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Profile - BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. (NYSE:BJ)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 21Earnings Announcement
Location
One Mercer Road
Natick, MA 01760
Phone: (508) 651-7400
Fax: (508) 651-6114
Email: investor@bjs.com
Employees (last reported count): 14,700
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Retail (Specialty)
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 400 MidCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 17%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 15 insider sells; 502.0K shares
  (3.9% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 94% (113% of float)
(662 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 1.35M shares (+1.94%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. operates food and general merchandise warehouse club stores throughout New England and the eastern United States, and the state of Ohio. As of February 3, 2001, the Company operated 118 warehouse clubs in 15 states and had approximately 6.6 million members. Warehouse clubs offer a narrow assortment of brand name food and general merchandise items within a wide range of product categories. Since the beginning of 1995, BJ's has grown from 62 clubs to 118 clubs. Approximately 48% of BJ's clubs have been in operation for fewer than six years, and most of these are considered to be in the early stages of maturation.
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Financial Summary
BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., is engaged in the operation of food and general merchandise warehouse clubs. For the 13 weeks ended 5/5/01, total revenues rose 11% to $1.16 billion. Net income rose 27% to $23 million. Revenues reflect the opening of new stores, increased comparable store sales and increased number of gas stations in operation. Earnings also benefitted from a favorable merchandise mix, effective control of payroll expenses and lower advertising expenses.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 13 weeks ended 08/04/2001, revenues were 1,305,710; after tax earnings were 36,497. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

More from Market Guide: Significant Developments

Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2001 Compensation
PayExer

Herbert Zarkin, 62
Chairman
$610K$5.7M
John Nugent, 54
Pres, CEO
1.6M8.4M
Frank Forward, 46
CFO, Exec. VP
694K--  
Laura Sen, 44
Exec. VP- Merchandising
717K--  
Michael Wedge, 47
Exec. VP- Club Operations
716K159K
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.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:BJAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 13-Nov-2000
$28.875
Recent Price$49.00 
52-Week High
on 16-July-2001
$57.24 
Beta0.78 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)614.9K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)704.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+45.2%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+94.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$3.57B
Shares Outstanding72.9M
Float60.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 3-Mar-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$9.46 
Earnings (ttm)$1.91 
Earnings (mrq)$0.49 
Sales (ttm)$69.49 
Cash (mrq*)$1.20 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)5.18 
Price/Earnings (ttm)25.64 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.70 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$5.15B
EBITDA (ttm*)$272.5M
Income available to common (ttm)$141.6M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)2.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)4.3%
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)11.95%
Return on Equity (ttm)22.23%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.36 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.00 
Total Cash (mrq)$136.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.30M
Percent of Float2.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1.39M
Short Ratio2.10 
Daily Volume620.0K
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