OSS Announces the Sale of Bressner Technology GmbH to Hiper Euro GMBH
Rhea-AI Summary
One Stop Systems (Nasdaq: OSS) closed the sale of Bressner Technology GmbH to Hiper Euro GMBH on December 30, 2025 for $22.4 million subject to working capital adjustment. OSS acquired Bressner for about $5.6 million in 2018; Bressner's sales grew from ≈$18.3M in 2019 to ≈$33.0M trailing 12 months at September 30, 2025. OSS expects a pre-tax gain of ≈$7.4M in Q4 2025 before transaction expenses and will treat Bressner as a discontinued operation. Updated 2025 outlook: consolidated revenue of ≈$30M–$32M (implying 22%–30% YoY growth) and positive full-year adjusted EBITDA excluding the one-time gain. The company cites a stronger cash position, no debt, higher gross margin, and intent to refocus on AI, ML, and rugged edge markets.
Positive
- Sale proceeds of $22.4M (subject to working capital adjustment)
- Estimated pre-tax gain of $7.4M in Q4 2025 before expenses
- Bressner revenue grew to ≈$33.0M TTM at Sep 30, 2025
- Updated 2025 revenue guidance of $30M–$32M (22%–30% YoY)
Negative
- Loss of Bressner's ≈$33.0M annual revenue stream from consolidated results
- One-time transaction expenses may reduce the reported $7.4M pre-tax gain
- Bressner reclassified as discontinued operation, reducing comparability of 2025 results
News Market Reaction
On the day this news was published, OSS gained 0.42%, reflecting a mild positive market reaction. Argus tracked a peak move of +5.9% during that session. Our momentum scanner triggered 10 alerts that day, indicating notable trading interest and price volatility. This price movement added approximately $808K to the company's valuation, bringing the market cap to $193M at that time.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus on the day of publication.
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Peers showed mixed moves, with ALOT up 5.14%, YIBO up 2.15%, while QMCO, UAVS, and DDD were down, suggesting stock-specific drivers for OSS rather than a broad hardware-sector move.
Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23 | Defense order win | Positive | +2.1% | Follow-on Safran order lifting aggregate orders and long-term sales expectations. |
| Nov 18 | Product launch | Positive | +0.6% | Launch of PCIe Gen 6 product line targeting high-wattage AI/ML workloads. |
| Nov 11 | Conference showcase | Positive | +3.3% | SC25 exhibition highlighting high-performance compute and storage portfolio. |
| Nov 05 | Earnings report | Positive | +22.0% | Q3 revenue growth, margin recovery, raised full-year guidance and positive EBITDA outlook. |
| Oct 22 | Earnings call notice | Neutral | -5.7% | Scheduling Q3 results release and conference call details ahead of earnings. |
Recent operational and product news has generally aligned with positive price reactions, especially for earnings and defense-related orders.
Over the last few months, OSS reported a strong Q3 2025 with revenue of $18.8M, robust year-over-year growth, and improved margins, which was followed by a 22.03% price gain. Product launches such as the PCIe Gen 6 line and visibility at SC25 have also coincided with positive but more moderate gains. Defense-related orders, including a Safran follow-on bringing aggregate orders to about $1.9M, supported incremental upticks. Against this backdrop, the announced Bressner sale and updated guidance continue a trend of focusing on higher-growth, higher-margin core businesses.
Market Pulse Summary
This announcement centers on OSS selling Bressner for $22.4M, recognizing an expected pre-tax gain of $7.4M and updating 2025 revenue guidance to $30–$32M, implying 22%–30% growth. The transaction sharpens focus on higher-growth AI, ML, and rugged edge markets while classifying Bressner as a discontinued operation. In context of earlier Q3 strength and product launches, investors may watch how OSS redeploys capital, sustains organic growth above 20%, and maintains higher gross margins following the divestiture.
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Strategic Transaction Sharpens Focus on Core AI, ML and Rugged Edge Compute Markets
Accelerates OSS’s Next Phase of Growth and Profitability
ESCONDIDO, Calif., Dec. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS or the Company) (Nasdaq: OSS), a leader in rugged Enterprise Class compute for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and sensor processing at the edge, today announced that it has signed and closed a definitive agreement to sell all assets and operations of Bressner Technology GmbH (“Bressner”) to Hiper Euro GMBH (“Hiper”) (the “transaction”). The transaction closed on December 30, 2025.
