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Profile - Praxair, Inc. (NYSE:PX)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
39 Old Ridgebury Road
Danbury, CT 06810
Phone: (203) 837-2000
Fax: (203) 837-2001
Email: scott_cunningham@praxair.com
Employees (last reported count): 23,430
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 ·Sector: Basic Materials
 ·Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 14%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 9 insider sells; 93.0K shares
  (0.4% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 83% (97% of float)
(958 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 4.83M shares (+3.46%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Praxair, Inc. is an industrial gases company that operates worldwide. Praxair's primary products for its industrial gases business are atmospheric gases, such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon and rare gases, and process gases, such as carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, electronic gases, specialty gases and acetylene. The Company's surface technology segment, operated through Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc., supplies wear-resistant and high-temperature corrosion-resistant metallic and ceramic coatings and powders. The Company also designs, engineers and builds equipment that produces industrial gases, for internal use and external sale, through its global supply systems included in its All Other segment.
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Financial Summary
Praxair, Inc. is the largest industrial gases company in North and South America. PX produces, sells and distributes atmospheric, process and specialty gases, and high-performance surface coatings to different industries. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 6% to $2.65 billion. Net income before accounting change increased 7% to $252 million. Results reflect price improvements, and solid demand in refining and oil and gas exploration and production.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Dennis Reilley, 48
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$1.5M--  
James Sawyer, 44
CFO, VP
--  --  
Stephen Angel, 45
Exec. VP
--  --  
Paul Bilek, 53
Exec. VP
833K--  
Thomas Von Krannichfeldt, 51
Exec. VP
777K$557K
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.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:PXAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 19-Oct-2000
$30.313
Recent Price$47.07 
52-Week High
on 17-May-2001
$54.00 
Beta1.12 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)772.9K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)553.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+6.4%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+42.7%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$7.60B
Shares Outstanding161.5M
Float138.9M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.68 
Dividend Yield1.45%
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$14.95 
Earnings (ttm)$2.33 
Earnings (mrq)$0.77 
Sales (ttm)$32.05 
Cash (mrq)$0.28 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)3.15 
Price/Earnings (ttm)20.17 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.47 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$5.20B
EBITDA (ttm)$1.20B
Income available to common (ttm)$379.0M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)7.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)13.8%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)4.96%
Return on Equity (ttm)15.97%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.22 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.31 
Total Cash (mrq)$46.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.37M
Percent of Float1.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
710.0K
Short Ratio1.58 
Daily Volume862.0K
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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