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Investor Day 2024

May 8, 2024

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Okay, good morning, and welcome to our investor, our First Investor Day presentation. I would like to thank everybody for their interest in us. I would also like to thank the NYSE for hosting us today. With us today, we have myself, Mike Ferrantino, the CEO; our President, Bill Drafts; Senior Vice President of Sales, Paul Dechen; and Linda Biles, Executive Vice President of Finance. We also have several of our Directors in attendance, and I would like to thank them for attending. I would invite you to read our safe harbor statement and note further, any investor or potential investor should ensure they have read the risks outlined under our risk factors contained within our Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 25, 2024, excuse me.

We've had many questions from investors over the last couple of quarters about our products, so we will start off today with a brief product tutorial presented by Paul Dechen, followed by a more traditional investor presentation, and finally, a Q&A session.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

Well, thank you, Mike. Well, good morning. I'm very excited today to share with you MtronPTI products, markets, and applications. I'm gonna go through this first slide, and it'll be the only slide where we really go with the words that are on the slide. MtronPTI is a high technology firm that designs and manufactures highly reliable oscillators, filters, resonators, and solutions. Now, just in those few words, there are three opportunities to share with you how we differentiate from much of our competition in the market space. First of all, we design and manufacture. B y being an organization that designs, we put ourself in a position to pursue the more sophisticated systems that are out there, and we are participating in some sophisticated systems, and we'll talk about that a little later in the presentation. Secondly, we manufacture both oscillators and filters.

Again, it makes us different because most of our competitors either manufacture oscillators or they manufacture filters. T his gives us an opportunity to cast a broader net, give our customer a one, a one-stop-shop solution. T hen the third variable here that is a differentiation is we also manufacture resonators, and our resonators are a key element to our oscillator portfolio, and it helps us differentiate our oscillator product. Okay, so the question, of course, is: What are oscillators? Well, our products essentially do two type of waveforms. They have clock generation, and those particular products are gonna be more in control systems and computers. Y ou'll notice by the waveform that's shown in this figure, that it's a one or a zero. Y ou see the square wave. T hat's many times considered being called digital states in this presentation.

The other element of our oscillators is frequency generation. This is where we set the frequency of the system as a model, so that is mainly the frequency that's gonna be the system running off. Now, for many of you, you are utilizing digital technology or RF top-notch technology within your home with your television. F or example, if you're utilizing satellite television, well, then you're using RF signal. If you are getting your television through cable or through streaming, now you're utilizing a digital form of data transmission. A gain, we are participating in both those types of technologies as we go through this presentation. W hy are oscillators important? I want to start off with actually the bottom of this slide.

The first thing you're gonna notice is that we offer a broad range of oscillator products, and our customers are gonna make their selection on which type of oscillator they're gonna use, primarily based on their phase noise, size, power consumption, and the stability. F rom there, our website has been structured for our customers, and since oscillators are in certain families, and then our customers can then go through what we call our oscillator finder, fast finder, and they'll be able to select what's critical to them. Then it'll point them to the families that are important to them. And once they've made a selection, we work with our applications engineering team to make sure it's the right clock for their application.

Now, what I'm gonna do here is take these different applications and really talk to you a little about one of our larger market segments, the avionics market. You'll see here we have communications, we have radar, electronic warfare, and control systems. For the avionics market space, we utilize both communications, control systems, and radar. T he way it participates in the aircraft is that, of course, in communications, the pilot is gonna be communicating with the tower, right? T here's gonna be a reference frequency. It's gonna be set in the system, and we're gonna be utilizing that frequency. Same thing with the navigation systems. There are systems on the aircraft that are controlling the height of the aircraft, as well as the direction which the aircraft is going.

The aircraft is continually adjusting its navigation to get from point A to point B. The third element are radars. We have radars that are monitoring collision avoidance, so we don't have two aircraft in the same spot at the same time, as well as weather radar, which is looking for things like wind shear. Then we have control systems. We have control systems in the cabin, which are doing things like pressure management. We also have products that are external to the cabin, which are very, very high dynamic applications in things like landing systems as well as the engine control. In the area of electronic warfare, as we move more to aerospace applications, in this particular slide, I'll speak to what we do in the area of jamming.

