Hurco Reports Second Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2026
Hurco (Nasdaq:HURC) reported Q2 FY2026 net loss of $2.37 million, or $0.37 per diluted share, versus a $4.06 million loss a year earlier.
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Hurco (Nasdaq:HURC) reported Q2 FY2026 net loss of $2.37 million, or $0.37 per diluted share, versus a $4.06 million loss a year earlier. Sales rose 17% to $47.6 million and gross margin improved to 22%.
Orders grew 41% to $61.6 million, driven by strong demand in the Americas and Asia Pacific for Hurco and Takumi 5-axis and higher-performance vertical milling machines. Cash and equivalents were $50.1 million with no debt, and working capital was $166.9 million.
Positive
- Q2 sales and service fees up 17% to $47.6 million
- Q2 net loss reduced to $2.37 million from $4.06 million
- Q2 orders up 41% to $61.6 million; six-month orders up 24%
- Gross margin improved 300 bps to 22% in Q2
- Americas Q2 sales up 35%; Asia Pacific Q2 sales up 81%
- Cash and cash equivalents of $50.1 million with no debt
Negative
- Continued net loss of $5.84 million for first six months
- Europe Q2 sales down 8% and six‑month sales down 7%
- Full valuation allowance on Italian, U.S., and Chinese deferred tax assets
- Selling, general and administrative expenses up to $22.2 million for six months
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Key Figures
- Q2 2026 net loss
- $2,372,000
- Second quarter FY2026 net loss
- Q2 2026 EPS
- $(0.37) per diluted share
- Second quarter FY2026 loss per share
- Q2 2026 sales
- $47,618,000
- Sales and service fees, up 17% year-over-year
- Q2 2026 orders
- $61,647,000
- New orders, up 41% year-over-year
- Q2 2026 gross margin
- 22%
- Gross margin for second quarter FY2026, up from 19%
- H1 2026 net loss
- $5,840,000
- First six months FY2026 net loss
- Cash and equivalents
- $50,055,000
- Cash and cash equivalents as of April 30, 2026
- Working capital
- $166,943,000
- Working capital as of April 30, 2026
Previous Earnings Reports
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Narrower net loss, higher gross margin, but sales declined year-over-year.
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Loss sharply reduced, sales up 7%, margins improved despite weaker orders.
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Wider loss, 10% sales decline and broad regional weakness in demand.
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Loss deepened, orders fell 20% and gross margin contracted materially.
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Turn from prior-year profit to loss with double-digit sales declines.
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Key Terms
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INDIANAPOLIS, June 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hurco Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HURC) today reported results for the second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2026. Hurco recorded a net loss of
Sales and service fees for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 were
Greg Volovic, Chief Executive Officer, stated, “After more than two years of disciplined execution through one of the deepest machine tool downcycles in history, the second quarter produced the kind of results we have been working toward. Orders increased
The following table sets forth net sales and service fees by geographic region for the second quarter and six months ended April 30, 2026, and 2025 (dollars in thousands):
| Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||
| April 30, | April 30, | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | $ Change | % Change | 2026 | 2025 | $ Change | % Change | ||||||||||||
| Americas | $ | 20,740 | $ | 15,361 | $ | 5,379 | 35 | % | $ | 37,396 | $ | 33,469 | $ | 3,927 | 12 | % | |||
| Europe | 19,814 | 21,608 | (1,794 | ) | (8 | )% | 40,361 | 43,222 | (2,861 | ) | (7 | )% | |||||||
