Earnings Call Insights: Digimarc Corporation (DMRC) Q4 2025 Management View Riley McCormack, CEO, highlighted "significant progress in advancing adoption of our Secure Gift Card solution," including the first commercial order and initial rollout plans with 8 North American retailers, 4 of which are among the largest in the region. McCormack noted, "We signed IP licensing agreements with 2 of the w...
Earnings Call Insights: Digimarc Corporation (DMRC) Q4 2025 Management View Riley McCormack, CEO, highlighted "significant progress in advancing adoption of our Secure Gift Card solution," including the first commercial order and initial rollout plans with 8 North American retailers, 4 of which are among the largest in the region. McCormack noted, "We signed IP licensing agreements with 2 of the world's largest and most respected technology companies, providing validation of the relevance and value of our inventions by 2 companies widely regarded as leaders in the new era of AI." The CEO reported upsells with an existing customer to expand use of the anti-counterfeiting solution for tax stamps and added 2 new digital space logos, including a global consumer goods company and an AI-powered content generation company, emphasizing that "business model or vertical does not impact the need for Digital Trust & Integrity solutions." McCormack stated, "We achieved both positive non-GAAP net income and positive free cash flow in the quarter, 2 milestones Digimarc hasn't achieved in over 12 years." Charles Beck, CFO, said, "Ending ARR for Q4 was $13.7 million compared to $20 million for Q4 last year. The decrease reflects the loss of 2 large customer contracts outside of our focus areas...Excluding these 2 items, ARR grew $400,000 year-over-year." Beck also highlighted, "Total revenue for Q4 was $8.9 million, an increase of $200,000 or 3% from $8.7 million in Q4 last year. Subscription revenue...increased 6% from $5 million to $5.3 million." Outlook Digimarc projects significant ARR growth in 2026, with the Secure Gift Card solution identified as the largest single driver. Beck noted, "Our goal is to progress our targeted retailers and brands toward meaningful adoption for holiday 2026, for which we would expect orders in summer and early fall." Management expects continued ramp for the spring 2027 refresh cycle, and Beck emphasized, "We are singularly focused on hitting the ...
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Israeli warplanes bombarded Beirut’s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon after Hezbollah launched drones and rockets at northern Israel on Wednesday night in a sharp escalation of the 10-day conflict. Hezbollah let off successive volleys of rockets and drone swarms at Israel on Wednesday night, injuring two people, with most of the projectiles either being intercepted or falling into open areas....
Israeli warplanes bombarded Beirut’s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon after Hezbollah launched drones and rockets at northern Israel on Wednesday night in a sharp escalation of the 10-day conflict. Hezbollah let off successive volleys of rockets and drone swarms at Israel on Wednesday night, injuring two people, with most of the projectiles either being intercepted or falling into open areas. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said later that they had carried out some strikes with Hezbollah. In a statement carried by the Fars and Tasnim news agencies, the Guards said the “joint and integrated operation” involved a missile attack by Iran carried out in conjunction with missile and drone fire from Hezbollah. The operation focused on “more than 50 targets” on Israeli territory, the statement added, including Israeli military bases in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Beersheba. The attack by Hezbollah was the most intense launched by the pro-Iran group since it first fired rockets at Israel 10 days earlier, triggering a retaliatory military campaign by Israel. The rockets were launched in tandem with Iranian missiles, the first time the two coordinated their attacks against Israel since the Iran war started. Hezbollah’s operation, dubbed “Operation Chewed Wheat” – a reference to a Quranic verse about reducing one’s enemies to chewed wheat – was a sharp escalation by the group, believed to be battered by nearly two years of daily airstrikes by Israel. Lebanon was quickly becoming the most intense site of fighting in the region as the war in Iran, launched by Israel and the US two weeks prior, continued to consume the Middle East and beyond. Israeli warplanes began bombing Lebanon nearly immediately after Hezbollah’s strikes. The skies of Beirut were lit red and windows around the capital city shook as Israel unleashed its most powerful bombardment of the southern suburbs yet in this round of fighting. Videos showed collapsed buildings in southern Lebanon and streets choked with smoke ...
Years After The Pandemic, Younger Students Still Have Far To Go In Reading, Report Says Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Reading levels in early elementary school grades have remained fairly stagnant since the COVID-19 pandemic, a national education assessment and research organization revealed this week. A new policy brief from NWEA, formerly the Northwest Evaluation Association, sa...
