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Profile - Portugal Telecom, SGPS (NYSE:PT)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 40, 1089
Lisboa Codex, Portugal
Phone: (351) 154-0020
Email: pedro.m.dias@telecom.pt
Employees (last reported count): 18,539
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 ·Industry: Communications Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 11%
·Institutional: 5% (6% of float)
(121 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 9.37M shares (+13.68%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A., formerly known as Portugal Telecom, S.A., is a telecommunications operator in Portugal, providing domestic and international public switched fixed telephone services. In addition, the Company derives an increasing share of its revenues from high-growth areas of new telecommunications services. These are primarily cellular telephone services, multimedia services such as cable and satellite television and Internet services. The Company also has interests in telecommunications operators and service providers in Brazil, Macau and Africa. The Company currently divides its business into three categories: wireline, cellular multimedia and international.
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Financial Summary
Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A. is the sole provider of domestic and international public switched fixed telephone services in Portugal. PT also provides cellular telephone services, cable television and multimedia services. For the fiscal year ended 12/31/00, revenues rose 62% to PTE1.032T. Net income according to US GAAP fell 92% to PTE8.89 billion. Revenues reflect increased cellular and multimedia services. Earnings were partially offset by unfavorable U.S. GAAP adjustments.
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Officers

Position
Francisco Luis Muteira Nabo, 61Chairman
Iriate Araujo Esteves, 50CEO of TMN
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:PTAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 20-June-2001
$6.25 
Recent Price$6.38 
52-Week High
on 24-Jan-2001
$11.438
Beta0.78 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)973.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1.23M
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-41.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-21.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$7.67B
Shares Outstanding1.20B
Float1.07B
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 5 for 1 on 2-Dec-1999
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$3.30 
Earnings (ttm)$0.47 
Earnings (mrq)$0.47 
Sales (ttm)$4.48 
Cash (mrq)$0.36 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.93 
Price/Earnings (ttm)13.55 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.42 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$4.68B
EBITDA (ttm)$1.78B
Income available to common (ttm)$491.7M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)9.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)18.2%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter31-Dec-2000
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)4.58%
Return on Equity (ttm)15.18%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.64 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.96 
Total Cash (mrq)$429.8M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short17.6M
Percent of Float1.6%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
13.3M
Short Ratio12.41 
Daily Volume1.42M
ADR Information
Shares/ADR1
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 31-Dec-2000);   dollar amounts based on an exchange rate of 220.31 Portuguese Escudos/Dollar

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