| Asia Pacific | 7,064 | 3,898 | 3,166 | 81 | % | 12,729 | 10,590 | 2,139 | 20 | % | |||||||||
| Total | $ | 47,618 | $ | 40,867 | $ | 6,751 | 17 | % | $ | 90,486 | $ | 87,281 | $ | 3,205 | 4 | % | |||
Sales in the Americas for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 increased by
European sales for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 decreased by
Asian Pacific sales for the second quarter and first six months of fiscal year 2026 increased by
Orders for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 were
The following table sets forth new orders booked by geographic region for the second quarter and six months ended April 30, 2026, and 2025 (dollars in thousands):
| Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||
| April 30, | April 30, | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | $ Change | % Change | 2026 | 2025 | $ Change | % Change | ||||||||||
| Americas | $ | 27,552 | $ | 16,945 | $ | 10,607 | 63 | % | $ | 44,853 | $ | 31,588 | $ | 13,265 | 42 | % | |
| Europe | 24,661 | 21,086 | 3,575 | 17 | % | 43,627 | 40,456 | 3,171 | 8 | % | |||||||
| Asia Pacific | 9,434 | 5,669 | 3,765 | 66 | % | 15,147 | 11,741 | 3,406 | 29 | % | |||||||
| Total | $ | 61,647 | $ | 43,700 | $ | 17,947 | 41 | % | $ | 103,627 | $ | 83,785 | $ | 19,842 | 24 | % | |
Orders in the Americas for the second quarter and first six months of fiscal year 2026 increased by
European orders for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 increased by
Asian Pacific orders for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 increased by
Gross profit for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 was
Selling, general, and administrative expenses for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 were
Income tax expense for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 was
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, including an inability to receive any refunds of tariffs paid in previous periods, 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 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 | Six Months Ended | ||||||||||||||
| April 30, | April 30, | ||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | ||||||||||||
| (unaudited) | (unaudited) | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and service fees | $ | 47,618 | $ | 40,867 | $ | 90,486 | $ | 87,281 | |||||||
| Cost of sales and service | 37,287 | 33,038 | 72,217 | 71,162 | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 10,331 | 7,829 | 18,269 | 16,119 | |||||||||||
| Selling, general and administrative expenses | 11,130 | 10,897 | 22,238 | 21,279 | |||||||||||
| Operating (loss) income | (799 | ) | (3,068 | ) | (3,969 | ) | (5,160 | ) | |||||||
| Interest expense | 30 | 4 | 36 | 62 | |||||||||||
| Interest income | 71 | 87 | 113 | 181 | |||||||||||
| Investment income | 4 | 12 | 109 | 173 | |||||||||||
| Other expense, net | (843 | ) | (572 | ) | (821 | ) | (956 | ) | |||||||
| (Loss) income before taxes | (1,597 | ) | (3,545 | ) | (4,604 | ) | (5,824 | ) | |||||||
| Provision for income taxes | 775 | 518 | 1,236 | 2,559 | |||||||||||
| Net (loss) income | $ | (2,372 | ) | $ | (4,063 | ) | $ | (5,840 | ) | $ | (8,383 | ) | |||
| (Loss) income per common share | |||||||||||||||
| Basic | $ | (0.37 | ) | $ | (0.62 | ) | $ | (0.91 | ) | $ | (1.29 | ) | |||
| Diluted | $ | (0.37 | ) | $ | (0.62 | ) | $ | (0.91 | ) | $ | (1.29 | ) | |||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding | |||||||||||||||
| Basic | 6,473 | 6,500 | 6,449 | 6,479 | |||||||||||
| Diluted | 6,473 | 6,500 | 6,449 | 6,479 | |||||||||||
| OTHER CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA | |||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | ||||||||||||||
| April 30, | April 30, | ||||||||||||||
| Operating Data: | 2026 | 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||
| (unaudited) | (unaudited) | ||||||||||||||
