secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Byrna Technologies Inc. (BYRN)
CIK:        0001354866
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-23-026725
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Byrna prelim Q3 rev $7.1M, down 43% YoY; gross margin drops to 45% on $650k inventory reserve
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- Preliminary Q3 revenue $7.1M vs $12.4M in prior-year period, a 43% decline attributed to advertising bans by Meta and Google.
- Gross margin estimated at 45% vs 55% YoY, impacted by a one-time $650K excess/obsolete inventory reserve.
- Company secured Google permission to advertise on YouTube and formed a partnership with Sean Hannity to boost web traffic.
- Full Q3 financial results and a conference call are expected to be announced in October 2023.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1354866/000143774923026725/0001437749-23-026725-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1354866/000143774923026725/byrn20230925_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-026725

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