In this case, we offer high, very high-performance OCXOs that allow the customer's product to jam, and that prevents the threat to be able to identify the products. You'll hear a lot of times about aircraft being stealth. One of the tools they use is jamming techniques, okay? We also look at the radar market space towards the aerospace market. Again, if you're a pilot on the JSF that's flying 1,200 miles per hour, and your radar comes up with a blip, you wanna make sure that the systems you're working with is showing the real threat. You can't afford to have, you know, multiple false echoes. O ur customers are specifying stringent phase noise and vibration-compensated products so that the system gives them less false echoes, so that the pilot gets the real threat. Next chart.

Okay, so what is a filter? Well, this is really the same thing when you have filters in your own home or in your car, right? We have filters in our home, that may be an air filter. It's letting what we want to come through, and then what we don't want gets trapped and doesn't get into the system. Same thing with the water filter, right? You have a filter here that takes away the things you don't want and lets through the things you do. F ilter is very much the same application, but in the world of RF, the bad stuff is what we call co-site interference. I f you're operating in a system that's, let's say, 100 megahertz, you don't wanna have other signals getting within your system that would maybe disrupt the performance of that.

Okay, so let's go to the next chart. T hese, again, are our, why are MtronPTI's filters important? We'll go to the bottom of the chart. You'll see here we have a broad range of different, filter technologies. Now, here, the customer's gonna identify things like how much selectivity or rejection, how much they're gonna get rid of, what was space that I don't want in my, my radio chain, and it's gonna have things like insertion loss, size, frequency, power handling, all critical elements. Now, the thing that's different between filters and oscillators, where our oscillators are structured in families, which our customer can select, the filters, 99% of the time, are gonna be something that a customer, the customer starts out with a blank sheet of paper.

They identify all their needs, and then they send it on to us, and our technical team works with them to identify the best solution, and that may land on any one of our filter technologies. Now, a good case study here was about 2.5 years ago, as we move again into our avionics market space, there was the 5G interference. 5G was operating at roughly 3.8 GHz Our altimeters on the airplane, which is controlling how, or at least letting the pilot know how far off the ground the system is, you wanna make sure that you have the right distance, right? T hat was operating at 4.2 GHz.

It was very critical for that system to not have any of that 3.8 GHz bleeding into the 4.2 GHz. O ne of the main OEMs in that market space reached out to us. A gain, this was in a situation where something had to be brought to market in a very rapid period of time. W e were able to work with them. We developed a cavity filter with the right selectivity, so the altimeters can then provide a safe flight for our customers. Then we move into electronic warfare. I don't know if you have a radar detector in your car, but that radar detector is out there trying to do intelligence gathering, right?

It's very much what an EW system on an aerospace application does, so it's out. It's either jamming or it's maybe trying to be susceptible, making it look like the target is somewhere else, or it may be identifying what are threats in my area. I n your case, if you're at a radar detector, you wanna know where that threat may be down the highway. We have very, very sophisticated systems that we work with our customers on for EW platforms. Then we go to radar. Again, we're in a whole slew of different radar applications, starting with ground radar, which use over-the-horizon systems, like the Patriot missile system. We are on shipboard applications, we're in many aerospace applications, and we are on guided weapons.

To sort of help tie it all together for this, I'm gonna ask you to sort of imagine yourself being the pilot at JSF. It's flying at 1,200 mi per hour, and let's just say that that EW system is being manufactured by a BAE, which is using, let's say, an MtronPTI OCXO and filters, identifies a threat out in the horizon. That threat's gonna get, get moved over. You're gonna start looking at your APG-81 radar, which is built by Northrop Grumman, which has very low phase noise, crystal oscillators from MtronPTI. Again, the intent here with our product is to make sure that the right bogey is being identified. N ow you're gonna get confirmed you do have this threat.

The next thing you're gonna do is jump on the radio to get down to the carrier and let them know you've been engaged, or you're at the risk of being engaged with what we call a bogey network. In this case, that system, it's another Northrop Grumman system, has two MtronPTI crystal filters that are part of that communication path. The carrier then gets back to you and says, "Yep, you have a legitimate threat, and you need to get yourself engaged." A t this point, you're back to your radar, and your, this particular radar is what we call a missile fire control system. The missile fire control system gets in that lock, and now you're gonna push that red button, and that lets that AMRAAM extend off your wing towards that threat that's out there.

