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Profile - WMC Ltd. (NYSE:WMC)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 13Earnings Announcement
Upcoming Events
Sep 17Dividend payment of $0.33
Location
IBM Centre, 60 City Road, Southbank
Victoria 3006, Australia
Phone: (212) 815-2084
Fax: (212) 571-3050
Email: investor.relations@wmc.com
Employees (last reported count): 3,414
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 ·Sector: Basic Materials
 ·Industry: Metal Mining
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 40%
·Institutional: 0% (1% of float)
(21 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 529.0K shares (+30.49%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
WMC Ltd. is an Australian diversified resources company engaged in the discovery, development, production, processing and marketing of minerals and metals. WMC is a major nickel producer, one of Australia's major gold producers and a significant Australian producer of copper and uranium oxide. WMC also owns 39.25% of Australian and 40% of the non-Australian assets of Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals, a producer of bauxite, alumina and alumina-based chemicals. During 1999, WMC's mineral interests outside Australia included mineral exploration properties in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Chile, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, French Guiana, Cuba and Uzbekistan. WMC's other activities include mining and producing talc for the paper, plastics and paint markets, as well as distributing fertilizers.
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Financial Summary
WMC Ltd. and its subsidiaries explore, develop, process, and market industrial minerals and metals such as nickel, gold, copper and uranium oxide. WMC also produces bauxite, alumina and fertilizer. For the six months ended 6/30/00, revenues rose 74% A$1.51 billion. Net income before U.S. GAAP totaled A$402.7 million, up from A$18.4 million. Revenues reflect increased nickel and aluminium sales. Net income reflects higher nickel prices and lower aluminium unit costs.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 6 months ended 12/31/2000, after tax earnings were 362,200. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of Australian Dollars.)

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Officers

Position
I. BurgessChairman
H. MorganCEO, Director
P. BowmanExec. Gen. Mang., Copper Uranium
P. JohnstonExec. Gen. Mang., Nickel and Gold
R. McCannExec. Gen. Mang., Projects
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:WMCAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 27-Nov-2000
$14.50 
Recent Price$17.54 
52-Week High
on 18-May-2001
$20.70 
Beta0.73 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)9,000 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)2,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-7.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+23.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$4.94B
Shares Outstanding281.8M
Float169.1M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$8.96 
EarningsN/A 
Earnings (mrq)$0.68 
SalesN/A 
Cash (mrq*)$0.20 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)1.96 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/SalesN/A 
Income Statements
SalesN/A 
EBITDA (ttm*)$384.7M
Income available to common (ttm)$191.9M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating Margin (ttm)26.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
30-June-2000
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-Dec-2000
Management Effectiveness
Return on AssetsN/A 
Return on Equity (ttm)7.60%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.11 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.54 
Total Cash (mrq)$0 
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short59.0K
Percent of Float0.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
2,000 
Short Ratio6.56 
Daily Volume9,000 
ADR Information
Shares/ADR4
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 31-Dec-2000, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 30-June-2000);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 1.89 Australian Dollars/US Dollar

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