Staples, Inc. (SPLS:NASDAQ)
Snapshot of Staples, Inc. (SPLS)
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OPEN
$22.78
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PREVIOUS CLOSE
$22.65
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DAY HIGH
$22.88
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DAY LOW
$22.49
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52 WEEK HIGH
10/19/09 - $23.55
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52 WEEK LOW
11/21/08 - $14.09
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MARKET CAP
16.4B
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AVERAGE VOLUME 3 mo
5.8M
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DILUTED EPS TTM
$0.95
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SHARES OUTSTANDING
722.3M
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EX-DATE
09/23/09
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P/E TTM
24.0x
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DIVIDEND
$0.33
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DIVIDEND YIELD
1.45%
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SPLS Details
Staples, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an office products company. The company’s retail products include office supplies and services, business machines and related products, computers and related products, and office furniture. It also provides high-speed, color and self-service copying, other printing services, faxing, and pack and ship services. As of January 31, 2009, the company operated approximately 2,218 superstores in 47 states and the District of Columbia in the United States, and 10 provinces and 2 territories in Canada, as well as in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, and Australia. It also operated 135 distribution and fulfillment centers in 29 states in the United States and 8 provinces in Canada, as well as in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia. The company also offers its products through catalog, Internet, and sales force. Staples, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts.
SPLS Top Compensated Officers
No compensation data is available at this time for the top officers at this company.
Key developments for Staples, Inc. (SPLS)
Eolas Technologies Incorporated announced a Texas federal lawsuit filed to assert the company's intellectual property rights based on two groundbreaking patents, including one that has passed two separate reexaminations at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and resulted in a $565 million federal court judgment in 2004. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, includes claims related to two Eolas patents, U.S. Patent No. 5,838,906 ('906 Patent) and U.S. Patent No. 7,599,985 ('985 Patent). The companies named as defendants include: JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New Frontier Media Inc.; Office Depot Inc.; Perot Systems Corp.; Playboy Enterprises International Inc.; Rent-A-Center Inc.; Staples Inc.; Sun Microsystems Inc.; Texas Instruments Inc.; Yahoo! Inc.; YouTube Inc.
Eolas Technologies Inc. has sued a whole alphabet of 23 businesses, from Adobe to YouTube, claiming patent infringement. The defendants are Office Depot Inc., Perot Systems Corp., Playboy Enterprises International Inc., Rent-A-Center Inc., Staples Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., Yahoo Inc. and YouTube LLC. Eolas claims these businesses have infringed two patents-one of them granted in 1998 and the second granted covering ways to add media and other applications to web sites.
Staples Inc. announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend on the company's common stock of $0.0825 per share. The dividend is payable on October 15, 2009, to shareholders of record on September 25, 2009.
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| SPLS | $22.72 USD | +0.07 |  |
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| RF | $5.45 USD | +0.10 |  |
| INTU | $29.66 USD | -0.61 |  |
| LEA | $63.75 USD | +0.25 |  |
| SCOM (KE) | KSh4.80 KES | +0.40 |  |
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SPLS Competitors
| Company | Last | Change |
| Gap Inc | $21.95 USD | +0.09 |
| Kohls Corp | $53.96 USD | -0.37 |
| Ahold Kon | €8.98 EUR | +0.006 |
| Macy's Inc | $17.11 USD | -0.27 |
| TJX Companies Inc | $38.80 USD | -0.30 |
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Industry Analysis
| Valuation | SPLS | Industry Range |
| Price/Earnings | 24.0x |
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| Price/Sales | 0.7x |
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| Price/Book | 2.7x |
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| Price/Cash Flow | 21.1x |
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| TEV/Sales | 0.5x |
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SPLS transactions
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Target |
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Bankruptcy
June 30, 2009 |
Brooke Corporation |
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Bankruptcy
June 8, 2009 |
National Die & Button Mould Co., Inc. |
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