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Profile - Topps Company, Inc. (NasdaqNM:TOPP)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
July 27Price hit new 52-week high ($12.30)
Location
One Whitehall Street
New York, NY 10004
Phone: (212) 376-0300
Fax: (212) 376-0573
Employees (last reported count): 420
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Food Processing
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 14%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 10.0K shares (0.2% of insider shares)
 · 6 insider sells; 191.0K shares
  (3.0% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 68% (79% of float)
(188 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 2.22M shares (+6.91%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
The Topps Company, Inc. is a marketer of premium-branded confectionery products including lollipops such as Ring Pop, Push Pop and Baby Bottle Pop, Bazooka brand bubble gum and certain novelty candy products. The Topps Company also markets collectible sports and entertainment picture products featuring professional athletes and popular television, movie and other entertainment characters. These collectible picture products include, among other things, trading cards and sticker album collections.
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Financial Summary
TOPP is marketer of collectible picture products. TOPP also distributes Bazooka brand bubble gum, novelty candy products, branded lollipops, collectible toys, comic books, and sticker and album collections. For the 13 weeks ended 6/2/01, net sales fell 39% to $87.5 million. Net income fell 60% to $11.6 million. Revenues reflect decreased sales of Pokemon confectionery and entertainment products. Earnings also reflect a decrease in gross and operating margins.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Arthur Shorin, 64
Chairman, Pres, CEO
$1.3M--  
Scott Silverstein, 38
Exec. VP
--  --  
John Perillo, 43
VP - Operations
364K$166K
Catherine Jessup, 44
VP, CFO
--  --  
Ronald Boyum, 48
VP of Sales and Marketing and Gen. Mang., Confectionery
422K--  
Dollar amounts are as of 26-Feb-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 -- NasdaqNM:TOPPAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 19-Sep-2000
$7.625
Recent Price$11.50 
52-Week High
on 27-July-2001
$12.30 
Beta0.50 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)242.8K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)169.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+33.8%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+79.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$502.4M
Shares Outstanding43.7M
Float37.6M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 3 for 2 on 2-Aug-1990
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$4.56 
Earnings (ttm)$1.54 
Earnings (mrq)$0.26 
Sales (ttm)$8.32 
Cash (mrq*)$3.31 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)2.52 
Price/Earnings (ttm)7.47 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.38 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$382.4M
EBITDA (ttm*)$97.5M
Income available to common (ttm)$71.1M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)18.6%
Operating Margin (ttm)24.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMar 3
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
2-June-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-May-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)26.29%
Return on Equity (ttm)38.83%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)3.07 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0 
Total Cash (mrq)$144.2M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short390.0K
Percent of Float1.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
439.0K
Short Ratio1.30 
Daily Volume301.0K
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-May-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 2-June-2001)

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