Keith S. Sherin
Analyst · Barclays
Thanks, Jeff. I'm going to start with the first quarter summary. As you can see, we had continuing operations revenues of $35.2 billion and that was reported down 8%. This is the last quarter we're going to have to compare to the impact from NBCU. So last year in the first quarter, we owned NBC for one month and we had that revenue and we had the $3.6 billion pretax gain from the sale. So if you adjust for NBC in the first quarter of last year, that would give you a 4% growth on the $35 billion of revenue. Industrial sales of $23.7 billion are up 7%. I think a better reflection of our growth is down on the right side of the chart. Without any impact from NBCU, you can see the Industrial segment revenues were up 14%. GE Capital revenues of $11.4 billion were down 12%. If you look at Q1 last year, we had the Garanti bank sale that was recorded in GE Capital. If you exclude the impact of Garanti last year, GE Capital revenues were down about 7% in line with the overall asset shrinkage. Operating earnings at $3.6 billion were up 1%. Operating earnings per share of $0.34 were up 3%. And continuing earnings per share includes the impact of the nonoperating pension. And net earnings per share includes the impact of discontinued operations, reflecting the $0.02 charge this year, which I'll cover on the next page. Cash of $2.1 billion for the quarter was very strong as Jeff covered. On taxes, the consolidated rate for the first quarter was 16%. That was down slightly from 2011 excluding the impact of the high tax and NBCU gain. If you look at the pieces, the GE rate of 23% was 1 point higher than last year, excluding the NBCU impact. And we're forecasting a continuation of that low 20s rate for the rest of the year for GE Industrial. The GE Capital rate of 9% is lower than the mid-teens range that we previously forecast. As the quarter unfolded, we identified additional international tax planning benefits, and they're going to impact the GE Capital rate for the year. So right now, our forecast is about a 10% rate for the full year for GECC. On the right side of the segment results, Industrial revenues were up 14%. Industrial segment profit was up 10%, driven by double-digit growth in Transportation and Energy and Healthcare. GE Capital earnings were reported at flat. However, they were up significantly excluding the impact to last year's Garanti gain, and I'll show you how that affects GE Capital later at the GE Capital page. So we'll go through each of the segments in more detail on a page here. Before I get to the business results, though, here's the summary of other items from the first quarter. First, we realized a $0.01 after-tax gain from the formation of an aviation JV, which we recorded that gain at corporate. We completed the JV formation with AVIC for future avionic products and that resulted in $0.01 after tax. We also had $0.01 after tax of restructuring and other charges in the quarter. The charge is primarily related to a continued cost structure and improvements at Energy, Healthcare, GE Capital. We also had a onetime cost related to the acquisitions and other non-repeat items. On the bottom of the page, we entered into a LOI to sell our Irish consumer mortgage assets and the operating platform in Ireland. And as a result of that LOI, we recognized a charge this quarter. This is consistent with our strategy of reducing the red assets in the portfolio. And although the final terms have not been negotiated and certainly not announced, we did recognize a loss in discontinued operations of $188 million after tax. And this allows us to exit the most challenged mortgage book that we have, and that's going to be positive as we go forward. And then one last item on this page, we thought -- just to try and clarify the reported results year-over-year on the top right, the normalized earnings box. It shows you a walk of how we looked at normalized operating EPS adjusting for the gains and the onetime charges last year and this year. So if you look last year, our reported operating EPS was $0.33, but that included $0.01 net benefit from the combination of the NBCU gain, which was partially offset by $0.03 of restructuring. Plus, we had $0.03 from the Garanti sale gain last year that was reported to GE Capital. So if you look at last year's first quarter normalized, it was $0.29. And this year, reported $0.34 with no net impact from the other items. So the normalized operating earnings performance is much stronger than the reported variance. I'll go to the businesses and we'll start with Energy. Overall results were strong. We had revenue growth at 18%. We had double-digit profit growth. And I'll start with the details of the Energy business. We continue to see strong orders growth, as Jeff showed you. Orders of $7.7 billion were up 21%. Equipment orders of $4.1 billion were up 29%. That was driven some by the acquisitions plus 12 