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Vuzix Reports Second Quarter 2024 Results
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI) ("Vuzix" or the "Company"), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented
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[{"type":"text","content":"ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI) (\"Vuzix\" or the \"Company\"), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products, today reported its second quarter results for the three months ended June 30, 2024.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"In our second quarter of 2024, Vuzix underpinned key end-customer and strategic relationships within the enterprise, consumer, and defense markets centered around business opportunities that are expected to have a meaningful impact on both our balance sheet and top-line revenue growth over the back half of 2024 and into 2025,\" said Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix. \"At the same time, we have reduced our annual cost structure going forward by $8M as compared to 2023 through headcount reductions, tighter cost controls and a voluntary and widely adopted salary reduction program that offers staff, directors and management restricted stock or stock options in lieu of foregoing up to 50% of their base salaries.\"\nThe following table compares condensed elements of the Company's unaudited summarized Consolidated Statements of Operations data for the three months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively:\nFor Three Months Ended June 30\n($000s except per share amounts)\n2024\n2023\nSales:\nSales of Products\n$ 601\n$4,425\nSales of Engineering Services\n491\n266\nTotal Sales\n1,093\n4,691\nTotal Cost of Sales\n1,426\n3,718\nGross Profit (Loss)\n(333)\n972\nGross Profit (Loss) %\n(30) %\n21 %\nOperating Expenses:\nResearch and Development\n2,359\n2,837\nSelling and Marketing\n2,238\n2,510\nGeneral and Administrative\n4,492\n4,260\nDepreciation and Amortization\n1,188\n973\nImpairment of Patents and Trademarks\n30,120\n-\nLoss from Operations\n(40,730)\n(9,608)\nTotal Other Income (Expense)\n118\n563\n \nNet Loss\n \n(40,612)\n \n(9,045)\nLoss per Common Share\n$ (0.62)\n$ (0.14)\nSecond Quarter 2024 Financial Results\nFor the three months ended June 30, 2024, total revenues decreased by 77% to $1.1 million versus $4.7 million for the comparable period in 2023. The decrease in total revenues was due to lower product sales and specifically reduced unit sales of M400 smart glasses as compared to the prior year's period, when an Asian distributor placed a significant order. Engineering services revenues were $0.5 million...