Now, that threat's moving at 1,200 mi an hour as well, and this missile is gonna be moving at roughly 3,000 mi per hour. Onboard missile are 25 MtronPTI filters, two clock oscillators and a TCXO. About 10 seconds later, that, that threat is going to get destroyed. That, for the pilot, is considered mission success. For MtronPTI, it's what we do, okay? Our customers have great trust in us because they're the ones developing these very sophisticated systems, and these systems are something their supply chain and we're part of it. Next chart. Okay, so what are solutions? I'm sitting here with, three of my peers, that are all going to be doing, restructuring and remodels, okay? N ow, I'm afraid to do that, but they're all getting ready to do that. Now, they have a choice.

They can either hire the plumber, the electrician, the sink person or the floor person, the cabinet person, or they can outsource that to a contractor. As a person bringing in one solution, an organization bringing our solution, we're sort of taking on that role of the contractor. Now, again, in bullet 2 and bullet 3 of this particular slide, you're gonna get a good feel for the kind of products and the kind of technology we're integrating into these assemblies. If you look at that picture on the right-hand side, that was our first IMA to be proposed in 2020, and that particular product has 2 MtronPTI filters. It has LNA, it has a microwave switch, which we bought from somebody else, and it has some microwave interconnects, which we bought from somebody else.

Other than these products, merging our products with the way to build our products and develop a successful one-stop solution for our customer. Next slide. Okay, so why use MtronPTI provided solutions? Well, this was really driven about five years ago. We started to have our customer base reach out to us. They were coming to the plant, and they were talking about their great tsunami that's coming, right? T he baby boomer retirement age, and so they were very concerned because they knew they wouldn't be able to fill all these roles. Now, we didn't really have the capability to support that. T hen, about six months later, about four and a half years ago, Mr. Drafts here showed up, and, he came, from an industry where he was doing solutions. We happened to have an engineering organization that had solution capability.

From there, we started the strategy. You see a lot of words on this, this chart, but these are all the things, all the infrastructure you have to have in place to support the proposals to be successful to win this business. You know, what I can share with you is that since 2020, where we had our first and our only inquiry of our successful win, in 2021, we secured four opportunities. In 2022, it jumped up to eleven. 2023, it went to 12, and already in 2024, we've had eight different inquiries. Again, we're seeing some nice momentum. It's the credibility we get by having successful efforts with customers, so you can then present in the next proposal. It's a function of your marketing.

It's getting out into the field, and it's a function of your sales organization, a broad sales organization, getting comfortable with the sale and the confidence of your organization can execute. What we like is that remote work, we're putting more value, and from there, it's a charge of higher ASP, gives you higher margins, and it's less likely that our customers will reach out and try to second-source you or you know, eliminate you as a source. T his is where we put ourselves in this position called sticky business, and so we like sticky business. I hope that this is giving you some insight to what we do and the markets that we support. I guess that can.

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Originally founded in 1965 and listed on the NYSE in October 2022, we've been focused on the aerospace and defense markets since the acquisition of PTI in 2004. Today, we are an American-made defense contractor specializing in robust, engineered frequency, control, and filter applications. We have about 2.9 million shares outstanding, with broad employee ownership. At the end of last year, we distributed 183,000 options to our valued employees based on their tenure with the company. We are well-positioned to continue to access long-term value creation opportunities. As I mentioned, we were listed on the NYSE on October of last year, after we successfully spun out of the LGL Group, creating a standalone aerospace and defense, frequency and spectrum control pure play. We have significant opportunities on the prospect battlefields Paul just discussed.

As weapons get smarter, electronic warfare becomes a bigger part of defense budgets for both the U.S. and our allies. Initially launched at $13 per share, we have focused on delivering quarter-over-quarter improvements, yielding our current price of approximately $29. As you can see, we have outperformed our peers in the broader market since the spin. MtronPTI have been providing RF solutions to the marketplace since 1965, with products covering spectrum control, such as LC, cavity, and crystal filters. Frequency control, such as clock oscillators, temperature-compensated oscillators, and ovenized oscillators. As well as integrated microwave assemblies, where we wrap additional functionality around core products, as Paul just discussed. With sales of $41 million for 2023, we focus on the key markets, defense and aerospace, avionics, space, and industrial.

This focus on providing solutions rather than simply components has led to significant increase in high dollar volume products. We have demonstrated strong and consistent growth, greater than 8% per year over the last 5 years. Finally, with constant investment in new processes and products, we introduce 260 new products per year and generate nearly 30% of our revenue from these new products. We are vertically integrated with capability that starts with a raw crystal and complete all the way up to a finished oscillator or filter. This includes CNC machining, surface mount assembly, and full suite of test and screening capabilities. We have a global blue-chip customer base, including many of the industry leaders in our key markets. Many of these customers have greater than 10-year history with us. All of these items have combined to yield strong market performance we see today.

