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Profile - Westaff, Inc. (NasdaqNM:WSTF)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 30Price hit new 52-week low ($1.10)
Aug 15Earnings Announcement
Location
301 Lennon Lane
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Phone: (925) 930-5300
Fax: (925) 934-5489
Email: dsodestrom@westaff.com
Employees (last reported count): 1,130
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 ·Industry: Business Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 50%
·Institutional: 21% (43% of float)
(27 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 172.0K shares (+4.87%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Westaff, Inc. provides temporary staffing services, primarily in suburban and rural markets, as well as in the downtown areas of major urban centers, in the United States and selected international markets. These services include replacement, supplemental and on-site programs to businesses and government agencies. The Company has over 50 years of experience in the staffing industry, and, as of October 28, 2000, operated through over 350 business services offices in 44 states, the District of Columbia and five foreign countries. As of October 28, 2000, approximately 72.6% of these offices were owned by the Company, 22.9% were operated by franchise agents and 4.5% were operated by licensees. The Company is proceeding with arrangements to operate in Mexico.
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Financial Summary
Westaff, Inc. provides temporary staffing services, including replacement, supplemental and on-site programs to businesses and government agencies in regional and local markets in the U.S. and selected international markets. For the 24 weeks ended 4/14/01, total revenues fell 12% to $261.9 million. Net income from continuing operations fell 71% to $1.1 million. Results reflect decreased billed hours and lower international sales of services, and lower margins.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 13 weeks ended 07/07/2001, revenues were 123,314; after tax earnings were 184. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

W. Stover, 79
Chairman
$227K
Tom Seip
Pres, CEO, Director
--  
Dirk Sodestrom, 42
CFO, Sr. VP
166K
Robin Herman, 48
Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel, Secetary
147K
John Grossu
Sr. VP, Strategic Bus. Solutions
--  
Dollar amounts are as of 28-Oct-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:WSTFAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 30-Aug-2001
$1.10 
Recent Price$1.95 
52-Week High
on 8-Sep-2000
$4.125
Beta1.35 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)2,773 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)3,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-46.2%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-27.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$30.9M
Shares Outstanding15.9M
Float7.90M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 1-June-1998
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$4.57 
Earnings (ttm)$0.28 
Earnings (mrq)$0.01 
Sales (ttm)$36.51 
Cash (mrq*)$0.30 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)0.43 
Price/Earnings (ttm)7.04 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.05 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$601.5M
EBITDA (ttm*)$17.9M
Income available to common (ttm)$4.41M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)0.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)1.6%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsOct 28
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
14-Apr-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)2.60%
Return on Equity (ttm)6.04%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)2.40 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.41 
Total Cash (mrq)$0 
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short0 
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
0 
Daily Volume1,000 
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, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 14-Apr-2001)

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