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Profile - Dole Food Company, Inc. (NYSE:DOL)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 30Price hit new 52-week high ($24.37)
Upcoming Events
Sep 20Dividend payment of $0.10
Location
One Dole Drive
Westlake Village, CA 91362
Phone: (818) 879-6600
Fax: (818) 879-6615
Email: investor_relations@na.dole.com
Employees (last reported count): 61,000
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Food Processing
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 400 MidCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 53%
·Institutional: 53% (113% of float)
(251 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 701.0K shares (+2.41%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Dole Food Company, Inc. is the world's largest producer and marketer of high-quality, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and fresh-cut flowers, and markets a growing line of packaged foods. Dole is engaged in the worldwide sourcing, growing, processing, distributing and marketing of high-quality, fresh produce, packaged foods and fresh-cut flowers. The Company is one of the world's largest producers of bananas and pineapples. Dole is also a major marketer of citrus and table grapes worldwide and an industry leader in canned pineapple products, iceberg lettuce, celery, cauliflower, broccoli and in fresh-cut fruits, salads and vegetables.
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Financial Summary
Dole Food is engaged in the worldwide distributing, growing, processing, sourcing and marketing of high quality, fresh fruits, vegetables, almonds, and flowers. For the 24 weeks ended 6/16/01, revenues fell 1% to $2.34 billion. Net income fell 12% to $71.7 million. Revenues reflect a decrease in fresh fruit sales due to lower revenues in the European banana business. Earnings also reflect an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY1999 Pay

David Murdock, 76
Chairman, CEO
$843K
Lawrence Kern, 52
Pres, COO, Director
599K
David DeLorenzo, 53
Vice Chairman
635K
Peter Nolan, 57
Pres of Dole North America Operations and Pres of Dole Packaged Foods Company
452K
Kenneth Kay, 44
VP, CFO
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Dollar amounts are as of 1-Jan-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:DOLAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 8-Nov-2000
$11.75 
Recent Price$23.99 
52-Week High
on 30-Aug-2001
$24.37 
Beta0.35 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)358.7K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)233.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+68.4%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+125.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$1.34B
Shares Outstanding55.9M
Float26.3M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.40 
Dividend Yield1.67%
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$10.84 
Earnings (ttm)$1.03 
Earnings (mrq)$0.66 
Sales (ttm)$84.59 
Cash (mrq*)$0.78 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)2.21 
Price/Earnings (ttm)23.29 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.28 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$4.74B
EBITDA (ttm*)$309.3M
Income available to common (ttm)$57.8M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)1.2%
Operating Margin (ttm)3.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 30
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
16-June-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)2.02%
Return on Equity (ttm)10.03%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.47 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)1.72 
Total Cash (mrq)$43.6M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short1.32M
Percent of Float5.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
667.0K
Short Ratio3.90 
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, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 16-June-2001)

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