PRSO earnings call analysis

NASDAQ:PRSO Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Generated on 6/6/2026 Conference Operator: Good afternoon and welcome to Parasso Inc.' 's third quarter 2025 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. If anyone needs assistance at any time during the conference call, please press the star key followed by the zero key on your touchtone phone. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today, Monday, the 16th of March, 2026. I would now like to turn the call over to your host for today's conference call, Mr. Jim Sullivan. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Please go ahead. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining today's conference call to discuss Parasso's fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results. I'm Jim Sullivan, CFO of Parasso, and joining me today is Ron Glibury, our CEO. Today, after the market closed, we issued a press release and related Form 8K, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The press release and Form 8K are available on Parasso's website at www.parassoinc.com under the Investor Relations section. There is also a slide presentation that we will be using in conjunction with today's call that may be accessed through the webcast link on the Investor Relations website. As a reminder, comments made during today's conference call may include forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, could be deemed as forward-looking. Perasso advises caution and reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements include, without limitation, any projections of revenue, margins, expenses, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net loss, cash flows, or other financial items, including anticipated cost savings, as well as any statements concerning the expected development, performance, and market share or competitive performance of our products or technologies, and any statements related to prospective future financing arrangements or capital transactions, and the evaluation or pursuit of strategic alternatives. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to PRASO on the date hereof. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause PRASO's actual results to differ materially from those implied by the forward-looking statements, including unexpected changes in the company's business. More detailed information about these risk factors and additional risk factors are set forth in PRASO's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. PRASO expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Additionally, the company's press release and management statements during this conference call will include discussions of certain measures and financial information in terms of GAAP and non-GAAP. With respect to remarks on today's call involving non-GAAP numbers, unless otherwise indicated, Referenced amounts exclude stock-based compensation expense, severance costs, amortization of intangible assets, and the change in fair value of warrant liabilities. These non-GAAP financial measures, definitions, and the reconciliation of the differences between them and comparable GAAP measures are presented in our press release and related Form 8K, which provide additional details. For those of you unable to listen to the entire call at this time, The recording will be available on the investor relations page of our website. I'll now turn the call over to our CEO, Ron Glibury, for his prepared remarks. Ron? Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Jim. Good afternoon and welcome to everyone on the phone and webcast. We appreciate you joining today's conference call. We closed out 2025 with a solid fourth quarter that was in line with our guidance range and supported by continued year-over-year growth in millimeter wave product shipments. For the full year, revenue from our millimeter wave products grew approximately sixfold compared to 2024. Together with healthy gross margins and our disciplined approach to expense management, this contributed to a meaningful improvement in our bottom line results for the year. I continue to be pleased with our team's execution over the past several quarters. The year-over-year expansion in millimeter-wave revenue underscores the growing commercial traction of our 60 gigahertz solutions in multiple targeted end markets. It also reflects a combination of increased product shipments as well as the ramp of newly secured design wins across both new and existing customers. Notably, we have achieved this while maintaining tight control over operating expenses. Turning to slide four. Fixed wireless access remains our largest and longest served end market. Not only was it the primary driver for our millimeter wave revenue growth in 2025, but we believe that fixed wireless access will continue to be a sizable ongoing market opportunity for our 60 gigahertz millimeter wave technology. We saw a broad recovery in customer demand and order trends throughout the year, which included notable traction for our fully integrated DUNE platform, as well as our prospective 60 gigahertz millimeter wave modules. Specific to our DUNE platform, we have seen sustained uptake by customers for deployments of high speed wireless broadband in dense urban environments. The fundamental performance benefits of the integrated platform, including lower cost deployment, low power, long range, and point-to-point capabilities continue to resonate with a growing list of wireless internet service providers that span North America as well as Africa. More broadly, I want to briefly reiterate two significant fixed wireless access customer wins that we secured in 2025. First, in July, we announced that Tachyon Networks had selected Peraza's Perspectives modules for their latest outdoor 60 gigabit wireless solutions. supporting up to 48 client connections per sector and targeted for cost-effective deployments in both dense urban and rural environments. Then in September, we announced our renewed collaboration with WeLink to accelerate cost-effective deployments of a multi-gigabit mesh architecture for business and consumers in dense urban neighborhoods across multiple major U.S. cities. We believe these customer wins position us well for continued growth over the coming years. Most recently, in early March at Mobile World Congress, MicroTeek launched its next generation 60 gigahertz wireless N-ray point-to-point product incorporating Perazzo technology. Given this customer's substantial market share of wireless internet service providers globally, we believe this product launch has the potential to reinforce our position as a leading provider of 60 gigahertz semiconductors for the fixed wireless access market. Today, we continue to support a wide span of ongoing proof-of-concepts utilized in Perazzo's 60 GHz technology with a diverse group of wireless internet service providers. If additional proof-of-concepts are converted into deployments, we would expect incremental production orders to support sustained year-over-year growth of the millimeter wave product revenue. Moving to slide 5. fixed wireless access, we have continued to see increased market awareness of 60 GHz technology extending to additional end markets, most notably tactical communications. In fact, 2025 marked a significant step forward for Perazzo as we successfully transitioned an initial prospective customer engagement on a conceptual military defense application from an emerging adjacent opportunity to what we now view as a definitive new market vertical with high growth potential. In April, we achieved the first major milestone toward commercialization within the tactical communications market. This was highlighted by our announced contract to incorporate Peraza's 60 GHz wireless technology into a leading specialized defense contractor's innovative and first-of-its-kind deployable system solution for enhanced situational awareness on the battlefield. We delivered initial production shipments in support of our joint solution with this defense customer in June, and then we were pleased to report in November the successful completion of initial field trials. Notably, this initial customer engagement has served to further validate the robust performance of our technology, while also demonstrating why our millimeter wave solutions are particularly well-suited for these environments. Traditional wireless communications are highly susceptible to enemy detection and jamming. In contrast, 60 gigahertz millimeter wave can offer stealthy communication characteristics thanks to narrow beam forming, dynamic beam steering, and oxygen attenuation. These characteristics are designed to provide low probability of detection, low probability of interception, and strong anti-jamming characteristics. all while operating in unlicensed frequency band and avoiding interference with licensed spectrum. Today, the jointly developed solution for enhanced situational awareness is undergoing additional planned field trials with our lead defense contractor. The collective feedback from these trials has been consistently positive, and we continue to believe this solution and partnership could represent a meaningful long-term revenue opportunity for Perazzo. Having said that, the progress we achieved over the past year established a strong foundation for broader engagement with our lead customer and for an expanded presence in the tactical communications market. Earlier this month, we were pleased to both name Intact as our lead defense contractor customer and also announced that Intact selected Perazzo's 60 gigahertz millimeter wave technology for use in its next generation drone identification friend or foe system. Given the significance of this latest win and new application for our technology, I'll turn to the next slide to review additional details. To further highlight this recent win and its validation of our 60 gigahertz millimeter wave technology for mission-critical defense applications, I want to briefly talk about the capabilities that we are enabling for our Israeli defense contractor customer. Intacct selected Peraza technology to serve as the core communications backbone for its next generation drone identification friend or foe system, engineered specifically for highly contested electronic warfare environments. With the rapid proliferation of drones on the battlefield, secure identification systems are becoming essential to prevent friendly fire incidents and enable safe coordination between unmanned and manned forces. This innovative platform enables secure, real-time, mutual authentication between friendly drones and ground forces, allowing counter-drone systems and battlefield operators to rapidly distinguish friend from foe in today's increasingly crowded skies. A fundamental characteristic of our 60 GHz mmWave technology is its inherently secure and directional communications channel. Additionally, our beamforming wireless transceivers deliver low power lengths with extremely low probability of detection, all of which makes our technology ideal for dense battlefield environments where traditional radio frequency signals can easily be jammed and or compromised. Lastly, I want to emphasize that this recently announced milestone is the result of an ongoing multi-project collaboration with Intacct over the past two years during which we have consistently demonstrated the readiness of Peraza's millimeter wave technology to enable diverse, mission-critical military communications applications. Turning to slide seven, while fixed wireless access and tactical communications remain our primary focus area, we continue to see compelling incremental opportunities in adjacent markets. Many of these adjacent market opportunities originate with a prospective customer approaching us looking for a solution and the significant versatility of our 60 gigahertz millimeter wave technology allows us to solve connectivity challenges they have not been able to overcome using traditional wireless technology. One example that I highlighted on a previous conference call was our first ever production shipment around mid-year for a customer's wireless video system in classroom environments. This specific application required delivering reliable high performance low latency video independent of congested Wi-Fi networks. As we've continued to engage with additional prospective customers across a broad range of end markets and applications, a number of our discussions have converged around a shared pain point, how to overcome the challenges associated with processing massive amounts of high bandwidth video for edge AI applications. A few prominent use cases include last mile delivery services, autonomous vehicles, and drones. Notably, customers are especially attracted to 60 gigahertz millimeter waves, unique combination of multi-gigabit data rates for high-resolution video streaming, ultra-low latency for real-time performance, and exceptional power efficiency, which is critical for battery-operated edge AI devices. To highlight another recent milestone, during the fourth quarter, we announced