Under the terms of the transaction, OSS sold Bressner for
“This transaction represents an important milestone in our evolution as we position OSS for what we believe will be a period of significant growth and opportunities across our global AI, ML and edge markets,” stated OSS President and CEO, Mike Knowles. “Since acquiring Bressner in 2018, we have significantly increased its revenue and created substantial value for shareholders, demonstrating the Company’s ability to identify, integrate, and scale strategic acquisitions. This outcome also reflects the outstanding work of the Bressner team and the strong customer relationships they have built across Europe and the Middle East.”
Knowles continued, “With a more focused, streamlined and simplified business, we expect to end 2025 with a significant cash position, no debt, strong year-over-year sales growth, and higher gross margin. We believe these actions establish a powerful foundation to deliver multi-year organic revenue growth of over
Strategic Opportunity
The sale of Bressner positions OSS to focus entirely on the fastest-growing and most profitable segments of its business, including deployable AI, real-time sensor processing, and rugged edge systems engineered for mission-critical defense and commercial environments. Demand for enterprise-class edge compute continues to accelerate across defense, aerospace, autonomous systems, industrial automation, and other data-intensive markets where latency, reliability, and environmental resilience are essential.
With a simplified operating model and a focused product and technology roadmap, we believe OSS is positioned to move faster, compete for larger programs, and capture other multi-year organic growth opportunities. In addition to driving organic growth, the Company expects this increased strategic clarity and balance sheet strength to expand its ability to pursue complementary M&A opportunities that can add new customers, technologies, and solutions within its core AI, ML, and rugged-edge markets. OSS believes this focus and flexibility will unlock meaningful operating leverage while scaling its reach with global defense and commercial customers.
Financial Considerations
OSS expects the transaction to generate a pre-tax gain of approximately
Updated 2025 Full Year Outlook
As a result of the transaction, the Company is updating its previously disclosed consolidated financial guidance for the year ended December 31, 2025. The Company now expects:
- Revenue of approximately
$30 million to$32 million , reflecting the classification of Bressner as a discontinued operation. - Full-year revenue outlook demonstrates year-over-year growth of
22% to30% . - Positive full-year adjusted EBITDA on a consolidated basis, excluding the one-time pre-tax gain of approximately
$7.4 million before accounting for transaction expenses associated with the Bressner transaction.
Additional information on the transaction will be found in an 8-K to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
About One Stop Systems
One Stop Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSS) is a leader in AI enabled solutions for the demanding 'edge'. OSS designs and manufactures Enterprise Class compute and storage products that enable rugged AI, sensor fusion and autonomous capabilities without compromise. These hardware and software platforms bring the latest data center performance to harsh and challenging applications, whether they are on land, sea or in the air.
OSS products include ruggedized servers, compute accelerators, flash storage arrays, and storage acceleration software. These specialized compact products are used across multiple industries and applications, including autonomous trucking and farming, as well as aircraft, drones, ships and vehicles within the defense industry.
OSS solutions address the entire AI workflow, from high-speed data acquisition to deep learning, training and large-scale inference, and have delivered many industry firsts for industrial OEM and government customers.
As the fastest growing segment of the multi-billion-dollar edge computing market, AI enabled solutions require-and OSS delivers-the highest level of performance in the most challenging environments without compromise.
OSS products are available directly or through global distributors. For more information, go to www.onestopsystems.com. You can also follow OSS on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
One Stop Systems cautions you that statements in this press release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements. Words such as, but not limited to, "anticipate," "aim," "believe," "contemplate," "continue," "could," "design," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "seek," "should," "suggest," "strategy," "target," "will," "would," and similar expressions or phrases, or the negative of those expressions or phrases, are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. These statements are based on the Company's current beliefs and expectations. The inclusion of forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by One Stop Systems or its partners that any of our plans or expectations will be achieved. These forward-looking statements include but are not limited to the expected outcomes of the Company’s operating and financial strategies, the anticipated benefits of the Company’s strategic focus on AI, ML and rugged edge compute markets, the potential of future M&A transactions, anticipated increases in sales, revenues and profitability, expected use and reinvestment of proceeds, projections of future sales growth, and the Company’s cash and cash equivalent, and outstanding debt position at year end 2025. Actual specifications and results may differ from those set forth in this press release due to the risk and uncertainties inherent in our business, including among others, risks related to the Company’s ability to successfully execute it strategic initiatives, the availability and timing of defense and commercial program awards, changes in customer demand or spending patterns, risks with reinvesting transaction proceeds, competitive pressured in AI, ML and edge computing markets; supply chain constraints and other risks described in our prior press releases and in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including under the heading "Risk Factors" in our latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any subsequent filings with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, which is made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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