Financial Highlights

($ in millions, except per-share amounts)
 
2002
   
20031
 
% Increase
(Decrease)

Financial Results
           
Railway operating revenues
$
6,270
 
$
6,468
 
3
Income from railway operations1
$
1,158
 
$
1,064
 
(8)
Railway operating ratio1
 
81.5
%
83.5
%
2
Income from continuing operations before accounting changes1
$
460
 
$
411
(11 )
Earnings per share from continuing operations before accounting changes — diluted1
$
1.18
 
$
1.05
(11)
     
Financial Position
     
Total assets
$
19,956
 
$
20,596
3
Total debt2
$
7,364
 
$
7,160
(3)
Stockholders’ equity
$
6,500
 
$
6,976
7
Debt to total capitalization ratio2
 
53.1
%
50.7
%
(5)
Stockholders’ equity per share
$
16.71
 
$
17.83
 
7
       
Other Information
       
Year-end stock price
$
19.99
 
$
23.65
 
18
Dividends per share
$
0.26
 
$
0.30
 
15
Price/earnings ratio at year end
 
16.9
 
17.3
 
2
Number of shareholders at year end
 
51,418
 
52,091
 
1
Shares outstanding at year end
 
388,985,340
 
391,152,863
 
1
Number of employees at year end
 
28,514
 
28,160
 
(1)

1 Results in 2003 include the costs of a voluntary separation program and a charge to recognize the impairment of certain telecommunications assets. The costs of the voluntary separation program reduced income from railway operations by $107 million and increased the railway operating ratio by 1.6 percentage points. These two items reduced income from continuing operations before accounting changes by $119 million or 30 cents per diluted share.

2 Excludes notes payable to Conrail