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Coda Octopus Group Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2024 Financial Results
ORLANDO, FL, March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coda Octopus Group, Inc. (“CODA” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CODA), a global market leader in 3D/4D/5D/6D
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[{"type":"text","content":"ORLANDO, FL, March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coda Octopus Group, Inc. (“CODA” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CODA), a global market leader in 3D/4D/5D/6D imaging sonar technology for real time subsea intelligence and cutting-edge diving technology, today reported its unaudited financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended January 31, 2024 (FQ2024). Annmarie Gayle, CODA’s Chairman and CEO, commented: “Our First Quarter 2024 results were in alignment with our internal Business Plan but down compared to our First Quarter 2023. Our internal Business Plan anticipates that our Engineering Business revenue in Fiscal 2024 will be backloaded and therefore this has impacted on our consolidated revenue in our FQ2024. Defense Programs are currently funded by continuing resolutions which means reduced allocation of funding to these programs until agreement is reached on the federal budget. We had also anticipated that several booked engineering projects would not be converted to revenue until later in Fiscal 2024 due to the lead times for receiving components. Despite this, our Engineering Business segment has made some encouraging operational progress. The UK Engineering Business has been seeing an increase in order take and some new programs. Commenting on the state of the Marine Industry, Ms Gayle continued “The industry’s biggest trade show is Oceanology, which occurs every two years and took place last week. We therefore anticipated in our FQ2024 that outright sales in the Marine Technology Business would be down as typically customers postpone significant investment decisions until after this event. We are encouraged by increased enquiries for our rental solutions for offshore renewables. Although these are early days, this is good news for the Marine Industry and for us. We are also seeing increased opportunities for our Echoscope solution for some underwater construction projects in the Middle East, where new islands are scheduled for development in calendar year 2024.” First Quarter 2024 (FQ2024) Financial Summary The numbers below have been rounded to one decimal point. The full FQ2024 financials can be found in CODA’s Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. Total revenue was approximately $4.5 million compared to $5.6 million in FQ2023, representing a reduction of 20.3%.Revenues from the Marine Technology Business (Products) were $3.5...