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Profile - School Specialty, Inc. (NasdaqNM:SCHS)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 20Price hit new 52-week high ($31.05)
Aug 14Earnings Announcement
July 28Fiscal quarter ended
Location
W6316 Design Drive
Greenville, WI 54942
Phone: (920) 734-5712
Fax: (800) 242-3432
Email: ahendrickson@schoolspecialty.com
Employees (last reported count): 2,200
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Office Supplies
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 600 SmallCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 44%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 2 insider sells; 12.0K shares
  (0.2% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 86% (153% of float)
(198 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 593.0K shares (+3.73%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
School Specialty, Inc. is a direct marketing company for supplemental educational supplies to schools and teachers for pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in the United States. The Company operates a national distribution network and offers more than 80,000 items, mails over 38 million catalogs annually and has developed both an online education portal and an e-commerce Website. Its broad product range enables the Company to provide customers with one source for virtually all of their supplemental educational supply needs. The Company markets two categories of products: general school supplies and specialty products geared towards specific educational disciplines.
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Financial Summary
SCHS is a distributor of non-textbook educational supplies and furniture for grades pre-kindergarten through 12 to school districts, administrators and teachers through its catalogs. For the 13 weeks ended 7/28/01, revenues increased 20% to $260.2 million. Net income rose 45% to $16.5 million. Revenues reflect growth in all segments of the business. Earnings reflect selling price expansion and reduced product cost resulting from the acquisition of J.L. Hammett.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Daniel Spalding, 45
Chairman, CEO
$236K
David Vander Zanden, 45
Pres, COO, Director
235K
Mary Kabacinski, 51
Exec. VP, CFO
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Brian Chapin, 48
Exec. VP of School Specialty for SmartStuff
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Melvin Hilbrown, 52
Exec. VP for Gresswell
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Dollar amounts are as of 29-Apr-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:SCHSAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 24-Oct-2000
$14.00 
Recent Price$30.449
52-Week High
on 20-Aug-2001
$31.05 
Beta0.89 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)259.3K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)244.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+68.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+126.1%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$543.1M
Shares Outstanding17.8M
Float10.0M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$14.57 
Earnings (ttm)$0.93 
Earnings (mrq)$0.90 
Sales (ttm)$41.34 
Cash (mrq*)$0.23 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)2.09 
Price/Earnings (ttm)32.60 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.74 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$735.8M
EBITDA (ttm*)$61.6M
Income available to common (ttm)$17.3M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)2.4%
Operating Margin (ttm)6.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsApr 28
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
28-July-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)3.17%
Return on Equity (ttm)7.03%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)2.01 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.83 
Total Cash (mrq)$4.06M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.88M
Percent of Float18.8%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
235.0K
Short Ratio4.97 
Daily Volume379.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-July-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 28-July-2001)

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