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### Summary of Aeries Technology, Inc. (AERT) 10-K Report **Financial Performance:** - **Revenue:** $70.2 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, a 3% decrease from $72.5 million in the previous year. - **Net Income:** A net loss of $21.6 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, compared to a net income of $17.3 million in the previous year. - **Gross Profit:** $16.7 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, a 23% decrease from $21.6 million in the previous year. - **Operating Expenses:** Selling, general, and administrative expenses increased by 144% to $45.5 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, compared to $18.7 million in the previous year. **Strategic Overview:** - Aeries Technology is a global provider of professional and technology consulting services, specializing in the design, setup, and management of Global Capability Centers (GCCs) for clients. - The company focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), implementing process improvements, and recruiting talent in cost-effective geographies to deliver significant cost savings to clients. - Aeries' solutions are designed to provide a mix of deep vertical specialty, functional expertise, and digital systems and solutions offering end-to-end coverage for the entire GCC lifecycle to scale, optimize, and transform a client’s business operations. **Future Outlook:** - The company aims to accelerate its growth based on a multi-pronged approach, including deepening and expanding relationships with private equity firms, accelerating cross-selling, entering and aggressively expanding into the mid-market enterprise segment, new technology and innovation, growing with aligned partners and alliances, and growing inorganically. - Aeries Technology is committed to delivering transformative business solutions that drive operational efficiency, innovation, and strategic growth, to positively impact value creation for clients. **Risk Factors:** - The company faces several risk factors, including conditions that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern, intense competition, the failure to stand out, the inability to achieve anticipated growth, the business depending on a strong brand, client relationships, and corporate reputation, the business being heavily dependent upon international operations, foreign exchange and currency risks, difficulties as the company expands its operations into countries in which it has no prior operating experience, the company may acquire other companies, which may divert resources necessary to sustain its business, the management team has limited experience managing a public company, the failure to attract, hire, train, and retain sufficient numbers of skilled employees in a timely fashion, the failure to detect and deter criminal or fraudulent activities or other misconduct by employees, the company may need additional capital, and a failure by the company to raise additional capital on terms favorable to the company, or at all, could limit its ability to grow its business or enhance its service offerings. **Financial Condition:** - As of March 31, 2025, the company had a cash balance of $2.8 million with a net operating cash outflow of $1.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2025. - The company reported a net loss of $21.6 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025. - The shareholders’ equity as of March 31, 2025 also has a deficit of $6.1 million, and the company had a working capital deficit of $11.1 million as of March 31, 2025. **Market Position Changes:** - The company's top five clients accounted for 57% and 50% of its revenue for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2025, and March 31, 2024, respectively. - In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, the company had two clients, each contributing more than 10% of its revenue, which were 14% and 12% respectively. - In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, the company had two clients, each contributing more than 10% of its revenue, which were 21% and 12% respectively.