| Gross margin | 22 | % | 19 | % | 20 | % | 18 | % | |||||||
| SG&A expense as a percentage of sales | 23 | % | 27 | % | 25 | % | 24 | % | |||||||
| Operating (loss) income as a percentage of sales | -2 | % | -8 | % | -4 | % | -6 | % | |||||||
| Pre-tax (loss) income as a percentage of sales | -3 | % | -9 | % | -5 | % | -7 | % | |||||||
| Effective tax rate | -49 | % | -15 | % | -27 | % | -44 | % | |||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | $ | 517 | $ | 648 | $ | 1,086 | $ | 1,358 | |||||||
| Capital expenditures | $ | 728 | $ | 800 | $ | 1,338 | $ | 1,356 | |||||||
| Balance Sheet Data: | 4/30/2026 | 10/31/2025 | |||||||||||||
| Working capital | $ | 166,943 | $ | 173,055 | |||||||||||
| Days sales outstanding | 42 | 42 | |||||||||||||
| Inventory turns | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Capitalization | |||||||||||||||
| Total debt | -- | -- | |||||||||||||
| Shareholders' equity | 192,419 | 198,787 | |||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 192,419 | $ | 198,787 | |||||||||||
| Hurco Companies, Inc. | |||||||
| CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS | |||||||
| (In thousands, except share and per share data) | |||||||
| April 30, | October 31, | ||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | ||||||
| ASSETS | (unaudited) | ||||||
| Current assets: | |||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 50,055 | $ | 48,713 | |||
| Accounts receivable, net | 27,552 | 27,928 | |||||
| Inventories | 137,180 | 142,931 | |||||
| Derivative assets | 132 | 263 | |||||
| Prepaid and other assets | 6,450 | 5,243 | |||||
| Total current assets | 221,369 | 225,078 | |||||
| Property and equipment: | |||||||
| Land | 1,046 | 1,046 | |||||
| Building | 7,381 | 7,381 | |||||
| Machinery and equipment | 24,261 | 26,061 | |||||
| Leasehold improvements | 4,269 | 4,569 | |||||
| 36,957 | 39,057 | ||||||
| Less accumulated depreciation and amortization | (29,601 | ) | (31,083 | ) | |||
| Total property and equipment, net | 7,356 | 7,974 | |||||
| Non-current assets: | |||||||
| Software development costs, less accumulated amortization | 8,827 | 8,090 | |||||
| Intangible assets, net | 379 | 627 | |||||
| Operating lease - right of use assets, net | 10,353 | 11,560 | |||||
| Deferred income taxes | 816 | 794 | |||||
| Investments | 9,170 | 9,005 | |||||
| Other assets | 1,217 | 1,170 | |||||
| Total non-current assets | 30,762 | 31,246 | |||||
| Total assets | $ | 259,487 | $ | 264,298 | |||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | |||||||
| Current liabilities: | |||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | 26,632 | $ | 26,074 | |||
| Customer deposits | 7,801 | 4,788 | |||||
| Derivative liabilities | 2,707 | 3,084 | |||||
| Operating lease liabilities | 4,281 | 4,374 | |||||
| Accrued payroll and employee benefits | 7,309 | 7,474 | |||||
| Accrued income taxes | 1,048 | 1,472 | |||||
| Accrued expenses | 3,664 | 3,790 | |||||
| Accrued warranty expenses | 984 | 967 | |||||
| Total current liabilities | 54,426 | 52,023 | |||||
| Non-current liabilities: | |||||||
| Deferred income taxes | 27 | 38 | |||||
| Accrued tax liability | - | - | |||||
| Operating lease liabilities | 6,460 | 7,560 | |||||
| Deferred credits and other | 6,155 | 5,890 | |||||
| Total non-current liabilities | 12,642 | 13,488 | |||||
| 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; 6,675,629 and 6,569,224 shares issued and 6,484,478 and 6,402,396 shares outstanding, as of April 30, 2026 and October 31, 2025, respectively | 648 | 640 | |||||
| Additional paid-in capital | 61,637 | 60,850 | |||||
| Retained earnings | 140,465 | 146,305 | |||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (10,331 | ) | (9,008 | ) | |||
| Total shareholders' equity | 192,419 | 198,787 | |||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders' equity | $ | 259,487 | $ | 264,298 | |||
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