our collaboration with Vireworks. We are supplying our latest 60 gigahertz prospective modules to power their BX60 platform, enabling multi-gigabit wireless connectivity specifically designed for Robotoxi fleet vehicles and physical AI applications. This partnership directly addresses one of the biggest bottlenecks in autonomous vehicle operations. the need to rapidly upload terabytes of telemetry and high-resolution camera data when vehicles return to depots for charging, while simultaneously delivering software updates. Conventional Wi-Fi and 5G solutions can easily become oversaturated under these demands. The VX60 system delivers breakthrough performance, supporting up to one terabyte of data transfer per vehicle per hour, which we believe can surpass the capabilities of traditional alternatives. As I stated in our announcement, this is exactly the kind of challenge our 60 gigahertz products were designed to solve. Autonomous vehicles and the AI systems that power them to process tremendous amounts of data require an immense bandwidth, and that's what our technology does extremely well. This Robotaxi application could represent one of the largest scale uses of our millimeter wave solutions to date, and further validates the unique value we bring to customers across diverse edge AI applications. BuyerWorks and its Robotaxi platforms are a perfect example of how adjacent opportunities expand our served addressable market and help diversify our revenue base beyond fixed wireless access and tactical communications. In closing, we are encouraged by the growing market awareness of 60 gigahertz wireless technology and its unique ability to deliver high bandwidth and secure connectivity in congested operating environments. Our focus for 2026 remains on broadening our customer base and pipeline of design wins across fixed wireless access and tactical communications while selectively pursuing high growth opportunities in adjacent markets such as Edge AI. Combined with our ongoing commitment to disciplined expense management, we believe we are well-positioned to deliver continued year-over-year growth in millimeter-wave revenue in our operating results over the coming year. Lastly, before turning the call over to Jim, I want to acknowledge a unique challenge that we recently became aware of and which we now anticipate to have a negative impact on our top-line results for the first quarter. Due to an unexpected delay in the receipt of key materials from one of our Asia-based suppliers, which as of today we believe is stuck in customs, we are unlikely to be able to fulfill a significant order that was previously scheduled for shipment during the first quarter. Although we do expect to fulfill this order during the second quarter, the delayed shipment is anticipated to result in more than half a million dollars impact on our anticipated revenue for the first quarter. are disappointed by the delayed shipment, I want to emphasize that this is largely reflective of a temporary supplier logistics issue, and we remain optimistic about the future prospect of Peraza's overall business. With that, I'll hand the call over to Jim to review the financials and provide our revenue outlook for the first quarter. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Thank you, Ron. Turning now to the results for the fourth quarter of 2025. Total net revenue for the fourth quarter was $2.9 million, compared with $3.2 million for the prior quarter and $3.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2024. Full year 2025 net revenue was $12.2 million, compared with $14.6 million in the prior year. Product revenue in the fourth quarter was $2.8 million, compared with $3.1 million in the prior quarter and $3.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. The decrease in product revenues for the fourth quarter of 2025 from the comparable period of 2024 was primarily attributable to the reduction in shipments of memory IC products due to the previously announced end of life of the products. This was partially offset by a year-over-year increase in shipments of millimeter wave products in the fourth quarter of 2025. Full year 2025 product revenue was $11.8 million compared with $14.2 million in 2024. Specific to sales of millimeter wave products, Revenues were $2.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, compared with $3 million in the prior quarter and $0.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. Total sales of millimeter wave products for full year 2025 increased to $9.1 million from $1.3 million in 2024. Gap gross margin was 52.2% in the fourth quarter, down from 56.2% in the prior quarter, and compared with 56.3% in the year-ago quarter. Gap gross margin for the full year 2025 was 58% compared with 51.7% in the prior year. The increase in gap gross margin for the full year 2025 compared with 2024 was primarily attributable to increased millimeter wave margins due to increased shipments and an increase in memory IC product margins due to reduced amortization expense related to intangible assets, which were fully amortized as of December 31, 2024. On a non-gap basis, Gross margin for the fourth quarter was 52.2%, compared with 56.2% in the prior quarter, and compared with 71.6% in the fourth quarter of 2024. Full year 2025 non-GAAP gross margin was 58%, compared with 67.2% in 2024. The decreases in non-GAAP gross margin for the fourth quarter and full year 2025, compared with the comparable periods of 2024, were primarily attributable to reduced shipments of our memory IC products. Gap operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2025 were $2.8 million, compared with $3 million in the prior quarter and $3.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. Gap operating expenses for the full year of 2025 were $11.8 million, compared with $20 million in the prior year. The decrease in operating expenses on a gap basis from the comparable period of 2024 was primarily attributable to reduced stock-based compensation expense, and amortization expense related to intangible assets fully amortized in 2024, as well as a $2.3 million decrease in severance and software license obligation costs. Non-GAAP operating expenses, which exclude stock-based compensation, severance costs, and amortization of intangible assets, were $2.7 million in the fourth quarter, compared with $2.9 million in the prior quarter and $3.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. Non-GAAP operating expenses for the full year of 2025 were $11.3 million, compared with $14.9 million in 2024. The decrease in operating expenses on a non-GAAP basis for the full year of 2025, compared with 2024, was primarily attributable to a $1.8 million decrease in software license obligation costs and the benefits realized from previously implemented cost reductions and ongoing cost containment initiatives. Gap net loss for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $1.2 million, or a loss of 13 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $1.2 million, or a loss of 17 cents per share in the prior quarter, and compared with a net loss of $1.6 million, or a loss of 37 cents per share in the same quarter a year ago. Full year 2025 gap net loss was $4.8 million, or a loss of 67 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $10.7 million, or or a loss of $3.57 a share in 2024. Non-GAAP net loss, which excludes stock-based compensation, amortization of intangibles, severance costs, and changes in fair value of warrant liabilities for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $1.2 million, or a loss of $0.13 per share. This compared with a non-GAAP net loss of $1.1 million, or a loss of $0.15 per share in the prior quarter, and a net loss of $0.5 million, or a loss per share of 13 cents in the same quarter a year ago. Full-year non-GAAP net loss of 2025 was $4.3 million, or a net loss of 60 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $5.1 million, or a net loss of $1.71 per share in 2024. The weighted average number of basic and diluted shares outstanding for purposes of calculating both GAAP and non-GAAP EPS for the fourth quarter of 2025 was approximately 9.2 million shares. Adjusted EBITDA, which we define as gap net income or loss as reported, excluding stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, severance costs, change in fair value of warrant liabilities, interest expense, depreciation and amortization, and the provision for income taxes, was negative $1.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, compared with negative $1 million in the prior quarter and negative $0.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. Full year 2025 adjusted EBITDA was negative $4 million, compared with negative $4.5 million in 2024. With regard to the balance sheet, as of December 31st, 2025, the company had approximately $2.9 million of cash, compared with $1.9 million as of September 30th, 2025. The net increase of approximately $1 million in the company's cash balance for the fourth quarter reflected approximately $2.1 million in net proceeds from sales under the company's at-the-market offering program during the fourth quarter. As of today's call, the company has approximately 12.6 million shares of common stock and exchangeable shares outstanding. As previously disclosed, the company has been exploring potential strategic alternatives, including a merger, sale of assets, or other similar transaction, as well as various potential sources of additional capital. Aside from confirming that the strategic review process continues to be ongoing in coordination with the company's financial advisor, there are no related updates to share on today's call from what we have previously disclosed. Now, turning to our outlook. We remain optimistic about the breadth of customer engagements for our millimeter wave solutions across fixed wireless access, tactical military communications, and other markets. However, as Ron previously discussed, A large order that was previously planned for shipment in the first quarter is now expected to be shipped in the second quarter of 2026. Given the size of the order, this delay is expected to have a meaningfully negative impact on our revenue forecast for the first quarter. Unrelated to this order, overall visibility into future demand is lower due to a combination of irregular order patterns from our fixed wireless access customers, in addition to having multiple new customers that have yet to establish observable order patterns. Based on revenue recognized year-to-date and assuming no contribution from the previously mentioned delayed order shipment, the company currently expects total net revenue for the first quarter of 2026 to be approximately $1.2 million. This concludes our prepared remarks, and we thank you for your time this afternoon. Operator, please commence the Q&A session. Conference Operator: Thank you. At this time, we will be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: One moment please while we poll for questions. And the first question today is coming from David Williams from Benchmark. Conference Operator: David, your line is live. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. Thanks so much for taking my questions and congratulations on the progress. Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Dave. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Yeah, maybe Ron first. If you kind of think about that intact deal, when should we think about the revenues from that begin to start coming in? And is there any way to maybe size the total revenue opportunity for what you see in front of you here now? Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: Yeah, good question. Really, that revenue is comprised of two components. One is what we call non-recurring engineering, which is NRE, of course, one-time payment. And the other is what we call production revenue. And we're seeing, I would say, 90% NRE right now, 10% product revenue. I'm not sure, Dave, we haven't split it out specifically. Maybe I'll leave it to Jim to maybe explicitly talk about it. But we see... The real shift to what I would call production revenue, as a matter of fact, I just hung up with them earlier today, I'm sorry, that the real production is going to shift being the second half of 2026. So that's kind of what we're looking at right now. We do expect more non-recurrent engineering revenue. Primarily, it's just really adopting this. One of the primary goals for us is just really getting the power consumption down. That's taking a lot of effort. I would say right now, the meaningful revenue, I would say 90% what we call NRE, and the second half of 26 will shift into product revenue. Unidentified Parasso Representative: We have the eligibility for that. Sorry, Dave, are you still there? David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Yeah, sorry about that. Thanks for the color. I couldn't get my phone off mute. All right, Ron, so you'd also talked about the adjacent market opportunities and clearly a lot of benefits there, but is there a way to quantify the number of customers that you're in active conversations with and maybe just provide a little color on the different segments where you think that you could move pretty quickly into an order or potentially production? Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: So, you know, the number of customers there, you know, we're really looking at maybe in the order of three to five. But the difference is there are really more household names, I would say. You know, again, confidentiality prevents me from kind of explicitly saying, but, you know, like certainly Fortune 100 companies, if you will. You know, I guess the feedback to us is the sooner the better, right? I mean, you know, take the Robotaxi situation, for example. Again, you know, these devices or these vehicles collect information all day long. They get back. They have to recharge. They've got one hour to download a terabit of data and then go down to the data center, process it, right, and then send new algorithms back up to the vehicle. Now, if it was just one vehicle, sure, that's one thing. But it's 100 vehicles, for example. And the real challenge is, and what we have to keep in mind is, it's really the aggregate throughput here, not just one vehicle, but it's hundreds of vehicles. To answer your question, this customer would take our existing silicon. I could see us being in production at the end of this year, frankly. But, you know, we could even see ourselves going into next-generation chips with this customer because basically the feedback from the customer is the demand is limitless. So, yeah, so we're really hoping that we can get, you know, these devices into production, you know, later this year, early 2017. Now, the other thing I'll mention is I really want to shout out to this customer that we did a press release with called BarWorks. They've got a very, very sophisticated software solution that we've been working on for several years, frankly, like probably three, four years. And, you know, they're a key partner for us. And I think what we've done a very good job of is those partnerships where we don't have to reinvent or we don't have to invent the entire system. And we work with smart, you know, smart, you know, partners to facilitate some of these opportunities. But, you know, that would be a real good example of, you know, how I would summarize companies A, you know, the demand for, like, you know, very high data rate systems, and B, doing that in a congested environment. And so, you know, our existing solar can address that, and I could see us get into production, you know, at the end of this year and into 27. I hope that answers your question. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Yeah, it does. Thanks again. And let me just ask one more question, if you don't mind. Sure. Sure, of course. Just kind of given the state of current affairs and the current conflict, Just curious if you're seeing inbound interest there, and it seems like maybe the technologies that we're using today could do some advancing. It seems like you might have a solution that could be very beneficial for, especially on the drone application. So just curious if you're seeing that, and then maybe talk about your go-to-market strategy in that market, how you're going to the market, or if you're waiting for those to come to you, just kind of maybe that development there. Thanks. Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: You know, I have to say, when we did the last press release last week with our drone partner, it was a company in Israel called Intact. And Intact, you know, again, a value-added partner who's developed, you know, in conjunction with us, this friend or foe identification system. And, you know, frankly, you know, one of the main, I guess, one of the main evolutions we've seen in warfare over the last two years is this idea of drone swarms. and the sky is getting cluttered with drones. And so basically, you know, militaries need to identify friend or foe, and they don't want to be shooting their own drones out of the sky. Alternatively, they don't want drones shooting their own people on the ground. So we're seeing that that's the real traction. I mean, this really started out as a, you know, and it still is an infantry solution. But, you know, clearly the drone interest is kind of exploded here, and frankly, you know, again, without getting into detail, we definitely are seeing kind of an explosion, no pun intended there, of interest in terms of that solution for, you know, friend or foe identification, which is a classic problem, frankly. But, again, it looks like we've come a long way in solving that. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Thanks again, and best of luck. Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: No, my pleasure. Conference Operator: Thank you. And once again, it will be star one if you wish to ask a question today. The next question will be from Kevin Liu from K-Liu and Company. Kevin, your line is live. Hi. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K-Liu and Company: Good afternoon, guys. I just wanted to start with your SWA business. You guys kind of talked about the resurgence you saw in sales to customers last year. I'm curious as you talked about what do you think inventory levels are with those customers and when would you expect to see some more kind of growth or return of orders from those folks? Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: You know, frankly speaking, you know, we obviously were seeing, you know, we were hoping for this shipment with this large shipment in Q1 with my critique. But really, you know, for many of our customers, we really are expecting to see those orders get replenished in Q3 and Q4. So we're standing by for that. So I would say, you know, many of our customers, that's kind of the timing that we're looking for Well, obviously, it's almost Q2 now, so we really expect to see those orders come through in Q2 and Q3 and the rest of this year. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K-Liu and Company: Got it. And just with respect to that large order you referenced, I'm curious if kind of the delay in timing from Q1 to Q2, does that impact kind of order patterns for the remainder of this year, or was this a fairly significant order and so would it kind of cover the full year anyway? Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: You know, I think it'll just, you know, get into queue and kind of make an orderly push with our orders for the rest of the year. So I think it will have an impact. But, you know, really, unfortunately, we're only looking at a couple of weeks. So it's not going to be an extremely material impact. But, you know, we're looking at probably two to three weeks in terms of our, in kind of our order pipeline throughout the year. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K-Liu and Company: Understood. And with some of these newer opportunities, you're winning particularly with folks like Intacct. I'm just curious if there's any sort of increase in investments you guys plan to make either on the R&D side or elsewhere, and just how kind of the ramp-up might affect your gross margins as those do move to production. Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: You know, we've really had a policy over the last couple of years, Kevin, I think, as you know, to really discharge the customer. We don't make a lot of profit on the engineering, but, you know, basically our view is if the customer wants the solution, they better really pay for it. We're not in a position to really bet on the come. So, These projects, I would say almost, I can't think of one where the customer really isn't making significant contribution to the R&D effort. So I really see that continuing. We're just not in a position where we can really bet on the common. And it's good because it also at the same time validates the market because if the customer is obviously financing that, he believes in the market himself. So that's our operating strategy right now. We see ourselves continuing with that. Unidentified Parasso Executive: Yeah, and obviously that's funding our R&D expense and personnel costs, etc. Also, we generally come out of it with another product or another version of the product to bring to market. If the NRE combined with production orders are large enough, In some cases, the customer has exclusivity, although we work with the customer on that because they also want to see us sell it elsewhere to bring down pricing, you know, rather than just to them. But if they obviously don't hit numbers, et cetera, then we look at that, you know, we address it. But, you know, that's the other area where we kind of work on that. And, you know, anything we can do there to expand our product portfolio and have contribution from a customer is worthwhile. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K-Liu and Company: All right. Appreciate all the color there. It sounds like there's a lot of good traction in some of these new markets, so good luck as you make your way through the year. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Thank you. Conference Operator: Thank you. I show there are no further questions in the queue at this time. That will conclude today's conference call. Thank you for your participation, and you may now disconnect. Ron Glibury | Chief Executive Officer: Thank you very much, everyone. Bye-bye. jsPDF 3.0.3 D:20260606090359-00'00'

NASDAQ:PRSO Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Generated on 6/6/2026 Operator | Conference Call Operator: Good afternoon and welcome to Peraza Inc.' 's third quarter 2025 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. If anyone needs assistance at any time to your conference call, please press the star key followed by the zero key on your touchtone phone. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today, Monday, November 10th of 2025. I would now like to turn the call over to your host for today's conference call, Mr. Jim Sullivan. Please go ahead. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining today's conference call to discuss Perasso's third quarter 2025 financial results. I'm Jim Sullivan, CFO of Perasso, and joining me today is Ron Glibery, our CEO. Today, after the market closed, we issued a press release and related Form 8K, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The press release and Form 8K are available on Perasso's website at www.perassoinc.com under the Investor Relations section. There is also a slide presentation that we will be using in conjunction with today's call that can also be accessed through the webcast link on the Investor Relations website. As a reminder, comments made during today's conference call may include forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed as forward-looking. RASO advises caution and reliance on forward-looking statements. 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PRASO expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter its forward look, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required applicable law. Additionally, the company's press release and management statements during this conference call will include discussions of certain measures and financial information in terms of GAAP and non-GAAP. With respect to remarks on today's call involving non-GAAP numbers, unless otherwise indicated, referenced amounts exclude stock-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, severance costs, and the change in fair value of warrant liabilities. These non-GAAP financial measures Definitions and the reconciliation of the differences between them and comparable gap measures are presented in our press release and related form 8K, which provides additional details. For those of you unable to listen to the entire call at this time, a recording will be available on the investor relations page of our website. Now, I would like to turn the call over to our CEO, Ron Glibury, for his prepared remarks. Unknown: and webcast, we appreciate you joining today's conference call. Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: We had a notably strong third quarter highlighted by growing orders and shipments of Peraza's industry-leading 60 gigahertz wireless solutions. Total revenue increased more than 45% sequentially, driven by record quarterly revenue from our millimeter wave products. Gross margin also increased significantly in the previous quarter, achieving our targeted gross margin level in the mid-50% range. Consistent with prior recent quarters, We continue to exercise prudent cost management and drive operational efficiencies across the organization. Collectively, these metrics contribute to improved operating and bottom-line results, as well as reduced cash burn from operations in the third quarter. Unknown: Turning to slide four. 60 GHz mmWave solutions. Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: As such, we have welcomed a steady recovery throughout the year in market demand and customer orders, both of which are reflected in our third quarter results. We believe that fixed wireless access markets' renewed momentum is sustainable, particularly for our 60 GHz wireless solutions. As there continues to be growing rear-recognition mmWave's ability to enable reliable, high-speed and low latency broadband connectivity to homes and businesses without the time and cost burdens associated with fiber infrastructure. For further evidence of fixed wireless access and millimeter wave broadening market traction, I would encourage you, our investors, to take a look at Verizon, a fixed wireless access service provider with a strong background in millimeter wave technology. Quarterly revenue for millimeter wave products were multiple prominent wins in fixed wireless access. The first of these wins was one of our leading partners, Tachyon Networks, which we announced in early July and covered on a previous conference call. To briefly recap, Tachyon Networks chose to incorporate one of our prospective series modules with an integrated 16-element phased array antenna to power its latest outdoor CGHZ fixed wireless solution. conference call, we announced our renewed collaboration with WeLink Communications to accelerate the deployment of high-speed broadband access across dense urban areas in multiple major U.S. cities in the U.S. Unknown: More specifically, WeLink's mesh-based fixed wireless access architecture is leveraging Perazzo 60 GHz technology for both businesses and consumers in dense urban neighborhoods. Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Also notable, they are successfully rolling out this high-speed wireless broadband service at a fraction of the cost and implementation time of typical fiber deployments. Most recently, in September, we secured an initial volume order... ...market... I want to highlight that this order for our Prospectus millimeter wave modules was not only received from a first-time OEM customer, but they are a well-established equipment supplier to service providers. As a result, this new OEM customer has the potential to facilitate broader use of our millimeter wave solutions by an expanded number of fixed wireless service providers, many of which may not have previously been aware of or experienced the benefit of Perazzo's industry-leading technology. In addition to these recent wins, we are continuously supporting a broad number of proof of concepts with wireless internet service providers utilizing Perazzo's millimeter wave technology. With the majority of customers at or approaching more normalized inventory levels, we expect to see additional production orders as successful proof of concepts are completed. Together with our ongoing efforts to convert other existing customer engagements into production, Unknown: year growth. Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Turning to slide five. As discussed on previous quarterly update calls, we are continuing to see increased market awareness of 60 gigahertz technology that extends beyond fixed wireless to access completely new markets. The most notable among these new emerging markets for process millimeter wave solutions has been what we refer to as tactical communications, which includes diverse mission critical military defense applications. During the course of exploring inbound interest and prospective engagements with potential customers and ecosystem partners, the substantial value proposition of 60 GHz wireless for tactical communications has become unmistakably clear. The everyday performance benefits that have made MillimeterWave the go-to technology in fixed wireless access, such as high data rates, ultra-low latency, and power efficiency, are also ideal for enabling next-generation solutions for tactical communications. Additionally, millimeter waves inherently stealthy attributes and low probability of intercept represent a unique and unmatched advantage over potential wireless technologies. Critical communication challenges encountered in tactical defense environments. This included securing a strategic contact with a specialized defense contractor who we've subsequently continued to collaborate with on a jointly developed system solution that leverages Parasol 60 gigahertz technology for a first of its kind tactical defense application. This new mobile system solution is designed to provide heightened communications situational awareness to help safe military personnel and non-combatants such as medics and humanitarian responders operating in high risk environments. As a reminder, we announced the delivery of initial production shipments of our advanced 60 gigahertz wireless solutions in support of this jointly developed solution in the June timeframe. Today, I'm pleased to report the recent and successful completion of initial field trials of this innovative solution. Upon the completion of additional trials, we expect a jointly developed solution with our lead customer to represent a significant long-term revenue opportunity for Perazzo. In addition to the successful initial field trial validating the robot's capabilities of Perazzo's millimeter wave technology, we believe it represents and will serve as a fountain for further commercial expansion into the tactical defense communications market over the coming quarters. In fact, despite our lead customers' understandable sensitivity to being named or publishing additional details about our jointly developed solution, we are confident that this engagement is contributing to the increased dialogue and engagement that we are fielding within the tactical communications market. Moving to slide six. Unknown: On our previous conference call, I addressed how Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: secured production order to incorporate our 60 gigahertz technology in a customer's video system targeted for use in the educational market. Although the revenue contribution from these adjacent market opportunities is often smaller relative to our fixed wireless business, the purpose of my commentary around adjacent markets last quarter was to demonstrate the true versatility of Peraza's millimeter wave technology. of future customers about potentially utilizing our 60 gigahertz technology in various markets, I wanted to circle back in on today's call and dig a little deeper into adjacent markets. While each of these prospective discussions were focused on completely different end markets, they all shared a common use case, namely overcoming the challenges associated with processing massive amounts of high bandwidth video for edge AI applications. A few natural examples of these edge AI applications would include last mile delivery services, autonomous vehicles, and drones. Stepping back for a second, what's really compelling is that the same inherent high performance and advanced capabilities that millimeter wave brings to fixed wireless and tactical communications, the same attributes can be critical enablers for high bandwidth video for edge AI. More specifically, 60 gigahertz millimeter wave Readily supports multi-gigabit data rates for streaming or transferring high-resolution video. Additionally, ultra-low latency allows near instantaneous data transfer for real-time applications. And lastly, 60 gigahertz millimeter wave is also inherently and exceptionally power efficient. This is especially critical for edge AI device, many of which are battery-powered. Unknown: high resolution video at multi gigabit data rates. Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: We'll keep you posted with our progress over the coming quarters. Turning to slide seven. This is an updated snapshot showing the evolution of our engagements pipeline over roughly the past two years. The figures on this slide represent the different SKUs or distinct device models at each stage of engagement. And then at the bottom is the cumulative number of SKUs that customers have released to production. For those that may be familiar with previous versions of this slide, you might notice that the current number of funnel opportunities is smaller than in the past. This is the result of a recently completed effort to narrow the total pool of identified opportunities down to those our team believes have the most commercial potential and highest formal engagements. As such, you can consider the currently greater than 30 funnel opportunity shown at the top as qualified opportunities. We chose to do this for two reasons. First, it better reflects the number of realistic near to intermediate opportunities that we are actively cultivating. And then second, it also reflects our heightened focus internally towards advancing the most attractive and highest probability opportunities into formal engagements with customers. I can continue to like using this slide because it clearly demonstrates not only the progress that we made over time, but also provides near real-time insight into the literal pipeline of potential new incremental business that we are currently working on. Unknown: In addition to briefly mentioning that all of the pictures shown here are actual customers and products, call out a couple of key takeaways. Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: First, we have nearly doubled the number of customer SKUs in production over the last two years. contributing to a meaningful diversification of our customer base as well as end-market applications. Then, lastly, this is the first time that Perazzo has had a double-digit number of new customer devices in pre-production at any single point in time. This is a testament to our team's focus and dedication as these pre-production SKUs represent line-of-sight to new potential revenue streams once released to the commercial production by customers. In closing, we had a great third quarter, and we are pleased with the continued progress of our growth initiatives, highlighted by the record revenue contribution of our millimeter-weight product. In addition to capitalizing on the momentum of the fixed wireless access market, we are seeing rapidly expanding opportunities for our 60 gigahertz wireless solutions in new end markets and applications, all of which are poised to benefit from the high bandwidth, secure, and power-efficient connectivity offered by Perazzo's technology. look of engagements into additional design-ins and production orders spanning both millimeter-wave fixed wireless access as well as adjacent new market opportunities for our 60 gigahertz solutions. We believe that today we are well positioned to deliver continued year-over-year growth from our millimeter-wave products in the fourth quarter and into 2026. Coupled with this anticipated growth, we are remaining committed to disciplined expense management with the goal of driving steady improvement in our quarterly operating results. With that, I'll turn the call back over to Jim to review the financials and provide our revenue outlook for the fourth quarter. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Thank you, Ron. Turning now to the results for the third quarter of 2025. Total net revenue for the third quarter was $3.2 million. compared with $2.2 million for the prior quarter and $3.8 million for the third quarter of 2024. Product revenues for the third quarter of 2025 from the comparable period of 2024 was primarily attributable to the reduction in shipments of memory IC products due to the previously announced end of life of the products. Specific to sales of millimeter wave products, revenues were $3 million in the third quarter of 2025, compared with $2.2 million in the prior quarter and $0.1 million in the third quarter of 2024. Consolidated gap gross margin increased to 56.2% in the third quarter from 48.3% in the prior quarter and compared with 47% in the year ago quarter. The increase in GAAP gross margin for the third quarter of 2025 from the prior comparable periods was primarily attributable to a more favorable revenue mix of millimeter wave products and solutions, as well as shipments of inventory written down in prior periods. On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin for the third quarter was also 56.2%, compared with 48.3% in the prior quarter, and compared with 61.7% in the third quarter of 2024, which was primarily attributable to shipments of memory IC products. GAAP operating expenses for the third quarter of 2025 were $3 million, reversal for software license obligations, and $4.5 million in the third quarter of 2024. The decrease in operating expenses on a GAAP basis from the comparable period of 2024 was primarily attributable to reduced stock-based compensation expense and amortization expense related to intangible assets fully amortized in 2024. Non-GAAP operating expenses, which exclude stock-based compensation, were $2.9 million in the third quarter, compared with $2.7 million in the prior quarter, which included $0.2 million accrual reversal for software license obligations, and $3.3 million in the third quarter of 2024. The decrease in operating expenses on a non-GAAP basis from the comparable period of 2024 was primarily due to the lack of maintenance initiatives. compared with a net loss of $2.7 million or a loss of $0.98 per share in the same quarter a year ago. And changes in fair value of warrant liabilities for the third quarter of 2025 was $1.1 million or a loss of $0.15 per share. This compared with a non-GAAP net loss of $1.7 million or a loss of $0.28 per share in the prior quarter and a net loss of $0.9 million, or a loss of $0.34 per share in the same quarter a year ago. fair value of warrant liabilities, interest expense, depreciation and amortization, and the provision for income taxes, was negative $1 million in the third quarter of 2025, compared with negative $1.6 million in the prior quarter and negative $0.8 million in the third quarter of 2024. With regard to the balance sheet, as of September 30, 2025, the company had approximately $1.9 million of cash, compared with $1.8 million as of June 30, 2025. The net positive change of approximately $0.1 million in the company's cash balance for the third quarter included approximately $0.9 million of net proceeds from a warrant inducement offering of certain Series C warrants and approximately $0.7 million of net proceeds from the company's at-the-market offering program during the quarter. As of today's call, the company has approximately 8.98 million shares of common stock, transaction, as well as various potential sources of additional capital. Aside from confirming that the strategic review process continues to be ongoing in coordination with the company's financial advisor, there are no related updates to share on today's call from what we have previously disclosed. Now, turning to our outlook. Unknown: As Ron previously discussed, we are in the process of 60 GHz wireless solutions. