NOTE F - SEGMENT INFORMATION

9 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2013

Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

NOTE F – SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company operates under three reportable segments based on the geographic locations of its subsidiaries:

(1)   FEI-NY – operates out of New York and its operations consist principally of precision time and frequency control products used in three principal markets- communication satellites (both commercial and U.S. Government-funded); terrestrial cellular telephone or other ground-based telecommunication stations and other components and systems for the U.S. military.

(2)   Gillam-FEI - operates out of Belgium and France and primarily sells wireline synchronization and network management systems in non-U.S. markets.  All sales from Gillam-FEI to the United States are to other segments of the Company.

(3)   FEI-Zyfer – operates out of California and its products incorporate Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies into systems and subsystems for secure communications, both government and commercial, and other locator applications.  This segment also provides sales and support for the Company’s wireline telecommunications family of products, including US5G, which are sold in the United States market.

The FEI-NY segment also includes the operations of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, FEI-Elcom Tech (“FEI-Elcom”) and FEI-Asia.  FEI-Asia functions primarily as a manufacturing facility for the Company’s commercial product subsidiaries with minimal sales to outside customers.  FEI-Elcom, in addition to its own product line, provides design and technical support for the FEI-NY segment’s satellite business.

The Company’s Chief Executive Officer measures segment performance based on total revenues and profits generated by each geographic location rather than on the specific types of customers or end- users.  Consequently, the Company determined that the segments indicated above most appropriately reflect the way the Company’s management views the business.

The table below presents information about reported segments with reconciliation of segment amounts to consolidated amounts as reported in the statements of income or the balance sheet for each of the periods.  The January 31, 2012 amounts do not include FEI-Elcom (in thousands):

	Nine months						Three months
	Periods ended January 31,
	2013			2012			2013			2012
Revenues:
FEI-NY	$	38,211		$	33,050		$	14,076		$	11,075
Gillam-FEI		6,431			7,039			1,913			3,370
FEI-Zyfer		8,742			8,588			2,054			2,001
less intersegment revenues		(1,993	)		(2,235	)		(906	)		(998	)
Consolidated revenues	$	51,391		$	46,442		$	17,137		$	15,448
Operating income (loss):
FEI-NY	$	5,178		$	6,404		$	2,205		$	2,348
Gillam-FEI		(129	)		(244	)		(153	)		243
FEI-Zyfer		135			(230	)		(162	)		(472	)
Corporate		(335	)		(429	)		(140	)		(176	)
Consolidated operating income	$	4,849		$	5,501		$	1,750		$	1,943

	January 31, 2013			April 30, 2012
Identifiable assets:
FEI-NY (approximately $3.6 million in China)	$	54,293		$	50,234
Gillam-FEI (all in Belgium or France)		19,818			20,407
FEI-Zyfer		7,261			9,685
less intersegment balances		(15,157	)		(16,424	)
Corporate		42,065			42,325
Consolidated identifiable assets	$	108,280		$	106,227