Jerash Holdings (US) (NASDAQ:JRSH) released fourth-quarter financial results and hosted an earnings call on Monday. Read the complete transcript below.

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Summary

Jerash Holdings (US) reported a record revenue for fiscal 2026, driven by increased demand from key customers and contributions from newer customers like Hanso Group.

The company highlighted significant operational efficiencies and automation, leading to improved profit margins and a balanced sales profile.

Expansion plans include increasing production capacity by 15% by end of 2026 and an additional 20-25% by 2027, along with adding 700 workers by end of 2026.

Revenue for Q4 2026 rose by 46.6% year-over-year to $42.9 million, with an increase in net income to $1.7 million from a net loss in the previous year.

The company is fully booked through December 2026 and plans further expansion in collaboration with the Jordan Ministry of Labor to support local employment.

Jerash Holdings expects a revenue increase of 20-22% in the first quarter of fiscal 2027 and aims to sustain growth through strategic customer and product diversification.

Full Transcript

OPERATOR

Greetings welcome to the Jerash Holdings (US) fiscal 2026, fourth quarter and full year financial results. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press Star0 on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Roger Pondell, Investor Relations for Jerash Holdings.

You may begin.

Roger Pondell (Investor Relations)

Thank you Operator Good morning everyone and welcome to Jerash Holdings (US) fiscal 2026, fourth quarter and full Year Conference Call I'm Roger Pondell with Pondell Wilkinson holdings investor relations firm. On the call today from the company are Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Choi, Chief Financial Officer Gilbert Lee and Eric Tang, who leads the Company's operations in Jordan. Before I turn the call over to Sam, I want to remind our listeners that today's call may include forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform act of 1995.

Such forward looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the Company's control, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of the Company's most recent Form 10K as filed with the securities and Exchange Commission and copies of which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov along with other company filings made with the SEC from time to time. Actual results could differ materially from these forward looking statements and Jerash Holdings (US) undertakes no obligation to update any forward looking statements except as required by law and with that, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to Sam Choi. Sam, Thank you Roger. I'm pleased to report that Jerash closed fiscal 2026 with outstanding fourth quarter performance and record revenue for the full year. This strong performance was driven by increasing demand from the Company's long outstanding key customer as well as growing contribution from newer customers including Hansho Group in South Korea and other customers that have been acquired in recent years. Building on this momentum, the results reflected robust top line growth and a meaningful improvement in profitability.

These gains were supported by enhanced production capabilities and operational efficiencies, with increased automation and economies of scale enabling a more balanced sales profile and improved margins throughout the year. We're confident in our ability to sustain this progress and continue delivering solid performance. I'm pleased to report that the last shipments under Han Sold's initial large order for 3 million pairs of gold Shorts were completed early in the fiscal fourth quarter.

The products and in turn were well received by Hanson's largest customer, a US based multinational omnichannel retailer reflecting Jerash, strong production quality and online delivery performance. We have since received two additional orders from HENCEL for the same end customer. We continue to cultivate relationship with additional global brands and strategic partners as part of our broader strategy to diversify both our customer base and product mix as well as to support more stable year round production and reduce impact of seasonality on our business.

Together with our planned capacity expansion, these initiatives position us to deliver a steady pipeline of profitable growth. As we scale, our team remains focused on further improving gross margins while maintaining disciplined operational execution and cost control to support growing demand. Through our phased and capital evasion expansion strategy, we have begun renovating and expanding several manufacturing facilities and optimizing warehouse capacity including a newly acquired building.

Rather than concentrating our investment in a single flagship production complex. The first phase of renovation is expected to increase production capacity by approximately 15% and add 700 workers by the end of calendar year 2026. The remaining expansion is scheduled for completion by end 2027 and is expected to contribute an additional 20 to 25% in production capacity. With that, I will now turn the call over to Eric Tang who is in charge of our operation in Jordan.

