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Profile - ServiceMaster Company (NYSE:SVM)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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July 31Dividend payment of $0.10
Location
One ServiceMaster Way
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Phone: (630) 271-1300
Fax: (630) 271-2710
Email: bjbyots@svm.com
Employees (last reported count): 72,000
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Business Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 14%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider sell; 56.0K shares
  (0.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 44% (51% of float)
(320 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 9.82M shares (+6.90%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
ServiceMaster Company, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in providing a variety of specialty services to homeowners and commercial facilities and supportive management services in several markets, including the healthcare market, the education market and certain segments of the business and industry market. ServiceMaster is organized into four principal operating groups, the TruGreen Group, the Terminix Group, the Home Maintenance and Improvement Group and ServiceMaster Management Services Group. The services provided by the TruGreen, Terminix and Home Maintenance and Improvement Groups comprise the ServiceMaster "Quality Service Network" and are accessed via a single toll-free telephone number, or at www.WeServeHomes.com. ServiceMaster focuses on establishing relationships to provide one or more services on a repetitive basis to customers.
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Financial Summary
SVM is a holding company that provides a variety of specialty services to homeowners and commercial facilities and supportive management services in several markets, including healthcare and education. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 1% to $2.98 billion. Net income before extraordinary item decreased 28% to $73.9 million. Results reflect increased sales from the Terminix and Home Improvement segments, offset by higher operating expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

C. William Pollard, 62
Chairman
$739K
Jonathan Ward, 46
Pres, CEO, Director
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Phillip Rooney, 56
Pres of Management Services Group
117K
Carlos Cantu, 67
Sr. Chairman
--  
Steven Preston, 40
Exec. VP and CFO
444K
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..
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:SVMAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 2-Oct-2000
$8.25 
Recent Price$11.70 
52-Week High
on 10-July-2001
$12.84 
Beta0.16 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)285.4K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)218.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+19.2%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+60.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$3.51B
Shares Outstanding299.8M
Float257.8M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.40 
Dividend Yield3.42%
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 27-Aug-1998
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.92 
Earnings (ttm)$0.52 
Earnings (mrq)$0.17 
Sales (ttm)$19.59 
Cash (mrq)$0.31 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.98 
Price/Earnings (ttm)22.50 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.60 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$5.99B
EBITDA (ttm)$539.0M
Income available to common (ttm)$156.6M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)2.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)6.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)3.86%
Return on Equity (ttm)13.17%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.84 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.45 
Total Cash (mrq)$93.1M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.73M
Percent of Float0.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
2.10M
Short Ratio5.30 
Daily Volume326.0K
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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