Eltek Q4 2025 Earnings Report

Eltek EPS Results

• Actual EPS: -$0.05
• Consensus EPS: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Eltek Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $13.24 million
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Eltek Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q4 2025
• Date: 3/9/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Monday, March 9, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 9:30AM ET

Eltek (NASDAQ:ELTK) manufactures, markets, and sells printed circuit boards (PCBs) in Israel, Europe, North America, India, the Netherlands, and internationally. It offers a range of custom designed PCBs, including rigid, double-sided and multi-layer PCBs, and flexible circuitry boards. The company also provides high density interconnect, flex-rigid, and multi-layered boards. It primarily serves medical technology, defense and aerospace, industrial, telecom, and networking equipment industries, as well as contract electronic manufacturers. The company markets and sells its products primarily through direct sales personnel, sales representatives, and PCB trading and manufacturing companies. Eltek Ltd. was incorporated in 1970 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel. Eltek Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Nistec Golan Ltd.

Eltek Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Revenue rose 11% to $51.8 million in 2025 and management says the accelerated investment plan is beginning to show results, with a target installed capacity of $60–$65 million at current prices.
• Negative Sentiment: Gross margin fell to 15% (gross profit $8.0M) and net profit declined to $0.8M, with EBITDA down to $4.5M, driven mainly by a roughly $2.2M adverse impact from USD depreciation and lower production efficiency.
• Neutral Sentiment: The two new plating lines—expected to be the main catalyst for higher output and quality—arrived in early 2026 but require assembly, extensive qualification through 2026, and may face further delay due to current tensions in Israel.
• Negative Sentiment: Operational disruptions (production-line reallocation, difficulties recruiting/retaining experienced staff) caused delivery delays, encouraged overseas competition, and left part of the backlog priced at higher historic USD rates, which will depress margins on those orders.

Presentation

[Operator]

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Eltek Ltd. 2025 annual and fourth quarter financial results conference call. All participants are at present in a listen-only mode. Following management's formal presentation, instructions will be given for the question-and-answer session. For operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Before I turn over the call to Mr. Eli Yaffe, Chief Executive Officer, and Ron Freund, Chief Financial Officer, I'd like to remind you that they will be referring to forward-looking information in today's presentation and in the Q&A. By its nature, this information contains forecasts, assumptions, and expectations about future outcomes, which are subject to the risks and uncertainties outlined here and discussed more fully in Eltek's public disclosure filings. These forward-looking statements are projections and reflect the current beliefs and expectations of the company.

[Operator]

Actual events or results may differ materially. We'll also be referring to non-GAAP measures. Eltek undertakes no obligation to publicly release revisions to such forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring subsequent to this date. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Eli Yaffe. Mr. Yaffe, please go ahead.

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for joining us for our 2025 annual earnings call. With me is Ron Freund, our Chief Financial Officer. We will begin by providing you with an overview of our business and summary of the principal factors that affected the results during 2025. After our prepared remarks, we'll be happy to answer any of your questions. By now, everyone should have access to our press release, which was released earlier today. The release was also available on our website. Revenue for 2025 totaled $51.8 million, representing an 11% increase compared to 2024. This growth reflects the company's strategic accelerated investment plan, which is the beginning of our bear fruits, also not yet its full potential. It will be elaborate on this shortly. I will elaborate on this shortly.

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

During the year, we faced several operational challenges, including the reallocation of the machinery and production lines within the facility to prepare for the installation of the new plating lines, difficulties in recruiting employees, challenges in retaining highly experienced personnel, and a significant depreciation of the US dollar exchange rate, which adversely affect the dollar-dominated profitability we report by approximately $2.2 million compared to 2024 profitability. I will now address each of these areas in more detail. As noted, we concluded the year with revenue approaching $52 million. At the time we approved the accelerated investment plan, Eltek was generating average annual revenue of approximately $37 million. The subsequent increase in revenue reflects strong demand for the company products, alongside the substantial investment made in the machinery and equipment over the recent years.

