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Profile - Q.E.P. Co., Inc. (NasdaqNM:QEPC)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
1081 Holland Drive
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Phone: (561) 994-5550
Fax: (561) 994-1209
Email: qepcoinc@aol.com
Employees (last reported count): 409
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 ·Industry: Misc. Fabricated Products
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 65%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 1,000  shares
·Institutional: 18% (51% of float)
(21 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 10.0K shares (+1.61%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Q.E.P. Co., Inc. manufactures, markets, and distributes a broad line of specialty tools and flooring related products for the home improvement market in the United States and countries throughout the world. Under brand names including Q.E.P., O'TOOL, and ROBERTS, the Company markets over 4,000 specialty tools and flooring related products used primarily for surface preparation and installation of ceramic tile, carpet, and marble. Q.E.P.'s products include trowels, floats, tile cutters, wet saws, spacers, nippers, pliers, carpet trimmers and cutters, carpet adhesives, seaming tape, tack strip, knives, dryset powders, grouts and abrasives.
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Financial Summary
QEPC manufactures, markets and distributes, a broad line of speciality tools and flooring-related products for the home improvement market. Home Depot and Lowe's are the company's two largest customers. For the three months ended 5/31/01, revenues fell 9% to $28.9 million. Net income decreased 36% to $604 thousand. Results reflect the Company's decision to discontinue the sale of its tackless carpet strip to specialty distributor customers, and higher marketing costs.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2001 Pay

Lewis Gould, 58
Chairman and CEO
$421K
Marc Applebaum, 45
CFO, Sr. VP, Treasurer
209K
Leonard Gould, 32
VP, National Accounts, Director
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Pierre Simard, 36
VP - National Accounts, Director
--  
Susan Gould, 55
VP and Corp. Sec.
109K
Dollar amounts are as of 28-Feb-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:QEPCAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 12-Apr-2001
$3.00 
Recent Price$4.30 
52-Week High
on 1-Sep-2000
$6.75 
Beta0.73 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)1,409 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-32.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-9.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$14.5M
Shares Outstanding3.38M
Float1.20M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 5 for 4 on 2-Aug-2000
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$6.59 
Earnings (ttm)$0.32 
Earnings (mrq)$0.18 
Sales (ttm)$32.72 
Cash (mrq)$0.20 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.65 
Price/Earnings (ttm)13.40 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.13 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$110.2M
EBITDA (ttm)$6.20M
Income available to common (ttm)$1.08M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)1.0%
Operating Margin (ttm)3.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsFeb 28
Most recent quarter31-May-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)1.75%
Return on Equity (ttm)4.94%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.32 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.22 
Total Cash (mrq)$691.0K
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short3,000 
Percent of Float0.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
1,000 
Short Ratio1.50 
Daily Volume2,000 
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-May-2001)

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