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Note 20 - Business Segments
 12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Notes to Financial Statements  
Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

20. Business Segments 

 

The Company reports its financial results in two reportable business segments: Grid and Wind. In accordance with ASC 280, Segment Reporting, the Company has identified two operating segments. The Company's operating segments reflect the way in which internally-reported financial information is used to make decisions and allocate resources.

 

Through the Company’s power grid offerings, the Grid business segment enables electric utilities, industrial facilities, and renewable energy project developers to connect, transmit and distribute smarter, cleaner and better power through its transmission planning services, power electronics, and superconductor-based systems. The sales process is enabled by transmission planning services that allow it to identify power grid congestion, poor power quality and other risks, which helps the Company determine how its solutions can improve network performance. These services often lead to sales of grid interconnection solutions for wind farms and solar power plants, power quality systems, and transmission and distribution cable systems. The Company also sells ship protection products to the U.S. Navy through its Grid business segment.

 

Through the Company’s wind power offerings, the Wind business segment enables manufacturers to field highly competitive wind turbines through its advanced power electronics and control system products, engineered designs, and support services. The Company supplies advanced power electronics and control systems, licenses its highly engineered wind turbine designs, and provides extensive customer support services to wind turbine manufacturers. The Company’s design portfolio includes a broad range of drive trains and power ratings of 2 megawatts ("MWs") and higher. The Company provides a broad range of power electronics and software-based control systems that are highly integrated and designed for optimized performance, efficiency, and grid compatibility.

 

AMSC’s Chief Executive Officer Daniel McGahn is the chief operating decision maker. The chief operating decision maker uses segment operating income (loss) to allocate resources (including employees, property, and financial or capital resources) for each segment predominantly in the annual budget and forecasting process. The chief operating decision maker considers budget-to-actual variances on a monthly basis for segment operating income (loss) when making decisions about allocating capital and personnel to the segments. The chief operating decision maker also uses segment operating income or loss to assess the performance for each segment by comparing the results and return on assets of each segment with one another and in the compensation of certain employees.

 

The following tables (i) summarize total sales by segment and (ii) reconcile each segment's sales to their respective segment operating income, including segment operating expenses, for each of the years ended  March 31, 2025 and 2024 (in thousands):

 

  

Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2025

 
  

Grid

  

Wind

  

Unallocated

  

Total

 

Segment operating income:

                

Revenues

 $187,170  $35,648  $-  $222,818 
                 

Less (a)

                

Segment other operating expenses (b)

  185,358   31,856   6,681   223,895 

Segment operating income (loss)

 $1,812  $3,792  $(6,681) $(1,077)

(a) The significant expense categories and amounts align with the segment-level information that is regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker.

(b) Segment other operating expense includes cost of sales, research and development expense, selling general, and administrative expense, amortization of acquisition related intangibles, and gain/loss on contingent consideration.

 

  

Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2024

 
  

Grid

  

Wind

  

Unallocated

  

Total

 

Segment operating income:

                

Revenues

 $122,065  $23,574  $-  $145,639 
                 

Less (a)

                

Segment other operating expenses (b)

  128,974   23,125   4,908   157,007 

Segment operating income (loss)

 $(6,909) $449  $(4,908) $(11,368)

(a) The significant expense categories and amounts align with the segment-level information that is regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker.

(b) Segment other operating expense includes cost of sales, research and development expense, selling general, and administrative expense, amortization of acquisition related intangibles, and gain/loss on contingent consideration.

 

Unallocated corporate expenses consist of a loss on contingent consideration of $6.7 million in the fiscal year ended  March 31, 2025, and a loss on contingent consideration of $4.9 million in the fiscal year ended  March 31, 2024.

 

The reconciliation of segment operating loss to consolidated income (loss) before income taxes for the years ended  March 31, 2025 and 2024 is as follows (in thousands):

 

  

Fiscal Years Ended March 31,

 
  

2025

  

2024

 
         

Operating loss:

 $(1,077) $(11,368)

Interest income, net

  3,708   1,302 

Other expense

  (265)  (736)

Income (loss) before taxes

 $2,366  $(10,802)

 

Depreciation and amortization expense by segment for the years ended  March 31, 2025 and 2024 is as follows (in thousands):

 

  

Fiscal Years Ended March 31,

 
  

2025

  

2024

 

Grid

 $5,468  $4,408 

Wind

  92   87 

Total

 $5,560  $4,495 

 

 

Total assets for the two business segments as of  March 31, 2025 and  March 31, 2024 are as follows (in thousands):

 

  

March 31, 2025

  

March 31, 2024

 

Grid

 $211,520  $125,878 

Wind

  13,697   14,733 

Corporate assets

  85,304   92,160 

Total

 $310,521  $232,771 

 

The accounting policies of the business segments are the same as those for the consolidated Company. The Company’s business segments have been determined in accordance with the Company’s internal management structure, which is organized based on operating activities. The Company evaluates performance based upon several factors, of which the primary financial measures are segment revenues and segment operating loss. The disaggregated financial results of the segments reflect allocation of certain functional expense categories consistent with the basis and manner in which Company management internally disaggregates financial information for the purpose of assisting in making internal operating decisions.

 

Geographic information about property, plant and equipment associated with particular regions is as follows (in thousands):

 

  

March 31,

 
  

2025

  

2024

 

North America

 $37,426  $10,679 

Europe

  1,097   149 

Asia Pacific

  49   33 

Total

 $38,572  $10,861