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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 11-K
FOR ANNUAL REPORT OF EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE, SAVINGS
AND SIMILAR PLANS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
(Mark One):
     
þ   ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006
OR
     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Commission File Number 33-42485
  A.   Full title of the Plan and address of the Plan, if different from that of the issuer named below:
COMERICA INCORPORATED PREFERRED SAVINGS PLAN
  B.   Name of issuer of securities held pursuant to the Plan and the address of its principal executive office:
COMERICA INCORPORATED
Comerica Tower at
One Detroit Center
500 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48226
 
 

 


 

Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Financial Statements
and Supplemental Schedules
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006
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Financial Statements:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Consent of Independent Public Accounting Firm

 


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Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedules
Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
December 31, 2006 and 2005, and
Year Ended December 31, 2006
with Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 


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Comerica Incorporated
Preferred Savings Plan
Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedules
December 31, 2006 and 2005, and
Year Ended December 31, 2006
Contents
         
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
    1  
 
       
Financial Statements
       
 
       
Statements of Assets Available for Benefits
    2  
Statement of Changes in Assets Available for Benefits
    3  
Notes to Financial Statements
    4  
 
       
Supplemental Schedules
       
 
       
Schedule H, Line 4i – Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)
    11  
Schedule H, Line 4j – Schedule of Reportable Transactions
    12  

 


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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Audit Committee
Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
We have audited the accompanying statements of assets available for benefits of the Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the related statement of changes in assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2006. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the assets available for benefits of the Plan at December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the changes in its assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2006, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
Our audits were made for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements taken as a whole. The accompanying supplemental schedules of assets (held at end of year) as of December 31, 2006, and reportable transactions for the year then ended, are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the financial statements but are supplementary information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. These supplemental schedules are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. The supplemental schedules have been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audits of the financial statements and, in our opinion, are fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
May 30, 2007
Detroit, Michigan

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Statements of Assets Available for Benefits
                 
    December 31
    2006   2005
Assets
               
Investments, at fair value:
               
Mutual and money market funds
  $ 306,331,451     $ 258,741,798  
Collective trust funds
    266,290,580       232,496,757  
Comerica Incorporated Common Stock
    234,483,984       233,973,874  
Participant loans
    21,557,127       21,026,092  
     
Total investments
    828,663,142       746,238,521  
 
               
Accrued income
    2,342,217       2,283,511  
Employer contributions receivable
    6,715,613       8,507,135  
     
Assets available for benefits
  $ 837,720,972     $ 757,029,167  
     
See accompanying notes.

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Statement of Changes in Assets
Available for Benefits
Year Ended December 31, 2006
         
Additions
       
Participant contributions
  $ 42,407,728  
Employer contributions
    13,199,881  
Interest and dividend income
    32,970,667  
Other additions
    398,617  
 
     
Total additions
    88,976,893  
 
       
Deductions
       
Distributions to participants
    55,716,067  
Loan fees
    15,791  
 
     
Total deductions
    55,731,858  
 
       
Net appreciation in fair value of investments
    47,446,770  
 
     
Net increase
    80,691,805  
Assets available for benefits:
       
Beginning of year
    757,029,167  
 
     
End of year
  $ 837,720,972  
 
     
See accompanying notes.

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
December 31, 2006 and 2005, and
Year Ended December 31, 2006
1. Description of the Plan
The Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan (the Plan) is a defined contribution plan covering all eligible employees of Comerica Incorporated (the Corporation) and certain subsidiaries.
Information about the Plan agreement, participants’ investment alternatives and the vesting and benefit provisions is contained in the summary plan description captioned “Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan.” Copies of this summary plan description are available through the Corporation’s Human Resources Office.
Participants may make annual contributions to the Plan on a pre-tax basis, not to exceed the lesser of 50% of the participant’s annual compensation, or the IRS allowed maximum ($15,000, plus an additional $5,000 for participants age 50 or over, in 2006, and $14,000, plus an additional $4,000 for participants age 50 or over, in 2005).
The Corporation will match a percentage of the first $3,000 of the participant’s pre-tax contributions, as defined by the Plan. In addition, the Corporation may make discretionary contributions based upon attaining certain corporate financial performance measurements. Both the Corporation match and discretionary contribution are invested in the Corporation’s common stock.
Participants’ investments in the Corporation’s common stock, including vested corporate matching contributions, are held in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Participants may elect to either reinvest the dividends in the Corporation’s common stock within the Plan or receive the dividends as cash with their regular pay.
Contributions receivable represent amounts due from the Corporation under a performance match program, which rewards employees through a corporate contribution to the participants’ accounts.
Participants direct the investment of their accounts, except the current period’s nonparticipant-directed investment in the Corporation’s common stock, among the investment funds offered by the Plan. The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the benefit that can be provided from the participant’s account.