For nearly 60 years, MtronPTI has been a leader in innovation. With Mtron and PTI both being founded in 1965, each has a history of firsts in product innovation and volume. From PTI supplying the first model of the filter used in space in 1973, to Mtron becoming the first crystal and oscillator supplier to be ISO 9001 certified in 1990. This tradition has continued after the merging of the two companies in 2004, with the addition of new product lines such as integrated microwave assemblies in 2020, 2022's launch of our planar filter product line, and this year's launch of our first spaceborne IMA. MtronPTI has over 125,000 sq ft of design and manufacturing space over three locations: Orlando, Florida, Yankton, South Dakota, and Noida, India.

All three locations are ITAR registered, both U.S. locations having ISO 9000 design and manufacturing certifications, and India having ISO 9001 manufacturing certification. In addition to our sales offices in Austin, Texas, and Hong Kong, we have 28 sales representative organizations throughout North America and the world. We employ 310 people across these locations, 236 manufacturing, and 43 quality, with an average tenure of nearly 12 years. We have over 500 years of radio frequency design and manufacturing engineering experience on staff. As we walk through the balance of the presentation, you will see we focus on large and growing end markets. We have a unique go-to-market strategy with vertically integrated product offerings, large blue-chip customer base, many long-running programs, and sticky design wins.

We also believe we offer a compelling financial performance with both organic and inorganic growth strategies. I will now turn the presentation over to Bill Drafts, who will walk you through our markets. Bill?

William Drafts
President, MtronPTI

Thank you, Mike. Our end-use total addressable markets are large and growing. In aggregate, our TAM is growing at approximately 7% CAGR, but more importantly, our serviceable addressable market is growing faster as we add new product families and climb vertically into solutions, as Mike and Paul described. Defense budgets are increasing as technology enables greatly improved situational awareness with voice, data, and video sharing. Increased passenger mile and freight are driving the avionics market. Our satellite market is our fastest-growing market, with satellite demand in GPS, communications, surveillance, and observation applications. I ndustrials are getting a boost from factory automation and automated test equipment demands. Our markets have strong secular tailwinds. Defense, our largest revenue market, is growing via many technological advancements, including autonomous vehicles, electronic warfare, or EW, and hypersonic missiles.

The global fleet of commercial aircraft is predicted to grow by 80% through 2041 as more freight and passengers move across the globe in more fuel-efficient airplanes. Satellites and crewed flights are driving space growth, and automation and sensors everywhere are driving industrial growth. MtronPTI's precise and reliable products support all these market needs for communication, navigation, sensing, and control. As Paul described, filters and oscillators drive our component product offering, with filters generating approximately 26% of our revenue and oscillators at 20%. We design and manufacture many different topologies within each family of products, each tailored to a very specific customer need. Resonators and solutions round out our offering. We are one of the few companies in the world that offer a portfolio this expansive, making us a one-stop shop for all our customers' RF component and solution needs.

We average 16 design slots on nearly every Boeing and Airbus commercial airplane. We provide rugged, proven, reliable oscillators, clocks, and filters in numerous applications, from flight control to navigation. We also serve the smaller regional and business jet markets, with manufacturers using our proven components for similar applications. Our satellite business has grown significantly as our space capabilities increased over the past few years. EW is a recent, and we've made great gains with recent design wins. Radar demand has increased in the past few years as the need to detect smaller, slower-moving objects has grown. Lastly, precision-guided munitions have become faster, think hypersonic, and very smart with onboard radar and data links, driving the need for our products. When our customers come to MtronPTI, they not only get an expansive component and solution provider, but an extension of their engineering team.

This helps de-risk their designs, improves performance, enhances reliability. We have a broad array of in-house testing that ensures a proven, robust design with many quality checks throughout the manufacturing process. We continuously add state-of-the-art capabilities for manufacturing processes, reducing costs, lead times, and improving reliability. With over 80 representatives, inside sales and sales engineers, we make certain we execute as promised and keep in constant contact with our customers. We are expanding our customer base every day, securing both future industrial leaders and existing large blue-chip customers. We are also growing our market share with each customer, adding design wins to existing platforms. As Mike mentioned, a testament to our innovation, problem-solving, and customer-centric organization is that we have more than 70 customers that we have been doing continuous business with for 10+ years. Core to our strategy is a focus on continuous innovation.

