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Samsung Wallet will support native stablecoins after the Galaxy Unpacked announcement, but the issuer, chain, and custody model remain undisclosed. The $408 million Dunamu investment and a pending South Korean digital asset law reveal the infrastructure play behind the headline.

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Samsung announced native stablecoin support for Samsung Wallet at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22, 2026, with a USDC mockup displayed on stage, though no partnership with Circle has been confirmed. Three Samsung affiliates paid $408 million for a combined 4% stake in Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit, purchasing 1.39 million shares from Kakao linked entities. Samsung SDS identified stablecoin infrastructure as its first collaboration priority with Dunamu during its second quarter 2026 earnings call on July 30. Samsung Wallet has nearly 19 million users in South Korea and operates across 61 countries, with 241 million Galaxy phones shipped in 2025. Neither the stablecoin issuer, blockchain network, custody model, launch date, nor eligible markets have been confirmed by Samsung. Samsung has spent seven years building a crypto footprint inside Galaxy phones. The blockchain keystore arrived with the Galaxy S10 in 2019, offering a hardware isolated vault for private keys. Ledger integration followed the same year. Coinbase came aboard in July 2025, giving 75 million United States Galaxy owners a direct path into crypto purchasing through Samsung Pay. By October 2025, Samsung Wallet users could access the Coinbase One membership program, with its zero trading fees and boosted staking rewards, without leaving the Samsung interface.

None of those steps changed how most people pay for groceries. A crypto wallet buried three menus deep inside a phone settings screen does not compete with a tap to pay terminal. Samsung appears to understand this distinction. At Galaxy Unpacked 2026 on July 22, product manager Lee Dinham said the company would embrace “new forms of digital value, including stablecoins” and described Samsung Wallet as “the foundation for an interconnected financial ecosystem across Galaxy devices and services.” The on stage mockup showed a USDC balance with send, receive, and add funds buttons.

The audience saw a direction, not a product. Samsung disclosed no issuer, no blockchain, no custody arrangement, no launch window, and no list of eligible countries. That gap between announcement and specification is where the real story lives, because Samsung is not simply adding another feature to a phone. It is assembling infrastructure, regulatory positioning, and distribution into a single strategy that could reshape how stablecoins reach ordinary consumers, or could stall at the mockup stage if the missing pieces do not come together.

What the Unpacked announcement actually said Lee Dinham’s remarks at Galaxy Unpacked covered two sentences of substance. Samsung Wallet would support stablecoins. Samsung intended to become “one of the first major mobile brands to bring native stablecoins to a smartphone, enabling fast and trusted digital value transfers.”

The demo showed a wallet interface labeled USDC with three action buttons. Samsung did not confirm a partnership with Circle, the issuer of USDC, and did not respond to press inquiries about the demo before publication of multiple news reports. Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, and CoinDesk each noted that Samsung had not answered their requests for comment on partner, chain, or timeline details.

Samsung promoted the figure of 800 million smartphones that would carry stablecoin features by default. That number is the company’s target for devices with Galaxy AI by end of 2026 and does not represent Samsung Wallet users, stablecoin eligible devices, or phones that will actually receive the feature at launch. The company’s own figures show nearly 19 million Samsung Wallet users in South Korea alone, but Samsung did not disclose global active wallet numbers or existing crypto user counts.

Alongside the stablecoin announcement, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Card, its first United States credit card, issued by Barclays on the Visa network. The card offers 5% cash rewards on Samsung direct purchases, 3% on Samsung Wallet purchases, 2% on streaming services, and 1% on everything else, with a $200 welcome bonus and no annual fee. The Galaxy Card and the stablecoin roadmap are separate products, but they share the same strategic objective: making Samsung Wallet the single financial hub for Galaxy owners.

JUST IN: Samsung Wallet to add native stablecoin support

A mockup at Galaxy Unpacked featured USDC though no launch date or chain has been confirmed pic.twitter.com/Rp2iiuTsqC

— crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) July 25, 2026 Samsung Wallet already carries crypto, and that context matters The stablecoin announcement did not arrive in isolation. Samsung has been layering crypto services into its mobile ecosystem since 2019, and each layer narrows the gap between blockchain assets and the tap to pay experience that consumers actually use.

The Samsung Blockchain Keystore launched with the Galaxy S10, using the Knox security platform to store private keys in a hardware isolated environment. The wallet supported Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron, with ERC and TRC token compatibility. In 2019, Samsung added support for Ledger Nano S and Nano X hardware wallets, allowing users to connect external cold storage directly to a Galaxy device.

These were enthusiast features. They did not integrate with Samsung Pay or the broader wallet experience. The Coinbase partnership in 2025 changed the integration model. Samsung Pay became a funding method inside the Coinbase app for users in the United States and Canada. By October 2025, Samsung Wallet offered direct Coinbase access to Galaxy users, including a promotional three month Coinbase One subscription and trading credits for first time crypto purchasers.

The progression matters because each step moved crypto closer to the interface that Samsung controls. It also taught Samsung what works and what does not in consumer crypto distribution. The 2019 keystore was a standalone feature. The 2025 Coinbase integration brought crypto into the Wallet app. The 2026 stablecoin plan, if executed as shown, would make a digital dollar balance native to the same interface where users store credit cards, boarding passes, and loyalty programs.

The $408 million Dunamu stake is the infrastructure half While the Unpacked stage showed a consumer interface, a parallel investment reveals Samsung’s infrastructure ambitions.

In May 2026, Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS, and Samsung Card agreed to acquire a combined 4% stake in Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, for 612.8 billion won, approximately $408 million. Samsung Securities purchased a 2% stake, while Samsung SDS and Samsung Card each acquired 1%. The shares came from Kakao linked entities, with the transaction set to close on June 19.

Each affiliate brought a distinct strategic interest to the deal. Samsung Securities plans to work with Dunamu on tokenized securities issuance, distribution, and digital asset services. This builds on earlier infrastructure work: Samsung SDS had already been selected to build South Korea’s tokenized securities system, giving the company direct experience with the blockchain rails that tokenized assets and stablecoins share. Samsung Card is exploring opportunities in digital payments, particularly around a potential won pegged stablecoin, and intends to integrate its payment network with Dunamu’s ecosystem through Samsung’s Monimo financial platform. Samsung SDS plans to combine its artificial intelligence, cloud, and cybersecurity capabilities with Dunamu’s blockchain operating expertise.

Joseph Goh, director and head of Asia Pacific at crypto investment banking firm Areta, told CoinDesk that “the wallet announcement secured distribution; SDS and Dunamu will secure the infrastructure beneath it.” He described the Dunamu investment as “the more telling half” of Samsung’s strategy, arguing that Samsung aims to build the infrastructure itself rather than rely on third party providers.

The Dunamu deal followed Hana Bank’s agreement in May to buy a 6.55% stake in the same company for approximately $670 million. The concentration of Korean financial institutions investing in Dunamu reflects a broader pattern: established firms are positioning themselves before South Korea’s digital asset regulatory framework takes final shape.

Samsung SDS names stablecoins as the first collaboration priority The clearest statement of intent came not from Galaxy Unpacked but from a corporate earnings call five days later.

On July 30, Samsung SDS president Lee Joon hee told analysts during the company’s second quarter earnings conference call that the Dunamu investment was made “to enter the digital asset infrastructure business rather than as a financial investment.” He said Samsung SDS had been discussing stablecoin infrastructure, AI powered next generation payments, and virtual asset financial system integration with Dunamu.

These comments, reported by crypto.news on July 31, marked the first time a Samsung executive publicly identified stablecoins as the specific focus of the Dunamu partnership. The earnings call also revealed that Samsung SDS reported 17% cloud revenue growth and a 75% increase in external cloud business during the second quarter, with plans to expand AI infrastructure from 110 megawatts to more than 800 megawatts by 2031.

Samsung SDS is the Samsung Group’s information technology services arm, not a consumer electronics division. Its involvement signals that Samsung views stablecoin infrastructure as an enterprise technology opportunity, not merely a phone feature. The company’s existing capabilities in cloud computing, AI, and cybersecurity could support backend systems for stablecoin issuance, custody, or settlement, though no specific product or architecture has been disclosed.

Separately, Samsung has been selective about external stablecoin ventures. Earlier in July, Samsung distanced itself from the OUSD stablecoin consortium proposed by Open Standard after being listed as one of more than 140 founding partners. A Samsung official told South Korean newspaper Chosun that the company had not held official consultations with Open Standard and did not know what role it was expected to play. Dunamu, Shinhan Bank, and K Bank also said they were still reviewing the proposal.

The regulatory window Samsung is trying to enter Samsung’s timing is deliberate. Both the United States and South Korea are implementing or drafting stablecoin frameworks, creating a regulatory environment where early positioning carries strategic value.

In the United States, President Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law on July 18, 2025, after the Senate passed it 68 to 30 and the House approved it 308 to 122. The law created the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoin issuers, with a staged effective date giving existing issuers two years to become compliant. By July 2028, non compliant stablecoins can no longer be offered to United States users.

