StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
February 10th, 2003
| Stock: |
Electronics
Boutique |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
ELBO - Nasdaq -
Retail |
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| Buy: |
12.00 to 12.25 |
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| Sell: |
16.00 + |
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| Info: |
Electronics
Boutique Holdings Corp. is a
specialty retailer of electronic
games. The Company sells video
game hardware and software, PC
entertainment software and
related accessories and products.
The Company operates stores
primarily under the names
Electronics Boutique and EB
GameWorld, in Australia, Canada,
Denmark, Germany, Italy, New
Zealand, Norway, South Korea,
Sweden and the United States. The
Company also operates a
commercial Website under the URL
address, www.ebgames.com. As of
February 2, 2002, the Company
operated 937 stores. |
| Financial Info: |
Net income
totaled $8.5 million, vs. a loss
of $30 thousand. Revenues reflect
increased comparable store sales
and the addition of 200 net new
stores since 11/3/01. |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 1.46; Total Debt/Equity: 0.00,
P/E: 12.29x, Price/Book: 1.27,
Price/Sales: 0.26 |
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| Share Info: |
There are 25.9
million shares outstanding with
13.7 million shares in the
trading float. 265 Institutions own
approximately 62.0 % of the
shares outstanding. There has
been 1 insider selling a total of
12,000 shares in the last six
months.
As of 1/8/2003, there were 2.15
million shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 1.72
million shares: prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
Electronics
Boutique Reports Holiday Sales
for 2002 |
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Coverage
initiated on Elec Boutique by USB
Piper Jaffray |
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