I need to know historical plant numbers and production numbers for
manufactured homebuilders:
Number of plants, units produced, total floors produced
For each I need the three most recent fiscal years. This means four
numbers for each company for plants, three for units, and three for
floors (e.g. # of plants at 12/31/00, 12/31/01, 12/31/02, 12/31/03;
units produced for 2001, 2002, 2003; floors produced 2001, 2002, 2003)
Please be careful to get manufacturing production or shipment data.
Most of these companies have company-owned retail locations and
independent retail locations and sell competitors products as well.
It is easy to confuse retail volumes with the production. My focus is
on the production coming out of each company's owned manufacturing
facilities - I don't care about retail activity.
The homebuilders are:
Champion Enterprises
Oakwood Homes
Fleetwood Enterprises
Clayton Homes
Cavalier Homes
Palm Harbor Homes
Skyline Corp
Patriot Homes
Southern Energy Homes
Horton Homes (sub of D.R. Horton)
Please provide links to the sources and notes re: the page numbers or
snips of text to facilitate a key-word search. Also, please spell out
any calculations as well so I can easily trace to the source document
Let me know if you have any questions - I look forward to your response! |
Clarification of Question by
query2-ga
on
27 Mar 2004 01:33 PST
Please be sure to indicate the time period for each piece of data
(e.g. number of plants / manufacturing facilities as of December 31,
2003; Units produced during 2002)
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Request for Question Clarification by
jbf777-ga
on
27 Mar 2004 13:59 PST
Hi query2 -
Thanks for the heads up on this question.
As presented, you're looking for about 100 pieces of information to be
manually assembled from 30 independent documents. Researchers see 75%
of the list price of a question -- $75 in this case. I recommend
repricing this question to $200.
jbf777
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Clarification of Question by
query2-ga
on
27 Mar 2004 17:36 PST
I took you up on the price increase. You're right that there are 100
pieces of data. I'm hoping that the bulk of the data for each is from
a single document per company (most recent 10K which will typically
have at least 3 years of data, which is what I want). A few companies
will undoubtedly be trickier, requiring calls to investor relations or
some of your patented ingenuity, so I adjusted the price.
Also, I thought the researcher received 100% of the fee and google
just the listing price - is google taking a 25% cut off the top?
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Request for Question Clarification by
jbf777-ga
on
28 Mar 2004 21:35 PST
query2 -
Question on the number of plants.
Take a look at Champion, page 32:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814068/000095012404000607/k82468e10vk.htm
This 10K lists # of facilities for 2002 and 2001.. if I understand you
right, you want the same numbers for 2000 and 1999?
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Clarification of Question by
query2-ga
on
29 Mar 2004 09:39 PST
Hopefully the following helps tie the requested information to the
sources using your link to Champion for an example:
Request: "(e.g. # of plants at 12/31/00, 12/31/01, 12/31/02, 12/31/03;
units produced for 2001, 2002, 2003; floors produced 2001, 2002, 2003)"
Source: Champion 2003 10K
Plants:
12/31/00 (not in 2003 10K - need to refer to prior 10K)
12/31/01 49 plants (p. 33)
12/31/02 37 plants (p. 26)
12/31/03 30 plants (p. 26)
Units Produced:
2001 39.551 (p. 33)
2002 32,460 (p. 26)
2003 25,483 (p. 26)
Floors Produced:
2001 71,487 (p. 33)
2002 60,408 (p. 26)
2003 48,506 (p. 26)
Above is 90% of the info requested for 1 of the 10 companies - taken
from 2 pages in the most recent 10K. Info on some of the other
companies I'm sure will be more difficult to get, but the largest
should be a similar process.
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Request for Question Clarification by
jbf777-ga
on
29 Mar 2004 10:17 PST
Thanks for the clarification.
One more question. I'm assuming "12/31" is arbitrary, and that you're
looking for end of fiscal years, whenever they may be (I know you said
fiscal in your original question, but at the same time the given dates
seem like calendar dates)?
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Clarification of Question by
query2-ga
on
29 Mar 2004 15:40 PST
Right, whatever the fiscal years may be. For the example, Champion,
they happen to be pretty much the same as calendar year ends. If you
go to one of the competitors, it may be June 30, which is fine. I'm
looking for the most recent three years of data, so for Champion it is
12/31/2000 through 12/31/2003. For another company it may be
6/30/2000 through 6/30/2003 or another set of dates, depending on
their year-end.
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