Hollysys reports Q4 EPS 43c vs. 40c last year

Reports Q4 revenue $194.9M vs. $182.1M last year. The company states: “In the chemical and petrochemical field, Hollysys continued to achieve breakthroughs on national key projects and maintained our cooperation with key customers. We won several mid- and high-profile contracts with competitive positioning in this fiscal year. For example, we signed a 100-billion-square-meter large gas field project and a whole-plant integrated simulation project of a synthetic ammonia and urea plant. We reinforced the Hia Advanced Process Control platform for one of our petrochemical customers, optimizing its isooctane unit and helping it become a benchmark in its industry while maintaining competitive vitality. Moreover, the Sinopec Group Million Ton Ethylene Project saw the first batch delivery in this fiscal year, representing a milestone breakthrough in Hollysys’ petrochemical business. We also assisted a chemical enterprise in establishing a digital talent training base with our Operator Training Simulator in the fourth fiscal quarter. Additionally, Hollysys’ strategic layout and developments in overseas business witnessed steady progress. We successfully signed the OBI nickel-iron project in Indonesia with a resource company in this fiscal year, with Hollysys providing relevant customized products with integrated and comprehensive intelligent solutions, marking a new milestone for our overseas market expansion. The food and pharmaceutical sectors also demonstrated steady business growth. We signed a significant project with a leading enterprise of generic contrast media products on producing iodiproamine and regadesone in this fiscal year, with Hollysys acting as the overall instrument control contractor that provides Distributed Control System (“DCS”), instrument valves and installation. In the fourth fiscal quarter, we also provided an integrated solution for a pharmaceutical company and received high user recognition. In the smart factory field, we kept developing customized smart factory solutions that meet customers’ requirements. We made several vital cooperations with various customers in this fiscal year. We signed the project of automatic control system and factory intelligent management system of a northwest listed coal company and the Sinopec power center simulation project which covers the whole range of high-precision excitation virtual imitation machine systems. Meanwhile, we completed the delivery of a 230,000 tons phenolic resin project, providing fully autonomous and controllable HiaBatch control system. In the fourth fiscal quarter, we won the bids for two smart factory projects that are expected to aid in their intelligent transformation and help reduce their production and operation costs.”