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Robert McWhirter
Flyht Aerospace Solutions
FLY-X
COMMENT
Jul 14, 2017
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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A frustrating stock. Here it's a buy. Super-promising business. Provide streaming of data to the ground, which saves customers money. Major developments in last 6 months that are pushing the company forward. Westjet became their first tier-one customer, so this is the crack in the door.
Profit of 1c per share beat estimates of -1c.
Revenue of $7.2M beat estimates by 11.4%. EBITDA was positive $1.17M vs an expected loss of $305,000. Sales rose 186% so certainly a nice improvement. Margin was 67% up from 49.5%.
Profit was the highest in three years as the airline sector recovered from covid.
All four categories grew in the quarter.
Considering some macro and cost pressures, this was a good quarter.
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Recently announced they are going to consolidate the stock, which typically means they are optimistic about the future. This revolves around 2 things. They have black box flight recorders operated through a satellite system as to where the plane is, so it is always on and always available. There is a new 2020 change in legislation that basically says that if there is an airplane in distress, you have to know where that airplane is and be able to receive a signal at least once a minute. This is the only company globally that has the capability to do that. Their device is installed in about half of the Airbus A320 planes. They have an installed base of 1000 units in those planes, and are going back to the owners of those planes, explaining they can get huge benefits from efficiencies of reduced fuel consumption, maintenance, etc. The boxes are in about a 3rd of the Chinese fleet, which has a mandate that by 2017 they have to know where a plane is. Theoretically this has the potential to double the size of their active base by signing one of these Chinese companies in the next couple of years. There should be progress by the end of this year.