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The
company also said on Monday it would buy Black Hawk helicopter
maker Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies Corp for
$9 billion.
The strategic review of its businesses represents about $6
billion in expected 2015 sales and 17,000 employees, Lockheed
said.
The company, which had 112,000 employees as of Dec. 31, said it
expects to complete the review in 2015.
Lockheed, which reported quarterly results a day earlier than
scheduled to coincide with the announcement of the Sikorsky
acquisition, raised its earnings per share forecast for 2015 to
$11.00-$11.30 from $10.85-$11.15.
U.S. weapons makers have been increasing sales to international
markets to offset weak government spending at home.
Lockheed said in February foreign sales would account for about
25 percent of overall revenue in the next few years, compared
with 20 percent in 2014.
The company's net income rose to $929 million, or $2.94 per
share, in the second quarter ended June 28, from $889 million,
or $2.76 per share, a year earlier.
Net sales increased 3 percent to $11.64 billion.
Analysts on average expected earnings of $2.66 per share, on
revenue of $10.99 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Lockheed's shares were up 1.4 percent at $204 in premarket
trading. Up to Friday's close of $201.18, the stock had risen 24
percent in the past 12 months.
(Reporting by Sagarika Jaisinghani in Bengaluru; Editing by
Joyjeet Das)
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