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Profile - Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NasdaqNM:SIAL)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
July 25Conference call: Sigma-Aldrich Earnings (Q2 2001)
Upcoming Events
Sep 14Dividend payment of $0.083
Location
3050 Spruce Street
St. Louis, MO 63103
Phone: (314) 771-5765
Fax: (314) 771-5757
Email: krichter@sial.com
Employees (last reported count): 6,128
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Competitors:
 ·Sector: Basic Materials
 ·Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 500
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 37%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 2 insider buys; 3,000  shares
 · 5 insider sells; 14.0K shares
·Institutional: 84% (133% of float)
(625 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 6.19M shares (+9.06%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Sigma-Aldrich Corporation develops, manufactures and distributes a broad range of biochemicals, organic chemicals, chromatography products and diagnostic reagents. These chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the chemical industry and for the diagnosis of disease. The Company operates in 33 countries, lists more than 85,000 chemical products and distributes these products in over 160 countries. Sigma-Aldrich's life science products are used in many applications and disciplines including molecular biology, cell biology, cell culture, protein analysis and chromatography, DNA sequencing and gene studies.
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Financial Summary
Sigma-Aldrich develops, manufactures and distributes a broad range of biochemicals, organic chemicals, diagnostic reagents and chromatography products. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 6% to $599.4 million. Earnings from continuing operations fell 7% to $73.7 million. Revenues reflect higher fine chemical laboratory products and science products sales. Earnings were offset by higher S/G/A costs as a percentage of sales due to marketing initatives.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

David Harvey, 61
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$654K
Michael Hogan, 48
CFO, Chief Admin. Officer, Sec.
373K
Larry Blazevich, 53
VP, CIO
274K
Terry Colvin, 45
VP of HR
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Rodney Kelley, 46
VP, Safety and Compliance
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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 -- NasdaqNM:SIALAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 14-Sep-2000
$27.25 
Recent Price$45.61 
52-Week High
on 16-May-2001
$51.49 
Beta0.16 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)362.7K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)376.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+57.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+111.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$3.39B
Shares Outstanding74.4M
Float46.9M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.33 
Dividend Yield0.72%
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 3-Jan-1997
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$10.97 
Earnings (ttm)$1.72 
Earnings (mrq)$0.49 
Sales (ttm)$14.61 
Cash (mrq)$0.51 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)4.16 
Price/Earnings (ttm)26.46 
Price/Sales (ttm)3.12 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.13B
EBITDA (ttm)$274.2M
Income available to common (ttm)$133.2M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)11.8%
Operating Margin (ttm)17.2%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)9.77%
Return on Equity (ttm)15.28%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.62 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.50 
Total Cash (mrq)$37.8M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short567.0K
Percent of Float1.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
794.0K
Short Ratio1.67 
Daily Volume339.0K
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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