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Profile - Grupo Casa Saba, S.A. (NYSE:SAB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
Paseo de la Reforma 215
Col. Lomas de Chapultepec
Mexico, D.F. 11000, Mexico
Phone: (800) 997-8970
Email: jsanchez@casasaba.com
Employees (last reported count): 7,114
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 ·Sector: Consumer Non-Cyclical
 ·Industry: Personal & Household Products
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 60%
·Institutional: 3% (8% of float)
(14 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 2,000  shares
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Grupo Casa Saba, S.A. De C.V. (Casa Saba) is Mexico's pharmaceutical products distribution leader. Casa Saba distributes pharmaceutical and consumer items including health and beauty products, as well as non-perishable foods. Casa Saba also provides a series of information services available over the Internet. farmaservicios.com is the Company's business-to-business Website where customers are able to get up-to-date information about Casa Saba's product catalog and special deals, as well as place orders and receive an electronic confirmation. daty.com is a Website that combines datawarehousing, rolap and Internet technologies and allows very deep and detailed analysis of the market trends in the distribution industry.
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Financial Summary
Grupo Casa Saba, S.A. De C.V., through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the distribution and sale of pharmaceutical products, health-and-beauty aids, magazines and children books, food and other consumer products. For the nine months ended 9/99, net sales increased 3% to PS9.71 billion. Net income totalled PS128.9 million, up from PS22M. Results reflect increased net sales, lower selling and administrative expenses, and higher interest income.
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Officers

Position
Isaac Saba RaffoulChairman
Manuel Saba AdesVice Chairman, CEO
Alberto Saba AdesVice Chairman
Moises Saba AdesVice Chairman
P. Alejandro Sadurni GomezCFO, Director
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:SABAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 19-July-2001
$4.85 
Recent Price$6.20 
52-Week High
on 11-Sep-2000
$10.25 
Beta0.76 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)9,000 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-39.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-18.9%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$164.6M
Shares Outstanding26.5M
Float10.6M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$8.96 
Earnings (ttm)$
Earnings (mrq)$0.17 
SalesN/A 
Cash (mrq)$0.84 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.69 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/SalesN/A 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$0 
EBITDAN/A 
Income available to common (ttm)$0 
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating MarginN/A 
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-Sep-1999
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)0.00%
Return on Equity (ttm)0.00%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.52 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.92 
Total Cash (mrq)$22.4M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short43.0K
Percent of Float0.4%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
41.0K
Short Ratio2.05 
Daily Volume21.0K
ADR Information
Shares/ADR10
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-Sep-1999);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 9.21 Mexican Pesos/Dollar

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