Photon Control Reports Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results

• Quarterly Sales Record of $9.0 Million
• Quarterly Net Earnings Record of $3.75 Million
• Quarterly Earnings per Share of $0.03

BURNABY, BC, Aug. 26, 2015 /CNW/ - Photon Control Inc. ("Photon Control" or the "Company") (TSX-V: PHO), a leading developer of optical measurement technologies, released its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015.  Building on its record performance reported in Q1 2015, Photon Control experienced further growth during Q2 2015 achieving new quarterly records in both sales and profit. 

Product sales for the second quarter of 2015 reached $9.0 million, representing an increase of $4.9 million or approximately 120% compared with $4.1 million reported for the same period in 2014 and an increase of $2.2 million compared with $6.8 million reported in Q1 2015. 

Photon Control's profit before taxes for the second quarter of 2015 was $3,751,072 representing an increase of approximately 290% compared with a profit before taxes of $960,603 reported for the same period in 2014. Q2 2015 net earnings was only slightly higher than Q1 2015 net earnings of $3,721,407 despite increased Q2 2015 revenue. The major difference in net earnings was primarily due to a foreign exchange loss of ($138,002) in Q2 2015 whereas there was an unusually high foreign exchange gain of $952,126 in the previous Q1 2015.        

Product sales for the six months ended June 30, 2015 totalled $15.8 million, approximately 60% higher compared to the same period last year.  The Company's profit before taxes for the six months ended June 30, 2015 was $7,472,479, approximately 146% higher compared to the same period in 2014, surpassing the entire 2014 profit before taxes by approximately 6%.  

Photon Control continued a strong order backlog in 2015, ending the second quarter with the order backlog of $5.3 million.

Basic earnings per share for the second quarter of 2015 was $0.03, with working capital at June 30, 2015 of approximately $27.0 million. 

"We are pushing for excellence in everything we do here at Photon," said Christopher Weston, President of Photon Control. "The growth and continued profitability we are experiencing is a result of our collective initiatives to improve the products, achieve design-ins at strategic accounts, improve operating efficiencies, and support our customers' demanding requirements. Our focus now is on building for our future."

About Photon Control Inc.

Photon Control Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes a wide range of optical sensors & instruments to measure temperature, pressure, position, and flow. These products are used by original equipment manufacturers (OEM) as well as end-users in the Semiconductor, Oil and Gas, Power, Life Science, and Manufacturing industries. Photon Control's products provide high accuracy and reliability in extreme conditions and are supported by a team of experts that offer onsite installation, training, and support. Photon Control Inc. also provides engineering services for customized optical measurement systems. Headquartered in an ISO 9001:2008 manufacturing facility in Burnaby, BC, Photon Control Inc. is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, trading under the symbol ''PHO". Additional information about the company can be found at www.photon-control.com/investorrelations.html 

Forward-Looking Statements

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These forward looking statements are based on certain factors and assumptions, including, without limitation, the Company's ability to successfully complete new purchase orders along the timelines expected; continued and future demand for the Company's products; continued sales to the Company's major customers; the continued financial health of the semiconductor industry; and the Company's ability to continue and further enhance revenue diversification and open new market opportunities.

Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual events or results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, uncertainties in the availability and cost of financing for the Company to enable the Company to achieve its goals; uncertainties relating to the market for the Company's products and maintaining a stable level of orders; fluctuations in revenue as a result of volatility in the markets and product mix; risks relating to the Company's present reliance on four major customers for the majority of its sales; risks relating to the Company's reliance on the financial health of the semiconductor industry; risks relating to the development of competing technologies and the possibility of increased competition; the effect of slow growth in the United States, the Company's principal market, as well as in Canada and other economies generally and other economic trends and conditions in the markets that the Company and its customers serve; risks associated with technical difficulties or delays in product introductions, improvements, implementation; uncertainties in product pricing or other initiatives of the Company and its competitors; uncertainties in factors that may result in a reduction in capital expenditures and/or delayed buying decisions affecting demand for the Company's products; risks relating to currency fluctuations, particularly between the Canadian and United States dollars; and risks in pursuing additional development projects to support existing customers or pursue other business opportunities.

The foregoing assumptions, risks and uncertainties are not exhaustive of the items that may affect our forward looking statements.  Should underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect or one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, actual results may vary materially from those described in the forward looking statements. The Company's forward looking statements are based on beliefs, expectations and opinions of management on the date the statements are made.  For the reasons set forth above, readers should not place undue reliance on forward looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward looking statements included herein if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as otherwise required by applicable law.

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SOURCE Photon Control Inc.

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