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Profile - Rica Foods, Inc. (AMEX:RCF)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
240 Crandon Blvd., Suite 115
Key Biscayne, FL 33149
Phone: (305) 365-9694
Fax: (305) 365-8665
Email: mmarenco@ricafoods.com
Employees (last reported count): 3,500
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Food Processing
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 62%
·Institutional: 1% (3% of float)
(28 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 31.0K shares (+30.08%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Rica Foods, Inc., incorporated in 1986, is engaged in poultry production. Rica Foods owns a total of 69 urban and rural outlets throughout Costa Rica, three modern processing plants and three animal feed plants. The Company supplies chicken in Costa Rica to Burger King, Subway, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut franchises, as well as Price Smart, Taco Bell and Gerber Products companies, and was selected by the McDonald's Corporation to be one of its poultry suppliers for Central America.
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Financial Summary
Rica Foods, Inc. is engaged in poultry production through its subsidiaries, Corporation Pipasa, S.A., and As de Oros. For the nine months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 3% to $95.6 million. Net income applicable to Common fell 83% to $398 thousand. Revenues benefitted from higher commercial eggs sales and increased sales to clients with large volumes of purchases. Earnings were offset by increased cost of raw materials and production and higher employee costs.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Calixto Chaves, 54
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$142K
Randall Piedra, 34
CFO
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Jose Chaves, 28
COO, Director
--  
Mauricio Marenco, 36
CIO, Assistant Sec.
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Jorge Quesada, 51
Treasurer, Director
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Dollar amounts are as of 30-Sep-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 -- AMEX:RCFAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 13-Mar-2001
$2.30 
Recent Price$4.30 
52-Week High
on 11-Oct-2000
$17.438
Beta1.91 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)4,682 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)2,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-73.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-63.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$55.3M
Shares Outstanding12.9M
Float4.90M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 1 for 3 on 29-Dec-1998
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$1.57 
Earnings (ttm)$0.07 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.05 
Sales (ttm)$9.83 
Cash (mrq)$0.23 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)2.73 
Price/Earnings (ttm)60.56 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.44 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$126.1M
EBITDA (ttm)$5.68M
Income available to common (ttm)$906.0K
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)0.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)3.8%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsSep 30
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)1.27%
Return on Equity (ttm)4.15%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.74 
Debt/Equity (mrq)2.01 
Total Cash (mrq)$3.01M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short38.0K
Percent of Float0.8%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
38.0K
Short Ratio12.67 
Daily Volume3,000 
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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