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Profile - United States Cellular (AMEX:USM)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 30Price hit new 52-week low ($50.00)
Location
8410 West Bryn Mawr, Suite 700
Chicago, IL 60631
Phone: (773) 399-8900
Fax: (773) 399-7054
Email: mmerrell@uscellular.com
Employees (last reported count): 5,250
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 ·Industry: Communications Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 89%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 6 insider sells; 18.0K shares
·Institutional: 15% (139% of float)
(243 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 543.0K shares (+4.49%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
United States Cellular Corporation provides cellular telephone service to 3.1 million customers through 139 majority-owned and managed cellular systems serving approximately 17% of the geography and approximately 9% of the population of the United States. Since 1985, when the Company began providing cellular service in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Company has expanded its cellular networks and customer service operations to cover 145 markets in 25 states, as of December 31, 2000. In total, the Company now operates eight market clusters, of which four have a total population of more than two million, and each of which has a total population of more than one million.
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Financial Summary
United States Cellular Corp. owns, manages and invests in cellular systems throughout the United States and is the nations eighth largest cellular telephone company in terms of customers. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 11% to $915.1 million. Net income before extraordinary item and accounting change fell 10% to $92.9 million. Revenues reflect an increase in the number of customers. Net income was offset by the absence of a gain on cellular investments.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

LeRoy Carlson, Jr., 54
Chairman
$481K
John Rooney, 58
Pres, CEO
558K
Kenneth Meyers, 47
Exec. VP- Fin., CFO, Treasurer
822K
Richard Goehring, 51
Exec. VP-CTO
1.3M
Jay Ellison, 48
Exec. VP- 0perations
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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 -- AMEX:USMAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 30-Aug-2001
$50.00 
Recent Price$51.75 
52-Week High
on 19-Sep-2000
$76.25 
Beta1.04 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)89.8K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)110.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-29.4%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-5.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$4.47B
Shares Outstanding86.4M
Float9.10M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$26.03 
Earnings (ttm)$2.50 
Earnings (mrq)$0.67 
Sales (ttm)$20.40 
Cash (mrq)$0.08 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.99 
Price/Earnings (ttm)20.66 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.54 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.87B
EBITDA (ttm)$567.2M
Income available to common (ttm)$223.4M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)11.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)15.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)6.49%
Return on Equity (ttm)10.10%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.83 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.23 
Total Cash (mrq)$6.78M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.50M
Percent of Float16.5%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
0 
Short Ratio14.30 
Daily Volume105.0K
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 30-June-2001)

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