Huntington Ingalls Industries Reports Third Quarter 2016 Results

• Revenues were $1.68 billion
  
• Total operating margin was 10.4%
  
• Segment operating margin was 8.3%
  
• Diluted earnings per share was $2.27
  
• Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the quarter were $957 million

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Nov. 03, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reported third quarter 2016 revenues of $1.68 billion, down 6.5 percent from the same period last year. Diluted earnings per share in the quarter was $2.27, compared to $2.29 in the same period of 2015.

Operating income in the quarter was $175 million, compared to $200 million in the same period last year. Operating margin in the quarter was 10.4 percent, compared to 11.1 percent in the same period last year. These decreases were driven by lower volumes and lower risk retirements in shipbuilding, partially offset by the favorable FAS/CAS Adjustment.

New business awards for the quarter were approximately $1.2 billion, bringing total backlog to $20.0 billion as of Sept. 30, 2016.

“Our third quarter financial results reflect solid overall operating performance, driven by program execution at Ingalls,” said Mike Petters, HII’s president and CEO. “Given our strong year-to-date performance, and despite challenges at Newport News, we expect 2016 revenues and operating margin to be relatively similar to 2015.”

Results of Operations

Segment Operating Results

Ingalls Shipbuilding

Ingalls revenues for the third quarter decreased $16 million, or 2.7 percent, from the same period in 2015, due to lower revenues in Amphibious Assault Ships and the Legend-class National Security Cutter (NSC) program, partially offset by higher revenues in Surface Combatants. Lower Amphibious Assault Ships revenues were due to the delivery of LPD-26 USS John P. Murtha in the second quarter of 2016 and decreased volume on LPD-27 Portland, partially offset by increased volume on LPD-28 Fort Lauderdale. Lower NSC program revenues were due to the delivery of NSC-5 USCGC James in 2015 and decreased volume on NSC-6 Munro. Higher Surface Combatant revenues were primarily due to increased volumes on DDG-121 Frank E. Petersen Jr. and DDG-123 Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee, partially offset by decreased volume on DDG-113 John Finn.

Ingalls segment operating income for the third quarter was $66 million, a decrease of $11 million from the same period last year. Segment operating margin in the quarter was 11.4 percent, compared to 13.0 percent in the same period last year. These decreases were primarily due to lower risk retirement on the LHA-6 America-class program.

Key Ingalls milestones for the quarter:

• Awarded an $88.2 million contract to purchase long-lead material for a ninth NSC
• Awarded two contracts totaling $32.8 million for design work on the amphibious warfare ship replacement known as LX(R)
• Awarded a $14 million contract to overhaul DDG-61 USS Ramage
• Completed builder's sea trials for NSC-6 Munro

Newport News Shipbuilding

Newport News revenues for the third quarter decreased $105 million, or 8.9 percent, from the same period in 2015, primarily driven by lower revenues in Aircraft Carriers and Submarines. Lower Aircraft Carriers revenues were due to decreased volumes on the construction contract for CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford and the execution contract for the CVN-72 USS Abraham Lincoln refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH), partially offset by increased volumes on the construction contract for CVN-79 John F. Kennedy and the advance planning contract for the CVN-73 USS George Washington RCOH. Lower Submarines revenues related to the SSN-774 Virginia-class submarine (VCS) program were due to decreased volumes on Block III boats, partially offset by increased volumes on Block IV boats.

Newport News segment operating income for the third quarter was $79 million, a decrease of $21 million from the same period last year. Segment operating margin was 7.4 percent for the quarter, compared to 8.5 percent in the same period last year. These decreases were due to lower risk retirement on the VCS program, as well as the resolution of outstanding contract changes on the CVN-71 USS Theodore Roosevelt RCOH in the third quarter of 2015.

Key Newport News milestones for the quarter:

• Awarded a contract with a potential value of $400 million over the next five years to perform repair work on in-service nuclear-powered submarines, special mission submersibles, moored training ships and submarine support facilities
• Awarded a $195 million contract modification to continue advance planning for the RCOH of CVN-73 USS George Washington
• Awarded a $109 million contract to provide engineering, design, logistics and other support for the U.S. Navy's Los Angeles-class, Seawolf-class, Virginia-class and Ohio-class submarines
• Awarded a $52 million contract for repair and modernization work on CVN-75 USS Harry S. Truman
• Awarded a $17.7 million contract for planning and maintenance work on SSN-725 USS Helena
• Redelivered SSN-785 USS John Warner to the U.S. Navy following its post-shakedown availability (PSA), the first PSA for a Virginia-class submarine conducted by Newport News

Other

Revenues in the Other segment for the third quarter increased $3 million, or 10.0 percent, from the same period last year, due to higher volumes in oil and gas services. Segment operating loss for the quarter was $5 million, which was consistent with third quarter 2015.

About Huntington Ingalls Industries

Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of engineering, manufacturing and management services to the nuclear energy, oil and gas markets. For more than a century, HII’s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs nearly 35,000 people operating both domestically and internationally. For more information, please visit www.huntingtoningalls.com. 

