---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171520-25-000007"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SOTK"
cik: "0000806172"
company_name: "SONO TEK CORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T04:12:34.804758+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sono-Tek Q3 revenue $5.19M (-9% YoY); net income $274K (-60%); guides FY2025 revenue >$20M

## Summary
- Q3 net sales $5,190,595 down from $5,690,022 YoY; gross margin fell to 45% from 51%.
- Net income $274,000 ($0.02 diluted EPS) vs $690,000 ($0.04) a year ago; operating income $197,637.
- Alternative/Clean Energy sales surged 42% to $3.0M; Multi-Axis Coating sales up 20% to $3.56M.
- Backlog $10.56M; management projects record fiscal 2025 revenue above $20M with profitability.
- Balance sheet: $12.7M cash, no debt; equity $17.4M; net income for nine months $946,000.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171520-25-000007
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SOTK
- cik: 0000806172
- company_name: SONO TEK CORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152025000007/0001171520-25-000007-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152025000007/eps11681.htm

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