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SEC filingRevenue grew 27.2% to $32.3M, driven by LEO airtime service growth from Starlink and OneWeb subscriber gains, while operating income improved significantly to -$118K — though negative operating cash flow of -$8.3M reflects strategic liquidity deployment amid manufacturing wind-down.
Operating income improved to a loss of $118K from $2.2M in the prior year, representing a 94.7% improvement. This turnaround was not due to margin expansion in products or services, but rather the growing contribution of service revenue — which carries higher inherent margins than hardware — and the relative stabilization of service cost structures. Meanwhile, product gross margin pressure persisted, as cost of product sales increased as a percentage of product sales due to rising unabsorbed manufacturing and other fixed expenses.
As KVH transitions from hardware to services, unabsorbed manufacturing expenses continue to weigh on product cost structure. Management explicitly notes that cost of product sales increased as a percentage of product sales due to these unabsorbed costs — a dynamic expected to persist through the wind-down period. This underscores why operating margin remains negative (-36.5%) despite top-line growth: the income statement still bears the fixed-cost burden of a shrinking product business, even as service revenue scales.