Corporate: Compumedics shareholders did not like its revenue update this morning
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No one likes to hear of a revenue downgrade and shareholders of sleep and brain disorder medical device manufacturer Compumedics (ASX:CMP) are no different.
While the company’s earnings guidance for the full year was still $6.5m-$7.5m, unaudited revenues for the first half of this financial year were forecast to be $17.7m.
Compumedics’ revenue came in $1m lower than the prior corresponding period.
The company blamed delayed sales orders and stood by its previous guidance for the full year. It promised final numbers would come with its half-yearly report on February 25.
Compumedics reminded shareholders it had been a strong few months, with the company making its first sale to Japan. It also noted installation of its brain scanner (MEG) to the Barrow Neurological Institute was progressing well.
It is named MEG after its Magnetoencephalography therapy. This records electrical activity in the brain through measuring magnetic fields.
After a stellar 2019 where shares more than doubled, this morning’s announcement sent them tumbling nearly 22 per cent.
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