The GENIUS Act provides regulatory clarity that Samsung needs before offering stablecoin balances to American Galaxy owners. A Samsung Wallet stablecoin feature in the United States would need to work with a GENIUS Act compliant issuer, a licensed custodian, and a blockchain settlement layer that meets the law’s requirements for reserve transparency and redemption rights. The law requires payment stablecoin issuers to maintain one to one reserves in high quality liquid assets such as United States Treasury securities, insured deposits, or central bank reserves. Issuers must also publish monthly attestations of reserve composition audited by a registered accounting firm. For Samsung, these requirements mean the choice of issuer directly constrains the product design. A compliant issuer brings a clear redemption pathway and regulatory standing. A non compliant issuer would leave Samsung exposed to enforcement risk in its largest single country market.

JUST IN: Stablecoin issuers have two years to become compliant under GENIUS Act

July 2028 marks the deadline when non compliant stablecoins can no longer be offered to U.S. users pic.twitter.com/PsPyra0yXp

— crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) July 20, 2026 In South Korea, the Financial Services Commission is preparing the Digital Asset Basic Act, a comprehensive framework that would bring 10 separate crypto and stablecoin bills under one legislative umbrella. The draft, unveiled in April 2026, requires stablecoin issuers to obtain authorization, maintain 100% or greater reserves in high quality assets such as bank deposits or government bonds, and ensure full redemption rights for holders. Stablecoins used in cross border or foreign exchange transactions would be classified as “means of payment” under the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act.

Passage has stalled in the National Assembly over a central dispute: who should be authorized to issue Korean won pegged stablecoins. The Bank of Korea has pushed for a rule limiting issuance to bank led consortiums holding at least 51% ownership. Implementation is targeted for late 2026 or 2027.

The Bank for International Settlements has separately described how stablecoin assets deployed across different blockchains may not move seamlessly between them, resulting in fragmented liquidity and reliance on bridges that introduce operational risk. A Samsung implementation on one network would place that network on the default route offered through Wallet. A multichain design could expose more routes while introducing the cross network interoperability problem into the consumer experience. Samsung has disclosed neither a network selection nor a transfer architecture.

Goh of Areta described Samsung’s positioning as intentional. He believes Samsung aims “to be positioned in both dollar and won stablecoins while Korea’s framework is still being discussed.”

What Samsung gains that Apple and Google do not have The competitive landscape offers Samsung a window, but the window is narrower than the headline suggests.

Neither Apple Pay nor Google Wallet offers native stablecoin support. Both route crypto transactions through third party partners. Apple has shown no public interest in integrating stablecoin balances into Apple Wallet, and Google Pay’s crypto features remain limited to select partner integrations.

Samsung’s advantage is specific: it controls the wallet interface, the hardware security layer through Knox, and now holds an equity position in major crypto infrastructure through Dunamu. No other smartphone manufacturer combines consumer distribution, hardware security, and exchange level infrastructure investment in a single corporate ecosystem. Google has partnered with Coinbase and BitPay for limited crypto card functionality in Google Wallet, but those integrations stop at the card layer and do not extend to native token balances. Apple has taken no public steps toward stablecoin integration and has historically maintained strict control over financial features within Apple Wallet, limiting third party crypto access to standalone apps.

The scale numbers, however, require careful reading. Industry projections put Apple Pay at 71.6 million United States proximity payment users in 2026 and Google Pay at 42.6 million, compared to 15 million for Samsung Pay. Samsung ships more phones globally, with 241 million units in 2025 according to IDC data, but its mobile payments market share in the United States remains smaller than Apple’s.

Yat Siu, executive chairman of Animoca Brands, described Samsung’s move as “a feature set rather than an attempt to build a super app.” The integration could give Samsung an advantage over Apple and Google in serving crypto users, he said, but applications and merchants will need to make stablecoins useful for everyday spending. Samsung is an investor in Animoca Brands.

Robby Yung, CEO of Investments at Animoca Brands, agreed that the move is positive for crypto adoption but was “not sure that this puts Samsung at an advantage over crypto native platforms.”

The case against Samsung as a stablecoin distributor The bull case for Samsung’s stablecoin play rests on distribution: 800 million phones, 61 countries, a wallet already storing cards and credentials. The bear case rests on execution and on Samsung’s history with crypto features that never reached mainstream usage.

Samsung Blockchain Keystore launched in 2019. Seven years later, Samsung has not disclosed how many Galaxy owners have ever opened it. The company has not published active crypto user counts for Samsung Wallet. The Coinbase integration announced in October 2025 targeted 75 million United States Galaxy owners, but Samsung has not said how many of those owners actually activated crypto features. The gap between “available on” and “used by” is typically enormous in preinstalled mobile features.

The 800 million figure is a device target for Galaxy AI, not a stablecoin user projection. Samsung has nearly 19 million Wallet users in South Korea but has not provided a global number. If stablecoin support launches in only a subset of the 61 countries where Samsung Wallet operates, the addressable market could be substantially smaller than the headline implies.

The Coinbase precedent is instructive. Samsung announced the partnership targeting 75 million United States Galaxy owners in October 2025. Eight months later, Samsung has not disclosed activation rates, transaction volumes, or the share of those 75 million owners who engaged with any crypto feature. If past performance is any guide, default availability and actual adoption are separated by an order of magnitude.

There are also structural questions. If Samsung’s stablecoin feature works through a partner held account, the distribution benefit sits with the partner, not with Samsung. If the feature requires multiple steps to activate or fund, adoption will follow the same pattern as previous crypto features: available to many, used by few. If Samsung selects a single issuer for default placement, it risks regulatory complications in markets where that issuer is not licensed.

Ben Nadareski, CEO and co founder of Solstice, acknowledged the potential but framed the challenge precisely. The broader picture, he said, is “distribution catching up to liquidity.” For years, crypto had deep trading venues and weak paths into daily spending. Samsung Wallet points the other direction, but the path from a mockup at a product launch to a functioning stablecoin payment at a checkout terminal involves decisions Samsung has not yet made public.

The strongest counterargument to the Samsung stablecoin thesis is that the company announced a direction without a product. Every critical design choice, including which issuer backs the balance, which chain settles the transaction, who holds custody, and which markets receive the feature first, remains undisclosed. Until those decisions are public, the announcement describes potential, not capability.

What to watch Samsung names an issuer or custody partner. The choice of stablecoin and custodian will determine whether Samsung controls the user relationship or hands it to a third party. A Circle or Tether selection would signal dollar denominated ambitions. A won pegged issuer would signal a Korea first strategy.

South Korea’s Digital Asset Basic Act reaches a floor vote. The stalled legislation determines whether Samsung Card and Dunamu can issue or distribute a won pegged stablecoin. If the Bank of Korea’s 51% bank ownership rule survives, Samsung would need a banking partner to participate.

Samsung discloses global Wallet user counts or crypto activation rates. The gap between phones shipped and wallets activated is the single most important metric for evaluating the distribution thesis. Without it, the 800 million figure remains a ceiling, not a forecast.

Samsung Wallet stablecoin feature enters a public beta or limited launch in any market. A beta in South Korea, the United States, or another regulated market would confirm that the product has moved from mockup to implementation. The absence of a timeline makes this the clearest indicator of execution pace.

Apple or Google announces competing stablecoin integration. If a rival smartphone ecosystem moves first, Samsung’s window advantage narrows. If neither moves, Samsung’s early positioning holds more strategic value.

What stablecoins will Samsung Wallet support? Samsung has not confirmed which stablecoins will be supported. The Galaxy Unpacked demo showed a USDC interface, but the company has not announced a partnership with Circle or any other issuer. The final selection could include dollar pegged, euro pegged, or won pegged tokens depending on regulatory approvals and partnership agreements.

When will Samsung Wallet stablecoin support launch? Samsung has not disclosed a launch date. The feature was announced as part of the company’s 2026 roadmap at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22, but no beta date, rollout schedule, or market launch order has been provided.

Which blockchain will Samsung Wallet use for stablecoins? The blockchain network has not been confirmed. Samsung’s choice of chain will determine settlement speed, transaction costs, and interoperability with other wallets and exchanges. A single chain selection would place that network on Samsung’s default route, while a multichain approach would add complexity.

How does Samsung’s Dunamu investment relate to the stablecoin wallet? Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS, and Samsung Card acquired a combined 4% stake in Dunamu, operator of South Korea’s largest exchange Upbit, for $408 million. Samsung SDS has publicly identified stablecoin infrastructure as the first collaboration priority, indicating that the investment supports the backend systems needed for Samsung Wallet’s stablecoin features.

Will Samsung Wallet stablecoin features work with Samsung Pay at retail terminals? Samsung has not confirmed point of sale functionality. If the feature allows users to top up a stablecoin balance and tap to pay at NFC terminals that accept Samsung Pay, it would represent a meaningful advance over existing crypto payment solutions. However, this functionality has not been demonstrated or announced.

How does the GENIUS Act affect Samsung’s stablecoin plans in the United States? The GENIUS Act, signed into law in July 2025, created the first federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoin issuers. Samsung would need to work with a GENIUS Act compliant issuer and custodian to offer stablecoin balances to United States Galaxy owners. The law gives existing issuers until July 2028 to become compliant.

