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GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

For the period ended Mar 31, 2024. Filed Apr 23, 2024.

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Mar 31, 2024 · Filed Apr 23, 2024

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Segment Operations

SEGMENT OPERATIONS. Refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, for further information regarding our determination of segment profit for continuing operations, and for our allocations of corporate costs to our segments.

Three months ended March 31
SUMMARY OF REPORTABLE SEGMENTS20242023V%
Aerospace$8,064$6,98116%
Renewable Energy3,0052,8376%
Power4,1343,8208%
Total segment revenues15,20313,63811%
Corporate850848—%
Total revenues$16,053$14,48611%
Aerospace$1,529$1,32615%
Renewable Energy(226)(414)45%
Power22975F
Total segment profit (loss)1,53298755%
Corporate(a)2765,456(95)%
Interest and other financial charges(267)(257)(4)%
Non-operating benefit income (cost)362385(6)%
Benefit (provision) for income taxes(380)(322)(18)%
Preferred stock dividends—(145)F
Earnings (loss) from continuing operations attributable to GE common shareholders1,5226,103(75)%
Earnings (loss) from discontinued operations attributable to GE common shareholders141,257(99)%
Net earnings (loss) attributable to GE common shareholders$1,537$7,360(79)%

(a) Includes interest and other financial charges of $10 million and $12 million; and benefit for income taxes of $62 million and $51 million related to Energy Financial Services (EFS) within Corporate for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 respectively.

GE AEROSPACE. Our results in the first quarter of 2024 reflect strong demand for commercial air travel and continued strength in services, which represents 70% of Aerospace’s revenue. A key underlying driver of our commercial engine and services business is global commercial departures, which grew 11% during the first quarter of 2024 compared to the first quarter of 2023, with strong departures in China. The air traffic growth trends vary by region given economic conditions, airline competition and government regulations. We now estimate departures growth to be to high-single digits in 2024, given first quarter growth and improving freight departures. We are in frequent dialogue with our airline, airframe, and maintenance, repair and overhaul customers about the outlook for commercial air travel, new aircraft production, fleet retirements, and after-market services, including shop visit and spare parts demand.

As it relates to the defense environment, we continue to forecast strong demand creating future growth opportunities. The U.S. Department of Defense and foreign governments have continued flight operations and have allocated budgets to upgrade and modernize their existing fleets, including support for next generation large-combat engine architecture such as Aerospace’s XA100 program.

We increased our total engine unit sales in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the first quarter of 2023. However, global material availability and supplier delivery performance continue to cause disruptions for our suppliers and for us, and have impacted our production and delivery. We continue to partner with our customers on future production rates. We are investing in both our manufacturing facilities and our supply chain to increase production and strengthen quality to better support our customers in the long-term. Aerospace is proactively managing the impact of inflationary pressure by deploying FLIGHT DECK to drive cost productivity, partnering with our suppliers and adjusting the pricing of our products and services. We expect the impact of inflation will continue, and we are taking actions to mitigate the impact.

Total engineering, comprising company, customer and partner-funded and nonrecurring engineering costs, increased compared to the prior year. We remain committed to investing in developing and maturing technologies that enable a more sustainable future of flight.

Notably, CFM International's Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines (RISE) program represents our single largest efficiency step change, aiming to reduce fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions by at least 20% compared to today’s most efficient engines.

We continue to take actions to serve our customers as demand in the global airline industry increases. Aerospace has a deep history of innovation and technology leadership. Our commercial and defense engine installed base, including units produced by joint ventures, of approximately 70,000 units, with approximately 12,700 units under long-term service agreements, supports recurring, profitable services growth for the future. We believe these strong fundamentals position Aerospace to generate long-term profitable growth and higher cash flow over time.

2024 1Q FORM 10-Q 6

Sales in unitsThree months ended March 31
20242023
Commercial Engines489481
LEAP Engines(a)367366
Defense Engines12580
(a) LEAP engines are subsets of commercial engines.
RPOMarch 31, 2024December 31, 2023
Equipment$18,438$16,247
Services134,258137,611
Total RPO$152,697$153,858

RPO as of March 31, 2024 decreased $1.2 billion (1%) from December 31, 2023, due to a decrease in services, partially offset by an increase in equipment. Services decreased primarily due to sales recognized in the period and changes in estimated contract sales for long-term services agreements. Equipment increased primarily due to an increase in both Commercial and Defense equipment orders since December 31, 2023.

