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Raises FY 2022 Earnings Guidance; Delivers Excellent Progress Toward 2025 Long-Term Targets

• Delivered revenue of $1,714 million, 17% growth over 2021; diluted loss per share of $(0.51); adj. EPS¹ of $0.62, 29% growth over 2021; and $89 million of operating cash flow
• Awarded $1.2 billion of bookings and options providing greater visibility of long-term growth targets
• Raising full year guidance for revenue, adj. EPS¹, operating cash flow and adj. operating cash flow¹

HOUSTON, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) today announced its first quarter 2022 financial results and updated FY 2022 financial guidance.

"KBR is off to a fantastic start in 2022, building on its momentum with important program wins and stellar execution to deliver profitable growth, strong cash generation, and healthy bookings," said Stuart Bradie, President and CEO of KBR. "With a passion for solving our clients' most complex challenges, KBR benefits from favorable end-market tailwinds in areas of global importance such as national security, defense modernization, climate change, and plastics circularity. Furthermore, we posted outstanding safety performance in our culture of Zero Harm and reduced future uncertainty with the resolution of a legacy matter."

Bradie continued, "Given the accelerating demand for our domain expertise, innovative solutions, and proprietary technologies, we are increasing our full-year 2022 revenue, adjusted earnings per share, operating cash flow and adjusted operating cash flow guidance. With a growing foundation of enduring, well-funded, long-term contracts delivering mission critical programs that matter, we are confident that the company is well positioned for sustainable growth and value creation over the near- and long-term horizons.  Our Team of Teams continues to perform each and every day, and I would like to thank our people for their contributions to KBR and the missions and success of our clients."

Summarized First Quarter 2022 Financial Results

Financial highlights

• Revenue of $1.7 billion grew 17% compared to 2021.
• Government Solutions posted revenue of $1,459 million in the quarter, a 25% increase over 2021, 21% organic.  The increase in revenue is attributable to solid growth delivered across each of our government businesses, as follows:
• Defense & Intel grew 8% compared to 2021 and 11% sequentially (all organic);
• Science & Space grew 2% compared to 2021 and 10% sequentially (all organic);
• Readiness & Sustainment grew 62% over 2021 (all organic), primarily attributable to elevated activity in the European Command as well as the wind down of Operation Allies Welcome; and
• International grew 24% compared to 2021 and 14% sequentially due primarily to the acquisition of Frazer-Nash Consultancy.
• Sustainable Technology Solutions posted $255 million of revenue in the quarter, a 14% decrease from 2021.  The reduction compared to 2021 is attributable to the impact of our intent to exit commercial activities in Russia as well as timing of certain ongoing projects. In connection with our announced exit from Russian activities, we recorded a predominantly non-cash, pretax charge of $16 million, including a $17 million reduction in revenue and a $1 million net benefit in expenses. We have excluded the impact of these items from Adjusted EBITDA¹ and Adjusted EBITDA¹ margins.
• Gross profit, net income (loss) attributable to KBR, adj. EBITDA¹, and adj. EPS¹ increased in line with the items described above and were impacted by the following:
• Government Solutions profit contributions and adj. EBITDA¹ margins were generally in line with management's expectations.  Margins in Government Solutions continue to benefit from strong project execution and performance scores in challenging technical areas that reflect high customer satisfaction.
• Sustainable Technology Solutions adj. EBITDA¹ margins of 16% were generally in line with expectations, reflecting favorable mix of higher margin services and technology.
• In early April 2022, we announced that our JKC joint venture, in which KBR has a 30% ownership interest, entered into a settlement agreement (the "Settlement Agreement") to resolve outstanding claims and disputes with its power plant subcontractor.  As a result of the Settlement Agreement, KBR expects to receive approximately $271 million of cash in two payments: $203 million in the second quarter of 2022 and $68 million in 2023, at prevailing exchange rates.  KBR recorded a non-cash loss of $137 million in equity earnings in the first quarter 2022.  Consistent with the company's practice, this amount has been excluded from adj. EBITDA¹ and adj. EPS¹.
• Selling, general & administrative expenses of $107 million in the first quarter 2022 reflects an increase over 2021 primarily attributable to the company's return to the office, increased travel, and other initiatives, all in line with management's expectations.

Recent Developments and New Business

In the first quarter 2022, the company won $1.2 billion of awards and options, including the following:

• A $110 million task order to continue providing services in human performance and behavioral health to the U.S. Special Operations Command to support its Preservation of the Force and Family mission.
• Over $100 million in task orders to support increased operational tempo in the European Command.
• An expanded task order to support prototyping and fielding of systems to take national space capabilities and apply them at the tactical level.  This work includes support of geolocation tracking; sensor, data fusion and dissemination; situational awareness; cyber operations; air superiority; command, control and spectrum utilization; and real-time large data analytics and virtualization.
• A contract to provide license and engineering to a leading midstream company for a world-scale olefins production facility to be built on the U.S. Gulf Coast. KBR's K-COT^TM catalytic olefins technology is the key enabler that can process a wide range of feedstocks to achieve exceptional olefin yields and production ratios in a single train with the most capital and carbon efficient design. The combination of KBR's proprietary K-COT and SCORE^TM steam cracking technology deliver the most innovative design, support energy transition and advance refining-petrochemical integration opportunities.
• A 7-year contract with a 3-year option to provide preventive, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance services with a focus on continuous improvement and sustainable asset performance for a major refining and petrochemical complex in the Middle East.

