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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT Pursuant

to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): March 8, 2024

Hurco Companies, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Indiana

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

0-9143

35-1150732

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

One Technology Way

Indianapolis, Indiana

46268

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)

(317) 293-5309

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, no par value

HURC

The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. 

Item 2.02    Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On March 8, 2024, Hurco Companies, Inc. (the “Company”) reported its results of operations for the first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2024. The Company’s earnings release for the period is attached as Exhibit 99.1 and the information set forth therein is incorporated herein by reference and constitutes a part of this report. The attached Exhibit 99.1 is furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 of Form 8-K.

Item 9.01Financial Statements and Exhibits.

Exhibit Index

99.1

Press Release of Hurco Companies, Inc., dated March 8, 2024

104

Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

Dated: March 8, 2024

 

 

 

HURCO COMPANIES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Sonja K. McClelland_______________

 

 

Sonja K. McClelland, Executive Vice President,

Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2024

HURCO REPORTS FIRST QUARTER RESULTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024

 

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – March 8, 2024 -- Hurco Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HURC) today reported results for the first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2024. Hurco recorded a net loss of $1,648,000, or $0.25 per diluted share, for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, compared to net income of $1,330,000, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the corresponding period in fiscal year 2023.

Sales and service fees for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 were $45,059,000, a decrease of $9,623,000, or 18%, compared to the corresponding prior year period, and included a favorable currency impact of $779,000, or 1%, when translating foreign sales to U.S. dollars for financial reporting purposes.

Greg Volovic, Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We were disappointed with first quarter results but are continuing to invest in the future growth of our business. I am particularly heartened by the positive shift we witnessed in both the Americas and the Asian Pacific regions this quarter. Seeing orders in these regions surpass sales and outpace prior year figures is a promising sign. I am hopeful this momentum will also extend into Europe as we get further into 2024. Meanwhile, our commitment to innovation remains unwavering. We are investing in cutting-edge technology, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to advance autonomous machining, continuing the development of next generation controls, and positioning our brands to support the ever-evolving needs of our customers. Finally, our decision to strategically relocate Milltronics to Indianapolis will lead to enhanced customer service and support by bringing our engineering expertise closer to our U.S. Milltronics customers, sales, and service teams. As always, we are keeping a keen eye on our liquidity position and balance sheet strength to capitalize on opportunities presented by the anticipated recovery in the global machine tool market.”

The following table sets forth net sales and service fees by geographic region for the first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2024, and 2023 (dollars in thousands):

Three Months Ended

January 31

2024

2023

$ Change

% Change

Americas

$16,650

$22,013

($5,363)

(24)%

Europe

22,750

28,592

(5,842)

(20)%

Asia Pacific

5,659

4,077

1,582

39%

Total

$45,059

$54,682

($9,623)

(18)%

Sales in the Americas for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 decreased by 24%, compared to the corresponding period in fiscal year 2023, primarily due to a decreased volume of shipments of Hurco, Milltronics, and Takumi machines. The decrease in sales was mostly attributable to decreased shipments of VM and toolroom machines, as well as lathes.


European sales for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 decreased by 20%, compared to the corresponding period in fiscal year 2023, and included a favorable currency impact of 3%, when translating foreign sales to U.S. dollars for financial reporting purposes. The decrease in European sales for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 was primarily attributable to a decreased volume of shipments of higher performance Hurco VMX machines and lathes in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, a decreased volume of shipments of Milltronics machines in the European region, as well as a lower volume of sales of accessories manufactured by our wholly owned subsidiary, LCM Precision Technology S.r.l. (“LCM”).  

Asian Pacific sales for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 increased by 39%, compared to the corresponding period in fiscal year 2023, and included an unfavorable currency impact of 2%, when translating foreign sales to U.S. dollars for financial reporting purposes. The increase in Asian Pacific sales primarily resulted from a higher volume of shipments of Hurco and Takumi machines in China, India, and Taiwan.

Orders for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 were $50,218,000, a decrease of $3,012,000, or 6%, compared to the corresponding period in fiscal year 2023, and included a favorable currency impact of $786,000, or 1%, when translating foreign orders to U.S. dollars.