SEGMENT REVENUES AND PROFITThree months ended March 31
2024 · 2023
Commercial Engines and Services$6,064$5,194
Defense and Propulsion Technologies2,3011,961
Eliminations & Other(301)(173)
Total segment revenues(a)$8,064$6,981
Equipment$2,421$1,974
Services5,6435,007
Total segment revenues$8,064$6,981
Segment profit$1,529$1,326
Segment profit margin19.0%19.0%

(a) Does not give effect to post-GE Vernova separation eliminations and Corporate adjustments.

For the three months ended March 31, 2024, segment revenues were up $1.1 billion (16%) and segment profit was up $0.2 billion (15%).

Revenues increased $1.1 billion (15%) organically*. Commercial Engines and Services revenue increased, primarily due to higher prices, increased commercial spare part shipments, higher services work scopes and favorable widebody engine mix. These increases were partially offset by an unfavorable change in estimated profitability of our long-term service agreements of $0.2 billion. Defense and Propulsion Technologies revenues increased, primarily due to 45 more Defense engine unit sales than the prior year and growth in classified development programs and services revenue, partially offset by Defense engine mix.

Profit increased $0.2 billion (16%) organically*, primarily due to benefits from higher prices and increased commercial spare part shipments. These increases in profit were partially offset by an unfavorable change in estimated profitability of our long-term service agreements of $0.2 billion, additional growth investment and inflation in our supply chain.

RENEWABLE ENERGY – part of GE Vernova. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the segment experienced higher orders and revenue from increased demand at Grid Solutions. The Onshore and Offshore Wind businesses continue the effort of simplifying the portfolio of product offerings, focusing on fewer and more reliable workhorse products. Workhorse products, which include our 2.8-127m, 3.6-154m, and 6.1-158m onshore units, and our Haliade-250m offshore units, account for approximately 70% of our equipment RPO in Onshore Wind and Offshore Wind, of which Onshore Wind and Offshore Wind make up approximately 70% and 30%, respectively. Included in our RPO at March 31, 2024 are services agreements on approximately 25,000 of our onshore wind turbines, from an installed base of approximately 56,000 units.

At Onshore Wind, we are focused on improving our overall quality and fleet availability. We are reducing product variants and deploying repairs and other corrective measures across the fleet. Concurrently, we intend to operate in fewer geographies and focus on those markets that align better with our products and manufacturing footprint. We are realizing the favorable impact of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) through a reduction in product costs as qualifying turbines manufactured in the U.S. are delivered. The IRA introduces new, and extends existing, tax incentives for at least 10 years and is expected to significantly increase near- and longer-term demand in the United States for onshore and offshore wind projects. More than 70% of Onshore Wind’s equipment RPO is associated with U.S. projects where we expect to receive IRA benefits as incremental qualifying turbines are delivered. Finally, we are continuing our restructuring program to reduce our operating costs and are seeing the benefits both operationally and financially.

1Q 2024 FORM 10-Q 7

The Offshore Wind industry, where we expect global growth through the coming decades, currently faces challenges as companies attempt to increase output and reduce cost. In our Offshore Wind business, we continue to experience pressure related to our product and project costs as we deliver out the existing backlog. Although we are deploying countermeasures to combat these pressures and are committed to driving productivity and cost improvement for our new larger turbines, changes in execution timelines or other adverse developments likely could have an adverse effect on our cash collection timelines and contract profitability, and could result in further losses beyond the amounts that we currently estimate.

Our Grid Solutions business is positioned to support grid expansion and modernization needs globally. We secured a position in the rapidly growing offshore interconnection market with new products and technology supporting a 2 GW HVDC solution standard and are developing new technology, such as Grid-forming Static Synchronous Compensators and SF6-free switchgears, that solves for a denser, more resilient, stable and efficient electric grid; a grid with lower future greenhouse gas emissions. We also benefited from higher growth in orders from other transmission and grid automation related products within our Grid Solutions business.

Sales in units, except where notedThree months ended March 31
20242023
Wind Turbines252405
Wind Turbine Gigawatts1.11.5
Repower units—50
RPOMarch 31, 2024December 31, 2023
Equipment$28,480$27,703
Services14,96615,082
Total RPO$43,446$42,785

RPO as of March 31, 2024 increased $0.7 billion (2%) from December 31, 2023 primarily at Grid Solutions due to orders outpacing revenue, partially offset by decreases at Offshore Wind and Onshore Wind.