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
1. Description of the Plan (continued)
The Corporation’s matching contributions based on the first $3,000 of the participant’s pretax contributions are held in a restricted Comerica Incorporated Common Stock account until the end of the calendar year, when the assets held in such account become unrestricted and, therefore, eligible to be reallocated by the participants to other fund options. Approximately $5.9 million of restricted common stock was transferred to unrestricted funds during the plan year ended December 31, 2006.
Effective January 1, 2007, the Corporation prospectively changed its core matching contribution to 100 percent of the participant’s elective contributions, not to exceed four percent of the participant’s qualified earnings (up to the current IRS compensation limit), which will be invested based on the participant’s investment elections, rather than in the common stock of the Corporation, and discontinued the performance-based matching contribution. As a result of these changes, all assets held in the restricted Comerica Incorporated Common Stock account at December 31, 2006 became unrestricted and therefore eligible to be reallocated by the participants to other fund options effective January 1, 2007.
Unallocated matching employer contributions resulting from employee forfeitures are retained in the Plan and used to reduce future employer contributions. Employee forfeitures during the period are included in employer contributions in the accompanying statement of changes in assets available for benefits and are primarily retained in the Comerica Incorporated Common Stock balance as of December 31, 2006.
The following table presents a summary of changes in unallocated matching employer contributions during the plan year:
         
Balance at January 1, 2006
  $ 676,291  
Employee forfeitures during the year
    361,906  
Reduction of employer contributions
    (530,271 )
Net appreciation in fair value of investments
    17,743  
Dividend income
    36,760  
 
     
Balance at December 31, 2006
  $ 562,429  
 
     
The Corporation has the right to amend or terminate the Plan at any time. In the event the Plan is terminated, all participants’ accounts become fully vested and nonforfeitable.

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
The fair values of the participation units owned by the Plan in mutual and collective trust funds are based on the net asset values on the last business day of the plan year.
Marketable securities are stated at fair value. Securities traded on a national securities exchange are valued at the last reported sales price on the last business day of the plan year. Investments traded in the over-the-counter market and listed securities for which no sale was reported on that date are valued at the average of the last reported bid and ask prices.
The fair value of investments in the Corporation’s common stock is based on the last reported sales price on the last business day of the plan year as traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
The participant loans are valued at their outstanding balances, which approximate fair value.
Administrative expenses incurred in connection with the operation of the Plan are borne by the Corporation, except for a $10 per quarter loan fee paid by participants for loans originated prior to July 1, 2004, which is reported in loan fees in the accompanying statement of changes in assets available for benefits.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
3. Investments
The fair value of individual investments that represent 5% or more of the Plan assets at the end of the respective years are as follows:
                 
    December 31,
    2006   2005
     
Comerica Incorporated Common Stock *
  $ 234,483,984     $ 233,973,874  
Comerica S&P 500 Index Fund
    116,840,734       110,537,314  
Comerica Stable Value Fund
    121,069,705       111,341,571  
William Blair International Growth Fund
    42,568,839     **
Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund
  **
    39,726,948  
 
*   Includes nonparticipant-directed investments
 
**   Less than 5%
During the year ended December 31, 2006, the Plan’s investments (including investments bought and sold, as well as held during the year) appreciated (depreciated) in fair value as follows:
         
    Year Ended  
    December 31,  
    2006  
Mutual and money market funds
  $ 15,142,970  
Collective trust funds
    24,292,753  
Comerica Incorporated Common Stock
    8,011,047  
 
     
 
  $ 47,446,770  
 
     

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
4. Nonparticipant-Directed Investments
The following information represents the restricted assets and the significant components of changes in restricted assets related to the nonparticipant-directed portion of the Comerica Incorporated Common Stock investment.
                 
    December 31,     December 31,  
    2006     2005  
     
Investment, at fair value:
               
Comerica Incorporated Common Stock
  $ 7,069,690     $ 6,516,035  
     
         
    Year Ended  
    December 31,  
    2006  
Changes in assets:
       
Employer contributions
  $ 6,219,840  
Distributions to participants
    (40,607 )
Net appreciation in fair value of investments
    267,530  
Transfer of assets from restricted common stock account to unrestricted account
    (5,893,108 )
 
     
Increase in assets
  $ 553,655  
 
     

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
5. Transactions With Parties in Interest
The following is a summary of transactions (at cost) with parties in interest:
                                                                         
    Comerica     Comerica     Comerica     Comerica     Comerica     Comerica     Comerica     Comerica     Comerica  
    Incorporated     Stable Value     S&P 500 Index     Destination     Destination     Destination     Destination     Destination     Short Term  
    Common Stock     Fund     Fund     Retirement Fund     2015 Fund     2025 Fund     2035 Fund     2045 Fund     Fund  
     