Conference Call Information

Huntington Ingalls Industries will webcast its earnings conference call at 9 a.m. ET today. A live audio broadcast of the conference call and supplemental presentation will be available on the investor relations page of the company's website: www.huntingtoningalls.com. A telephone replay of the conference call will be available from 12 noon today through Thursday, Nov. 10 by calling toll-free (855) 859-2056 or (404) 537-3406 and using conference ID 91634496.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this release, other than statements of historical fact, constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these statements. Factors that may cause such differences include: changes in government and customer priorities and requirements (including government budgetary constraints, shifts in defense spending, and changes in customer short-range and long-range plans); our ability to obtain new contracts, estimate our future contract costs and perform our contracts effectively; changes in procurement processes and government regulations and our ability to comply with such requirements; our ability to deliver our products and services at an affordable life cycle cost and compete within our markets; natural disasters; adverse economic conditions in the United States and globally; changes in key estimates and assumptions regarding our pension and retiree health care costs; security threats, including cyber security threats, and related disruptions; and other risk factors discussed in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. There may be other risks and uncertainties that we are unable to predict at this time or that we currently do not expect to have a material adverse effect on our business, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements that we may make. This release also contains non-GAAP financial measures and includes a GAAP reconciliation of these financial measures. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be construed as being more important than comparable GAAP measures.

Exhibit A: Financial Statements

Exhibit B: Non-GAAP Measures Definitions & Reconciliations

We make reference to “segment operating income (loss),” “segment operating margin,” “adjusted sales and service revenues,” “adjusted segment operating income (loss),” “adjusted segment operating margin,” “adjusted operating income,” “adjusted operating margin,” “adjusted net earnings,” and “adjusted diluted earnings per share."

We internally manage our operations by reference to "segment operating income (loss)" and "segment operating margin," which are not recognized measures under GAAP. When analyzing our operating performance, investors should use segment operating income (loss) and segment operating margin in addition to, and not as alternatives for, operating income and operating margin or any other performance measure presented in accordance with GAAP. They are measures that we use to evaluate our core operating performance. We believe that segment operating income (loss) and segment operating margin reflect an additional way of viewing aspects of our operations that, when viewed with our GAAP results, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting our business. We believe these measures are used by investors and are a useful indicator to measure our performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, our presentation of segment operating income (loss) and segment operating margin may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

Adjusted sales and service revenues, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, adjusted segment operating income (loss), adjusted segment operating margin, adjusted net earnings and adjusted diluted earnings per share are not measures recognized under GAAP. They should be considered supplemental to and not a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. We believe these measures are useful to investors because they exclude items that do not reflect our core operating performance. They may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

Segment operating income (loss) is defined as operating income (loss) for the relevant segment(s) before the FAS/CAS Adjustment and deferred state income taxes.

Segment operating margin is defined as segment operating income (loss) as a percentage of sales and service revenues.

Adjusted sales and service revenues is defined as sales and service revenues adjusted for the impact of the insurance litigation settlement at the Ingalls segment in second quarter 2015.

Adjusted segment operating income (loss) is defined as segment operating income (loss) adjusted for the impacts of the insurance litigation settlement at the Ingalls segment and the goodwill impairment charge at the Other segment in second quarter 2015.

Adjusted segment operating margin is defined as adjusted segment operating income (loss) as a percentage of adjusted sales and service revenues.

Adjusted operating income is defined as operating income adjusted for the impacts of the insurance litigation settlement at the Ingalls segment and the goodwill impairment charge at the Other segment, each in second quarter 2015.

Adjusted operating margin is defined as adjusted operating income as a percentage of adjusted sales and service revenues.

Adjusted net earnings is defined as net earnings adjusted for the after-tax impacts of: the loss on early extinguishment of debt in third quarter 2015, the insurance litigation settlement at the Ingalls segment and the goodwill impairment charge at the Other segment, each in second quarter 2015; and the FAS/CAS Adjustment.

Adjusted diluted earnings per share is defined as adjusted net earnings divided by the weighted-average diluted common shares outstanding.

FAS/CAS Adjustment is defined as the difference between our pension and postretirement plan expense under GAAP Financial Accounting Standards and the same expense under U.S. Cost Accounting Standards (CAS). Our pension and postretirement plan expense is charged to our contracts under CAS.

Deferred state income taxes are defined as the change in deferred state tax assets and liabilities in the relevant period. These amounts are recorded within operating income, while the current period state income tax expenses are charged to contract costs and included in segment operating income.

We present financial measures adjusted for the FAS/CAS Adjustment and deferred state income tax to reflect the company’s performance based upon the pension costs and state tax expense charged to our contracts under CAS. We use these adjusted measures as internal measures of operating performance and for performance-based compensation decisions.

Contacts: Jerri Fuller Dickseski (Media) jerri.dickseski@hii-co.com 757-380-2341 Dwayne Blake (Investors) dwayne.blake@hii-co.com 757-380-2104