Eric Tang (Head of Operations in Jordan)

thank you Sam. Jordan continues to be recognized as one of the world's preferred manufacturing hubs, supported by its extensive network of free trade agreements, a highly skilled and cost competitive workforce and a strategic geographic location that provides stable access to major markets despite broader regional uncertainty. With both the Akaba and Hyperport fully open and operating normally, along with cooperation from customs and logistic partners, we were able to complete additional export shipments during the past quarter despite the seasonal impact typically associated with the month long Ramadan and EID holiday period.

As just now Sam mentioned, we are encouraged by the positive feedback from Hansol's end customer regarding Jerash production quality and delivery timeline and have since received additional orders from Han Sol for different styles. In addition, buyers from our key customer have placed large orders for our fiscal 2027 year. As a result, I'm happy to report that our facilities are now fully booked through December of 2026. Turning to our expansion plans, we are increasing capacity in a controlled manner in phases while maintaining high production output and we have begun adding production lines at two of our existing manufacturing facilities.

At the same time, we are converting our newest acquired facility into a centralized warehouse to further optimize operational efficiency. By the end of calendar year 2026 we expect to have increased capacity by approximately 15%, supported, as Sam mentioned, by the addition of 700 new workers the second phase of our expansion will provide converting to one facility that is currently functioning as a centralized cutting department to a production Factory by adding 500 new state of art sewing machines and automation supported by approximately 1,100 additional workers.

We expect the second phase of expansion to contribute an additional 20 to 25% increase in capacity with completion plan by mid calendar year 2027. As we mentioned during the last conference call, our collaboration with the Jordan Ministry of Labor to develop additional facilities in rural towns is proceeding well. Our first satellite factory established in partnership with the Ministry of labor was in 2019. A second satellite factory just became operational in March 2026 and currently employing 130 local workers.

We are planning to expand this site by additional fraud which will increase our production capacity by approximately 5% and employ up to 250 local employees. This project is targeted for completion by the end of fiscal year 2627. In addition, we continue to work closely with the Ministry of Labor on plans for first satellite factory which is expected to create approximately 500 additional jobs in the surrounding community outside of Ashei, which is about one hour away from Jordan's first satellite factory in Ahasa.

Together, this initiative support Giraffe's growth objectives while also contributing to local employment and economic development. Our long term strategy is focused on sustaining growth momentum with an objective of double our production capacity over the next few years. As we broaden our customer base and enhance our product mix by strategically optimizing capacity, we aim to deliver stronger, more predictable top line growth alongside improved margin performance and hence operating leverage throughout the year.

With that, I will turn the call over to Gilbert to discuss our financial results. Gilbert, please.

Gilbert Lee (Chief Financial Officer)

Thank you Eric. Revenue for the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter grew 46.6% to $42.9 million from 29.3 million in the same quarter last year. The increase was primarily driven by by increased export shipments to the company's long standing key customers as well as orders from newer customers including Hanso Group in South Korea and others that we developed in recent years. Gross profit increased 40.4% to $7.4 million for the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter from 5.2 million in the same quarter last year.

Gross margin for the quarter was 17.1% compared with 17.9% in the same period last year. Operating expenses were $5 million in the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter compared with 4.8 million in the same quarter last year. As a percentage of revenue, operating expenses fell by nearly 5 percentage points to 11.7% from 16.4% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. This reduction reflects improved control over export logistics costs and lower stock based compensation.

Operating income rose more than five times to $2.3 million in the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter from 434,000 in the same quarter last year. Total auto Expenses in the fourth quarter were $399,000, including 383,000 in interest expenses, compared with 254,000 in the same quarter a year earlier, which included 371,000 of interest expenses. Income tax expenses were 270,000 in the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter compared with 324,000 in the prior year. Quarter net income increased to $1.7 million, or $0.12 per diluted share for the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter from a net loss of $144,000, or $0.01 per share for the same quarter last year.

Comprehensive income attributable to the company's common stockholders advanced to $1.6 million in the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter from a comprehensive loss of $49,000 in the same quarter last year. While this upward numerous While there were numerous changes to tariffs during fiscal 2026 and additional changes are anticipated in future years, but since tariffs are mostly paid by the company's customers, the overall impact on Jerash bottom line has not been material.

