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Profile - Lason, Inc. (OTC BB:LSON.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
1305 Stephenson Highway
Troy, MI 48083
Phone: (248) 597-5800
Fax: (248) 597-5810
Email: jjablonski@lason.com
Employees (last reported count): 10,300
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Business Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 15%
·Institutional: 1% (1% of float)
(58 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 9,000  shares (+4.17%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Lason, Inc. provides integrated information outsourcing for image and data capture, data management and output processing services. The Company primarily serves customers in the commercial, healthcare, financial services and professional services industries. The Company's core competencies in input processing, data management and output processing enable it to provide a broad range of services across a wide range of media types and allow customers to fulfill their information management outsourcing needs with a single vendor.
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Financial Summary
Lason provides integrated outsourcing services for image and data capture, data management, and output processing. The Company primarily serves customers in the manufacturing, healthcare, financial services and professional services industries. For the nine months ended 9/00, revenues rose 20% to $420.2 million. Net loss from continuing operations totalled $100.9 million vs. a gain of $15.1 million. Results reflect growth in existing business, offset by a $74.9 million asset impairment charge.
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Officers
FY1999 Pay

William Brooks, 66
Chairman
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Ronald Risher, 44
Pres, CEO
--  
Douglas Kearney
Interim CFO
--  
Randy Baker, 43
Exec. VP, Bus. Integration and HR
$161K
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1999 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 -- OTC BB:LSON.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 29-May-2001
$0.15 
Recent Price$0.20 
52-Week High
on 18-Sep-2000
$3.875
Beta1.90 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)49.2K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)41.0K
Stock Performance
52-Week Change-92.0%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-89.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$3.92M
Shares Outstanding19.6M
Float16.7M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$16.14 
Earnings (ttm)-$6.79 
Earnings (mrq)-$4.81 
Sales (ttm)$29.63 
Cash (mrq)$0.41 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.01 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.01 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$550.2M
EBITDA (ttm)-$108.0M
Income available to common (ttm)-$126.8M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-23.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)-24.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-Sep-2000
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-15.50%
Return on Equity (ttm)-32.50%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.39 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.01 
Total Cash (mrq)$8.08M
Short Interest
As of 9-Oct-2000
Shares Short281.0K
Percent of Float1.7%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
426.0K
Short Ratio1.27 
Daily Volume221.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-Sep-2000)

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