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Profile - Franklin Electronic Pbls. (AMEX:FEP)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Recent Events
Aug 31Price hit new 52-week low ($1.80)
Location
One Franklin Plaza
Burlington, NJ 08016
Phone: (609) 386-2500
Fax: (609) 261-2984
Email: phyllis_ziegler@franklin.com
Employees (last reported count): 270
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Office Equipment
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 40%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 1,000  shares
·Institutional: 16% (27% of float)
(27 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 99.0K shares (+8.36%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated designs and develops hand-held electronic information products, such as electronic books (sometimes known as eBooks) and electronic organizers. The Company currently markets more than 200 electronic books in various categories, including thesauruses, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, the Bible, the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia and educational and medical publications. Different versions of the Company's electronic reference products use different databases and provide various levels of functionality.
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Financial Summary
FEP designs, develops, and publishes hand-held, battery powered electronic reference products. For the three months ended 6/30/01 revenues fell 6% to $16 million. Net loss applicable to common totaled $2 million. vs. an income of $433 thousand. Results reflect lower sales of reference products in Europe and lower sales to OEM customers. Net loss reflects additional expenditures in connection with the eBookMan product line in anticipation of higher sales.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

James Simons, 62
Chairman
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Barry Lipsky, 49
Pres, CEO
$404K
Gregory Winsky, 50
Exec. VP, Bus. Devel., Gen. Counsel, and Sec.
248K
Arnold Levitt, 63
Sr. VP, CFO, Treasurer
210K
Toni Tracy, 51
Sr. VP, Publisher Relations
209K
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Mar-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 -- AMEX:FEPAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 31-Aug-2001
$1.80 
Recent Price$1.80 
52-Week High
on 29-Sep-2000
$12.00 
Beta1.78 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)4,636 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)4,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-83.3%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-77.5%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$14.3M
Shares Outstanding7.95M
Float4.80M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$5.66 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.20 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.26 
Sales (ttm)$9.66 
Cash (mrq)$0.45 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)0.32 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.19 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$78.9M
EBITDA (ttm)$5.99M
Income available to common (ttm)-$1.56M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-1.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)0.6%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMar 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-1.92%
Return on Equity (ttm)-3.37%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)2.51 
Debt/Equity (mrq)0.28 
Total Cash (mrq)$3.57M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short14.0K
Percent of Float0.3%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
14.0K
Short Ratio2.80 
Daily Volume5,000 
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-June-2001)

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