points from organic growth. Renewable orders of $1.5 billion were up 59%. We had orders for 696 wind turbines versus 327 in the first quarter of last year. Thermal orders of $700 million were down 7%. We had orders for 23 gas turbines versus 27 in the first quarter of '11. And overall, Energy orders pricing was a positive 0.2%. Equipment orders pricing was down 0.2% and that was driven by thermal, which was negative 1%. Wind was negative 1.5%, offset by positive equipment pricing in energy management. And if you look at the combined thermal and Power Gen Services orders, the price impact there was also positive 0.7%. So orders pricing is definitely abating and it turned in total for the Energy business. Service orders of $3.6 billion were up 13%, and revenues in the quarter of $8 billion were up 13%. That was driven by strong volume. Plus, we had about 5 points of that growth from acquisitions. So good organic growth. Equipment revenues of $4.5 billion was up 16%. We had a strong renewables quarter. Revenues of $1.5 billion were up 30%. We shipped 611 wind turbines versus 366 last year, and that was about 200 more than we planned in the quarter. Thermal revenue of $1.8 billion was up 2%. So we shipped 35 gas turbines versus 32 last year. And aero revenue of $560 million was up 68%. And service revenues of $3.5 billion were up 10%. Segment profit of $1.2 billion was up 6%. That was driven by the higher volumes plus some benefit from the acquisitions, partially offset by the lower pricing from the wind and thermal backlog deliveries. Oil & Gas. They just continue to experience tremendous growth. Orders of $4.4 billion were up 47%. Even after adjusting for the acquisitions, orders were up 28% organically. Equipment orders of $2.3 billion were up 64%, driven by strong subsea orders in Australia and Angola. And service orders of $2 billion were up 31%, driven by drilling and surface services. The orders price index for Oil & Gas was up 1%. Revenue of $3.4 billion was up 34%, and that was driven by strong equipment revenues, $1.6 billion, was up 26% or 16% organically. And service revenues of $1.8 billion were up 41% or 20% organically. Segment profit of $400 million was up 31%, driven by the acquisitions and the core growth. The acquisitions continue to deliver results ahead of our pro formas. And the organic segment profit of Oil & Gas was up 12%, driven by the strong volume, partially offset by higher variable costs on some of their output. So pretty good quarter overall in Energy. Great to have them at double digits. Next, we'll go to Aviation. The Aviation team delivered another solid quarter in the first quarter. We took the JV gain out of the segment, so the reported results exclude the gain that was reported in corporate. Orders of $5.6 billion were up 8%. Commercial engine orders of $1.6 billion were up 36%, driven by strong orders for GE90, CFM56 and CF6 engines. Military equipment orders of $500 million, they were down 20%, driven by a few lower engines but also lower development from the JSF termination. Service orders of $3 billion were up 6%. Commercial services were down 3%, driven by lower spare parts. Our first quarter average daily order rate was $23 million, which was down 10% as we saw some softness driven by Europe. Total orders price index for the business was up 2.1%. Revenue of $4.9 billion was up 12%, driven by strong equipment volume. We shipped 583 commercial engines versus 503 last year, up 16%. And service revenues were up 3%. Segment profit of $862 million was up 2% as the benefits of that higher volume and positive price were partially offset by higher R&D investments and the impact of higher equipment versus services mix. On the right side, Transportation. Transportation had another great quarter. Orders of $1.6 billion were up 67%. Equipment orders of $1 billion were up 131%, driven by North American and international locomotive orders. We also straw -- saw strong mining vehicle equipment orders. Service orders were up 13%, and orders pricing was up 1%. Revenue of $1.3 billion was up 41%, driven by the strong volume. We shipped 159 locomotives versus 70 in the first quarter last year. And our mining equipment revenue was also up 40% in the quarter. Service revenues of $550 million were up 7%, driven by the higher long-term service agreement and parts volume. And segment profit of $232 million was up 48%, driven by the higher volume and positive pricing. Next is Healthcare. Healthcare had a strong first quarter. Good orders. Orders of $4.4 billion were up 6%. I'll give you some details on the equipment orders: $2.4 billion, they were up 12%. It was driven by strong growth across-the-board. The U.S. was up 15% on equipment. Latin America was up 33%. China was up 31%. Eastern Europe and the Middle East were up 22%. Asia Pacific was up 11%. And Europe was the one soft spot, down 6%. Service orders of $2 billion were flat. And total