One Tower Lane, Oakbrook Terrace 60181; 708-571-7700
Founded: 1931
Employees: 2,500; 750 in Illinois
Year-end: June 30
Foreign sales: 10 percent of $228.6 million
Chief executive
Dennis J. Keller, 54, since 1987
Cash compensation: $756,528, up 16 percent
Options granted: $138,932, up 332 percent
Options, stock appreciation rights exercised: None
Shares owned: 2,454,166 of 16.6 million
Largest shareholder: Dennis J. Keller, 14.8 percent
Stock 365-day close
High: $39
Low: $19
May 1, 1996: $38
May 1, 1996, value of $1,000 in company stock:
Purchased May 1, 1995: $1,947.71
Purchased May 1, 1991: N.A.
Tuition revenues jumped 8.5 percent in 1995 for DeVry, the private, for-profit provider of post-secondary education, reflecting increased enrollments and tuition rates.
Responding to the fast-growing health-services industry, the Keller Graduate School of Management began offering a health-services management concentration within its MBA program.
DeVry differentiates itself from its competition by gearing its programs to working adults. In November, Keller began offering an accelerated Saturday MBA program in Chicago and Milwaukee.
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A guide to the Top 100 profiles
The Tribune’s business reporting staff profiles the Chicago area’s Top 100 companies, based on market capitalization as of May 1, 1996. Here’s a quick primer on the information you’ll find.
– The CEO’s cash compensation, including bonus and other compensation paid in 1995, along with the change from the prior year. The figure for the CEO’s stock holdings includes shares the CEO had the right to acquire within 60 days of the proxy statement’s issuance.
– Estimated current values of stock options granted the CEO, as reported in the proxy statement, and the change from the previous or prior year, as well as options and stock appreciation rights exercised during the year. In most cases, the current value of options granted is based on the assumption of a 5 percent annual rate of stock price growth.
– Theoretical total-return investment results for shares purchased for $1,000 a year ago and five years ago. The date on which those calculations are based is May 1. The results assume reinvestment of dividends on a quarterly basis.
The information in the profiles was obtained from the following sources:
– Company reports, including annual reports, public stock offering prospectuses and proxy statements.
– Interviews with company officials.
– Reports by securities analysts.
– News reports.
– Dow Jones News/Retrieval, an on-line service of Dow Jones & Co., New York.
– Bloomberg Business News, New York.
– TMS Stocks, a subsidiary of Tribune Media Services Inc., a unit of Tribune Co., Chicago.
– Morningstar Inc., Chicago.
– “First Chicago Guide,” published by Scholl Communications, Deerfield.
– “Hoover’s Handbook,” The Reference Press Inc., Austin, Texas.