Does Samsung plan to issue its own stablecoin? Samsung has not announced plans to issue a stablecoin. The company’s announcements focus on supporting existing stablecoins within Samsung Wallet and building infrastructure through its Samsung SDS partnership with Dunamu. Samsung Card has expressed interest in won pegged stablecoin opportunities, but this refers to distribution and payments, not issuance.

Is Samsung Wallet a safe place to hold stablecoins? Samsung has not disclosed the custody model for stablecoin balances in Samsung Wallet. The safety of any stablecoin holding depends on the custody arrangement, the issuer’s reserve backing, and the regulatory framework governing both. Samsung’s Knox security platform provides hardware level key isolation for existing crypto features, but the stablecoin feature’s security architecture has not been detailed. This is educational analysis, not investment advice.

This article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial or investment advice. The views expressed are those of the sources cited and do not necessarily reflect those of crypto.news. Readers should conduct their own research before making any financial decisions. Published August 5, 2026.

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President and Chief Executive Officer Mark LaVigne said Energizer now expects organic growth in the second half to range from flat to up 1%, compared with its prior expectation of about 4% growth. The revision reflects softer battery-category demand rather than a change in the company’s view of its own competitive performance, he said.

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Chief Financial Officer John Drabik said the battery category’s underlying fundamentals remain intact, citing healthy device ownership, usage and battery replacement frequency. He also said devices may require more power than in the past, potentially increasing replacement frequency.

“There’s nothing structural going on,” Drabik said in response to a question about whether battery-free technologies or other shifts were affecting the category. “What you are seeing play out in the scanner data numbers is simply a reflection of consumer caution, value-seeking behavior, and the dynamic nature with which they shop.”

Management said category pressure accelerated somewhat as the third quarter progressed. The company does not expect a meaningful rebound through the remainder of fiscal 2026, which contributed to its revised outlook.

Pricing and Retailer Inventories Energizer said promotional activity and some volume erosion affected the third quarter. LaVigne said pricing represented a headwind in the period but is expected to be neutral to slightly positive in the fiscal fourth quarter.

The company said it does not intend to pursue market share through uneconomic promotional spending. Instead, management pointed to distribution gains, brand strength, innovation and its portfolio across premium and value offerings as factors helping it compete with value-focused consumers.

LaVigne also addressed retailer inventory levels, noting that Energizer dealt with inventory destocking during the first half of the fiscal year. He said the company does not expect additional retailer inventory reductions to become a meaningful headwind and that the effect is embedded in its revised outlook.

Drabik said holiday shipment timing and related pacing were also incorporated into the company’s updated forecast. Energizer expects combined organic growth for the third and fourth quarters to be flat to up 1%.

Margin Recovery and Cash Flow Focus Despite the lower top-line outlook, Energizer maintained its expectation for improved profitability and cash generation. LaVigne said gross margin has improved by more than 430 basis points from first-quarter levels and is expected to exceed 40% in the fourth quarter.

The company expects adjusted earnings per share growth of 25% at the midpoint of its fourth-quarter outlook, according to LaVigne. Drabik described expected fourth-quarter gross margin in the low 40% range as a “clean” number, noting it would not include IEEPA credits that affected prior periods.

Management attributed margin improvement to cost-reduction efforts, supply-chain optimization, productivity initiatives and Project Momentum, a program intended to improve operational flexibility and streamline the company’s cost structure.

Looking ahead, LaVigne said Project Momentum-related cash costs, including facility exits and severance, should decline significantly after fiscal 2026. He also said capital expenditures associated with digital and supply-chain transformation are expected to fall, with the company targeting a run-rate capital expenditure level of about 1% of net sales, or $30 million.

Energizer has collected about $11 million of IEEPA tariff recoveries and expects the remaining $53 million it has booked to provide an additional source of cash generation through the end of fiscal 2026 and into fiscal 2027. Management said it expects strong free cash flow and meaningful debt reduction as it completes the current fiscal year.

About Energizer (NYSE:ENR)Energizer Holdings, Inc is a global consumer products company best known for its portfolio of portable power and lighting solutions. The company's primary business activities include the design, manufacture and marketing of batteries under the Energizer and Rayovac brands, as well as portable lighting products such as flashlights, headlamps and lanterns. Energizer also produces a range of automotive appearance and protection products, including tire inflators and repair kits, along with personal care offerings like aerosol insect repellents and sunscreen under licensed brands.

Founded in 2000 through the spin-off of the battery business from Ralston Purina Company, Energizer has grown through both organic development and strategic acquisitions.

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Alight, Inc. (ALIT) Q2 2026 Earnings Call August 4, 2026 4:30 PM EDT

Company Participants

Rohit Verma - CEO & Director
Stephen Lasher - Chief Financial Officer

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Peter Heckmann - D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division
Curtis Nagle - BofA Securities, Research Division
Ross Cole - Needham & Company, LLC, Research Division

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Operator

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Alight Second Quarter 2026 Conference Call. There is a presentation accompanying today's presentation available on the Alight's Investors Relations website.

I will now read the safe harbor statement. Today's discussion includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements reflect management's current views and expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Factors that may cause such differences are described in today's earnings release and in Alight's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the Risk Factors section of its most recent annual report on Form 10-K. The company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

In addition, during today's call, the company may reference certain non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in the earnings release available on the company's website.

I will now turn the call over to Rohit Verma, Chief Executive Officer of Alight. Please go ahead.

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Good afternoon, and welcome to Alight's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. I'm very pleased to have Steve Lasher, our Chief Financial Officer, joining me today. Steve joined Alight in June. So it's been a busy first few weeks for him, and we are delighted to have him on board.

Included in today's discussion will be our thoughts on our second quarter, our positioning

The latest rally has pushed AVAX into a major demand zone as Avalanche sees an increase in RWA activity and network developments.

AVAX gained nearly 7% over the past 24 hours after briefly tapping $6.92 on Tuesday before pulling back to $6.79. The token is also up a little over 5% on the weekly timeframe.

The move comes as several developments add activity across the Avalanche ecosystem.

RWA Activity, Stablecoins and Network Upgrades Securitize has now distributed $976 million in asset value on Avalanche, which is a 123% increase over the past 30 days. The ecosystem has also seen progress on its Helicon upgrade.

The upgrade, which went live on the Fuji Testnet on July 28, brings several changes to the C-Chain. It introduces decoupled, continuous transaction execution, which separates transaction execution from block generation to improve how smart contracts process data.

Helicon also adds Auto-Renewed Staking, which allows validators to opt into automatically renewing their stake and reducing administrative work for network operators. The upgrade also lowers the minimum staking duration, thereby reducing the amount of time tokens must remain locked for staking. It further brings more efficient pricing mechanisms aimed at stabilizing transaction costs on the network.

Separately, Avalanche continues to rank among the leading stablecoin networks. The network’s stablecoin market cap currently stands near $1.5 billion.

It is also the ninth-largest blockchain by RWA holder count, with 9,218 holders, according to RWA.xyz, and ranks behind Robinhood, Solana, BNB Chain, Plume Network, Ethereum, Base, Polygon, and Stellar, while remaining ahead of Arbitrum.

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CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) and Nebius Group (NASDAQ: NBIS | NBIS Price Prediction) just delivered Q1 2026 results that look similar on the surface: both are NVIDIA-backed AI cloud providers chasing hyperscaler contracts. Underneath, the businesses are built on completely different foundations. CoreWeave is a leveraged infrastructure developer. Nebius is an AI-native software cloud platform. That distinction shaped everything about their quarters.

Bookings Machine Meets Software Stack CoreWeave printed $2.08 billion in revenue, up 111.69% year over year, alongside a $99.4 billion revenue backlog anchored by a $21 billion Meta commitment and a fresh Anthropic deal for Claude. CEO Michael Intrator framed the pitch clearly: “We sit between the models and the silicon.” That is the whole thesis. Rent GPUs at scale, wrap them in Weights & Biases tooling, collect long-dated bookings.

Nebius told a different story. Revenue landed at $399 million, missing the $593 million consensus, but Nebius AI Cloud alone grew 841% year over year at a 45% adjusted EBITDA margin. Arkady Volozh is building a full software layer, including Aether 3.5 serverless AI, Token Factory managed inference, and stakes in ClickHouse, Toloka, and Avride autonomous delivery. The company also secured its own $27 billion five-year Meta agreement.

Debt-Fueled Scale vs. Cash-Rich Optionality The balance sheets reveal the real divergence. CoreWeave carries $50.81 billion in total liabilities against $2.24 billion in cash, with interest expense doubling to $536 million and Q1 capex hitting $7.7 billion. That is the leveraged developer model working in overdrive. Nebius sits on $9.30 billion of cash, having raised $6.3 billion from financing activities, and it actually issued explicit 2026 guidance of $3.0 billion to $3.4 billion in revenue with a ~40% adjusted EBITDA margin. CoreWeave declined to give formal guidance.

