Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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All our AI products bring significant higher profitability
Our system has continually and consistently been selected time-after-time by mid-terms and government, one of is the Israeli security authorities and we're proud to say that our deployed AI product helps to save lives on a daily basis
We're seeing more demand for AI products, which brings with it the significant higher margins
And we announced the closing of a public offering raising approximately $3 million, strengthening our financial profile
We have a large and strong loyal customer base, including many Fortune 100 and 500 ones that have been partnered with OMNIQ for 20 years
But actually, once that not only remained strong, but grow and that's how we were -- during COVID years, we were able to show growth in revenue at the end
And that is something that we are working diligently on every day altogether, this is going to make OMNIQ only turn it around, but make OMNIQ an amazing, great company for everyone to look at and interest
Our internal efficiency efforts should improve profitability soon
As we sell more AI products, this brings with it immediate higher profitability We are further encouraged as our international sales of our AI and IoT products substantially grew for the nine months of 2023, as compared to 2022
This marks a great R&D and marketing achievements
OMNIQ creates efficiencies by automating processes and actions using IoT and AI technology-based solutions
Our focus continues to be on building sales in our higher-margin AI products, growing our core business and executing on our cost-cutting plans to lead the company to profitability
That's good
This temporary drop is an opportunity to get out of it stronger
To conclude, I would like to assure you that our technology offerings continue to be acquired by the most demanding customers in the world, and we are committed to achieving profitability, while positioning the company for long-term growth
We announced the technological breakthrough winning MOD, Ministry of Defense performance competition for in-car Face Detection, adding to our machine vision AI solution
We hope that we will bring to see -- we will begin to see the uptick in large purchase orders during the fourth quarter and going forward
Our systems will be used for cloud management, enabling safer and quicker train subway experience
While seeing the quarters top line revenue decrease, OMNIQ continues its focus and advancement in achieving our 2023 objectives, focusing on increasing our AI product, sales and market footprint and executing our internal efficiency plans
And I also wanted to express my support and admiration to our employees who have been called up to the reserves to fight in the ward
We are devoted in executing our objectives of focusing on our AI footprint, which we're seeing increase sales year-over-year, quarter-over-quarter, we're selling more
We play an important role in the AI sector, offering pretensive [ph] machine vision technology-based products, which enhanced automation of parking, public safety, border control and crime inter prevention
And of course, that's going to continue in Q4 as well and allow us to show profitability very soon
Thank you, Richard, I appreciate your support
To start, I'd like to thank each one of our employees across our entire company for their continued hard work and dedication to our vision and strategic plan
We see actually increased demand, which is very similar to what happened in COVID during COVID years , where there were some industries dropped
As we discussed, that was done by -- mainly by the employee cuts that we've started, which, of course, we were able to do due to the fact that these employees were more related to product stabilization now that we are deployed in thousands of locations and the product is more stable
During the quarter, we made several significant announcements including, we received a purchase order from the Israel train company to deploy our AI-based machine vision system creating smarter and safer stations
I especially want to thank our Israeli employees, who are working hard despite the difficulties
And that's how we were able to create these cuts immediate cuts, which already started showing effect in Q2, continuing in Q3
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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Specifically, the revenue drop came from our US IoT operations, selling to many of the world's largest companies, our Fortune 100 and 500 customers, who were affected by the drop in consumer spending
We had a drop in revenue, which was mainly attributed to the macro economy situation affecting mainly consumer spending
And I also saw the Libra [ph] results, and realized that they had a weak quarter as well
These were two difficult quarters in that sense
OMNIQ reported revenue of $17.5 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, a decrease of 35% from $27 million in the third quarter of 2022
OMNIQ reported revenue of $65.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, a decrease of 15% from $77.5 million in the first nine months of 2022
While we remain confident in our mid- and long-term success, the opportunities ahead, the third quarter results of $17.5 million, representing a 35% decrease from Q3 2022 were negatively impacted by a delay in receiving large purchase orders for projects that we have already been awarded
Can you please explain if the war has an impact on the company's results? Shai Lustgarten So we did naturally have as it started, we saw kind of delay in order intake, but that was natural, of course, because the businesses were adjusting to the new reality to the new situation
Total operating expenses for the quarter was $6.6 million, a decrease of 23% from $8.6 million in the same period of last year
Net loss for the quarter was $4.3 million or a loss of $0.55 per basic share compared with a loss of $3.8 million or a loss of €0.52 million per basic share for the third quarter of last year
Adjusted EBITDA, meaning adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for the third quarter of 2023 amounted to a loss of €1.5 million compared with an adjusted EBITDA loss of $516,000 for the third quarter of 2022
Net loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was $11.7 million or a loss of $1.50 per basic share compared with a loss of $9.6 million or a loss of $1.29 per basic share for the first nine months of last year
Total operating expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 were $20.8 million compared to $24.2 million for the same period of 2022, a decrease of 14%
I've also noticed you exercised warrants in the company from $4, I've noticed, down to like $1.20 $1.40 I think it was
We have also taken and continue to take additional cost-cutting measures, and this is something that we started already since January of 2023 and also our number of employees decreased from 216 to 181 today, a total decrease of 35 employees, which is part of the cost cuts plant
Appreciate the concern
We do have, of course, and work with many other vendors, but the results you saw them dropping similar percentages to what we sell and others in the IoT space in the US, that is something that everyone saw and felt
We announced the termination of the definitive agreement to acquire Tadiran Telecom
The cancellation was due to ind not being satisfied with the covenant that were not met at the closing date
So, we are not -- we are affected, but we're not worried about it
   

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