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Aquila, Inc.

Ticker: ILA	Industry: Electric Utilities
Exchange: NYSE	Sector: Utilities

Fri Sep 06 2002 16:02 EDT | 15 min quote delay

Price	Change	%Change	Open	High	Low	Volume
3.82	-.1300	-3.29	4.20	4.20	3.81	1,331,500

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Background

Aquila, Inc. operates electricity and natural gas distribution networks, serving more than six million customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. For the 6 months ended 6/30/02, revenues fell 17% to $18.52B. Net loss totaled $765.6M, vs. an income of $216.6M. Results reflect lower Wholesale Services business segment sales due to a decline in natural gas prices and decreased operating margin.

52-Week High	32.28	52-Week Low	2.04
YTD %Change	-76.90	Avg Vol(3 mo.)¹	3.96
P/E (TTM)	NM	Earn/Shr ($)	-4.84
Ex-Div Amt. ($)	0.17	Div/Yield %	17.72
Shares Out¹	180.21	Market Cap¹	711.82
Ex-Div Date	Aug 20, 2025	Float¹	158.20

Financials & Ratios
Key Ratios & Statistics

Price/Revenue (TTM)	0.01
P/E (TTM)	NM
Price/Book (MRQ)	0.24
Price/Cash Flow (TTM)	NM
ROA (TTM)	-5.74
ROE (TTM)	-26.40
Current Ratio (MRQ)	0.91
Total Debt/Equity (MRQ)	1.39
Cash Per Share ($)	1.79
Book Value/Share ($)	16.61

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

Current Month*	10.71
Previous Month*	8.87
Short Interest Ratio	3.81

Institutional & Insider Ownership

(Units in Millions of Shares)

Purchases

Sale

Net Purch

Institutions

97.52

11.44

86.08

Insiders

0.03

0.01

0.02

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

Revenues

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

Quarter

2001

2002

11,980,000

8,861,300

10,441,400

9,654,300

9,315,500

8,639,900

Total

40,376,800

18,515,600

Earnings Per Share

(Units in U.S. Dollars $)

Quarter

2001

2002

0.69

0.32

1.21

-5.69

0.58

-0.05

Total

2.43

-5.37

Earnings per share data excludes extraordinary items

Earnings estimates

Q3 2002	0.19*
FY 2002	0.97**

Earnings estimates from First Call. Data includes extraordinary items
* based on estimates from 8 brokers. ** based on estimates from 8 brokers.

Growth Rates
	1 Year	5 Year

Revenue %	39.35	56.27
EPS %	9.42	10.61
Divdend %	0.00	0.45

Corporate Events (All Times Eastern)

Audio webcast
available where indicated

Thu Nov 07 2002 BMO ¹

Q3 2002 AQUILA INC 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
09.05.02	PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Sept 5
09.04.02	US Corp Bonds-Weaker; ChevronTexaco ups bond sale
09.04.02	TEXT-S&P cuts Aquila Inc corp credit rating to BBB-minus
09.04.02	Aquila cut by S&P, but not to junk; shares surge
09.04.02	U.S. hot stocks highlights -- Sept 4 (afternoon)

Equity:
Common $1 Par, 6/02, 400M auth., 142,713,550 issd., less 41,453 shs in Treas. @ $900K. Insiders own 6% (1.4M in options). ESPP owns 7%. PO 2/93, 4.6M shs @ $28.50 by Smith Barney. PO 11/96, 5.25M shs @ $27.625 by Merrill Lynch. PO 12/98, 8M shs @ $36.06 by ML. PO 3/01, 10M shs. @ $29.76 by ML. PO 6/02, 37.5M shs @ $7.50 by Credit Suisse F.B.

Analyst Footnotes:
3/02, Name chgd. from UtiliCorp United, Inc. 3/99, 3-for-2 split; 2/89, 2% div. FY'00 Q's are reclass. 12/00, Co. acq. St. Joseph Light & Power Co. @ 07933 sh(6,560,232 shs issd).

NM: not meaningful

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Company Data
	20 West Ninth Street Kansas City, MO 64105 Phone: (816) 421-6600 Fax: (816) 467-3435

Forbes Lists
	500s: 2002
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Officers
	Richard C Green, Jr.
	Robert K Green
	Dan Streek
	Donald G Bacon
	Edward K Mills
	Keith G Stamm
	John R Baker
	Herman Cain
	Irvine O Hockaday, Jr.
	Heidi E Hutter
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