States and Asia Pacific. Vodafone also owns 45% of Verizon Wireless, a wireless operator formed by the combination of the U.S. cellular operations of Vodafone, Bell Atlantic and GTE.
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Financial Summary
VOD provides international mobile telecommunications services which include selling/renting cellular telephone equipment, and provides messaging, third-party charging and data transmission facilities and access to information services. For the fiscal year ended 03/01, revenues rose 91% to L1.50 billion. Net loss according to U.S. GAAP totaled L7.07 billion vs. an income of L553M. Results reflect acquisitions and customer growth, offset by acquisition costs and JV losses.
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Officers

Position
Lord MacLaurin, 62Chairman
Christopher Gent, 51CEO
Arun Sarin, 44Pres, COO
Peter Bamford, 45Director and CEO, UK Region
Julian Horn-Smith, 50Director and CEO, Europe/Africa/Middle East Region
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:VODAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 17-Aug-2001
$17.97 
Recent Price$20.15 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$44.313
Beta0.84 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)5.57M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)4.46M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-54.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-39.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$123.8B
Shares Outstanding6.14B
Float3.50B
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 5 for 1 on 4-Oct-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$34.41 
Earnings (ttm)-$1.67 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.51 
Sales (ttm)$3.48 
Cash (mrq)$3.14 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.59 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)5.79 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$21.8B
EBITDA (ttm)-$7.92B
Income available to common (ttm)-$10.3B
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-62.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)-46.6%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMar 31
Most recent quarter31-Mar-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-5.79%
Return on Equity (ttm)-5.02%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.43 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$19.3B
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short54.5M
Percent of Float1.6%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
49.6M
Short Ratio9.37 
Daily Volume5.82M
ADR Information
Shares/ADR1
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-Mar-2001);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 1.45 Dollars/British Pounds

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