Wednesday, April 18, 2012

US Top 50 Big Corps Added 1 Employee in Past 2 Years For Each $1.8 mil of Higher Profit

The 50 Most Profitable US Big Corps generated $742 bil of Total Pretax Income in 2011, as compared with Total Pretax Income of $402 bil in 2009, for an increase of $340 bil, or 85%.

I am including here foreign-owned Corps Royal Dutch Shell and BP, since they both have such substantial operations in the US.

I am excluding US Big Corps which had huge acquisitions in the most recent two years, since this distorts the number of employees added in the past two years.  Thus, I excluded Oracle, Coca Cola, Pepsico, Comcast, Abbott Labs and Schlumberger for this reason.

I also excluded giant Retailers Walmart, McDonalds, and Home Depot, since a substantial portion of their employee adds are part-time workers, whose pay isn't even close to being at a livable wage.

In deriving Pretax Income, I start with Pretax Income under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and then exclude several clearly unusual very large items relative to Pretax Income, such as Asset Impairments like the Oil and Gas Property Impairments under the ceiling test and Intangible Asset Impairments, as well as Gains and Losses on Asset Sales, and Mark-to-Market Pension Adjustments.  I also exclude very large highly unusual items such as the BP Gulf Oil Spill Charges and Berkshire Hathaway's Derivative and Investment Gains and Losses.

OK, so that $340 bil of Pretax Profit increase is just great.  But just how well was this shared with stimulating the world economy by adding employees?  Well, not so great.

From SEC filings, these 50 US Big Corps had increased their total number of worldwide employees by 193,811, or by only 3% in the past two years, going from 5,822,711 in fiscal year end 2009 to 6,016,522 in fiscal year end 2011.

This equates to 1 Employee Added by these 50 US Big Corps in the most recent 2 years for each $1,755,597 of higher Pretax Profit.....the math is $340,254 mil of increased profit divided by 193,811 employee adds.

That's not even close to being fair to the 99% in the US.  Nor is it fair to the world's 99%.

When you review the below list of these 50 US Big Corps, there is one industry that is clearly doing its part in creating jobs.....The Technology Sector.  In the past two years, it generated higher total profit of 58%, while it added a pretty fair 15% to their total employee base.

Sectors doing the worst on the job front are:

.....Oil and Gas, which slashed 3% of their employees, while increasing their profits by 114%
.....Pharma, which slashed 6% of their employees, while increasing their profits by 24%
.....Big Communications (ATT and Verizon), which slashed 11% of their employees, while increasing their profits by 8%.

Clearly, the US Congress must design wise legislation which results in a much fairer sharing of economic benefits between the 1% Big Corps and the 99%.  One of the many reasons the US Congress has such incredibly low approval ratings is that they have horribly failed in this regard.

The US job creation of these Top 50 US Big Corps was even much worse than their job creation overseas.  Only a handful of these Top 50 disclosed their US number of employees, but here's what happened with some of the ones that did:

.....United Parcel Service slashed 10,000 jobs worldwide in the past two years, with 170% of them, or 17,000, slashed in the US.
.....Eli Lilly shed 2,280 jobs worldwide in the past two years, with 122% of them, or 2,780, shed in the US.
.....All 3,000 of GE's worldwide job losses in the past two years were in the US
.....Merck slashed 14,000 jobs worldwide in the past two years, with a huge 64% of them, or 8,900, slashed in the US.
.....Cisco Systems added 6,325 jobs worldwide in the past two years, with only 4% of them, or 250, added in the US. 
.....BP added 3,000 jobs worldwide in the past two years, with only 3% of them, or 100, added in the US.
.....3M added 9,363 jobs worldwide in the past two years, but with only 17% of them added in the US.
.....Caterpillar added 31,286 jobs worldwide in the past two years, but with only 32% of them added in the US.

The Second 50 US Big Corps haven't done quite as bad as the Top 50 on the job added front, but it is certainly nothing to write home about.