Years After The Pandemic, Younger Students Still Have Far To Go In Reading, Report Says Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Reading levels in early elementary school grades have remained fairly stagnant since the COVID-19 pandemic, a national education assessment and research organization revealed this week. A new policy brief from NWEA, formerly the Northwest Evaluation Association, says first- and second-grade reading achievement “remains stalled with little rebounding,” while math achievement in those grades showed modest recovery since 2021, and kindergarten levels in both subject areas have remained mostly steady. The findings were pulled from NWEA’s ongoing analysis of K-8 students across 30,000 schools dating back to 2017. For reading, these early grade patterns closely resemble those recently observed in grades 3-8. Current first- and second graders were “day-care age” during the most disruptive periods of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, yet their achievement mirrors that of older students who experienced those disruptions earlier in their elementary school careers. This suggests broader, longer-lasting system challenges, as opposed to interruptions to a single cohort, said Megan Kuhfeld, NWEA’s data analytics director. “It is important that we understand the depth and persistence of unfinished learning from the pandemic’s disruptions, but we must also focus on our lens beyond the COVID-19 years,” she said in a news release. “While these youngest elementary students were just infants and toddlers when COVID-19 hit, this stagnation in reading and uneven recovery in math is an indicator of something bigger impacting our education system that extends beyond one cohort or a moment in time.” The report also notes that while first- and second-grade math scores have steadily improved since 2022, overall achievement remains below pre-pandemic levels. Additionally, gaps have narrowed across various student groups, including those from low-income households,...
March isn't turning out to be a very good month for Grocery Outlet Holding (GO 1.50%). After recovering slightly from last week's swoon, the discount food retailer again dipped into the red on Wednesday. Its shares lost nearly 2% of their value that trading session, following an analyst's price target cut. Cutting time The person with the scissors was Robert Ohmes of Bank of America Securities. He...
March isn't turning out to be a very good month for Grocery Outlet Holding (GO 1.50%). After recovering slightly from last week's swoon, the discount food retailer again dipped into the red on Wednesday. Its shares lost nearly 2% of their value that trading session, following an analyst's price target cut. Cutting time The person with the scissors was Robert Ohmes of Bank of America Securities. He reduced his fair value assessment for Grocery Outlet to $10.50 per share from his preceding $13. In doing so, he maintained his neutral recommendation on the stock. Ohmes' comes almost a week after Grocery Outlet published its final earnings report for 2025. This wasn't very pleasing for Mr. Market, as the company missed the average analyst net income forecast for the fourth quarter. Worse, management provided full-year guidance of declines in both metrics. And both the top- and bottom-line projections missed the consensus prognosticator estimates. According to reports, the analyst expressed skepticism that the retailer could return to comparable sales growth (it posted a nearly 1% dip in comparable sales during the quarter). He also doesn't feel as if shoppers at its outlets will buy substantially more groceries. Expand NASDAQ : GO Grocery Outlet Today's Change ( -1.50 %) $ -0.10 Current Price $ 6.22 Key Data Points Market Cap $620M Day's Range $ 5.93 - $ 6.32 52wk Range $ 5.66 - $ 19.41 Volume 105K Avg Vol 3.1M Gross Margin 30.27 % A company on a diet In its earnings release, Grocery Outlet said it was launching a "business optimization plan." Among other moves, the rationalization effort will include the shuttering of 36 stores. So basically, Grocery Outlet is on a corporate diet, trying to get into better shape. That doesn't bode well for the immediate future of the stock, and after that, the company's prospects look murky. I'd avoid its equity for now.
Key Points This came almost a week after the food retailer posted its latest results. The company didn't exactly have a spectacular fourth quarter. 10 stocks we like better than Grocery Outlet › March isn't turning out to be a very good month for Grocery Outlet Holding (NASDAQ: GO). After recovering slightly from last week's swoon, the discount food retailer again dipped into the red on Wednesday....
