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Profile - American Greetings (NYSE:AM)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
One American Road
Cleveland, OH 44144
Phone: (216) 252-7300
Fax: (216) 252-6778
Email: information@americangreetings.com
Employees (last reported count): 11,700
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 ·Industry: Printing & Publishing
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 63%
·Institutional: 95% (257% of float)
(466 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 7.29M shares (+10.78%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
American Greetings Corporation and its subsidiaries operate predominantly in a single industry: the design, manufacture and sale of everyday and seasonal greeting cards and other social expression products. AmericanGreetings.com Inc. (89% owned) markets e-mail greetings, personalized greeting cards and other social expression products through the Company's Websites, www.americangreetings.com, www.egreetings.com, and www.beatgreets.com, as well as co-branded Websites and online services. AmericanGreetings.com also provides design and verse content, which is included in various CD-Rom software products for use on personal computers. AmericanGreetings.com also operates eAgents, an electronic newsletter that consolidates and delivers personalized content from top Internet sites to subscribers.
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Financial Summary
AM designs, manufactures and sells everyday and seasonal greeting cards and other social expression products including gift wrap paper, party goods, candles, stationery and giftware. For the three months ended 5/31/01, revenues fell 15% to $505.7 million. Net loss before accounting change totaled $80.1 million vs. an income of $38.5 million. Results reflect the effect of scan-based trading implementation, lower gross margins and a $52.9 million non-recurring administrative cost.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Morry Weiss, 60
Chairman, Pres, CEO, Chief Operating Officer
$1.8M
James Spira, 57
Vice Chairman
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William Meyer, 53
Sr. VP and CFO
543K
Jon Groetzinger Jr., 51
Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel and Sec.
585K
Michael Birkholm, 48
Sr. VP
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Dollar amounts are as of 29-Feb-2000 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 -- NYSE:AMAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 26-Dec-2000
$8.188
Recent Price$13.22 
52-Week High
on 14-Nov-2000
$20.125
Beta1.18 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)541.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)327.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-30.2%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-6.3%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$839.5M
Shares Outstanding63.5M
Float23.5M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.40 
Dividend Yield3.03%
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 13-Sep-1993
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$15.24 
Earnings (ttm)-$3.32 
Earnings (mrq)-$1.26 
Sales (ttm)$38.31 
Cash (mrq)$1.81 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.87 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.34 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$2.43B
EBITDA (ttm)$68.9M
Income available to common (ttm)-$210.5M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-8.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)-3.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsFeb 28
Most recent quarter31-May-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-7.53%
Return on Equity (ttm)-18.83%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)1.02 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.90 
Total Cash (mrq)$115.0M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short6.88M
Percent of Float29.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
6.11M
Short Ratio16.07 
Daily Volume428.0K
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