These Second 50 US Big Corps had a Total Pretax Income increase of 76% and a Total Number of Employees Added of 8% in the most recent two fiscal years.

I have included in these Second 50 several foreign owned Corps, which have substantial operations in the US.

Also, I am excluding from these Second 50, Corps which had either huge acquisitions or huge spinoffs in the most recent two years.  Thus I excluded Kraft Foods, Texas Instruments, Baker Hughes, Marathon Oil, Marathon Petroleum, and Northrop Grumman. 

I also excluded large Retailers CVS Caremark, Target, Walgreens, and Lowes.


Below here is the Pretax Income (PTI) and number of worldwide employees from 2009 to 2011 of these 50 US Big Corps.  Also below here is a sorting of these 50 by selected sectors.  In addition, below here is the Second 50 US Big Corps.











Two Year



Two Year
WW
WW Increase




Increase
# of
# of (Decrease)


2011 2009 (Decrease)
Employees
Employees # of WW


PTI PTI in PTI
2011
2009 Employees


mils $s mils $s mils $s





Top 50







1 Exxon Mobil 73,257 34,777 38,480
99,100
102,700 (3,600)
2 Royal Dutch Shell 55,660 21,020 34,640
90,000
101,000 (11,000)
3 Chevron 47,634 18,528 29,106
61,000
64,000 (3,000)
4 BP 35,092 25,124 9,968
83,400
80,300 3,100
5 Apple 34,205 12,066 22,139
60,400
34,300 26,100
6 Microsoft 28,071 19,821 8,250
90,000
93,000 (3,000)
7 JPMorgan Chase 26,749 16,067 10,682
260,157
222,316 37,841
8 Wells Fargo 23,656 17,998 5,658
264,200
267,300 (3,100)
9 IBM 21,003 18,138 2,865
433,362
399,409 33,953
10 ConocoPhillips 20,994 9,582 11,412
29,800
30,000 (200)
11 General Electric 20,098 9,864 10,234
301,000
304,000 (3,000)
12 AT&T 20,087 18,733 1,354
256,000
281,000 (25,000)
13 Intel 17,781 8,401 9,380
100,100
79,800 20,300
14 JNJ 16,683 15,369 1,314
117,900
115,500 2,400
15 Verizon 16,448 14,957 1,491
193,900
222,900 (29,000)
16 Berkshire Hathaway 16,144 10,765 5,379
271,000
257,000 14,000
17 Procter & Gamble 15,189 14,413 776
129,000
132,000 (3,000)
18 Citigroup 14,624 (10,199) 24,823
266,000
265,300 700
19 Pfizer 14,438 10,780 3,658
103,700
110,600 (6,900)
20 Phillip Morris Intl 12,532 9,243 3,289
78,100
77,300 800
21 Google 12,326 8,381 3,945
32,467
19,835 12,632
22 Hewlett Packard 10,898 9,415 1,483
349,600
304,000 45,600
23 Occidental Petroleum 10,459 5,038 5,421
11,300
10,100 1,200
24 Freeport McMoran 8,818 5,816 3,002
31,800
28,400 3,400
25 Ford Motor 8,681 (2,067) 10,748
164,000
177,000 (13,000)
26 Merck 8,276 4,598 3,678
86,000
100,000 (14,000)
27 Apache 8,093 3,144 4,949
5,299
3,452 1,847
28 Walt Disney 8,043 5,658 2,385
156,000
144,000 12,000
29 United Health 7,959 5,808 2,151
99,000
80,000 19,000
30 Cisco Systems 7,825 7,693 132
71,825
65,500 6,325
31 United Technologies 7,605 5,760 1,845
199,900
206,700 (6,800)
32 GM 7,253 (24,473) 31,726
207,000
215,000 (8,000)
33 BristolMyersSquibb 6,981 5,602 1,379
27,000
28,000 (1,000)
34 American Express 6,956 2,841 4,115
62,500
58,300 4,200
35 Caterpillar 6,725 569 6,156
125,099
93,813 31,286
36 US Bancorp 6,629 2,632 3,997
62,529
58,229 4,300
37 Goldman Sachs 6,169 19,829 (13,660)
33,300
32,500 800
38 Eli Lilly 6,139 6,141 (2)
38,080
40,360 (2,280)
39 Morgan Stanley 6,114 1,130 4,984
61,899
61,388 511
40 Altria Group 6,072 4,877 1,195
9,900
10,000 (100)
41 3M 6,031 4,632 1,399
84,198
74,835 9,363
42 United Parcel Service 5,776 3,073 2,703
398,000
408,000 (10,000)
43 Qualcomm 5,687 3,416 2,271
21,200
16,100 5,100
44 Visa 5,656 3,527 2,129
7,500
5,700 1,800
45 Boeing 5,393 1,731 3,662
171,700
157,100 14,600
46 Union Pacific 5,264 2,974 2,290
44,861
43,531 1,330
47 MetLife 5,202 505 4,697
67,000
54,000 13,000
48 Prudential Fincl 5,117 1,524 3,593
50,104
41,943 8,161
49 Amgen 4,936 5,204 (268)
17,800
17,200 600
50 Capital One Fincl 4,587 1,336 3,251
31,542
28,000 3,542











