AAON Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Mar 10, 2011
AAON Inc. (AAON, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2010-12-31.

Aaon Inc. has a market cap of $511.6 million; its shares were traded at around $30.96 with a P/E ratio of 23.7 and P/S ratio of 2.1. The dividend yield of Aaon Inc. stocks is 1.2%. Aaon Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 10.7% over the past 10 years.

Highlight of Business Operations:

All of our R&D activities are self-sponsored, rather than customer-sponsored. R&D has involved the RQ, RN and RL (rooftop units), F1, H/V, M2 and M3 (air handlers), LC and LL (chillers), CB and CC (condensing units), SA (commercial self-contained units) and BL (boilers), as well as component evaluation and refinement, development of control systems and new product development. We incurred research and development expenses of approximately $3,605,000, $3,074,000 and $2,577,000 in 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.

On February 14, 2006, the Board of Directors voted to initiate a semi-annual cash dividend. We initially paid semi-annual dividends of $0.20 per share. The Board of Directors approved dividend payments of $0.16 per share related to the 3-for-2 stock split effective August 21, 2007. The Board of Directors approved future dividend payments of $0.18 per share on May 19, 2009. Board approval is required to determine the date of declaration and amount for each semi-annual dividend payment.

On November 6, 2007, our Board of Directors authorized a stock buyback program, targeting repurchases of up to approximately 10% (1.8 million shares) of our outstanding stock from time to time in open market transactions. On May 12, 2010, we completed the stock buyback program. Through May 12, 2010, we repurchased a total of 1,800,000 shares under this program for an aggregate price of $36,061,425, or an average price of $20.03 per share. We purchased the shares at current market prices.

On May 17, 2010, the Board authorized a new stock buyback program, targeting repurchases of up to approximately 5% (approximately 850,000 shares) of our outstanding stock from time to time in open market transactions. Through December 31, 2010, we repurchased a total of 478,493 shares under this program for an aggregate price of $11,509,433, or an average price of $24.05 per share. We purchased the shares at current market prices.

On July 1, 2005, we entered into a stock repurchase arrangement by which employee-participants in our 401(k) savings and investment plan are entitled to have shares of AAON stock in their accounts sold to us to provide diversification of their investments. The maximum number of shares to be repurchased is contingent upon the number of shares sold by employees. Through December 31, 2010, we repurchased 993,155 shares for an aggregate price of $18,042,789, or an average price of $18.17 per share. We purchased the shares at current market prices.

On November 7, 2006, the Board of Directors authorized us to repurchase shares from certain directors and officers following their exercise of stock options. The maximum number of shares to be repurchased is contingent upon the number of shares sold. Through December 31, 2010, we repurchased 379,750 shares for an aggregate price of $7,894,792, or an average price of $20.79 per share. We purchased the shares at current market prices.

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