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Profile - Staples, Inc. (NasdaqNM:SPLS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 21Earnings Announcement
Aug  4Fiscal quarter ended
Location
Five Hundred Staples Drive
Framingham, MA 01702
Phone: (508) 253-5000
Fax: (508) 253-8989
Email: maria.sceppaguercio@staples.com
Employees (last reported count): 29,295
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Specialty)
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 ·S&P 500
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 27%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 4 insider sells; 105.0K shares
·Institutional: 76% (105% of float)
(877 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 4.53M shares (+1.26%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Staples, Inc. is an office products distributor with 1,307 retail stores located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal, as of February 3, 2001. The Staples' North American Retail segment consists of the United States and Canadian operating units that operate office supply stores. The Contract and Commercial segment consists of Staples Direct, Contract, Quill Corporation and Staples Communications, which sell office products, supplies and services directly to businesses throughout the United States and Canada. The Staples.com segment includes the operations of Staples' e-commerce sites. The European Operations segment consists of six operating units that operate office supply stores in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal, and sell office products and supplies to businesses throughout the United Kingdom and Germany. In April 2001, the Company sold Staples Communications to Platinum Equity L.L.C. of Los Angeles.
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Financial Summary
Staples is an office supplies retailer with 1,307 office supply stores (as of 2/01) in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal. SPLS also operates catalog operations, a contract stationery business and e-commerce sites. For the 26 weeks ended 8/4/01, sales rose 5% to $4.98 billion. Net income fell 8% to $79.9 million. Results reflect an increase in customer traffic in all channels, offset by a lower gross margin.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2001 Pay

Thomas Stemberg, 52
Chairman, CEO
$2.4M
Ronald Sargent, 45
Pres, COO, Director
1.8M
Joseph Vassalluzzo, 53
Vice Chairman
1.2M
John Mahoney, 49
CFO, Chief Admin. Officer, Exec. VP
1.3M
Joseph Doody, 48
Pres, Staples Contract & Commercial
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Dollar amounts are as of 3-Feb-2001 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 -- NasdaqNM:SPLSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 18-Oct-2000
$10.25 
Recent Price$15.05 
52-Week High
on 2-Feb-2001
$18.063
Beta1.03 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)3.47M
Daily Volume (10-day avg)5.46M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-4.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+27.7%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$7.00B
Shares Outstanding465.3M
Float338.8M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 29-Jan-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$3.96 
Earnings (ttm)$0.12 
Earnings (mrq)$0.09 
Sales (ttm)$23.62 
Cash (mrq*)$0.13 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)3.80 
Price/Earnings (ttm)126.47 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.64 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$10.9B
EBITDA (ttm*)$280.9M
Income available to common (ttm)$52.8M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)0.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)2.1%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsFeb 3
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
4-Aug-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)1.31%
Return on Equity (ttm)2.90%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.43 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.36 
Total Cash (mrq)$60.1M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short13.2M
Percent of Float3.9%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
7.35M
Short Ratio4.20 
Daily Volume3.15M
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