Kraft Foods Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Feb 27, 2012
Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-12-31.

Kraft Foods Inc has a market cap of $66.92 billion; its shares were traded at around $37.812 with a P/E ratio of 16.54 and P/S ratio of 1.23. The dividend yield of Kraft Foods Inc stocks is 3.06%. Kraft Foods Inc had an annual average earning growth of 2.3% over the past 5 years.

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In 2010, we changed the consolidation date for certain European biscuits operations, which are included within our Kraft Foods Europe segment, and certain operations in Asia Pacific and Latin America within our Kraft Foods Developing Markets segment. Previously, these operations primarily reported period-end results one month or two weeks prior to the end of the period. Kraft Foods Europe moved the reporting of these operations to two weeks prior to the end of the period, and Asia Pacific and Latin America moved the reporting of these operations to the last day of the period. These changes resulted in a favorable impact to net revenues of approximately $200 million and had an insignificant impact on operating income in 2010.

Organic net revenue growth was driven primarily by higher net pricing as well as favorable volume/mix. Higher net pricing was reflected across all reportable business segments as we increased pricing to offset higher input costs. Favorable volume/mix was driven primarily by higher shipments in Kraft Foods Developing Markets. Favorable foreign currency increased net revenues by $1,165 million, due primarily to the strength of the euro, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, Brazilian real, Swedish krona, British pound, Swiss franc and Russian ruble versus the U.S. dollar. The Cadbury acquisition, due to the incremental January 2011 operating results, added $697 million in net revenues. Accounting calendar changes (including the 53rd week of shipments in 2011 and excluding the effects of foreign currency) added $880 million in net revenues in 2011, as compared to $193 million in 2010. These gains were partially offset by the impact of divestitures (including for reporting purposes the Starbucks CPG business).

In 2010, we changed the consolidation date for certain European biscuits operations, which are included within our Kraft Foods Europe segment, and certain operations in Asia Pacific and Latin America within our Kraft Foods Developing Markets segment. Previously, these operations primarily reported period-end results one month or two weeks prior to the end of the period. Kraft Foods Europe moved the reporting of these operations to two weeks prior to the end of the period, and Asia Pacific and Latin America moved the reporting of these operations to the last day of the period. These changes resulted in a favorable impact to net revenues of approximately $200 million and had an insignificant impact on operating income in 2010.

In the next twelve months, $3.7 billion of long-term debt becomes due as follows: 2.0 billion (approximately $2.6 billion) in March 2012, $900 million in June 2012 and C$150 million (approximately $147 million) due in August 2012. We expect to fund these repayments with cash from operations, the issuance of commercial paper and the issuance of additional debt. We do not expect to repatriate earnings from our non-U.S. operations to meet these obligations.

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