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News Release from: Inventronics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 May 2004
Communications industry returns to
stability
Inventronics has revealed its 2004 first-quarter financial results.
Inventronics has revealed its 2004 first-quarter financial results The company reported sales of $3,264,000 for the first quarter of 2004, virtually unchanged from the first-quarter sales of $3,281,000 in 2003
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The consistency in quarter-over-quarter sales reflects a return to stability in communications industry spending, after a prolonged downward trend.
The volumes in the first quarter of 2004 have increased significantly over the same period last year, but due to the 17% decline in the US dollar against the Canadian dollar, the sales value for the quarters are nearly equal.
The first quarter is typically the slowest of the year for Inventronics, and sales are expected to increase as the seasonal infrastructure spending grows.
Inventronics' 2004 first-quarter EBITDA of $151,000 compares favourably with its EBITDA loss of $43,000 in the first quarter of 2003.
This is the first time the company's EBITDA has been positive in the first quarter since 2000, even though the sales level and the US dollar were at their lowest point during this four-year time frame.
The net loss for the quarter was $269,000 ($0.04 per share), which was a significant improvement from the net loss of $491,000 ($0.07 per share) achieved in the same period last year.
"Our efforts over the last two years to align costs and revenues were frustrated by continual reductions in activity in the telecommunications industry and the devaluation of the US dollar", said Dan Stearne, Inventronics' President and CEO.
"We are now experiencing stability in both the telecommunications and currency markets, and are better structured to work our way back to profitability".
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