Ceragon Reports 2025 Second Quarter Financial Results

Delivers profitability on a non-GAAP basis and free cash flow amid evolving revenue environment;
Ceragon's technology leadership driving competitive gains and increased opportunities

ROSH HA'AIN, Israel, Aug. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ceragon (NASDAQ: CRNT), a leading solutions provider of end-to-end wireless connectivity, today reported its financial results for the second quarter period ended June 30, 2025.

Q2 2025 Financial Highlights:

• Revenues of $82.3 million
• Operating income of $2.2 million on a GAAP basis, or $4.7 million on a non-GAAP basis
• Net income (loss) of ($1.3) million on a GAAP basis, and $2.5 million on a non-GAAP basis
• EPS of ($0.01) per diluted share on a GAAP basis, or $0.03 per diluted share on a non-GAAP basis

Q2 2025 Business Highlights:

• North America momentum: Bookings and revenue grew sequentially for the third consecutive quarter, exceeded $20 million, and were the highest since Q2 2024
• Strategic customer win: Secured "preferred vendor" status in a project with a new tier-1 mobile network operator in North America, due to innovative solution based on leveraging Siklu's technology
• Acquisition synergy: Recent acquisitions continued to deliver incremental opportunities and expanded capabilities across both private network and CSP markets

CEO Doron Arazi commented: "The second quarter demonstrated the resilience and agility we have built into our business. We delivered solid profitability on a non-GAAP basis, generated cash, reduced debt, and advanced our strategic roadmap even as we navigated rapidly evolving dynamics in India. We are leveraging differentiated technology which delivers valuable capabilities that we believe outpaces our competitors, and these advantages are translating into new opportunities and expanded use cases that support incremental revenue and potential market share gains globally."

"Momentum is building across North America and other regions, where our cutting-edge technology is opening doors with Tier-1 carriers and private network customers," Arazi continued.

Primary Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results:

Revenues were $82.3 million, down 14.4% from $96.1 million in Q2 2024.

Gross profit was $28.4 million, giving us a gross margin of 34.6%, compared to gross margin of 34.8% in Q2 2024.

GAAP Operating income was $2.2 million compared with $10.4 million for Q2 2024.

GAAP Net income (loss) was ($1.3) million, or ($0.01) per diluted share, compared with $7.8 million, or $0.09 per diluted share for Q2 2024.

Non-GAAP results were as follows: Gross margin was 35.2%, operating profit was $4.7 million, and net income of $2.5 million, or $0.03 per diluted share.

Balance Sheet

Cash and cash equivalents were $29.2 million on June 30, 2025, compared to $35.3 million on December 31, 2024.

For a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results, see the attached tables.

Revenue Breakout by Geography:

Outlook

The current visibility, especially in India, is impacting the Company's ability to reaffirm prior guidance. Based on management's current view, the Company assumes the following:

• Revenue in the second half of 2025 to remain essentially consistent with first half levels
• At these revenue levels, Ceragon anticipates generating non-GAAP profit and positive cash flow
• Ceragon's momentum across field engagements, customer trials, and new opportunities, as well as a rebound of stalled and delayed projects in India, establish the foundation for renewed growth in 2026.

Conference Call

The Company will host a Zoom web conference today at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss the financial results, followed by a question-and-answer session for the investment community.

Investors are invited to register by clicking here. All relevant information will be sent upon registration.

For investors unable to join the live call, a replay will be available on the Company's website at www.ceragon.com within 24 hours after the call.

About Ceragon

Ceragon (NASDAQ: CRNT) is a global innovator and leading solutions provider of end-to-end wireless connectivity, specializing in transport, access, and AI-powered managed & professional services. Through our commitment to excellence, we empower customers to elevate operational efficiency and enrich the quality of experience for their end users.

Our customers include service providers, utilities, public safety organizations, government agencies, energy companies, and more, who rely on our wireless expertise and cutting-edge solutions for 5G & 4G broadband wireless connectivity, mission-critical services, and an array of applications that harness our ultra-high reliability and speed. Ceragon solutions are deployed by more than 600 service providers, as well as more than 1,600 private network owners, in more than 130 countries.

Through our innovative, end-to-end solutions, covering hardware, software, and managed & professional services, we enable our customers to embrace the future of wireless technology with confidence, shaping the next generation of connectivity and service delivery. Ceragon delivers extremely reliable, fast to deploy, high-capacity wireless solutions for a wide range of communication network use cases, optimized to lower TCO through minimal use of spectrum, power, real estate, and labor resources - driving simple, quick, and cost-effective network modernization and positioning Ceragon as a leading solutions provider for the "connectivity everywhere" era.

For more information please visit: www.ceragon.com

Ceragon Networks® and FibeAir® are registered trademarks of Ceragon Networks Ltd. in the United States and other countries. CERAGON® is a trademark of Ceragon, registered in various countries. Other names mentioned are owned by their respective holders.

Safe Harbor

This press release contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are based on the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of Ceragon's management about Ceragon's business, financial condition, results of operations, micro and macro market trends and other issues addressed or reflected therein. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: projections of demand, revenues, net income, gross margin, capital expenditures and liquidity, competitive pressures, order timing, supply chain and shipping, components availability; growth prospects, product development, financial resources, cost savings and other financial and market matters. You may identify these and other forward-looking statements by the use of words such as "may", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "targets", "expects", "intends", "potential" or the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.

Although we believe that the projections reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations there from will not be material. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause Ceragon's future results or performance to differ materially from those anticipated, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: Company's forward-looking forecasts, with respect to which there is no assurance that such forecasts will materialize; Company's ability to future plan, business, marketing and product strategies on the forecasted evolution of the market developments, such as market and territory trends, future use cases, business concepts, technologies, future demand, and necessary inventory levels; the effects of global economic trends, including recession, rising inflation, rising interest rates, commodity price increases and fluctuations, commodity shortages and exposure to economic slowdown; The effects of the evolving nature of the war situation in Israel and the related evolving regional conflicts; risks associated with delays in the transition to 5G technologies and in the 5G rollout; risks relating to the concentration of our business on a limited number of large mobile operators and the fact that the significant weight of their ordering, compared to the overall ordering by other customers, coupled with inconsistent ordering patterns, could negatively affect us; risks resulting from the volatility in our revenues, margins and working capital needs; disagreements with tax authorities regarding tax positions that we have taken could result in increased tax liabilities; the high volatility in the supply needs of our customers, which from time to time lead to delivery issues and may lead to us being unable to timely fulfil our customer commitments; and such other risks, uncertainties and other factors that could affect our results of operation, as further detailed in Ceragon's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F, as published on March 25, 2025, as well as other documents that may be subsequently filed by Ceragon from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

We caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Ceragon does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release unless required by law.

While we believe that we have a reasonable basis for each forward-looking statement contained in this press release, we caution you that these statements are based on a combination of facts and factors currently known by us and our projections of the future, about which we cannot be certain. In addition, any forward-looking statements represent Ceragon's views only as of the date of this press release and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. Ceragon does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements unless required by law.

The results reported in this press-release are preliminary and unaudited results, and investors should be aware of possible discrepancies between these results and the audited results to be reported, due to various factors.

Ceragon's public filings are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov and may also be obtained from Ceragon's website at www.ceragon.com.

Ceragon Investor & Media Contact:

Rob Fink
FNK IR
Tel. 1+646-809-4048
[email protected]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(*) Consists of charges to cost of revenues for the difference between the fair value of acquired inventory in business combination, which was recorded at fair value, and the actual cost of this inventory, which impacts the Company's gross profit.

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