Lens CoreWeave Nebius Core DNA Leveraged infra developer AI-native software platform Backlog / RPO $99.4B $33.6B Cash Position $2.24B $9.30B Key Vulnerability Interest expense, capex Revenue miss, execution Inference Ramp Will Settle This Both companies achieved NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud status, but on different systems: GB200 NVL72 for CoreWeave and GB300 NVL72 for Nebius. I will be watching whether CoreWeave’s Dedicated Inference product converts that $99B backlog into cash before debt service compresses margins. For Nebius, the question is whether Token Factory, plus the Tavily, Eigen AI, and Clarifai acquisitions, can push ARR toward the $7 billion to $9 billion year-end target.

What the Setup Signals Right Now CoreWeave offers the largest hyperscaler bookings pipeline paired with a highly leveraged build-out, though shares are down 28.67% since the May 7 report. On the metrics, Nebius screens as the more defensive profile. The 45% segment EBITDA margin, cleaner balance sheet, and diversified software stack look more defensible if GPU pricing softens. That said, the 316.73% one-year run leaves little room for the next quarter to disappoint.

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Astera Labs, Inc. (ALAB) Q2 2026 Earnings Call August 4, 2026 4:30 PM EDT

Company Participants

Leslie Green - Investor Contact
Jitendra Mohan - Co-Founder, CEO & Executive Director
Sanjay Gajendra - Co-Founder, President, COO & Director
Desmond Lynch - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Harlan Sur - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Blayne Curtis - Jefferies LLC, Research Division
Joseph Moore - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Tore Svanberg - Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Research Division
Natalia Winkler - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Sean O'Loughlin - TD Cowen, Research Division
Papa Sylla - Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Robert Smith - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Ananda Baruah - Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division
Sujeeva De Silva - ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division
Jeffrey Koche - Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division
Karl Ackerman - BNP Paribas, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Good afternoon. My name is Holly, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Astera Labs Q2 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. I will now turn the call over to Leslie Green, Investor Relations for Astera Labs. Leslie, you may begin.

Leslie Green
Investor Contact

Thank you, Holly, and good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Astera Labs Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Joining us on the call today is Jitendra Mohan, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder; Sanjay Gajendra, President and Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder; and Desmond Lynch, Chief Financial Officer.

Before we get started, I would like to remind everyone that certain comments made in this call today may include forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, expected future financial results, strategies and plans future operations and the markets in which we operate. These forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs, expectations and assumptions about future events, which are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties that are

The Euro (EUR) trades marginally higher at around 1.1536 against the US Dollar (USD) during the European trading session on Wednesday. The major currency pair edges up as the US Dollar ticks lower ahead of the United States (US) ADP Employment Change data for July, which will be published at 12:15 GMT.

According to estimates, US private employers hired 70K fresh workers, lower than 98K in June.

The impact of the US private sector employment data will be significant on the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) interest rate expectations as officials have stopped providing so-called “forward guidance”.

Meanwhile, the Euro is expected to trade strongly amid firm expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) will hike interest rates.

Markets hold firm on September ECB hike expectationsAccording to TD Securities, market pricing remains aligned with its policy outlook, with investors "continue to fully price a 25bp ECB rate hike in September, which remains our base case." The bank sees no material shift yet in expectations around the upcoming meeting, underscoring the persistence of a hawkish bias in Eurozone rate markets.

While remarks from ECB Governing Council member Martin Kocher, released last week, showed that he remained data-dependent for the monetary policy outlook. However, Kocher has made clear that the central bank is committed to bringing inflation down to the 2% target on a sustainable basis.

EUR/USD technical analysis

EUR/USD trades at around 1.1537, holding above the 20-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at 1.1461, keeping the near-term bias constructive.

The Relative Strength Index (14) at 62 suggests positive momentum but is not yet in overbought territory, hinting that buyers retain control as long as price stays above the short-term EMA.

On the topside, immediate resistance is located at the downward resistance trend line break price at 1.1544, and a clear daily close above this barrier would strengthen the bullish outlook. On the downside, the 20-period EMA at 1.1461 offers initial support, and a drop back below this moving average would signal fading bullish pressure and expose the pair to the July 28 low at 1.1353.

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Kocher flags data-dependent autumn decisions as geopolitical risks cloud Euro outlookKocher’s 5.6/10 score on FXS Speechtracker falls below the historic 6.3/10 average, pointing to a slightly less forceful tone than usual. The emphasis on how quickly geopolitical developments can alter energy prices and the inflation outlook underscores lingering upside risks to Euro area prices, which leans modestly hawkish despite the softer score.

The pledge that the ECB Governing Council will decide in autumn based on incoming data to bring Euro area inflation back to 2% on a sustainable basis reinforces a data-dependent but still anti-inflation stance. For the Euro, the combination of acknowledged inflation risks and conditional commitment to the 2% target suggests limited immediate policy aggression, but keeps the door open to renewed tightening rhetoric if energy-driven price pressures re-intensify into autumn.

I keep hitting the buy button on Broadcom because the company sells nearly everything inside a hyperscale AI cluster except the GPU. Every time I examine how Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic build compute, Broadcom’s name appears on the custom accelerator, Ethernet switch, DSP, optics, and fabric. That is why my cost basis keeps climbing.

The thesis: Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO | AVGO Price Prediction) captures the hyperscaler AI capital budget that does not flow to NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA). Custom silicon (XPUs/ASICs) and AI networking interconnects are the two other legs of the data center stool, and Hock Tan’s team owns both.

The Receipts Behind the Conviction AI semiconductor revenue jumped from $5.20 billion in Q3 FY25 to $10.80 billion in Q2 FY26, a 143% year-over-year increase. Q3 FY26 guidance calls for $16.0 billion, up over 200% YoY, with management guiding to $56 billion for full-year FY26 and in excess of $100 billion by FY27. Hock Tan stated that “Demand for XPUs and networking is simply insatiable,” and the $30 billion-plus in Q2 AI bookings backs the claim.

Q2 FY26 free cash flow was $10.26 billion, 46% of revenue, up 60.07% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA landed at 69% of revenue. Net income grew 87.51% to $9.31 billion. That margin structure funds both the $10 billion buyback authorized through December 2026 and the dividend, raised 10% last December to $0.65 per quarter, the 15th consecutive annual increase. This is a compounder’s dividend record on an AI growth chassis.

Networking made up almost 40% of AI revenue in Q2. Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 is the industry’s only 100-terabit Ethernet switch, with a 200-terabit successor taping out this quarter. Anthropic committed to over 1 gigawatt of TPU compute in 2026 and another 5 gigawatts starting 2027. OpenAI is on the hook for 1.3 gigawatts in 2027 inside a 10-gigawatt by 2029 deal. Meta signed for 3 gigawatts of MTIA XPUs through 2028. These are multi-year, multi-generational commitments spanning several product generations.

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Why Not Just Buy NVIDIA I already own NVIDIA. The exposure NVIDIA does not provide is to customers building alternatives to it. Google’s TPU roadmap, Meta’s MTIA, OpenAI’s custom silicon, and Anthropic’s compute all route through Broadcom. When a hyperscaler wants to control cost and power per token, it hires Hock Tan’s team to co-design the chip and buys the switch fabric to connect it. That revenue stream grew 143% last quarter while consolidated revenue climbed 47.9%.

The Risk Customer concentration is real. A handful of hyperscalers drive the AI number, and if one pulls a program or delays shipments, a quarter can move. The Q2 call disclosed $6 billion in orders from two additional core customers shipping late 2026, broadening the base. Total liabilities remain elevated from the VMware deal, and semiconductor cycles are cycles. The bookings, multi-year gigawatt commitments, and 46% free cash flow margin are doing the talking.

Why the Buy Button Stays Active At $418.16, the stock trades at roughly 65x trailing and about 21x forward earnings, with analyst targets averaging $527.88. I am buying because a company generating 69% EBITDA margins on an AI business heading from $56 billion this year toward $100 billion next year is the rarest compounder: one whose customers plan their power grids around its ship dates.

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If you own YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:MSTY), you are paying taxes on shrinking distributions while your principal quietly disappears. Over the past year, the fund’s share price has fallen 67.45%, and the weekly checks (that were the whole reason to own it) have collapsed from a peak of $4.4213 per share in November 2024 to $0.2222 on July 30, 2026.

What You’re Actually Paying MSTY’s stated expense ratio is 1.03%. That is $103 per year per $10,000 invested, before you factor in any of the strategy’s structural costs. A diversified covered-call ETF like JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF (NASDAQ:JEPQ) charges roughly a third of that. On the same $10,000, JEPQ’s fee runs about $35 a year. Held for 20 years, that fee gap alone is roughly $1,360 in headline expenses, and that ignores the compounding drag on returns.

The fee is a smaller problem, especially when compared to the fund’s tax inefficiencies. YieldMax’s own prospectus language notes distributions are “generally taxable as ordinary income, qualified dividend income, or capital gains (or a combination)”, and most of MSTY’s payouts land in the ordinary-income bucket. If you sit in a 32% federal tax bracket and hold MSTY in a taxable account, the fund’s trailing 12-month payout of $15.6569 per share generated a real tax bill, even as the share price fell to $12.51.

