AudioEye(AEYE)2026年第3四半期決算説明会:過去最高のEBITDA、業績予想を引き上げ
AudioEyeの2026年第3四半期決算は、売上高が前年同期比7%増の約1,100万ドルと43四半期連続で過去最高を更新した。GAAPベースの純利益は100万ドル(前年同期は60万ドルの赤字)に転換し、調整後EBITDAは58%増の390万ドル、調整後EBITDAマージンは35%へ拡大した。年間経常収益(ARR)は12%増の4,330万ドルに達した。経営陣は、AI活用による効率化や新製品投入を背景に、2026年通期の調整後EBITDA見通しを1,340万〜1,360万ドルへ上方修正し、2027年10月までの1,500万ドルの自社株買い枠を設定した。
主要ハイライト
- AudioEyeが発表した2026年第3四半期の売上高は、前年同期比7%増の約1,100万ドルと過去最高を記録し、43四半期連続での最高売上更新となった。
- GAAPベースの純損益は、前年同期の60万ドルの赤字(希薄化後1株当たり0.04ドルの赤字)から100万ドルの黒字(希薄化後1株当たり0.08ドル)に改善した。
- 調整後EBITDAは前年同期比58%増の390万ドルと過去最高に達した。粗利益の増加およびAI活用による効率化に裏打ちされ、調整後EBITDAマージンは前年同期の24%から35%に拡大した。
- 年間経常収益(ARR)は前年同期比12%増、前四半期比で100万ドル増の4,330万ドルに達した。エンタープライズ向けARRが10%増加したほか、パートナーおよびマーケットプレイス経由のARRは14%増加した。
- 経営陣は2026年通期の調整後EBITDA見通しを1,340万ドル〜1,360万ドルへと上方修正した。これは通期で約50%の成長を意味する。第4四半期の調整後EBITDAは420万ドル〜440万ドルに達する見込みである。
- 同社は10月に「Agentic Audits」と「SDK MCP」を投入した。経営陣は両製品をアップセルの機会と位置付けているが、売上高への貢献度を数値化するには時期尚早だとしている。
主要財務データ
| 指標 | 2026年第3四半期 | 前年同期比・背景 |
|---|---|---|
| 売上高 | 約1,100万ドル | 前年同期比7%増、43四半期連続で過去最高を更新 |
| ARR | 4,330万ドル | 前年同期比12%増、前四半期比100万ドル増 |
| GAAPベース粗利益 | 910万ドル | 前年同期の790万ドルから15%増 |
| GAAPベース粗利益率 | 83% | 前年同期の77%から550ベーシスポイント以上上昇 |
| 調整後粗利益率 | 88% | 83%から上昇 |
| 営業費用 | 780万ドル | 5%減(40万ドル減少) |
| GAAPベース純利益 | 100万ドル | 前年同期は60万ドルの純損失 |
| GAAPベース希薄化後EPS | 0.08ドル | 前年同期は1株当たり0.04ドルの赤字 |
| 調整後EBITDA | 390万ドル | 前年同期の250万ドルから58%増 |
| 調整後EBITDAマージン | 35% | 24%から上昇 |
| 調整後希薄化後EPS | 0.30ドル | 前年同期の0.19ドルから上昇 |
| フリーキャッシュフロー | 350万ドル | 前年同期比で150万ドル改善 |
| 顧客数 | 約130,000件 | 前年同期比6%増、前四半期比約1,000件増 |
| 現金および現金同等物 | 930万ドル | 2026年6月30日時点より60万ドル増 |
| 純負債 | 720万ドル | 年初来で約100万ドル減少 |
事業および営業業績
売上高が7%増加した一方で、AI活用による効率化により売上原価は19%減少した。経営陣によると、この改善は主にエンジニアリングおよびサービス提供部門からの貢献によるものである。研究開発(R&D)費の総額は17%減の約130万ドルとなったが、これには資産化されたソフトウェア開発費約40万ドルが含まれる。
パートナーおよびマーケットプレイス・チャネルが引き続きARRの最大の貢献要因であり、全体の約59%を占めた。州政府や地方自治体のパートナーへの導入拡大に支えられ、同チャネルの売上高とARRはいずれも前年同期比で14%増加した。
エンタープライズ向けARRは全ARRの約41%を占め、10%成長した。ARRの最大化を優先するAudioEyeの戦略に基づき、単発売上高の減少が継続売上の増加分を相殺したため、エンタープライズ売上高はほぼ横ばいとなった。
AudioEyeは10月8日に「Agentic Audits」および「SDK MCP」をリリースした。いずれも、過去10年間にわたり10万件以上のウェブサイトで実施された100万件超の人手によるアクセシビリティ評価に基づく独自のデータセット「AudioEye Intelligence」を活用している。経営陣によると、Agentic Auditsは自動化ツール単体と比較して、重大度の高い問題を最大50%多く検出でき、結果の大部分は1時間以内に提供される。
また、経営陣はAIエージェントがアクセシビリティツリーを介してナビゲーションを行うため、ウェブサイトのアクセシビリティがAIエージェントにとっても重要になりつつあると説明した。6つのウェブサイトを対象としたAudioEyeの調査では、最もアクセシビリティの低かったサイトにおいて、修正適用後にタスク完了率が31%から96%へと向上した。
業績予想(ガイダンス)
| ガイダンス | 予想レンジ / 見通し |
|---|---|
| 2026年第4四半期 売上高 | 1,140万ドル〜1,160万ドル |
| 2026年通期 売上高 | 4,360万ドル〜4,380万ドル |
| 2026年第4四半期 調整後EBITDA | 420万ドル〜440万ドル |
| 2026年第4四半期 調整後EBITDAマージン | 約37% |
| 2026年第4四半期 調整後EPS | 0.32ドル〜0.33ドル |
