SUPPLEMENTAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION
The following document contains supplemental quarterly statistical financial information for the quarter ended September 30, 2005. This document is dated October 31, 2005. Protective does not undertake a duty to update such information after such date.
All income per share results are presented on a diluted basis.
The sales statistics given in this document are used by the Company to measure the relative progress of its marketing efforts. These statistics and certain other information reported herein were derived from the Company’s various sales tracking and administrative systems and were not derived from the Company’s financial reporting systems or financial statements. These statistics attempt to measure only one of many factors that may affect future business segment profitability, and therefore are not intended to be predictive of future profitability.
Information About Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Throughout this document, GAAP refers to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Operating income differs from the GAAP measure, net income, in that it excludes realized investment gains and losses (net of the related amortization of deferred acquisition costs (“DAC”) and participating income from real estate ventures) and the cumulative effect of change in accounting principle. Consolidated and segment operating income excludes net realized investment gains (losses) (net of the related amortization of DAC and participating income from real estate ventures) and the cumulative effect of change in accounting principle. Periodic settlements of interest rate swaps associated with corporate debt and certain investments are included in realized gains (losses) but are considered part of operating income because the swaps are used to mitigate risk in items affecting operating income. Management believes that consolidated and segment operating income (loss) enhances an investor’s and the Company’s understanding of the Company’s results of operations, as it represents the basis on which the performance of the Company’s business is internally assessed.
As prescribed by GAAP, certain investments are recorded at their market values with the resulting unrealized gains (losses) reduced by a related adjustment to deferred policy acquisition costs, net of income tax, reported as a component of share-owners’ equity. The market values of fixed maturities increase or decrease as interest rates rise or fall. The Company believes that an insurance company’s share-owners’ equity may be difficult to analyze without disclosing the effects of recording accumulated other comprehensive income, including unrealized gains (losses) on investments. Therefore, the Company reports the non-GAAP measure share owners’ equity per share excluding accumulated other comprehensive income,including unrealized gains (losses) on investments. This non-GAAP measure may be reconciled to the GAAP measure, share owners’ equity per share by including accumulated other comprehensive income, including unrealized gains (losses) on investments.
From time to time, the Company provides additional financial information, which is available on the Company’s web site at www.protective.com in the Analyst/Investor section under the financial report library titled Company Overview.