EMGS shares dive after profit warning

Seasonal slowdown: EMGS warns sales will fall year-on-year in fourth quarter

Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has seen its stock drop by more than 12% after warning its fourth quarter results would show an $8 million shortfall in sales due to a higher-than-expected seasonal slowdown.

EMGS shares were trading down 12.59% at Nkr 11.80 ($2.10) on Monday afternoon in Oslo.

The company said earlier on Monday it now expected to book $44 million in revenues for the three-month period, down from $57.8 million in the year-ago period.

EMGS remained upbeat, however, expecting to catch up on the lost revenues in the current quarter.

"Although we are disappointed that sales in the fourth quarter came in short of our expectations, we see this purely as a timing issue and expect to book the shortfall in the first quarter,” commented chief…

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