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Adeniyi Lawal, Ph.D.
−Removed: Mowbray, Ph.D.
Carol O’Donnell
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Strasburg, CPA
+Added: Kirk Warshaw, CPA
*Member of the Audit Committee.
−Removed: The Board of Directors is divided into two classes.
+Added: Our Board of Directors is divided into two classes.
The directors
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The terms of the classes are staggered so that only one class of directors is elected at
−Removed: each annual meeting of the Company.
−Removed: The terms of Dr.
+Added: each annual meeting of our shareholders.
+Added: The terms of Mr.
Lawal and Ms.
−Removed: O’Donnell run until the annual meeting
−Removed: to be held in 2024, and in each case until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.
+Added: O’Donnell run until the annual
+Added: meeting to be held in 2026, and in each case until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.
The terms of Drs.
Coccio and Riemer and Messrs.
−Removed: Strasburg and Harshbarger
−Removed: run until the annual meeting to be held in 2025.
+Added: Harshbarger and Warshaw run until the annual meeting to be held in 2025, however, Mr.
+Added: Strasburg has notified us that he will not
+Added: stand for reelection and will resign effective upon the completion of our next annual meeting of shareholders in August 2025.
Audit Committee
−Removed: The Company has a separate designated standing Audit Committee established
+Added: We have a separate designated standing Audit Committee established
and administered in accordance with SEC rules.
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Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors.
−Removed: The members of the Compensation Committee are Drs.
−Removed: Mowbray and Riemer and Mr.
−Removed: all of whom have been determined by the Board to be independent in accordance with NASDAQ’s requirement for independent director
−Removed: oversight of executive officer compensation.
+Added: The members of the Compensation Committee are Carol O’Donnell (who serves as Chairperson
+Added: of the Compensation Committee), Dr.
+Added: Riemer and Mr.
+Added: Strasburg, whom have been determined by the Board to be independent in accordance with
+Added: NASDAQ’s requirement for independent director oversight of executive officer compensation.
Nominating Committee
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may recommend nominees to the Board of Directors.
+Added: Family Relationships
+Added: There are no family relationships between any of our directors and officers.
Identification of Executive Officers
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Christopher C.
−Removed: Vice President – Sales and Application Engineering
+Added: Chief Operating Officer
Christopher L.
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The foregoing officers are appointed for terms of one year or until
−Removed: their successors are duly elected and qualified or until terminated by action of the Board of Directors.
+Added: their successors are duly appointed and qualified or until terminated by action of the Board of Directors.
There are no arrangements or
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positions as Controller, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance for companies with up to $45,000,000 in revenues.
−Removed: earned a Bachelor of Science degree from The State University of NY at Oneonta and an MBA from Marist College.
−Removed: He was licensed as a CPA
+Added: earned a Bachelor of Science degree from The State University of NY at Oneonta and an MBA from Marist University.
+Added: He was licensed as a
Bagley served on the OTCQX US Advisory Council from 2019 to 2020.
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CHRISTOPHER C.
−Removed: CICHETTI was appointed Vice President – Sales
−Removed: and Application Engineering of the Company in August 2022.
−Removed: Cichetti joined Sono-Tek in 2005 as an Electrical Engineer and has served
−Removed: as Application Engineer, Senior Application Engineer, Application Engineering Manager, and Vice President of Application Engineering.
−Removed: Cichetti has experience in lab testing, process development, project management, and has successfully implemented several successful
−Removed: OEM relationships with outside vendors.
−Removed: He is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a major in Computer and Electrical Engineering
−Removed: and a minor in International Studies.
+Added: CICHETTI was appointed Chief Operating Officer in March
+Added: From August 2022 until March 2025, Mr.
+Added: Cichetti served as Vice President – Sales and Application Engineering of the Company.
+Added: Cichetti joined Sono-Tek in 2005 as an Electrical Engineer and has served as Application Engineer, Senior Application Engineer, Application
+Added: Engineering Manager, and Vice President of Application Engineering.
+Added: Cichetti has experience in lab testing, process development, project
+Added: management, and has successfully implemented several successful OEM relationships with outside vendors.
+Added: He is a graduate of Worcester
+Added: Polytechnic Institute with a major in Computer and Electrical Engineering and a minor in International Studies.
CHRISTOPHER L.
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Key attributes, Experience and Skills:
−Removed: Coccio brings his strategic vision for our Company to the Board together with his leadership, business experience and investor
−Removed: relations skills.
+Added: Coccio brings
+Added: his strategic vision for our Company to the Board together with his leadership, business experience and investor relations skills.
Coccio has an immense knowledge of our Company and its related applications which is beneficial to the Board.
−Removed: Coccio’s service as Executive Chairman bridges a critical gap between the Company’s management and the Board, enabling the
−Removed: Board to benefit from management’s perspective on the Company’s business while the Board performs its oversight function.
−Removed: STEPHEN HARSHBARGER has
−Removed: been Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company since January 2024 and a Director since 2013.
+Added: Coccio’s service
+Added: as Executive Chairman bridges a critical gap between the Company’s management and the Board, enabling the Board to benefit from
+Added: management’s perspective on the Company’s business while the Board performs its oversight function.
+Added: STEPHEN HARSHBARGER has been Chief
+Added: Executive Officer and President of the Company since January 2024 and a Director since 2013.
Harshbarger originally joined
Sono-Tek in 1993 and became President in 2012.
−Removed: Before becoming Chief Executive Officer and
−Removed: President, Mr.
−Removed: Harshbarger honed his expertise through various pivotal roles within Sono-Tek, including Sales Engineer, Worldwide Sales
−Removed: and Marketing Manager, Vice President & Director of Electronics and Advanced Energy (E&AE), and Executive Vice President.
−Removed: his stewardship, the sales organization flourished, with a global distribution network spanning over 40 countries and boasting a revenue
−Removed: surge of over 300%.
−Removed: Harshbarger is a recognized authority in
−Removed: ultrasonic coating equipment, particularly within the electronics, medical device, and advanced energy sectors.
−Removed: Prior to his tenure at
−Removed: Sono-Tek, he played a pivotal role as the Sales and Marketing Manager for Plasmaco Inc., a pioneer in the development of Flat Panel Displays,
−Removed: where he spearheaded the establishment of their distribution network, participated in venture capital funding, and introduced the first
−Removed: flat panels to the Wall Street trading floors.
