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| The sales team really hit its stride in Q4, we've got a really strong team that is out |
| It's a strong 40% margin play just on those cases |
| We have emerged from this time with an impeccable balance sheet, and we are encouraged about the significant opportunities we have before us here in the fourth quarter and going forward |
| We see positive trends ahead |
| We’re super confident on our ability to start cranking out more and more brass |
| This improvement was primarily driven by a nearly 600 basis point sequential increase in gross margins due to decreases in tooling expenses, cost-cutting initiatives and higher traffic on the GunBroker.com marketplace |
| We are seeing a stronger pull-through here in January and are optimistic as we grow our capacities for rifle case production as we expect to return to profitability during the 2025 fiscal year |
| We experienced an improvement in the marginality of our Ammunition segment, while the margins of the GunBroker.com Marketplace segment remained strong |
| And so I think we're gaining that confidence back day by day |
| We continue to see positive demand trends building for our ammunition product and activity continued to increase on GunBroker.com as we enter into the final quarter of our fiscal year |
| We continue to see strong demand for our products and continue to bring on rifle capacity |
| We continue to see positive trends going into Q4 |
| Nice improvement on a sequential basis |
| Brass sales are strong, great pipeline, production – more capacity is coming online every day |
| In addition, our Marketplace division continues its upward trend with seasonal sales continuing to increase here in Q4 |
| We came out of shot show and talking to all the retailers and dealers out there, everybody's pretty confident about what we're seeing in the market |
| You got to remember, we haven’t really delivered to our marketplace enhanced checkout features, and we see that as a big upside for us going into Q1 of 2025 as we rollout the multi-item cart and checkout process |
| Our casing sales, however, which afford us higher gross margins increased to $4.7 million, up from $3 million in the prior year period |
| The launch of our cart will drive subsequent evolutions of the platform as we enable tiered category fees, cross-selling, shipping, financing, a better user experience, enhanced search functionality and much more |
| The pricing out there is healthier than it was in Q2 and Q3 or in Q1 and Q2 |
| Matt Koranda Does that mean we can expect positive gross margins in the AMMO business in the fourth quarter? Jared Smith I think we’re going to be well on our way to breakeven our positive gross margins in the fourth quarter |
| We recently announced a $10-plus million brass contract with ZRODelta and continue to see increasing demand as the ammunition and firearms market recovers from the 2022 and 2023's post-pandemic slump |
| Third quarter revenues were up $1.6 million sequentially, but net loss was dramatically improved to a loss of $1.6 million for the quarter compared to a loss of $7.5 million in the prior quarter and a loss of $4.1 million in the same quarter of the prior year |
| We still saw positive trends |
| Just curious any update on kind of your outlook on military or global contract business? Jared Smith It's really, really solid and we've held off on taking large contracts, because we wanted real internal proof of performance before we go sign on to any larger deals |
| Despite this backdrop, AMMO continued to transition its business to a stronger and leaner operating model as we push through this very tough economic period |
| Our improvement to our marketplace GunBroker.com progresses as our cart platform is on schedule to launch on April 1 |
| Paul will be helping us drive greater compliance and ensuring our business stays in the black as we maneuver in these regulated markets |
| And then it looked like the proprietary ammo had a little better sales during the quarter than I'd expected |
| Inventories are healthy |
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| Our marketplace revenue was $14 million for the reported quarter, compared to $15.4 million in the prior year quarter, which decreased as a result of the current macroeconomic environment impacting our industry as well as others |
| Calendar 2023 was a challenging year for our industry and for the U.S |
| The decrease in revenue was related to a decrease in sales activity from our Ammunition segment as a result of a change in the U.S |
| The obvious question is GMV looks like it was down year-over-year |
| Well, it's a little bit of a mixed bag on the margin, because we're still seeing overheads across the entire ammunition business or across our entire factory, a little higher than we would like |
| In particular, for loaded ammo, what are you seeing for powder propellant and any other kind of costs that are hurting margin right now? Jared Smith There is certainly a constraint for propellant |
| They fell off a bit sequentially, obviously up a bunch year-over-year |
| The decrease in gross profit margin was related to the shift in our sales mix |
| This resulted in a net loss per share of $0.02, or adjusted net income per share of $0.04 compared to the prior year quarter of net loss per share of $0.04 or adjusted net income per share of $0.04 |
| Next question for me is just looking at ammo margin here, still tough, but I'm curious if you can dive into it a little bit more, how much of that was maybe, we'll call it, one-time-ish in nature with the press still being down versus just kind of headwinds that are out there in the industry |
| The decrease in cost of goods sold was related to the decrease in sales volume |
| economy |
| I think people are coming off of this kind of post 2022-2023 slump |
| And then just turn into GunBroker, I guess I’m curious |
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