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Profile - Patterson Dental Company (NasdaqNM:PDCO)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 27Price hit new 52-week high ($37.88)
Aug 23Conference call: Patterson Dental Company Earnings (Q1)
Aug 23Earnings Announcement
Location
1031 Mendota Heights Road
St. Paul, MN 55120
Phone: (651) 686-1600
Fax: (651) 686-9331
Email: investors@pattersondental.com
Employees (last reported count): 3,853
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 ·Sector: Healthcare
 ·Industry: Medical Equipment & Supplies
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Index Membership
 ·S&P 400 MidCap
Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 33%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 2 insider sells; 32.0K shares
  (0.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 61% (91% of float)
(377 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 819.0K shares (+2.01%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Patterson Dental Company (Patterson) is a distributor of dental products in North America. Patterson is a full-service, value-added supplier to dentists, dental laboratories, institutions, physicians, and other healthcare professionals. The Company provides consumable products (including x-ray film, restorative materials, hand instruments and sterilization products); advanced technology dental equipment; practice management software; and office forms and stationery. The Company offers its customers a broad selection of dental products including more than 82,500 stock keeping units of which approximately 2,800 are private-label products sold under the Patterson name. Patterson also offers customers a full range of related services including dental equipment installation, maintenance and repair, dental office design and equipment financing.
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Financial Summary
Patterson Dental Company distributes dental supplies and equipment to dentists, dental laboratories and institutions in the United States and Canada. For the fiscal year ended 4/28/01, net sales increased 11% to $1.16 billion. Net income increased 19% to $76.5 million. Revenues reflect increased sales of new generation dental equipment and solid core dental equipment sales. Earnings also benefitted from better point-of-sale margins and changes in the product mix.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 3 months ended 07/28/2001, revenues were 303,254; after tax earnings were 19,613. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2001 Pay

Peter Frechette, 63
Pres, CEO
$599K
R. Stephen Armstrong, 50
CFO, Exec. VP, Treasurer
352K
Normand Senecal, 56
Pres- Patterson Dental Canada Inc.
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James Wiltz, 56
VP of Company and Pres- Patterson Dental Supply, Inc., Director
360K
Richard Kochmann, 49
VP of Marketing
254K
Dollar amounts are as of 28-Apr-2001 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:PDCOAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 20-Sep-2000
$21.125
Recent Price$34.29 
52-Week High
on 27-Aug-2001
$37.88 
Beta0.10 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)461.5K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1.75M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+46.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+96.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$2.33B
Shares Outstanding67.8M
Float45.4M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 24-July-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$6.05 
Earnings (ttm)$1.18 
Earnings (mrq)$0.29 
Sales (ttm)$17.58 
Cash (mrq*)$2.73 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)5.67 
Price/Earnings (ttm)29.06 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.95 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.19B
EBITDA (ttm*)$125.3M
Income available to common (ttm)$80.0M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)6.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)10.0%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsApr 28
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
28-Apr-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)15.75%
Return on Equity (ttm)21.23%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)3.34 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$118.5M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short680.0K
Percent of Float1.5%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
437.0K
Short Ratio2.27 
Daily Volume299.0K
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