As of March 31, 2026, cash and restricted cash totaled $12.5 million and net working capital was 36.7 million. Inventory was 30 million and accounts receivable amounted to 5.7 million. Net cash provided by operating activities was approximately $2.5 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, compared with $1.4 million in fiscal 2025 year. The increase was primarily attributable to net income of 33.6 million during fiscal 2026, compared with a net loss of $0.8 million during fiscal 2025, partially offset by higher accounts receivable, inventory and accrued expenses.

On May 4, 2026, Jerash Board of Directors approved a regular quarterly dividend of $0.05 per share on its common stock paid on May 21, 2026 to stockholders of record as of May 14, 2026. As both Sam and Eric said earlier, we are optimistic about the future of Girash and remain committed to disciplined cost management and operating efficiency as we continue to execute our expansion plans and growth strategy. Looking ahead for the near term, we expect revenue for the fiscal 27 first quarter to increase by 20 to 22% over the same quarter of last year, with a gross margin target for the fiscal 27-1-Q15 to 17%.

We will now open the call for questions and I will turn the call back to the operator.

OPERATOR

Certainly at this time we will be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment please, while we poll for questions. Your first question for today is from Ryan Myers with Lake Street Capital Markets.

Ryan Myers (Equity Analyst)

Hey guys, thanks for taking my questions. Congrats on the solid progress in the strong quarter. First question for me. If we think about what you guys gave for the first quarter guidance and all the order flow that you're seeing through the rest of the year, how should we think about the potential growth rate on a full year basis? And as we proceed into the previous three quarters, just, you know, do you think that 20 to 22% growth is sustainable?

I know you'll face some tougher comps in the second half of the year. Just, you know, how we should think about things directionally for the full year?

Sam Choi (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer)

Well, actually, we haven't really projected that far out because as you know, we are pretty much limited. The growth of our production and sales are pretty much limited by our capacity. As Eric mentioned, we are fully booked through December of 2026 and we could make some changes or there's still room for changes in our customer mix and product mix. So the overall number for fiscal 27, it is still uncertain, but there will definitely be growth and we will continue to do everything we could to, to maximize our capacity utilization and provide as much top line growth as possible and also at an optimized margin and profitability. As we are expanding our capacity, we want to do it in a way that doesn't, that doesn't interrupt our normal operation. And so first quarter we're pretty solid.

We know what orders we have and what we're going to produce. But even second quarter there's still some room for changes. So we really cannot project what the growth percentage for the full year is. But for the first quarter, we know we're going to be able to grow from 20 to 22% over the first quarter of fiscal 26.

Ryan Myers (Equity Analyst)

Okay, got it. And then just thinking about the facilities that you guys have booked through December of 2026. You know how much of that is firm purchase orders from your customers or just customers forecasting or expecting production? How much of that is like 100% purchase order?

Sam Choi (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer)

No, it's not 100% purchase order. Usually our customers will project six months to nine months worth of what they need from our production facilities. And then we will do our pricing, we will do our sample development and I think it will be probably 30 to 60 days out. Then we will receive the purchase order.

Ryan Myers (Equity Analyst)

Okay, got it. Appreciate it. Thanks for the question.

Gilbert Lee (Chief Financial Officer)

Sorry, Gilbert, Allow me to say. Allow me to say a few words. Okay. The reason why we say we are booked through the end of December production means we are planned according to what the customer's requirement. Because we receive projection and 80% already confirmed order. And the balance the customer will confirm in the coming one or two months according to our experience. Okay. So for so many years running the production. 99%. Okay. The customer will confirm the exact order. Okay. 99%. Okay, got it.

Ryan Myers (Equity Analyst)

No, that's helpful to understand. Thanks guys.

Gilbert Lee (Chief Financial Officer)

Thank you.

OPERATOR

Your next question is from Mike Baker with DA Davidson.

