Five-Year Financial Summary

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Business Review

Five-Year Financial Summary

Dollars are expressed in $Cdn millions
except prices and per share amounts.
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
commodity market prices (annual average)          
Uranium (spot price in $US/lbs U3O8) $ 61.58 $ 99.29 $ 49.60 $ 28.67 $ 18.60
Conversion (spot price in $US/kgU) 9.03 10.98 11.60 11.60 7.91
Electricity (spot price in $/megawatt hours) 48.88 47.87 46.38 68.35 49.95
Gold (market price in $US/ounce) 872 696 602 445 409
operations          
Revenue $ 2,859.2 $ 2,309.7 $ 1,831.7 $ 1,312.7 $ 1,048.5
Earnings from operations1 524.2 475.0 335.4 120.7 123.1
Adjusted net earnings1, 2 589.2 572.1 273.7 208.5 182.5
Net earnings1 450.1 416.1 375.7 215.5 276.5
EBITDA 1,019.1 638.4 502.8 455.3 544.3
Cash provided by operations 708.3 800.7 418.0 277.5 228.0
Capital expenditures 629.2 494.5 459.6 284.9 148.3
financial position          
Total assets $ 7,010.6 $ 5,371.4 $ 5,140.4 $ 4,772.8 $ 4,052.1
Total debt 1,313.0 725.9 704.6 858.8 518.6
Shareholders' equity 3,514.9 2,743.9 2,741.4 2,363.6 2,160.5
financial ratios          
Current ratio (current assets/current liabilities) 1.9:1 1.9:1 2.7:1 2.4:1 2.9:1
Return on common shareholders' equity 14% 15% 15% 10% 14%
Net debt to capitalization 23% 18% 12% 9% 13%
Cash from operations/total net debt 68% 135% 113% 118% 69%
common share data ($ per share)          
Adjusted net earnings $ 1.68 $ 1.63 $ 0.78 $ 0.60 $ 0.53
Basic net earnings 1.29 1.18 1.07 0.62 0.81
Dividends 0.24 0.20 0.16 0.12 0.10
Book value 9.61 7.97 7.78 6.76 6.24
TSX Market – high 44.38 59.90 49.95 37.50 21.13
  – low 14.33 35.22 35.35 18.97 9.54
  – close 21.05 39.57 47.20 36.90 20.98
  – annual volume (millions) 482.71 476.22 424.91 460.09 490.04
Shares outstanding (millions)          
Weighted average 350.1 351.2 351.2 347.9 342.9
Year end 365.7 344.4 352.3 349.6 346.1
production (cameco's share)          
Uranium production (million lbs U3O8) 17.0 19.8 21.0 21.2 20.5
Fuel services (million kgU) 8.3 12.9 15.4 11.4 9.5
production (100% basis)          
Electricity generation (terawatt hours)3 24.7 25.3 25.8 30.8 33.6
Gold production (thousand ounce)4 748.9 555.4 586.4 787.3 640.8
Employees (including subsidiaries) 3,077 2,720 2,446 1,957 1,802
1

Attributable to common shares.

2

Adjusted net earnings, a non-GAAP measure, should be considered as supplemental in nature and not a substitute for related financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Consolidated net earnings are adjusted in order to provide a more meaningful basis for period-to-period comparisons of the financial results.

3

Represents 100% of output from Bruce Power Limited Partnership (Cameco has a 31.6% interest in Bruce Power).

4

Represents 100% of the output from Centerra's Kumtor and Boroo mines (Cameco has a 53% interest in Centerra Gold Inc.).

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