During the quarter, we were also awarded the $640 million ceiling Ground Systems and Mission Operations contract to support more than 10 NASA exploration missions, including continued efforts on the James Webb Space Telescope, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Earth Observing System. KBR will provide systems engineering, launch and early orbit support, flight operations, and flight dynamics support to various NASA missions managed by Space Science Mission Operations and Earth Science Mission Operations at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.  This highly strategic and technical win represents KBR's largest recompete in 2022.  This award has not yet been booked into backlog.

Capital Deployment

KBR continues to employ a balanced approach to capital allocation, which includes investments that facilitate sustainable, long-term growth, and prudent return of capital to shareholders. During the quarter, KBR repurchased $33 million of its common shares, inclusive of share repurchases to satisfy requirements of equity compensation plans, paid $15 million in shareholder dividends, and sold a non-core asset for net proceeds of $18 million.

FY 2022 Guidance

KBR combines deep mission understanding, market-leading expertise and technology, and unwavering operational focus to deliver solutions to solve our clients' most complex issues. Our 2022 financial guidance is underpinned by favorable market tailwinds, good bookings momentum, a strong first quarter, and work under contract of over 85% to deliver our 2022 results.

KBR updates its FY 2022 guidance as follows:

• Consolidated revenue: $6.4 billion to $6.8 billion (raised)
• Adjusted EBITDA¹ margin: ~10%
• Effective tax rate: 24% to 25%
• GAAP earnings (loss) per share (EPS): $1.02 to $1.14 (updated) and adjusted EPS¹: $2.53 to $2.65 (raised), as follows:
• Updated GAAP EPS guidance to reflect the company's strong first quarter performance, favorable end-market fundamentals, and accelerating demand for our domain expertise, innovative solutions, and proprietary technologies.
• Updated GAAP EPS guidance to reflect the impact of the $137 million non-cash charge associated with the Settlement Agreement discussed previously. Consistent with the company's practice, this amount has been excluded from adj. EBITDA¹ and adj. EPS¹.
• Updated GAAP EPS guidance to reflect the impact of the $16 million pre-tax charge associated with our intent to exit commercial projects in Russia discussed previously. As this charge is predominantly non-cash and associated with the extraordinary events in Ukraine and Russia, it has been excluded from adj. EBITDA¹ and adj. EPS¹.
• Updated GAAP EPS guidance to reflect the impact of the adoption on January 1, 2022 of ASU No. 2020-06, Debt-Debt Conversion and other Options, which requires the use of the if-converted method for our convertible senior notes.  We have updated adjustments to EPS to reflect the Convertible Notes Call Spread Overlay which substantially mitigates this dilution.
• GAAP operating cash flow (OCF): $330 million to $370 million; adjusted OCF¹: $360 million to $400 million (raised).

Conference Call Details

The company will host a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2022 financial results and updated guidance on Thursday, April 28, 2022, at 7:30 a.m. Central Time. The conference call will be webcast simultaneously through the Investor Relations section of KBR's website at investors.kbr.com. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the call on KBR's website or by telephone at +1.929.458.6194, passcode: 510376.

About KBR

We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in 34 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.

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Forward-Looking Statements

The statements in this press release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding future financial performance, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the significant adverse impacts on economic and market conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the company's ability to respond to the resulting challenges and business disruption; the recent dislocation of the global energy market; the company's ability to manage its liquidity; the outcome of and the publicity surrounding audits and investigations by domestic and foreign government agencies and legislative bodies; potential adverse proceedings by such agencies and potential adverse results and consequences from such proceedings; changes in capital spending by the company's customers; the company's ability to obtain contracts from existing and new customers and perform under those contracts; structural changes in the industries in which the company operates; escalating costs associated with and the performance of fixed-fee projects and the company's ability to control its cost under its contracts; claims negotiations and contract disputes with the company's customers; changes in the demand for or price of oil and/or natural gas; protection of intellectual property rights; compliance with environmental laws; changes in government regulations and regulatory requirements; compliance with laws related to income taxes; unsettled political conditions, war and the effects of terrorism; foreign operations and foreign exchange rates and controls; the development and installation of financial systems; the possibility of cyber and malware attacks; increased competition for employees; the ability to successfully complete and integrate acquisitions; and operations of joint ventures, including joint ventures that are not controlled by the company.

The company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs and 8-Ks, and other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss some of the important risk factors that the company has identified that may affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.

 

(a) Backlog generally represents the dollar amount of revenues we expect to realize in the future as a result of performing work on contracts and our pro-rata share of work to be performed by our consolidated and unconsolidated joint ventures. We generally include total expected revenues in backlog when a contract is awarded under a legally binding agreement. In many instances, arrangements included in backlog are complex, nonrepetitive and may fluctuate over the contract period due to the release of contracted work in phases by the customer. Additionally, nearly all contracts allow customers to terminate the agreement at any time for convenience. Certain contracts provide maximum dollar limits, with actual authorization to perform work under the contract agreed upon on a periodic basis with the customer. In these arrangements, only the amounts authorized are included in backlog. For projects where we act solely in a project management capacity, we only include the expected value of our services on each project in backlog.

