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Profile - Huntingdon Life Sciences (OTC BB:HTDLY.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
Woolley Road, Alcobury
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
PE28 4HS, UK
Phone: (201) 525-1819
Email: micahel@princeton.huntingdon.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,315
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 ·Sector: Healthcare
 ·Industry: Biotechnology & Drugs
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 41%
·Institutional: 0% (0% of float)
(2 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 15.0K shares (+50.09%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Huntingdon Life Sciences Group plc is a Contract Research Organization that provides worldwide pre-clinical and non-clinical biological safety evaluation research services to most of the world's leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrochemical and industrial chemical companies. Approximately 65% of the Company's orders are in support of early stage development of promising new pharmaceutical and biotech compounds. The purpose of this safety evaluation is to identify risks to humans, animals or the environment, resulting from the use or manufacture of a wide range of chemicals that are essential components of these industries' products. Huntingdon's services are designed to meet the regulatory requirements of governments around the world.
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Financial Summary
Huntingdon Life Sciences is a Contract Research Organization which specializes in the areas of non-clinical safety and efficacy testing for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrochemical and biotech compounds industries. For the fiscal year ended 12/31/00, revenues increased 9% to L63.3 million. Net loss rose 71% to L7M. Revenues reflect the impact of increased orders due to refinancing. Higher loss reflects an increase in personnel and higher foreign exchange losses.
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Officers
FY2000 Pay

Andrew Baker, 52
Chairman
$266K
Brian Cass, 53
COO, Managing Director
307K
Julian Griffiths, 48
Fin. Director, Sec.
115K
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 -- OTC BB:HTDLY.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 28-Dec-2000
$0.01 
Recent Price$1.18 
52-Week High
on 22-Jan-2001
$4.00 
Beta3.56 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)4,000 
Stock Performance
52-Week Change-59.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-44.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$13.8M
Shares Outstanding11.7M
Float6.89M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 1 for 5 on 10-July-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.34 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.87 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.25 
Sales (ttm)$7.90 
Cash (mrq)$0.28 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)3.47 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.15 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$92.0M
EBITDA (ttm)$5.33M
Income available to common (ttm)-$10.2M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-11.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)-3.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter31-Dec-2000
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-7.31%
Return on Equity (ttm)-112.97%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.49 
Debt/Equity (mrq)21.02 
Total Cash (mrq)$3.20M
Short Interest
As of 8-Dec-2000
Shares Short0 
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
89.0K
Daily Volume29.0K
ADR Information
Shares/ADR25
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-Dec-2000);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 1.45 Dollars/British Pounds

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