---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171520-25-000193"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SOTK"
cik: "0000806172"
company_name: "SONO TEK CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T09:28:53.122865+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sono-Tek FY2025 record revenue $20.5M (+4% YoY); net income $1.3M; backlog $8.67M; guides H1 FY2026 growth

## Summary
- Record annual revenue $20.5M (+4% YoY); net income $1.3M vs $1.4M prior year (down ~9%).
- Gross margin fell to 47.5% from 50% due to product mix and reclassification of labor costs.
- Backlog $8.67M at year-end; expects revenue growth and profitability in H1 FY2026 but limited visibility beyond due to policy/tariff uncertainty.
- Alternative/Clean Energy sales surged 64% (+$3.84M); Industrial market declined 47% (-$1.68M).
- No debt, cash & marketable securities $11.9M; stockholders' equity $17.8M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171520-25-000193
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SOTK
- cik: 0000806172
- company_name: SONO TEK CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152025000193/0001171520-25-000193-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806172/000117152025000193/eps11838.htm

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