Aware Inc (AWRE) SEC Filing 10-Q Quarterly report for the period ending Saturday, September 30, 2017

Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Kevin Russell

Aware, Inc.
781-276-4000

Aware, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2017

Financial Results

BEDFORD, MASS. – October 24, 2017 –

Revenue for the third quarter of 2017 and 2016 was $5.9 million for both periods. Operating income in the third quarter of 2017 was $1.7 million compared to $2.3 million in the third quarter of 2016. The decrease in operating income was primarily due to: i) higher research and development expenses; and ii) lower patent related income from an unaffiliated third party.

Net income in the third quarter of 2017 was $1.2 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, which compares to $1.6 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, in the same period a year ago.

Revenue for the first nine months of 2017 was $13.0 million, a decrease of 26% compared to $17.6 million in the same nine month period last year. Operating income for the first nine months of 2017 was $2.3 million compared to $5.3 million in the same period last year. The decrease in revenue and operating income were primarily due to: i) a large biometrics software license sale to a U.S. government military customer in the second quarter of 2016 whereas there was no sale of that size in the first nine months of 2017, ii) higher imaging software revenue during the first nine months of 2016 from revenue amortization of a 2015 medical imaging software sale that was only partially offset by a large software license sale to a medical imaging customer in the first nine months of 2017, iii) no hardware sales in the first nine months of 2017; and iv) higher research and development expenses. The resulting decline in operating income was partially offset by: i) higher patent related income from an unaffiliated third party, ii) lower cost of software licenses; and iii) lower cost of hardware sales.

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