| 2026年通期 調整後EBITDA | 1,340万ドル〜1,360万ドル |
第4四半期売上高ガイダンスの中央値に基づくと、経営陣は前四半期比で約55万ドルの増加を見込んでおり、これは年率換算で前四半期比約20%の成長に相当する。
改定された通期調整後EBITDA予想は、前年比約50%増の成長を意味する。経営陣は、第4四半期ガイダンスの中央値により、年率換算(ランレート)の調整後EBITDAが1,700万ドルを超え、調整後EPSのランレートが約1.30ドルになると予想している。
さらに経営陣は、訴訟費用が第3四半期に前四半期比で約50%減少したのに続き、第4四半期には一段と減少すると予測している。ガイダンス中央値である第4四半期調整後EBITDAの430万ドルから、ソフトウェア開発費約40万ドルを差し引くことで、調整後フリーキャッシュフローは約390万ドルになると試算される。
リスクおよび注視すべき点
- 「Agentic Audits」および「SDK MCP」は決算説明会のわずか数週間前に提供開始されたばかりである。経営陣は、顧客への周知啓発が引き続き必要であり、売上の押し上げ効果を現時点で定量化することはできないと述べた。
- AudioEyeは人間の目による評価が引き続き不可欠であると考えている。エージェント型ツールは更なる課題を特定できるものの、アクセシビリティ監査における手動作業を完全に排するものではない。
- 同社が非継続売上への注力を抑えたため、エンタープライズ事業の売上高は前年同期比で横ばいとなった。したがって、今後の持続的成長は継続案件の販売、拡大活動、およびパートナーの業績により大きく依存することになる。
- 法規制の執行が需要の追い風となる可能性があるが、時期については不透明感が残る。ハワイ州法「Act 257」では、実施規則の確定後24〜36か月が遵守期限とされている。
- 経営陣は欧州での規制執行、新製品、およびAI対応需要が潜在的な成長加速要因になると期待しているが、具体的な寄与度についての数値は提示しなかった。
アナリスト質疑応答の主な内容
経営陣は、過去最高水準に近い新規・拡張案件の獲得と強固なパートナーの勢いに支えられ、第4四半期のARR成長率は現在の10%台前半のペースを維持すると述べた。2027年も同様の事業環境が続くと見込んでおり、新製品やAIエージェントの導入、欧州でのアクセシビリティ規制執行による上振れ余地もあるとした。
マージンについて、マシュー・ドマイヤー(Matthew Domeyer)CFOは、拡大の機会を追求しつつも、改善された粗利益率水準を維持できるとの考えを示した。ケリー・ジョージビッチ(Kelly Georgevich)CEOは、売上拡大に対して費用がそれほど増えておらず、今後売上が伸びても大幅なコスト増加は必要ないとの認識を添えた。
AI分野における競合について問われた際、経営陣は汎用AIモデルではAudioEyeの独自アクセシビリティデータセットを再現することはできないと主張した。同社の社内調査によると、AIが作成したウェブサイトには1ページ当たり平均55件のアクセシビリティ上の問題が残っており、AI生成のECサイトでは他のECサイトの3倍の問題が検出された。
新しいAI製品はアドオンとして販売可能であり、一部の製品は単体でも購入可能である。経営陣は、これらが監査期間中やソフトウェア開発時において顧客の契約拡張に寄与すると見込んでいる。
また、AudioEyeは2027年10月までの1,500万ドルの自社株買い枠を設定した。これは発表時点の株価で発行済株式総数の約15%に相当する。経営陣は、第4四半期および2027年に予想される自律的なキャッシュ創出により、自社株買いやその他の資金活用に関する柔軟性が確保されると述べた。
決算説明会 文字起こし全文
決算説明会の完全なトランスクリプト
経営陣による説明
Operator
Good afternoon, and welcome to AudioEye's Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Joining us for today's call are AudioEye's Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Kelly Georgevich; and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Matthew Domeyer. [Operator Instructions] I would like to remind everyone that this call will be recorded and made available for replay via a link in the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.audioeye.com.
Before I turn the call over to AudioEye's CEO, the company would like to remind all participants that statements made by AudioEye management during the course of this conference call that are not historical facts are considered to be forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for such forward-looking statements. The words believe, expect, anticipate, estimate, confidence, will and other similar statements of expectation identify forward-looking statements.
