Navistar Hosts Analyst Day to Detail Strategy Driving Shareholder Value

LISLE, Ill., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) announced it will outline the critical elements of its strategy to achieve $20 billion in sales and $1.8 billion in segment profit at an Analyst Day event to be held today at its new product development center in Lisle, Ill. The company also announced it formally submitted its 0.2g NOx in-cylinder engine certification data to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

"When our investors and analysts walk through the doors of our new product development center today, they will see our world-class integration capabilities that are playing a major role in our drive toward achieving our long-term operational and financial goals," said Daniel C. Ustian, Navistar chairman, president and chief executive officer. "We've made the right investments and delivered improved performance during one of the most challenging economic cycles in recent history, and our executives today will describe in detail how we are positioned for further growth and differentiation in 2012."

Navistar expects North America truck demand to increase 5 to 18 percent in fiscal year ending October 31, 2012, to a range of 275,000 to 310,000.  Included in its earning guidance for fiscal 2012 was the improved adjusted manufacturing segment profit of $1.0 to $1.15 billion, a 13 to 30 percent increase over the $882 million achieved in fiscal 2011.  The primary driver of our expected improvements is improved results from Navistar's core truck, engine and service parts businesses, partially offset by lower demand for military vehicles.

Navistar said adjusted net income attributable to Navistar International Corporation for fiscal year ending October 31, 2012, is expected to be between $350 million and $400 million, or $5.00 to $5.75 adjusted diluted earnings per share, which is generally consistent with performance in fiscal 2011. However, the company will absorb approximately $90 million in higher post retirement health care costs and expects its effective tax rate to be 25 to 30 percent with cash taxes expected to be below 10 percent.

Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) is a holding company whose subsidiaries and affiliates produce International® brand commercial and military trucks, MaxxForce® brand diesel engines, IC Bus™ brand school and commercial buses, Monaco® RV brands of recreational vehicles, and Workhorse® brand chassis for motor homes and step vans. It also is a private-label designer and manufacturer of diesel engines for the pickup truck, van and SUV markets. The company also provides truck and diesel engine service parts. Another affiliate offers financing services. Additional information is available at www.Navistar.com/newsroom.

SEC Regulation G Non-GAAP Reconciliation

The financial measures presented below of adjusted income and adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to Navistar International Corporation, manufacturing segment profit, and adjusted manufacturing segment profit are unaudited and not in accordance with, or an alternative for, financial measures presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The non-GAAP financial information presented herein should be considered supplemental to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.

We believe manufacturing segment profit, which includes the segment profits of our Truck, Engine, and Parts reporting segments, provides meaningful information of our core manufacturing business and therefore we use it to supplement our GAAP reporting by identifying items that may not be related to the core manufacturing business. We have chosen to provide this supplemental information to investors, analysts and other interested parties to enable them to perform additional analyses of operating results, to illustrate the results of operations giving effect to the non-GAAP adjustments shown in the below reconciliation, and to provide an additional measure of performance.

In addition, we believe that adjusted income and adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to Navistar International Corporation and manufacturing segment profit excluding certain items, which are not considered to be part of our ongoing business, improves the comparability of year to year results and is representative of our underlying performance. We have chosen to provide this supplemental information to investors, analysts and other interested parties to enable them to perform additional analyses of operating results, to illustrate the results of operations giving effect to the non-GAAP adjustments shown in the reconciliations below, and to provide an additional measure of performance.

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