PAREXEL Reports Second Quarter Financial Results

Boston, MA - January 24, 2002 PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL) today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended December 31, 2001.

For the three months ended December 31, 2001, PAREXEL's consolidated net revenue grew 13% to a record high $106.9 million compared with consolidated net revenue of $94.3 million in the prior year quarter. Operating income was $4.2 million, or 3.9% of revenue, versus operating income of $0.2 million (0.2%) in the December quarter of the prior year. Operating income improved sequentially by 140 basis points. Net income for the quarter was $3.1 million or $0.12 per diluted share, compared with net income of approximately $1.0 million, or $0.04 per diluted share for the quarter ended December 31, 2000. Excluding the negative impact from the Perceptive Informatics business unit, earnings per diluted share would have been $0.14 in the quarter.

Net revenue for the second quarter was $63.4 million in Clinical Research Services, $23.7 million in the PAREXEL Consulting Group, $14.9 million in Medical Marketing Services, and $4.9 million in Perceptive Informatics, Inc.

For the six months ended December 31, 2001, consolidated net revenue was $208.7 million versus consolidated net revenue of $182.5 million in the prior year period, an increase of 14%. Operating income for the current six-month period was $6.7 million compared with a pro forma operating loss of $0.9 million in the prior year period. Net income for the six months was $5.5 million or $0.22 per diluted share, compared with net income of $0.8 million, or $0.03 per diluted share in the prior year period. Excluding the negative impact from Perceptive Informatics, earnings per diluted share would have been $0.26 in the six-month period ending December 31, 2001.

For the six-month period from July to December 2001, PAREXEL reported net new business (gross new business less cancellations) of $251 million. Backlog at December 31, 2001 was $547 million, an increase of approximately 24% over the backlog reported for the period ending December 31, 2000.

Mr. Josef H. von Rickenbach, PAREXEL's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer stated, "This quarter's record-breaking revenue, and solid advances in operating margin and backlog, are proof that our strategic initiatives are bearing fruit. These positive results, combined with a reinvigorated management team, give us the confidence to reconfirm the Fiscal year 2002 forward-looking guidance, and to project that EPS for calendar 2002 will be approximately 50% higher than calendar 2001."

The Company issued the following forward-looking guidance regarding revenue and earnings per share estimates for the third quarter of Fiscal 2002 (ending March 31, 2002), and for Fiscal and calendar 2002. For the third quarter of Fiscal 2002, the Company anticipates reporting net revenue in the range of $110 to $114 million and earnings per diluted share in the range of $0.12 to $0.14. For Fiscal 2002 (ending June 30, 2002), the Company increased the lower-end of its previously issued net revenue estimate range by $10 million to $435 million. For this same period, the Company maintained its previous upper-end revenue estimate of $440 million and its earnings per diluted share estimate range of $0.50 to $0.54. For calendar 2002, the Company anticipates reporting net revenue of between $465 and $480 million, and earnings per diluted share of between $0.61 and $0.65.

PAREXEL's Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call will begin at 10 a.m. EST on Thursday, January 24th and will be broadcast live over the internet via webcast. The webcast may be accessed in the "Webcasts" portion of the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://www.parexel.com . A replay of this webcast will be archived on the website approximately two hours after the call and will continue to be accessible for one month

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