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PAGE - PAGING NETWORK INC COM
Symbol: PAGE Exchange: NASDAQ Price To Sales Ratio: 1.03
Paging Network, Inc. is a provider of paging and
wireless messaging services. The Company has approximately
9M pagers in service. Net sales for the fiscal year ended
12/31/96 increased 27% to $822.5M. Net loss increased 85%
to $81.8M. Revenues reflect continued growth in the number
of pagers in service with subscribers of the Company. Loss
reflects expenses associated with an increase in transmitter
sites and an increased interest expense.
FY'91 EPS reflects an increase in shares o/s due to 10/91
IPO.
CUSIP: 69554210 Cross reference CUSIP:
Issue type: 0 Issue status: 0 S&P rank: C SIC code: 4812
Shares outstanding: 102.6 mil Market Cap: 890.9 mil
Annual dividend: 0.000 Yield: Options: YES
Book value per share: -1.56 Beta 1.363
Trailing 12 months revenues per share: 8.40
1 year revenue growth rate: 24.783% 1 year earnings growth rate: 0.000%
3 year revenue growth rate: 30.055% 3 year earnings growth rate: 0.000%
5 year revenue growth rate: 37.661% 5 year earnings growth rate: 0.000%
Revenues and earnings per share
excluding extraordinary items.
revenues 12 month earnings 12 month
Quarter 1,000's change per share change
3/1997 225,248 20.86% -0.39 225.00%
12/1996 225,243 23.86% -0.28 154.55%
9/1996 211,692 25.18% -0.21 110.00%
6/1996 199,179 30.22% -0.18 12.50%
3/1996 186,373 31.15% -0.12 71.43%
12/1995 181,849 35.60% -0.11 450.00%
9/1995 169,107 31.70% -0.10 233.33%
6/1995 152,961 28.75% -0.16 220.00%
3/1995 142,105 -0.07
12/1994 134,104 -0.02
9/1994 128,405 -0.03
6/1994 118,803 -0.05
Dividends Dates
Type Announcement Ex Record Payable Amount
11 09/22/93 10/18/93 10/01/93 10/15/93 0.50
11 09/07/95 10/02/95 09/15/95 09/29/95 1.00
EPS Date EPS P/E
3/97 -1.07 Including extraordinary items.
3/97 -0.80 Excluding extraordinary items.
Float 71.80 mil
Short Interest As Of 05/08/97 2.38 mil
Short interest as a percentage of the float 3.32%
Institutional percentage held 88.89% |