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Based on current backlog, the company expects total net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 to be in the range of $2.8 million to $3.1 million. This concludes our prepared remarks, and we thank you for your time this afternoon. Unknown: Operator, please commence the Q&A session. Question and answer session. Operator | Conference Call Operator: If you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Dave | Analyst: Confidence. But it sounds like you're making a lot of momentum here. So I guess maybe on my first question is on the new OEM that you announced or spoke to, can you give a little more color on that? And it sounds like you're very optimistic about that. What does that opportunity look like and what does that mean, do you think? Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Well, we feel the number two OEM in the space, so they're very sensitive to confidentiality, so we can't release the specifics. But from our perspective, it's just to get another validation. Something I didn't mention on the call, sorry, Dave, that I should, is that these OEMs now historically have been using other, and I won't say which competitors, but other competitors who now we're beating out because we have better performance. That's exactly what happened in this case. So, you know, a couple of things are happening. Obviously, the inventory, you know, kind of correction is coming to an end. But I think more importantly, we're starting to see all of these, you know, OEMs who are using other chipset vendors come over to Barraza. And I think we're going to continue to see that over the coming quarters. Dave | Analyst: for you, obviously it signals growth in demand and that fixed wireless access, but does that specifically speak to anything from your perspective in either positive or negative? Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Well, broadly it's positive. I mean, that, you know, I think Starry made no bones about their use of millimeter waves, so I think it's another great validation of the technology. You know, you'll have to infer whether they were using Feras or not, but I would say generally it's been a very positive endorsement for Perazzo. But, yeah, I mean, you know, Starry was a real advocate of – and what's interesting, actually, is they're using it for MDUs, multiple dwelling units. So turning out millimeter wave is a really nice technology for satisfying that market as well. And we're seeing that, you know, in other jurisdictions. But we think the real kind of catalyst in that situation was the support for MDUs, if you will. Dave | Analyst: Okay, great. And just a couple more quick ones. But I wanted to ask about the timing of customer production schedules. You talked about your funnel. You're obviously gaining some momentum there. Is there any way to kind of think about your customer's typical design cycles now that we're through this inventory? Do you get a sense they're coming to market more quickly, or will there still be an elongated kind of design cycle before we see them turn into production? Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Yeah, I mean, I think it's case by case. But here's how I would look at it, Dave. Like, excuse me, in the, uh, in the fixed wireless space, you know, that's tried, um, you know, well, well, well-oiled machine in nine to 12 months period, uh, you know, kind of from an engagement to kind of mass production, um, new opportunities like, like military, you know, you're looking at probably 12 to 15 months, obviously, because there's more work that has to be done, more customization. So, you know, it really depends if it's an existing market or a new market. And again, like, um, You know, we're seeing these opportunities now in edge AI, and that may take, again, 12 to 15 months would be my estimate, but that's kind of the timeframes that we're looking at normally. Dave | Analyst: Okay, great. And then maybe just, Jim, on the balance sheet, it looked like you've got inventory and AR were both up pretty sharply sequentially. Anything to speak to there, or maybe how should we think about your working capital going forward? Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Yeah, no, the AR was really a timing of functioning of sales. And I know certainly as of today, we've collected, I think, over 70% of it. And the remaining amount is one customer, which has a little bit longer terms. So nothing unusual in there, just a function of the higher product revenues. And then from inventory, we've actually used a fair amount of the inventory for certain products. um, that we had on hand. So we've actually been building more inventory on certain products, um, you know, to meet anticipated, you know, demand looking out for Q1 and Q2. So, you know, the good news is we continue to sell what we have. And in those cases where we've depleted it, we've actually gone out and built more wafers. Um, so, you know, we're, we're going to continue to tightly manage the, um, you know, the working capital looking, um, you know, looking forward and, um, Yeah, we're really kind of managing the bills based on, you know, what we see in the backlog. We want the orders placed, you know, so we're not too, you know, don't lean too far forward on inventory. Dave | Analyst: And just one last one, if I can. Sorry to take all the time here, but one of the questions is kind of on the gross margin, given that some of that was written down previously, obviously the millimeter wave doing better. How should we think about kind of the balance on the gross margin as we kind of go forward from here? Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: You know, we're still trying to keep it in that, you know, right around 50% range. It was a little bit higher here in the third quarter because of the, you know, it certainly benefited from product mix, you know, with the mix of customers. And then as well, as you pointed out, the sales reserve, you know, inventory, which, you know, we still have some of that we're going to move through in the next, you know, few quarters. you know, 50, there was also a very small contribution from our memory products, you know, like 75 K or so revenue that, you know, also contributed as well as the, um, you know, the NRE revenue, um, that we brought in, um, on the millimeter wave side, you know, I think, you know, more realistic here in the short term is we're still kind of working through things. It's kind of in that, you know, we're still targeting kind of that 50%, you know, on the low side, kind of, you know, high forties, um, but kind of right around 50 is where we're targeting. Dave | Analyst: Fantastic. Well, thanks for all the time and the best of luck on the quarter, gentlemen. Thank you. Thanks a lot, David. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Thanks for your time. Operator | Conference Call Operator: Thank you. The next question is coming from Kevin Liu from K. Liu & Company. Kevin, your line is live. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K. Liu & Company: Hey, good afternoon, guys. Maybe just to follow on to some of the production schedules mentioned earlier, you know, you have that double-digit number of customers in your pipeline that are in pre-production mode. Once they get to that late stage, you know, how long does it typically take before you start to see them contribute more meaningfully to you? Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Oh, once they get to pre-production, Kevin, so pre-production is quite a long way. I mean, a lot of the, it's a very strong part of the pipeline process, pipe cleaning process. So typically that's about three months away, I think, one quarter away at the most. Once a customer gets to that point, they're well down the path. You know, like some more fundamental things, like, for example, regulatory approval. By then they've normally got it. You know, they've got, like, if there's any late parts in their, you know, kind of in their bill of material. So there are a few things. But typically once you see a customer at pre-production, it's about three months away. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K. Liu & Company: Sounds good. And I know you can only say so much about kind of that lead tactical defense customer you have, but you did mention some additional trials before they get to more meaningful long-term revenues for you guys. How long do you expect some of these trials to go before you get to that? Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Yeah, they've got trials. I mean, there's trials coming up at Christmas. I think we'll see real production from these guys. I mean, what they're telling us now, it looks like we'll start to see the real production for that in the second half of 26th. Um, but you know, obviously they'll have to place the orders before then, but that's kind of the time and working at which, you know, net net is, is, is about that 15 to kind of like call it five to six quarter, you know, lag from the time we engaged for the time they're in full production. So pretty typical, but, but frankly speaking, that was, you know, it's a, it's a very complex product. Uh, you know, but we put a lot of effort into it, but I mean, just to give you a, like a, you know, quick example, I mean, the, Our power consumption was cut down like, you know, 20 times from our standard power consumption. So, you know, when we see these new opportunities once in a while, we have to make a contribution to get that, you know, get that product to market as well in case it took some time. But that'll be about a five to six quarter lag time from the time we engaged. But, you know, we're seeing for that customer second half of 26. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K. Liu & Company: Got it. And with some of the adjacent market opportunities you pointed out and these customers evaluating your products, can you talk a little bit about kind of the pipeline of NRE opportunities and how much, if any, sort of additional research or customization might need to occur to win these customers? Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Well, it turns out there's kind of two buckets. And just to clarify, I mean, I tried to clarify on the call, Kevin, but really what's interesting about these opportunities is historically, You know, we're very good at doing video, but this is really, let's take a VR headset. You know, that was video going to the VR headset. The change on the examples that we gave is, like, cameras within the device, like either in a self-driving car or maybe in, like, AR glasses. That's video coming out of the device. And it turns out there's no good way to do that, honestly, today, except for Perazzo. So it turns out there's two different buckets. One bucket is with our existing chips. Again, still requires some NRE to get those things to market, but they want to move very, very quickly. The other bucket is actually customization of chips. That'll take longer, but kind of a much bigger deal. So I would say that those are the two categories we're looking at in terms of NRE is kind of with our existing chip, but also almost more exciting, not as more exciting, but as exciting is the opportunity to do silicon spins for these specific applications as well. We wouldn't do it unless it was a big deal. