Comtech sees Q1 revenue up 1%-4% sequentially, implying $150.3M-$154.8M

Consensus $134.5M. The company states: “As we enter fiscal 2024, while our business performance is improving, macroeconomic conditions continue to be challenging, and the operating environment is largely unpredictable, including factors such as inflation, rising interest rates, repercussions of military conflicts and a potential global recession. Order and production delays, disruptions in component availability, increased pricing for labor and parts, lower levels of factory utilization and higher logistics and operational costs also continue to impact our business. Despite these business conditions and resulting challenges and although we anticipate some variability from time to time as we move through our One Comtech transformational change, for our first quarter of fiscal 2024, we are targeting consolidated net sales to sequentially increase approximately 1.0% to 4.0% and for our consolidated Adjusted EBITDA margin to range between 11.0% and 13.0%. Such targets reflect our assumptions regarding the timing of and performance on orders from the U.S. Army for VSAT equipment, as well as the timing of and our performance on our recently awarded $544.0 million GFSR contract, which has been protested by the incumbent. While we expect a near-term close, such targets also do not assume any divestiture at this time due to the uncertain closing date of the transaction.”