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Profile - Wilsons The Leather Exp. (NasdaqNM:WLSN)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 21Earnings Announcement
Location
7401 Boone Avenue North
Brooklyn Park, MN 55428
Phone: (763) 391-4000
Fax: (763) 391-4906
Email: ir@wilsonsleather.com
Employees (last reported count): 6,240
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Apparel)
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 48%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 2 insider buys; 8,000  shares
 · 11 insider sells; 423.0K shares
  (4.9% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 45% (87% of float)
(139 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 1.90M shares (+19.58%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Wilsons The Leather Experts Inc. is a specialty retailer of high-quality leather outerwear, apparel and accessories, as well as travel products and accessories. Utilizing its integrated worldwide leather sourcing network and in-house design capabilities, the Company provides its customers with high-quality, fashionable merchandise by reacting to popular and emerging fashion trends and customer preferences and replenishing fast-selling merchandise. As of April 14, 2001, the Company operated a total of 722 stores located in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Canada and the United Kingdom. The Wilsons Leather concept included 470 mall stores, 77 outlet stores and 31 airport locations. Each year, the Company supplements its permanent stores with temporary holiday stores during the peak selling season, which totaled 239 in 2000.
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Financial Summary
WLSN is a retailer of leather outerwear, apparel and accessories. As of 04/01, WLSN operated 722 stores in 46 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Canada, Puerto Rico and England. For the 13 weeks ended 5/5/01, net sales rose 30% to $117.5 million. Net loss before extraordinary item totaled $3.7 million, up from $754 thousand. Results reflect increased sales in outlet and mall stores and the addition of new stores, offset by lower margins due to lower sales of higher margin products.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 08/04/2001, revenues were 94,165; after tax earnings were -22,796. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY1999 Pay

Joel Waller, 60
Chairman, CEO
$771K
David Rogers, 57
Pres, COO, Director
770K
Peter Michielutti
CFO, Sr. VP
--  
John Serino, 50
Exec. VP, Store Sales
439K
W. Bode, 55
Sr. VP--Wilsons, Gen. Mang. Outlet Division
--  
Dollar amounts are as of 30-Jan-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 -- NasdaqNM:WLSNAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 27-Dec-2000
$12.00 
Recent Price$18.59 
52-Week High
on 2-May-2001
$24.39 
Beta0.45 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)115.9K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)113.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-6.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+25.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$320.5M
Shares Outstanding17.2M
Float9.00M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 16-Mar-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$10.23 
Earnings (ttm)$1.83 
Earnings (mrq)-$1.32 
Sales (ttm)$41.06 
Cash (mrq*)$0.04 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)1.82 
Price/Earnings (ttm)10.14 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.45 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$701.7M
EBITDA (ttm*)$85.0M
Income available to common (ttm)$32.2M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)4.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)10.8%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsFeb 3
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
5-May-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)11.44%
Return on Equity (ttm)22.18%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.60 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.34 
Total Cash (mrq)$3.65M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short333.0K
Percent of Float3.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
190.0K
Short Ratio3.11 
Daily Volume107.0K
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-July-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 5-May-2001)

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