Earnings call transcript: American Shared Hospital Services misses Q3 2025 forecasts

American Shared Hospital Services (AMS) reported disappointing Q3 2025 earnings, with a significant miss on earnings per share (EPS) forecasts. The company reported an EPS of $0, falling short of the $0.04 forecast, marking a 100% negative surprise. Despite this, AMS saw a 2.5% increase in revenue year-over-year to $7.2 million. In pre-market trading, AMS shares rose by 8.17%, reaching $2.25, reflecting investor optimism about the company’s operational improvements and strategic initiatives. According to InvestingPro data, AMS is currently trading at $2.22, significantly below its 52-week high of $3.59, with a year-to-date decline of 34.8%.

Key Takeaways

• AMS reported a net loss of $55,000 in Q3 2025 but improved from a $207,000 loss in Q3 2024.
• Revenue increased by 2.5% year-over-year, driven by international expansion and new treatment centers.
• The stock price rose 8.17% in pre-market trading despite the EPS miss.
• The company launched a new radiation therapy center in Puebla, Mexico, contributing to significant revenue growth.

Company Performance

American Shared Hospital Services showed solid performance in Q3 2025, with a 2.5% increase in total revenue compared to the same period last year. The company has made strides in improving operational efficiency, transitioning from medical equipment leasing to direct patient care services, which now account for 56% of total revenue. This shift has led to a 92% improvement in operating loss, highlighting the company’s focus on strategic growth and operational excellence.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $7.2 million, up 2.5% from Q3 2024.
• Adjusted EBITDA: $1.9 million, a 42% increase year-over-year.
• Gross margins: Improved to 22.1%, a 60% increase year-over-year.
• Net loss: Narrowed to $55,000 from $207,000 in Q3 2024.

Earnings vs. Forecast

AMS reported an EPS of $0, missing the forecasted $0.04 by a substantial margin. This represents a 100% negative surprise, suggesting challenges in meeting earnings expectations despite revenue growth. Historically, AMS has shown variability in meeting EPS forecasts, and this quarter’s miss is notably significant compared to previous quarters.

Market Reaction

Despite the earnings miss, AMS shares rose by 8.17% in pre-market trading, reaching $2.25. This upward movement suggests that investors are optimistic about the company’s strategic initiatives and operational improvements. The stock is trading closer to its 52-week low of $2.01, indicating potential for recovery as AMS continues to execute its growth strategy.

Outlook & Guidance

AMS remains confident in its long-term growth strategy, focusing on expanding treatment volumes and international centers. The company plans to open its fourth international center in Guadalajara, Mexico, by Q2 2026 and continue developing facilities in Rhode Island. Forward guidance indicates expected growth in treatment volumes for Q4 2025, aligning with the company’s strategic goals.

Executive Commentary

CEO Gary Delanois expressed confidence in the company’s ability to navigate short-term fluctuations, stating, "We are positioned to weather short-term fluctuations, and we remain focused on current operations and new business developments." Executive Chairman Ray Stachowiak emphasized the company’s long-term growth strategy, noting, "We have set the course for long-term outperformance as we execute on our growth strategy and work towards building significant shareholder value."

Risks and Challenges

• Continued pressure on EPS performance could affect investor confidence.
• Expansion into new markets such as Mexico and Rhode Island carries operational and regulatory risks.
• Macroeconomic conditions and currency fluctuations might impact international revenue streams.
• Competitive pressures from other healthcare service providers could affect market share.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts raised concerns about AMS’s low stock valuation, despite positive operational results. Management acknowledged the need for increased investor outreach and communication to address these concerns and improve visibility in the market.

Full transcript - American Shared Hospital Srvcs (AMS) Q3 2025:

Conference Operator: Good day and welcome to the American Shared Hospital Services Third Quarter 2025 earnings conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kieran Smith from PCG Advisory. Please go ahead.