The following table sets forth new orders booked by geographic region for the first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2024, and 2023 (dollars in thousands):

Three Months Ended

January 31

2024

2023

$ Change

% Change

Americas

$20,796

$19,687

$1,109

6%

Europe

23,535

29,886

(6,351)

(21)%

Asia Pacific

5,887

3,657

2,230

61%

Total

$50,218

$53,230

($3,012)

(6)%

Orders in the Americas for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 increased by 6%, compared to the corresponding period in fiscal year 2023, primarily due to increased customer demand for Hurco and Milltronics machines, particularly higher-performance VMX machines.

European orders for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 decreased by 21%, compared to the corresponding prior year period, and included a favorable currency impact of 3%, when translating foreign orders to U.S. dollars. The decrease in orders was driven primarily by decreased customer demand for Hurco VM machines, higher-performance VMX machines, and lathes and Takumi machines in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

Asian Pacific orders for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 increased by 61%, compared to the corresponding prior year period, and included an unfavorable currency impact of 3%, when translating foreign orders to U.S. dollars. The increase in Asian Pacific orders was driven primarily by an increase in customer demand for Hurco and Takumi machines in China, India, and Taiwan.

Gross profit for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 was $9,695,000, or 22% of sales, compared to $12,718,000, or 23% of sales, for the corresponding prior year period. The year-over-year decrease in gross profit as a percentage of sales was primarily due to the lower volume of sales of vertical milling machines in the Americas and Europe where we typically sell more of our higher-performance VMX series machines and lathes. Additionally, gross profit was negatively impacted by the allocation of fixed costs on lower sales and production volumes.


Selling, general, and administrative expenses for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 were $11,515,000, or 26% of sales, compared to $11,484,000, or 21% of sales, in the corresponding fiscal year 2023 period, and included an unfavorable currency impact of $168,000, when translating foreign expenses to U.S. dollars for financial reporting purposes. Selling, general, and administrative expenses as a percentage of sales increased in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 compared to the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 due to the lower volume of sales year-over-year.

The effective tax rate for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 was 27%, compared to 31% in the corresponding prior year period. The year-over-year decrease in the effective tax rate was primarily due to changes in geographic mix of income and loss that includes jurisdictions with differing tax rates and a discrete item related to stock compensation.

Cash and cash equivalents totaled $37,936,000 at January 31, 2024, compared to $41,784,000 at October 31, 2023. Working capital was $196,281,000 at January 31, 2024, compared to $193,257,000 at October 31, 2023. The increase in working capital was primarily driven by increases in inventories, net and prepaid and other assets and decreases in accrued payroll and employee benefits and accounts payable, partially offset by decreases in cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable, net.

Hurco Companies, Inc. is an international, industrial technology company that sells its three brands of computer numeric control (“CNC”) machine tools to the worldwide metal cutting and metal forming industry. Two of the Company’s brands of machine tools, Hurco and Milltronics, are equipped with interactive controls that include software that is proprietary to each respective brand. The Company designs these controls and develops the software. The third brand of CNC machine tools, Takumi, is equipped with industrial controls that are produced by third parties, which allows the customer to decide the type of control added to the Takumi CNC machine tool. The Company also produces high-value machine tool components and accessories and provides automation solutions that can be integrated with any machine tool. The end markets for the Company's products are independent job shops, short-run manufacturing operations within large corporations, and manufacturers with production-oriented operations. The Company’s customers manufacture precision parts, tools, dies, and/or molds for industries such as aerospace, defense, medical equipment, energy, transportation, and computer equipment. The Company is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with manufacturing operations in Taiwan, Italy, the U.S., and China, and sells its products through direct and indirect sales forces throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The Company has sales, application engineering support and service subsidiaries in China, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, the U.S., and Taiwan. Web Site: www.hurco.com


Certain statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, the cyclical nature of the machine tool industry; uncertain economic conditions, which may adversely affect overall demand, in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific markets; the risks of our international operations; governmental actions, initiatives and regulations, including import and export restrictions, duties and tariffs and changes to tax laws; the effects of changes in currency exchange rates; competition with larger companies that have greater financial resources; our dependence on new product development; the need and/or ability to protect our intellectual property assets; the limited number of our manufacturing and supply chain sources; increases in the prices of raw materials, especially steel and iron products; the effect of the loss of members of senior management and key personnel; our ability to integrate acquisitions; acquisitions that could disrupt our operations and affect operating results; failure to comply with data privacy and security regulations; breaches of our network and system security measures; possible obsolescence of our technology and the need to make technological advances; impairment of our assets; negative or unforeseen tax consequences; uncertainty concerning our ability to use tax loss carryforwards; changes in the SOFR rate; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health epidemics and pandemics on the global economy, our business and operations, our employees and the business, operations and economies of our customers and suppliers; and other risks and uncertainties discussed more fully under the caption “Risk Factors” in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Contact:Sonja K. McClelland

