Company: KVHI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001007587-25-000003
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Company: KVH INDUSTRIES INC \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 172
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5 million in 2023. The decrease in costs of sales was driven by a $5.4 million decrease in costs of service sales and a $10.5 million decrease in costs of product sales. As a percentage of net sales, costs of sales were 69% and 71% for 2024 and 2023, respectively.

Our costs of service sales consist primarily of satellite service capacity, depreciation, service network overhead expense associated with our VSAT Broadband network infrastructure, direct network service labor, product installation costs, media distribution costs, and service repair materials. For 2024, costs of service sales decreased by $5.4 million, or 8%, to $60.0 million from $65.4 million in 2023. Costs of service sales decreased primarily due to a $5.5 million decrease in airtime costs of service sales. As a percentage of service sales, costs of service sales were 62% and 57% for 2024 and 2023, respectively. During the second quarter of 2024, we purchased from Starlink access to a large block of data at favorable rates. As a result of this purchase, our gross margin percentage on Starlink airtime services improved. The increase in gross margin on Starlink airtime services was higher than previously anticipated, but we may be unable to maintain this higher gross margin percentage in future periods. Despite this higher gross margin on Starlink airtime services, the overall gross margin on service sales was negatively impacted by fixed costs associated with the VSAT Broadband network.

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Our costs of product sales consist primarily of materials, manufacturing overhead, and direct labor used to produce our products. For 2024, costs of product sales decreased by $10.5 million, or 36%, to $18.6 million from $29.1 million in 2023, primarily due to an $8.7 million decrease in various manufacturing and other unabsorbed expenses, a $3.6 million decrease in excess purchase order obligations, a $1.5 million decrease in TracVision cost of product sales, a $0.9 million decrease in VSAT Broadband cost of product sales and a $0.3 million decrease in accessory cost of product sales, partially offset by a $4.5 million increase in LEO cost of product sales and a $0.4 million increase in CommBox Edge cost of product sales. The decrease in manufacturing and other unabsorbed costs was primarily due