−Removed: Harshbarger graduated from Bentley University,
−Removed: with a major in Finance and a minor in Marketing.
+Added: Before becoming Chief Executive Officer and President, Mr.
+Added: honed his expertise through various pivotal roles within Sono-Tek, including Sales Engineer, Worldwide Sales and Marketing Manager, Vice
+Added: President & Director of Electronics and Advanced Energy (E&AE), and Executive Vice President.
+Added: Under his stewardship, the sales
+Added: organization flourished, with a global distribution network spanning over 40 countries and boasting a revenue surge of over 300%.
+Added: Harshbarger is a recognized authority in ultrasonic coating equipment,
+Added: particularly within the electronics, medical device, and advanced energy sectors.
+Added: Prior to his tenure at Sono-Tek, he played a pivotal
+Added: role as the Sales and Marketing Manager for Plasmaco Inc., a pioneer in the development of Flat Panel Displays, where he spearheaded the
+Added: establishment of their distribution network, participated in venture capital funding, and introduced the first flat panels to the Wall
+Added: Street trading floors.
+Added: Harshbarger graduated from Bentley University, with a major in Finance and a minor in Marketing.
Key attributes Experience and Skills:
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Key attributes, Experience and Skills:
−Removed: Haskell’s training and extensive experience in financial management at both public and private companies provide the Board with
−Removed: valuable insights.
−Removed: Haskell’s significant experience in acquisitions and divestitures and investor relations bring strategic
−Removed: judgment and experience to the Board.
−Removed: Haskell’s strong operational and business background complement his accounting and finance
−Removed: experience and are valuable resources to the Board as it exercises its oversight duties and support of the Company’s growth strategies.
+Added: training and extensive experience in financial management at both public and private companies provide the Board with valuable insights.
+Added: Haskell’s significant experience in acquisitions and divestitures and investor relations bring strategic judgment and experience
+Added: to the Board.
+Added: Haskell’s strong operational and business background complement his accounting and finance experience and are
+Added: valuable resources to the Board as it exercises its oversight duties and support of the Company’s growth strategies.
KUHA joined Sono-Tek in 2007.
−Removed: Kuha was appointed VP, Manufacturing Operations, Procurement & Logistics in September 2022.
−Removed: Prior to assuming her present position,
−Removed: Kuha served as Operations Director, Purchasing Manager, and several other positions within the procurement aspects of Sono-Tek;
−Removed: extensive expertise in several vital areas of Sono-Tek operations.
+Added: Kuha was appointed VP,
+Added: Manufacturing Operations, Procurement & Logistics in September 2022.
+Added: Prior to assuming her present position, Mrs.
+Added: Kuha served as Operations
+Added: Director, Purchasing Manager, and several other positions within the procurement aspects of Sono-Tek;
+Added: providing extensive expertise in
+Added: several vital areas of Sono-Tek operations.
Prior to joining Sono-Tek, Mrs.
−Removed: Kuha held various
−Removed: positions in high tech manufacturing companies revolving around purchasing and operations.
−Removed: She holds an AAS in business from Dutchess
−Removed: County Community College.
+Added: Kuha held various positions in high
+Added: tech manufacturing companies revolving around purchasing and operations.
+Added: She holds an AAS in business from Dutchess County Community College.
ADENIYI LAWAL became a Director in April 2024.
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Key Attributes, Experience, and Skills:
−Removed: Lawal’s core expertise is in catalysis, reaction engineering and process intensification with specific application to renewable
−Removed: His extensive research experience and knowledge of the renewable energy landscape bring valuable insights to the Board on emerging
−Removed: local and global business opportunities in green energy.
−Removed: His administrative and leadership experience that has spanned decades is also
−Removed: of value to the Board.
−Removed: MOWBRAY has been a Director since August 2003.
−Removed: been an independent consultant since August 1997.
−Removed: From September 1992 to August 1997, he was the Manager of the General Electric Company’s
−Removed: Corporate Research and Development Mechanical Engineering Laboratory.
−Removed: From 1962 to 1992 he worked for the General Electric Company in
−Removed: a variety of engineering and managerial positions.
−Removed: Mowbray received a B.S.
−Removed: in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota
−Removed: in 1960, a Master of Science in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Minnesota in 1962 and a Ph.D.
−Removed: from Rensselaer Polytechnic
−Removed: Institute in Engineering Mechanics in 1968.
−Removed: Key attributes, Experience and Skills:
−Removed: Mowbray’s extensive research and managerial experience enables him to bring valuable insights to the Board.
−Removed: His knowledge of
−Removed: the Company’s products and the materials sciences technology underlying them has enabled him to contribute to the Company’s
−Removed: advanced products development and designs.
−Removed: Mowbray also brings leadership and oversight experience to the Board from his General Electric
−Removed: management background.
+Added: core expertise is in catalysis, reaction engineering and process intensification with specific application to renewable energy.
+Added: His extensive
+Added: research experience and knowledge of the renewable energy landscape bring valuable insights to the Board on emerging local and global
+Added: business opportunities in green energy.
+Added: His administrative and leadership experience that has spanned decades is also of value to the
CAROL O’DONNELL has been a Director since November 2018.
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fund managers in 2016 and has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2018.
+Added: She also provides consulting services to OpenDeal, Inc., a
+Added: financial services company.
Prior to joining Protégé Partners, Ms.
−Removed: was the Director of Legal and Compliance with DARA Capital US, Inc., a Swiss-owned boutique registered investment advisory and wealth
−Removed: management firm from 2013 to 2016.
−Removed: She also served as General Counsel to Boothbay Fund Management LLC, a registered investment adviser,
−Removed: from December 2019 through May 2021, and was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of each of the Permal Group and Framework Investment
−Removed: Group from 2004 through 2011 and from 2002 to 2004, respectively.
−Removed: O’Donnell is admitted to practice law in the States
−Removed: of New York and Connecticut.
+Added: O’Donnell was the Director of Legal and Compliance
+Added: with DARA Capital US, Inc., a Swiss-owned boutique registered investment advisory and wealth management firm from 2013 to 2016.
+Added: served as General Counsel to Boothbay Fund Management LLC, a registered investment adviser, from December 2019 through May 2021, and was
+Added: General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of each of the Permal Group and Framework Investment Group from 2004 through 2011 and from
+Added: 2002 to 2004, respectively.
+Added: O’Donnell is a director of Apimeds Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange listed
+Added: company (NYSE:
+Added: APUS), and a trustee of various family trusts.
