XMTR Q2 2026 - Preliminary Earnings Alert
Event: Quartr Q2 2026 event
Retrieved: 2026-08-04T14:30:00Z
Comparison mode: aggressive
Scorecard contract: v1
Source status: release=available | financials=release document only | transcript=marked available, not yet read
Consensus scorecard
| Metric / basis |
Quartr actual |
API Ninjas consensus |
Beat/Miss |
Beat/Miss % |
| Revenue / total revenue |
$229.3m |
$215.2m |
Beat +$14.1m |
+6.5% |
| EPS / non-GAAP diluted |
$0.16 |
$0.1456 |
Beat +$0.0144 |
+9.9% |
Reported results and guidance
| Metric (GAAP unless noted) |
Q2 2026 |
Q2 2025 |
Change |
| Total revenue |
$229.3m |
$162.5m |
+41% |
| Marketplace revenue |
$215.4m |
$148.2m |
+45% |
| Services revenue |
$13.9m |
$14.3m |
−3% |
| Gross profit |
$87.2m |
$65.2m |
+34% |
| Gross margin |
38.0% |
40.1% |
−2.1pp |
| Marketplace gross margin |
34.7% |
35.4% |
−0.7pp |
| Services gross margin |
89.1% |
88.7% |
+0.4pp |
| Net loss attributable to common |
$(5.3)m |
$(26.4)m |
+80% |
| EPS, basic and diluted (GAAP) |
$(0.10) |
$(0.52) |
+81% |
| Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) |
$14.1m |
$3.9m |
+260% |
| Adjusted EBITDA margin (non-GAAP) |
6.2% |
2.4% |
+3.8pp |
| Non-GAAP net income |
$9.9m |
$1.1m |
+821% |
| Non-GAAP EPS, diluted |
$0.16 |
$0.02 |
+700% |
| Marketplace Active Buyers |
89,557 |
74,777 |
+20% |
| Accounts with LTM spend ≥$50,000 |
2,039 |
1,653 |
+23% |
| Cash, equivalents and marketable securities |
$517m |
— |
+$293m vs. 31 Mar 2026 |
Guidance issued with the release:
| Metric |
New guide |
Prior guide |
Prior-year actual |
| Q3 2026 revenue |
$234–236m |
— |
$180.7m (Q3 2025) |
| Q3 2026 adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) |
$16–17m |
— |
$6.1m (Q3 2025) |
| FY2026 revenue growth |
33–34% |
27–28% |
— |
| FY2026 adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) |
$60–62m |
— |
$18.5m (FY2025) |
- The Q3 revenue guide implies 30–31% total growth on roughly 33% marketplace growth; the full-year guide implies roughly 37% marketplace growth.
- Scorecard recap: revenue beat consensus by 6.5% ($229.3m vs. $215.2m) and non-GAAP diluted EPS beat by 9.9% ($0.16 vs. $0.1456).
Key bullish aspects
- Revenue growth accelerated to 41% total and 45% marketplace, which the CFO describes as the fourth consecutive quarter of acceleration.
- The full-year revenue growth outlook was raised materially, from 27–28% to 33–34%, and the full-year adjusted EBITDA guide of $60–62m compares with $18.5m delivered in FY2025.
- Adjusted EBITDA improved $10.2m year over year to $14.1m, with margin up 380bp to 6.2%, so growth is being paired with operating leverage rather than funded by it.
- Non-GAAP net income of $9.9m compares with $1.1m a year earlier, and the GAAP net loss narrowed 80% to $(5.3)m.
- Buyer network expansion is broad-based: Active Buyers up 20% and accounts spending at least $50,000 over the trailing twelve months up 23%, with 98% of revenue from existing accounts.
- The June equity offering ($248m net) plus a $50.0m Siemens private placement took cash and marketable securities to $517m, funding organic initiatives and tuck-in M&A without leverage.
Key bearish aspects
- Consolidated gross margin fell 2.1pp to 38.0%, because growth is concentrated in the lower-margin marketplace segment (34.7% margin) while high-margin services revenue shrank.
- Marketplace gross margin itself fell 0.7pp to 34.7%, so the mix shift is not the only pressure.
- Services revenue declined 3% year over year to $13.9m and is described only as "up slightly quarter-over-quarter"; services gross profit fell 3% to $12.4m.
- The company is still GAAP-loss-making, at $(5.3)m for the quarter and $(10.6)m for the first half.
- The Q3 revenue guide of $234–236m implies growth decelerating from 41% to 30–31%, a roughly 10-point step down from the quarter just reported.
- The equity offering raises the share count against which per-share results are measured; non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.16 already sits below non-GAAP basic EPS of $0.18.
Key uncertainties
- The gap between GAAP and non-GAAP results is wide ($(5.3)m loss versus $9.9m income); the release notes the non-GAAP net income definition was revised effective 1 January 2026 to exclude depreciation, with prior periods recast, so year-over-year non-GAAP comparisons run on a redefined basis.
- The release does not reconcile forward-looking adjusted EBITDA to GAAP net loss, citing variability in excluded items, so the guided $60–62m cannot be tied to a GAAP outcome from this document.
- How much of the marketplace gross-margin decline is deliberate pricing to win share versus supplier cost pressure is not addressed in the release.
- Whether the deceleration implied by the Q3 guide reflects conservatism or a genuine slowing of the marketplace ramp.
- Deployment of the $517m cash balance is described only as organic initiatives and "selective tuck-in M&A"; no targets, sizing, or timing are given.
Market context
- API Ninjas snapshot: $88.56 on NASDAQ, volume 183,429, retrieved 2026-08-04T14:11:02Z (10:11 a.m. ET, roughly 41 minutes into the regular session). This is a single intraday quote, not a complete session or reaction measurement.
Source limitations
- Every actual above comes from the Quartr release document; Quartr standardized financials for this event are not yet populated. Gross margin percentages for the consolidated line are calculated from the reported revenue and gross profit.
- API Ninjas supplied no actual or difference fields for this event, so the beat/miss is calculated locally as Quartr actual minus API Ninjas estimate. The API row carried no fiscal year or quarter, so the exact ticker-and-event-date match path was used.
- The consensus revenue figure ($215.2m) is close to the company's marketplace revenue ($215.4m); the provider's prior-year actual of $162.5m matches total revenue, confirming the consensus is stated on a total-revenue basis, which is the company-wide figure required by the source policy.
- The consensus EPS basis is inferred to be non-GAAP diluted from the provider's Q1 2026 actual ($0.12, matching the company's non-GAAP diluted figure rather than GAAP); aggressive mode selects non-GAAP diluted EPS regardless.
- Quartr marks a transcript as available for this event but it has not been read for this preliminary report; a post-call update will follow.
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