Executive Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, & Chief Financial Officer

317-293-5309


Hurco Companies, Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except per share data)

Three Months Ended
January 31,

2024

2023

(unaudited)

Sales and service fees

$ 45,059

$ 54,682

Cost of sales and service

35,364

41,964

Gross profit

9,695

12,718

Selling, general and administrative expenses

11,515

11,484

Operating (loss) income

(1,820)

1,234

Interest expense

131

16

Interest income

156

52

Investment income

59

29

Other (expense) income, net

(513)

641

(Loss) income before taxes

(2,249)

1,940

(Benefit) provision for income taxes

(601)

610

Net (loss) income

($ 1,648)

$ 1,330

(Loss) income per common share

Basic

($ 0.25)

$ 0.20

Diluted

($ 0.25)

$ 0.20

Weighted average common shares outstanding

Basic

6,483

6,583

Diluted

6,483

6,622

Dividends per share

$ 0.16

$ 0.15

OTHER CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA

Three Months Ended
January 31,

Operating Data:

2024

2023

(unaudited)

Gross margin

22%

23%

SG&A expense as a percentage of sales

26%

21%

Operating (loss) income as a percentage of sales

(4)%

2%

Pre-tax (loss) income as a percentage of sales

(5)%

4%

Effective tax rate

27%

31%

Depreciation and amortization

$ 908

$ 1,054

Capital expenditures

$ 832

$ 599

Balance Sheet Data:

1/31/2024

10/31/2023

Working capital

$ 196,281

$ 193,257

Days sales outstanding

52

41

Inventory turns

1.0

1.1

Capitalization

Total debt

--

--

Shareholders' equity

224,557

222,231

Total

$ 224,557

$ 222,231


Hurco Companies, Inc.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except share and per share data)

January 31,

October 31,

2024

2023

ASSETS

(unaudited)

Current assets:

Cash and cash equivalents

$ 37,936

$ 41,784

Accounts receivable, net

33,131

39,965

Inventories, net

165,044

157,952

Derivative assets

768

740

Prepaid and other assets

10,204

7,789

Total current assets

247,083

248,230

Property and equipment:

Land

1,046

1,046

Building

7,387

7,387

Machinery and equipment

26,307

26,779

Leasehold improvements

4,662

4,473

39,402

39,685

Less accumulated depreciation and amortization

(31,677)

(30,826)

Total property and equipment, net

7,725

8,859

Non-current assets:

Software development costs, less accumulated amortization

7,027

7,030

Intangible assets, net

931

994

Operating lease - right of use assets, net

12,016

10,971

Deferred income taxes

4,838

4,749

Investments and other assets

10,438

9,756

Total non-current assets

35,250

33,500

Total assets

$ 290,058

$ 290,589

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

Current liabilities:

Accounts payable

$ 28,052

$ 29,661

Customer deposits

3,906

2,827

Derivative liabilities

820

1,821

Operating lease liabilities

3,878

3,712

Accrued payroll and employee benefits

7,484

9,853

Accrued income taxes

1,590

1,713

Accrued expenses

3,845

4,092

Accrued warranty expenses

1,227

1,294

Total current liabilities

50,802

54,973

Non-current liabilities:

Deferred income taxes

69

83

Accrued tax liability

1,296

1,293

Operating lease liabilities

8,501

7,606

Deferred credits and other

4,833

4,403

Total non-current liabilities

14,699

13,385

Shareholders' equity:

Preferred stock: no par value per share, 1,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued

-

-

Common stock: no par value, $.10 stated value per share, 12,500,000 shares authorized; 6,613,595 and 6,553,673 shares issued and 6,506,033 and 6,462,138 shares outstanding, as of January 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023, respectively

651

646

Additional paid-in capital

61,936

61,665

Retained earnings

177,444

180,124

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

(15,474)

(20,204)

Total shareholders' equity

224,557

222,231

Total liabilities and shareholders' equity

$ 290,058

$ 290,589