The Part the Factsheet Doesn’t Highlight MSTY sells calls on MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR | MSTR Price Prediction), a single-stock proxy for Bitcoin. That is the entire portfolio. When MSTR fell 74.13% over the past year, MSTY ate the drawdown on the downside while its written calls capped any bounce. The YieldMax prospectus is explicit on the mechanics: “gains on the Underlying Security above the strike price(s) of the sold calls are generally expected to be reduced or foregone.”

Additionally, there is a second, quieter cost. The same prospectus warns that “a portion (sometimes significant) of the Fund’s distributions may be classified as return of capital”. Return of capital is the fund handing you back your own money, then reducing your cost basis, so a future sale can trigger a bigger capital gain. Combined with weekly options rolls, which the prospectus flags may produce “high portfolio turnover” and higher taxes in taxable accounts, the yield you see on the marketing page is not the yield you keep.

The Cheaper Mirror If the goal is a covered-call income ETF, JEPQ writes calls against a diversified Nasdaq-100 book instead of one volatile stock. Multiple analyses of MSTY have named JEPQ specifically as the more stable alternative. The trade-off is clear: JEPQ will not print a headline yield near MSTY’s advertised 64.53%, but it also does not concentrate 100% of your risk in a single Bitcoin-linked equity that has moved -5.86% in the last month alone. For pure MSTR exposure at a fraction of the cost, owning MSTR shares directly carries no expense ratio and defers taxes until you sell.

What This Means for You Before your next MSTY distribution hits, ask a simpler question than “what is the yield?” Ask: what did the share price do this year, what tax rate will apply to the payout, and how much of it is return of my own capital?

MSTY is down 32.12% year to date. If a distribution shrinks while your basis shrinks and the IRS still wants ordinary-income rates, the “income” label is doing a lot of work.

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BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terreno Realty Corporation (NYSE:TRNO), an acquirer, owner and operator of industrial real estate in six major coastal U.S. markets, announced today that it has executed two expansions and an extension totaling 87,000 square feet in Woodinville, Washington with a designer and builder of data centers in space. An expansion for 37,000 square feet will commence October 1, 2027 and an expansion for 23,000 square feet will commence October 1, 2026, both immediately upon expiration of existing tenant leases. Both leases will expire December 2031. The tenant’s existing lease of 27,000 square feet which was to expire July 2031 has been extended and will expire December 2031.

Terreno Realty Corporation acquires, owns and operates industrial real estate in six major coastal U.S. markets: New York City/Northern New Jersey; Los Angeles; Miami; San Francisco Bay Area; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.

Additional information about Terreno Realty Corporation is available on the company’s web site at www.terreno.com.

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ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The board of directors of Travel + Leisure Co. (NYSE:TNL) declared a regular cash dividend on the company's common stock of $0.60 per share, payable September 30, 2026, to shareholders of record as of September 16, 2026.

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Travel + Leisure Co. (NYSE: TNL) is a leading leisure travel company, providing more than six million vacations to travelers around the world every year. The Company operates a diverse portfolio of vacation ownership, travel club, and lifestyle travel brands designed to meet the needs of the modern leisure traveler, whether they’re traversing the globe or enjoying destinations closer to home. This includes experiential brands such as Sports Illustrated Resorts, Eddie Bauer Adventure Club, Margaritaville Vacation Club, and Accor Vacation Club, as well as cornerstone brands Club Wyndham, WorldMark, and RCI. With hospitality and responsible tourism at its heart, the Company’s more than 19,000 dedicated associates worldwide help fulfill its mission to put the world on vacation. Learn more at travelandleisureco.com.

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AI Solution Adoption More Than Doubled Year-Over-Year; Engage Customer Base Grew 247%; Communication API Interactions Accelerate Across Every Channel

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The pressure on customer experience teams isn't letting up: more interactions, tighter staffing, higher expectations. First quarter results from 8x8, Inc.'s fiscal year 2027 show organizations are responding by deploying AI that reduces interaction volume, meets customers on their preferred digital channels, and consolidates communications on a platform built to scale. Usage-based revenue, which includes communication APIs, AI solutions, digital channels, and telecom, continued its strong growth trajectory from Q4 FY26 with a 63 % year-over-year increase in Q1 FY27.

8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), a leading global business communications platform provider, released Q1 FY27 momentum metrics for its AI-powered customer experience and communications API solutions.

In Q1, customer adoption of AI solutions – including 8x8 AI Studio and 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant – grew 121% year-over-year. 8x8 Engage, 8x8's purpose-built solution for frontline and non-desk workers, expanded its customer base more than 247% year-over-year. The pattern is consistent: customers are deploying these tools, and they're using them.

"AI adoption more than doubled, and it's showing up in live customer conversations, not pilots," said Hunter Middleton, Chief Product Officer at 8x8, Inc. "We're investing on both sides: the AI our customers deploy, and the infrastructure underneath that routes, processes, and governs every interaction in real time. That combination is what lets them run AI-first CX at enterprise scale, and the numbers reflect it."

AI adoption continues to climb

Demand for AI-driven customer experience tools continued to accelerate in Q1 FY27, with significant growth in both adoption and usage across 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant, 8x8 AI Studio, and 8x8 Engage solutions:

Customer adoption of AI solutions, including 8x8 AI Studio and 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant, increased 121% year-over-year and 68% quarter-over-quarter. The number of customers adopting 8x8 Engage grew more than 247% year-over-year and 33% quarter-over-quarter. Total 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant interactions – across digital, voice, and auto attendant channels – grew more than 88% year-over-year from Q1 FY26 to Q1 FY27. Voice AI interactions grew more than 106% year-over-year from Q1 FY26 to Q1 FY27. Communication API growth by channel

Organizations are expanding their use of 8x8 communication APIs to reach customers across SMS, voice, and messaging channels:

Total 8x8 communication API interactions across messaging, voice, and video channels grew 24% year-over-year from Q1 FY26 to Q1 FY27 and over 18% quarter-over-quarter. 8x8 communication API SMS interactions increased nearly 20% quarter-over-quarter from Q4 FY26 to Q1 FY27. 8x8 communication API messaging interactions – including WhatsApp, RCS, Viber, Zalo, and LINE – grew more than 112% year-over-year from Q1 FY26 to Q1 FY27. 8x8 communication API voice interactions increased more than 151% year-over-year from Q1 FY26 to Q1 FY27. Customer validation

As of July 1, 2026, 8x8 has an Overall Rating of 4.6 out of 5 across the Unified Communications as a Service, Contact Center as a Service, and Communications Platform as a Service markets, based on 60 reviews on Gartner Peer Insights™.

8x8 continues to build on that customer response with product updates that expand access to AI, automation, and communications capabilities across the organization.

Platform innovations in Q1 FY27

Recent product updates extend the 8x8 Platform for CX to every corner of the organization, bringing enterprise-grade intelligence and automation to every team: 8x8 Pulse, available now for select 8x8 customers, captures and indexes interactions across calls, meetings, emails, and support tickets, making conversation data searchable and actionable across the organization rather than siloed to individual teams. 8x8 Resolve, available now for select 8x8 customers, is a new critical communications solution that delivers incident and emergency alerts to frontline workforces through the same platform they use for daily work, reducing the need for separate alerting tools. 8x8 AI Routing, available now for select 8x8 customers, dynamically matches customers to the best-qualified expert across the organization – not only agents in the contact center – and uses interaction data, including transcripts, sentiment, and historical patterns, to automate skills configuration so teams can begin realizing value at deployment rather than after months of manual setup. 8x8 AI Studio now supports multiple AI models, voice-powered agent building, and one-click connectors to 11 third-party business applications, enabling teams to deploy AI agents with minimal additional vendors or custom development. The new 8x8 App Store provides self-serve capability extensions. A native integration with Synthflow extends AI voice capabilities for joint customers within the existing platform. 8x8 Workforce Management received forecasting and scheduling enhancements available at no additional cost to existing 8x8 Contact Center customers. The 8x8 Platform for CX integrates contact center, unified communications, and CPaaS capabilities into a single platform. Organizations use it to reduce the operational complexity of managing multiple point solutions while meeting customers across whichever channels they prefer.

8x8, Inc. is committed to the responsible use of artificial intelligence and the protection of customer data. The 8x8 Platform for CX is developed and operated in accordance with established security standards, applicable compliance frameworks, and internal governance policies, including privacy-by-design principles that safeguard personal data on the 8x8 platform. Full details are available at trust.8x8.com.

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8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) connects people and organizations through seamless communication on one of the industry's most integrated platforms for Customer Experience – combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS solutions. The 8x8® Platform for CX integrates AI to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration. As a business communications leader, the company helps customer experience and IT leaders around the world become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. For additional information, visit www.8x8.com, or follow 8x8 on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.