Kieran Smith, PCG Advisory Representative, PCG Advisory: Thank you, Operator, and thank you, everyone, for joining us today. AMS’s third quarter 2025 earnings press release was issued today before the market opened. If you need a copy, it can be accessed on the company’s website at www.ashs.com at press releases under the investors tab. Before turning the call over to management, I would like to make the following remarks concerning forward-looking statements. Please note that various remarks that may be made on this conference call about future expectations, plans, and prospects for the company constitute forward-looking statements for the purposes of safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may vary materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed in the company’s filings with the SEC.

This includes the company’s quarterly report on Form 10Q for the three-month period ended June 30, 2025, and the annual report on Form 10K for the year ended December 31, 2024. The company assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this conference call. Before I turn the call over to management, I’d like to remind everyone about our Q&A policy, where we provide each participant the time to ask one question and one follow-up. As always, we’ll be happy to take additional questions offline at any time. With that, I’d now like to turn the call over to Ray Stachowiak, Executive Chairman. Ray, please go ahead.

Ray Stachowiak, Executive Chairman, American Shared Hospital Services: Thank you, Kieran, and good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us today for our Third Quarter 2025 earnings conference call. I’ll begin with some opening remarks, then turn the call over to Gary Delanois, our CEO, for additional details, followed by Scott Frech, our CFO, for a financial review of our Third Quarter and first nine months of 2025 results. Following our prepared remarks, we’ll open the call for questions. I’m pleased to report Third Quarter and nine-month 2025 revenue increases, respectively, which were primarily driven by increased direct patient services revenue as our new physicians in Rhode Island start to ramp up our values. I’m also happy that we continue to realize improved margins and we remain diligent and focused on operational efficiencies. We are continuing to see the benefit from our transition from a medical equipment leasing focus to a more patient-centric service model.

I’m happy to see our diversified model is providing clear benefits, and we look forward to the remainder of 2025 and 2026. We remain focused on building long-term shareholder value and a continuation of our historical trend of consecutive years of significant revenue growth and improved margins. As with many small growth businesses, there will be normal fluctuations quarter over quarter, but over the medium to longer term, we’re primed to continue our long-term track record. As we continue to execute on our strategic initiatives and upcoming milestones, I believe this will positively benefit our long-term investors. We have set the course for long-term outperformance as we execute on our growth strategy and work towards building significant shareholder value.

Now I’ll hand the call over to Gary and Scott, who will walk you through our overall business, quarterly and year-to-date financial results, and our business development pipeline that provides for exciting strategic growth opportunities. With that, Gary, please proceed.

Gary Delanois, CEO, American Shared Hospital Services: Thanks, Ray, and good afternoon, everyone. This is an exciting time for the company, and I am very enthused by our near and longer-term growth opportunities. Our business growth strategy is solid, and I’m excited as we continue to execute our business plan. For this past quarter, we saw a 2.5% year-over-year revenue growth, and year-to-date revenues are up 5.6% from last year at this time. I am pleased to share that we saw significant growth from our new radiation therapy treatment center in Puebla, Mexico, which showed a 263% annual revenue growth. It was also great to see an almost 17% year-over-year increase in Gamma Knife revenue. Our continuing transition from equipment leasing to direct patient care services is of particular note, where revenue from direct patient care services made up 56% of our total revenue for the third quarter.

I am also very happy to report that our gross margins increased almost 16% and our operating loss narrowed with a 92% improvement as we remain focused on operational efficiencies. As we continue to execute on revenue growth initiatives, we also remain focused on improving profitability. Our third quarter 2025 adjusted EBITDA came in at $1.9 million compared to $1.3 million in the third quarter of 2024, a 42% increase. We remain diligent in controlling our costs and are primed for growth as treatment volumes, particularly in Rhode Island, continue to increase. We continue to capitalize on operating efficiencies and growing the business, and while we do expect to see continuing quarterly improvement in treatment volumes, I am energized by the growth we have been seeing in overall business and with our business development initiatives that we have in motion.

I am also excited about the benefits from our acquisition of the three Rhode Island cancer treatment centers and our newer one in Puebla, Mexico. At the Rhode Island centers, our new radiation oncologists are seeing new patient consultations at our three centers where volumes have recovered back to historical levels, and we expect to see additional growth in the fourth quarter. Having the right team in place is a critical element for growing our market share to propel future growth. I remain confident that we will see steady growth in treatment volumes through continued physician engagement with the healthcare community and particularly with our health system joint venture partners, Care New England and Prospect CharterCare.

We also remain focused on further optimizing our equipment leasing segment by working closely with our health system customers to increase greater community awareness among referring physicians to drive increased utilization of their Gamma Knife systems, which is recognized as the gold standard for stereotactic radiosurgery. Our international business segment represents another large growth opportunity where we expect continued momentum. We have the only Gamma Knife centers in Peru and Ecuador. At our third international center in Puebla, Mexico, we are treating cancer patients for a full range of cancer diagnoses with the most advanced radiation therapy treatment capabilities available in our catchment area. We’re also excited about the opening of our fourth international center, a Gamma Knife center in Guadalajara, Mexico, where we expect to start treating patients and generating revenue in the second quarter of 2026.

This will be the only S3 Gamma Knife in a country of 130 million people and not only provides a major benefit to patients in Mexico, it also clearly represents an untapped growth engine for us. Over the months and years ahead, we expect stronger international growth from additional treatment volume in Ecuador, strong volume from our newly upgraded center in Peru, and our two new centers in Guadalajara and Puebla, Mexico. We also continue to expand our footprint in Rhode Island beyond our three existing radiation therapy treatment centers, which were our first direct patient care cancer treatment centers in the U.S. As we have discussed, we were granted a certificate of need or CON to construct and operate a fourth radiation therapy center in Bristol, Rhode Island, where permitting is underway.

We also officially obtained a CON this past December to construct and operate the first proton beam radiation therapy center in the state of Rhode Island, where we are making progress on securing land and starting the permitting process. These two new facilities represent major growth opportunities for the company, and we look forward to providing additional updates as they progress. In closing, we are extremely confident in our overall business plan. We are positioned to weather short-term fluctuations, and we remain focused on current operations and new business developments. I have great confidence in the strategies we have in place, our management team, and the prospects for long-term growth. Lastly, our solid track record of long-term revenue growth and improved margins together with our balance sheet gives me great confidence that we will accomplish these initiatives in the coming years.

With that, I’ll turn the call over to Scott Frech, our CFO, for a financial review.

Scott Frech, CFO, American Shared Hospital Services: Thank you, Gary, and good afternoon, everyone. I’ll start with an overview of our third quarter results, followed by the year-to-date, nine-month results, and then we open the call for Q&A. For the third quarter ended September 30, 2025, total revenue increased 2.5% to $7.2 million compared to $7 million in Q3, 2024. For Q3, 2025, revenue from our direct patient services segment increased 9.4% to $4 million compared to Q3, 2024. This growth was primarily driven by increased procedures at the new facility in Puebla, Mexico, where we launched operations last year. Although off of a small base, revenues grew by 263%. Clearly, we are off to a great start, and it also exemplifies the powerful growth these centers represent. Revenue from the medical equipment leasing segment decreased to $3.1 million from $3.3 million in Q3, 2024 due to lower proton beam radiation therapy, or PBRT, volumes.

Gamma Knife revenue increased 16% year-over-year to $2.1 million for Q3, 2025, and the number of Gamma Knife procedures in Q3, 2025 was 231, up from 218 in Q3, 2024. Revenue from proton beam radiation therapy, PBRT, increased to $2.1 million in Q3, 2025, a 10.8% increase from the second quarter of 2025. Total proton therapy fractions for the third quarter of 2025 were 1,150, an 8.1% decrease from the third quarter of 2024. This decrease was primarily due to normal cyclical fluctuations. Revenue from linear accelerator, or LINAC, systems was up 15.9% from Q2, 2025 to $2.9 million for Q3, 2025, and up 51.2% compared to the third quarter of 2024 due to the launch of operations in Puebla, Mexico, and being fully staffed with radiation oncologists in our Rhode Island operations.