These statements are predictions, projections or other statements about future events and are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could materially differ because of factors discussed in today's press release and the comments made during this conference call and in the risk factors section of the company's annual report on Form 10-K, its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and in its other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Participants on this call are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's belief only as of the date hereof. AudioEye does not undertake any duty to update or correct any forward-looking statements. Further, management's remarks today will include certain non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures to these non-GAAP financial measures is available in the company's earnings release or otherwise posted in the Investor Relations section of its website at www.audioeye.com.
Now I'd like to turn the call over to AudioEye's CEO, Ms. Kelly Georgevich.
Kelly Georgevich
Thank you, operator. We had a great quarter, generating record revenue, record adjusted EBITDA, strong free cash flow and positive GAAP net income, driven by efficiencies and increased AI use across the company. We are also excited to discuss accelerating revenue growth in Q4 with continued operating leverage.
In 2025, we introduced an aspirational goal of 30% to 40% growth in adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS per year over the following 3 years. We are pleased to report that we continue to deliver against this aspirational target and now expect approximately 50% growth in adjusted EBITDA in 2026. We also expect a Q4 adjusted EBITDA annualized run rate of over $17 million, up from previous expectations of $15 million. This translates into an annualized run rate for adjusted EPS of around $1.30 in Q4.
Gross margin improved over 550 basis points year-over-year with adjusted gross margins of 88% in Q3, driven by efficiency and increased use of AI. Adjusted EBITDA in Q3 was $3.9 million, up 58% year-over-year. The adjusted EBITDA margin was 35% in Q3.
As we anticipated and as indicated last quarter, litigation expense decreased in Q3. We expect a further reduction in Q4 and believe litigation expense will continue to trend down. We expect meaningful free cash flow generation in Q4 and into 2027, and we recently announced a $15 million stock repurchase program that runs through October 2027. This represents approximately 15% of the outstanding shares at current prices.