We are trained problem solvers. We are a learning organization with a relentless curiosity on how to innovate and improve our operations. We have hired the best in the business and are creating training programs to share their knowledge. With that, we realized nearly 30% of our 2023 revenue from products launched in the previous four years. We target this innovation on larger-sized opportunities with long-term potential. The innovation comes from both design engineering and process engineering, allowing us to design and manufacture world-class components and solutions using the latest process technologies. With that, I'll turn it over to Mike.

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Thank you, Bill. Since we emerged from COVID in 2021, we have demonstrated strong revenue growth and gross margin improvements, completing 2023 with revenue of $41.2 million, 29% improvement over the prior year, and margins of 43%. You may have seen that last night we released Q1 2024 results, with revenues of $11.2 million, 19% growth over Q1 of the prior year, and gross margin improving to 43%. Adjusted EBITDA has shown improvements, similar improvements, finishing 2023 at 19% of revenues, and Q1 2024 having Adjusted EBITDA reaching 20%. Backlog finished 2023 at $47.8 million, a 4% improvement over the prior year, while Q1 backlog was $46.1 million, a slight improvement over the prior year.

The slight decline in quarter-over-quarter backlog was largely due to increased Q1 revenue and timing of large blanket orders. We would like to use today's meeting to provide insight into our overall 2024 outlook. We expect to continue to see revenue growth, with total revenues coming in between $43 million and $45 million. Gross margins should have continued improvement, finishing the year in the 42%-44% range. Adjusted EBITDA should show slight improvement to 19%-21%. Finally, although it may vary from quarter to quarter, we expect again to have a book-to-bill ratio of greater than one for the year, finishing the year with total backlog between $49 million and $50 million.

With all that said, these are general guidelines, general guidance based on the dynamics we see at this point, and are not intended to be used for investment purposes, but rather intended to help investors understand the underlying fundamentals trends we see. We do not offer specific guidance. Investors must make their own decisions. As you've heard today, MtronPTI has an innovation, a strong product pipeline, strong fundamentals, and growing wins at blue-chip customers in diversified markets. We have a history of mergers and acquisitions with PTI, Champion, and most recently, Trilithic. Our global footprint, including low-cost manufacturing Noida facility in India, gives us a competitive advantage. We believe we are positioned to continue organic growth and strong backlog and continuous product line expansion.

We continue to work hard to drive efficiencies throughout the organization by leveraging our India operation, making key investments in talent and equipment to improve yields and automate selected processes. We are acquisition-oriented, with a focus on companies or products that provide synergistic products, increase technical capabilities, and/or access to new and growing markets. I would now like to open the floor to any questions. I think questions will be entered into the chat. Do you see any questions? We have one today. Questions for, Yes?

Alex Hantman
Equity Research Analyst, Sidoti & Company

Oh, yes. Hi, Alex Hantman with, Sidoti & Company.

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Yeah.

Alex Hantman
Equity Research Analyst, Sidoti & Company

Thanks. Nice to meet you. Thank you for the wonderful presentation. I had a couple of questions. You know, I noticed that the gross margins have grown significantly over the years, and your guidance shows, you know, meaningful continued improvements. Can you talk about some of the ways in which you've been driving those and some of the differences or similarities in which you might drive them going forward?

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Sure. I think, if you looked at our first quarter of last year as comparison to the first quarter of this year, there was a dramatic difference. That was heavily due to product mix. If you recall, the first quarter of last year, there was a product line that we had obsoleted that had last time bought, was a relatively low-margin product that we've eliminated from our product offering. That being said, moving forward, we see continued opportunity for continued improvement, and we're doing it through automating our processes, taking advantage of our India facility. As we develop new products, we're focusing on developing products that we can bring to market with slightly higher margins.

Alex Hantman
Equity Research Analyst, Sidoti & Company

Thank you. Very helpful. I noticed on the customer section, in the space section, I’m not sure if SpaceX happens to be a third customer, but I’m just curious how you think about them and Starlink. Are they a potential customer, a development partner, or are they competitors?

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

Well, SpaceX is an interesting company that we really can't say a whole lot about because of the NDA we signed with. W e'll put that out there, and so they are certainly a target customer for us.

