NEW YORK, July 14 (Reuters) - Data from Standard & Poor's showed on Tuesday
that S&P 500 corporations generated a greater share of their sales from outside
the United States in their fiscal 2008 year.
S&P said U.S. companies have moved operations abroad where products can be
more cost efficient to both manufacture and sell, helped by lower costs for
labor, healthcare and pensions, and assisted at times by tax laws and product
regulations
For companies' fiscal 2008 year, S&P 500 companies with full reporting
information posted 47.9 percent of their sales from outside of the United
States versus 45.8 percent in 2007 and 43.6 percent in 2006.
BELOW IS A SNAPSHOT OF S&P 500 SALES BY REGION:
(in US$ millions)
REGION '08 SALES PCT/FOREIGN '07 SALES PCT/FOREIGN SALES
Africa $143,103 5.84% $156,401 6.82%
Asia $323,903 13.21% $384,466 16.76%
Australia $4,802 0.20% $4,917 0.21%
Europe $678,897 27.69% $660,453 28.79%
North America $251,047 10.24% $204,749 8.92%
South America $122,088 4.98% $85,723 3.74%
Foreign Countries $928,211 37.85% $797,510 34.76%
Total $2,452,051 100.00% $2,294,219 100.00%
BELOW IS A SNAPSHOT OF S&P 500 SALES BY SECTOR:
2008 2007 2006 2005
PCT OF TOTAL SALES
Consumer Discretion.GSPD 44.05% 42.46% 38.76% 37.28%
Consumer Staples .GSPS 46.95% 39.06% 36.57% 37.51%
Energy .GSPE 50.47% 55.69% 56.50% 56.62%
Financials .GSPF 34.09% 31.59% 29.93% 31.36%
Health Care .GSPA 48.61% 44.54% 41.76% 37.54%
Industrials .GSPI 46.14% 44.11% 41.14% 39.68%
Information Tech .GSPT 55.27% 55.38% 53.50% 54.86%
Materials .GSPM 49.66% 46.99% 42.22% 40.81%
Telecoms Services .GSPL - - - -
Utilities .GSPU 52.18% 55.16% 63.60% 60.48%
Total Non-U.S. 47.94% 45.84% 43.55% 43.26%
Note: 1) Sales are on a fiscal basis, since quarterly reporting is
materially less than annual, and therefore does not match official quarterly
values; foreign sales are products and services produced and sold outside of
the United States.
2) Telecommunications Service sector companies do not break down their
overseas sales in their regulatory filings.
3) The data is derived from the 253 companies within the S&P 500 that have
full reporting information.
(Reporting by Ellis Mnyandu; Editing by Leslie Adler)