+Added: O’Donnell is admitted to practice law in the States of New York
+Added: and Connecticut.
Key attributes, Experience and Skills:
−Removed: O’Donnell’s extensive experience as an attorney enables her to bring valuable strategic insights to the Board in the areas
−Removed: of corporate governance, finance and securities law.
+Added: extensive experience as an attorney enables her to bring valuable strategic insights to the Board in the areas of corporate governance,
+Added: finance and securities law.
O’Donnell also brings leadership and oversight experience to the Board.
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Key attributes, Experience and Skills:
−Removed: Riemer’s extensive research and management experience enables him to bring valuable insights to the Board.
−Removed: His considerable
−Removed: experience in the biotech, food and pharmaceutical industries bring specific product application insights to the Board.
−Removed: previous service as Vice President of Food Business Development helps to provide focus to the Board on this important marketing area.
−Removed: Riemer also brings leadership and oversight experience to the Board.
+Added: extensive research and management experience enables him to bring valuable insights to the Board.
+Added: His considerable experience in the biotech,
+Added: food and pharmaceutical industries bring specific product application insights to the Board.
+Added: Riemer’s previous service as Vice
+Added: President of Food Business Development helps to provide focus to the Board on this important marketing area.
+Added: Riemer also brings leadership
+Added: and oversight experience to the Board.
PHILIP STRASBURG, CPA, has been a Director since August 2004.
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Key attributes, Experience and Skills:
−Removed: Strasburg’s training and extensive experience in auditing provide the Board with valuable insights and skills necessary to lead
−Removed: the Audit Committee.
−Removed: Strasburg’s strong operational and business background complement his accounting and finance experience,
−Removed: and are valuable resources to the Board as it exercises its oversight duties and support of the Company’s growth strategies.
−Removed: Section 16(a) Beneficial
−Removed: Ownership Reporting Compliance
−Removed: Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires the
−Removed: Company's Directors, executive officers and persons who own more than ten percent of the Company's common stock to file with the Securities
−Removed: and Exchange Commission initial reports of beneficial ownership and reports of changes of beneficial ownership of common stock.
−Removed: are also required by Securities and Exchange Commission regulations to furnish the Company with copies of all such reports.
−Removed: on a review of such filings, during the year ended February 29, 2024, all of the Company's Directors and executive officers and holders
−Removed: of more than ten percent of the Company’s stock have made timely filings of such reports.
+Added: Strasburg's training and extensive experience in auditing provide the Board with valuable insights and skills.
+Added: Strasburg's strong operational and business background complement his accounting and finance experience, and are valuable resources to the Board as it exercises its oversight duties and support of the Company's growth strategies.
+Added: KIRK WARSHAW, CPA, has been a director since May 2025.
+Added: 40 years of experience in financial and general management across a diverse range of industries.
+Added: Since 2015, he has served as the Executive
+Added: Chairman of Bogue Machine Company, a state-of-the-art machining operation that produces complex components for both commercial and defense
+Added: contractors, and as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of UAV Turbines, a company focused on developing small turbine
+Added: engine systems for aerospace and military applications.
+Added: Warshaw has also provided advisory services and held interim executive leadership
+Added: roles at numerous companies, specializing in financial oversight, corporate restructuring, and strategic growth.
+Added: Earlier in his career,
+Added: Warshaw worked in public accounting and financial institutions, earning his CPA in 1982.
+Added: Key attributes, Experience and Skills:
+Added: extensive experience in financial and operational management at both public and private companies provides the Board with valuable insights.
+Added: Warshaw’s significant experience in acquisitions and divestitures and strong operational, accounting, and finance background
+Added: are valuable resources to the Board as it exercises its oversight duties and support of the Company’s growth strategies.
+Added: Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
+Added: Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires our
+Added: Directors, executive officers and persons who own more than ten percent of our common stock to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission
+Added: initial reports of beneficial ownership and reports of changes of beneficial ownership of common stock.
+Added: Such persons are also required
+Added: by Securities and Exchange Commission regulations to furnish us with copies of all such reports.
+Added: Based solely on a review of such filings,
+Added: during the year ended February 28, 2025, all of our Directors and executive officers and holders of more than ten percent of our stock
+Added: have made timely filings of such reports.
Code of Ethics
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posting such information on the Company’s website.
+Added: Insider Trading Policy
+Added: We have adopted an Insider Trading Policy governing the purchase,
+Added: sale and/or other dispositions of our securities by directors, officers and employees, and by the Company itself, that are reasonably
+Added: designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations, and any listing standards applicable to us.
+Added: the policy is filed as Exhibit 19 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
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Principal Position
+Added: Option Awards 1
+Added: All Other Compensation 2
Christopher L.
−Removed: CEO, Executive Chairman
+Added: CEO, Executive Chairman and Director
Stephen Harshbarger 4
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Christopher C.
−Removed: Vice President – Sales Applications
−Removed: All Other Compensation represents Company contributions to the Company’s
−Removed: Option awards in the above table are calculated using the Black-Scholes
−Removed: options pricing model which is further discussed in Note 4 – Stock Based Compensation, in the Company’s consolidated financial
−Removed: Coccio stepped down as CEO on January 1, 2024 and
−Removed: became Executive Chairman.
−Removed: Harshbarger became CEO on January 1, 2024.
+Added: Chief Operating Officer
+Added: 1 Option awards in the above table are calculated using the Black-Scholes options pricing model which is
+Added: further discussed in Note 4 – Stock Based Compensation, in the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: 2 All Other Compensation represents Company contributions to the Company’s 401K plan.
+Added: Coccio stepped down as CEO (Principal Executive Officer) on January 1, 2024 and became Executive Chairman.
+Added: Coccio was not a “named executive officer” for purposes of this Table in fiscal 2025.
+Added: Harshbarger became CEO (Principal Executive Officer) on January 1, 2024.
Officer Compensation Arrangements
−Removed: During fiscal 2024, Dr.
−Removed: Coccio was compensated at the rate of $200,000
−Removed: per annum, until January 2024, at which time his annual base compensation decreased to $160,000.
During fiscal 2025, Mr.
Harshbarger was compensated at the rate of
−Removed: $250,000 per annum, until January 2024, at which time his annual base compensation increased to $265,000.
+Added: $265,000 per annum.
During fiscal 2025, Mr.
Bagley was compensated at the rate of $185,000
−Removed: per annum, until January 2024, at which time his annual base compensation increased to $185,000.