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K. Liu & Company: Yeah, understood. And then just lastly, maybe for Jim, for your Q4 guidance, I'm curious how much more memory revenue there is from that deal you guys announced last quarter. And if because of that higher margin revenue, we should assume kind of gross margin increases on a sequential basis. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Yeah, there's still, you know, we had press releases Those memory orders a couple weeks back, there's still about 375K of memory shipments in this current fourth quarter, which will be pretty high margin. You know, we'll definitely, you know, definitely lead to improvement there. You know, I think we'll kind of see margins in the fourth quarter kind of around where they were, you know, in the third quarter with that memory benefit. coming in, you know, kind of mid-50s. Kevin Liu | Analyst, K. Liu & Company: All right. Sounds good. I'll leave it there. Congrats again on the quarter, and thanks for taking the question. Ron Glibery | Chief Executive Officer: Thanks a lot, Kevin. Thanks, Kevin. Operator | Conference Call Operator: Thank you. And there were no other questions at this time. That does conclude today's Q&A session, and this also does conclude today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. 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NASDAQ:PRSO Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Generated on 6/6/2026 Operator: Good afternoon, and welcome to Parasso, Inc.' 's second quarter 2025 conference call. At this time, all participants run a listen-only mode. If anyone needs assistance at any time during the conference call, please press the star key followed by zero on your touchtone phone. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today, Monday, August 11, 2025. I would now like to turn the call over to your host for today's conference call, Mr. Jim Sullivan. Please go ahead. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining today's conference call to discuss Parasso's second quarter 2025 financial results. I'm Jim Sullivan, CFO of Parasso, and joining me today is Ron Glibbery, our CEO. Today, after the market closed, we issued a press release and related Form 8K, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The press release and Form 8K are available on Parasso's website at www.parassoinc.com under the Investor Relations section. There is also a slide presentation that we will be using in conjunction with today's call that may be accessed through the webcast link on the IR website. As a reminder, comments made during today's conference call may include forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed as forward-looking. PRASO advises caution and reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements include, without limitation, any projections of revenue, margins, expenses, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, adjusted EBITDA, non-GAAP net loss, cash flows, or other financial items, including anticipated cost savings, as well as any statements concerning the expected development, performance, and market share or competitive performance of our products or technologies, and any statements related to prospective future financing arrangements or capital transactions and the evaluation of pursuit of strategic alternatives. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to Parasso on the date hereof. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause Parasso's actual results to differ materially from those implied by the forward-looking statements, including unexpected changes in the company's business. More detailed information about these risk factors and additional risk factors are set forth in Parasso's public filings with the SEC. PRASO expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Additionally, the company's press release and management statements during this conference call will include discussions of certain measures and financial information in terms of GAAP and non-GAAP. With respect to remarks on today's call involving non-GAAP numbers, unless otherwise indicated, referenced amounts exclude stock-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, severance costs, and the change in fair value of warrant liabilities. These non-GAAP financial measures, definitions, and the reconciliation of these differences between them and comparable GAAP measures are presented in our press release and related to Form 8K, which provide additional details. For those of you unable to listen to the entire call at this time, a recording will be available on the Investor Relations page of our website. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Ron Glibberi, for his prepared remarks. Ron? Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Jim. Good afternoon, and welcome to everyone on the phone and the webcast. We appreciate you joining us for today's conference call. We had a solid and productive second quarter marked by continued market momentum and growing demand for Peraza's industry-leading MMWave technology. Revenue from our MMWave products increased 45% sequentially and more than 200% year-over-year. as we continue to ramp shipments to an expanding customer base and across multiple targeted end markets. Further highlighting sustained market leadership of our 60 GHz solutions, we achieved a significant milestone having surpassed 2 million cumulative shipments of our MMWave devices. Complementing the growth of our MMWave products, we have continued to exercise disciplined cost management resulting in lower run rate operating expenses and significant year-over-year improvement in our operating results for the quarter. Looking at slide four, fixed wireless access continues to represent the largest and fastest-growing market opportunity for MMWave technology. Due to its unique ability to deliver reliable, high-speed, and low-latency broadband connectivity to homes and businesses without the cost burden associated with fiber infrastructure, Throughout the first half of the year, we have seen a steady and broadening recovery in both market demand and customer orders for our fixed wireless access solutions. Highlighting our most recently announced win, in July, we announced one of our leading partners, Tachyon Networks, selected Peraza's MMWave modules to power its latest outdoor 60 GHz fixed wireless solution. Our advanced MMWaves module enabled Tachyon's solution to deliver fiber-class speeds to at a breakthrough price point, supporting rapid broadband deployments in both dense urban and rural markets. More specifically, their latest solution offers gigabit connectivity, has an over three-kilometer range, and is compatible with Tachyon's existing TNA 300 series, with the ability to support up to 48 client connections per sector. This win and our ongoing collaborative partnership with Tachyon Networks are a testament to Praza's recognized technology leadership for high performance mmWave solutions. Today we remain engaged with numerous wireless internet service providers that are utilizing Peraza's mmWave technology in proof of concepts for future fixed wireless access deployment. We expect these and additional new opportunities to contribute to our sustained future growth as we convert successful proof of concepts into new initial production orders. Now turning to slide five. In addition to capitalizing on the recent momentum with the fixed wireless access market, we continue to be excited about the growing interest and market opportunity for MMWave technology in next-generation tactical communications and military defense applications. Following a series of early prospective discussions and initial engagement with potential customers and ecosystem partners, we have become increasingly confident that the inherent characteristics of our MMWave technology are well-matched to solve a number of critical communication challenges encountered in tactical defense environments. As discussed on a previous call, we demonstrated our first commercial proof point earlier this year with a strategic contract with a specialized defense contractor to deliver mission critical wireless application to global military and defense forces. We have since been working in close collaboration with this lead customer to refine a jointly created and deployable system solution for a first of its kind tactical defense application. In June, we announced a significant milestone with the delivery of initial production shipments of our advanced 60 gigahertz wireless solutions in support of this jointly developed solution. More specifically, this new deployable system solution leverages Peraza's technology to provide heightened communication and situational awareness to help safeguard both military personnel and noncombatants, such as medics and humanitarian responders operating in high-risk environments. As a company, we are proud to be part of enabling this next generation tactical communication solution designed to mitigate and prevent unnecessary human casualties. This notable win is also further validation of the performance and versatility of our MMWave technology, helping to establish Peraza's commercial presence and accelerate our strategic expansion in the broader tactical defense communications market. With increasing awareness of its inherent performance attributes and advanced capabilities, including ultra-low latency, high reliability, and stealthy multi-gigabit data transmission, we believe that 60 GHz MMWave technology is poised to gain substantial market traction across a broad span of mission-critical applications. As just one prominent example from our previously mentioned early discussions with prospective future customers and ecosystem partners, we've recently identified observe heightened interest around leveraging the benefits of MMMWay for various drone-related applications. More generally, we are highly motivated by both the significant and growing commercial potential of mission-critical applications, as well as the associated opportunities to contribute to future positive real-world impacts. We believe Peraza's advanced MMMWay technology and commercially proven solutions represent the unique strategic advantage that we can capitalize on and continue to scale over time. As such, we remain committed to expanding our market presence, collaboration with ecosystem partners, and customer engagement in the tactical defense communications market over the coming quarters. Move to slide six. Although we traditionally dedicate a majority of our quarterly calls and commentary to updates on our two largest targeted markets, I wanted to take the opportunity on today's call to briefly highlight both the versatility of our MMOA products and the incremental growth opportunities that exist in adjacent end markets. Kindly note, we generally separate and refer to our collective target adjacent and end markets as two distinct categories. The first being transportation and the second category we call professional video delivery. While the typical revenue contribution from both these categories is smaller relative to fixed wireless access business, we do have a combination of current or recurring customers sales, as well as active engagements in both these adjacent markets. Having provided that background as context, the most important takeaway is that MMWave technology delivers a uniquely compelling value proposition for overcoming complex connectivity challenge across diverse applications in both our target adjacent markets. It's largely the same inherent high performance and advanced capabilities that MMWave brings to fixed wireless and tactical communications. These same attributes make mmWave a critical enabler and frequently the only practical economic solution for applications requiring robust high data rate connectivity. As a recent example, further highlighting mmWave's unique capabilities and value proposition in adjacent markets, in June we received and have since shipped a production order of our 60 gigahertz wireless solution in support of a new customer's wireless video system for classroom environments. This customer chose to incorporate Peraza's 60 GHz wireless MMWave technology to enable its solution for the reliable delivery of high-performance, low-latency video in high-density school environments, while also operating completely independent of schools' frequently congested existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. Also notable, this was our first-ever production shipment in support of a solution specifically tailored for education, and therefore reflected an expansion of our served addressable market. Looking now at slide seven. Boring from the layout that we utilized to show our overall pipeline in previous quarters, we recently introduced this new pipeline slide in order to specifically track and visualize the progression of our customer base over time. Noting the timeframe between the two respective funnels from Q4 2023 to Q2 2025, representing approximately 18 months, We are very pleased with the substantial progress we've made towards expanding our customer base over this relatively short period, especially when viewed in the context of how time and resource intensive it can often be to acquire a single new customer and