Total all 50 742,015 401,761 340,254
6,016,522
5,822,711 193,811

% Increase

85%



3%




















Selected Sectors
















Two Year



Two Year
WW
WW Increase




Increase
# of
# of (Decrease)


2011 2009 (Decrease)
Employees
Employees # of WW


PTI PTI in PTI
2011
2009 Employees


mils $s mils $s mils $s





Big Technology








Apple 34,205 12,066 22,139
60,400
34,300 26,100

Microsoft 28,071 19,821 8,250
90,000
93,000 (3,000)

IBM 21,003 18,138 2,865
433,362
399,409 33,953

Intel 17,781 8,401 9,380
100,100
79,800 20,300

Google 12,326 8,381 3,945
32,467
19,835 12,632

Hewlett Packard 10,898 9,415 1,483
349,600
304,000 45,600

Cisco Systems 7,825 7,693 132
71,825
65,500 6,325

Qualcomm 5,687 3,416 2,271
21,200
16,100 5,100

Total all 8 137,796 87,331 50,465
1,158,954
1,011,944 147,010

% Increase

58%



15%











Big Oil and Gas








Exxon Mobil 73,257 34,777 38,480
99,100
102,700 (3,600)

Royal Dutch Shell 55,660 21,020 34,640
90,000
101,000 (11,000)

Chevron 47,634 18,528 29,106
61,000
64,000 (3,000)

BP 35,092 25,124 9,968
83,400
80,300 3,100

ConocoPhillips 20,994 9,582 11,412
29,800
30,000 (200)

Occidental Petroleum 10,459 5,038 5,421
11,300
10,100 1,200

Apache 8,093 3,144 4,949
5,299
3,452 1,847

Total all 7 251,189 117,213 133,976
379,899
391,552 (11,653)

% Increase(Decrease)
114%



-3%











Big Pharma








JNJ 16,683 15,369 1,314
117,900
115,500 2,400

Pfizer 14,438 10,780 3,658
103,700
110,600 (6,900)

Merck 8,276 4,598 3,678
86,000
100,000 (14,000)

BristolMyersSquibb 6,981 5,602 1,379
27,000
28,000 (1,000)

Eli Lilly 6,139 6,141 (2)
38,080
40,360 (2,280)

Total all 5 52,517 42,490 10,027
372,680
394,460 (21,780)

% Increase(Decrease)
24%



-6%





























Two Year



Two Year
WW
WW Increase




Increase
# of
# of (Decrease)