During fiscal 2025, Mr.
Cichetti was compensated at the rate of $200,000
−Removed: per annum, until August 2023, at which time his annual base compensation increased to $185,000 per annum and increased to $200,000 per
−Removed: annum in January 2024.
In addition, each named officer earned bonus compensation based on
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Expiration Date
−Removed: Christopher L.
−Removed: CEO, Executive Chairman and Director
Stephen Harshbarger
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Christopher C.
−Removed: Vice President – Sales Applications
−Removed: Coccio stepped down as CEO on January 1, 2024 and became Executive Chairman.
−Removed: Harshbarger became CEO on January 1, 2024.
+Added: Chief Operating Officer
Estimated Payments and Benefits Upon Termination or Change in Control
−Removed: On September 1, 2007, the Company entered into identical Executive
−Removed: Agreements with Stephen J.
+Added: The Company has entered into Executive Agreements with Stephen J.
Bagley, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Christopher L.
−Removed: Coccio, the Company’s Executive
−Removed: The Company also entered into an Executive Agreement with R.
−Removed: Stephen Harshbarger, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer
−Removed: and President, on March 5, 2008.
−Removed: The agreements, as subsequently amended, provide that in the event of a change of control of the Company
−Removed: followed by a termination of the executives’ employment under certain circumstances, the officers shall receive severance payments
−Removed: equal to two years of the executive’s annual base, commissions and bonus compensation paid by the Company for the previous calendar
+Added: Coccio, the Company’s Executive Chairman.
+Added: The Company also
+Added: entered into an Executive Agreement with R.
+Added: Stephen Harshbarger, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President.
+Added: The agreements,
+Added: as amended, provide that in the event of a change of control of the Company followed by a termination of the executives’ employment
+Added: under certain circumstances, the officers shall receive severance payments equal to two years of the executive’s annual base, commissions
+Added: and bonus compensation paid by the Company for the previous calendar year.
Based on last year’s salary arrangements, if the rights of the
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Severance Agreements
−Removed: On October 20, 2017, the Company entered into identical Executive
−Removed: Agreements with Stephen J.
−Removed: Bagley, Chief Financial Officer, Christopher L.
+Added: The Company has entered into severance agreements with Stephen J.
+Added: Bagley, Chief Financial Officer, Christopher Cichetti, Chief Operating Officer, Christopher L.
Coccio, Executive Chairman and R.
−Removed: Stephen Harshbarger Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer and President.
−Removed: The agreements provide that in the event of termination of the executive’s employment, other than
−Removed: for the cause, the officers shall receive severance payments equal to two weeks of compensation for each full year employed by the Company.
+Added: Harshbarger Chief Executive Officer and President.
+Added: The agreements provide that in the event of termination of the executive’s employment,
+Added: other than for the cause, the officers shall receive severance payments equal to two weeks of compensation for each full year employed
+Added: by the Company.
Clawback Policy
−Removed: On November 16, 2023, our
−Removed: Board adopted an executive compensation recoupment policy consistent with the requirements of the Exchange Act Rule 10D-1 and the Nasdaq
−Removed: listing standards thereunder, to help ensure that incentive compensation is paid based on accurate financial and operating data, and the
−Removed: correct calculation of performance against incentive targets.
−Removed: Our policy addresses recoupment of amounts from performance-based awards
−Removed: paid to all corporate officers, including awards under our equity incentive plans, in the event of a financial restatement to the extent
−Removed: that the payout for such awards would have been less, or in the event of fraud, or intentional, willful or gross misconduct that contributed
−Removed: to the need for a financial restatement.
+Added: Our Board has adopted an
+Added: executive compensation recoupment policy consistent with the requirements of the Exchange Act Rule 10D-1 and the Nasdaq listing standards
+Added: thereunder, to help ensure that incentive compensation is paid based on accurate financial and operating data, and the correct calculation
+Added: of performance against incentive targets.
+Added: Our policy addresses recoupment of amounts from performance-based awards paid to all corporate
+Added: officers, including awards under our equity incentive plans, in the event of a financial restatement to the extent that the payout for
+Added: such awards would have been less, or in the event of fraud, or intentional, willful or gross misconduct that contributed to the need for
+Added: a financial restatement.
Compensation of Directors
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Incentive Plan
+Added: Christopher Coccio
+Added: Adeniyi Lawal
Carol O’Donnell
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Joseph Riemer
+Added: During fiscal 2025, Dr.
+Added: Coccio received a grant of 22,222 options exercisable at $4.12 per share.
+Added: At the end of fiscal 2025, Dr.
+Added: Coccio held an aggregate of 70,504 stock options.
+Added: Represents salary of $160,000 and bonus of $43,000 paid to Dr.
+Added: Coccio during fiscal 2025 in connection with his service as Executive Chairman and a Company contribution of $7,400 to the Company’s 401k plan.
During fiscal 2025, Mr.
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During fiscal 2025, Dr.
−Removed: Mowbray received a grant of 3,676 options exercisable at $4.79 per share.
+Added: Lawal received a grant of 5,333 options exercisable at $4.12 per share.
At the end of fiscal 2025, Dr.
−Removed: Mowbray held an aggregate of 6,700 stock options.
+Added: Lawal held an aggregate of 5,333 stock options.
During fiscal 2025, Ms.
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*Eric Haskell
+Added: *Adeniyi Lawal
*Carol O’Donnell
*Joseph Riemer
−Removed: *Adeniyi Lawal
+Added: *Kirk Warshaw
All Executive Officers and Directors as a Group
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Adah Nicklin 12
+Added: Dawn Cupero 13
The above ownership percentages are based on 15,727,702 shares outstanding as of May 23,
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** Less than 1%
−Removed: 1 Includes 11,479 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s
−Removed: Stock Incentive Plans.
−Removed: 2 Includes 11,479 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s
−Removed: Stock Incentive Plans.
+Added: 1 Includes 15,177 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
+Added: 2 Includes 17,972 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
3 Includes 4,000 shares held in the name of Dr.
−Removed: Coccio’s wife and 39,359
−Removed: options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
−Removed: 4 Includes 19,496 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s
−Removed: Stock Incentive Plans.
−Removed: 5 Includes 16,326 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s
−Removed: Stock Incentive Plans.
−Removed: 6 Includes 6,326 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s
−Removed: Stock Incentive Plans.