orders price was down 1.4%. Revenue in the quarter of $4.3 billion was up 5% driven by the growth markets, which were up 17% in volume. And revenue in the U.S. was up 3%. And in Europe, it was down 4%. Segment profit of $585 million was up 10%, driven by volume and productivity, partially offset by the pricing. And on the right side, Home & Business Solutions had another tough quarter, but the level of decline has slowed significantly. Revenues of $2.1 billion were up 5%, driven by strong pricing. The domestic appliance market was down 10% in units and we gained core share. We also saw volume pressure from lighting in Europe. European markets were soft. Overall segment profit of $66 million was down 11% as the benefits of the higher pricing in appliances and lighting were more than offset by inflation and by our investments in the new product programs. We started shipping the hot water heater and we'll be shipping the Bottom Mount Refrigerator starting in the second quarter. So they're making great progress on all their Mission 1 investments. And next is GE Capital. Mike Neal and the team delivered another very positive quarter. Revenue of $11.4 billion was reported down 12%. However, as I said, if you exclude the Garanti impact, revenue was down 7%. Reported net income was flat. But as you can see, excluding Garanti, it was up 27%. So overall, it was another very strong quarter. We ended the quarter with $436 billion of ending investment, already below our original $440 billion target and we're on the way to the $425 billion for the year. And our net interest margin was 4.8%, up 38 basis points. There are more details on GE Capital and margins and in asset quality in the supplemental deck that we posted this morning. If you look over at the right side, you can see the asset quality metrics continue to be good. Delinquencies fell in the mortgage business. They fell in U.S. retail. They were up slightly in Real Estate and CLL. A big highlight for the team was the Commercial Real Estate delivering positive earnings. It's the first time in over 3 years, and I'll cover Real Estate in a minute. And we saw a good volume and good margins, and our other asset quality metrics remain strong. So if you go by business, I'll start with Consumer. Our Consumer results were much better than the reported variance shows. We're comparing here to no repeat of the first quarter '11 Garanti income. On a normalized basis, the first quarter '12 Consumer results were up around 4%. That includes a really strong performance in U.S. The U.S. Retail business had a great quarter with net income of $641 million, up 18%, driven by lower losses and higher margins. Our portfolio's in good shape. U.S. Retail delinquency of 4.4% was down 54 basis points from the fourth quarter, and it's at the lowest level in 9 years, which is the only reported period that we have on these current basis. So just a great asset quality and performance in the portfolio. Europe had net income of $122 million, down year-over-year from Garanti. Our U.K. home lending business earned $57 million in the quarter. And we exited our Greek bonds in the quarter. We took a $21 million after-tax loss. We have no remaining Greek bond exposure. Real Estate had positive earnings of $56 million in the quarter. This is a great improvement, as you know, up $414 million from the first quarter of '11, up $210 million from the fourth quarter of '11. In the quarter, we had $25 million of after-tax credit costs and $30 million of after-tax margin impairments. During the quarter, we also sold 103 properties worth about $500 million for a $56 million after-tax gain. We continue to see strong global liquidity. It's helped improve valuations. And while we're pleased with these results, there will be a European portfolio valuation review in the second quarter. But overall, the Real Estate team has started the year ahead of our expectations, off to a great start. Commercial Lending & Leasing business delivered strong results. While assets were down 4%, net income of $685 million was up 24% driven by lower credit costs, lower margin impairments and core income growth. Americas is the big driver. Net income of $542 million was up 18%. Europe net income of $59 million was down 35%, mainly driven by lower assets year-over-year, as well as higher provisions in Italy. GECAS had a good quarter. Earnings of $318 million were up 4% driven by higher core margin, partially offset by lower gains. We sold 22 aircraft in the quarter for a gain of $21 million. And portfolio quality remained strong. We ended the quarter with one aircraft on the ground out of our portfolio of over 1,500 aircraft. Energy Financial Services earnings of $71 million were down 37%. That's driven by $45 million of lower gains. Last year's Q1 results included $50 million from our Caithness wind farm sale. So GE Capital's off to a strong start for '12, and let me turn it back to Jeff.