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Recent Events

Aug 21

Conference call: Venator Group Earnings (Q2 2001)

Aug 21

Earnings Announcement

Aug 21

Price hit new 52-week high ($19.10)

Location

112 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10120

Phone: (212) 720-3700
Fax: (212) 553-7026

Employees (last reported count): 16,846

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·Sector: Services
·Industry: Retail (Apparel)

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Ownership

·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 38%
·	Over the last 6 months: · one insider buy; 1,000 shares · 5 insider sells; 1.48M shares (2.7% of insider shares)
·	Institutional: 92% (148% of float) (354 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Buying: 12.3M shares (+8.80%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

Venator Group, Inc. is a global retailer operating a total of 3,752 primarily mall-based stores in North America, Europe and Australia. In 2000, the Company discontinued its Northern Group segment, and the Company operates one business segment, the Global Athletic Group. The Global Athletic Group operates retail stores in North America, Europe and Australia under the Foot Locker format, in the United States under the Lady Foot Locker and Kids Foot Locker formats and in North America under the Champs Sports format. In addition to retail stores, the Global Athletic Group includes the Company's Footlocker.com, Inc. subsidiary, which sells, through its affiliates, to customers via catalogs and Internet Websites.

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Financial Summary

Venator Group, Inc. is a global retailer operating 3,752 primarily mall-based stores in North America, Europe and Australia selling primarily athletic footwear and apparel. For the 13 weeks ended 5/5/01, sales rose 3% to $1.07 billion. Net income from continuing operations before accounting change rose 39% to $32 million. Revenues reflect improved sales performance of ongoing formats. Earnings also reflect cost-cutting initiatives and restructurings.

Recent Earnings Announcement
For the 13 weeks ended 08/04/2001, revenues were 1,048; after tax earnings were 4. (Preliminary; reported in millions of dollars.)

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Officers

[Insider Trade Data]

	FY2000 Pay

J. Carter Bacot, 68 Chairman	--
Matthew Serra, 56 Pres, CEO, Director	$3.0M
Bruce Hartman, 47 CFO, Sr. VP	1.0M
Gary Bahler, 49 Sr. VP, Sec. and Gen. Counsel	--
Dennis Lee, 51 Sr. VP of HR and Logistics	915K
Dollar amounts are as of 29-Jan-2001 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:Z

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 23-Jan-2001	$`9.75`
Recent Price	$`17.95`
52-Week High on 21-Aug-2001	$`19.10`
Beta	`0.87`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`1.34M`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`1.41M`
Stock Performance
big chart [1d \| 5d \| 3m \| 6m \| 1y \| 2y \| 5y]
52-Week Change	`+25.4%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`+68.2%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`2.50B`
Shares Outstanding	`139.5M`
Float	`86.5M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend	none
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 30-June-1993

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)	$`7.54`
Earnings (ttm)	$`0.80`
Earnings (mrq)	$`0.03`
Sales (ttm)	$`31.81`
Cash (mrq*)	$`0.21`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)	`2.38`
Price/Earnings (ttm)	`22.55`
Price/Sales (ttm)	`0.56`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`4.39B`
EBITDA (ttm*)	$`361.0M`
Income available to common (ttm)	$`111.0M`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`2.5%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`4.4%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	Feb 3
Most recent quarter (fully updated)	5-May-2001
Most recent quarter (flash earnings)	31-July-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`4.75%`
Return on Equity (ttm)	`10.15%`
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)	`1.71`
Debt/Equity (mrq*)	`0.30`
Total Cash (mrq)	$`189.0M`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`5.03M`
Percent of Float	`5.8%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`4.70M`
Short Ratio	`3.77`
Daily Volume	`1.33M`

See Profile Help for a description of each item above; M = millions; B = billions; mrq = most-recent quarter; ttm = trailing twelve months; (as of 31-July-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 5-May-2001)

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