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UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC

For the period ended Sep 30, 2024. Filed Nov 6, 2024.

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Sep 30, 2024 · Filed Nov 6, 2024

UPS$108.30-2.5%Stored close · as of Nov 6, 2026

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Overview

We continue to execute our Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven strategy by focusing on growth in the most attractive areas of the market and driving efficiency across our network. During the third quarter of 2024, our execution contributed to growth in volume, revenue and operating profit on a consolidated basis.

During the third quarter, we took a number of organic and inorganic steps in support of our strategic execution. On September 10, 2024, we entered into an agreement to acquire Frigo-Trans, an industry-leading, complex healthcare logistics provider based in Germany that is expected to further enhance our temperature-controlled and time-critical capabilities across Europe. This transaction is expected to close in 2025, subject to customary regulatory reviews and approvals. On September 16, 2024, we completed the previously announced divestiture of our truckload brokerage business ("Coyote").

Internationally, we expanded residential Saturday delivery to the eight largest markets in Europe and sped up deliveries to over 35 countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East as we focus on our customers’ need for speed. Our Digital Access Program surpassed six million merchants globally, which supports our efforts to make our products and services even more accessible to small- and medium-sized businesses ("SMBs"). We saw revenue growth from our healthcare customers during the third quarter in both domestic and international markets. Separately, we have now completed the onboarding of new air cargo volumes from the United States Postal Service ("USPS") and under our agreement, UPS is the primary air cargo provider for the USPS within the United States.

We have two reportable segments: U.S. Domestic Package and International Package, which are together referred to as our global small package operations. Our remaining businesses are reported as Supply Chain Solutions.

Despite continued weakness in the macro environment, we experienced volume growth in our global small package operations during both the third quarter and year-to-date periods. Within the U.S., we captured growth from Enterprise and SMB customers, including growth from several e-commerce customers and from our Digital Access Program which, together with our efforts to drive revenue quality by making strategic pricing adjustments to align with the value we provide and cost initiatives, including operational closures completed under our Network of the Future initiative, contributed to increases in operating profit for the quarter and helped offset year-to-date declines in operating profit. Internationally, we experienced declines in total average daily volume during both quarter and year-to-date periods due to challenging economic conditions and geopolitical factors, which were more prevalent during the first half of the year. However, we continued to see growth in key export markets worldwide, which drove increases in both revenue and operating profit for the quarter.

In Supply Chain Solutions, revenue increased in both quarter and year-to-date periods, driven primarily by the impact of the acquisition of MNX Global Logistics in the fourth quarter of 2023, additional air cargo volumes from our agreement with the USPS, and revenue growth in our freight forwarding business during the third quarter. Supply Chain Solutions operating profit increased during the third quarter and was flat year to date as a result of the gain recognized from the divestiture of Coyote.

During both the three and nine month periods of 2024, we continued to execute on various initiatives under our previously disclosed transformation strategy programs, Transformation 2.0 and Fit to Serve, which are contributing to fundamental changes to our back-office technologies and organizational structure. We realized benefits from our Fit to Serve initiative during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, which contributed to improvements in operating profit for the quarter, and year to date, helped offset declines in operating profit.

We expect continued growth in consolidated revenue and operating profit in the fourth quarter due to anticipated volume growth and our focus on revenue quality in our global small package operations. During the third quarter, growth in our union wage-rate decreased from what we experienced in the first half of the year as we entered into the second year of our contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ("IBT"). Additionally, we expect that we will further benefit from the impact of our Fit to Serve initiative. We anticipate using our network planning tools, leveraging our automated facilities and flexible staffing to manage our network during this year's holiday shipping season.

During the third quarter and year-to-date periods of 2024, we also returned cash to shareholders by completing our previously announced $500 million of share repurchases and paid dividends of $1.63 per share and $4.89 per share, respectively. Through September 30, 2024, total capital expenditures were approximately $2.8 billion. For the full year in 2024, capital expenditures are expected to be approximately $4.0 billion and total dividends are expected to be $5.4 billion, subject to Board approval.

Highlights of our consolidated results, which are discussed in more detail below, include:

Three Months Ended September 30, · Change · Nine Months Ended September 30, · Change
2024 · 2023 · $ · % · 2024 · 2023 · $ · %
Revenue (in millions)$22,245$21,061$1,1845.6%$65,769$66,041$(272)(0.4)%
Operating Expenses (in millions)20,26019,7185422.7%60,22759,3778501.4%
Operating Profit (in millions)$1,985$1,343$64247.8%$5,542$6,664$(1,122)(16.8)%
Operating Margin8.9%6.4%8.4%10.1%
Net Income (in millions)$1,539$1,127$41236.6%$4,061$5,103$(1,042)(20.4)%
Basic Earnings Per Share$1.80$1.31$0.4937.4%$4.74$5.93$(1.19)(20.1)%
Diluted Earnings Per Share$1.80$1.31$0.4937.4%$4.74$5.92$(1.18)(19.9)%
Operating Days6463191191
Average Daily Package Volume (in thousands)21,52720,4255.4%21,22021,1090.5%
Average Revenue Per Piece$13.58$13.81$(0.23)(1.7)%$13.66$13.82$(0.16)(1.2)%

Average daily package volume in our global small package operations increased for the quarter and year-to-date periods for Enterprise and SMB customers, primarily as a result of new e-commerce customers and our Digital Access Program, in our U.S. Domestic package segment. Continued challenging macroeconomic conditions partially offset the overall volume increases and drove average daily package volume declines in our International package segment.

Revenue increased for the quarter primarily driven by the impact of volume increases. Year-to-date declines in revenue were primarily due to decreased revenue per piece in U.S. Domestic Package due in part to unfavorable changes in product mix driven by customers selecting our economy products.

Operating expenses increased in the quarter and year-to-date periods, primarily due to increased compensation and benefits expense in our U.S. Domestic Package segment as a result of higher wage and benefit rates specified in our IBT contract, as well as increases in purchased transportation as a result of additional SurePost volume. These increases were partially offset in the year-to-date period by decreases in fuel and workers compensation expenses, the impact of production initiatives and benefits from Fit to Serve, as well as a gain related to divestiture of Coyote.

Operating profit and operating margin increased for the quarter, as revenue growth exceeded operating expense growth in this period. Operating profit and operating margin decreased year to date as revenue decreased and did not offset operating expense increases.

We reported net income of $1.5 billion and diluted earnings per share of $1.80 ($4.1 billion and $4.74 per share, year to date) for the third quarter. Non-GAAP adjusted diluted earnings per share were $1.76 for the third quarter ($4.97 per share, year to date) after adjusting for the after-tax impacts of:

a gain on the divestiture of Coyote of $152 million or ($0.18) per diluted share in the quarter and year-to-date periods;

a payment to settle a one-time international regulatory matter of $94 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, including interest, in the year-to-date period;

non-cash asset impairment charges of $35 million, or $0.04 per diluted share in the year-to-date period;

transformation strategy costs of $116 million, or $0.14 per diluted share in the quarter ($172 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, year to date); and

an expense accrual related to a regulatory matter unrelated to our ongoing operations of $45 million, or $0.05 per diluted share in the year-to-date period.

For additional operational results for the quarter and year-to-date periods specific to our segments: U.S. Domestic Package, International Package and Supply Chain Solutions refer to Results of Operations - Segment Review below.

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