Alex Hantman
Equity Research Analyst, Sidoti & Company

Yeah, I know they, they do some of the field bandwidth solutions, too, so between the space. Last question for me, maybe just zooming out. I know you've spoken about some of the fragmented natures of the competitive market. Can you talk about, you know, how you're thinking about roll-up and consolidation opportunities, these things?

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Sure. You know, I think we're looking at it from really the idea of adding engineering capability. That's key for us in expanding into new markets that we don't have a strong position in today, particularly markets where we see the ability to have very sticky wins and where people value what we do. E ngineering-oriented markets. C ompanies that offer products and solutions in that space would definitely be part of the target.

Alex Hantman
Equity Research Analyst, Sidoti & Company

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Thank you, Alex.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

Several questions on the chat. First, from Josh, "Is your estimate of future backlog predicated on continued unrest in the Middle East, or do you anticipate these figures irrespective of those challenges?

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Well, do you have any comments on that?

William Drafts
President, MtronPTI

Well, certainly the global situation, you have a lot of unrest in different parts of the world, is driving a lot of defense spending. W e're very well positioned within the defense market, whether it's in the communications, electronic warfare, or guided weapon market space. I t's certainly presenting some very near, very near-term opportunities for us. W hen we look at the 2025 budget, it certainly should present us more opportunities there as well.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

The question, "Your top line and backlog has continued to grow while the broader passive electronic components market has slowed down from destocking trends, post-stocking and then supply chain challenges and defense budget delays. What are you doing differently that has enabled recent market opportunities?

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

I think the big difference there is that, you know, what we do is largely custom products. T hese are not products that typically get stocked into a distribution and sit on the shelf. W e didn't fall into any of that. Our products are generally consumed as we ship.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

Another question, a question on the revenue guidance. Suggest revenue to be flattish sequentially, is it a big concern?

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

It's really what we see today based on our backlog, and what we see in the market. I think it's a number we feel comfortable with.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

A question related to utilization. What's the current utilization that you currently have, and will you need to expand?

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

We have a fair amount of capacity available to us within all of our locations. We only operate on one shift, so we have the ability to go to multiple shifts, as needed. W e don't see a need for significant expansion in capacity.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

One question currently, new defense companies making drone technologies, do you have an opportunity to become a supplier to these companies?

William Drafts
President, MtronPTI

Absolutely. Yeah, we do, and we are. Y ou know, they're, again, they're customers with, you know, pretty significant outlooks, right? B ecause they're not really fully established in the market space yet, it's hard to really put too many eggs in your basket in terms of, or their basket, in terms of. W e're doing engineering work, but we're not putting, you know, all of that in your forecast, because there's really not a proven, you know, relationship, and we're gonna really see all that, all that booking and, and then eventually revenue. Y eah, there's certainly some very interesting companies, both on the space side as well as on the EW and radar side, that are very interesting to us, and we're actively engaged in our breaking process.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

Other questions currently in the chat?

Speaker 5

I have a question up here on the screen. You mentioned expanding into new end markets and building out engineering capabilities. What would be on your wish list, thinking about end markets? Are there any new end markets that we wish we were in, that we're not in today? T hen, as we think about products, are those mostly within filters and oscillators, or are there new product segments that we'd like to be in?

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Markets that we would be looking at might be the medical market, as an example. In terms of products, certainly growing our capability within both the oscillator and filter space would be an area, but then also in adjacent spaces. When we look at our solutions product offering, we are incorporating other capabilities into that that sometimes we need to buy. W e'd be looking to bring some of that in-house as well.

Speaker 5

Thanks, that's helpful. B y the way, phenomenal presentation, definitely appreciate it, especially the upfront description of all the different products. I was, have tinkered with these in seventh grade on the PCB board, but it's been a while.

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

All right, well, thank you.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

Another question in the chat. How much of your revenue is derived from components versus solutions? Do you have a target? W hat kind of impact could that have on the margins?

Michael Ferrantino
CEO, MtronPTI

Sure. Well, solutions right now are the newest product segment, so they, they make up a relatively small portion of our revenue. However, it is an area where we see significant growth potential. Margins in solutions should be an improvement. We target higher margins with those, as, as we bring those into production. All right, well, I'd like to thank everybody for attending. Really appreciate your interest in us, and we hope to see you at an upcoming event. We will be presenting at the IDEAS Conference here in New York City in June, as well as the Sidoti MicroCap Conference, which will be a virtual conference in August. Thank you all for your attendance.

Paul Dechen
SVP of Sales, MtronPTI

Thank you.

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