Business Segment Information

9 Months Ended

Feb. 28, 2021

Segment Reporting Disclosure Of Entitys Reportable Segments [Abstract]

Business Segment Information

(8) Business Segment Information

We provide a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services through companies competing collectively, operating collaboratively and innovating digitally, under the respected FedEx brand. Our primary operating companies are FedEx Express, the world’s largest express transportation company; FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. (“FedEx Ground”), a leading North American provider of small-package ground delivery services; and FedEx Freight Corporation (“FedEx Freight”), a leading North American provider of less-than-truckload (“LTL”) freight transportation services. These companies represent our major service lines and, along with FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. (“FedEx Services”), constitute our reportable segments.

Our reportable segments include the following businesses:

FedEx Express Segment	FedEx Express (express transportation, small-package ground delivery and freight transportation)
	FedEx Custom Critical (time-critical transportation) FedEx Cross Border (cross-border e-commerce technology and e-commerce transportation solutions)
FedEx Ground Segment	FedEx Ground (small-package ground delivery)
FedEx Freight Segment	FedEx Freight (LTL freight transportation)
FedEx Services Segment	FedEx Services (sales, marketing, information technology, communications, customer    service, technical support, billing and collection services and back-office functions)

References to our transportation segments include, collectively, the FedEx Express segment, the FedEx Ground segment and the FedEx Freight segment.

FedEx Services Segment

The FedEx Services segment operates combined sales, marketing, administrative and information-technology functions in shared services operations for U.S. customers of our major business units and certain back-office support to our operating segments which allows us to obtain synergies from the combination of these functions. For the international regions of FedEx Express, some of these functions are performed on a regional basis and reported by FedEx Express in their natural expense line items.

The FedEx Services segment provides direct and indirect support to our operating segments, and we allocate all of the net operating costs of the FedEx Services segment to reflect the full cost of operating our businesses in the results of those segments. We review and evaluate the performance of our transportation segments based on operating income (inclusive of FedEx Services segment allocations). For the FedEx Services segment, performance is evaluated based on the impact of its total allocated net operating costs on our operating segments.

Operating expenses for each of our transportation segments include the allocations from the FedEx Services segment to the respective transportation segments. These allocations also include charges and credits for administrative services provided between operating companies. The allocations of net operating costs are based on metrics such as relative revenue or estimated services provided. We believe these allocations approximate the net cost of providing these functions. Our allocation methodologies are refined periodically, as necessary, to reflect changes in our businesses.

Corporate, Other and Eliminations

Corporate and other includes corporate headquarters costs for executive officers and certain legal and finance functions, as well as certain other costs and credits not attributed to our core business. These costs are not allocated to the other business segments.

Also included in Corporate and other is the FedEx Office operating segment, which provides an array of document and business services and retail access to our customers for our package transportation businesses, and the FedEx Logistics operating segment, which provides integrated supply chain management solutions, specialty transportation, customs brokerage and global ocean and air freight forwarding. Additionally, Corporate and other includes the financial results of ShopRunner beginning December 23, 2020.

Certain FedEx operating companies provide transportation and related services for other FedEx companies outside their reportable segment. Billings for such services are based on negotiated rates, which we believe approximate fair value, and are reflected as revenue of the billing segment. These rates are adjusted from time to time based on market conditions. Such intersegment revenue and expenses are eliminated in our consolidated results and are not separately identified in the following segment information because the amounts are not material.

The following table provides a reconciliation of reportable segment revenue and operating income (loss) to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statement totals for the periods ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020 (in millions):

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	2021			2020			2021			2020
Revenue:
FedEx Express segment	$	10,788		$	8,924		$	30,803		$	26,953
FedEx Ground segment		7,980			5,845			22,364			16,339
FedEx Freight segment		1,836			1,738			5,598			5,487
FedEx Services segment		8			6			24			15
Other and eliminations		898			974			2,605			3,065
	$	21,510		$	17,487		$	61,394		$	51,859
Operating income (loss):
FedEx Express segment	$	463		$	137		$	2,073		$	658
FedEx Ground segment		702			355			2,088			1,341
FedEx Freight segment		119			113			645			448
Corporate, other and eliminations		(279	)		(194	)		(746	)		(505	)
	$	1,005		$	411		$	4,060		$	1,942