−Removed: 7 Includes 8,326 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s
+Added: Coccio’s wife and 44,476 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s
Stock Incentive Plans.
+Added: 4 Includes 27,401 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
+Added: 5 Includes 20,344 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
+Added: 6 Includes 10,344 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
+Added: 7 Includes 12,344 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
8 Includes 10,000 shares in the name of Mr.
−Removed: Strasburg’s wife and 3,603
−Removed: options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
−Removed: 9 The group total includes 118,930 options currently exercisable issued under
−Removed: the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
−Removed: The group total does not include 72,526 options that are currently unexercisable.
−Removed: total includes 600 shares and 2,536 currently exercisable options held by Maria Kuha, a Vice President.
−Removed: 10 Emancipation Management LLC, Charles Frumberg and Circle N Advisors share
−Removed: the power to dispose or to direct the disposition of these shares.
−Removed: The Company does not consider these holders to be “affiliates”
−Removed: of the Company.
−Removed: 11 The address of this person is 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10171.
−Removed: 12 The address of this person is 1065 Main Street, Suite F, PO Box 336, Fishkill,
+Added: Strasburg’s wife and 7,621 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s
+Added: Stock Incentive Plans.
+Added: 9 The group total includes 159,953 options currently exercisable issued under the Company’s Stock Incentive Plans.
+Added: total does not include 152,431 options that are currently unexercisable.
+Added: The group total includes 683 shares and 4,274 currently exercisable
+Added: options held by Maria Kuha, a Vice President.
+Added: 10 Emancipation Management LLC, Charles Frumberg and Circle N Advisors share the power to dispose or to direct the disposition of
+Added: these shares.
+Added: The Company does not consider these holders to be “affiliates” of the Company.
+Added: 11 The address of this person is 1065 Main Street, Suite F, PO Box 336, Fishkill, NY 12524.
12 The address of this person is 3 Rivers Edge, Newburgh, NY 12550.
−Removed: 14 The address of this person is 3697 Se Doubleton Drive, Stuart, FL 34997.
+Added: 13 The address of this person is 308 Schubauer Dr, Cary, NC 27513.
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans:
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reflected in column (a))
−Removed: Equity compensation plans approved by security holders:
+Added: Equity compensation plans
+Added: approved by security holders:
Stock Incentive Plan
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As of February 28, 2025, there were 210,770 options outstanding under the 2013 Plan.
−Removed: 2023 Stock Incentive
+Added: 2023 Stock Incentive Plan
In May 2023, to replace the expiring 2013 Plan, the Company’s
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at a stipulated period of time after an employee's termination of employment.
+Added: We do not grant stock option awards in anticipation of the release of material, nonpublic
+Added: information or time the release of material, nonpublic information based on equity award grant dates, vesting events, or sale events.
+Added: For all stock option awards, the exercise price is the closing price of our common stock on the NASDAQ capital market on the date option
+Added: awards are issued.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
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The Company’s
−Removed: “independent directors” are Donald Mowbray, Eric Haskell, Carol O’Donnell, Philip Strasburg, Joseph Riemer and Adeniyi
+Added: “independent directors” are Eric Haskell, Carol O’Donnell, Philip Strasburg, Joseph Riemer, Adeniyi Lawal and Kirk Warshaw.
Christopher L.
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For fiscal 2025 and 2024 the Company paid or accrued fees of approximately
−Removed: $171,000 and $146,000, respectively, for services rendered by Marcum LLP, its independent auditors.
−Removed: These fees included audit and review
+Added: $185,000 and $171,000, respectively, for services rendered by CBIZ CPAs and Marcum LLP, its independent auditors.
+Added: These fees included
+Added: audit and review services.
Audit Related Fees - None
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By-laws of the Company as amended.
+Added: Description of Securities
Executive Agreement between Sono-Tek Corporation and Stephen J.
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Security Agreement between Sono-Tek Corporation and M&T Bank dated January 17, 2019.
+Added: Letter Agreement between Sono-Tek Corporation and Christopher Cichetti dated October 20, 2017.
+Added: Insider Trading Policies and Procedures
Code of Ethics.
Subsidiaries of Issuer.
−Removed: Consent of Marcum LLP
+Added: Consent of CBIZ CPAs P.C.
+Added: Consent Marcum LLP
Rule 13a-14/15d – 14(a) Certification .
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Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
+Added: Policy Relating to Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation.
XBRL Instance Document — This instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.
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Incorporated herein by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 7, 2019 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 13, 2019.
+Added: Incorporated herein by reference to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A12B filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 26, 2021.
Incorporated herein by reference to the Company’s Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended August 31, 2007.
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Incorporated herein by reference to the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended February 28, 2019.
−Removed: Incorporated herein by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 24, 2020 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 17, 2020.
Filed herewith.
+Added: Incorporated herein by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 24, 2020 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 17, 2020.
+Added: Incorporated herein by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 16, 2023 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17, 2023.
SONO-TEK CORPORATION
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FOR THE YEARS ENDED FEBRUARY 28, 2025 and February 29, 2024
−Removed: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRMS
+Added: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
+Added: (PCAOB ID No:
MARCUM LLP (PCAOB ID No:
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For the Years Ended February 28, 2025 and February 29, 2024
−Removed: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Notes on Consolidated Financial Statements
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
+Added: To the Stockholders and Board of Directors
+Added: Sono-Tek Corporation
+Added: Opinion on the Financial Statements
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
+Added: balance sheet of Sono-Tek Corporation (the “Company”) as of February 28, 2025, the related consolidated statements of income,
+Added: stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the year ended February 28, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the
+Added: “financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, based on our audit, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects,
+Added: the financial position of the Company as of February 28, 2025 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended
+Added: February 28, 2025 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Retrospective Application of a Change in
+Added: Accounting Principle
+Added: We also have audited the adjustments to
+Added: the 2024 financial statements to retrospectively apply the change in accounting principle due to the adoption of Accounting
+Added: Standards Update 2023-07, Segment Reporting, as described in Note 2.
+Added: In our opinion, such adjustments are appropriate and have
+Added: been properly applied.
+Added: We were not engaged to audit, review, or apply any procedures to the 2024 financial statements of the Company
+Added: other than with respect to the adjustments and, accordingly, we do not express an opinion or any form of assurance on the 2024
+Added: financial statements taken as a whole.
+Added: Basis for Opinion
+Added: These financial statements are the responsibility
+Added: of the Company's management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audit.
