Where Food Comes From, Inc. Q3 FY2025 Earnings Call

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  • Total Revenue: $7.0 million, down $92,000 (1.3%) compared to Q3 2024.
  • Verification and Certification Revenue: Increased by 1% YoY to $5.6 million. Growth driven by pork, dairy, egg verifications, and expanding CARE Certified program, along with organic, non-GMO, gluten-free, and Upcycled certifications.
  • Hardware Sales: Dropped to $1.2 million from $1.3 million YoY due to lower cattle herd sizes and reduced tag subsidies. Partially offset by increased sales of higher-margin value-added tags.
  • Gross Margin: Remained stable YoY.
  • SG&A Expense: Slightly declined due to cost controls, mainly in fixed costs, marketing, and travel expenses, helping to offset increased compensation costs.
  • Operating Income: $575,000 compared to $608,000 in Q3 2024.
  • Net Income: Tripled to $1.1 million or $0.22/share from $500,000 or $0.09/share in Q3 2024. Includes $946,000 gain from divestiture of Progressive Beef and $48,000 from digital assets.
  • Cash Position: $4.8 million at quarter end, up from $2 million at FY 2024-year end. No debt on the balance sheet.
  • Share Buybacks:
    • 60,721 shares repurchased in Q3 2025.
    • 116,547 shares retired YTD.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Where Food Comes From Third Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to introduce Jay Pfeiffer of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Jay Pfeiffer: Good morning, and welcome to the Where Food Comes From 2025 Third Quarter Earnings Call. Joining me on the call today are John Saunders, CEO; Leann Saunders, President; and Chief Financial Officer, Dannette Henning. During this call, we'll make forward-looking statements based on current expectations, estimates and projections that are subject to risk. Statements about financial performance, growth strategy, customers, business opportunities, market acceptance of our products and services and potential acquisitions are forward-looking statements. Listeners should not place undue reliance on these statements as there are many factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements. We encourage you to review our publicly filed documents as well as our news releases and website for more information. I'll now turn the call over to John Saunders. John Saunders: Hello, and thanks for joining the call today. In our earnings release this morning, we again reported strength in a wide range of service offerings that essentially offset the continued impact that the smaller herd sizes are having on our core beef-related verification activity. We also reported solid bottom line results in s

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