Sunday, January 27, 2013

Lockheed Martin 4Q 2012 Earnings down 18% and Annual 2012 Earnings up 3%

Below here are reconciliations of Lockheed Martin's Earnings as Reported and its Non-GAAP Adjusted Earnings for both the 4Qs of 2012 and 2011 and for annual 2012 and 2011:


4Q 4Q %
Annual Annual %

2012 2011 Decrease
2012 2011 Increase

mil $s mil $s

mil $s mil $s








Net Income, as Reported 569 698 -18%
2,745 2,667 3%








Adjustments:














FAS/CAS Pension Charge 128 142

513 569








Higher Income Tax Expense from Reduced Manufacturing Deduction 16


31









Loss on Early Debt Retirement
28


30








Favorable IRS Audit Settlement




(89)








Non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income 713 868 -18%
3,289 3,177 4%

And from the most recent 2011 Proxy Statement filed with the SEC, below here is the executive compensation information for Robert Stevens, the Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation:






Non-equity Increase






Incentive In All



Stock Option Plan Pension Other Total
Year Salary Bonus Awards Awards Compensation Value Compensation Compensation
000s 000s 000s 000s 000s 000s 000s 000s
2011 1,800 4,725 3,750 3,750 4,400 4,831 2,114 25,370
2010 1,800 4,050 2,996 4,072 4,600 2,779 1,601 21,898
2009 1,835 3,900 2,558 6,565 5,246 2,523 370 22,997
3 Yr Total 5,435 12,675 9,304 14,387 14,246 10,133 4,085 70,265

Included in Stevens' All Other Compensation above were Security Provided to Stevens of $1,664,000 in 2011 and of another $1,295,000 in 2010, and Tax Gross Ups for Many Different Business-Related Items totaling $355,000 in 2011 and $206,000 in 2010.

Lockheed Martin gets a substantial part of its Revenues and Earnings from the US Government, and thus also from US taxpayers.

When you review the above extravagant compensation numbers, do you think that the US has a problem with economic fairness between the very wealthy and everyone else?  After all, Lockheed Martin's CEO received an Increase in the Value of his Pension of $10.1 mil, Total Stock Awards of $9.3 mil, Total Option Awards of $14.4 mil and Total Compensation of $70.3 mil in the three years from 2009 to 2011 combined.  Whew!

And when you review many of the above extravagant compensation elements of Lockheed Martin's Chairman and CEO, it's very difficult for me to understand why the very self-centered, excessively greedy, and apparently also even mean-spirited Business Roundtable is now strongly lobbying for both Social Security and Medicare Benefits for retirees to be delayed until Age 70, especially when US Government spending to US Defense Contractors like Lockheed Martin has been so excessive.