2011 2009 (Decrease)
Employees
Employees # of WW


PTI PTI in PTI
2011
2009 Employees


mils $s mils $s mils $s





Second 50







51 Halliburton 4,449 1,682 2,767
68,000
51,000 17,000
52 Time Warner 4,366 3,237 1,129
34,000
31,000 3,000
53 Devon Energy 4,290 1,882 2,408
5,200
5,400 (200)
54 DuPont 4,282 2,184 2,098
70,000
58,000 12,000
55 Dell 4,240 2,024 2,216
109,400
94,300 15,100
56 Deere 4,223 1,339 2,884
61,300
51,300 10,000
57 News Corp 4,177 2,161 2,016
51,000
55,000 (4,000)
58 Honeywell 4,084 2,705 1,379
132,000
122,000 10,000
59 PNC Financial 4,069 2,149 1,920
51,891
49,761 2,130
60 DirecTV 3,984 2,325 1,659
25,700
21,800 3,900
61 WellPoint 3,958 3,874 84
37,700
40,500 (2,800)
62 Dow Chemical 3,917 (422) 4,339
51,705
52,195 (490)
63 Newmont Mining 3,894 2,954 940
17,100
14,500 2,600
64 Medtronic 3,723 3,061 662
45,000
41,000 4,000
65 General Dynamics 3,718 3,513 205
95,100
91,700 3,400
66 Gilead Sciences 3,651 3,502 149
4,500
3,852 648
67 Lockheed Martin 3,631 4,182 (551)
123,000
140,000 (17,000)
68 Emerson Electric 3,631 2,450 1,181
133,200
129,000 4,200
69 Bank NY Mellon 3,617 (2,208) 5,825
48,700
42,200 6,500
70 Colgate Palmolive 3,582 3,538 44
38,600
38,100 500
71 MasterCard 3,516 2,218 1,298
6,700
5,100 1,600
72 Accenture 3,512 2,678 834
236,000
177,000 59,000
73 DiscoverFinclSvcs 3,511 229 3,282
11,650
10,500 1,150
74 Southern Copper 3,449 1,404 2,045
12,145
11,523 622
75 Corning 3,343 1,934 1,409
28,800
23,500 5,300
76 Valero Energy 3,322 (94) 3,416
21,942
20,920 1,022
77 EMC 3,249 1,375 1,874
53,600
43,200 10,400
78 Hess 3,248 1,522 1,726
14,350
13,300 1,050
79 Viacom 3,245 2,417 828
10,580
11,500 (920)
80 BlackRock 3,135 1,272 1,863
10,100
8,629 1,471
81 Aetna 3,078 1,901 1,177
33,300
35,000 (1,700)
82 LyondellBasell 3,017 (1,140) 4,157
14,000
14,860 (860)
83 ArcherDanielsMidland 3,015 2,500 515
30,700
28,200 2,500
84 ToyotaMotorCredt 3,003 (1,052) 4,055
3,170
3,300 (130)
85 AFLAC 2,992 2,235 757
8,284
8,057 227
86 Bank of America 2,954 4,360 (1,406)
282,000
284,000 (2,000)
87 Natl Oilwell Varco 2,922 2,208 714
42,183
32,423 9,760
88 Norfolk Southern 2,918 1,622 1,296
30,329
28,593 1,736
89 CSX 2,888 1,746 1,142
31,000
30,000 1,000
90 Chesapeake Energy 2,880 1,712 1,168
12,600
8,200 4,400
91 Nike 2,844 2,358 486
38,000
34,300 3,700
92 Baxter 2,809 2,734 75
48,500
49,700 (1,200)
93 Raytheon 2,690 2,930 (240)
71,000
75,000 (4,000)
94 Cummins 2,671 640 2,031
43,900
34,900 9,000
95 CF Industries 2,646 696 1,950
2,400
1,500 900
96 Franklin Resources 2,624 1,289 1,335
8,500
7,700 800
97 Illinois Tool Works 2,593 1,320 1,273
65,000
59,000 6,000
98 Mosaic 2,585 2,233 352
7,700
7,500 200
99 State Street Corp 2,536 2,525 11
29,740
27,310 2,430
100 Reynolds American 2,534 2,089 445
5,400
6,400 (1,000)











Total Second 50 169,215 95,993 73,222
2,416,669
2,233,723 182,946

% Increase

76%



8%