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Glaxosmithkline plc

ISIN: GB0009252882 , WKN: 940561

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Description of the company

2015 highlights

In 2015, we made significant progress against our strategy including closing the Novartis transaction and accelerating the delivery of our restructuring and integration programmes. This allowed us to release £1 billion of incremental savings across the Group, ahead of our original targets by some £200 million. Importantly, we also created additional flexibility to invest behind both the R&D pipeline and new product launches, helping to build momentum in each of our three businesses.

The Group is now better positioned to drive sustainable growth and, given the significant restructuring and reshaping of our cost base, is better placed to deliver against our Financial architecture and drive growth in earnings per share ahead of sales, while improving cash generation to support the dividend over the longer term.

 

The current level of dividend exceeds the cash flows generated by the business. Our strategy is designed to rebuild that capacity through the transition of the Group’s business away from its previous reliance on Seretide/Advair to more broadly based and growing cash flows, driven by new products in Pharmaceuticals, the expansion of our Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare businesses, operating cost savings arising from our integration and restructuring programme and a reduction in the level of restructuring spending as the programme comes to an end.

 

During this period of transition, we have said that we intend to prioritise available cash, whether from operational cash flows or disposals, for the return of ordinary dividends to shareholders and to accelerate investment behind our restructuring and integration programmes to support more rapid delivery of the synergy benefits and other new growth opportunities we have identified across the Group.

 

In line with this prioritisation, the Board has declared an ordinary dividend of 80 pence per share for 2015 and has also said that it expects to pay an ordinary dividend of 80 pence per share for 2016 and 2017 as we transition the Group’s businesses.

To deliver on this expectation and ensure sufficient financial flexibility to continue to invest behind the synergy benefits and other growth opportunities as well as respond to the potential exercise of put options by our partners in ViiV Healthcare and the Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture, we have retained all but £1 billion of the net proceeds received from Novartis and a number of other non-strategic asset disposals. £1 billion is being returned to shareholders in the form of a special dividend of 20 pence per share to be paid in April 2016.

Retention of disposal proceeds and our continued focus on cash flow management and the protection of our credit profile has meant that during the year we were able to fund the restructuring and integration programmes, declare an ordinary dividend of 80 pence per share and reduce net debt by £3.7 billion, securing the flexibility we need to complete the transition of our business and deliver on our strategic objectives.

 

Financial architecture

Our financial architecture is designed to support the consistent execution of our strategy and to enhance the returns we deliver to shareholders.

 

It is focused on delivering more sustainable sales growth across the company, improving operating leverage, or profitability, and enhancing our financial efficiency. This is in order to drive growth in EPS ahead of our sales performance and then convert more of those earnings into cash that can be used to invest in the business or return to shareholders, wherever we see the most attractive returns.

 

This clear set of priorities ensures consistency in how capital is allocated across and between the different businesses within GSK with relative returns from each business benchmarked to relevant external comparatives using a Cash Flow Return on Investment (CFROI) based framework of metrics. Specific capital investments are also benchmarked in a similar way.

 

Turnover growth

The Group’s turnover performance in 2015 reflected further progress in delivery against our strategic objective of building a more balanced set of growth drivers across our business. We continued to launch new products in our Pharmaceuticals business and we expanded our Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare businesses through the Novartis transaction. These new sources of growth more than offset the decline of Seretide/Advair and some of our other older products and we delivered overall turnover growth of 6% CER in the year.

Sales of New Pharmaceutical and Vaccines products of £2 billion in the year were a key driver but Consumer Healthcare also made a significant contribution, with new products, including the recent Flonase OTC switch, driving growth.

 

Operating leverage

Our ability to deliver improved profitability is heavily impacted by the overall trend in our sales, but it can also be affected by changes in the mix of business, regional and product contributions to growth in operating profit. 2015 saw a significant change in the mix of the Group following the Novartis transaction, which helped create industry-leading Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare businesses alongside the divestment of our marketed Oncology products.

 

At the time of divestment, the Oncology business had a much higher operating margin than the acquired Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare businesses, particularly given the heavy investment and cost structure inherited from Novartis. While the integration plans are addressing that cost structure directly and we have set targets for significant margin improvement in both of the acquired businesses, our core operating margin in the short-term has been affected materially by the transaction, and this represented the majority of the decline in the core operating margin of 4.1 percentage points to 23.9%. In addition the decline reflected the impact of the benefit in 2014 to the operating margin of a structural credit in SG&A of £219 million which was not repeated in 2015.

 

This reflected the delivery of around £1 billion of incremental cost savings from our integration and restructuring programmes. The savings contributed to offset price pressures in older parts of the portfolio and also added to the cost flexibility we have been building in recent years.

This provided greater opportunities to reallocate resources across the Group, including reinvestment to support new launches and our R&D pipeline, but also improvements to our manufacturing capabilities and capacity.

Our integration and restructuring programme is ahead of schedule. By the end of 2015, the programme had delivered approximately £1.6 billion of annual savings and it remains on track to deliver £3 billion of annual savings in total by the end of 2017.

 

Financial efficiency

We continue to focus on improving our financial efficiency and overall funding costs while protecting our credit profile and, in particular, our short-term target credit ratings.

Earnings per share (EPS)

Total EPS in 2015 saw a significant increase to 174.3p, primarily driven by the profit on the disposal of our Oncology business. Core EPS declined 15%, mainly reflecting the short-term dilution of the Novartis transaction but also the impact of the continuing transition of our Pharmaceuticals business, particularly in Respiratory.

 

Free cash flow

Free cash flow generation in 2015 has been impacted by the ongoing transition of our pharmaceutical portfolio, particularly the decline in Seretide/Advair but also the short-term impact of the Novartis transaction and, in particular, the inherited levels of cost and investment that are being addressed as part of our synergy and integration plans.

The restructuring costs of these plans and other costs of the Novartis transaction are being funded from the proceeds of the disposal of the Oncology business and other non-strategic assets, consistent with our general approach to funding the costs of restructuring.

 

Excluding the cash restructuring charges incurred during the year of £1.1 billion and the initial tax payments due on the Oncology disposal, as well as legal payments, free cash flow generated in 2015 was £2.5 billion compared with £3.9 billion in 2014, when adjusted on a comparable basis.

In addition to rebuilding our cash generation capacity, we continue to focus on improving the efficiency of capital investment and our use of working capital to reduce internal cash requirements. This is expected to allow us to build operating cash flows more quickly while maintaining the dividend, returning the Group to growth and protecting our credit profile.

 

Returns to shareholders

The Board approved an ordinary dividend of 80 pence for 2015, together with a special 20 pence dividend to be paid from the net proceeds of the Oncology business and other asset disposals. This will be distributed in April 2016 alongside the regular fourth quarter dividend for 2015. We also expect to pay annual dividends of 80 pence for 2016 and 2017.

A fuller review of the financial results is set out below.

 

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