Earnings Call Insights: SoundThinking, Inc. (SSTI) Q1 2026 Management View "Q1 revenue was $24.2 million" and "Q1 adjusted EBITDA was approximately negative $100,000" (President, CEO & Director Ralph Clark), alongside: "We are reaffirming our full year guidance of $109 million to $111 million in revenue... and an adjusted EBITDA margin guidance of 16% to 18% and exiting ARR of $110 million" (Presi...
Earnings Call Insights: SoundThinking, Inc. (SSTI) Q1 2026 Management View "Q1 revenue was $24.2 million" and "Q1 adjusted EBITDA was approximately negative $100,000" (President, CEO & Director Ralph Clark), alongside: "We are reaffirming our full year guidance of $109 million to $111 million in revenue... and an adjusted EBITDA margin guidance of 16% to 18% and exiting ARR of $110 million" (President, CEO & Director Clark). "Q1 is by design and by calendar, our most cost-heavy quarter and our lightest revenue quarter" and "our revenue is back-end loaded as deployments, renewals and expansions build throughout the year" (President, CEO & Director Clark), adding that "Combined with approximately $4 million of annual savings expected from the workforce optimization we executed effective April 1, we believe we have clear line of sight to our full year adjusted EBITDA guidance" (President, CEO & Director Clark). "We took ShotSpotter mileage live across 7 customer accounts, added 50 PlateRanger cameras on our LPR platform and went live with 85 lanes of SafePointe" (President, CEO & Director Clark). "The Cleveland renewal is in process" and the city "publicly touted the technology and specifically credited ShotSpotter's contribution in Cleveland's 80% homicide solve rate" (President, CEO & Director Clark), who also cited differentiation including "accuracy performance that has been independently validated at 97% in 2024 against a 90% contractual standard" (President, CEO & Director Clark). "We now have 16 cities live with ShotSpotter-to-drone integrations across Skydio and BRINC" (President, CEO & Director Clark) and "Last week, we launched SafetySmart Field Agent... now in beta with more than a dozen ShotSpotter agencies" with "Broader availability... targeted for later this summer" (President, CEO & Director Clark). "Revenues in the first quarter were $24.2 million compared to $28.3 million in the first quarter of 2025" and "Our gross profit was $11.3 million or 47% of ...
Key PointsPSquared bought 740,000 shares of Allied Gold in the first quarter; the estimated trade size was $22.36 million based on quarterly average pricing.
Key PointsPSquared bought 740,000 shares of Allied Gold in the first quarter; the estimated trade size was $22.36 million based on quarterly average pricing.
Smile/DigitalVision via Getty Images By Jennifer Nash According to the Census Bureau’s Advance Retail Sales Report, consumer spending climbed for the third consecutive month in April. While headline sales rose 0.5% as expected, this marked a deceleration from March’s 1.6% surge. Since these figures are not adjusted for inflation, much of April's 'growth' reflects higher prices at the pump rather t...
Smile/DigitalVision via Getty Images By Jennifer Nash According to the Census Bureau’s Advance Retail Sales Report, consumer spending climbed for the third consecutive month in April. While headline sales rose 0.5% as expected, this marked a deceleration from March’s 1.6% surge. Since these figures are not adjusted for inflation, much of April's 'growth' reflects higher prices at the pump rather than an increase in actual consumer volume. Here is the introduction from today's report : Advance Estimates of U.S. Retail and Food Services Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for April 2026, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $757.1 billion, up 0.5 percent (±0.4 percent) from the previous month, and up 4.9 percent (±0.5 percent) from April 2025. Total sales for the February 2026 through April 2026 period were up 4.4 percent (±0.4 percent) from the same period a year ago. The February 2026 to March 2026 percent change was revised from up 1.7 percent (±0.4 percent) to up 1.6 percent (±0.2 percent).Retail trade sales were up 0.5 percent (±0.4 percent) from March 2026, and up 5.2 percent (±0.5 percent) from last year. Nonstore retailers were up 11.1 percent (±1.8 percent) from last year, while food services and drinking places were up 2.7 percent (±1.8 percent) from April 2025. The chart below is a log-scale snapshot of retail sales since the early 1990s. The three exponential regressions through the data help us to evaluate the long-term trend of this key economic indicator. The light purple line is a linear regression through the complete data series. The green line is a regression from the start of the series through the end of 2007 and then extrapolated to the present - thus excluding the Financial Crisis. The blue line is a regression from the start of the series through the end of 2019 and then extrapolated to the present - thus excluding the COVID-19 pandemic. Monthly retail sale...
