RF Industries Second Quarter Sales Increase 40%

SAN DIEGO, June 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- RF Industries, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RFIL) today announced results for the fiscal 2015 second quarter ended April 30, 2015.

Second Quarter Results

Sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2015 increased 40%, or $2.3 million, to $8.1 million compared to $5.8 million in the same quarter last year. Net income was $448,000, or $0.05 per diluted share, compared to $478,000, or $0.05 per diluted share, in the same quarter last year.  Second quarter 2015 results include sales of $2.8 million associated with the recent acquisition of Comnet Telecom Supply.

Second quarter gross profit increased $317,000, to $3.1 million, or 38% of sales, compared to $2.8 million, or 48% of sales in the same quarter last fiscal year.  Margins were primarily affected by reduced sales of higher margin OptiFlex products at Cables Unlimited and by lower sales at Connector and Cable Assembly, Bioconnect and the Cables Unlimited divisions compared to the same quarter last fiscal year.  Gross margin was also affected by lower average product margins at Comnet, due to its high volume sales of lower margin products.

Selling and general expenses increased $346,000, to $2.1 million from $1.8 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2014, primarily associated with increased operating expenses from the acquisition of Comnet and the addition of sales employees at Cables Unlimited. Selling and general expenses declined to 26% from 31% of sales in the second quarter last year as expenses in fiscal 2014 were affected by the acceleration of certain stock option expenses for a former employee.

Johnny Walker, CEO/President said, "Except for Bioconnect, second quarter operating profitability improved at all the Company's businesses, compared to the recent fiscal first quarter.  Second quarter results also benefitted from the acquisition of Comnet and tight cost controls adopted during the quarter. The recent purchase of a patented braided cable product line, which offers revolutionary advantages for water-tight connections, ease of installation and system reliability, combined with the June 5, 2015 acquisition of Rel-Tech, which had sales of $7.7 million in calendar 2014, will diversify our customer base and increase product distribution and sales for the second half of fiscal 2015. These business additions are expected to be accretive to net income in the current third quarter of fiscal 2015."

First Half Fiscal 2015

For the first six months of fiscal 2015, sales increased 29%, or $3.4 million, to $15.0 million compared to $11.6 million in the same period last fiscal year.  Net income was $514,000, or $0.06 per diluted share, compared to $742,000, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the same period last fiscal year.  The first six months of fiscal 2015 include sales of $5.0 million from the new Comnet subsidiary.

Second quarter gross profit was $5.6 million, or 37% of sales, compared to $5.3 million, or 46% of sales in the same period last fiscal year. Margins were primarily affected by lower margins at Cables Unlimited, combined with reduced sales at Connector and Cable, Bioconnect and Cables Unlimited, compared to the same period in fiscal 2015. Second quarter gross margins were also affected by the lower average gross margins at Comnet.

Selling and general expenses in the first half of fiscal 2015 increased $616,000, to $4.4 million from $3.8 million in the same period last fiscal year, primarily due to increased operating expenses associated with the acquisition of Comnet and expenses related to the addition of sales staff at Cables Unlimited. Selling and general declined to 29% from 32% of sales in the same period of fiscal 2014, as expenses in fiscal 2014 increased due to the acceleration of certain stock option expenses for a former employee.

Balance Sheet Data

At April 30, 2015, the Company reported working capital of $17.8 million, including cash and cash equivalents of $10.4 million, a current ratio of approximately 6.4-to-1, no long-term debt, and stockholders' equity of $26.4 million.  During the first half of 2015, the Company used net cash of $2.2 million and issued 252,381 shares of unregistered common stock to acquire Comnet. The Company also paid out cash dividends of $0.07 per share in each of its first two quarters of fiscal 2015, or a total of $1.2 million, to its shareholders.

Since April 30, 2015, the Company purchased a patented braided cable product line for $700,000 and acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of Rel-Tech Electronics for $2.1 million in cash and 50,467 of shares of unregistered common stock. At its June 8, 2015 meeting, the Company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.07 per share, payable July 15, 2015 to shareholders of record June 30, 2015.

About RF Industries

RF Industries is a leading designer and manufacturer of innovative interconnect products and complex cable assemblies across diversified, high growth markets including wireless carriers and infrastructure, medical and industrial. The Company's products include RF connectors, coaxial and custom cable assemblies, fiber optic cables, wiring harnesses and medical wiring. The Company's connectivity products are used throughout the growing and evolving infrastructure of wireless communications.  Through its newly acquired Rel-Tech Electronics, Inc. and Comnet Telecom Supply, Inc. subsidiaries, the Company also manufactures and sells other cabling technologies and data center equipment solutions.  The Company has reported 21 consecutive years of profitability and is headquartered in San Diego, California with operations in Las Vegas, Nevada, Yaphank, New York, East Brunswick, New Jersey and Milford, Connecticut. Please visit the RF Industries website at www.rfindustries.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements with respect to future events which are subject to a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially.  Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: changes in the telecommunications industry; the Company's reliance on certain distributors for a significant portion of anticipated revenues and the uncertainty of impact upon the Company's operations of the recent acquisitions of Comnet Telecom Supply, the patented braided cable product line, and Rel-Tech Technologies.  Further discussion of these and other potential risk factors may be found in the Company's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov) including its Form 10-K.  All forward-looking statements are based upon information available to the Company on the date they are published and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or new information after the date of this release.

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