It's worth noting that our revenue has nearly doubled over the last 5 years, while our outstanding shares have increased by approximately 10% in this time frame. We also had a strong quarter in terms of GAAP profitability. In Q3, GAAP net income was $1 million or $0.08 per share compared to a net loss of $600,000 and $0.04 per share loss last year. Revenue was approximately $11 million, representing our 43rd consecutive quarter of record revenue. ARR grew $1 million sequentially to $43.3 million at September 30, 2026, 12% over the prior year.
On October 8, we launched 2 new products: Agentic Audits and our SDK MCP. Both are built on what we call AudioEye Intelligence, our proprietary data set created from more than 1 million human accessibility reviews across more than 100,000 sites over 10 years. Our SDK MCP brings AudioEye Intelligence into AI coding tools developers already use so they can catch and fix issues while coding is being created.
Our Agentic Audits use an AI agent powered by our proprietary data set to move through a site the way a real user would, opening menus, filling out forms and going through checkout. They can find up to 50% more high severity issues than automation alone and most results come back within an hour. Our solution already delivers 3 to 4x the legal protection of others. These new products add to that protection, helping developers ship more compliant code from the start and helping companies catch high-risk issues as their sites change. These products represent exciting upsell opportunities.
In September, we released a study on how well AI coding tools build accessible websites. We asked AI agents to create 15 sites that comply with WCAG 2.2 AA standards. We found that even when explicitly instructed to make the site accessible, it could not. The AI-generated sites averaged 55 issues per page compared to 62 on a typical site. And AI-generated e-commerce sites had 3x as many issues as other e-commerce sites. Because AI models have been trained on an inaccessible web, they repeat the same accessibility failures.
Digital accessibility has become a critical part of AI readiness as well as compliance. As more agents complete tasks for humans, they increasingly rely on a web's accessibility tree to navigate the site. To illustrate how important the accessibility tree has become, we've published research on how AI agents perform on inaccessible websites. We ran AI agents through everyday tasks on 6 sites with and without AudioEye's fixes. We found that on the least accessible site, AI agents completed only 31% of their tasks.
With AudioEye fixes, that rose to 96%. The AI agents navigate through a site's accessibility tree. So when it's broken, they can't complete tasks like making a purchase or booking. This means an accessible site now serves 2 audiences, people with disabilities and the AI agents acting on the behalf of customers.
On the regulatory side, in September, the European Standards Body published an updated accessibility standard that adopts WCAG 2.2, which raises the bar for companies covered by the European Accessibility Act. Stateside, Hawaii signed a new law in July, Act 257. Act 257 is the first state law to require all private businesses to conform to WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA through rules the state is now finalizing. This will have significant implications for the travel and hospitality industry. We believe other states may follow Hawaii's lead. The new law took effect July 14, 2026, with compliance deadlines 24 to 36 months after the rules are final.
Turning to guidance. For the fourth quarter of 2026, we expect revenue between $11.4 million and $11.6 million, a sequential increase from the third quarter of 2026 of approximately $550,000 at the midpoint and approximately 20% annualized sequential revenue growth.
For the full year 2026, we are narrowing the revenue range to between $43.6 million and $43.8 million. For the fourth quarter of 2026, we expect adjusted EBITDA of between $4.2 million and $4.4 million, a 56% increase over the fourth quarter of 2025 at the midpoint and an adjusted EBITDA margin of approximately 37%. We expect adjusted EPS of between $0.32 and $0.33 per share for the fourth quarter of 2026.
For the full year 2026, we are increasing adjusted EBITDA guidance from at least $12.7 million to between $13.4 million and $13.6 million, representing approximately 50% year-over-year growth. As mentioned earlier, Q4 adjusted EBITDA guidance represents an annualized run rate of over $17 million, and we expect cash generation to ramp significantly in Q4 and 2027.
In the fourth quarter, at the midpoint of guidance, an adjusted EBITDA of $4.3 million less around $400,000 of software development costs implies $3.9 million of adjusted free cash flow. Litigation expenses decreased in Q3, down approximately 50% from the second quarter. Further decreases in litigation expense are expected in the fourth quarter, contributing to substantial cash generation.