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ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ACAD) Q2 2026 Earnings Call August 4, 2026 4:30 PM EDT

Company Participants

Albert Kildani - Senior Vice President of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Catherine Owen Adams - CEO & Director
Thomas Garner - Executive VP & Chief Commercial Officer
Elizabeth Thompson - Executive VP and Head of Research & Development
Mark Schneyer - Executive VP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Tessa Romero - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Ritu Baral - TD Cowen, Research Division
Ashwani Verma - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Marc Goodman - Leerink Partners LLC, Research Division
Tazeen Ahmad - BofA Securities, Research Division
Yigal Nochomovitz - Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Malcolm Hoffman - BMO Capital Markets Equity Research
Sean Laaman - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Nevin Varghese - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division
Sumant Kulkarni - Canaccord Genuity Corp., Research Division
Guofang Li - Wolfe Research, LLC
David Hoang - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Ananda Ghosh - H.C. Wainwright & Co, LLC, Research Division
Uy Ear - Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division
Julian Hung - Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Abby, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]

And I would now like to turn the conference over to Albert Kildani, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Development. Please go ahead.

Albert Kildani
Senior Vice President of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications

Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us on today's call to discuss ACADIA's second quarter 2026 financial results.

Joining me on the call today from ACADIA are Catherine Owen Adams, our Chief Executive Officer, who will provide some opening remarks; followed by Tom Garner, our Chief Commercial Officer, who will discuss our commercial brands, DAYBUE and NUPLAZID. Also joining us today

Shares of software and cloud computing giant Microsoft (MSFT +1.06%) soared 24.6% in July, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

For context, the S&P 500 index was essentially flat -- it edged down less than 0.1% -- while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index declined 3.2%.

Investors were no doubt particularly pleased with Microsoft's stock jump in July because shares had been about 19% in the red in 2026 before last week's earnings release. Through Tuesday, Aug. 4, Microsoft stock has returned 2.3% in 2026. The S&P 500 has returned 13.8% over this period.

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Robust quarterly results On July 30, Microsoft stock jumped 15.5%, following the release of its results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 (ended June 30) on the prior afternoon. Moreover, the stock gained 19% in the two days following this release.

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Microsoft reported quarterly revenue of $90.0 billion, up 18% year over year. This result comfortably beat Wall Street's consensus estimate of $87.6 billion. Net income on a non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis was $35.3 billion, up 22%. That translated to adjusted earnings per share (EPS) increasing 23% to $4.74. This result sprinted by Wall Street's expectation of $4.24.

Non-GAAP results excluded the impact of the company's investments in AI model developer OpenAI, best known for its ChatGPT chatbot.

Revenue growth was driven by strong performance in Microsoft Cloud. Its revenue was $59.3 billion, up 27% year over year, and commercial remaining performance obligation increased 84% to $678 billion. This performance was driven by strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Within Cloud, Azure (its cloud computing platform) and other cloud services revenue increased 43%.

"This year, Azure revenue surpassed $100 billion for the first time, and Microsoft 365 Copilot [its AI-powered assistant that integrates with Microsoft 365 apps] reached over 30 million paid seats, reflecting the confidence customers are placing in us to power their AI transformation," said CEO Satya Nadella in the earnings release.

Microsoft's cloud demand still exceeds its capacity, but the company is adding capacity at a lightning pace. Nadella said on the earnings call that the company added 31 new data centers across 5 continents in the quarter, bringing its total to 88 new data centers this year.

Looking ahead On the earnings call, CFO Amy Hood provided rosy guidance. For the first quarter of fiscal 2027, the company expects revenue of $89.85 to $90.95 billion, representing year-over-year growth of 16% to 17%, "with accelerating commercial growth partially offset by the impact from the [challenging] PC market dynamics."

For the full year fiscal 2027, Hood said the company continues to "expect another fiscal year of double-digit revenue and operating income. .... In addition, we expect to remain free cash flow positive in FY27."

DETROIT — General Motors and China's SAIC Motor have extended a decadeslong Chinese joint venture that was set to end next year, the U.S. automaker said Tuesday night.

The extension comes amid a rapidly changing automotive landscape in China that has included the swift rise of domestic automakers and a shift away from traditional Western brands and legacy joint ventures.

GM declined to provide financial details of the extension, which comes amid heightened geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China, including a potential stateside ban of Chinese brands and vehicles.

The largest disclosed change in the dynamic of the agreement is its length. The initial deal established in 1997 was for 30 years, and now the companies have announced a 20-year extension of the 50-50 joint venture to 2047.

GM noted that the deal will focus on refocus domestic sales of Buick and Cadillac models in China in addition to exporting products, including Chevrolet models, built in China for non-U.S. markets.

"We are committed to strong performance in the China market, and we see meaningful opportunities to compete in select international markets: the Middle East, Africa, South America, Mexico and Asia-Pacific," GM China President John Roth said in a release.

The optimism about exporting comes as China quickly went from a reclusive market to the largest global exporter of vehicles in recent years.

China's growth has been fueled by government funding for companies as well as a culture of innovation and speed the country has instilled in its workers, experts have said. But a slowing Chinese market and plant underutilization have forced companies to begin exporting to major auto markets globally.

China was GM's top sales market from 2010 to 2023, but the shifting dynamics caused the Detroit automaker and its joint-venture partners to restructure operations.

The automaker's earnings from China fell from around $2 billion annually in 2018 to two consecutive years of losses in 2024 and 2025. GM has reported $248 million in equity income through the first six months of this year following restructuring actions that cost the automaker $1.1 billion in special charges last year.

GM reports the joint venture has produced and delivered more than 20 million vehicles since it was established in China. 

Amgen Inc. (AMGN) Q2 2026 Earnings Call August 4, 2026 4:30 PM EDT

Company Participants

Casey Capparelli - Executive Director of Investor Relations
Robert Bradway - Chairman & CEO
Murdo Gordon - Executive Vice President of Global Markets and Policy
James Bradner - EVP of Research & Development, Artificial Intelligence and Data
Peter Griffith - Executive VP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Dina Elmonshed - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Salveen Richter - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Taylor Hanley - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Umer Raffat - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division
Yaron Werber - TD Cowen, Research Division
Edward Polglase - Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division
Manoj Eradath - Jefferies LLC, Research Division
Susan Chor - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Alexandria Hammond - Wolfe Research, LLC
David Risinger - Leerink Partners LLC, Research Division
Jay Olson - Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division

Presentation

Operator

My name is Julianne, and I will be your conference facilitator today for the Amgen Q2 Earnings Conference Call.

[Operator Instructions]

I would now like to introduce Casey Capparelli, Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Capparelli, you may now begin.

Casey Capparelli
Executive Director of Investor Relations

Thank you, Julianne. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our second quarter of 2026 earnings call. Bob Bradway will lead the call today and be followed by a broader review of our performance by Murdo Gordon, Jay Bradner and Peter Griffith. Through the course of our discussion today, we will use non-GAAP financial measures to describe our performance and have provided appropriate reconciliations within the materials that accompany this call.

We will also make some forward-looking statements, which are qualified by our safe harbor statement. And please note that actual results can vary materially. Over to you, Bob.

Robert Bradway
Chairman & CEO

Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us. Our strong

, /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Santander, S.A. ("Santander") and Webster Financial Corporation ("Webster") today announced that they have received the required approval from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for Santander's previously announced acquisition of Webster, the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A., a diversified U.S. retail and commercial bank. This follows the approval by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on June 12, 2026, and the authorization granted by the European Central Bank on July 21, 2026. The transaction is now expected to close on August 20, 2026.

Ana Botín, Executive Chair of Santander, said: "Santander US and Webster are a perfect match. Together, supported by Santander's global platforms, technology and expertise, we will create a stronger bank with the scale to better serve our customers and communities. This combination will strengthen our position in one of the world's most attractive banking markets and put us firmly on track to build one of the highest-performing banks among our U.S. peers."

Christiana Riley, CEO and President of Santander Holdings USA, Inc. ("Santander US"), said: "We are pleased to be one step closer to this important, strategic acquisition that will expand our scale and round out our U.S. business model. Bringing together these two highly complementary businesses, Santander will be well positioned to better serve our customers and clients, while helping local communities prosper. We are excited for this next chapter for Santander." 

John Ciulla, Chairman and CEO of Webster, said: "This is an exciting moment that will allow us to soon bring together our two great organizations to benefit our customers and communities. Santander's expanded scale, enhanced capabilities and financial strength will help us to deepen local relationships and build upon the trusted partnership that Webster customers have come to expect from us."

The transaction is expected to strengthen Santander's U.S. franchise and accelerate the delivery of its financial objectives. Once integrated, Santander expects its U.S. business to achieve a return on tangible equity (RoTE) of around 18% by 2028, while the transaction is expected to generate approximately 7–8% earnings per share accretion and an estimated 15% return on invested capital, all by 2028.

Upon closing, most Webster's businesses will become part of Santander Bank, N.A., Santander's banking franchise in the United States. Until the transaction closes, Santander and Webster will continue to operate independently. Customers do not need to take any action at this time, and accounts, products, and services will continue to operate as they do today. Any future changes will be communicated in advance of implementation.

Banco Santander (SAN SM) is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. The group's activities are consolidated into five global businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Openbank, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management & Insurance and Payments. This operating model allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global scale and local leadership. Santander aims to be the best open financial services platform providing services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The bank's purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal and fair way. As of June 30, 2026, Banco Santander had €1.5 trillion in total funds, more than 182 million customers, 6,500 branches and 185,000 employees.

