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Note 2 - Business Segment Information | 12 Months Ended
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Notes to Financial Statements |
Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block] | 2. Business Segment Information The accounting policies of the segments are described under note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies. The Company's businesses have been classified into three segments to be consistent with its business strategy and the reporting and review process used by the Company’s chief operating decision maker. These businesses sell products and provide services to customers primarily in the United States. The Company’s business structure currently includes the following three segments: Electric, Manufacturing and Plastics. The chart below indicates the operating companies included in each segment. Electric includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota by OTP. In addition, OTP is a participant in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) markets. OTP’s operations have been the Company’s primary business since 1907. Manufacturing consists of businesses in the following manufacturing activities: contract machining, metal parts stamping, fabrication and painting, and production of plastic thermoformed horticultural containers, life science and industrial packaging, and material handling components. These businesses have manufacturing facilities in Georgia, Illinois and Minnesota and sell products primarily in the United States. Plastics consists of businesses producing PVC pipe at plants in North Dakota and Arizona. The PVC pipe is sold primarily in the upper Midwest and Southwest regions of the United States. OTP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. All of the Company’s other businesses are owned by its wholly owned subsidiary, Varistar Corporation. The Company’s Corporate operating costs include items such as corporate staff and overhead costs, the results of the Company’s captive insurance company and other items excluded from the measurement of operating segment performance. Corporate assets consist primarily of cash, prepaid expenses, investments and fixed assets. Corporate is not an operating segment. Rather, it is added to operating segment totals to reconcile to totals on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. No single customer accounted for over 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenues in 2019, 2018 and 2017. While no single customer accounted for over 10% of consolidated revenue in 2019, certain customers provided a significant portion of each business segment’s 2019 revenue. The Electric segment has one customer that provided 11.9% of 2019 segment revenues. The Manufacturing segment has one customer that manufactures and sells recreational vehicles that provided 23.8% of 2019 segment revenues and one customer that manufactures and sells lawn and garden equipment that provided 11.1% of 2019 segment revenues. The Manufacturing segment’s top five revenue-generating customers provided over 54% of 2019 segment revenues. The Plastics segment has two customers that individually provided 25.3% and 20.4% of 2019 segment revenues. The loss of any one of these customers would have a significant negative impact on the financial position and results of operations of the respective business segment and the Company. All the Company’s long-lived assets are within the United States and sales within the United States accounted for 98.8% of sales in 2019, 98.4% of sales in 2018 and 98.2% of sales in 2017. The Company evaluates the performance of its business segments and allocates resources to them based on earnings contribution and return on total invested capital. Information for the business segments for 2019, 2018 and 2017 is presented in the following table:
(in thousands) |  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Operating Revenue |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Electric Segment: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Retail Sales Revenue from Contracts with Customers |  | $ | 405,446 |  |  | $ | 388,690 |  |  | $ | 376,902 |
Changes in Accrued ARP Revenues |  |  | 1,032 |  |  |  | (439 | ) |  |  | (1,971 | )
Total Retail Sales Revenue |  |  | 406,478 |  |  |  | 388,251 |  |  |  | 374,931 |
Transmission Services Revenue |  |  | 40,542 |  |  |  | 46,947 |  |  |  | 46,664 |
