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Coda Octopus Group, Inc. Reports Audited Fiscal 2016 Financial Results

Coda Octopus Group, Inc. (CDOCD) today reported its audited financial results for its fiscal 2016 year, ended October 31, 2016. This reporting updates the Company’s preliminary unaudited fiscal 2016 financial results, which were reported on January 11, 2017.

CODA reported total revenue of approximately $21.118 million for the Current Year as compared to $19.234 million for the Prior Year ended October 31, 2015, an increase of 9.8%. The Company reported net income of approximately $4.930 million for the Current Year compared to $1.070 million for the Prior Year, an increase of 360.7%. Operating expenses for the Current Year were $7.114 million compared to $8.481 million for the Prior Year, a reduction of 16.1%.

The Company`s full financial results including its Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2016 is available at www.otcmarkets.com/stock/CDOCD/filings.

Annmarie Gayle, CODA’s CEO commented: “I am pleased to announce another excellent set of annual results for the Coda Octopus Group. This was despite a reduction of about 15 percent in the dollar value of our UK-based assets and sales, resulting from the depreciation of the British Pound against the Dollar since the UK voted to leave the European Union.”

“This is another significant mark in our progress to date and we believe this strong growth, combined with our recently announced reverse stock split and move to the OTCQX, strengthens the framework for increased shareholders` value.”

“We intend to continue to make progress geared towards increased shareholder value and will be introducing several new product offerings, both in our patented real-time 3D products and in additional product sets, over the next several months. In addition, our engineering services business is projecting another strong year of growth.”

About Coda Octopus Group, Inc.

Originally founded in 1994 as Coda Technologies, the Coda Octopus Group is now headquartered in Lakeland, Florida.

The Group consists of a Marine Products business located in Lakeland, Florida, Edinburgh, Scotland, Perth, Australia, and Bergen, Norway, and engineering businesses, Coda Octopus Colmek in Salt Lake City, Utah and Coda Octopus Martech in Weymouth, England. Each of the Group companies are technology innovators with a particularly high level of sonar expertise. The Group has facilities in Florida, Utah, the UK, Australia, and Norway.

Alongside providing bespoke engineering and development for defense applications one of the Group's key products is the patented Coda Echoscope® - the first real time 3D sub-sea sonar which is used in oil and gas, underwater construction, search and rescue operations and port and harbor security and constructions. The top end software which runs on the Echoscope® (Underwater Survey Explorer) is also proprietary to Coda Octopus. The Echoscope® is also at the heart of the Underwater Inspection System which is being adopted for port and harbor security, and other applications globally. We have a number of products which are based on our real time 3D technology (Echoscope®, Underwater Inspection System and Dimension® (the latter being a forward looking real time sonar targeted at ROV applications)).

With this patented revolutionizing sub-sea visualization capability, and the existing systems integration skills within Coda Octopus Colmek, Inc. and Coda Octopus Martech Ltd., the Coda Octopus Group believes it can become a world leading integrated sonar technology supplier.

For further information, please visit http://www.codaoctopusgroup.com or contact Coda Octopus at info@codaoctopusgroup.com.

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