secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     OPTICAL CABLE CORP (OCC)
CIK:        0001000230
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-03-11T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-25-007034
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Optical Cable Q1 FY2025: net sales up 6% to $15.7M; net loss narrows to $1.1M
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- Net sales $15.7M (+6.0% YoY); gross profit $4.6M (+24.6% YoY), margin expanded to 29.4% from 25.0%.
- Net loss $1.1M ($0.14 per share) vs. loss $1.4M ($0.18) a year ago; still loss-making.
- Enterprise and specialty markets grew; military strength noted; U.S. sales +2.3%, international +21.3%.
- Backlog/forward load increased to $6.6M from $5.7M as of Oct 31, 2024.
- SG&A rose to $5.5M (34.7% of sales) from $5.1M (34.3%) on employee and sales personnel costs.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000230/000143774925007034/0001437749-25-007034-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000230/000143774925007034/occ20250311_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-007034

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