Balance at December 31, 2004
  $ 185,441,533     $ 110,009,035     $ 104,496,866     $     $     $     $     $     $  
Purchases in 2005
    37,696,217       28,550,883       10,511,854       1,729,267       5,365,008       2,824,107       495,582       319,455        
Sales in 2005
    (33,500,583 )     (31,908,656 )     (16,676,234 )     (13,333 )     (374,202 )     (34,484 )     (23,841 )     (2,354 )      
Transfer to/from funds
    (3,889,261 )     1,037,985                                            
     
Balance at December 31, 2005
    185,747,906       107,689,247       98,332,486       1,715,934       4,990,806       2,789,623       471,741       317,101        
Purchases in 2006
    37,439,783       31,179,300       12,488,210       4,098,705       5,667,575       3,947,138       2,210,403       1,857,706       398,617  
Sales in 2006
    (36,319,953 )     (25,563,206 )     (19,290,726 )     (535,725 )     (818,400 )     (572,360 )     (227,892 )     (459,948 )      
Transfer to non-party in interest status
                                                     
     
Balance at December 31, 2006
  $ 186,867,736     $ 113,305,341     $ 91,529,970     $ 5,278,914     $ 9,839,981     $ 6,164,401     $ 2,454,252     $ 1,714,859     $ 398,617  
     
                                                                 
                    Munder                                
    Munder     Munder     Cash     Munder     Munder     Munder     Munder        
    S&P MidCap     S&P Small Cap     Investment     Bond     Large Cap     U.S. Government     MidCap Core        
    Index Fund     Index Fund     Fund     Fund     Value Fund     Income Fund     Growth Fund     Total  
     
Balance at December 31, 2004
  $ 10,674,219     $ 4,513,097     $ 1,133,976     $ 6,201,284     $ 9,679,150     $ 15,687,413     $ 11,009,076     $ 458,845,649  
Purchases in 2005
    4,561,017       3,308,229       31,371,312       2,571,169       5,366,520       2,570,238       7,117,361       144,358,219  
Sales in 2005
    (2,443,756 )     (2,621,001 )     (32,505,288 )     (1,496,391 )     (3,902,228 )     (1,688,852 )     (2,589,146 )     (129,780,349 )
Transfer to/from funds
                      (10,068 )     15,145,328       (16,568,799 )     (31,256 )     (4,316,071 )
     
Balance at December 31, 2005
    12,791,480       5,200,325             7,265,994       26,288,770             15,506,035       469,107,448  
Purchases in 2006
    5,065,265       4,010,602             3,396,149       8,849,144             6,160,193       126,768,790  
Sales in 2006
    (3,654,812 )     (2,242,861 )           (1,900,862 )     (5,089,383 )           (4,390,894 )     (101,067,022 )
Transfer to non-party in interest status
                      (8,761,281 )     (30,048,531 )           (17,275,334 )     (56,085,146 )
     
Balance at December 31, 2006
  $ 14,201,933     $ 6,968,066     $     $     $     $     $     $ 438,724,070  
     
The Munder mutual funds are managed by Munder Capital Management, a consolidated subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated until December 29, 2006, when it was sold to an unaffiliated investor group.
The Munder index funds are sub-advised by World Asset Management, a consolidated subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated, and therefore continue to hold party in interest status.

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
6. Tax Status
The Plan has received a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service dated November 14, 2003, stating that the Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and, therefore, the related trust is exempt from taxation. Subsequent to this determination by the Internal Revenue Service, the Plan was amended and restated. Once qualified, the Plan is required to operate in conformity with the Code to maintain its qualification. The plan administrator believes the Plan is being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Code and, therefore, believes that the Plan, as amended and restated, is qualified and the related trust is tax exempt.
7. Differences Between Financial Statements and Form 5500
Amounts allocated to withdrawn participants are recorded on the Form 5500 for benefit claims that have been processed and approved for payment prior to year-end but not yet paid. At December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005, there were no claims approved but not yet paid.
8. Risks and Uncertainties
The Plan invests in various investment securities. Investment securities are exposed to various risks such as interest rate, market and credit risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the statements of assets available for benefits.

