SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-25-002212 to COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/ (CMTL)
COMTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP /DE/
Date: Feb. 26, 2025 · CIK: 0000023197 · Accession: 0000000000-25-002212
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February 26, 2025
Michael Bondi
Chief Financial Officer
Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
305 N 54th Street
Chandler, AZ 85226
Re:Comtech Telecommunications Corp.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended July 31, 2024
Form 10-Q for the Fiscal Quarter Ended October 31, 2024
File No. 000-07928
Dear Michael Bondi:
We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.
Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended July 31, 2024
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Critical Accounting Policies
Revenue Recognition, page 60
We note from disclosures elsewhere in your filing that for certain contracts you
recognize revenue over time under the cost-to-cost method which requires subjective
judgment and estimation to determine total costs expected to be incurred at contract
completion. You indicate such estimates for significant contracts are reviewed and
reassessed at least quarterly and any changes in estimates may impact current period
earnings through a cumulative adjustment. You also indicate provisions for estimated
losses on uncompleted contracts are made in the period such losses are determined,
and on page 67 you indicate that higher expected costs at completion contributed to
the decline in gross profit margin in fiscal 2024 for your Satellite and Space
Communications segment. Please address the following items.
Tell us whether you have recognized material favorable or unfavorable changes in •1.
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estimates with respect to these contracts and provide us the gross amounts of
favorable and unfavorable changes recognized during each period presented as
part of your response.
•Tell us the amount of contract losses recognized during each period presented and
the status of material loss contracts.
•Revise your disclosures in future filings to quantify and discuss the gross impacts
of changes in contract estimates, including contract losses, during each period
presented pursuant to Item 303(b)(3) of Regulation S-K.
Financial Statements for the Fiscal Year Ended July 31, 2024
Note 12. Segment Information, page F-40
2.You appear to identify Adjusted EBITDA as your segmental measure of profit or loss.
In addition to providing this segment measure of profitability for each of your
reportable segments in accordance with ASC 280-10-50-22, you present an Adjusted
EBITDA amount for each of your "Unallocated" column and "Total" column. Please
note that ASC 280 requires disclosure of the profitability measure for each segment
only, and disclosure of a consolidated Adjusted EBITDA amount is therefore
considered a Non-GAAP financial measure and as such should not be disclosed in the
notes to the financial statements under the guidance in Item 10(e)(1)(ii)(C) of
Regulation S-K. Please revise future filings to remove the unallocated and
consolidated Adjusted EBITDA amounts.
Form 10-Q for the Fiscal Quarter Ended October 31, 2024
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,
page 42
3.We note from the reconciliation of your non-GAAP measures beginning on page 55
that each of your non-GAAP measures includes an adjustment for an item titled
"restructuring costs." It appears from your disclosures that your fiscal 2025
restructuring costs include a non-cash inventory write-down of $11.4 million related
to certain products that were either discontinued or are being de-emphasized going
forward as a result of review of your product portfolio. Please explain to us why you
believe that this inventory write-down adjustment does not represent costs that are
normal operating costs of the business, or alternatively please revise future filings to
remove inventory write-down adjustments from your non-GAAP measures. See
guidance in Question 100.01 of the SEC Staff’s Compliance & Disclosure
Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures. Your disclosures in your earnings
release furnished on Form 8-K should be similarly revised.
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In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments,
action or absence of action by the staff.
Please contact Jennifer Thompson at 202-551-3737 or Hugh West at 202-551-3872
with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing