Hurco Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results for Fiscal Year 2025
Hurco (Nasdaq: HURC) reported fiscal 2025 results for year ended October 31, 2025: a net loss of $15.12M (loss per diluted share $2.34) versus a net loss of $16.61M in fiscal 2024.
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Hurco (Nasdaq: HURC) reported fiscal 2025 results for year ended October 31, 2025: a net loss of $15.12M (loss per diluted share $2.34) versus a net loss of $16.61M in fiscal 2024. Fourth-quarter net loss was $3.04M (Q4 2024: $1.44M). Fiscal 2025 sales were $178.55M, down 4% year-over-year; Q4 sales were $45.47M, down 15% year-over-year. Orders for fiscal 2025 were $171.29M, down 14% year-over-year. Cash and cash equivalents increased to $48.71M, up ≈$15M year-over-year. Management cited tariff headwinds, model mix shifts, cost reductions, and leadership changes while noting improved orders/sales in U.S. and Germany late in the year.
Positive
- Cash increased by approximately $15M year-over-year
- Working capital remained strong at $173.06M as of Oct 31, 2025
- Selling, general, and administrative expenses reduced by nearly $3M year-over-year
- Orders in Americas Q4 increased 4% versus Q4 2024
Negative
- Fiscal 2025 net loss of $15.12M (EPS -$2.34)
- Q4 2025 sales declined 15% year-over-year to $45.47M
- Fiscal 2025 orders declined 14% year-over-year to $171.29M
- Gross margin fell to 18% for fiscal 2025 from 20% in 2024 due to lower volume and tariffs
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Key Figures
- Q4 FY25 net loss
- $3,041,000 (‑$0.47/sh)
- Fourth quarter fiscal 2025 vs $1,442,000 loss in Q4 2024
- FY25 net loss
- $15,117,000 (‑$2.34/sh)
- Full fiscal year 2025 vs $16,608,000 loss in 2024
- Q4 sales
- $45,467,000
- Fourth quarter fiscal 2025, down 15% from $53,702,000 in 2024
- FY25 sales
- $178,554,000
- Fiscal 2025 sales vs $186,584,000 in fiscal 2024 (4% decrease)
- Non‑cash tax allowances
- $4,778,000 and $8,590,000
- Valuation allowances in FY25 and FY24 provisions for income taxes
- Q4 orders
- $46,509,000
- Fourth quarter fiscal 2025 orders, down 9% vs prior year
- FY25 orders
- $171,290,000
- Fiscal 2025 orders vs $198,302,000 in fiscal 2024 (14% decline)
- Cash balance
- $48,713,000
- Cash and cash equivalents as of October 31, 2025 vs $33,330,000 in 2024
Historical Context
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Executive Chairman retirement timing with continued non-executive board role.
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Q3 FY25 loss improvement, higher sales, better margins despite weaker orders.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hurco Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HURC) today reported results for the fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year ended October 31, 2025. Hurco recorded a net loss of
Sales and service fees for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 were
Greg Volovic, Chief Executive Officer, stated, “Our largest markets, the U.S. and Germany, ended the fiscal year with their strongest quarter of orders and sales for the year, reflecting a change in trend that developed during the second half of the year, with orders and sales improving by approximately
The following table sets forth net sales and service fees by geographic region for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended October 31, 2025, and 2024 (dollars in thousands):
| Three Months Ended | Fiscal Year Ended | ||||||||||||||||||
| October 31, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | ||||||||||||
| Americas | ( | ) | (22 | )% | ( | ) | (5 | )% | |||||||||||
| Europe | 23,475 | 25,381 | (1,906 | ) | (8 | )% | 90,863 | 94,919 | (4,056 | ) | (4 | )% | |||||||
| Asia Pacific | 3,758 | 4,990 | (1,232 | ) | (25 | )% | 19,087 | 19,348 | (261 | ) | (1 | )% | |||||||
| Total | ( | ) | (15 | )% | ( | ) | (4 | )% | |||||||||||
Sales in the Americas for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 decreased by
European sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 decreased by
Asian Pacific sales for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 decreased by
Orders for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 were
The following table sets forth new orders booked by geographic region for the fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year ended October 31, 2025, and 2024 (dollars in thousands):
| Three Months Ended | Fiscal Year Ended | ||||||||||||||||||
| October 31, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | 2025 | 2024 | $ Change | % Change | ||||||||||||
| Americas | 4 | % | ( | ) | (10 | )% | |||||||||||||
| Europe | 20,839 | 23,876 | (3,037 | ) | (13 | )% | 81,569 | 99,633 | (18,064 | ) | (18 | )% | |||||||
| Asia Pacific | 3,667 | 5,980 | (2,313 | ) | (39 | )% | 20,573 | 21,958 | (1,385 | ) | (6 | )% | |||||||
| Total | ( | ) | (9 | )% | ( | ) | (14 | )% | |||||||||||
Orders in the Americas for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 increased by
European orders for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 decreased by