Mike Baker (Equity Analyst)

Hey, thanks. So hand sell first order went well. I think you said 3 million units. Now there's been two follow up orders. Can you just order magnitude size those follow up orders was the 3 million? It wasn't a test per se, but you know, as you prove your ability to deliver high quality on time, does it do the size of the additional orders increase?

Gilbert Lee (Chief Financial Officer)

Eric, what are the two follow up order from Hansol? What is the quantity? Hello, Eric.

Eric Tang (Head of Operations in Jordan)

So the two confirmed order from Hansel. Okay. Firstly, one of the order is more or less the same like the girl shot we have been doing last year. So this is more or less like a repeat order. But it is. Our quantity is around 3 million pieces. But it is only for season one. The Hansel told me that we will have season two, season three and season four. Season one means starting the production from end of August until next January. And then season two.

Okay. We are receiving projection also for season two. Okay. But it will start in February. And then season three and season four will continue the second order, which is another style. Okay. Which is the last quantity is around 1.3 million pieces. Okay. Also from Hansol. And apart from these two orders, we have been. We continue discussing with a lot of, I think more five or six style of order of which we are already go through all the pricing exercise.

We are still waiting for the confirmation from the buyer. Okay. I am sure that because the buyer the end buyer may be need more consideration because previously there's a situation in the Middle east is not very comfortable for them. But they told us that if the ceasefire or any peace agreement initial or I mean temporary or long lasting one, will be signed, they will immediately place more order to Jordan as they consider Jordan is the still most competitive manufacturing country base.

Mike Baker (Equity Analyst)

Understood. Great, thank you. And so any more? Just one additional follow up. This is more. Are these more fashion sort of higher margin goods or are they more basic goods which I know come in at a lower margin.

Gilbert Lee (Chief Financial Officer)

Actually. Okay, for the hand sold order maybe Gilbert, you can answer. No, you can answer. But basically the hand sold orders, they are more basic, simple styles. However, we were able to produce them at a much more efficient way as well as reaping the benefit of economies of scale. So the margin of these hand sold orders are actually very, very good.

Mike Baker (Equity Analyst)

So then can you one last one to remind us. Gross margins the quarter you just reported were certainly higher than consensus, but we're down I think about 90 basis points year over year. What was the drag you mean comparing to the fourth quarter of 2025? Right, correct, exactly.

Gilbert Lee (Chief Financial Officer)

I remember the sales for fiscal for fourth quarter 2025 was kind of low. There were some delays in shipping out in the fourth quarter for 2025 there were some congestions at the ports, so we weren't able to ship out everything we produced. Now I think there was some mix issues. We basically shipped out most of the orders that were with customers such as VF with higher margin and we weren't able to produce a lot of the dm, what we call cut and make orders with lower margin. So we pretty much concentrate on producing higher margin to produce and ship out higher margin products in Q4 of 2025. And the impact from the Ramadan holiday and also the EID holiday in Q4 of 2025 was more significant.

But this year 2026 Q4 we were able to continue to produce and I think we pretty much learned from our past experience how to handle the disruption of the Ramadan. So this year, I mean we projected a lower sales for Q4 this year just to anticipate that there will be disruptions or there will be lower output from because of Ramadan. And also if you remember when we did the projection for Q4 of 26, the war just started between Iran and the US so we were kind of concerned and were rather conservative in our ability to ship out because there could be port closing and all kinds of uncertainties. So yeah, fortunately we were able to have a very high. Well, actually, this is a record high fourth quarter for us in Q4, and we were able to have a rather normal gross margin.

Mike Baker (Equity Analyst)

Got it. Thank you.

Gilbert Lee (Chief Financial Officer)

You're welcome.

OPERATOR

Once again, if you would like to ask a question, Please press star 1. We have reached the end of the question and answer session, and I will now turn the call over to Sam Choi for closing remarks.

Sam Choi (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer)

Thank you, operator. And thanks to all of you for joining us today. We appreciate your ongoing support and interest in Jerash, and we look forward to updating you on the progress in the year in the near future. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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