Key Points This came almost a week after the food retailer posted its latest results. The company didn't exactly have a spectacular fourth quarter. 10 stocks we like better than Grocery Outlet › March isn't turning out to be a very good month for Grocery Outlet Holding (NASDAQ: GO). After recovering slightly from last week's swoon, the discount food retailer again dipped into the red on Wednesday. Its shares lost nearly 2% of their value that trading session, following an analyst's price target cut. Cutting time The person with the scissors was Robert Ohmes of Bank of America Securities. He reduced his fair value assessment for Grocery Outlet to $10.50 per share from his preceding $13. In doing so, he maintained his neutral recommendation on the stock. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » Ohmes' comes almost a week after Grocery Outlet published its final earnings report for 2025. This wasn't very pleasing for Mr. Market, as the company missed the average analyst net income forecast for the fourth quarter. Worse, management provided full-year guidance of declines in both metrics. And both the top- and bottom-line projections missed the consensus prognosticator estimates. According to reports, the analyst expressed skepticism that the retailer could return to comparable sales growth (it posted a nearly 1% dip in comparable sales during the quarter). He also doesn't feel as if shoppers at its outlets will buy substantially more groceries. A company on a diet In its earnings release, Grocery Outlet said it was launching a "business optimization plan." Among other moves, the rationalization effort will include the shuttering of 36 stores. So basically, Grocery Outlet is on a corporate diet, trying to get into better shape. That doesn't bode well for the immediate future of the stock, and af...
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內地今年內加快修訂預製菜等食安標準 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】內地計劃今年內加快修訂預製菜、農藥殘留等食安相關標準。 國務院食安辦指今年將推動食品安全法全面修訂，加快修訂預製菜等食品相關安全標準。當局會健全跨部門聯合檢查和聯合執法機制，亦會針對群眾反映強烈的校園食品、「幽靈外賣」、濫用食品添加劑等重點問題開展常態化專項整治，並持續加強監管食用農產品、食品儲存運輸、網絡銷售等環節，嚴厲打擊違法違規行為，同時會在學校加強常態化檢查，嚴防不合格的食材進入校園。
The yen is hovering near its weakest level of the year against the dollar, while traders see a higher threshold for official intervention this time around. The Japanese currency breached 159 per dollar on Thursday, close to the 159.45 level that prompted a so-called rate check in January by the US Federal Reserve. Yet the backdrop has shifted. Rising oil prices tied to the Iran conflict and resili...
The yen is hovering near its weakest level of the year against the dollar, while traders see a higher threshold for official intervention this time around. The Japanese currency breached 159 per dollar on Thursday, close to the 159.45 level that prompted a so-called rate check in January by the US Federal Reserve. Yet the backdrop has shifted. Rising oil prices tied to the Iran conflict and resilient US data have pushed the dollar higher on fundamental grounds, potentially making it harder for Japanese authorities to justify stepping in. “The bar for intervention is higher now,” said Rodrigo Catril , a currency strategist at National Australia Bank Ltd. “Our sense is that intervention is unlikely unless we see a disorderly move higher in dollar-yen. The 158/159 area was the old line in the sand, and we suspect a level closer to 162 is where the new line lies.” Japan’s heavy reliance on Middle Eastern energy imports means higher crude prices worsen the trade balance and stoke inflation, naturally weighing on the yen. At the same time, the dollar has benefited from safe-haven flows, reinforcing the move. That contrasts with January, when the yen’s slide appeared more driven by positioning and speculative momentum. Japanese officials have repeatedly emphasized that they are focused on excessive volatility rather than defending specific levels. “Compared with January, US authorities may have less incentive to conduct a rate check,” JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists including Junya Tanase wrote in a note dated Wednesday. “Given that the latest leg higher in USD/JPY has been driven by broad USD strength, it may be difficult to justify intervention even if the pair trades into the 160s,” they said, maintaining their medium-to long-term dollar-yen forecast at 164. The currency briefly found support after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ’s resounding lower house election victory last month. But it has since weakened following media reports that she is cautious about further int...
Describing the trip to France, she says: "He [Epstein] would give me $300 (£225). I would go out for a walk and give him the change, but he would tell me to keep the money. He would test me and leave money in my room, and then I would give it back to him, and he would say I could keep it."
Describing the trip to France, she says: "He [Epstein] would give me $300 (£225). I would go out for a walk and give him the change, but he would tell me to keep the money. He would test me and leave money in my room, and then I would give it back to him, and he would say I could keep it."