With that, I'll hand it over to Matt to cover our financial results in more detail.
Matthew Domeyer
Thank you, Kelly. As Kelly mentioned, revenue for the third quarter was a record $11 million, representing our 43rd consecutive period of record revenue. Annual recurring revenue was $43.3 million as of September 30, 2026, up from $42.3 million as of June 30, 2026. Year-over-year, ARR grew 12%, driven by double-digit growth in both our partner and marketplace and enterprise channels.
As of September 30, 2026, AudioEye had approximately 130,000 customers, up 7,000 or 6% from approximately 123,000 customers as of September 30, 2025, and up approximately 1,000 from June 30, 2026. The increase was driven primarily by our partner and marketplace channel with enterprise customers also increasing. Both of our 2 revenue channels continued to deliver strong results. AudioEye's enterprise channel consists of our larger customers and organizations that generally engage directly with AudioEye's sales personnel for pricing and solutions.
As we have previously discussed, in 2026, we have reduced our emphasis on nonrecurring revenue to focus on growing ARR. In the third quarter of 2026, enterprise revenue was relatively flat year-over-year with lower nonrecurring revenue being offset by increases in recurring revenue. Our focus on enterprise ARR is showing results, and it increased 10% over the comparable prior year period as we continue to deliver some of our strongest new and expansion business to date. As of September 30, 2026, enterprise ARR represented approximately 41% of total ARR.
Our partner and marketplace channel includes all revenue from our SMB-focused marketplace products as well as from partners who deploy these products for their SMB customers. In the third quarter of 2026, the partner and marketplace channel revenue increased 14% year-over-year. We again saw strong expansion from our state and local government partners in the quarter. Partner and marketplace ARR grew by 14% compared to the prior year quarter and represented approximately 59% of total ARR as of September 30, 2026.
Gross margin for the third quarter expanded over 550 basis points to 83% compared to 77% in the third quarter of 2025. Gross profit grew 15% to $9.1 million compared to $7.9 million in the prior year period. While revenue grew 7%, cost of revenue declined 19%, resulting in 160% conversion of incremental revenue to gross profit. The reduction in cost of revenue came primarily from AI-driven efficiencies in engineering and service delivery.
Adjusted gross margin was 88% in Q3 2026 compared to 83% in the prior year comparable period. The increase in adjusted gross margin is consistent with the GAAP change. In the third quarter of 2026, operating expenses decreased 5% or $400,000 to $7.8 million. The decrease in operating expenses was driven primarily by lower R&D and sales and marketing spend.
Our total R&D spend in Q3 was approximately $1.3 million, including approximately $400,000 recorded as capitalized software development costs. Total R&D spend decreased 17% year-over-year and was around 12% of Q3 2026 revenue, down from 15% in Q3 2025, driven by increased AI usage.
Net income in the third quarter of 2026 was $1 million or $0.08 per diluted share compared to a net loss of $0.6 million or $0.04 per share in the same year ago period, driven by higher gross profit and lower operating expenses noted previously.
In the third quarter of 2026, we achieved record adjusted EBITDA of approximately $3.9 million or adjusted EPS of $0.30 per diluted share and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 35%. This compares to Q3 2025, which had an adjusted EBITDA of $2.5 million or adjusted EPS of $0.19 per share and an adjusted EBITDA margin of 24%. The $1.4 million or 58% increase in adjusted EBITDA over the comparable period of the prior year was primarily driven by increases in gross profit and AI efficiencies.
In the third quarter, we generated $3.5 million of free cash flow, calculated as adjusted EBITDA of $3.9 million plus $400,000 of capitalized software development costs, an improvement of $1.5 million from the third quarter of 2025.
Turning to the balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $9.3 million in cash, an increase of $600,000 from June 30, 2026, and $3 million available under our revolving line of credit. As of September 30, 2026, our net debt, defined as total debt less cash, was $7.2 million. Net debt has declined approximately $1 million year-to-date and our net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio, using the midpoint of our updated 2026 adjusted EBITDA guidance is approximately $0.5 million.
