secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     EMCORE CORP (—)
CIK:        0000808326
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000808326-24-000013
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

EMCORE CEO departs, Q2 revenue miss and $7.8M net loss, restructuring initiated
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- CEO Jeff Rittichier departed May 7; Matthew Vargas appointed interim CEO, Tom Minichiello interim Principal Executive Officer.
- Q2 revenue $19.6M (down from $24.1M QoQ); gross margin 17% (down from 25%).
- Net loss from continuing ops $7.8M ($0.09/share) vs $4.4M prior quarter.
- Sold Chips business & Alhambra wafer fab assets for $2.92M; restructured debt with Hale Capital.
- Board formed Restructuring Committee targeting break-even adjusted operating cash flow by September 2024 quarter.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808326/000080832624000013/0000808326-24-000013-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/808326/000080832624000013/emkr-20240507.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000808326-24-000013

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