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HIGHWAY HOLDINGS REPORTS FISCAL 2024 THIRD QUARTER AND NINE MONTH RESULTS; THIRD QUARTER SALES INCREASE 60% YEAR OVER YEAR
HONG KONG, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Highway Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: HIHO) (the "Company" or "Highway Holdings") today reported financial results for its
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[{"type":"text","content":"HONG KONG, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Highway Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: HIHO) (the \"Company\" or \"Highway Holdings\") today reported financial results for its fiscal third quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2023, with a 60% increase in revenue and a $0.06 increase in diluted earnings per share for the fiscal third quarter of 2024, both compared to the year ago period.\n\nNet sales for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024 increased 60% to $4.1 million compared with $2.6 million in the year ago period. Net income for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024 increased to $302,000, or $0.07 per diluted share, compared with $52,000 or $0.01 per diluted share in the year ago period.\nNet sales for the first nine months of fiscal year 2024 were $6.8 million, compared with $8.5 million in the year ago period. Net income for the first nine months of 2023 was $177,000, or $0.04 per diluted share, compared with a net income of $831,000, or $0.20 per diluted share for the same period last year. Revenue in the first nine months of fiscal year 2024 was significantly impacted by the COVID boom and post-COVID bust cycle on Highway Holdings' customers.\nRoland Kohl, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Highway Holdings, said, \"We ended the calendar year on a positive note, as compared to the year ago period, with revenue increasing about 60% in the third quarter of fiscal year 2024 and diluted EPS increasing 600% over the same period. We are happy to announce such strong results, and encouraged to be off to a good start for the new calendar year 2024. We are cautiously optimistic about the coming year based on several company catalysts that we believe will help us to drive growth, as we focus on the continued recovery of our business and turnaround of our Company.\"\n\"There are three main reasons for our cautious optimism. First, we are seeing a slow but steady return to more normal order patterns of our customers. This represents an important inflection point after almost 12 months since the start of the downturn. Our strong revenue growth in the third quarter of fiscal 2024 was led in part by this return to more normal order patterns and we read this as a sign that the huge inventory levels of our customers now have been depleted, which indicates that the time with zero or little order quantities are behind us.\"\n\"S...