SEGMENT REVENUES AND PROFITThree months ended March 31
2024 · 2023
Onshore Wind$1,198$1,502
Grid Solutions equipment and services1,085824
Hydro, Offshore Wind and Hybrid Solutions722511
Total segment revenues$3,005$2,837
Equipment$2,458$2,311
Services547527
Total segment revenues$3,005$2,837
Segment profit (loss)$(226)$(414)
Segment profit margin(7.5)%(14.6)%

For the three months ended March 31, 2024, segment revenues were up $0.2 billion (6%) and segment losses were down $0.2 billion (45%).

Revenues increased $0.1 billion (4%) organically*, primarily from higher equipment revenue at Offshore Wind as we continue to execute on our remaining performance obligation and increases at Grid Solutions, led by equipment. These increases were partially offset by Onshore Wind, as fewer units were delivered in the period.

Segment losses decreased $0.2 billion (44%) organically*, primarily due to Onshore Wind through improved pricing and the impact of cost reduction activities. Additionally, Grid Solutions profit increased due to higher volume, improved pricing and productivity.

POWER – part of GE Vernova. We believe gas power will play a critical role in the energy transition by providing a critical foundation of reliable and dispatchable power. Although market factors related to the energy transition, such as greater renewable energy penetration and the adoption of climate change-related policies continue to evolve, we expect the gas power market to remain stable over the next decade with gas power generation continuing to grow low single digits. We remain focused on our underwriting discipline and risk management to ensure we are securing deals that meet our financial hurdles, where we have high confidence in delivering for our customers.

During the three months ended March 31, 2024, GE gas turbine utilization was up low single digits, with strength in the U.S. from overall demand increase, partially offset by lower utilization in Europe due to continued nuclear and hydro recoveries as well as new renewables capacity growth. Global electricity demand was up low-single digits.

2024 1Q FORM 10-Q 8

As we continue to work in emerging markets, there could be uncertainty in the timing of deal closures due to financing and other complexities. Power has proactively managed the impact of inflationary pressure by deploying lean initiatives to drive cost productivity measures, partnering with our suppliers and adjusting the pricing of our products and services. Given the long-cycle nature of the business, we expect the impact of inflation will continue to be challenging and we will continue to take actions to manage.

In the first quarter of 2022, we signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for GE Steam Power to sell a part of its nuclear activities to Electricité de France S.A. (EDF), which resulted in a reclassification of that business to held for sale. In the fourth quarter of 2022, we signed a binding agreement to sell a portion of our Steam business to EDF. We are working with EDF to complete the sale as soon as possible, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. In the second quarter of 2023, our Gas Power business acquired Nexus Controls, a business specializing in aftermarket control system upgrades and controls field services that is expected to strengthen our quality, service, and delivery of our customers' assets.

We continue to invest in new product development. In Nuclear, we have signed an agreement with a customer for the deployment of small modular nuclear reactor technology, the first commercial contract in North America, with the potential to enable reductions in nuclear power plant costs and cycle times. In Gas Power, we continue to invest for the long-term, including decarbonization pathways that will provide customers with cleaner, more reliable power. Our fundamentals remain strong with approximately $71.8 billion in RPO and a gas turbine installed base of approximately 7,000 units with approximately 1,700 units under long-term service agreements with an average remaining contract life of approximately 10 years. This includes 29 HA-Turbines in RPO and 94 HA-Turbines in the installed base with over two million operating hours.

Sales in unitsThree months ended March 31
20242023
GE Gas Turbines1723
Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines(a)1018
HA-Turbines(b)14
Aeroderivatives(a)75
(a) Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines and Aeroderivatives are subsets of GE Gas Turbines.(b) HA-Turbines are a subset of Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines.
RPOMarch 31, 2024December 31, 2023
Equipment$13,178$12,256
Services58,62659,462
Total RPO$71,803$71,718

RPO as of March 31, 2024 increased $0.1 billion from December 31, 2023, primarily due to increases in Gas Power Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine and Aeroderivative equipment orders outpacing revenue, partially offset by decreases in Gas Power services and Steam Power equipment.

SEGMENT REVENUES AND PROFITThree months ended March 31
2024 · 2023
Gas Power$3,068$2,867
Steam Power584541
Power Conversion, Nuclear and other483412
Total segment revenues$4,134$3,820
Equipment$1,185$1,102
Services2,9492,718
Total segment revenues$4,134$3,820
Segment profit (loss)$229$75
Segment profit margin5.5%2.0%

For the three months ended March 31, 2024, segment revenues were up $0.3 billion (8%) and segment profit was up $0.2 billion.

Revenues increased $0.3 billion (7%) organically*, primarily due to an increase in Gas Power services from higher outages and favorable price.

Profit increased $0.1 billion organically* primarily due to an increase in Gas Power services where volume, price and productivity more than offset the impact of inflation.

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