Margins continued to expand; revenue lumpiness likely to persist in 2025. Revenue in 1Q 2025 increased 2.9% year-over year to $7.05 million from $6.85 million, while gross profit increased to $4.46 million from $3.88 million, with gross margin expanding to 63.3% versus 55.3% in 1Q 2024. Revenue in 1Q only slightly exceeded our $6.99 million estimate, due mainly to temporary order delays of a major monitoring contract in Europe (Romania). Non-GAAP EPS in 1Q 2025 was $1.50, due to both stronger gross and operating margins and a favorable confluence of one-time events.
Strong momentum in the U.S. market continues. Since 2Q of 2024, SuperCom has secured more than 20 new electronic monitoring (EM) contracts in the U.S., including entry into seven new states—Ohio, Arizona, Alabama, South Dakota, New York,West Virginia, and Maryland. The Company also expanded its footprint in key existing markets in California and Kentucky, primarily focused on domestic violence monitoring. Some of these wins displaced incumbent providers.
New contracts in the U.S. market. SuperCom was awarded new monitoring contracts in Utah, Kentucky, Ohio, and Arizona. Since mid-2024, there have been eight new state market entries, with additional wins currently in progress. We believe that the recent gross margin expansion is partly the result of a higher U.S. market presence, where network security requirements are less cumbersome and allow for greater contribution of higher-margin software to the revenue mix.
Balance sheet de-levering. The Company has been reducing its outstanding debt since the end of 2023, through premium-priced debt-to-equity conversions, including another significant reduction in its long-term debt in 1Q 2025. Long-term debt currently stands at $24.2 million versus $29.7 million at YE’24. The Company raised $16 million in new capital in 1Q 2025 and had $17.13 million of cash at quarter-end.
Changes to our estimates. We are again trimming slightly our 2025 revenue estimates in our model, from $29.77 million to $26.87 million, primarily the result of some order push outs in Europe (Romania) that have occurred in 4Q 2024 and have continued into 1Q2025. While our conversations with management lead us to believe that these orders are intact and will be recognized later in 2025, we prefer to increase our assumptions only after near-term visibility improves. At the same time, we have expanded our 2025 gross margin assumptions from 47.1% to 55.7%. While we do not see the record 1Q margin levels continuing through the year, recent product mix shifts have been very favorable to margins.
SuperCom’s revenue mix is improving and could lead to further gross margin expansion over 2024 levels. Although the record gross margin in 1Q 2025 of 63.3% was likely an anomaly impacted favorably be first-time U.S. system deployments, we see a generally positive secular trend emerging: The higher software content of next-generation platforms, we believe, is likely to expand gross margin above 45% in 2025 and contribute to improving earnings leverage over the next several quarters. Additionally, the increased software content of next-generaTon platforms, we believe, is likely to minimize any potential negative effect of import tariffs in the U.S. market.
SPCB shares remain attractive, we believe. Shares are currently trading at 9.5x our revised FY26 non-GAAP EPS estimate of $0.76 (previously $0.42). Our $10 price target assumes aP/E multiple of 13x our FY26 estimate. We anticipate further estimate increases in 2025 as revenue visibility improves.