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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000023197-25-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMTL"
cik: "0000023197"
company_name: "COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-01-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T04:05:24.102880+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Comtech Q1 FY2025 net loss $148.4M, revenue down 23.8%; CEO Ken Traub appointed, strategic review underway

## Summary
- Net loss of $148.4M vs $1.4M loss year ago; revenue $115.8M, down 23.8% YoY.
- Operating loss $129.2M includes $79.6M goodwill impairment and $17.4M reserve for receivable.
- S&S segment sales fell 42.5%; T&W segment sales up 14.9%.
- Company expects to breach debt covenants; total debt ~$225M as of Oct 31, 2024.
- Ken Traub named President and CEO; Board conducting comprehensive strategic alternatives review.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000023197-25-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMTL
- cik: 0000023197
- company_name: COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-01-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319725000007/0000023197-25-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/23197/000002319725000007/cmtl-20250113.htm

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