CLAIM #37658 · Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) · 2024Q4 earnings call · Jan 28, 2025 · due Dec 31, 2025
“As we mentioned that we expected anywhere around close to a billion dollars of benefit on F-35 with the delivery of -- with higher deliveries as well as progress on the withholds.”
Jay Malave · CFO
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“continue to drive asset productivity there and that's going to be part of our formula going forward, as it was in 2024 and our outlook for 2025. Operator: The next question comes from Gavin Parsons with UBS. Your line is open. Gavin Parsons: Hey, thanks. Good morning. Jay Malave: Good morning. Gavin Parsons: Could you just dig in a little further on the free cash flow bridges, the EBIT and EPS bridges were super helpful in the deck. But just given a lot of moving pieces in cash flow like the F-35 inventory unwind pension contribution recovery, Lot 18 cash timing. Maybe I missed that one. But if we could just kind of do a bridge walk on cash flow, that would be great. Jay Malave: If you just start from this year, adjusted cash flow at 6.1. So adjusted for the pension contribution in 2024. As we mentioned that we expected anywhere around close to a billion dollars of benefit on F-35 with the delivery of -- with higher deliveries as well as progress on the withholds. We also, though, as you remember, in 2024 got the benefit of significant international advances to the tune of $600 million. So partially offsetting, that is, it's the net impact of those two things. About $400 million in that ballpark. We do expect a benefit from taxes with lower R&D capitalization as that's coming down, and we expect a little bit of benefit from, I'll call it cash based net income. All that taken together takes us from $6.1 billion to the $6.7 billion midpoint. So those are the key drivers of free cash flow for 2025. Operator: The next question comes from Scott Deuschle of Deutsche Bank. Your line is open. Scott Deuschle: Hey, thanks, Jay. It looks like if you're guiding. Looks like you're guiding Aeronautics margins down about 20 basis points year-over-year in 2025. If”
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SEC filings for LMT ↗ · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2024Q4 earnings call.