+Added: are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are
+Added: required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable rules and
+Added: regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audit in accordance with the
+Added: standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
+Added: statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged
+Added: to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audit we are required to obtain an understanding
+Added: of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal
+Added: control over financial reporting.
+Added: Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
+Added: Our audit included performing procedures to
+Added: assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that
+Added: respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial
+Added: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
+Added: evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Critical Audit Matters
+Added: Critical audit matters are matters arising
+Added: from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee
+Added: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging,
+Added: subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: We determined that there are no critical audit matters.
+Added: /s/ CBIZ CPAs P.C.
+Added: CBIZ CPAs P.C.
+Added: We have served as the Company’s auditor
+Added: since 2020 (such date takes into account the acquisition of certain assets of Marcum LLP by CBIZ CPAs P.C.
+Added: effective November 1, 2024).
+Added: Morristown, New Jersey
+Added: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
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Opinion on the Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Sono-Tek
−Removed: Corporation (the “Company”) as of February 29, 2024 and February 28, 2023, the related consolidated statements of income,
−Removed: stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended February 29, 2024, and the related notes (collectively
−Removed: referred to as the “financial statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects,
−Removed: the financial position of the Company as of February 29, 2024 and February 28, 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows
−Removed: for each of the two years in the period ended February 29, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
−Removed: States of America.
+Added: We have audited, before the effects of the adjustments to
+Added: retrospectively apply the change in accounting described in Note 2, the consolidated balance sheet of Sono-Tek Corporation (the
+Added: “Company”) as of February 29, 2024, the related consolidated statements of income, changes in stockholders’ equity
+Added: and cash flows for the year ended February 29, 2024, and the related notes (the 2024 financial statements before the effects of the
+Added: adjustments discussed in Note 2 are not presented herein).
+Added: In our opinion, the February 29, 2024 financial statements, before the
+Added: effects of the adjustments to respectively apply the change in accounting described in Note 2, present fairly, in all material
+Added: respects, the financial position of the Company as of February 29, 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for
+Added: year ended February 29, 2024, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: We were not engaged to audit, review, or apply any procedures to
+Added: the adjustments to retrospectively apply the change in accounting principle described in Note 2 and accordingly, we do not express
+Added: an opinion or any form of assurance about whether such adjustments are appropriate and have been properly applied.
+Added: The adjustments
+Added: were audited by CBIZ CPAs P.C.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audit.
We are a public accounting
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and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are
−Removed: free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an
−Removed: audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control
+Added: We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free
+Added: of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit
+Added: of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audit we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control
over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over
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Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material
+Added: Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material
misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
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included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included
+Added: Our audit also included
evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation
of the financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
−Removed: Critical Audit Matters
−Removed: Critical audit matters are matters arising from the current period
−Removed: audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
−Removed: (1) relate to
−Removed: accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex
−Removed: We determined that there are no critical audit matters.
+Added: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ Marcum llp
−Removed: We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2020.
−Removed: East Hanover, NJ
+Added: We have served as the Company’s auditor from 2020 to 2025.
+Added: Morristown, New Jersey
SONO-TEK CORPORATION
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Marketable securities
−Removed: Accounts receivable (less allowance of $ 12,225 )
+Added: Accounts receivable (less allowance for credit losses of $ 12,225 , respectively)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
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Stockholders’ Equity
−Removed: Common stock, $ .01
−Removed: shares authorized, 15,750,880
−Removed: and 15,742,073
−Removed: issued and outstanding as of February 29, 2024, and February 28, 2023, respectively
+Added: Common stock, $ .01 par value;
+Added: 25,000,000 shares authorized, 15,751,153 issued and 15,749,037 outstanding as of February 28, 2025, and 15,750,880 issued and outstanding as of February 29, 2024
Additional paid-in capital
Accumulated earnings
+Added: Treasury stock, at cost, 2,116 shares
Total stockholders’ equity
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Operating Income
−Removed: Other Income (Expense):
+Added: Other Income:
Interest and dividend income
−Removed: Net unrealized gain/(loss) on marketable securities
+Added: Net unrealized gain on marketable securities
Income before Income Taxes
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Par Value $.01
+Added: Treasury Stock
Total Stockholders’
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Cashless exercise of stock options
+Added: Treasury stock purchased
Balance - February 28, 2025
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Stock-based compensation expense
−Removed: Accounts receivable reserve
Inventory reserve
−Removed: Unrealized (gain) loss on marketable securities
−Removed: Deferred tax asset, net
+Added: Unrealized gain on marketable securities
+Added: Deferred income tax benefit, net
(Increase) Decrease in:
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Customer deposits
+Added: ( 1,006,511 )
Income taxes payable
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( 21,826,042 )
−Removed: Net Cash Used In Investing Activities
−Removed: ( 2,383,681 )
−Removed: ( 2,810,996 )
−Removed: NET (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
+Added: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities
( 2,383,681 )
+Added: CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
+Added: Purchase of treasury stock
+Added: Net Cash (Used in) Financing Activities
+Added: NET INCREASE/DECREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
( 1,219,815 )
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cost of advertising in the period in which the advertising takes place.
−Removed: Advertising expense for fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2023 was $ 371,000
+Added: Advertising expenses for fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024 were $ 438,000
and $ 371,000 , respectively.
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2025 and February 29, 2024, there were no uncertain tax positions.
−Removed: Assets - Include costs of patent applications which are deferred and charged to operations over seventeen 17
−Removed: years for domestic patents and twelve 12
−Removed: years for foreign patents, which is considered the useful life.
−Removed: Amortization expense for
−Removed: the years ended February 29, 2024 and February 28, 2023 was $ 16,434 and $ 18,814 , respectively.
−Removed: The accumulated amortization
−Removed: of patents is $ 212,861 and $ 202,681
−Removed: at February 29, 2024 and February 28, 2023, respectively.
−Removed: Annual amortization expense of such intangible assets is expected to
−Removed: be approximately $ 16,000 per
−Removed: year for the next five years.
+Added: Intangible Assets - Include costs of patent applications
+Added: which are deferred and charged to operations over seventeen 17 years for domestic patents and twelve 12 years for foreign patents, which
+Added: is considered the useful life.
+Added: Amortization expense for the years ended February 28, 2025 and February 29, 2024 was $ 10,180 and $ 16,434 ,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: The accumulated amortization of patents is $ 223,041 and $ 212,861 at February 28, 2025 and February 29, 2024, respectively.
