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Recent Events Aug 15 Dividend payment of $0.22 Aug  1 Conference call: Cleco Quarterly Location 2030 Donahue Ferry Road Pineville, LA 71360 Phone: (318) 484-7400 Fax: (318) 484-7465 Email: investors@cleco.com Employees (last reported count): 1,577 Financial Links  ·Top Institutional Holders  ·Top Mutual Fund Holders  ·Analyst Upgrade/Downgrade History  ·Historical Quote Data  ·Free Annual Report  ·Raw SEC Filings at sec.gov Competitors:  ·Sector: Utilities  ·Industry: Electric Utilities Company Website  ·Home Page  ·Search Yahoo! for related links... Index Membership  ·S&P 400 MidCap Ownership · Insider and 5%+ Owners: 4% · Institutional: 55% (57% of float) (290 institutions) · Net Inst. Buying: 469.0K shares (+1.86%) (prior quarter to latest quarter) More From Market Guide  ·Highlights  ·Performance  ·Ratio Comparisons

Business Summary CLECO Corporation is a holding company that holds investments in several subsidiaries, including Cleco Power LLC and Cleco Midstream Resources LLC. Cleco Power contains the LPSC jurisdictional generation, transmission and distribution electric utility operations serving the Company's traditional retail and wholesale customers. Cleco Power serves approximately 249,000 customers in 63 communities and rural areas in the State of Louisiana. Midstream operates competitive LPSC non-jurisdictional electric generation, develops wholesale generation projects, provides personnel to operate power plants and operates oil and natural gas production, energy marketing and natural gas pipeline businesses. Midstream operates primarily in Louisiana and Texas. More from Market Guide: Expanded Business Description Financial Summary CLECO, a holding company, generates, transmits and distributes electric energy and natural gas in LA. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues increased 72% to $556.8 million. Net income applicable to Common from continuing operations before extraordinary item decreased 11% to $25.3 million. Revenues reflect increases in the retail electric operations. Net income was offset by increased fuel and purchased power expenses. More from Market Guide: Significant Developments Officers [Insider Trade Data] FY1998 Pay David Eppler, 48 Pres, CEO, Director $422K Darrell Dubroc, 37 Sr. VP 210K Catherine Powell, 43 Sr. VP of Employee and Corp. Services 262K Mark Segura, 40 Sr. VP of Utility Operations --   David Miller VP of Strategic Services and CIO --   Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1998 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.. More from Market Guide on Officers & Directors: Expanded List, Bios, Compensation, Options

Price and Volume 52-Week Low on 6-Sep-2000 $20.407 Recent Price $21.80  52-Week High on 28-Dec-2000 $28.25  Beta 0.04  Daily Volume (3-month avg) 99.5K Daily Volume (10-day avg) 71.0K Stock Performance big chart [1d | 5d | 3m | 6m | 1y | 2y | 5y | max] 52-Week Change +5.7% 52-Week Change relative to S&P500 +41.8% Share-Related Items Market Capitalization $981.0M Shares Outstanding 45.0M Float 43.2M Dividends & Splits Annual Dividend (indicated) $0.88  Dividend Yield 4.04% Last Split: 2 for 1 on 22-May-2001	Per-Share Data Book Value (mrq) $10.40  Earnings (ttm) $1.39  Earnings (mrq) $0.29  Sales (ttm) $22.04  Cash (mrq) $0.15  Valuation Ratios Price/Book (mrq) 2.10  Price/Earnings (ttm) 15.73  Price/Sales (ttm) 0.99  Income Statements Sales (ttm) $1.05B EBITDA (ttm) $211.9M Income available to common (ttm) $64.4M Profitability Profit Margin (ttm) 6.3% Operating Margin (ttm) 14.3% Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Ends Dec 31 Most recent quarter 30-June-2001	Management Effectiveness Return on Assets (ttm) 3.64% Return on Equity (ttm) 13.89% Financial Strength Current Ratio (mrq) 0.64  Debt/Equity (mrq) 1.72  Total Cash (mrq) $6.55M Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001 Shares Short 1.62M Percent of Float 3.7% Shares Short (Prior Month) 1.51M Short Ratio 15.11  Daily Volume 107.0K
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)

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