Frequency Electronics, Inc.
Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Published: 13 Jul 2022

[Operator:]

Greetings. And welcome to the Frequency Electronics Year-End Fiscal 2022 Earnings Release Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. We will forego a question-and-answer session at the end of the call and look forward to speaking to investors in the days ahead. Any statements made by the company during this conference call regarding the future constitute forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements inherently involve uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or contribute to such differences are included in the company's press releases and are further detailed in the company's periodic report filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of the conference call. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Thomas McClelland, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer.

[Thomas McClelland:]

Hi. This is Tom McClelland. I've worked very closely with Stan Sloane for the past four years and I wish him all the best in his retirement. Now we've been through a really challenging year financially, but I'm actually quite excited about our prospects going forward. The development challenges which we've struggled with during the last year are behind us, and we're poised to begin delivering cutting-edge hardware for several important space programs. In addition, we're really quite excited about new technology under development, which is largely funded externally. We're developing next-generation precision timing systems, in particular, pulse laser-based rubidium atomic clocks as well as mercury ion atomic clocks. These developments are on budget and on schedule for demonstration in 2023 and 2024, respectively. We're also in the process of positioning our technology to support the space community's migration to small satellites, leveraging our core precision quartz and atomic clock technology, but with additional digital processing capabilities in order to provide better performance, but at reduced size, weight, power and cost. So I've worked hard at FEI for the last 38 years to keep our technology current and also to make sure we deliver reliable quality products for our customers. I'm proud of the enduring success we've had in this regard. Although the last year has been tough financially, FEI is strong and has a tremendous technical arsenal, which we're committed to successfully deploying in position, navigation, timing and other applications. I've seen many ups and downs during my four-decade tenure here at FEI, experience which has sometimes been humbling and inherently tempers any predictions for the future. This being said, I'm extremely bullish regarding FEI's outlook. Although it was a difficult year, we had some significant wins and expect additional awards in the upcoming year. I look forward to leading our committed workforce at FEI, including a new generation of very talented engineers and scientists. At this time, I'll turn things over to Steve Bernstein.

[Steven Bernstein:]

Thank you, Tom, and good afternoon. For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, consolidated revenue was $48.3 million compared to $54.3 million for the same period of the prior fiscal year. The components of revenue are as follows

[Operator:]

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This concludes today's event. You may disconnect at this time. And have a wonderful day. Thank you for your participation.

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