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RF Industries Reports Record First Quarter Results

Dépèche transmise le 9 mars 2011 par Business Wire

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RF INDUSTRIES, LTD. (NASDAQ:RFIL) today announced that net income for the first quarter ended January 31, 2011 increased 145% to a first quarter record $351,000, or $0.10 per diluted share, compared to $143,000, or $0.05 per diluted share in the same quarter last year. Sales, for the seasonally slowest quarter of the fiscal year, increased 25% to a first quarter record $4,140,000 compared to $3,313,000 in the first quarter last year.

"Record first quarter sales at RF Connector & Cable Assembly and Bioconnect raised the Company's overall gross margin to 52% of sales, compared to 49% of sales in the same quarter last year. The strong sales gains increased RFI's operating income 141% to $528,000 compared to $218,000 in the first quarter last year," said Howard Hill, RFI's president and CEO.

"RF Connector & Cable Assembly Division sales increased 13% on continuing strong demand in the wireless telecommunications industry. The Aviel Division completed and shipped a large military-related contract in the first quarter, significantly contributing to this segment's operating income. Total segment sales increased 17% to $3,407,000 and operating profit increased 83% to $626,000, each of which exceeded total Company-wide sales and operating profit in the first quarter last year.

"Medical Cabling and Interconnect product sales advanced 70% to a first quarter record $608,000. Operating income jumped to $134,000 from $48,000 due to the sales gains and increased efficiencies associated with a higher utilization rate for the new manufacturing equipment this Division has acquired in recent years. Bioconnect continues to receive increasing order levels from existing and new customers.

"RF Wireless sales increased to $125,000 from $53,000 in the first quarter last year, but higher engineering and product development expenses widened the operating loss to $231,000 compared to an operating loss of $173,000 in the same period last year. RF Wireless' market continues to be affected by the slowdown in public safety wireless capital goods expenditures," said Hill.

As previously announced February 11, 2011, RFI's Board of Directors declared a 2 for 1 common stock split and a 33% increase in the common share dividend. The stock split is payable on March 10, 2011, to shareholders of record February 24, 2011. After the split, RFI will have approximately 6,015,216 common shares outstanding. The increase in RFI's quarterly cash dividend, to $0.02 per post-split share, is payable on April 15, 2011, to shareholders of record on March 31, 2011.

As of January 31, 2011, RFI reported cash and cash equivalents of $4,607,000 and investments in short and long-term certificates of deposits of $5,624,000 for a total of $10,231,000 in liquid, short-term and long-term capital resources, working capital of $15,621,000, a current ratio of 11 to 1, no long-term debt and stockholders' equity of $17,357,000, or $5.84 per share.

About RF Industries

RF Industries conducts operations through six related divisions. The RF Connectors and Cable Assembly segment designs and distributes radio frequency (RF) coaxial connectors and cable assemblies used for Wi-Fi, PCS, radio, test instruments, computer networks and antenna devices. This business segment includes Aviel Electronics, which provides custom microwave and RF Connector solutions to aerospace, OEM and Government agencies and Oddcables.com, formerly known as Worswick, which provides coaxial connectors and cable assemblies primarily to retail and local multi-media and communications systems customers. Bioconnect, which constitutes the Medical Cabling and Interconnector segment, designs, manufactures and distributes specialized electrical cabling and interconnect products to the medical monitoring market. The RF Wireless segment includes Neulink, which designs and markets wireless digital data transmission products for industrial monitoring, wide area networks, GPS tracking and locations systems and RadioMobile, an OEM provider of end-to-end mobile wireless network solutions for public safety, emergency medical, transportation and industrial customers.

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