+Added: The annual amortization expense of such intangible assets is expected to be approximately $ 10,000 per year for the next four years.
Inventories - Inventories are stated at the lower
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Actual results could differ from those estimates.
−Removed: New Accounting Pronouncements – In June 2016,
−Removed: the FASB issued ASU 2016-13 - Financial Instruments-Credit Losses-Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.
−Removed: Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses, have been released in November 2018 (2018-19), November 2019 (2019-10
−Removed: and 2019-11) and a January 2020 Update (2020-02) that provided additional guidance on this Topic.
−Removed: This guidance replaces the current incurred
−Removed: loss impairment methodology with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable
−Removed: and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates.
−Removed: For SEC filers meeting certain criteria, the amendments in this ASU are effective
−Removed: for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019.
−Removed: For SEC filers that meet the criteria
−Removed: of a smaller reporting company (including this Company) and for non-SEC registrant public companies and other organizations, the amendments
−Removed: in this ASU are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2022.
−Removed: Early adoption
−Removed: will be permitted for all organizations for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15,
−Removed: The Company has adopted ASU 2016-13 as updated and the adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the Company’s
−Removed: consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted -
−Removed: In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures.
−Removed: This ASU requires greater disaggregation
−Removed: of information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as information on income taxes paid.
−Removed: applies to all entities subject to income taxes and is intended to help investors better understand an entity’s exposure to potential
−Removed: changes in jurisdictional tax legislation and assess income tax information that affects cash flow forecasts and capital allocation decisions.
+Added: New Accounting Pronouncements – In November 2023,
+Added: the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280):
+Added: Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures.
+Added: The amendments in this
+Added: ASU require disclosures, on an annual and interim basis, of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating
+Added: officer decision maker (“CODM”), as well as the aggregate amount of other segment items included in the reported measure of
+Added: segment profit or loss.
+Added: The ASU requires that a public entity disclose the title and position of the CODM and an explanation of how the
+Added: CODM uses the reported measure(s) of segment profit or loss in assessing segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources.
+Added: entities are required to provide all annual disclosures currently required by Topic 280 in interim periods, and entities with a single
+Added: reportable segment are required to provide all the disclosures required by the amendments in this ASU and existing segment disclosures
+Added: in Topic 280.
+Added: This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning
+Added: after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The amendments in this ASU should be applied retrospectively to all prior periods
+Added: presented in the financial statements.
+Added: The Company has adopted this ASU, and the standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s
+Added: consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
+Added: Segment Data, for the Company’s segment disclosure.
+Added: Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted - In
+Added: December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures.
+Added: This ASU requires greater disaggregation of
+Added: information about a reporting entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as information on income taxes paid.
+Added: This ASU applies
+Added: to all entities subject to income taxes and is intended to help investors better understand an entity’s exposure to potential changes
+Added: in jurisdictional tax legislation and assess income tax information that affects cash flow forecasts and capital allocation decisions.
This ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted.
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this ASU will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
−Removed: In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280):
−Removed: to Reportable Segment Disclosures.
−Removed: The amendments in this ASU require disclosures, on an annual and interim basis, of significant segment
−Removed: expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating officer decision maker (“CODM”), as well as the aggregate amount
−Removed: of other segment items included in the reported measure of segment profit or loss.
−Removed: The ASU requires that a public entity disclose the
−Removed: title and position of the CODM and an explanation of how the CODM uses the reported measure(s) of segment profit or loss in assessing
−Removed: segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources.
−Removed: Public entities will be required to provide all annual disclosures currently
−Removed: required by Topic 280 in interim periods, and entities with a single reportable segment are required to provide all the disclosures required
−Removed: by the amendments in this ASU and existing segment disclosures in Topic 280.
−Removed: This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December
−Removed: 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted.
−Removed: The amendments in
−Removed: this ASU should be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements.
−Removed: The Company is currently evaluating
−Removed: the impact of this standard on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures, and does not expect the standard will have
−Removed: a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
+Added: In November 2024, the FASB issued issued ASU 2024-03 – Income
+Added: Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income – Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40):
+Added: Disaggregation of Income
+Added: Statement Expenses, which is intended to provide more detailed information about specified about specified categories of expenses (purchases
+Added: of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation and amortization) included in certain expense captions presented on the consolidated
+Added: statement of operations.
+Added: The guidance in this ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods
+Added: within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027.
+Added: Early adoption is permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the impact the
+Added: adoption of this ASU will have on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Product Warranty - Expected future product warranty
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and does not disclose information about remaining performance obligations that have original expected durations of one-year or less.
−Removed: At February 29, 2024, the Company had received $ 3,420,000 in cash
−Removed: deposits, representing contract liabilities, and had issued Letters of Credit in the amount of $ 72,000 to secure these cash deposits.
+Added: At February 28, 2025, the Company had received $ 2,413,000 in customer
+Added: deposits, representing contract liabilities, and had issued Letters of Credit in the amount of $ 106,000 to secure these customer deposits.
At February 28, 2025, the Company was utilizing $ 106,000 of its available credit line to collateralize these letters of credit.
−Removed: At February 28, 2023, the Company had received $ 2,838,000 in cash
−Removed: deposits, representing contract liabilities, and had issued Letters of Credit in the amount of $ 145,000 to secure these cash deposits.
+Added: At February 29, 2024, the Company had received $ 3,420,000 in customer
+Added: deposits, representing contract liabilities, and had issued Letters of Credit in the amount of $ 72,000 to secure these customer deposits.
At February 29, 2024, the Company was utilizing $ 72,000 of its available credit line to collateralize these letters of credit.
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and 210,770 options outstanding, respectively, under the 2023 Plan and the 2013 Plan.
−Removed: Under the 2023 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the "2023 Plan"),
−Removed: options can be granted to officers, directors, consultants and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries to purchase up to 2,500,000
−Removed: shares of the Company's common stock.
−Removed: Under the 2023 Plan options expire ten 10 years after the date of grant.
During fiscal 2025, the Company granted options to
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shares to the non-employee members of the board of directors with an exercise price of $ 4.12 .
−Removed: The options granted to employees and directors vest over three 3 years and expire in 10
−Removed: The options granted by the Company during fiscal 2024 had a combined weighted average grant date fair value of $ 3.11 per
+Added: The options granted to employees and directors vest over three 3 years and expire in ten 10 years.
