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VOXX Fiscal 2024 Results Reveal 2nd Year of Deteriorating Sales & Deepening Losses

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Value of VOXX Stock Drops 23.9%…Hits New 52-Week Lows

After markets closed on Tuesday, VOXX International Corporation (NASDAQ: VOXX) released its Fiscal 2024 fourth quarter and full-year financial results for the period ending February 29, 2024…and it wasn’t a pretty picture. Net sales in Fiscal 2024 were down a double-digit percentage at 12.2% and the company’s Net Loss ballooned to an eye-popping $45.6 million.

What can investors expect in Fiscal 2025 from Voxx? At best, flat sales but the company is hoping to engage in a protracted restructuring process to try and reattain profitability.

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Masimo Announces Double-Digit Drop in Revenues & Profits; Reveals Spin-Off Plans

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Company Reveals Initial Plans for Spinning off Sound United Biz

Masimo Corporation (Nasdaq: MASI), yet another company in Tech that reported their financial results for the first quarter of Fiscal 2024 after the close of business on Tuesday, revealed that both revenues and profits had declined double-digit percentages in the quarter. What was remarkable about this result is that Masimo CEO Joe Kiani said in a statement in the release about the Q1 results that the company is “reaching a steady state.”

Investors apparently didn’t see it that way, as shares in MASI stock dropped almost 12% on Wednesday, the next trading day after the announcement.

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Snap One Reports Results for Q1 of Fiscal 2024; Old Themes Continue

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Snap One Holdings Corp, soon to be part of Resideo Technologies’ ADI distribution business, reported their financial performance for the first quarter of Fiscal 2024 yesterday. In the wash, it looks much like its other recent quarterly reports – sales decline, losses increase, sales shift from its own proprietary brands to third-party brands, etc. But a couple of things did change, starting with my assessment that much less effort than usual was expended in creating this pretty thin report than is typical for them…there isn’t even a quote from CEO John Heyman or anyone in management…and the company even chose not to hold an earnings conference call with analysts as they typically do every quarter.

I suspect that this is due to the fact that the entire company – and its investors – are simply waiting for the new owners to take over.

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Emerald Reports Fiscal Q1 2024 Results; All Good, Except for One Unit

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On Tuesday, Emerald Holding, Inc. [NYSE: EEX], aka Emerald Expositions, a national B2B tradeshow company, reported its financial results for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2024. Emerald, as most Strata-gee readers know, is the owner of the CEDIA Expo show, the Total Tech Summit show, and various publishing entities like CE Pro, Custom Integrator and more.

The consolidated results looked pretty good, but one business unit was a decided under-performer. Can you guess which one? Read on…

See what division under-performed in the Q1 fiscal 2024 report from Emerald

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Credit Agency Moody’s Had This to Say About the Resideo Acquisition of Snap One

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See Details Behind the Deal

The day after we learned about the acquisition of Snap One by security company Resideo, Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., one of the nation’s preeminent credit rating agencies, issued its initial judgment of the impact of this deal on Resideo’s creditworthiness. What they had to say kind of swung two ways so I thought I would share its perspective with you.

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Security Company Resideo Acquires Snap One in $1.4B Transaction

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Resideo acquires Snap One

Will Merging Two Stagnant Businesses Reignite Growth?

This morning we learned that Snap One Holdings, Corp. (Nasdaq: SNPO) has been acquired by large security provider Resideo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: REZI) and private equity company Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) in a $1.4 billion deal. If you aren’t familiar with the Resideo name, you may know them by ADI, their distribution wing.

The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2024.

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Masimo Management Slaps Politan & Koffey Back; Decries ‘False Claims’

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In a Dispute About Sound United, The Parties Don’t Sound United

Masimo Corporation (Nasdaq: MASI) announced on Monday that it could confirm that activist investment group Politan Capital Management – whose founder and Chief Investment Officer is Quentin Koffey – has provided it with notice of its intent to nominate two candidates to stand for election to the company’s Board of Directors at its upcoming 2024 Annual Meeting. This action by Politan, management says, “run[s] counter to the stockholders’ best interests…”

Oh-oh…the knives are coming out…

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Masimo Drama Intensifies as Activist Investor Nominates 2 More Directors

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Politan’s Koffey Makes Move to Seize Control of Company

One business day after Masimo Corp. [Nasdaq: MASI] announced plans for a spin-off of its Consumer division, the business unit formed by the acquisition of Sound United, activist investor Politan Capital Management and its CIO Quentin Koffey – a current Masimo Director – announced the nomination of two more independent director candidates for the Board of Directors. In a statement accompanying the announcement, Koffey takes the gloves off alleging Board dysfunction, uncooperative management, and says Kiani’s desire for control “is troubling.”

Pop a fresh bowl of popcorn and settle into a comfortable chair…things are getting pretty interesting in this story of escalating boardroom and management drama.

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Masimo Board ‘Authorizes’ Management to Prepare Spin-Off of Consumer Unit

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BREAKING NEWS

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In a release distributed late in the day on Friday after the close of financial markets, Masimo announced that the Board of Directors has “authorized” company management to prepare a spin-off of the company’s Consumer Business. Masimo Consumer is the business unit created when the company acquired Sound United in early 2022.

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Snap One Closes Out a Tough Year; They Say Next Year Will Be Better…Maybe

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Cover page of Snap One Fiscal Q4 & FY 2023 results

Company Turns To Forced Client Fees to Improve Its Results

At the end of last week, Snap One Holdings Corporation [NASDAQ: SNPO] announced the results of its Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023. Much as we’ve seen quarter-by-quarter all year long, the company remained subsumed by a challenging “destocking” market, with Net Sales in Fiscal 2023 finishing down 5.6%, and its Net Loss last year increasing by another 146.3% this year. CEO John Heyman called it “another strong year.”

But was it truly “another strong year?”

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