With that, I'll turn the call back to the operator to open the line for questions. Operator?
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Josh Reilly with Needham & Company.
質疑応答
Joshua Reilly
Nice job on the quarter here. I know it's early on the 2 new AI products you released in October, but maybe you can share how much you're seeing in terms of the push-pull dynamics on AI features from customers? And are customers requesting more AI functionality? Or are you seeing that you need to build awareness of what AI can do for them?
Kelly Georgevich
Yes, it's definitely still early days. We just released the product a couple of weeks ago. So far, feedback has been very positive, especially with the customers who have been in beta. I think I'd say both, but I'd say some of it has to be education on the customer side. We think these are really powerful add-ons for customers, especially to do more in real time or between audits. But yes, we're pretty excited about what they can do, especially on the expansion side.
Joshua Reilly
Got it. And then as we think about the ARR growth going forward, how sustainable is this low double-digit growth rate for the balance of 2026? Without giving any specific guidance, what are the puts and takes investors should be considering for Q4 ARR growth that could maybe lead to outperformance? And then in 2027, once again, it seems the demand environment should be further improving given the tailwinds out there. Is there anything we should be considering in terms of the macro or otherwise that may impact demand trends?
Kelly Georgevich
Yes. We had about 12% year-over-year ARR growth, which is good to see. I think we expect that to continue into Q4. We're seeing really good momentum across the board, near record new and expansion business, really solid growth from partners. And so all of that is just a positive for Q4 and expectations there on ARR.
I think we can expect something similar for 2027 with some additional accelerators or things that could move the needle, things like our new product offerings. I think as agents take over more path, the readability of the sites and how accessibility plays into that could be really interesting. And then, of course, enforcement of the EU could move the needle further.
Operator
Up next in the queue, we have George Sutton with Craig-Hallum Capital Group.
George Sutton
Logan on for George here. First one for me, I wonder if you could just unpack the step down in cost of goods sold this quarter a bit more and maybe just talk in any more detail about where the AI efficiencies are coming into play. And I guess, is there more room for margin improvement here? Should we think about this as sort of a onetime step function improvement?
Matthew Domeyer
Logan, it's Matt. Yes, so we saw a 550 basis point increase in margin, which was a really great improvement. The gross profits helped by the growing ARR, and we're able to scale. We've also -- we've got a long track record of lowering expenses and working to manage and scale. And so I think where we're at right now, we expect to be able to maintain those rates, and we'll keep looking for room to expand the margins as we can going forward.
George Sutton
Got it. And then going back to the new AI products and again, recognizing that it's early, but can you give any sense for what kind of uplift in sort of revenue per customer, those new products might have?
Kelly Georgevich
Yes, it's probably too early to quantify it, but I do think they are expansion opportunities for customers kind of like as in between their audits and additional current services that they already have.
Operator
Up next in the queue, we have Richard Baldry with ROTH Capital Partners.
Richard Baldry
I'm going to probably ask a few times going forward because people seem worried about AI sort of becoming a competitive threat in a lot of different verticals. So we've had these tools out for a little while, the large language models. Have you seen any actual new competitors enter the market in trying to leverage those tools to create new businesses and competition with yourselves?
Kelly Georgevich
We haven't seen much in the market, no. I think that study we put out kind of emphasizes what we've been talking about for some time, which is we have this proprietary data set that no one else has over 1 million human fixes over 100,000 websites over 10 years, so no one can replicate that. And what the web has been trained on and what AI is trained on has been inaccessible sites.
So the idea of a new product coming in or a new competitor coming in that can just do what we've been doing for 10 years is just not possible. And that's part of the reason we put out the study over the last 3 months or so is to prove that AI just can't do this. We found that AI eventually had no impact when you instructed it to create a site that was accessible and our AI tools are powered with our proprietary data set.
Richard Baldry
And when you think about the new tools and the automation you're able to achieve with them, is there a way to think about how much of your prior workload you're able to automate? And how much you think you could incrementally automate over time? And how much sort of either now or long term remains probably manual because of complex or other issues?