Our gross margins for Q3, 2025, improved to 22.1% with an increase of 60% year-over-year to $1.6 million, primarily due to higher treatment volumes. Q3, 2025, operating income dramatically improved to a loss of $344,000 compared to a loss of $889,000 in the third quarter of 2024. Net losses attributable to American Shared Hospital Services for Q3, 2025 improved significantly to $55,000, or $0.00 per diluted share compared to a net loss of $207,000 in Q3, 2024, or $0.03 per share. Adjusted EBITDA, our non-GAAP financial measure, increased 41% to $1.9 million for Q3, 2025 compared to $1.4 million in Q3, 2024. Now I’ll review our nine-month results. For the first nine months of 2025, total revenue increased 5.6% to $20.4 million compared to $19.3 million in the first nine months of 2024.

Revenue from our direct patient care services segment increased 36.5% year-over-year to $10.7 million for the first nine months of 2025, compared to $7.8 million in the first nine months of 2024. This significant growth is primarily driven by revenues from the Rhode Island radiation therapy operations and the new operations in Puebla, Mexico, in the second half of 2024. Revenue from the equipment leasing segment decreased to $9.7 million from $11.5 million in the first nine months of 2024. Gamma Knife revenue declined 4.2% to $6.8 million for the first nine months of 2025, compared to $7.1 million in the first nine months of 2024. The number of Gamma Knife procedures in the first nine months of 2025 was 703, compared to 831 procedures in the first nine months of 2024.

This decline was primarily due to the expiration of three customer contracts since the fourth quarter of 2024 and lower PBRT volumes. Revenue from PBRT decreased 23% to $5.7 million in the first nine months of 2025, compared to $7.4 million in the first nine months of 2024. Total proton therapy fractions for Q3, 2025 were 3,095, an 18% decrease from 3,764 fractions in the first nine months of 2024. This decline was primarily due to normal cyclical fluctuations. Revenue from the linear accelerator, or LINAC, systems was $9.7 million for the first nine months of 2025, compared to $4.8 million in the first nine months of 2024 due to the acquisition of the Rhode Island radiation therapy operations and launch of operations in Puebla, Mexico.

Our gross margins for the first nine months of 2025 improved 20.4% to $4.2 million, compared to $6 million in the first nine months of 2024. This decline in gross margin reflects lower volumes and increased operating costs driven by the shift to direct patient services, which have lower margins compared to the leasing segment. For the first nine months of 2025, operating loss was $2.2 million, compared to a loss of $975,000 in the first nine months of 2024. Net loss attributed to American Shared Hospital Services for the first nine months of 2025 was $922,000, or $0.14 per diluted share, compared to net income of $3.5 million, or $0.54 per diluted share the first nine months of 2024. This was primarily due to the $3.9 million bargain purchase gain generated from the Rhode Island acquisition and net income earned from Rhode Island facilities acquired.

Adjusted EBITDA, our non-GAAP financial measure, was $4.6 million for the first nine months of 2025, compared to $5.1 million in the first nine months of 2024. Now we’ll look at our balance sheet. We entered Q3 2025 with a strong financial position supported by our strong balance sheet. As of September 30, 2025, cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash, stood at $5.1 million, compared with $11 million at December 31, 2024. This decline includes $7.5 million spent on capital expenditures for Peru, Bristol, Rhode Island, and Northwestchester locations. Shareholders’ equity, including non-controlling interest, was $24.6 million, or $3.78 per outstanding share, compared to $25.2 million, or $3.92 per outstanding share at December 31, 2024. Fully diluted weighted average common shares outstanding were 6,856,000 for Q3 2025, and 6,482,000 for Q3 2024. This concludes the final part of our presentation. Thank you again for joining us today.

We look forward to updating our progress in the quarters ahead. We now like to turn the call back to the operator and open it up for questions.

Conference Operator: We will now begin the question-and-answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touch-tone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw the question, please press star then two. Please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. You may rejoin the queue if needed. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question comes from Tony Kamin with Eastwood Partners. Please go ahead.

