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To: Duker who wrote (282)10/21/1999 10:01:00 AM
From: Duker  Respond to of 706
 
Balance Sheet could be worse ...

-- Y/Y AccntRec +5.4% on a 3.1% decline in sales (not great) ... 100 DSO v. 92 DSO (using 4x3Q)

-- Inventories down 8.1% (they had better be!) ... Turns 5.16 v. 4.4 (using 4x3Q)

Sequential cash ... no biggie ... year over year big numbers in ST Debt (financing 4Q) ... Don't know how many Rec.'s they sold during the quarter (they probably don't either) ...

Aside from that, it looks like the disaster that we anticipated (once they told us that TLC had finally blown up!!!).

--Duker



To: Duker who wrote (282)10/21/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: Zakrosian  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 706
 
Duker - I'd be very disappointed if she were still around in 6 months. Coincidentally, I own MAT as a result of a Quaker Oats spinoff; the similarity between the Snapple and The Learning Co acquisitions are uncanny. Both have been disasters as a result of a lack of DD on the part of management. In the case of Quaker several of the top people lost their jobs. If that doesn't happen at Mattel, the board deserves to be sued for gross incompetence.


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