Kelly Georgevich
Yes. We definitely still find that you need the manual aspect of an audit. What we like about these new products and what they can do is they can find on the Agentic Audits significantly more issues than our automation, about 50% more of the high severity issues. So they're nice little fill-ins after a website redesign or between audits and same on the SDK MCP is while you're creating code, if you can solve a number of the issues that you would have to wait for an audit to find. I think that's pretty powerful.
Richard Baldry
Is there another way to think about sort of how much -- you've had significant improvements in OpEx and on your cost of goods line. How deep into the process of automating your own operating side of the table and your go-to-market COGS side, do you think you're at? How much incremental profitability do you think you could do even off the same revenue base with further automation?
Kelly Georgevich
Yes, we've been able to ramp revenue without ramping expenses for a number of years. And I think AI has just given us that extra kind of milestone where we've been able to implement AI and be very efficient across all departments. I think we expect to see that to continue. So as revenues increase, I don't think we'll need to ramp expenses significantly, but we're still focusing on finding further efficiencies as well.
Richard Baldry
And last for me, more sort of top of the funnel. If you look at your sales overall, sort of the pipelines, can you talk about the degree to which they're expanding either in sort of geographies where the regulatory environment is pushing it outside of those? How do you feel about those entering or heading towards fiscal '27?
Kelly Georgevich
Yes. I think we're seeing some of our best lead volume to date still. And as I mentioned, some of our best new business and expansion ARR to date. Litigation is still growing at record levels. So that's definitely a factor that we're continuing to see. And so regulation is helping, but I think demand overall is growing and that litigation -- private litigation is driving demand as well. As you ramp enforcement, we expect to see additional demand. And I do think there is a possibility for additional demand with the AI readiness and linked to accessibility.
Richard Baldry
Maybe one last one to squeeze in. Your cash hit a multiyear high in the quarter. I'm sort of curious, what do you think a comfortable level of cash for operations is now that your EBITDA is scaling the way it is sort of against the backdrop of how much you'd be willing to use the on-hand cash for buyback versus use it out of quarterly cash flow from ops?
Kelly Georgevich
Yes. Yes. I mean I think we're -- we have the $3 million line of credit. I think we're pretty comfortable at levels that we've been at over the last handful of quarters. I do think that there's a key aspect of a significant cash generation in Q4 and into 2027, which allows us to do a lot with that extra cash, but I think we feel pretty comfortable with where it's at now.
Operator
And our last question comes from the line of Scott Buck with Titan Partners.
Scott Buck
Kelly, on the new Agentic products, how are they priced? Are they stand-alone SKUs? Or are they bundled with kind of existing products?
Kelly Georgevich
You can purchase those either, so you can purchase them as stand-alone and so like an add-on to your current line items on your contract or certain products, 1 of the 2 you can buy as a stand-alone product.
Scott Buck
Okay. Perfect. And then customer accounts rose about 6%. ARR grew 12%. Is ARR growing because of mix, pricing, upsells? Help kind of bridge me there.
Kelly Georgevich
Yes, really across the board. So we saw double-digit ARR growth in both our enterprise, which is kind of new and expansion business, both kind of approaching record numbers and the partner side as well. So kind of operating and performing on all cylinders.
Scott Buck
Okay. And then last one on capital allocation and the announced buyback. How quickly do you expect to execute on the buyback? And is that constrained by the credit agreement?
Kelly Georgevich
I mean our stock is trading at 6x EBITDA adjusted EBITDA and growing 50% over year. So we do think it's an attractive time to buy and a good way to deploy excess cash for our shareholders. We don't see -- we have a good relationship with our debt provider and don't see any issues there.
Operator
At this time, this concludes our question-and-answer session. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Ms. Kelly Georgevich for her closing remarks.
Kelly Georgevich
I'd like to thank our employees, customers and investors for their continued support, and we look forward to providing you an update on the next call.
Operator
Before we conclude today's call, I would like to remind everyone that a recording of today's call will be available for replay via a link in the Investor Relations section of the company's website. Thank you for joining us today for AudioEye's Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. You may now disconnect.
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