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Financial report summary
?Risks
- Our business outlook is difficult to forecast and operating results are subject to significant fluctuations and are likely to be volatile.
- If global economic business and political conditions deteriorate as compared to the current environment it could have an adverse impact on our business outlook and our business, operating results and financial condition.
- We have significant operations in Arizona, Florida, California, Washington State, Maryland, New York and other locations which could be materially and adversely impacted in the event of a terrorist attack and government responses thereto or significant disruptions (including natural disasters) to our business.
- Our business is highly dependent on the budgetary decisions of our government customers, including the U.S. government (including prime contractors to the U.S. government), and changes in the U.S. government’s fiscal policies or budgetary priorities may have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
- Our contracts with the U.S. government are subject to unique business, commercial and government audit risks.
- Our dependence on sales to international customers exposes us to unique business, commercial and export compliance audit risks.
- A change in our relationship with our large wireless carrier customers could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
- If our wireless carrier partners change the pricing and other terms by which they offer our products to their end-customers or do not continue to provide our services at all or renegotiate lower fees with us, our business, results of operations, and financial condition could be suddenly and materially adversely affected.
- We face a number of risks relating to the expected long-term growth of our business. Our business and operating results may be negatively impacted if we are unable to manage this growth.
- Loss of our executive officers or other key personnel or other changes to our management team could disrupt our operations and growth plans or harm our business.
- We have incurred indebtedness under a Credit Facility, and may incur substantial additional indebtedness in the future, and may not be able to service that debt in the future and we must maintain compliance with various covenants that impose restrictions on our business.
- Our investments in recorded goodwill and other intangible assets could be impaired as a result of future business conditions, a deterioration of the global economy or if we change our reporting unit structure.
- We could be negatively impacted by a system failure, lack of or failure of redundant system components, security breach through cyber-attack, cyber intrusion or otherwise, by other significant disruption of our IT networks or those we operate for certain customers, or third-party data center facilities, servers and related systems. If any such events occur, we may have to reimburse our customers for damages that they may have incurred, pay contract penalties, or provide refunds.
- The measures we have implemented to secure information we collect and store or enable access to may be breached, which could cause us to breach agreements with our partners and expose us to potential investigation and penalties by authorities and potential claims for contract breach, product liability damages, credits, penalties or termination by persons whose information was disclosed.
- Changes in U.S. federal, state and local and foreign tax law could adversely affect our business and financial condition.
- Our U.S. federal, state and local and foreign tax returns are subject to audit and a resulting tax assessment or settlement could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Significant judgment is required in determining the provision for income taxes.
- We may be subject to environmental liabilities.
- The success of our business is dependent on compliance with FCC rules and regulations and similar foreign laws and regulations.
- Regulation of the mobile communications industry and VoIP is evolving, and unfavorable changes or our failure to comply with existing and potential new legislation or regulations could harm our business and operating results.
- Ongoing compliance with the provisions of securities laws, related regulations and financial reporting standards could unexpectedly materially increase our costs and compliance related expenses.
- Indemnification provisions in our contracts could have a material adverse effect on our consolidated results of operations, financial position, or cash flows.
- Protection of our intellectual property is limited and pursuing infringers of our patents and other intellectual property rights can be costly.
- Third parties may claim we are infringing their intellectual property rights and we could be prevented from selling our products, or suffer significant litigation expense, even if these claims have no merit.
- All of our business activities are subject to rapid technological change, new entrants, the introduction of other distribution models and long development and testing periods each of which may harm our competitive position, render our product or service offerings obsolete and require us to continuously develop technology and/or obtain licensed technology in order to compete successfully.
- Our business is highly competitive, we are reliant upon the success of our partners, and some of our competitors have significantly greater resources than we do, which could result in a loss of customers, market share and/or market acceptance.
- We rely upon various third-party companies and their technology to provide services to our customers and if we are unable to obtain such services at reasonable prices, or at all, our gross margins and our ability to provide the services of our wireless applications business could be materially adversely affected.
- Our stock price is volatile.
- Future issuances of our shares of common stock could dilute a stockholder's ownership interest in Comtech and reduce the market price of our shares of common stock.
- Actions of activist stockholders could impact the pursuit of our business strategies and adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and/or share price.
- Provisions in our corporate documents and Delaware law could delay or prevent a change in control of Comtech.
Management Discussion
- •Consolidated net sales were $550.0 million, an increase of 13.1% from fiscal 2022;
- •Gross margin was 33.5%, compared to 37.0% in fiscal 2022;
- •GAAP net loss attributable to common stockholders was $33.9 million, and included $10.9 million of restructuring costs, $9.1 million of CEO transition costs and $3.8 million of strategic emerging technology costs for next-generation satellite technology, as discussed below;