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Supplemental Schedules

 


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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
EIN: #38-1998421 Plan #002
Schedule H, Line 4i – Schedule of Assets
(Held at End of Year)
December 31, 2006
                 
    Description of Investment Including          
Identity of Issue, Borrower,   Maturity Date, Rate of Interest,       Current  
Lessor, or Similar Party   Collateral, Par, or Maturity Value   Cost   Value  
 
Mutual and Money Market Funds
               
Munder **
* S&P MidCap Index Fund – 1,304,805 shares   ***   $ 16,062,148  
 
* S&P Small Cap Index Fund – 449,660 shares   ***     7,468,851  
 
  Large Cap Value Fund – 2,045,382 shares   ***     33,441,996  
 
  MidCap Core Growth Fund – 889,684 shares   ***     22,651,358  
 
  Bond Fund – 923,152 shares   ***     8,659,167  
 
               
Neuberger Berman
  Neuberger Berman Genesis Fund – 801,148 shares   ***     38,238,810  
 
               
Franklin/Templeton Investments
  Franklin Rising Dividends Fund – 658,000 shares   ***     23,602,446  
 
  Templeton Growth Fund – 1,186,477 shares   ***     30,445,006  
 
               
William Blair Funds
  William Blair Growth Fund – 427,935 shares   ***     4,887,018  
 
  William Blair International Growth Fund – 1,536,781 shares   ***     42,568,839  
 
               
Heritage Funds
  Heritage Small Cap Stock Fund – 581,157 shares   ***     21,159,933  
 
               
Van Kampen Funds
  Van Kampen Equity & Income Fund – 2,762,080 shares   ***     25,190,165  
 
  Van Kampen Government Securities – 1,493,064 shares   ***     15,459,481  
 
               
American Funds
  The Growth Fund of America – 502,016 shares   ***     16,496,233  
 
             
Total Mutual and Money Market Funds
            306,331,451  
 
               
Collective Trust Funds
               
*Comerica Incorporated
  Stable Value Fund – 11,147,402 units   ***     121,069,705  
 
  S&P 500 Index Fund – 9,148,903 units   ***     116,840,734  
 
  Destination Retirement Fund – 498,678 units   ***     5,644,207  
 
  Destination 2015 Fund – 928,023 units   ***     10,834,064  
 
  Destination 2025 Fund – 571,143 units   ***     6,893,735  
 
  Destination 2035 Fund – 218,762 units   ***     2,712,551  
 
  Destination 2045 Fund – 149,445 units   ***     1,896,967  
 
  Short Term Fund – 398,617 units $ 398,617     398,617  
 
             
Total Collective Trust Funds
            266,290,580  
 
               
*Comerica Incorporated
  Common Stock – 3,995,978 shares   186,867,736     234,483,984  
 
               
*Participant loans
  Interest rate range: 6.50% to 11.74%, with various maturity dates       21,557,127  
 
             
 
               
Total investments
          $ 828,663,142  
 
             
 
*   Party in interest
 
**   The Munder mutual funds are managed by Munder Capital Management, a consolidated subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated until December 29, 2006, when it was sold to an unaffiliated investor group. The Munder index funds are sub-advised by World Asset Management, a consolidated subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated, and therefore continue to hold party in interest status.
 
***   Disclosure of historical cost information is not required for participant-directed investments

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Comerica Incorporated Preferred Savings Plan
EIN: #38-1998421 Plan #002
Schedule H, Line 4j – Schedule of Reportable Transactions
Year Ended December 31, 2006
                                                                 
    Description                                                    
    of Asset                             Expense             Current Value        
    (Including Interest                             Incurred             of Asset on        
    Rate and Maturity     Purchase     Selling     Lease     With     Cost of     Transaction     Net Gain  
    in Case of a Loan)     Price     Price     Rental     Transaction*     Asset     Date     (Loss)  
 
Category (iii) – A series of transactions involving securities of the same issue which, when aggregated, involve an amount in excess of 5% of the current value of plan assets:
                                               
 
                                                               
Comerica Incorporated
 
Common Stock:
                                                       
 
 
715 purchases
  $ 37,439,783                             $ 37,439,783     $ 37,439,783          
 
 
1,417 sales
          $ 44,761,574                       36,319,953       44,761,574     $ 8,441,621  
 
                                                               
 
 
Stable Value Fund:
                                                       
 
 
1,537 purchases
    31,179,300                               31,179,300       31,179,300          
 
 
1,596 sales
            26,838,060                       25,563,206       26,838,060       1,274,854  
 
*   The commissions and fees related to purchases and sales of investments are included in the cost of investment or proceeds from the sale and are not separately identified by the Trustee.
There were no category (i), (ii), or (iv) reportable transactions.

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SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the administrator of the Plan has duly caused this Annual Report to be signed by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
         
  Comerica Incorporated
Preferred Savings Plan
 
 
  By:   /s/ Jon W. Bilstrom    
    Jon W. Bilstrom   
    Executive Vice President - Governance,
Regulatory Relations and Legal Affairs
Comerica Incorporated 
 
 
Dated: May 31, 2007

 


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Exhibit Index
         
Exhibit No.     Description  
23     Consent of Ernst and Young LLP