Wholesale Revenues – Company Generation |  |  | 5,007 |  |  |  | 7,735 |  |  |  | 5,173 |
Other Electric Revenues |  |  | 7,070 |  |  |  | 7,322 |  |  |  | 7,769 |
Total Electric Segment Revenues |  |  | 459,097 |  |  |  | 450,255 |  |  |  | 434,537 |
Manufacturing Segment: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Metal Parts and Tooling |  |  | 236,032 |  |  |  | 223,765 |  |  |  | 189,242 |
Plastic Products and Tooling |  |  | 35,173 |  |  |  | 35,836 |  |  |  | 33,939 |
Other |  |  | 5,999 |  |  |  | 8,808 |  |  |  | 6,557 |
Total Manufacturing Segment Revenues |  |  | 277,204 |  |  |  | 268,409 |  |  |  | 229,738 |
Plastics Segment – Sale of PVC Pipe Products |  |  | 183,257 |  |  |  | 197,840 |  |  |  | 185,132 |
Intersegment Eliminations |  |  | (55 | ) |  |  | (57 | ) |  |  | (57 | )
Total |  | $ | 919,503 |  |  | $ | 916,447 |  |  | $ | 849,350 |
Cost of Products Sold |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Manufacturing |  | $ | 215,179 |  |  | $ | 205,699 |  |  | $ | 176,473 |
Plastics |  |  | 139,974 |  |  |  | 148,881 |  |  |  | 140,107 |
Intersegment Eliminations |  |  | (34 | ) |  |  | (21 | ) |  |  | (18 | )
Total |  | $ | 355,119 |  |  | $ | 354,559 |  |  | $ | 316,562 |
Other Nonelectric Expenses |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Manufacturing |  | $ | 29,895 |  |  | $ | 29,650 |  |  | $ | 23,785 |
Plastics |  |  | 11,393 |  |  |  | 12,323 |  |  |  | 11,564 |
Corporate |  |  | 9,515 |  |  |  | 9,607 |  |  |  | 6,182 |
Intersegment Eliminations |  |  | (21 | ) |  |  | (36 | ) |  |  | (39 | )
Total |  | $ | 50,782 |  |  | $ | 51,544 |  |  | $ | 41,492 |
(in thousands) |  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Depreciation and Amortization |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Electric |  | $ | 60,044 |  |  | $ | 55,935 |  |  | $ | 53,276 |
Manufacturing |  |  | 14,261 |  |  |  | 14,794 |  |  |  | 15,379 |
Plastics |  |  | 3,451 |  |  |  | 3,719 |  |  |  | 3,817 |
Corporate |  |  | 330 |  |  |  | 218 |  |  |  | 73 |
Total |  | $ | 78,086 |  |  | $ | 74,666 |  |  | $ | 72,545 |
Operating Income (Loss) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Electric |  | $ | 98,417 |  |  | $ | 88,031 |  |  | $ | 94,797 |
Manufacturing |  |  | 17,869 |  |  |  | 18,266 |  |  |  | 14,101 |
Plastics |  |  | 28,439 |  |  |  | 32,917 |  |  |  | 29,644 |
Corporate |  |  | (9,845 | ) |  |  | (9,825 | ) |  |  | (6,255 | )
Total |  | $ | 134,880 |  |  | $ | 129,389 |  |  | $ | 132,287 |
Interest Charges |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Electric |  | $ | 26,548 |  |  | $ | 26,365 |  |  | $ | 25,334 |
Manufacturing |  |  | 2,345 |  |  |  | 2,230 |  |  |  | 2,215 |
Plastics |  |  | 718 |  |  |  | 609 |  |  |  | 633 |
Corporate and Intersegment Eliminations |  |  | 1,800 |  |  |  | 1,204 |  |  |  | 1,422 |
Total |  | $ | 31,411 |  |  | $ | 30,408 |  |  | $ | 29,604 |
Income Tax Expense (Benefit) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Electric |  | $ | 12,867 |  |  | $ | 5,685 |  |  | $ | 17,013 |
Manufacturing |  |  | 2,784 |  |  |  | 3,393 |  |  |  | 989 |
Plastics |  |  | 7,309 |  |  |  | 8,728 |  |  |  | 7,448 |
Corporate |  |  | (5,519 | ) |  |  | (3,218 | ) |  |  | 1,806 |
Total |  | $ | 17,441 |  |  | $ | 14,588 |  |  | $ | 27,256 |
Net Income (Loss) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Electric |  | $ | 59,046 |  |  | $ | 54,431 |  |  | $ | 49,446 |
Manufacturing |  |  | 12,899 |  |  |  | 12,839 |  |  |  | 11,050 |
Plastics |  |  | 20,572 |  |  |  | 23,819 |  |  |  | 21,696 |
Corporate |  |  | (5,670 | ) |  |  | (8,744 | ) |  |  | (9,753 | )
Total |  | $ | 86,847 |  |  | $ | 82,345 |  |  | $ | 72,439 |
Capital Expenditures |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Electric |  | $ | 187,362 |  |  | $ | 87,287 |  |  | $ | 118,444 |
Manufacturing |  |  | 14,268 |  |  |  | 13,316 |  |  |  | 9,916 |
Plastics |  |  | 5,452 |  |  |  | 4,199 |  |  |  | 4,432 |
Corporate |  |  | 283 |  |  |  | 623 |  |  |  | 121 |
Total |  | $ | 207,365 |  |  | $ | 105,425 |  |  | $ | 132,913 |
Identifiable Assets |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Electric |  | $ | 1,931,525 |  |  | $ | 1,728,534 |  |  | $ | 1,690,224 |
Manufacturing |  |  | 195,742 |  |  |  | 187,556 |  |  |  | 167,023 |
Plastics |  |  | 92,049 |  |  |  | 91,630 |  |  |  | 87,230 |
Corporate |  |  | 54,279 |  |  |  | 44,797 |  |  |  | 59,801 |
Total |  | $ | 2,273,595 |  |  | $ | 2,052,517 |  |  | $ | 2,004,278 |

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