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Profile - Wackenhut Corporation (NYSE:WAK)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
4200 Wackenhut Drive #100
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
Phone: (561) 622-5656
Fax: (561) 691-6738
Email: pat.cannan@wackenhutcorp.com
Employees (last reported count): 65,000
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Security Systems & Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 57%
·Institutional: 11% (25% of float)
(97 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 58.0K shares (+3.52%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
The Wackenhut Corporation is a provider of diversified services to business and government. The Company's business can be divided into the Global Security Services, Correctional Services and Flexible Staffing Services. Security Services provides security-related and other support services. Correctional Services, which consists exclusively of the business conducted through Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, provides privatized correctional, detention and public sector mental health, facility design, development and management services. Flexible Staffing Services provides personnel employee leasing, temporary services, recruiting, risk management, payroll processing and human resource services.
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Financial Summary
WAK is an international provider of security related and other support services and a developer and manager of privatized correctional and detention facilities. For the 26 weeks ended 7/1/01, revenues rose 11% to $1.35 billion. Net loss before acct. change totaled $500 thousand vs. an income of $8.8 million. Results reflect increased contracts and growth in Flexible Staffing Services, offset by a $14.7 million equity loss of affiliated operations in Chile.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

George Wackenhut, 81
Chairman
$2.6M
Richard Wackenhut, 53
Vice Chairman, Pres, CEO,
1.7M
Philip Maslowe
CFO, Exec. VP, Treasurer
789K
Alan Bernstein, 53
Exec. VP and Pres of North American Operations, COO, & Dire
1.1M
Sandra Nusbaum
Sr. VP of HR
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Dollar amounts are as of 3-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:WAKAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 17-Nov-2000
$11.438
Recent Price$17.10 
52-Week High
on 18-July-2001
$18.00 
Beta0.57 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)10.0K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)8,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+16.4%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+56.2%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$257.0M
Shares Outstanding15.0M
Float6.40M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 5 for 4 on 10-Jan-1996
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$11.34 
Earnings (ttm)$0.55 
Earnings (mrq)$0.07 
Sales (ttm)$174.80 
Cash (mrq*)$3.61 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)1.51 
Price/Earnings (ttm)31.20 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.10 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$2.64B
EBITDA (ttm*)$61.1M
Income available to common (ttm)$8.30M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)0.7%
Operating Margin (ttm)1.3%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
1-July-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)3.48%
Return on Equity (ttm)4.81%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.65 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.04 
Total Cash (mrq)$54.2M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short515.0K
Percent of Float8.0%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
560.0K
Short Ratio51.50 
Daily Volume10.0K
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 30-June-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 1-July-2001)

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