Stock Profile: Forzani Group
Symbol: FGL (TSE)
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 Stats as of 4/12/01
• H/L Ratio: 1.37
• RS: 74.6
• Shares: 26,910,081
• P/E: 7.82
• Price: $4.85
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Chances are you've shopped at stores owned by the Forzani Group and didn't even know it. The company, in fact, is Canada's largest retailer of sporting goods with 132 company owned and operated stores and an additional 156 franchised stores under a variety of names. Corporate banners include Sport Chek, Sports Experts and Forzani's as well as Podium Sports, Jersey City, Zone Athletik, Total Sports and RnR Outdoors. Two new labels introduced in 2000 are Save on Sports and Coast Mountain Sports.

Sports Experts was founded in 1966 by eight Quebec businessmen who formed the first sports equipment buying group in North America. In 1973 they sold their first franchise and also became the exclusive Canadian member of the international buying group, Intersport. This was followed by the purchase in 1985 of Canada's largest sporting goods store at the time, Arlington Collegiate. In 1994 the company was bought by the Forzani Group.

In March 2001, the company announced its 16th quarter of record growth and its third consecutive year of growth.

Quarterly Earnings per Share

  2000 2001 % Change
To Jan. 28th $0.20 $0.28 40.0%
Revenues (000s) $132,494 $179,00 35.1%

Annual Earnings per Share

To Jan. 30th 1999 2000 % Change 2001 % Change
EPS $0.36 $0.53 47.2% $0.77 45.3%
Revenues (000s) $378,648 $454,101 19.9% $568,613 25.2%

Note: Earnings shown are pre-tax earnings. After-tax earnings were $0.47/share for the past year and $0.30 for the year before.