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| In October 2023, we introduced a new high-volume small business residential burglar fire alarm called Prima, which could generate substantial growth in hardware sales and profits and most importantly, add substantial recurring revenue service to Napco |
| So now we have about 300 branches between our independent network, which are fabulous guys that have a great customer base |
| This is the 12th consecutive quarter we achieved record sales for a quarterly reporting period |
| And of course, as the volume picks up and our volumes get stronger as the year progresses, typically, Q2 being better than Q1, Q3 being better than Q2, Q4 being better than Q3 on the hardware side to get that overhead absorption, the margins expand |
| Our balance sheet remains strong with our cash balances at $74.6 million, up 68% over fiscal Q1 2023 and up 12% sequentially |
| We saw that the sell-through stats for Q1 were better than they were in Q4 |
| Net sales for the 3 months ended September 30, 2023, increased by 6% to a fiscal first quarter record of $41.7 million as compared to $39.5 million for the same period last year |
| Recurring monthly service revenue continued its strong growth, increasing 25% in Q1 to $17.3 million compared to $13.8 million for the same period last year |
| We’re very encouraged by the strength of the locking business and of course, the locking margins are better than, say, the radio margins |
| So we have a great ability with our sales group to explain to these new customers how we have an integrated solution, and we expect it to add a lot of additional volume to our business |
| While our equipment revenue declined by 5%, gross margins on such sales increased to 28%, and our recurring revenue grew by 25% to $17.3 million with an annual run rate of $72.5 million as of October 2023 |
| We believe we can continue this growth well into the future as we work toward our fiscal 2026 goals and beyond |
| This would result in both additional hardware revenue and increasing recurring revenue for the company |
| But I would give this – we said two quarters, we just saw one another quarter and we think this second quarter of the two will be better than the one we just did |
| We are off to a great start for fiscal 2024, and we have a pristine balance sheet, no debt and continue to generate strong sales and healthy profits |
| Lastly, as indicated in the earnings release, we will be issuing another $0.08 per share dividend and we are proud of this program as the Napco team has created such tremendous shareholder value over the years, and this is another way for us to distribute profitable growth to investors |
| These additions in engineering and specialized sales will help us continue to develop more new and exciting products faster and take them to market in new ways so as to get our alarm locking and integrators excited |
| Our R&D team remains hard at work, developing more products for the future, which will help us grow our recurring revenue business |
| As I mentioned, our fiscal 2024 is off to a great start with fiscal Q1 results, achieving record profits driven by hardware enabled recurring revenue growth of 25%, representing 41% of total company revenues |
| Total company revenues were up 6% year-over-year and we achieved gross profit growth of 54% to $22.4 million |
| That was very encouraging, more than $1 million per month |
| Recurring revenue service continues to grow at a very strong rate and the annual prospective run rate is now $72.5 million based on October 2023 recurring revenues |
| The Trilogy line, which is our original invention, which has been improved over the years, is the number one locking product, electronic locking product in the business |
| And this new network, there is going to be lots of Napco company products out there and a lot of our salesmen, as we said, we’ve added additional salespeople to help sell it and to break in these distributors as to what we make and why it’s – so it has such great advantages over anything on the marketplace |
| Deloitte has one of the largest professional service networks in the world and is known for their renowned reputation expertise and having a strong track record of providing high-quality audit and advisory services to a wide range of clients |
| So, it’s a win-win for dealers, and it’s a win-win for us |
| Margins for recurring revenue improved by 200 basis points to 90% this quarter versus 88% in the same period a year ago |
| When that happens, we also expect to generate increased hardware gross margins as the higher the level of hardware sales, the more overhead absorption occurs in our Dominican Republic factory and this expands our gross margins |
| And those are very good signs |
| And we expect the locking business to keep on growing and getting stronger as we add new models to Trilogy and that’s how we see it |
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| A lot of our competitors were having trouble delivering |
| This decrease was primarily due to the expected softness in radio sales as some distributors work off excess inventory, which was the result of distributors loading up with radios when the impending 3G Verizon sunset was approaching and they wanted to ensure that they had updated 5G radios in their inventory |
| Equipment sales for the quarter decreased 5% to $24.4 million as compared to $25.7 million last year |
| And then the alarm sales slowdown, we are hearing that, that should reverse in a quarter or two quarters, so this slowdown is due to dealer inventories, not due to end market demand |
| You remember going back a year ago, there was – we were in the midst of supply chain issues |
| And you guys are running into some tougher comps now as we think about the door lock device business |
| We expected it to be down |
| So it sounds like there was some continued weakness in radio sales, but strength in other areas to help offset that |
| The intrusion part was down |
| So, that’s why we believe that, that plus our activation stats, that’s why we believe the slowdown that we keep talking about is more of an inventory and distribution issue as opposed to a demand issue |
| Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently proving to be incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements |
| As we work through channel inventory, we expect equipment revenues to reaccelerate as thousands of 3G radios need to be replaced and we anticipate these will be replaced with Napco’s newer generation radios because alarm dealers must have new functioning and recurring revenue-producing radios to monitor alarm conditions |
| Because we knew how, a, how important it was to get radios in the hands of all the dealers |
| We didn’t expect to see any changes of the supply chain crisis, the chaos that it brought with it is over |
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