Tony Kamin, Analyst, Eastwood Partners: Thank you. Ray and Gary, congratulations. It’s really encouraging to see the execution and the integration of Rhode Island really starting to work. As you’ve said, Ray, with kind of the long-term vision you’ve had, you can now start to see it really where it’s going to go. I guess, with your pipeline seeming so strong with real projects, and I would guess even more projects or more early-stage stuff you haven’t talked about, I would imagine the pipeline is strong. The company’s doing well. My question is that the shareholders are not doing well. I think the simplest way to sort of illustrate that, and my concern is, if I annualize, again, just to make it simple, the EBITDA this quarter, it’s about $8 million.

You came in this morning with a $13 million market cap, and that’s about one and a half times EBITDA to market cap, whereas I would think a company like this would trade much more likely conservatively at a 6, maybe up to a 12 multiple. Even if you look at the low end of that, at a 6 multiple of EBITDA to market cap, the shares would be over 8. Unfortunately, they’re still in the very low twos. My question is, now that you’ve got the company going, and I know you’ve been wanting to focus on that, isn’t it now time and in the interest of all shareholders and all constituencies of the company to do a little bit more in terms of investor outreach, going to conferences, etc.?

My last sort of comment on that is, I know, Ray, you’ve bought a lot of stock. It would be nice to see the rest of the board members make some significant purchases to demonstrate their alignment with the shareholders and their belief in the company. I think a lot of the long-term shareholders really believe in the company, and we want to see that stock start to reflect what seems to be an incredibly undervalued situation. Thank you.

Unidentified Speaker: Ray, you want to go ahead and start on that?

Scott Frech, CFO, American Shared Hospital Services: Yeah, sure. So Tony, thanks for joining us again today. Appreciate your question as well. Yeah, you do have to recognize we do have some debt in there when you talk about an $8 per share valuation. You do have some debt. We have attended some investor conferences, and with your opinion here, we probably should be doing more. It’s duly noted. I think management has been so focused on cost efficiencies, operational efficiencies, doing the blocking and tackling. We’d like to see our results speak for themselves, but sometimes that does not take place without a bullhorn at the investor conferences, so to speak. So Tony, very duly noted.

Tony Kamin, Analyst, Eastwood Partners: Great. Thank you.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Anthony Marches, private investor. Please go ahead.

Unidentified Speaker: Yeah. Hi, good morning, guys. Again, good results. Ray or anybody else, I’d love to hear your opinion as to why we’re trading at a 52-week low when everything that you’re talking about, the future, even today’s results, seem to be all positive. There seems to be a significant disconnect between market and what you guys are saying. I’m trying to understand what’s your opinion as to why that’s the case. Why is it that people don’t want to—I don’t want to use the word acknowledge, but why don’t people want to take into account what you’ve been doing relative to the market valuation?

Scott Frech, CFO, American Shared Hospital Services: Yeah. I think a lot of it has to do with we’re so thinly traded, and we got such little exposure. It kind of goes back to Tony’s first question about increasing that exposure. Sure, I might ask you for your thoughts and opinions on this matter as our investor relations firm. We’ve tried a few things here and there. What I’m hearing very loud and clear here is we ought to be doing more outreach.

Unidentified Speaker: Yes. Thanks, Ray. Yeah, I echo those comments as well, Tony. I think getting the story out there, telling it more often, will definitely help increase the exposure for the overall company. I will also echo Ray’s comments. Getting the fundamentals down straight, sometimes it takes several quarters in a row. If you note, the last three quarters in a row have shown sequential improvement. It does take a little time for that to get on the radar. Management’s had their heads down nicely, focused on the operations of the business. I think now is a good time for them to be getting out there and increasing that exposure as well.

Conference Operator: Again, if you have a question, please press star then one. This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Gary Delanois for any closing remarks.

Gary Delanois, CEO, American Shared Hospital Services: Thank you, operator, and thank you, Tony and Anthony, for your questions. We’ll reflect on them, and thank you. Thank you all for joining us today. We’re at a key point in time as we execute on our growth strategy with large business development opportunities in our pipeline. We have the right team and the foundation in place and are acutely focused on building strong momentum as our growth strategy takes hold for the long term. We look forward to updating you on our progress as we drive further top-line growth, profitability, and long-term success. As always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. Thank you for being here today, and have a great one. Thank you, operator.

Conference Operator: The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today’s presentation. You may now disconnect.

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