Asian Pacific orders for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 decreased by
Gross profit for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 was
Selling, general, and administrative expenses for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025 were
Income taxes recorded during the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025 were a benefit of
Cash and cash equivalents totaled
Hurco Companies, Inc. is an international, industrial technology company that sells its three brands of computer numeric control (“CNC”) machine tools to the worldwide metal cutting and metal forming industry. Two of the Company’s brands of machine tools, Hurco and Milltronics, are equipped with interactive controls that include software that is proprietary to each respective brand. The Company designs these controls and develops the software. The third brand of CNC machine tools, Takumi, is equipped with industrial controls that are produced by third parties, which allows the customer to decide the type of control added to the Takumi CNC machine tool. The Company also produces high-value machine tool components and accessories and provides automation solutions that can be integrated with any machine tool. The end markets for the Company's products are independent job shops, short-run manufacturing operations within large corporations, and manufacturers with production-oriented operations. The Company’s customers manufacture precision parts, tools, dies, and/or molds for industries such as aerospace, defense, medical equipment, energy, transportation, and computer equipment. The Company is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with manufacturing operations in Taiwan, Italy, and the U.S., and sells its products through direct and indirect sales forces throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The Company has sales, application engineering support and service subsidiaries in China, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, the U.S., and Taiwan. Web Site: www.hurco.com.
Certain statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, the cyclical nature of the machine tool industry; uncertain economic conditions, which may adversely affect overall demand, in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific markets; the risks of our international operations; governmental actions, initiatives and regulations, including import and export restrictions, duties and tariffs and changes to tax laws; the effects of changes in currency exchange rates; competition with larger companies that have greater financial resources; our dependence on new product development; the need and/or ability to protect our intellectual property assets; the limited number of our manufacturing and supply chain sources; increases in the prices of raw materials, especially steel and iron products; the effect of the loss of members of senior management and key personnel; our ability to integrate acquisitions; acquisitions that could disrupt our operations and affect operating results; failure to comply with data privacy and security regulations; breaches of our network and system security measures; possible obsolescence of our technology and the need to make technological advances; impairment of our assets; negative or unforeseen tax consequences; uncertainty concerning our ability to use tax loss carryforwards; changes in the SOFR rate; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other public health epidemics and pandemics on the global economy, our business and operations, our employees and the business, operations and economies of our customers and suppliers; and other risks and uncertainties discussed more fully under the caption “Risk Factors” in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Contact: Sonja K. McClelland
Executive Vice President, Treasurer, & Chief Financial Officer
317-293-5309
| Hurco Companies, Inc. | |||||||||||||||
| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS | |||||||||||||||
| (In thousands, except per share data) | |||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | Fiscal Year Ended | ||||||||||||||
| October 31, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||
| (unaudited) | (unaudited) | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and service fees | $ | 45,467 | $ | 53,702 | $ | 178,554 | $ | 186,584 | |||||||
| Cost of sales and service | 37,718 | 41,516 | 145,574 | 148,841 | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 7,749 | 12,186 | 32,980 | 37,743 | |||||||||||
| Selling, general and administrative expenses | 11,207 | 12,677 | 43,248 | 46,029 | |||||||||||
| Operating (loss) income | (3,458 | ) | (491 | ) | (10,268 | ) | (8,286 | ) | |||||||
| Interest expense | 23 | 152 | 89 | 578 | |||||||||||
| Interest income | 17 | 129 | 256 | 621 | |||||||||||
| Investment income | 116 | (46 | ) | 302 | 80 | ||||||||||
| Other (expense) income, net | 129 | (562 | ) | (2,370 | ) | (1,687 | ) | ||||||||
| (Loss) income before taxes | (3,219 | ) | (1,122 | ) | (12,169 | ) | (9,850 | ) | |||||||
