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El Paso Corporation

Ticker: EP	Industry: Natural Gas Utilities
Exchange: NYSE	Sector: Utilities

Fri Sep 06 2002 12:59 EDT | 15 min quote delay

Price	Change	%Change	Open	High	Low	Volume
15.27	-.4000	-2.55	15.67	15.85	15.26	1,834,600

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Background

EP is engaged in the interstate and intrastate transportation, gathering and processing of natural gas; the marketing of natural gas, power and other commodities, and the development and operation of energy infrastructure. For the 6 months ended 6/02, revenues fell 13% to $6.74B. Net income from cont. ops. before accnt. chg. & extra. items totalled $256M vs. a loss of $522M. Results reflect lower financial services activity, offset by lower merger costs.

52-Week High	54.05	52-Week Low	9.35
YTD %Change	-64.87	Avg Vol(3 mo.)¹	8.83
P/E (TTM)	9.64	Earn/Shr ($)	1.63
Ex-Div Amt. ($)	0.22	Div/Yield %	5.55
Shares Out¹	584.85	Market Cap¹	9,164.60
Ex-Div Date	Sep 4, 2025	Float¹	573.20

Financials & Ratios
Key Ratios & Statistics

Price/Revenue (TTM)	0.25
P/E (TTM)	9.64
Price/Book (MRQ)	0.83
Price/Cash Flow (TTM)	3.61
ROA (TTM)	1.76
ROE (TTM)	9.44
Current Ratio (MRQ)	1.31
Total Debt/Equity (MRQ)	1.84
Cash Per Share ($)	5.01
Book Value/Share ($)	18.86

TTM: trailing 12 months MRQ: most recent quarter
Short Interest

Current Month*	33.00
Previous Month*	20.57
Short Interest Ratio	2.72

Institutional & Insider Ownership

(Units in Millions of Shares)

Purchases

Sale

Net Purch

Institutions

142.09

77.10

64.99

Insiders

0.01

0.08

-0.07

Institutional data based on company's quarterly reporting,
insiders on a 6-month rolling basis.

Revenues

(Units in Millions of U.S. Dollars $)

Quarter

2001

2002

3,967

3,755

3,757

2,987

13,859

12,115

Total

33,698

6,742

Earnings Per Share

(Units in U.S. Dollars $)

Quarter

2001

2002

-0.78

0.47

-0.26

0.02

0.42

0.72

Total

0.10

0.49

Earnings per share data excludes extraordinary items

Earnings estimates

Q3 2002	0.31*
FY 2002	2.02**

Earnings estimates from First Call. Data includes extraordinary items
* based on estimates from 21 brokers. ** based on estimates from 21 brokers.

Growth Rates
	1 Year	5 Year

Revenue %	17.50	30.51
EPS %	-94.65	-39.27
Divdend %	3.15	4.11

Corporate Events (All Times Eastern)

Audio webcast
available where indicated

Mon Nov 04 2002 TNS ³

Q3 2002 El Paso Corp. Earnings Release

¹ BMO: Before Market Open ² AMC: After Market Close
³ TNS: Time Not Specified ⁴ DNS: Date Not Specified

Full list of events

News
09.03.02	Petrobras to build $340 mln gasline, eyes another
08.29.02	INTERVIEW-El Paso shareholder Wyatt wants new management
08.21.02	ChevronTexaco, BG get OK to drill Trinidad gas
08.19.02	Layoffs seen looming at UBS Warburg Energy-source
08.15.02	TEXT-Moody's revises Cedar Brakes II outlook to negative

Equity:
Common $3 Par, 6/02, 1.5B auth., 592,257,717 issd., less 7,325,631 shs. in Treas. @ $252M. Insiders own 2%. IPO 3/92, 5M shs. @ $19 by Morgan Stanley. PO 6/02, 45M shs @ $21.83 by Credit Suisse F.B. 1/18/01, merged w/The Coastal Corp. pooling-of-interest @ 1.23 shs of El Paso for each shr. of Coastal. *NOTE: 2/01, Name chgd. from El Paso Energy Corp.

Analyst Footnotes:
All fncls. are pro-froma reflecting the pooling-of-interest merger with The Coastal Corp. FY'99-'00 fincl. & '00 Q's are reclass. FY'01 Q.'s are being reclassified.

NM: not meaningful

¹ Units in millions

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Company Data
	El Paso Building 1001 Louisiana Street Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (713) 420-2600 Fax: (713) 420-4417 bruce.connery@elpaso.com

Forbes Lists
	500s: 2002
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Officers
	William A Wise
	H. Brent Austin
	Rodney D Erskine
	Byron R Kelley
	Robert G Phillips
	Clark C Smith
	William A Smith
	Byron Allumbaugh
	John M Bissell
	Juan C Braniff
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