Webster Financial Corporation ("Webster") (NYSE:WBS) is the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. ("Webster Bank"). Founded in 1935 and headquartered in Stamford, CT, Webster is a values-driven organization with more than $80 billion in total assets. Webster Bank is a commercial bank that provides a wide range of financial products and services to businesses, individuals, and families across three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Healthcare Financial Services, and Consumer Banking. While its core footprint spans the Northeast from the New York metropolitan area to Rhode Island and Massachusetts, certain businesses operate in extended geographies. Webster Bank is a member of the FDIC and an equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websterbank.com

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Banco Santander, S.A. ("Santander") cautions that this report may contain financial information prepared according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and taken from our consolidated financial statements, as well as alternative performance measures (APMs) as defined in the Guidelines on Alternative Performance Measures issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on 5 October 2015, and other non-IFRS measures. The financial measures referred to in this report that are considered APMs or non-IFRS measures were calculated with information from Grupo Santander; however, they are neither defined or detailed in the applicable financial reporting framework nor audited or reviewed by our auditors. We use the APMs and non-IFRS measures when planning, monitoring and evaluating our performance. We consider them to be useful metrics for our management and investors to compare operating performance between accounting periods.

Nonetheless, the APMs and non-IFRS measures are supplemental information; their purpose is not to substitute the IFRS measures. Furthermore, other companies, including some in our industry, may calculate or use APMs and non-IFRS measures differently, thus making them less useful for comparison purposes. APMs using environmental, social and governance labels have not been calculated in accordance with the Taxonomy Regulation or with the indicators for principal adverse impact in the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR; EU Reg. 2019/2088).

For more details on APMs and non-IFRS measures, please see the 2025 Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) on 27 February 2026 (https://www.santander.com/content/dam/santander-com/es/documentos/informacion-sobre-resultados-semestrales-y-anuales-suministrada-a-la-sec/2026/sec-2025-annual-20-f-2025-disponible-solo-en-ingles-es.pdf) as well as the section "Alternative performance measures" of Santander's 2025 Annual Report, which was published on 25 February 2026 (https://www.santander.com/content/dam/santander-com/en/documentos/informe-financiero-anual/2025/ifa-2025-consolidated-annual-financial-report-en.pdf),  except with respect to the information and the audited financial statements included therein and superseded by the information and the audited financial statements included in our Report on Form 6-K furnished to the SEC on April 1, 2026 relating to certain recast financial information as a result of certain changes to the presentation of the Group's financial information (https://www.santander.com/content/dam/santander-com/en/documentos/informacion-sobre-resultados-semestrales-y-anuales-suministrada-a-la-sec/2026/sec-recast-of-certain-financial-information-and-related-disclosure-for-the-three-years-ended-31-december-2025-en.pdf) as well as the section "Alternative performance measures" of our second quarter financial report, which was published on 22 July 2026 (https://www.santander.com/en/shareholders-and-investors/financial-and-economic-information/quarterly-results).

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Santander hereby warns that this report may contain 'forward-looking statements', as defined by the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements can be understood through words and expressions like 'expect', 'project', 'anticipate', 'should', 'intend', 'probability', 'risk', 'VaR', 'RoRAC', 'RoRWA', 'TNAV', 'target', 'goal', 'objective', 'estimate', 'future', 'ambition', 'aspiration', 'commitment', 'commit', 'focus', 'pledge' and similar expressions. They include (but are not limited to) statements on future business development, shareholder remuneration policy and non-financial information. However, various risks, uncertainties and other important factors may lead to developments and results that differ materially from those anticipated, expected, projected or assumed in forward-looking statements. The important factors below (and others mentioned in this report), as well as other unknown or unpredictable factors, could affect our future development and results and could lead to outcomes materially different from what our forward-looking statements anticipate, expect, project or assume:

general economic or industry conditions (e.g., an economic downturn; higher volatility in the capital markets; inflation; deflation; changes in demographics, consumer spending, investment or saving habits; and the effects of the armed conflicts in Ukraine, or the outbreak of public health emergencies in the global economy) in areas where we have significant operations or investments; exposure to operational risks, including cyberattacks, data breaches, data losses and other security incidents; exposure to market risks (e.g., risks from interest rates, foreign exchange rates, equity prices and new benchmark indices); potential losses from early loan repayment, collateral depreciation or counterparty risk; political instability in Spain, the UK, other European countries, Latin America and the US; changes in monetary, fiscal and immigration policies and trade tensions, including the imposition of tariffs and retaliatory responses; legislative, regulatory or tax changes (including regulatory capital and liquidity requirements) and greater regulation prompted by financial crises; acquisitions, integrations, divestitures and challenges arising from deviating management's resources and attention from other strategic opportunities and operational matters; reputational risk and potential adverse reactions of stakeholders, including adverse effects on the market price of our securities climate-related conditions, regulations, targets and weather events; uncertainty over the scope of actions that may be required by us, governments and other to achieve goals relating to climate, environmental and social matters, as well as the evolving nature of underlying science and potential conflicts and inconsistencies among governmental standards and regulations; our own decisions and actions, including those affecting or changing our practices, operations, priorities, strategies, policies or procedures; and changes affecting our access to liquidity and funding on acceptable terms, especially due to credit spread shifts or credit rating downgrade for the entire group or core subsidiaries. Additionally, Webster Financial Corporation's ("Webster") and Santander's actual results, financial condition and achievements may differ materially from those indicated in these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause Webster's and Santander's actual results, financial condition and achievements to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements include, in addition to those set forth in Webster's and Santander's filings with the SEC: (1) the risk that the cost savings, synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of Webster by Santander (the "Transaction") may not be fully realized or may take longer than anticipated to be realized, including as a result of changes in, or problems arising from, general economic and market conditions, interest and exchange rates, monetary policy, laws and regulations and their enforcement, and the degree of competition in the geographic and business areas in which Webster and Santander operate; (2) the failure of the closing conditions in the Transaction agreement by and among Webster, Santander and a wholly owned subsidiary of Webster providing for the Transaction to be satisfied, or any unexpected delay in closing the Transaction or the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could delay the Transaction or could give rise to the termination of the Transaction agreement; (3) the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings or governmental inquiries or investigations that may be currently pending or later instituted against Webster, Santander or the combined company; (4) the possibility that the Transaction does not close when expected or at all because the remaining conditions to closing are not received or satisfied on a timely basis or at all; (5) disruption to the parties' businesses as a result of the announcement and pendency of the Transaction; (6) the costs associated with the anticipated length of time of the pendency of the Transaction, including the restrictions contained in the definitive Transaction agreement on the ability of Webster to operate its business outside the ordinary course during the pendency of the Transaction; (7) risks related to management and oversight of the expanded business and operations of the combined company following the closing of the proposed Transaction; (8) the risk that the integration of Webster's operations with Santander's will be materially delayed or will be more costly or difficult than expected or that the parties are otherwise unable to successfully integrate each party's businesses into the other's businesses; (9) the possibility that the Transaction may be more expensive to complete than anticipated, including as a result of unexpected factors or events; (10) reputational risk and potential adverse reactions of Webster's or Santander's customers, employees, vendors, contractors or other business partners, including those resulting from the announcement or completion of the Transaction; (11) the dilution caused by Santander's issuance of additional ordinary shares and corresponding American depositary shares, each representing the right to receive one of its ordinary shares ("ADSs"), in connection with the Transaction; (12) the possibility that any announcements relating to the Transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Webster's common stock and Santander's ordinary shares and ADSs; (13) a material adverse change in the condition of Webster or Santander; (14) the extent to which Webster's or Santander's businesses perform consistent with management's expectations; (15) Webster's and Santander's ability to take advantage of growth opportunities and implement targeted initiatives in the timeframe and on the terms currently expected; (16) the inability to sustain revenue and earnings growth; (17) the execution and efficacy of recent strategic investments; (18) the impact of macroeconomic factors, such as changes in general economic conditions and monetary and fiscal policy, particularly on interest rates; (19) changes in customer behavior; (20) unfavorable developments concerning credit quality; (21) declines in the businesses or industries of Webster's or Santander's customers; (22) the possibility that the combined company is subject to additional regulatory requirements as a result of the proposed Transaction or expansion of the combined company's business operations following the proposed Transaction; (23) general competitive, political and market conditions and other factors that may affect future returns of Webster and Santander, including changes in asset quality and credit risk; (24) security risks, including cybersecurity and data privacy risks, and capital markets; (25) inflation; (26) the impact, extent and timing of technological changes; (27) capital management activities; (28) competitive product and pricing pressures; (29) the outcomes of legal and regulatory proceedings and related financial services industry matters; and (30) compliance with regulatory requirements. Any forward-looking statement made in this communication is based solely on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made.

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Intapp (INTA - Free Report) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.41 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.36 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.27 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.

This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +13.89%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this software developer would post earnings of $0.28 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.29, delivering a surprise of +3.57%.

Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates four times.

Intapp, which belongs to the Zacks Internet - Software industry, posted revenues of $152.53 million for the quarter ended June 2026, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.83%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $135.04 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates four times over the last four quarters.