| Provision (benefit) for income taxes | (178 | ) | 320 | 2,948 | 6,758 | ||||||||||
| Net (loss) income | (3,041 | ) | (1,442 | ) | (15,117 | ) | (16,608 | ) | |||||||
| (Loss) income per common share | |||||||||||||||
| Basic | $ | (0.47 | ) | $ | (0.23 | ) | $ | (2.34 | ) | $ | (2.56 | ) | |||
| Diluted | $ | (0.47 | ) | $ | (0.23 | ) | $ | (2.34 | ) | $ | (2.56 | ) | |||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding | |||||||||||||||
| Basic | 6,402 | 6,440 | 6,456 | 6,489 | |||||||||||
| Diluted | 6,402 | 6,440 | 6,456 | 6,489 | |||||||||||
| Dividends per share | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | $ | 0.32 | |||||||
| OTHER CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA | |||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | Fiscal Year Ended | ||||||||||||||
| October 31, | October 31, | ||||||||||||||
| Operating Data: | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||
| (unaudited) | (unaudited) | ||||||||||||||
| Gross margin | 17 | % | 23 | % | 18 | % | 20 | % | |||||||
| SG&A expense as a percentage of sales | 25 | % | 24 | % | 24 | % | 25 | % | |||||||
| Operating (loss) income as a percentage of sales | -8 | % | -1 | % | -6 | % | -4 | % | |||||||
| Pre-tax (loss) income as a percentage of sales | -7 | % | -2 | % | -7 | % | -5 | % | |||||||
| Effective tax rate | 6 | % | -29 | % | -24 | % | -69 | % | |||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | $ | 691 | $ | 854 | $ | 2,691 | $ | 3,532 | |||||||
| Capital expenditures | $ | 733 | $ | 830 | $ | 3,021 | $ | 2,876 | |||||||
| Balance Sheet Data: | 10/31/2025 | 10/31/2024 | |||||||||||||
| Working capital | $ | 173,055 | $ | 180,788 | |||||||||||
| Days sales outstanding | 42 | 49 | |||||||||||||
| Inventory turns | 1.0 | 1.0 | |||||||||||||
| Capitalization | |||||||||||||||
| Total debt | -- | -- | |||||||||||||
| Shareholders' equity | 198,787 | 207,172 | |||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 198,787 | $ | 207,172 | |||||||||||
| Hurco Companies, Inc. | |||||||
| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS | |||||||
| (In thousands, except share and per share data) | |||||||
| October 31, | October 31, | ||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||
| ASSETS | (unaudited) | ||||||
| Current assets: | |||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 48,713 | $ | 33,330 | |||
| Accounts receivable, net | 27,928 | 36,678 | |||||
| Inventories | 142,931 | 153,037 | |||||
| Derivative assets | 263 | 323 | |||||
| Prepaid and other assets | 5,243 | 5,209 | |||||
| Total current assets | 225,078 | 228,577 | |||||
| Property and equipment: | |||||||
| Land | 1,046 | 1,046 | |||||
| Building | 7,381 | 7,381 | |||||
| Machinery and equipment | 26,061 | 28,106 | |||||
| Leasehold improvements | 4,569 | 4,667 | |||||
| 39,057 | 41,200 | ||||||
| Less accumulated depreciation and amortization | (31,083 | ) | (32,404 | ) | |||
| Total property and equipment, net | 7,974 | 8,796 | |||||
| Non-current assets: | |||||||
| Software development costs, less accumulated amortization | 8,090 | 7,044 | |||||
| Intangible assets, net | 627 | 763 | |||||
| Operating lease - right of use assets, net | 11,560 | 11,313 | |||||
| Deferred income taxes | 794 | 1,349 | |||||
| Investments | 9,005 | 8,216 | |||||
| Other assets | 1,170 | 2,585 | |||||
| Total non-current assets | 31,246 | 31,270 | |||||
| Total assets | $ | 264,298 | $ | 268,643 | |||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | |||||||
| Current liabilities: | |||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | 26,074 | $ | 24,951 | |||
| Customer deposits | 4,788 | 4,308 | |||||
| Derivative liabilities | 3,084 | 705 | |||||
| Operating lease liabilities | 4,374 | 3,829 | |||||
| Accrued payroll and employee benefits | 7,474 | 7,786 | |||||
| Accrued income taxes | 1,472 | 866 | |||||
| Accrued expenses | 3,790 | 4,258 | |||||
| Accrued warranty expenses | 967 | 1,086 | |||||
| Total current liabilities | 52,023 | 47,789 | |||||
| Non-current liabilities: | |||||||
| Deferred income taxes | 38 | 53 | |||||
| Accrued tax liability | - | 537 | |||||
| Operating lease liabilities | 7,560 | 7,852 | |||||
| Deferred credits and other | 5,890 | 5,240 | |||||
| Total non-current liabilities | 13,488 | 13,682 | |||||
| Commitment and contingencies | - | - | |||||
| Shareholders' equity: | |||||||
| Preferred stock: no par value per share, 1,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued | - | - | |||||
| Common stock: no par value, $.10 stated value per share, 12,500,000 shares authorized; 6,569,224 and 6,548,838 shares issued and 6,402,396 and 6,435,624 shares outstanding, as of October 31, 2025 and October 31, 2024, respectively | 640 | 644 | |||||
| Additional paid-in capital | 60,850 | 61,500 | |||||
| Retained earnings | 146,305 | 161,422 | |||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (9,008 | ) | (16,394 | ) | |||
| Total shareholders' equity | 198,787 | 207,172 | |||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders' equity | $ | 264,298 | $ | 268,643 | |||
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