---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-010878"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OPTT"
cik: "0001378140"
company_name: "Ocean Power Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T11:36:38.473037+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# OPTT Q3 FY2025 revenue $0.8M (-54% YoY), backlog record $7.5M, cash burn down 59%

## Summary
- Revenue $0.8M, down 54% YoY from $1.8M; trailing twelve-month revenue $6.1M, up 24%.
- Operating expenses $6.1M, down 29% YoY; Loss before income taxes $6.7M, improved from $7.8M.
- Backlog $7.5M, record high vs $3.3M prior year; driven by $5M purchase orders from new Latin America partner.
- Cash used in ops $3.7M, down 59% YoY; total cash $10.2M vs $3.3M at April 30, 2024.
- Recent: multi-day WAM-V offshore demo in California; new sales hire for DHS/DOD; NAVDEX participation with Remah.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-010878
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OPTT
- cik: 0001378140
- company_name: Ocean Power Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-03-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1378140/000149315225010878/0001493152-25-010878-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1378140/000149315225010878/form8-k.htm

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