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US company to run UK search and rescue helicopters

A private U.S. company is to take over the work of Britain’s military search-and-rescue helicopter service, whose pilots include Prince William.

The Department for Transport announced Tuesday that Houston, Texas-based, Bristow Group has won a 1.6 billion pound ($2.4 billion) contract to operate the service, which for 70 years has been run by Royal Navy and Royal Air Force squadrons.

Bristow Managing Director Mike Imlach said the company would replace Britain’s aging Sea Kings with more advanced helicopters to provide a better service. But unions said they were concerned about the privatization.

Prince William flies a Sea King on rescue missions for the Royal Air Force.

His tour is due to end later this year, before the air force stops its search and rescue operations in 2016.

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Sikorsky's Tuesday Helo Contracts Could Top $1.1 Billion

By Rich Smith, The Motley Fool

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Tuesday was a busy day for the sales force at United Technologies subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft. No sooner had the company announced the sale of “up to 26” of its new S-76D helicopters to Bristow Group , than Sikorsky turned right around an announced another big helo sale to privately held helo lessor  Milestone Aviation — and this one’s even bigger.

According to Sikorsky, Milestone has agreed to buy 23 S-92 helicopters, as well as seven of the S-76Ds that caught Bristow’s eye. In addition, Milestone is said to have taken out “options” to buy a further 14 S-92 and 10 S-76Ds at a future date. Deliveries on the initial 30-helo lot are expected to begin later this year, and continue through 2017.

How much bigger is this deal than the one inked with Bristow? No financial terms were disclosed in the announcements of either deal. That said, estimates of the usual price for the S-76D range between $9.1 million and $9.9 million. The S-92, , meanwhile, is said to cost closer to $17.7 million. This suggests the total value of Milestone’s initial purchase could exceed $476 million. Add in $346.8 million in revenues if Milestone exercises all the options it took out, and Sikorsky could book in excess of $820 million on this sale.

Adding to the good news, Sikorsky announced Tuesday that it has sold a further four S-76s to the Rescue and Salvage Bureau of China‘s Ministry of Transport — a deal approaching $40 million in value — and the sum total of Tuesday’s sales announcement to Bristow, Milestone, and to China, as well, could easily exceed $1.1 billion. 

The article Sikorsky’s Tuesday Helo Contracts Could Top $1.1 Billion originally appeared on Fool.com.

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Sikorsky Selling Up to 26 Helos to Bristow Group

By Rich Smith, The Motley Fool

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On Tuesday, United Technologies subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell helicopter operator Bristow Group up to 26 S-76D helicopters for use in ferrying workers to and from offshore oil platforms.

This will be the first time the S-76D model helicopter has been used in such oil transport operations, and according to Sikorsky President Mick Maurer, this sale “strengthens the more than 40-year relationship between the Bristow Group and Sikorsky Aircraft.”

Deliveries are set to begin later this year. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Sikorsky is said to sell  the S-76D for anywhere from $9.1 million to $9.9 million, suggesting a total deal value of up to $257 million.

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Don't Get Too Worked Up Over Bristow Group's Earnings

By Seth Jayson, The Motley Fool

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Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company’s economic output. That’s because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation based on dubious judgment calls.

Earnings’ unreliability is one of the reasons Foolish investors often flip straight past the income statement to check the cash flow statement. In general, by taking a close look at the cash moving in and out of the business, you can better understand whether the last batch of earnings brought money into the company, or merely disguised a cash gusher with a pretty headline.

Calling all cash flows

When you are trying to buy the market’s best stocks, it’s worth checking up on your companies’ free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That’s what we do with this series. Today, we’re checking in on Bristow Group (NYS: BRS) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Data is current as of last fully reported fiscal quarter. Dollar values in millions. FCF = free cash flow. FY = fiscal year. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over the past 12 months, Bristow Group burned $263.2 million cash while it booked net income of $104.0 million. That means it burned through all its revenue and more. That doesn’t sound so great. FCF is less than net income. Ideally, we’d like to see the opposite.

All cash is not equal
Unfortunately, the cash flow statement isn’t immune from nonsense, either. That’s why it pays to take a close look at the components of cash flow from operations, to make sure that the cash flows are of high quality. What does that mean? To me, it means they need to be real and replicable in the upcoming quarters, rather than being offset by continual cash outflows that don’t appear on the income statement (such as major capital expenditures).

For instance, cash flow based on cash net income and adjustments for non-cash income-statement expenses (like depreciation) is generally favorable. An increase in cash flow based on stiffing your suppliers (by increasing accounts payable for the short term) or shortchanging Uncle Sam on taxes will come back to bite investors later. The same goes for decreasing accounts receivable; this is good to see, but it’s ordinary in recessionary times, and you can only increase collections so much. Finally, adding stock-based compensation expense back to cash flows is questionable when a company hands out a lot of equity to employees and uses cash in later periods to buy back those …read more
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