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DJS financials summarized for the period since listing on the ASX with up to a 10 year history for comparison purposes. Financials cover positions, performance, dividends, ratios, company, market and sector returns…more

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Assess DJS's financials and compare relative performance against :

the ASX All Ordinaries Index (XAO)
DJS's Sector Index, Consumer Discretionary (XDJ)

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Year End	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999
Positions
Shares Issued (m)	451	437	425	412	412	403	394	394	393
Book Value ($ps)	1.13	0.81	1.12	1.08	1.02	1.13	1.03	1.04	1.03
Net Tangible Assets (cps)	1.05	0.77	1.10	1.06	0.99	1.09	0.99	0.99	1.03

Performance
Sales ($ps)	4.32	4.00	4.34	4.19	4.33	4.30	4.05	3.89	3.45
Earnings (cps)	22.68	17.10	17.00	14.20	9.19	8.81	7.26	12.75	10.42

Dividends
Cash Assets (cps)	22.00	16.00	13.00	11.00	6.00	7.00	8.00	8.00	8.00
Dividend Franking (%)	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	50
Payout Ratio (%)	97.00	93.57	76.47	77.46	65.29	79.46	110.19	62.75	76.78

Ratios
Price/Earnings (PE) Average	19.00	14.94	11.77	10.46	12.26	12.92	17.35	10.02	12.75
Return on Equity (%)	21.34	22.70	15.36	13.41	8.92	7.71	7.04	12.23	10.10
Net Tangible Assets (YE%pscp)	0.19	0.26	0.53	0.56	0.68	1.07	0.93	0.78	0.82
Book Value (YE%pscp)	0.20	0.27	0.54	0.57	0.70	1.11	0.96	0.82	0.82
Sales (YE%pscp)	0.77	1.33	2.09	2.21	2.97	4.22	3.79	3.06	2.76

Returns
Company (DJS) (%)	99	53	16	32	53	2	-11	10	-10
Market (XAO) (%) Benchmark	69	34	-10	14	47	7	-16	-3	-25
Index (XDJ) (%) Benchmark	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.

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