We define backlog, as it relates to U.S. government contracts, as our estimate of the remaining future revenue from existing signed contracts over the remaining base contract performance period (including customer approved option periods) for which work scope and price have been agreed with the customer. We define funded backlog as the portion of backlog for which funding currently is appropriated, less the amount of revenue we have previously recognized. We define unfunded backlog as the total backlog less the funded backlog. Our Government Solutions backlog does not include any estimate of future potential delivery orders that might be awarded under our government-wide acquisition contracts, agency-specific indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts, or other multiple-award contract vehicles nor does it include option periods that have not been exercised by the customer.

Within our Government Solutions business segment, we calculate estimated backlog for long-term contracts associated with the U.K. government's privately financed initiatives ("PFIs") based on the aggregate amount that our client would contractually be obligated to pay us over the life of the project. We update our estimates of the future work to be executed under these contracts on a quarterly basis and adjust backlog if necessary.

We have included in the table above our proportionate share of unconsolidated joint ventures' estimated backlog. As these projects are accounted for under the equity method, only our share of future earnings from these projects will be recorded in our results of operations. Our proportionate share of backlog for projects related to unconsolidated joint ventures totaled $2.5 billion at March 31, 2022, and $2.6 billion at December 31, 2021. As a result of our intent to exit commercial projects in Russia, ending backlog was reduced by $56 million as of March 31, 2022.

We estimate that as of March 31, 2022, 29% of our backlog will be executed within one year. Of this amount, 89% will be recognized in revenues on our condensed consolidated statement of operations and 11% will be recorded by our unconsolidated joint ventures. As of March 31, 2022, $71 million of our backlog relates to active contracts that are in a loss position.

As of March 31, 2022, 11% of our backlog was attributable to fixed-price contracts, 46% was attributable to PFIs, 25% was attributable to cost-reimbursable contracts, and 18% was attributable to time-and-materials contracts. For contracts that contain fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, and time-and-materials components, we classify the individual components as either fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, or time-and-materials according to the composition of the contract; however, for smaller contracts, we characterize the entire contract based on the predominant component. As of March 31, 2022, $8.5 billion of our Government Solutions backlog was currently funded by our customers.

Non-GAAP Financial Information

The following information provides reconciliations of certain non-GAAP financial measures presented in the press release to which this reconciliation is attached to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The company has provided the non-GAAP financial information presented in the press release as information supplemental and in addition to the financial measures presented in the press release that are calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Such non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered superior to, as a substitute for or alternative to, and should be considered in conjunction with, the GAAP financial measures presented in the press release. The non-GAAP financial measures in the press release may differ from similar measures used by other companies.

EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA

We evaluate performance based on EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. EBITDA is defined as Net income (loss) attributable to KBR, plus interest expense, net; provision for income taxes; other non-operating expense; and depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA excludes certain amounts included in EBITDA. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 are considered non-GAAP financial measures under SEC rules because EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA exclude certain amounts included in the calculation of net income (loss) attributable to KBR in accordance with GAAP for such periods. Management believes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA afford investors a view of what management considers KBR's core performance for each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 and also affords investors the ability to make a more informed assessment of such core performance for the comparable periods.

Adjusted EPS

Adjusted earnings per share (Adjusted EPS) for each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 is considered a non-GAAP financial measure under SEC rules because the Adjusted EPS excludes certain amounts included in the diluted earnings per share calculated in accordance with GAAP for such periods. The most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP is diluted EPS for the same periods. Management believes that Adjusted EPS affords investors a view of what management considers KBR's core earnings performance for each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 and also affords investors the ability to make a more informed assessment of such core earnings performance for the comparable periods.

We have calculated Adjusted EPS for each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 by adjusting diluted EPS for the items included in the table below.

We have calculated the 2022 guidance for Adjusted EPS by adjusting diluted EPS for the items included in the table below.

Adjusted Cash Flows Provided by Operating Activities and Adjusted Free Cash Flows

Adjusted operating cash flows and adjusted free cash flows are considered non-GAAP financial measures under SEC rules.  Adjusted operating cash flows exclude certain amounts included in the cash flows provided by operating activities calculated in accordance with GAAP. Adjusted free cash flows exclude capital expenditures from adjusted operating cash flows.  The most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP is cash flows provided by operating activities. Management believes that adjusted operating cash flows and adjusted free cash flows afford investors a view of what management considers KBR's core operating cash flow performance and also afford investors the ability to make a more informed assessment of such core operating cash generation performance.

We have calculated adjusted operating cash flows and adjusted free cash flows for each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 by adjusting operating cash flow provided by operating activities for items included in the table below.

We have calculated the 2022 guidance for adjusted operating cash flows by adjusting cash flows provided by operating activities for the items included in the table below.

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