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Profile - British Sky Broadcasting (NYSE:BSY)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
6 Centaurs Business Park
Grant Way, Isleworth Middlesex
England TW7 5QD, UK
Phone: (171) 705-3000
Email: skydigital@sky.co.uk
Employees (last reported count): 10,730
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 ·Industry: Broadcasting & Cable TV
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 66%
·Institutional: 0% (1% of float)
(30 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 305.0K shares (+21.28%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc and its subsidiaries operate a pay television broadcasting service in the United Kingdom and Ireland. At June 30, 2000, the Company had approximately 8.4 million subscribers to its services, including 1,583,000 million digital DTH subscribers, 930,000 analog DTH subscribers and 3,122,000 United Kingdom cable subscribers (excluding cable subscribers in Ireland) and 740,000 DTT subscribers. Currently, the Company operates and distributes 12 Sky Channels in digital (or 22 including multiplexed versions of channels and interactive channel services) and nine Sky Channels in analog. The Company also markets to DTH viewers 47 Sky Distributed Channels in digital (or 53 including multiplexed versions of channels) and 26 Sky Distributed Channels in analog. In addition to the Sky Distributed Channels, the Company markets the digital audio services Music Choice and Music Choice Extra to Sky digital subscribers.
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Financial Summary
BSY, through its subsidiaries operates pay television broadcasting services in the United Kingdom and Ireland. For the fiscal year ended 6/30/01, total revenues rose 25% to L2.31 billion. Net loss totalled L538.6 million, up from L197.7 million. Revenues reflect increased number of subscribers to Sky Channels. Higher loss reflects the inclusion of a L101.1 million amortization of goodwill charge and a L69.5 million loss on the sale of fixed asset investments in joint ventures.
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Officers

Position
Jerome Seydoux, 64Chiarman of the Board
Mark Booth, 42CEO, Managing Director
Martin Stewart, 35CFO
Elisabeth Murdoch, 30Managing Director, Sky Networks
Vic Wakeling, 55Managing Director, Sky Sports
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:BSYAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 26-June-2001
$55.25 
Recent Price$68.40 
52-Week High
on 12-Jan-2001
$108.688
Beta0.08 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)3,091 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)4,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-34.4%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-12.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$21.0B
Shares Outstanding306.6M
Float104.3M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$5.01 
Earnings (ttm)-$2.53 
Earnings (mrq)-$1.30 
Sales (ttm)$10.83 
Cash (mrq)$1.06 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)13.65 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)6.31 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$3.35B
EBITDA (ttm)$64.3M
Income available to common (ttm)-$783.2M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-23.4%
Operating Margin (ttm)1.9%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJune 30
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-15.74%
Return on Equity (ttm)-68.83%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.48 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.67 
Total Cash (mrq)$325.1M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short136.0K
Percent of Float0.1%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
167.0K
Short Ratio68.00 
Daily Volume2,000 
ADR Information
Shares/ADR6
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