then successfully advance engagement on a specific program from an initial evaluation through the design process and ultimately see a customer's finished product be released to production. Although doubling our number of customers that are now in production from seven to 14 hopefully speaks for itself, there's another potentially more subtle takeaway that I want to highlight. In addition to successfully attracting and securing new customers, this slide also demonstrates our ability to effectively advance a growing number of funnel opportunities and program engagements across an increasingly diverse group of end market applications. Turning to slide eight, this is another view of our pipeline over the same 18 month period ending in June. but shown in terms of the number of SKUs or individual device models, irrespective of whether an individual SKU is associated with a new or existing customer. The overall trajectory is definitively positive and similar to the prior slide, also demonstrates our substantial progress on advancing a sizable number of engagement opportunities and to finish customer products released into production. The other two takeaways that I want to briefly highlight are First, the number of customer SKUs that are now currently in production have increased 90% over the last 18 months. This metric alone reflects a dramatically more diversified base of existing products with the potential for revenue contribution. Lastly, as of quarter end, we had seven additional engagements in the pre-production stage representing potential incremental revenue contribution in the relatively near future as customers release these products into production. In summary, we are pleased with our demonstrated growth and market momentum through the first half of the year as we've continued to ramp production shipments of our MMWave solutions in support of an expanding and increasingly diverse customer base. Combined with our ongoing commitment to disciplined expense management, we have meaningfully improved our operating results and significantly reduced our quarterly cash burns. Looking forward, we have good visibility into near-term orders for our MMWave solutions with an existing backlog that supports continued sequential growth. In fact, we currently expect record quarterly revenue contribution from our MMOA products in the third quarter. Having said that, we continue to be diligently focused on converting our healthy pipeline of existing customer engagements into new designs and incremental production orders in support of sustained growth in 2026 and beyond. I'll now turn the call back over to Jim to review the finances and provide our current revenue outlook for the third quarter of 2025. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Thank you, Ron. Turning now to the results for the second quarter of 2025. Total net revenue for the second quarter was $2.2 million, compared with $3.9 million for the prior quarter and $4.2 million for the second quarter of 2024. Product revenue in the second quarter was $2.2 million compared with $3.8 million in the prior quarter and $4.1 million in the second quarter of 2024. The decreases in product revenues for the second quarter of 2025 compared with the prior quarter and comparable period of 2024 were attributable to the previous completion of EOL shipments of memory IC products during the first quarter of 2025. Specific to sales of millimeter wave products, revenues were $2.2 million in the second quarter of 2025, compared with $1.5 million in the prior quarter and $0.7 million in the second quarter of 2024. Gap gross margin decreased to 48.3% in the second quarter from 69.3% in the prior quarter and 55.5% in the year-ago quarter. The decrease in gap gross margin for the second quarter of 2025 from the prior comparable periods was primarily attributable to revenue being comprised entirely of millimeter wave products. On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin for the second quarter was also 48.3%, compared with 69.3% in the prior quarter, and compared with 68.8% in the second quarter of 2024. GAAP operating expenses for the second quarter of 2025 were $2.9 million, compared with $3.2 million in the prior quarter, and $6.8 million in the second quarter of 2024. The year-over-year decrease in operating expenses on a GAAP basis was primarily attributable to reduced stock-based compensation expense and $2 million of charges for software license obligations and severance costs incurred during the second quarter of 2024 and amortization expense related to intangible assets fully amortized in 2024. Non-GAAP operating expenses, which includes stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, and severance costs, were $2.7 million in the second quarter, compared with $3.1 million in the prior quarter and $5 million in the second quarter of 2024. The year-over-year decrease in operating expenses on a non-GAAP basis was primarily attributable to a $1.6 million charge for software license obligations recorded in the prior year, as well as previously implemented cost reductions and ongoing cost containment initiatives. Gap net loss for the second quarter of 2025 was $1.8 million, or a loss of $0.31 per share, compared with a net loss of $0.5 million, or a loss of $0.08 per share in the prior quarter, and compared with a net loss of $4.4 million, or a loss of $1.88 per share in the same quarter a year ago. Non-GAAP net loss, which excludes stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, severance costs, and change in fair value of warrant liabilities for the second quarter of 2025 was $1.7 million, or a loss of $0.28 per share. This compared with a non-GAAP net loss of $0.4 million, or a loss of $0.07 per share in the prior quarter, and a net loss of $2.1 million, or a loss per share of $0.88 in the same quarter a year ago. The weighted average number of basic and diluted shares outstanding for purposes of calculating both GAAP and non-GAAP EPS for the second quarter of 2025 was approximately 6 million shares. Adjusted EBITDA, which we define as GAAP net income or loss as reported, excluding stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, severance costs, change in fair value of warrant liabilities, interest expense, depreciation and amortization, and the provision for income taxes, was negative $1.6 million in the second quarter of 2025, compared with negative $0.3 million in the prior quarter and negative $1.9 million in the second quarter of 2024. With regard to the balance sheet, as of June 30, 2025, the company had approximately $1.8 million of cash and equivalents. The net change in the company's cash and equivalent balance for the second quarter was approximately $1 million, and included approximately $1.1 million in net proceeds from the company's at-the-market offering program during the quarter. As of today's call, the company has approximately 6.2 million shares of common stock and exchangeable shares outstanding. Lastly, before discussing our outlook, I wanted to briefly acknowledge the recently announced decision by our Board of Directors to explore potential strategic alternatives, including a merger, sale of assets, or other similar transactions, as well as various potential sources of additional capital. As previously disclosed, we have retained a financial advisor to assist with the exploration process, which includes evaluation of the unsolicited non-bonding proposal received in June. Aside from confirming that a formal review process is currently underway, there are no related updates to be shared today. Now, turning to our outlook, as Ron previously discussed, we are seeing positive market momentum for our millimeter wave solutions as evidenced by the ramp of production shipments to an expanding customer base. Based on the current backlog, we anticipate continued sequential growth and record revenue contribution from our millimeter wave solutions in the September quarter. More specifically, the company expects total net revenue for the third quarter of 2025 to be in the range of $2.8 million to $3.1 million. This concludes our prepared remarks, and we thank you for your time this afternoon. Operator, please commence the QA session. Operator: Certainly. Everyone at this time will be conducting a question and answer session. If you have any questions or comments, please press star 1 on your phone at this time. We do ask that while posing your question, please pick up your handset if you're listening on speakerphone to provide optimum sound quality. Once again, if you have any questions or comments, please press star 1 on your phone. Your first question is coming from David Williams from Benchmark. Your line is live. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen, and thanks for taking my question. I guess maybe first, lots of nice progress there across the space, and especially in the tactical comms segment. And, Ron, I think you mentioned being engaged on some drone opportunities there. And we've heard that at least this earnings season, a couple of folks have talked specifically about just the demand there. they're seeing develop in that space. So I'm wondering if you could give us maybe a little more color on the number of engagements or just kind of what you're seeing in the different opportunities in that military space. Thanks. Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Dave. Thanks for being on the call. So basically the fundamental concept to keep in mind is stealth. So when we communicate on the battlefield, it's very difficult or impossible for the enemy to detect our signal. So basically, we've got a customer engagement today whereby we use that on the ground with the battalions and infantry. But that same company is now looking to move that concept to drones. So the idea is you move the concept to drones whereby when you're using a drone for some kind of attack, you can determine whether the The target is friend or foe. So that's an opportunity on the drone side of things. Does that make sense? David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Yes. Yes, it does. And one of the other things they kind of brought up was the targeting on the battlefield from the RF communications. I'm just wondering if your kind of envelope or your precision in terms of the signal, does that give you an opportunity maybe to participate there where they're concerned with maybe picking up that RF signal and targeting those instruments? Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: Well, that's exactly the point, Dave, because we, as you know, we use a concept called beamforming, and we can create and we develop some custom beamformers for this application whereby we have a very, very narrow signal, And that signal is essentially impossible for the enemy to detect. So that's really what we've been doing on the battlefield side of things. This can be also applied to not just that application, but also on just strict standard signal communication. But the core concept remains the same, which is this ability to operate on the battlefield in a stealthy capability. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: That's great. And then maybe secondly here, I know you probably can't discuss or comment much here on the acquisition, but the press release seemed a little sloppy, at least in our opinion, and had multiple misstatements, I believe. But first... I just want to see if you could confirm that that was a legitimate offer. And two, any updates in terms of how you're thinking about the business, given your balance sheet and just kind of where you're positioned today? Lots of opportunities, but the balance sheet is a little constrained here. So just anything around that would be helpful. Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: Thanks. To me or to Jim, Dave? David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: To whomever. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Sure. I mean, I can comment on the balance sheet. you know, from our perspective right now, you know, we have cash into the fourth quarter of this year. You know, we'll have an updated disclosure in our, in our, you know, 10Q that will be filed here by Thursday. You know, in the previous 10Q, we had said we had cash into the third quarter. So we've obviously extended our runway. You know, as we disclosed on the call, we've been, you know, I've done some training under our ATM program to bring in additional capital. We remain, you know, in pursuit of various opportunities to raise capital and, you know, first and foremost, attempting to do it non-dilutably. You know, we did sign an NRE agreement in the month of July, you know, of a good amount for us, but a modest amount overall, and are pursuing other engagements. And, you know, those NRE engagements are non-recurring engineering. It's a great way for us to bring in additional capital and offset, you know, offset costs, etc., You know, we continue to pursue all, you know, all activities, you know, on the financing front and, you know, remain pleased with our execution and, you know, in particular with our outlook for Q3 and, in particular, our visibility towards that outlook, which is, frankly, as good as it's been based on our backlog. With regard to the proposal we received, yes, we can confirm that that, you know, is a valid proposal and, We don't have more to say other than what I said on the call and what's been included in our SEC filings. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Okay, fantastic. I appreciate the color there. And just, Jim, I guess as you kind of think about the growth that you're seeing here, your inventory had a nice step down this quarter as well. Obviously, that's beneficial on the cash side. How do you think that inventory level is going to trend, and do you feel like we've burned through much of the inventory digestion that we had been kind of struggling with the last several quarters? Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Yes, absolutely. We're definitely seeing, you know, movement. Not with all customers, but in particular, you know, evidenced by the large purchase order we announced earlier this year from our largest, you know, internet equipment customer. Um, you know, we still have one or two other customers there that are still working through their inventory. Um, but we're in a position now where the inventory we have in hand is, is basically spoken for on future shipments. And we've had to go ahead and start replenishing, um, certain other products that go in the, um, in the chip set. So, you know, I, not, not everyone's through it, but enough, enough are that we're seeing things turn, um, you know, turn back on and burning through the inventory that, you know, that we had and have started placing, you know, new orders. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: And one last, if I may, sorry to take the time here, but I did want to ask on opportunities on the military side, it seems like you've got such an interesting and unique capability here that this would be an area of opportunity, especially for maybe defense NREs or to work with maybe the DOD or some of the others. Are you seeing any traction there? Do you think they're aware of what you're doing? And is that an opportunity maybe to drive some near-term NRE or other revenue? Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: Oh, you know, Dave, we are driving NRE. Like, this is actually a very custom design. And so what we're finding with the military is it's not fixed wireless. It's not your father's fixed wireless solution. So NRE is definitely a part of our strategy moving forward. The thing to keep in mind, I would say we have like maybe three levers, including software, the modules, and antennas. And so we can adjust all of those. So, for example, the example I gave earlier whereby we use extra antennas to create this very narrow beam on the battlefield is a very, very strong advantage for us. So, you know, you can see that our ability to adjust some of those parameters on our products through NRE, as you suggest, It's a very powerful tool for us, so that's something we're executing on. So that's a terrific point. And so we've got our first NRAs in the bag. We didn't publicly announce them, but NRA is going to play a big role in the next year and a half, and we're hoping to build that beyond where we're at today. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Thanks so much for the coaching. I certainly appreciate it, and best of luck on the quarter. Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: Thanks. Operator: Thanks, David. Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: Thanks for the question. Operator: Thank you. Your next question is coming from Kevin Lu from K. Lu and Company. Your line is live. Kevin Lu | Analyst, K. Lu and Company: Hi, good afternoon, guys, and nice progress here on the millimeter wave side. You know, I know you guys talked a little bit about some of the wins you've had with Tachyon and others in the quarter. With the seven pre-production wins in the pipeline, just wondering if you can add in more color to some of the other wins that you have there and when you would expect some of those to start contributing to your revenue stream. Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: I could say that basically a lot of that is fixed wireless. And I think what we're seeing in the market is a lot of the previous chipset vendors like Qualcomm and others have just kind of gone by the wayside. I'd say our thesis that we're becoming the dominant player in fixed wireless is coming true, Kevin. So a lot of that is in the fixed wireless side of things just because we've got so many customers, so much credibility in that space that basically we continue to grow and dominate that space. But obviously we've got designers on the military side of things as well, and as Dave said previously, our ability to operate in stealth mode, and that is the ability to operate without really being detected by the enemy. It's just an extremely important characteristic of our technology on the defense side of things. So I'd say out of the seven, most of it's fixed wireless, some of it's military. We have other, you know, video is certainly kind of an interesting area for us. But, you know, I would say fixed wireless and defense are the main areas of growth for us right now. Kevin Lu | Analyst, K. Lu and Company: That's good to hear. And just as it relates to your backlog as you come into Q3, and obviously you're going to see some nice sequential growth here, just wondering how strong that backlog is. You know, have you guys fully shipped everything against some of the larger orders you received earlier in the year, and have you continued to build upon that? And just anything you can share in terms of, you know, your visibility for the remainder of this year would be helpful. Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: Yeah, I think I'll start. Yep. I think as I mentioned in my response to David, we have excellent visibility on third quarter. We're very comfortable with our backlog relative to the revenue number that we provided for guidance. No, not all of that has been shipped, so there's always the possibility for shipments not to go, et cetera, that anyone has, but we're very comfortable with where we sit. It's probably you know, for being where we're at, um, you know, in one of the best shapes it's been, you know, kind of halfway through the quarter. Uh, we're still filling in for, um, you know, fourth quarter, uh, still expecting some additional orders and, and obviously, um, you know, as I mentioned in response to David's question, you know, still waiting for a few customers to run through inventory and check back on, but, you know, definitely pleased from where we sit right now. I, you know, feel very good with Q3. We still have a little more work to do on, um, You know, on Q4, as I also mentioned and Ron mentioned, we did secure one non-recurring engineering deal in July. You know, until we've kind of gone through the revenue recognition and talked to the auditors, kind of put a modest amount in 3Q and expect more of that in 4Q. But right now we've been modest on 3Q. So pleased with where we sit and, you know, we even have – you know, a fair amount into early 26. So definitely seeing better visibility there. Kevin Lu | Analyst, K. Lu and Company: Sounds good. And just on the non-recurring engineering deal, I know it's early and you haven't quite figured out all the accounting behind it, but conceptually, how should we think about, you know, the implications from that? Does that provide you guys with, you know, a revenue stream that could contribute, you know, all the way through the next year and a half? Or would it be fairly lumpy in terms of the periods you get that? And then also just from an expense standpoint, do you need to make some investments on the R&D side to staff up to handle those types of arrangements? Jim Sullivan | Chief Financial Officer: I'll do the question on a LIFO basis. Modest expense. If only a finance person could answer it. You know, modest, any expense adjustments are pretty modest. Didn't need to go out and add headcounts. You know, it's supporting an existing customer. So right now, I would say, you know, we need to, you know, make modifications to satisfy the needs for the customer's application. So, you know, something that's certainly in the forecast. You know, obviously, we are pursuing additional, you know, NRE opportunities. And, you know, obviously, the goal for companies like us is obviously, again, you get the cash. It offsets your engineering expense. And then, you know, ideally you come out of it with a future product to offer to others. Often the way I've seen these, whoever pays for the NRE may get some exclusivity, et cetera, depending on how it's negotiated, you know, features, exclusive, et cetera. And then, but you obviously look to add another, you know, set of SKUs in our toolkit for, you know, to sell to other customers. But hard for me to say on the revenue recognition. We obviously didn't, you know, it's a modest amount you know, modest six-figure amount. So, you know, hard to say. We've just been racing on the current quarter, and it was a July transaction. I'm sorry, racing on the Q2 quarter, I should say, not the current quarter. Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: I think in terms of your question regarding whether it's lumpy, Kevin, I guess my takeaway, knowing that it's certainly focused on one customer, my kind of guidance would be that Um, there's going to be, it's going to be an ongoing NRE for, you know, for at least a year and a year and a half, I would say. And so not so lumpy, kind of steady state. Uh, but I would also make the point that I think is very important is when we, you know, A, I thought Jim's point was very important, which is we're not adding a lot of, or even any new expense. So this is all, you know, it's existing engineering talent. The other thing is that anytime we do NRE, it's for production. Like we get paid on the engineering side of things, but we will not do NRE if it's not leading to production. For us, production is the most important metric, frankly. So I think that's a really important point to make for us is that all of this is leading to what we consider significant production. So that's kind of the model we have right now that we're trying to do is ongoing NRE that kind of pays for engineering with programs that lead to good production. Kevin Lu | Analyst, K. Lu and Company: Yeah, understood. Well, congrats again on the progress, and thanks for taking the question. Operator: My pleasure. Thank you. Your next question is coming from David Williams from Benchmark. Your line is live. You couldn't get nothing, right? David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: No, no. He's trying to avoid going out in the Dallas East. Yeah, that's exactly right. Well, I didn't want to go over all the time and give some time to others, but I did want to ask on the bead funding, and we've got some clarification. I know there are some changes there in terms of the more technology neutral, and just curious if you're hearing anything from your customers in terms of is that a benefit yet, and do you think it will be over time as now for that bead funding may roll into fixed wireless access? Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: I'd say there's two things in the regulatory front we should highlight. One is the bead. It's a little early. I mean, bead was, for like a couple of years, very fiber-focused, and so people got into that kind of mode of operation. So I think people are just trying to understand now how it's going to change for pixel artists. Obviously, it's a benefit to us, right? I don't know if it's obvious, but it is obvious. I mean, the main benefit we have over fiber, frankly, is just the cost of the rollout and the time. There's two major factors there. One is the cost, so no trenching. And the time. There's not that many trenching machines, for example, right? So we have a very strong advantage when it comes to fixed wireless in those environments. So we're hearing from customers. They're very happy with the changes that they've seen in Bede. The other point I think we made on the presentation is was that in the big beautiful bill, for lack of a better term, that was recently passed, there's a real chance that a lot of the open and unlicensed spectrum is going to get auctioned off, except for ours. So that helps us as well. So from a regulatory perspective, that's kind of a net bonus for us. So a lot of people aren't aware of that, but that's kind of a positive regulatory update for us as well. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Okay, great. And just one last one. Did you feel funny saying Big Beautiful Wheel? spk00: Thanks. I don't. David Williams | Analyst, Benchmark: Again, thanks for the time. Ron Glibbery | Chief Executive Officer: Thank you. I thought that's what it was called. Operator: Sorry. Certainly. I show there are no further questions in the queue at this time. That will conclude today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect. jsPDF 3.0.3 D:20260606090402-00'00'