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

As previously communicated, we are targeting annual revenue installed capacity in the current plant of $60 million-$65 million at current market prices. During the year, we encouraged significant operational constraint that affected our ability to meet customers' delivery schedule. This situation, combined with the demand level exceeding domestic production capacity in Israel, led to increased competition from overseas players seeking to capture a share of the local demand. We continue to observe strong demand for our products, including from international customers, driven by limited manufacturing capability in the Western countries. We are steadily improving delivery performance for our domestic customers, recognize that we that many Western countries, including Israel, aim to preserve local manufacturing capability. At the same time, we are actively expanding our presence in overseas market, particularly in the United States, to increase order volume from these regions. Turning to operation.

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

We are making steady progress on our investment program. The core component expected to drive meaningful improvement in output and quality are the two new plating lines. While they do not represent the majority of the accelerate investment budget in financial terms, their impact on production is highly significant. The first line arrived to the facility at the beginning of 2026, it is currently in the assembly phase, which was interrupted by the current tension situation in Israel. We remain hopeful that the ongoing conflict will not result further delay in the completing the installation. Following the installation, an extensive qualification process will be required to certify the lines across the full range of our product portfolio.

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

Throughout the years, we also address the need to recruit additional employees, particularly engineers, to support the extended base of the machinery and equipment, as well to manage the operational complexities created by reallocation production lines and the resulting impact of ongoing manufacturing. In addition, we experienced the departure of several highly acknowledged employees, including retirements. These operational challenges waited on overall efficiency. We continue to make progress in advancing the process of bringing foreign workers from abroad in order to support our workforce needed as the company expands. Finally, the depreciation of the US dollar results in the increase of approximately $2.2 million is reported in NIS-denominated expenses compared to 2024, adversely affecting both gross and operational profits. It was nothing that part of our current backlog was priced based on higher exchange rate.

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

Margin on these orders will remain below the level originally anticipated in the time of the quotations. Despite these challenges, we remain confident in the company's business and in our ability to return to healthy profitability levels upon completion of the investment program, installation of the new plating lines, and stabilization of the production. In line with this long-term commitment, we extended the lease agreement for our manufacturing facility through the end of the year 2039. As part of this extension, we received a payment intended to partially offset the company investment in the facility. This amount will be amortized over the lease terms and will modestly reduce annual rent, rental expenses. I will now turn the call over to Ron Freund, our CFO, to discuss our financial results.

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

Thank you, Eli. I would like to draw your attention to the financial statements for the year ended December 31st, 2025, and for the fourth quarter of 2025. During this call, I will also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. Eltek uses EBITDA as a non-GAAP financial performance measurement. Please see our earnings release for its definition and the reason for its use. I will now go over the highlights of 2025. All numbers mentioned are in US dollars. Revenues for the year ended December 31st, 2025, totaled $51.8 million compared to $46.6 million in 2024. Gross profit was $8 million compared to $10.3 million in 2024. Gross margin was 15% compared to 22% in 2024.

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

The decline in gross profit and gross margin was primarily attributable to higher NIS-denominated expenses resulting from the depreciation of the US dollar in 2025, as well as reduced production efficiency. Operating profit amounted to $2.3 million in 2025 compared to $4.4 million in 2024. In 2025, we recorded financial expenses of $1.3 million compared to financial income of $0.7 million in 2024. This change was primarily due to the depreciation of the US dollar against the NIS. Net profit was $0.8 million or $0.12 per share in 2025, compared to net profit of $4.2 million or $0.63 per share in 2024. EBITDA was $4.5 million in 2025 compared to $5.9 million in 2024.

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

During 2025, we generated positive cash flow from operating activities of $0.6 million compared to $4.5 million in 2024. As of December 31st, 2025, we had cash and cash equivalents and short-term bank deposits in the total amount of $12.1 million. I will now go over the highlights of the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with the fourth quarter of 2024. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2025 were $13.2 million compared to $10.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. Gross profit amounted to $1.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to $1.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2024.

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

Net loss in the fourth quarter of 2025 was $0.3 million or $0.05 per share, compared to net profit of $23,000 in the fourth quarter of 2024. EBITDA was $0.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to $0.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. We are now ready to take your questions.

[Operator]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time we will begin the question-and-answer session. If you have a question, please press star one. If you wish to cancel your request, please press star two. If you are using speaker equipment, kindly lift the handset before pressing the numbers. Your questions will be answered in the order they are received. Please stand by. The first question is from Mark Sharogradsky of Kepler Capital. Please go ahead.

[Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital]

Hello, guys. The first question I have, the gross margin for this quarter was really low, like 9%, if I calculate correctly. When do you expect to see some improvements of this result? Because revenue was pretty okay, but the gross margin was really low. How do you see the situation?

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

Hi, Mark. As we previously reported, we expected to complete the integration and installation of the new plating line, which arrived the beginning of 2026 by mid-2026. The line is expected to streamline the core manufacturing processes and expand the production capacity. Following the completion of the installation, we will begin qualification process, and it's expected to continue through the remainder of 2026. During this period, we plan to qualify product families and gradually basis, enabling the phase transition of the production to the new line until fully comply and full qualification for all company products is completed. We also expect that time our production process will be stabilized.

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

We should contribute to the improvement of the gross margin. As we noted in the past, each additional dollar of revenue contribute meaningful to the gross profit and of course to the net income. The answer to your question is increasing our sales volume is expected to have significant positive impact on the profitability and improve the gross margin.

[Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital]

Yeah, Eli, I'm trying to understand that even before you had a gross margins of 27%-29%, now I understand the dollar situation and everything, why such a sharp drop on the margins even now, even before those lines are installed?

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

Mark, hi, this is Roni. On the first quarter, you know the depreciation of the US dollar continued, this caused a significant additional Nis report, NIS-denominated expenses to be dollar reported amounts to be, to increase. In addition, you know, the same as was in prior quarters, we have issues with efficiency in production, we expect that, as Eli said previously, once we will achieve increased sales volume, a gross margin will return to its positive prior margins.

[Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital]

Okay. Can you guys speak a little bit about the pricing dynamic? Everyone saw this USD depreciation, but I was also today on PCB call, and they said they are raising prices now to adjust this depreciation to, you know, to work on normal gross margin. How you see the pricing dynamic going forward?

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

The pricing dynamic is that we immediately update our pricing system to reflect the new depreciation and the new exchange rate of the US dollar. As I mentioned before, we have quotations on the way that was based on long-term proposals, that was based on US dollar to NIS ratio, that is higher than today, and we will get this proposal. We will get this purchase orders, and we will have some of our basket in the future is going to be below the expected volume of our proposals today.

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

Mark, it is not just quotation. We have actually orders that were given and received in a higher dollar rate. This, in these orders, we expect a lower margin than anticipated for new orders to be received in the next months.

[Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital]

Of course, I understand. Because, if, so if, you will adjust those orders to the new USD, NIS exchange rate, when do you expect to see some improvement of this adjustment? In the next quarter, in Q1 or in Q2?

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

You know, as we told before, usually we have a one to two quarters backlog, and we didn't wait till this call. We already updated our pricing system. We expect to see it within, I don't know, four to five months to see some increase.

[Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital]

I understand. Okay. No, because I assumed that you also updated it before because the problems began already in Q3.

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

Yeah, you're right. You know, as in the fourth quarter, the depreciation continued-

[Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital]

Yeah, I understand.

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

... we had to update it again.

[Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital]

I understand. I understand. Okay. Okay. I don't have a further question.

[Ron Freund, CFO at Eltek]

Thank you, Mark.

[Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital]

Thank you.

[Operator]

If there are any additional questions, please press star one. If you wish to cancel your request, please press star two. Please stand by while we pull for more questions. There are no further questions at this time. Before I ask Mr. Yaffe to go ahead with his closing statement, I would like to remind the participants that a replay of this call will be available tomorrow on our website. Mr. Yaffe?

[Eli Yaffe, CEO at Eltek]

As we conclude, I would like to thank our investors for their support and confidence in the company. Your long-term representative and the belief in our strategy enable us to continue investing in our capability and pursuing our growth objectives. I also want to recognize the commitment of our employees. Their professionalism, adaptability, and dedication throughout the period have been critical to maintaining our operation and advancing our strategic initiatives. Thank you for joining us today. Have a good day.

[Operator]

This concludes the Eltek Ltd. 2025 financial results conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may go ahead and disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Eli Yaffe, CEO
• Ron Freund, CFO

Analysts

• Mark Sharogradsky, Managing Partner and CIO at Kepler Capital