Comtech reports Q1 EPS (67c) vs ($5.29) last year

Reports Q1 revenue $111M vs $115.8M last year. Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, stated: “We are pleased to report the continued positive momentum in our business, achieving our third consecutive quarter of strong positive operating cash inflows and $51 million of total liquidity. Comtech (CMTL) has built a much stronger financial position. We continue to be focused and selective in our product, marketing and sales initiatives which yielded another quarter of sequential improvement in our gross margin percentage as well as continued cash flow generation. Net bookings for the quarter of $102 million and our backlog of $663 million do not yet include the majority of funding related to the long-term contract extension worth over $130 million that we secured in early November with a domestic Tier 1 mobile network operator. Our continued progress in the first quarter was accomplished notwithstanding the short-term impacts of the U.S. government shutdown, which was resolved in November. We are particularly gratified to see the positive reaction from our current and prospective employees, vendors and customers to the recent significant improvements in Comtech’s financial position.”