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Profile - Spartech Corporation (NYSE:SEH)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 30Conference call: Spartech Earnings (Q3 2001)
Aug 30Earnings Announcement
Location
120 South Central Avenue, Suite 1700
Clayton, MO 63105
Phone: (314) 721-4242
Fax: (314) 721-1447
Email: investor.relations@spartech.com
Employees (last reported count): 4,070
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 ·Sector: Basic Materials
 ·Industry: Fabricated Plastic & Rubber
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 56%
·Institutional: 45% (103% of float)
(192 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 507.0K shares (+4.05%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Spartech Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, is an intermediary processor of thermoplastics. The Company converts base polymers, or resins, from commodity suppliers into extruded plastic sheet and rollstock, acrylic products, color concentrates and blended resin compounds, and injection molded and profile extruded products. The Company's products are sold to over 7,600 original equipment manufacturers and other customers in a wide range of end markets. Spartech operates 50 production facilities in North America and one in Europe, and is organized into three business segments, based on the products manufactured: custom sheet and rollstock; color and specialty compounds; and molded and profile products.
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Financial Summary
Spartech Corp. and its subsidiaries converts base polymers, or resins, from commodity suppliers into extruded plastic sheet and rollstock, color concentrates and blended resin compounds, and injection molded and profile extruded products. For the 27 weeks ended 5/5/01, revenues rose 6% to $480.5 million. Net income fell 25% to $18.7 million. Results reflect new volume from the acquisitions, offset by higher interest expense as a result of borrowings for the acquisitions.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 13 weeks ended 08/04/2001, revenues were 222,820; after tax earnings were 4,659. (Preliminary; reported in thousands of dollars.)

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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Bradley Buechler, 52
Chairman, Pres and CEO
$1.5M$4.1M
Randy Martin, 38
Exec. VP- Acrylic Products, CFO
315K71K
George Abd, 37
Exec. VP- Color and Specialty Compounds
451K--  
David Pocost, 39
Exec. VP, Extruded Sheet and Profile Products
304K--  
Jeffrey Fisher, 52
VP, Gen. Counsel, Sec.
269K--  
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Oct-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:SEHAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 23-Oct-2000
$10.375
Recent Price$22.80 
52-Week High
on 6-Sep-2000
$26.313
Beta1.20 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)42.2K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)40.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-6.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+24.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$608.7M
Shares Outstanding26.7M
Float11.7M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.38 
Dividend Yield1.67%
Last Split: 1 for 5 on 9-Apr-1987
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$8.12 
Earnings (ttm)$1.24 
Earnings (mrq)$0.17 
Sales (ttm)$31.46 
Cash (mrq*)$0.35 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)2.81 
Price/Earnings (ttm)18.34 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.72 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$953.7M
EBITDA (ttm*)$114.0M
Income available to common (ttm)$34.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)3.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)10.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsOct 28
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
5-May-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-July-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)3.91%
Return on Equity (ttm)16.25%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.74 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)1.56 
Total Cash (mrq)$0 
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short454.0K
Percent of Float3.9%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
537.0K
Short Ratio13.35 
Daily Volume34.0K
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 5-May-2001)

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