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Profile - Reuters Group PLC (NasdaqNM:RTRSY)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
July 24Price hit new 52-week low ($62.50)
Upcoming Events
Sep 12Dividend payment of $0.328
Location
85 Fleet Street
London EC4P 4AJ, UK
Phone: (212) 603-3300
Fax: (212) 247-0346
Email: joanne.macaulay@reuters.com
Employees (last reported count): 18,082
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 5%
·Institutional: 5% (6% of float)
(210 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 117.0K shares (+0.95%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Reuters Group PLC is a global information news provider that operates in three business areas: Reuters Financial, Reuterspace and Instinet. Reuters reaches over 558,000 subscribers in 50,600 locations and makes extensive use of Internet technologies for the widest distribution of information and news. Around 73 million visitors per month access Reuters content on some 1,400 Internet Websites. Reuters products are distributed to 151 countries in three principal geographic areas: Europe, Middle East and Africa (including the United Kingdom and Ireland); Asia/Pacific (including Japan); and The Americas. Instinet is an electronic agency securities broker that has created and operates an e-financial marketplace. Upon completion of Instinet's IPO in May 2001, Reuters held 86.6% of Instinet's share capital.
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Financial Summary
Reuters Group PLC supplies the global business community and news media with a range of products including real-time financial data, transaction systems, access to numeric and textual historical databases, news and news pictures. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 14% to L1.94 billion. Net income under U.S. GAAP fell 20% to L270M. Results reflect revenue growth in all major divisions, offset by increased business transformation costs.
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Officers

Position
Christopher Hogg, 64Chairman
Thomas Glocer, 41CEO, Director
David Grigson, 46Fin. Director, Director
Philip Green, 47COO, Director
Rosemary MartinSec.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:RTRSYAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 24-July-2001
$62.50 
Recent Price$67.70 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$128.25 
Beta0.98 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)44.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)27.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-46.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-27.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$15.9B
Shares Outstanding234.2M
Float222.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 18-Apr-1994
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$8.71 
Earnings (ttm)$2.96 
Earnings (mrq)$1.68 
Sales (ttm)$24.36 
Cash (mrq)$4.74 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)7.77 
Price/Earnings (ttm)22.89 
Price/Sales (ttm)2.78 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$5.58B
EBITDA (ttm)$945.2M
Income available to common (ttm)$680.5M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)12.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)10.1%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)11.82%
Return on Equity (ttm)38.39%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.05 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.30 
Total Cash (mrq)$1.11B
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short384.0K
Percent of Float0.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
221.0K
Short Ratio6.29 
Daily Volume61.0K
ADR Information
Shares/ADR6
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);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 1.45 Dollars/British Pounds

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