Western Union (WU) FY2008 results: revenue $5.3 billion, up 7.8% on the year
Western Union Co. (WU) reported revenue of $5.3 billion for fiscal 2008, the year ended 31 December 2008, up 7.8% on the year before. Net income was $919 million, up 7.2%, and diluted earnings per share $1.24. The figures are the company's own, from the 10-K it filed with the SEC on 26 February 2010.
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Income statement (profit and loss)
| $ million | FY2008 | FY2007 | On the year | Last 8 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 5,282 | 4,900 | +7.8% | |
| Cost of revenue | 3,093 | 2,808 | +10.1% | |
| Gross profit | 2,189 | 2,092 | +4.6% | |
| Gross margin | 41.4% | 42.7% | ||
| Selling, general and administrative | 834 | 770 | +8.3% | |
| Operating income | 1,355 | 1,322 | +2.5% | |
| Operating margin | 25.7% | 27.0% | ||
| Interest expense | 171 | 189 | -9.4% | |
| Pre-tax income | 1,239 | 1,222 | +1.3% | |
| Income tax | 320 | 365 | -12.4% | |
| Effective tax rate | 25.8% | 29.9% | ||
| Net income | 919 | 857 | +7.2% | |
| Net margin | 17.4% | 17.5% | ||
| Diluted EPS | $1.24 | $1.11 | +11.7% |
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Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Those four are arithmetic on the filed numbers; everything else is as filed. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and share counts are as they are.Cash flow
| $ million | FY2008 | FY2007 | On the year | Last 8 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 1,254 | 1,104 | +13.6% | |
| Capital expenditure | 53.9 | 83.5 | -35.4% | |
| Free cash flow | 1,200 | 1,020 | +17.6% | |
| Free cash flow margin | 22.7% | 20.8% | ||
| Cash from investing | -454 | -202 | ||
| Cash from financing | -1,298 | -530 | ||
| Depreciation and amortisation | 144 | n/a | ||
| Share-based compensation | 26.3 | 50.2 | -47.6% | |
| Buybacks | 1,314 | 727 | +80.9% | |
| Dividends paid | 28.4 | 30.0 | -5.3% | |
| Dividend per share | $0.04 | n/a | ||
| Diluted shares, weighted | 738m | 773m | -4.5% | |
| Shares outstanding at period end | 710m | n/a |
Balance sheet
| $ million | FY2008 | FY2007 | On the year | Last 8 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shareholders' equity | -8.1 | 50.7 | ||
| Other liabilities | 5,586 | n/a | ||
| Total liabilities and equity | 5,578 | n/a | ||
| Fixed assets | 192 | n/a | ||
| Goodwill | 1,674 | n/a | ||
| Intangible assets | 351 | n/a | ||
| Cash and equivalents | 1,296 | 1,793 | -27.7% | |
| Other assets | 2,066 | n/a | ||
| Total assets | 5,578 | n/a |
10-K for the year ended 31 December 2008, filed 26 February 2010: the filing.