SAN DIEGO, December 23, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genasys Inc. (NASDAQ: GNSS), the global leader in Protective Communications, today provided a recap of the Company’s fiscal year 2024 (FY 2024) business developments that produced record bookings and strong backlog and discussed Genasys’ fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025) outlook.
Richard Danforth, Chief Executive Officer of Genasys Inc., said, "In FY 2024, we won a $75 million Puerto Rico dams project award and secured significant orders from Los Angeles County and the states of Oregon and New Hampshire. We also reported record domestic law enforcement orders and a substantial rebound in international LRAD business. These, and other FY 2024 business wins, resulted in $111 million in new bookings and a 12-month backlog of more than $40 million at the September fiscal year end.
"Our software business starts fiscal 2025 with an ARR of $8.3 million," continued Mr. Danforth. "Since our early FY 2024 acquisition of Evertel Technologies and its subsequent rebranding, we have continued to grow Genasys CONNECT to surpass 250 clients with more than 31,000 active users. These agencies are using CONNECT to protect more than 50 million people in the U.S."
Michael Smith, Senior Vice President of Genasys Protect, said, "Our Genasys Protect suite of ACOUSTICS, ALERT, CONNECT, and EVAC are proliferating in the U.S. and generating material pipeline and ARR growth. Of note, the recent use of EVAC by Los Angeles County first responders and emergency managers was instrumental in keeping people safe during the Franklin Fire that ravaged Malibu earlier this month."
David Schnell, Vice President of Global Hardware Sales, added, "Renewed LRAD demand from international naval customers and defense and law enforcement agencies in Africa, the Middle East, and our APAC region led to an 86% year-over-year increase in international hardware bookings in FY 2024. Both domestic and international hardware pipeline and bookings are growing at a steady pace as we enter calendar 2025."
Mr. Danforth concluded, "Exiting calendar 2024 with record bookings and robust backlog, Genasys is incredibly well positioned. Genasys systems and solutions are now in use in all 50 states. We have received the $8.0 million deposit for the first group of dams in Puerto Rico, invoiced to receive the second deposit, and are aggressively moving to procure, build, and install the ACOUSTICS-based Early Warning System across all 37 dams for the PREPA project.
"I want to thank our entire Genasys team for their steadfast commitment to delivering and supporting world-class Protective Communications systems and solutions that provide proactive preparedness, data-driven decision making, secure, inter-agency collaboration, and multichannel communication that speed emergency responses and save lives."
We include in this press release Non-GAAP operational metrics of backlog and bookings, which we believe provide helpful information to investors with respect to evaluating the Company’s performance. Bookings is an internal, operational metric that measures the total dollar value of customer purchase orders executed in a period, regardless of the timing of the related revenue recognition. Backlog is a measure of purchase orders received that are planned to ship within the next 12 months.
About Genasys Inc.
Genasys Inc. (NASDAQ: GNSS) is the global leader in Protective Communications. Incorporating the most comprehensive portfolio of preparedness, response, and analytics software and systems, as well as the Company’s Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD®), the Genasys Protect platform is designed around one premise: ensuring organizations and public safety agencies are "Ready when it matters™." Protecting people and saving lives for over 40 years, Genasys covers more than 155 million people in all 50 states and in over 100 countries worldwide. For more information, visit genasys.com.
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