Xi Jinping warned that Taiwan could lead to "clashes" between the US and China, calling it a "highly dangerous situation" for the world's biggest economies. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)
Xi Jinping warned that Taiwan could lead to "clashes" between the US and China, calling it a "highly dangerous situation" for the world's biggest economies. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)
Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have essentially traded places since plans to combine the two companies collapsed dramatically last year . Back then, Nissan’s financial position was deteriorating rapidly and Honda was seen as a white knight. But a prospective tie-up fell apart over Nissan’s resistance to demands from Honda, including that it become a wholly owned subsidiary. A year later, Nis...
Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have essentially traded places since plans to combine the two companies collapsed dramatically last year . Back then, Nissan’s financial position was deteriorating rapidly and Honda was seen as a white knight. But a prospective tie-up fell apart over Nissan’s resistance to demands from Honda, including that it become a wholly owned subsidiary. A year later, Nissan managed to post an annual operating profit while Honda has slid into the red , setting the stage for what some see as a potential re-start of talks on more even terms. “They’ll have to try it again,” said Seiji Sugiura , senior analyst at Tokai Tokyo Intelligence Laboratory Co. Honda’s losses and Nissan’s early signs of recovery have narrowed the imbalance that derailed their failed merger talks, even as they struggle against Chinese rivals, rising development costs and the industry’s shift toward electrification and automation. A renewed tie-up would test whether scale and shared investment can outweigh the risks of combining two weakened carmakers with overlapping products and markets. This week, Honda reported a ¥414.3 billion ($2.6 billion) operating shortfall for the year ended in March — the company’s first annual loss since it was founded in the late 1940s — following a ¥2.5 trillion writedown for a misplaced bet on electric vehicles in the US. Honda’s five consecutive quarters of losses in its automotive business is a distress signal from its core business — and in more ways than just poorly timed EVs. The manufacturer is suffering from an aging car lineup in key markets such as the US and China. And while its lucrative motorcycle unit continues to thrive, Honda is racing to catch up in areas where it once led — including gas-electric hybrid vehicles. Read More: Honda’s Car Troubles Began Long Before Disastrous Bet on EVs Similarly, Nissan squandered its once-promising lead in EVs, and has faced falling retail sales in the US and China due to uninspired product ...
TORONTO, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“ POET ” or the “ Company ”) (NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs), light sources and optical modules for the AI and data center markets, today reported its unaudited condensed consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. The Company’s financial results as wel...
TORONTO, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“ POET ” or the “ Company ”) (NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs), light sources and optical modules for the AI and data center markets, today reported its unaudited condensed consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. The Company’s financial results as well as the Management Discussion and Analysis have been filed on SEDAR+. All financial figures are in United States dollars (“USD”) unless otherwise indicated.
Alistair Berg/DigitalVision via Getty Images Investment Thesis Abaxx Technologies Inc. ( ABXXF ) shareholders have ridden a rocket in the past year, with the share price up just over 500%. That leads us to ask if growth will continue or expire? This is still an early-stage company, though, which means there may still be significant risks. This article assesses them and finishes with a Buy rating. ...
Alistair Berg/DigitalVision via Getty Images Investment Thesis Abaxx Technologies Inc. ( ABXXF ) shareholders have ridden a rocket in the past year, with the share price up just over 500%. That leads us to ask if growth will continue or expire? This is still an early-stage company, though, which means there may still be significant risks. This article assesses them and finishes with a Buy rating. About Abaxx The firm owns and operates the Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse, which is based in Singapore. It also develops specialized software, which its Singapore exchange uses, and other products. The company says this on the investor relations page of its website: To modernize collateral markets to move in real time, Abaxx delivers proprietary digital infrastructure through its ID++ protocol and MarketOS™ architecture. This technology converts physical commodities and regulated securities into legally enforceable, transaction-ready collateral for margin and financing within existing legal frameworks. Its shares trade on the OTCQX, the highest tier among over-the-counter markets, and on the NEOE, which is the Cboe/NEO Exchange, a Canadian stock exchange. ABXXF is the ticker for the OTCQX shares, while ABXX:CA represents the Canadian shares. Since Abaxx does not trade on the main American markets, its reporting does not conform to what we expect from American companies. Liquidity Risk Good ideas don’t always turn into successful businesses, and the main reason for that often is financing. Does Abaxx have enough liquidity to keep going for at least another year? Checking the balance sheet for 2025, we see the firm had $45.6 million in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments at the end of the year. That is up materially from its $17.7 million in 2024. Altogether, it had total assets of $91.2 million. On the other side of the ledger, it had $17.9 million in long-term debt, up from zero in 2024 and preceding years. Total liabilities at December 31...