Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

Statement
We’re encouraged that these pipeline opportunities across commercial defense markets will go a long way to replace the low-margin media business and support growth
We are well positioned for future growth at OSS
Bressner continues to do a better job of promoting the higher-margin OSS products
My engagement with customers and participation in global trade shows over this past quarter reaffirmed our unique position in the robust growth markets driven by artificial intelligence and sensor fusion, particularly in rugged high-performance compute demand at the Edge
Our broad market activity is already increasing the number of customer engagements and requests for information and proposals bolstering our confidence in our strategy and our ability to grow a robust multiyear pipeline
These successes align with our strategy to broaden the number of prime and customer contracts, increase our presence on more platforms and pursue multiyear contracts that can boost our pipeline and future revenue
While there’s still more work to do to mature our pipeline model, we are pleased to see that we have a robust and growing set of opportunities
Again, gives me optimism that we’re on a good track, and we’re going to have support not only from our customers but our government also
The team is working to close a large competitive opportunity for design, development, production and support for a rugged computing storage system in autonomous trucking market that would expand our platform, position in the market and lead to another multiyear demand opportunity
I’ve successfully completed my first full quarter as CEO, and I’m pleased with the building momentum and confidence in the rugged Edge processing market
So I’m excited about the new normal, the pace that we’re working at here to get after growth, which I mentioned augmenting the team to continue to try to build upon that momentum
These efforts would broaden our customer base and provide for a multi-year hardware and software demand opportunity
We successfully established a new military customer, a new defense prime and a new international customer while securing a position on a new platform
The award from the foreign navy submarine program is special noteworthy in how it exemplifies our key objectives
So 3U SDS has been strong
Aligned with our pursuit of greater defense revenues, which many times include classified programs, I’m pleased to announce that we recently received our site facility clearance
As with DSEI we were able to advance existing efforts and establish new procedure opportunities with new prime and new divisions within the U.S
Bressner’s gross margin percentage improved 40 basis points to 22.6%, largely due to product mix, the sale of higher-margin OSS products and having sought after products readily available and sold at a premium
But outside of the timing of the budgets and some of the approvals, it feels like you’re gaining some really good momentum
We were able to leverage our Bressner team in these engagements to strengthen our channel to market for OSS products in Europe and the Middle East
A follow-on win in hardware buy for an additional storage system product for the P-8, a new contract with an existing defense prime contractor for a new classified platform, a commercial order and win in a dynamic racing industry encompassing our product at this newest OSS customer
And I was quite enthused to find the – how well our story resonated with the opportunity to bring advanced high-performance compute, artificial intelligence, machine learning to the battlefield
In addition to solidifying relationships with current customers, we were able to expand our engagement within countries in Asia, Europe and the Middle East
So from a product perspective, we’re in a good place right now
And I intended to just say congrats earlier, but just on the success and acceleration, it seems like you’re gaining a lot of interest here, and it’s great to hear the enthusiasm and see the progress
The core OSS gross margin recovered nicely
It’s resonating through the half and half and being able to tell our story there and see it resonates so well
This capture involves a new prime, a new platform and provides a multiyear production and support opportunity
Also on the defense side, we are well engaged with the potential sole-source opportunity for rugged Edge processing and storage for a multi-vehicle platform support activity
In Q3, we secured several significant wins across commercial and defense markets
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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The balance of the revenue reduction was associated with delays in certain customer orders for defense applications, lack of revenue from a bankrupt autonomous truck customer as well as a slowdown and general malaise in commercial markets
They include consolidated [Technical Difficulty] noting consolidated revenue was down 11.9% from $54.2 million to $47.7 million, predominantly due to a decrease of $10.5 million in media revenues
Gross profit in the third quarter decreased to $3.7 million with overall gross margin percentage decreasing 40 basis points to 26.6% due to a higher mix of Bressner revenue
We also continue to see a commercial slowness or general malaise that has manifested in delays and/or reduced awards
Again, one of the issues that seems to be a repeating is the difficulty in finding and hiring people with security clearances
Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP metric, was negative $248,000, a decrease from positive adjusted EBITDA of $1 million in the year ago quarter
We could experience further impacts going forward as the budget approval continues to be delayed
Approximately $4.3 million of such reduction was attributable to the loss of our former media customer from who we do not expect further revenue
Our operating results could be negatively impacted by inflationary pressures, supply chain constraints, increased interest rates, U.S
Quarterly revenues reflect a reduction of $5.1 million or 26.9% compared to the same period in 2022
Our operating results may fluctuate significantly, which would make our future operating results difficult to predict and could cause operating results to fall below expectations or guidance
And I think we’ve talked earlier in the statements about the kind of general malaise in the commercial market
This reduction was predominantly attributable to lower revenue and the write-down associated with the impairment of goodwill
government continuing resolution CR or other economic conditions
If we are unable to offset anticipated future decreases in revenue in our media and entertainment space with other business, our operating financial results may be adversely affected
Military conflicts, global pandemics or other disasters or public health concerns and economic instability in regions of the world where we have operations, customers or source material or sell products may affect such markets
Our products are subject to competition, including competition from the customers to whom we may sell and competitive pressure from new and existing companies, may harm our business sales, growth rates and market share
But until then, it’s weighing down on the overall margin for OSS
New entrants into our market may harm our competitive position
Joe Gomes So just in your press release, you talked about an overall delay in deployment of the technology
   

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