+Added: The options granted by the
+Added: Company during fiscal 2025 had a combined weighted average grant date fair value of $ 4.13
During fiscal 2024, the Company granted options to
−Removed: acquire 28,239
−Removed: shares to employees exercisable at prices ranging from $ 5.45
−Removed: and options to acquire 16,500
−Removed: shares to the non-employee members of the board of directors with an exercise price of $ 5.50 .
−Removed: The options granted to employees and directors vest over three 3 years and expire in 10
+Added: acquire 54,813 shares to employees exercisable at prices ranging from $ 4.79 to $ 5.60 and options to acquire 18,380 shares to the
+Added: non-employee members of the board of directors with an exercise price of $ 4.79 .
+Added: The options granted to employees and directors vest
+Added: over 3 three years and expire in 10
The options granted by the Company during fiscal 2024 had a combined weighted average grant date fair value of $ 3.11 per
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shares equal to the difference between the exercise price and the market price on the date of exercise.
−Removed: Net settlement exercises
−Removed: during the year ended February 29, 2024 resulted in 8,807 shares of common stock issued.
+Added: Cashless exercises during
+Added: the year ended February 28, 2025 resulted in 273
+Added: shares of common stock issued.
Determining the appropriate fair value of the stock-based awards requires
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was being utilized to collateralize Letters of Credit issued to customers that have remitted cash deposits to the Company on existing
−Removed: The Letters of Credit expire in April 2024.
+Added: The Letters of Credit expire in June 2025.
As of February 28, 2025, there were no outstanding borrowings under the line of credit
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was being utilized to collateralize Letters of Credit issued to customers that have remitted cash deposits to the Company on existing
−Removed: The Letters of Credit expired in May and July 2023.
−Removed: As of February 28, 2023, there were no outstanding borrowings under the line
−Removed: of credit and the unused portion of the credit line was $ 1,355,000 .
+Added: The Letters of Credit expired in April 2024.
+Added: As of February 29, 2024, there were no outstanding borrowings under the line of credit
+Added: and the unused portion of the credit line was $ 1,428,000 .
The annual provision (benefit) for income taxes differs from amounts
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Permanent differences:
+Added: Non-Deductible equity based compensation
Income tax expense
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Income tax expense
−Removed: In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management
−Removed: considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
−Removed: The ultimate realization
−Removed: of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences
−Removed: become deductible.
−Removed: Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and projections
−Removed: for future taxable income over periods in which the deferred tax assets are deductible.
−Removed: Management believes it is more likely than not
−Removed: that the Company will realize the benefits of these deductible differences.
+Added: In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets,
+Added: management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
+Added: The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in
+Added: which those temporary differences become deductible.
+Added: Massachusetts research and development tax credits have been fully reserved as
+Added: management does not forsee utilizing such tax credits in the foreseeable future.
+Added: Management considers the scheduled reversal of
+Added: deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and projections for future taxable income over periods in which the
+Added: deferred tax assets are deductible.
+Added: Management believes it is more likely than not that the Company will realize the benefits of
+Added: these deductible differences.
The incorporation of the new tax laws for 2023, requires the Company
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Accrued expenses and other
+Added: Research & Development tax credits - Massachusetts
+Added: Sub-total deferred tax asset
+Added: Less valuation allowance – Massachusetts R&D tax credits
Deferred tax asset – Long Term
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$ ( 132,000 )
+Added: $ ( 230,000 )
EARNINGS PER SHARE
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Diluted Earnings Per Share – Weighted Average
+Added: At February 28, 2025, the total number of stock options excluded from the computation of diluted income per share because the effect of
+Added: inclusion would have been anti-dilutive is 192,275 .
CUSTOMER CONCENTRATIONS AND FOREIGN SALES
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for approximately $ 7,998,000 and $ 8,882,000 , or 39 % and 45 % respectively, of total revenues.
−Removed: For the fiscal years ended February 29, 2024 and February 28, 2023,
−Removed: no single customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s revenues.
−Removed: Two customers accounted for 26 %
−Removed: of the outstanding accounts receivables February 29, 2024.
−Removed: Two customers accounted for 28 %
−Removed: of the outstanding accounts receivables at February 28, 2023.
−Removed: The Company had two customers which accounted for 14 % of sales during
−Removed: Four customers accounted for 44 % of the outstanding accounts receivables at February 28, 2023.
+Added: For the fiscal year ended February 28, 2025, one customer accounted
+Added: for 11 % of the Company’s revenues.
+Added: Two customers accounted for 25 % of the outstanding accounts receivables February 28,
+Added: The Company had no single customer accounted for more than 10 % of
+Added: sales during fiscal 2024.
+Added: Two customers accounted for 26 % of the outstanding accounts receivables at February 29, 2024.
+Added: The company operates in one segment.
+Added: The chief operating decision maker, who is responsible
+Added: for allocating resources and assessing performance, has been identified as the Chief Executive Officer (the “CODM”).
+Added: assesses the financial performance of the company and decides how to allocate resources based on Operating income.
+Added: The following table presents our segment data (rounded to the nearest thousand):
+Added: Schedule of segment
+Added: Fiscal Year Ended
+Added: Direct Cost of Goods Sold
+Added: Materials & Freight
+Added: Production Labor
+Added: Service Department
+Added: Outside Installations
+Added: Warranty Costs
+Added: Total Cost of Goods & Service
+Added: Research & Product Development
+Added: R & D Materials
+Added: Marketing and Selling
+Added: Travel & Entertainment
+Added: Advertising / Trade Show
+Added: General and Administrative
+Added: Salaries and Wages
+Added: Depreciation and Amortization
+Added: Professional Fees
+Added: Corporate Expenses
+Added: Stock Based Compensation
+Added: Total Operating Expenses
+Added: Operating Income
+Added: Interest Income & Unrealized Gain
+Added: Income Before Taxes
+Added: Income Tax Expense
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
−Removed: Other than the letters of credit discussed in Notes 3 and 8, the Company did not have any
−Removed: material commitments or contingencies as of February 29, 2024.
+Added: Other than the letters of credit discussed in Notes 3 and 8, the Company
+Added: did not have any material commitments or contingencies as of February 28, 2025.
The Company is subject, from time to time, to claims by third parties
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Stephen Harshbarger
+Added: /s/ Kirk Warshaw
Stephen Harshbarger
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