8/27/2025

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Operator
Conference Operator

Good day and welcome to the Landtronic's fourth quarter and full year 2025 results conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note that this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Brent Stringham, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead.

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Brent Stringham
Chief Financial Officer

Good afternoon, and thank you for joining our fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings call. Joining me today is our President and Chief Executive Officer, Celio Alceray. A live and archived webcast of today's call will be available on the company's website. In addition, you can find the call-in details for the phone replay in today's earnings release. During this call, management may make forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from management's current expectations. We encourage you to review the cautionary statements and risk factors contained in the earnings release, which was furnished to the SEC today and is available on our website, and in the company's SEC filings, such as its 10-K and 10-Qs. Landtronics undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. Please refer to the news release and the financial information in the Investor Relations section of our website for additional details that will supplement management's commentary. Furthermore, during the call, the company will discuss non-GAAP financial measures, today's earnings release, which is posted in the investor relations section of our website, describes the differences between our non-GAAP and GAAP reporting, and presents reconciliations for the non-GAAP financial measures that we use. With that, I will now turn the call over to Salil.

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Salil Asare

Thanks, Brent, and thank you, everyone, for joining today's call. Fiscal 2025 marked returning point for Landtronics. A year of disciplined execution, meaningful transformation, and building the foundation for sustainable long-term growth. The progress was evident in our fourth quarter results, with revenue of $28.8 million and a non-GAAP EPS of $0.01, both well within our quarterly guidance range. These results reflect a return to growth in our core revenue base, excluding the impact of grids, but these are EMEA smart grid customers. As we enter the new fiscal year, we see powerful industry dynamics creating significant opportunities for landtronics. We believe we are entering a multiyear growth cycle for unmanned aerial systems supported by record defense funding and favorable regulatory momentum. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, more than $13 billion is year marked for unmanned platforms in 2026. that increased focus on secure U.S.-made technologies. We believe the demand environment for our solutions has never been stronger. Against this backdrop of growing demand, we are beginning to see meaningful traction in the market, highlighted by our most recent win with Red Cat Steel Drones, which we formally announced last week. We've been collaborating with their team for some time, And our TAA and NDAA-compliant solution now powers TEAL's Black Widow drones for the U.S. Army's short-range reconnaissance program. As a blue UAS-approved platform, this program highlights both the rigor of qualification process and the mission-critical role of our technology. We began shipments in the June quarter. generating initial revenue and strengthening visibility into fiscal 2026. We believe our competitive edge lies in our deep camera expertise. Military and other high-performance drone requirements include advanced camera tuning, sensor fusion, and complex software integration, capabilities we have refined over many years. Equally important, being North America-based and fully compliant with NDAA and TAA regulations, further positions us as a trusted supplier to OEMs and defense contractors engaged in U.S. government programs. Red Cat's Teal Drones exemplifies our secure edge compute solutions, drive long-term growth opportunities in the drone market. Beyond defense, our partnership with Aurora highlights our ability to deliver high-performance edge AI solutions for commercial drone applications. By combining our compute module with Teledyne FLIR's thermal camera and Prism AI software, we enable more intelligent, real-time decision-making for applications like autonomous flight, surveillance, and industrial inspection. Early market feedback has been very positive. and we expect revenue contribution from these solutions to begin fiscal 2026. Looking ahead, we see broader industry trends, including government investment and rising demand for U.S.-based suppliers, creating a strong runway for both defense and commercial growth. Moving to our next win, we recently signed a multi-year agreement with a major U.S. mobile carrier to provide devices and services as they modernize over 50,000 backup power systems at wireless cell sites nationwide. This win is a strong validation of our edge infrastructure strategy, enabling resilient network uptime, improved lifecycle management, and real-time operational visibility across thousands of distributed locations. So far, we've booked nearly all the initial units and have begun shipping in the June quarter. With additional orders expected as the rollout continues, we believe this is a long-term opportunity with this customer and expect additional volume beyond this initial deployment, reflecting the depth of our relationship and the strategic nature of the program. In addition to the sizable hardware deployment, this design win also incorporates our perception platform, enabling remote monitoring and ongoing management of connected assets, As these devices are brought online, we expect they will contribute our growing base of high-margin annual recurring revenue. This win also opens the door to broader collaboration with the carrier over time, including additional software-enabled services and potential expansion across their larger network footprint. These types of wins highlight our transition from a traditional hardware supplier through a strategic platform partner, helping customers accelerate intelligence at the edge. This evolution positions us to capture a larger share of customer wallet, deepen long-term relationships, and embed our solution more directly in their critical operations. By moving up the value chain, we are not only expanding revenue opportunities, but also creating stickier, high-margin business over time. Turning to our growth outlook. As we turn the corner into a new fiscal year, we are seeing growing momentum fueled by recent design wins that are expanding our customer base and enhancing the predictability of our business. This diversification marks an important step forward as we move past the impact of risk apiece and underscores the underlying strength of our core platform. Q1 is off to a strong start. With healthy engagement from both new and existing customers across multiple verticals, our core business has stabilized and is now positioned to deliver growth over the longer term. At the same time, we are beginning to see encouraging traction in our Edge AI strategy. Looking ahead, our visibility in fiscal 2026 has improved, supported by momentum across the two strategic pillars of our platform. Edge IoT, spanning compute and connectivity, and network infrastructure encompassing out-of-band management and networking solution. The momentum is driven by recent design wins in edge IoT and out-of-band, continued investment in product innovation, and expanding relationships across our distribution and technology partner ecosystems. Together, these initiatives reinforce our ability to scale profitably and capture long-term opportunities at the intelligent edge. With that, I turn the call over to Brent to provide more detail on our financial performance. Brent?

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