The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.

Intapp shares have lost about 27.1% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 11%.

What's Next for Intapp?While Intapp has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?

There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.

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Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Intapp was unfavorable. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to underperform the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and the current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $0.34 on $157.66 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $1.58 on $656.81 million in revenues for the current fiscal year.

Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Internet - Software is currently in the bottom 40% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.

Another stock from the same industry, Riskified (RSKD - Free Report) , has yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2026. The results are expected to be released on August 12.

This provider of fraud-prevention services is expected to post quarterly earnings of $0.03 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +50%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days.

Riskified's revenues are expected to be $88 million, up 8.6% from the year-ago quarter.

Teradata (TDC - Free Report) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.69 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.55 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.47 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.

This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +25.46%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this data management company would post earnings of $0.77 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.88, delivering a surprise of +14.29%.

Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates four times.

Teradata, which belongs to the Zacks Computer- Storage Devices industry, posted revenues of $410 million for the quarter ended June 2026, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2.91%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $408 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates four times over the last four quarters.

The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.

Teradata shares have added about 5.4% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 11%.

What's Next for Teradata?While Teradata has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?

There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.

Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.

Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Teradata was mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and the current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $0.63 on $400.96 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $2.65 on $1.65 billion in revenues for the current fiscal year.

Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Computer- Storage Devices is currently in the top 10% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.

Sandisk Corporation (SNDK - Free Report) , another stock in the same industry, has yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2026. The results are expected to be released on August 5.

This company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $34.24 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +11706.9%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has been revised 5.2% higher over the last 30 days to the current level.

Sandisk Corporation's revenues are expected to be $8.3 billion, up 336.6% from the year-ago quarter.

Paylocity (PCTY - Free Report) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.84 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.54 per share. This compares to earnings of $1.56 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.

This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +19.48%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this provider of cloud-based payroll and human-resources software services would post earnings of $2.43 per share when it actually produced earnings of $2.89, delivering a surprise of +18.93%.

Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates four times.

Paylocity, which belongs to the Zacks Internet - Software industry, posted revenues of $444.73 million for the quarter ended June 2026, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3.18%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $400.74 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates four times over the last four quarters.

The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call.

Paylocity shares have lost about 8.4% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 11%.

What's Next for Paylocity?While Paylocity has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock?

There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately.

Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions.

Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Paylocity was mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and the current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $1.83 on $435.41 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $8.57 on $1.89 billion in revenues for the current fiscal year.

Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Internet - Software is currently in the bottom 40% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1.

One other stock from the same industry, VERRA MOBILITY CORP (VRRM - Free Report) , is yet to report results for the quarter ended June 2026. The results are expected to be released on August 5.

This company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $0.33 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -2.9%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days.

VERRA MOBILITY CORP's revenues are expected to be $253.62 million, up 7.5% from the year-ago quarter.

OpenAI's Restructuring Sets up What Could Be the Biggest IPO EverMattel NASDAQ: MAT reported second-quarter 2026 net sales growth of 10% on a reported basis and 9% in constant currency, supported by double-digit growth in North America, vehicles, games, action figures and digital gaming. The company reiterated its full-year outlook, while noting that higher advertising, strategic investments, tariffs and other costs reduced quarterly profitability.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ynon Kreiz said the company continued to execute its strategy to expand its intellectual-property-driven play and family entertainment business across toys, digital games and film. He said sales growth had continued into the third quarter and that point-of-sale trends remained positive year to date.

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Sales Growth Led by Vehicles, Games and Action Figures Are Tariffs Threatening Disney’s Comeback Story?Gross billings rose 12% in North America, 7% in EMEA and 4% in Asia Pacific, while Latin America was comparable with the prior-year period. Chief Financial Officer Paul Ruh said the U.S. shift in retailer ordering patterns, which had affected gross billings for four consecutive quarters, had “largely stabilized.” Retailer inventories declined by a low double-digit percentage from a year earlier.

Hot Wheels gross billings increased 12%, driven by children and adult collectors. Kreiz said Mattel was the global leader in dolls, vehicles and infant, toddler and preschool categories and gained share in vehicles and action figures, citing Circana data.

How a New Agriculture Boom Could Propel FMC Stock HigherChallenger categories grew, led by games, including UNO and the contribution from Mattel163, as well as action figures tied to Toy Story 5 and Masters of the Universe. Mattel completed its acquisition of the remaining 50% interest in Mattel163 during the first quarter. Ruh said Mattel163 contributed nearly $49 million in revenue and about $14 million in adjusted operating income during the second quarter.

President, Chief Marketing and Brand Officer Roberto Stanichi said action figures also benefited from WWE and early shipments connected to Mattel’s DC partnership. He said Mattel was the No. 1 action-figure manufacturer in June, according to Circana.

Dolls declined, primarily reflecting lower Barbie streaming-content revenue and weakness in Polly Pocket. Growth in K-pop Demon Hunters and Disney Princess and Frozen partly offset those declines. The infant, toddler and preschool segment also declined, largely due to Fisher-Price, although Little People posted high-double-digit growth supported by partnerships including Nintendo.

Barbie Recovery Plan and Entertainment Initiatives Mattel expects Barbie trends to improve during the second half of 2026 and forecasts that the brand will return to growth in 2027. Stanichi said the company plans to increase Barbie content, including a new Barbie Nutcracker animated special for the holiday season, the rerelease of seven classic animated specials on YouTube, a new Barbie Dreamhouse and updated product packaging.

For 2027, Mattel plans another animated special, the rerelease of six additional classic Barbie animated movies, enhanced fashion and accessory offerings, and additional adult-fan partnerships and collections, Stanichi said.

Mattel also highlighted progress in digital gaming. It launched its first self-published mobile game based on Masters of the Universe and has placed UNO Wild into soft launch. Kreiz said UNO Wild has met its production milestones and is expected to receive a global commercial launch in early 2027. Ruh said Mattel intends to deploy most of its planned $40 million in digital performance-marketing investment when UNO Wild launches commercially next year, rather than during 2026.

On the film side, Kreiz said Masters of the Universe recently became available on Amazon Prime Video after its theatrical release. He said it ranked as Prime Video’s No. 1 film globally in its first week and the most-watched movie across U.S. streaming platforms. Gross billings for the Masters of the Universe franchise have more than tripled year to date, according to the company. Mattel’s next film, Matchbox, is scheduled to debut Oct. 9 on Apple TV.

Margins Decline as Investment Spending Rises Adjusted gross margin was 48.6% in the quarter. Ruh said the year-over-year decline reflected 170 basis points of gross incremental tariff costs, 120 basis points of inflation, 110 basis points from higher royalties and 60 basis points of unfavorable foreign exchange. Those impacts were partly offset by 120 basis points from Mattel163 and 80 basis points from other factors, including tariff-mitigation actions and cost savings.

Advertising expense increased $45 million to $124 million, including expenses tied to Mattel163, brand marketing, consumer engagement initiatives and theatrical releases. Adjusted selling, general and administrative expense rose $38 million to $384 million, primarily due to strategic investments and Mattel163-related costs.

Adjusted operating income fell to $39 million from $96 million a year earlier. Adjusted EBITDA declined to $95 million from $117 million. Adjusted earnings per share was $0.01, compared with $0.21 in the prior-year period. Trailing 12-month free cash flow was $435 million, down from $530 million. Mattel repurchased $100 million of stock in the quarter, bringing year-to-date repurchases to $300 million. Ruh said the company remains on track to repurchase $400 million in shares for the full year. Since resuming repurchases in 2023, Mattel has bought back $1.5 billion of shares, reducing shares outstanding by approximately 23%.

Full-Year Outlook Reaffirmed Mattel reiterated its 2026 guidance for constant-currency net sales growth of 3% to 6%, adjusted gross margin of about 50%, adjusted operating income of $580 million to $630 million, and adjusted earnings per share of $1.27 to $1.39.

The company expects strong growth in vehicles and challenger categories combined, comparable performance in dolls and a decline in infant, toddler and preschool. Ruh said gross margin should improve in the second half, aided by Mattel163, cost savings and an expectation that the heavy promotional activity seen late in 2025 will not recur.

Mattel’s outlook does not include a material benefit from possible tariff refunds. Ruh said the company is working through the refund process but that the timing and amount remain uncertain.

Looking ahead to 2027, Kreiz said the company expects mid- to high-single-digit top-line growth and strong double-digit bottom-line growth, citing anticipated Barbie growth, continued vehicle momentum, expanded partner-IP offerings, digital games and a full year of initiatives including DC, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Frozen 3.

About Mattel (NASDAQ:MAT)Mattel, Inc is a leading global toy company headquartered in El Segundo, California. Founded in 1945 by Harold “Matt” Matson and Elliot and Ruth Handler, the company has grown into a major player in the toy and family products industry. Mattel designs, manufactures, and markets a broad range of toys, games and entertainment products under well-known brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO and Matchbox. In addition to its proprietary labels, Mattel holds licenses with global entertainment franchises, partnering with Disney, Warner Bros., WWE and other studios to create character-driven play experiences.

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