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Profile - Swedish Match AB (publ) (NasdaqNM:SWMAY)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Aug  9Price hit new 52-week high ($51.38)
Location
Rosenlundsgatan 36, S-118 85
Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: (212) 815-3967
Fax: (212) 571-3050
Email: emmett.harrison@swedishmatch.com
Employees (last reported count): 13,672
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Tobacco
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 13%
·Institutional: 2% (2% of float)
(13 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 16.0K shares (+2.33%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Swedish Match AB is an international company engaged in niche tobacco products, or OTP (other tobacco products), such as snuff, cigars, pipe and chewing tobacco, as well as lighters and matches. The Company sells its products in more than 140 countries, with production in 15 countries. Swedish Match is organized into five divisions: North Europe, Continental Europe, North America, Overseas and Matches. In August 2001, the Company acquired the smokeless tobacco trademarks of Premium Tobacco Traders Ltd. With this purchase, Swedish Match will market dry snuff products in Germany, Switzerland and France. The Burger group previously distributed these products.
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Financial Summary
Swedish Match AB produces a broad range of tobacco products, matches and disposable lighters which are sold in approximately 140 countries. For the six months ended 6/30/01, sales rose 25% to SEK6.56 billion. Net income rose 13% to SEK621M. Revenues reflect sales gains for cigars, pipe tobacco, lighters and snuff. Earnings were partially offset by lower snuff margin due to increased expenses for developing and launching new products.
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Officers

Position
Brent Magnusson, 59Chairman
Lennart Sunden, 48Pres and CEO
Lennart Freeman, 49Pres, North America Division
Graham Jones, 51Pres, Match Division
Peter Nilsson, 38Pres, Lighter Division
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Statistics at a Glance -- NasdaqNM:SWMAYAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 13-Oct-2000
$30.00 
Recent Price$48.75 
52-Week High
on 9-Aug-2001
$51.38 
Beta0.09 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)1,909 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+48.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+98.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.75B
Shares Outstanding35.8M
Float31.2M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$11.77 
Earnings (ttm)$3.10 
Earnings (mrq)$0.85 
Sales (ttm)$32.41 
CashN/A 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)4.14 
Price/Earnings (ttm)15.73 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.50 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.23B
EBITDA (ttm)$224.2M
Income available to common (ttm)$117.5M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)9.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)15.9%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)7.48%
Return on Equity (ttm)26.86%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.72 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.31 
Total CashN/A 
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short4,000 
Percent of Float0.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1,000 
Short Ratio1.33 
Daily Volume3,000 
ADR Information
Shares/ADR10
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 10.43 Swedish Krona/Dollar

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