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Profile - Meredith Corporation (NYSE:MDP)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug  2Conference call: Meredith Earnings (Q4 2001)
Upcoming Events
Sep 14Dividend payment of $0.085
Location
1716 Locust Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone: (515) 284-3000
Fax: (515) 284-2700
Email: mercirc@mdp.com
Employees (last reported count): 2,560
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Printing & Publishing
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 51%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 65.0K shares
  (0.3% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 67% (136% of float)
(477 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 6.88M shares (+17.21%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Meredith Corporation has two business segments: publishing and broadcasting. The publishing segment includes magazine and book publishing, integrated marketing, interactive media, brand licensing, and other related operations. Prior to fiscal 1999, the publishing segment also included the residential real estate franchising operations that were sold effective July 1998. The broadcasting segment includes the operations of 12 network-affiliated television stations and syndicated television program marketing and development. Virtually all of the Company's revenues are generated and assets reside within the United States.
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Financial Summary
Meredith Corporation is a diversified media company involved in magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, brand licensing, and integrated marketing programs. For the nine months ended 3/31/01, total revenues decreased 4% to $783.2 million. Net income fell 13% to $59.4 million. Revenues reflect decreased advertising revenues and lower broadcasting and publishing revenues. Earnings also reflect increased investments in interactive media operations.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 06/30/2001, revenues were 1,053,213; after tax earnings were 71,272. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

William Kerr, 59
Chairman, CEO
$1.5M
Stephen Lacy, 46
Pres - Interactive and Integrated Marketing Group
699K
Christopher Little, 59
Pres, Publishing Group
1.0M
Bobbie Halfin
Managing Director Interactive Media Sales
--  
Suku Radia, 49
VP, CFO
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Dollar amounts are as of 30-June-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 -- NYSE:MDPAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 18-Oct-2000
$27.125
Recent Price$32.55 
52-Week High
on 30-Apr-2001
$38.97 
Beta0.61 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)113.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)98.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+18.4%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+58.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.62B
Shares Outstanding49.7M
Float24.3M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.34 
Dividend Yield1.04%
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 18-Mar-1997
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$8.91 
Earnings (ttm)$2.55 
Earnings (mrq)$1.39 
Sales (ttm)$35.76 
Cash (mrq*)$0.21 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)3.65 
Price/Earnings (ttm)12.78 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.91 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.84B
EBITDA (ttm*)$194.4M
Income available to common (ttm)$130.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)7.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)13.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJune 30
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
31-Mar-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)9.05%
Return on Equity (ttm)30.97%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)0.95 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)1.14 
Total Cash (mrq)$0 
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short371.0K
Percent of Float1.5%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
379.0K
Short Ratio4.42 
Daily Volume84.0K
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, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 31-Mar-2001)

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