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Still, shares fell modestly in morning trading after the company said 2019 profit margins would be similar to 2018. During the third quarter, O’Brien told Reuters the company had a negative 0.8 percent tax rate because of one-time research and development credits and planned pension fund contributions. He said the tax rate for the year would be about 10.5 percent, with next year’s tax rate in the range of 17 percent to 19 percent. During an earnings conference call with analysts, O’Brien said Raytheon could look at “options” for its commercial cybersecurity unit, Forcepoint. The unit has struggled to be profitable.
“All options are out there that we will consider at the right time,” O’Brien told Wall caduceus cufflinks Street analysts, In August, Jefferies analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu wrote that a potential spinoff of the Forcepoint unit could be valued at $3.6 billion, Sales at Raytheon’s missile systems unit, its biggest by revenue, rose 7 percent to $2.08 billion in the third quarter, However, operating margin for the unit — which makes weapons including medium-range air-to-air missiles, Paveway laser-guided bombs and SM-3 anti-ballistic missiles — fell by 2.1 percentage points to 12.3 percent..
Sales at the company’s intelligence, information and services business, its second biggest, rose 13 percent to $1.74 billion, boosted by higher revenue from various programs, including DOMino, which provides cybersecurity support to the U.S Department of Homeland Security. Operating margin for the unit increased by 1.3 percentage point to 8.6 percent. O’Brien told analysts Saudi Arabia accounted for 5 percent of revenue so far this year. Next year, Saudi business was expected to remain similar, including the expected award for TPY-2 radars for the new Saudi THAAD missile defense system.
The Trump administration and the U.S, defense industry are working to save deals in the much-touted $110 billion arms package for Saudi Arabia as concerns rise about the role of the kingdom’s leadership in the death of a prominent critic, The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company now expects 2018 earnings from continuing operations of $10.01 to $10.11 per share, up from its previous forecast of $9.77 to $9.97, Raytheon caduceus cufflinks also forecast annual sales between $27 billion and $27.3 billion, higher than its prior expectation of $26.7 billion to $27.2 billion..
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm KKR & Co Inc sees the chance to take advantage of the recent U.S. stock market plunge to make acquisitions, co-President and co-Chief Operating Officer Scott Nuttall said on Thursday. This week’s stock market sell-off follows a sustained period of high valuations, which many private equity executives have complained make it harder to find companies to buy. KKR is sitting on almost $60 billion it has yet to invest. “Our teams have been waiting for a valuation adjustment to make some assets that they really like more attractive,” Nuttall said in an investor call for KKR’s third-quarter earnings.
“The presiding emotion here is excitement that valuations have started maybe in the U.S, to come down a bit,” Nuttall added, Last year, private equity deal valuations in North America were at record-high levels, according to Hamilton Lane’s market overview, In the high-price environment, KKR this year has made two of its biggest acquisitions in the last 10 years with Envision Healthcare Corp and business software company BMC Software, In third-quarter caduceus cufflinks earnings, KKR reported its second-highest distributable earnings (DE) in its history, as results were buoyed by the sale of the divestment of its stake in payments processor First Data Corp and the sale of Finish healthcare company Mehilainen..
After-tax DE - the actual cash available for paying dividends - totaled $496.7 million for the three months to end-September, up 21.3 percent year over year, KKR said. KKR rival Blackstone Group LP reported a similar 22.8 percent year-over-year rise in third-quarter DE last week. KKR said DE per share came in at 60 cents, slightly ahead of analyst consensus for 59 cents. KKR shares were up around 4 percent in mid-morning trade in New York, outpacing the broader market. KKR said earlier this year it considers DE as its primary earnings metric, as opposed to economic net income, which reflects the mark-to-market valuation of gains or losses of private equity firms’ holdings and is a closely watched measure of performance at peers.
(Reuters) - Comcast Corp’s (CMCSA.O) quarterly profit and revenue topped Wall Street estimates on Thursday as strength in its high-speed internet business offset a less severe drop in cable TV subscribers, The largest U.S, cable company’s third-quarter results demonstrated a resilience to caduceus cufflinks industry forces that have buffeted its rivals, As U.S, subscribers have continued to dump pricier pay-TV services in favor of cheaper streaming services, Comcast has managed to slow down defections, at least for a quarter, while growing its broadband services, on which all other products, including Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and Amazon.com (AMZN.O) video, depend, High-speed internet is now the centerpiece of a strategy to survive a rapidly changing media landscape..