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Non-Tech : Outerwall (OUTR), formerly Coinstar (CSTR)

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Sep 28 5:00 PM EST

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To: Dave Jones who wrote (119)	2/9/1998 6:30:00 PM
From: Gerald Thomas	Read Replies (1) of 351

For all you stat hungry people... From report of Feb.4... Machine margins to 35% above estimates of 28% Ebitda loss better than forecasted 2.8 million vs. forecasted 3.2 million... 2000 unit install on track for fy 98 CSTR is only 35% penetrated in existing customer base... CSTR tracking to meet or exceed break even cash flow target by end of 3rd quarter... 469 new units in Q4... Annualized revenue per unit at 10,907 vs. year ago 9,623... Machine margins increased to 35% in Q4 up from 32% in Q3... Efficencies have been made in unit pick up and higher productivity from service engineers... ratio of machines per service engineer increased to 33 from 27 a year ago... Machine manufacturer has capacity to produce a maximum of 2400 machines per year... Expect machine margins to increase to 44% in fy98 from 28.4 in fy97... total regional markets have increased to 40 from 23 last year and 35 last quarter... total dollar of coins processed is up to 105.7 million from 44.8 million.. and a statement that as europe goes to one currency that CSTR COULD play a part in this by removing from circulation old country coins..

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