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Profile - Dow Jones & Co. (NYSE:DJ)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Aug 31Dividend payment of $0.25
Location
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
Phone: (212) 416-2000
Fax: (212) 416-2658
Email: investorrelations@dowjones.com
Employees (last reported count): 8,175
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Printing & Publishing
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Index Membership
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 50%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 9 insider sells; 738.0K shares
  (1.7% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 59% (117% of float)
(589 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 1.60M shares (+3.07%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Dow Jones & Company, Inc. is a global provider of business and financial news and information. The Company's operations are divided into three operating segments: print publishing, electronic publishing, and general-interest community newspapers. The print publishing segment contains the operations of The Wall Street Journal and its international editions, Barron's and other periodicals, as well as U.S. television operations. Electronic publishing includes the operations of Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes, and WSJ.com among others. Community newspapers published by Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, include 19 general-interest dailies in 11 states
More from Market Guide: Expanded Business Description

Financial Summary
Dow Jones is a provider of business news and information. DJ's operations are divided into print publishing, electronic publishing and general-interest community newspapers. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues fell 17% to $944 million. Net income fell 74% to $49.4 million. Revenues reflect a slowdown in advertising-supported businesses. Net income also reflects a $32.1 million restructuring charge for workforce reductions.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Peter Kann, 58
Chairman and CEO
$2.8M$602K
Richard Zannino, 42
CFO, Exec. VP
--  --  
Peter Skinner, 56
Exec. VP, Gen. Counsel and Sec.
1.5M--  
James Ottaway, Jr., 63
Sr. VP
1.0M739K
L. Gordon Crovitz, 42
Sr. VP/Electronic Publishing
870K57K
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:DJAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 22-Mar-2001
$48.10 
Recent Price$54.88 
52-Week High
on 15-Sep-2000
$64.75 
Beta0.64 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)252.5K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)207.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-13.1%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+16.6%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$4.70B
Shares Outstanding85.6M
Float43.0M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$1.00 
Dividend Yield1.82%
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 1-July-1986
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$0.69 
Earnings (ttm)-$2.97 
Earnings (mrq)$0.50 
Sales (ttm)$22.97 
Cash (mrq)$0.36 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)79.19 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.39 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$2.00B
EBITDA (ttm)$384.7M
Income available to common (ttm)-$258.8M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-13.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)13.8%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-18.73%
Return on Equity (ttm)-94.08%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.51 
Debt/Equity (mrq)3.37 
Total Cash (mrq)$30.7M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short2.01M
Percent of Float4.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
2.00M
Short Ratio7.11 
Daily Volume282.0K
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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