엘라우윗(ELWT) 2026년 2분기 실적 발표 콜: 계약 유닛 33% 증가

핵심 요약

• 2026년 2분기 매출은 변동성 있는 건설 및 설치 프로젝트의 타이밍 문제로 인해 전년 동기 대비 46% 감소한 290만 달러를 기록했다.
• 계약 가구 수(units)는 전년 동기 대비 33% 증가한 42,687개를 기록했다. 엘라우잇은 이번 분기 동안 21개 부동산에 걸쳐 약 5,900개 가구를 추가했으며, 상반기 동안 10,000개 이상의 가구 계약을 체결했다.
• 활성화 가구 수는 94% 증가한 27,134개, 청구 가구 수는 163% 증가한 22,967개를 기록하며 반복적인 서비스 매출 창출이 기대되는 기반을 확장했다.
• 엘라우잇은 상장기업 운영 비용과 영업·마케팅 및 효율화 이니셔티브 투자를 반영해 2분기 순손실 310만 달러, 조정 EBITDA 손실 300만 달러를 기록했다고 발표했다.
• 경영진은 건설 활동이 2026년 하반기에 집중될 것으로 예상하며, 연말까지 계약 가구 수 50,000개 돌파를 목표로 하고 있다.
• 계약 수주 잔고는 3,890만 달러 이상을 기록했다. 회사는 또한 연간 약 190만 달러 규모의 영업비용 절감 효과를 발굴했다.

핵심 재무 데이터

2026년 6월 30일 기준 엘라우잇은 현금 및 현금성 자산 120만 달러, 매출채권 360만 달러, 재고자산 290만 달러, 이연매출 530만 달러를 보유하고 있다고 보고했다.

사업 및 영업 실적

엘라우잇의 3대 주요 영업 지표가 모두 성장했다. 계약 가구 수는 전년 동기 32,094개에서 42,687개로 늘어났다. 활성화 가구 수는 13,960개에서 27,134개로 증가했으며, 청구 가구 수는 8,733개에서 22,967개로 크게 늘었다.

회사 측은 부동산 자산이 온보딩과 임대 갱신 일정을 맞춤에 따라 활성화된 가구가 통상 설치 후 12개월에 걸쳐 청구 단계로 전환된다고 설명했다. 이는 계약 가구가 반복적인 서비스 매출로 이어지는 자체 전환 경로를 형성한다.

6월 30일 기준 서면 또는 구두로 수주 확정된 물량은 57개 부동산, 21개 소유주 그룹에 걸쳐 약 16,000가구에 달한다. 해당 설치 작업은 2026년 남은 기간 및 2027년 중에 진행될 예정이다. 관리 중인 영업 파이프라인에는 500개 이상의 부동산과 98,000개 가구가 포함되어 있다.

엘라우잇은 고밀도 시장에 영업 역량을 집중하고 대형 부동산 소유주와의 관계를 확장하고 있다. 경영진은 기존 고객으로부터 추가 부동산 수주를 이끌어내는 '선점 후 확장(land and expand)' 전략이 성과를 내고 있다고 밝혔다.

경영진 가이던스

경영진은 2026년 말 이전에 계약 가구 수가 50,000개를 넘어설 것으로 예상하고 있으며, 이는 연간 기준 46%가 넘는 계약 가구 수 성장을 의미한다고 설명했다.

회사는 하반기 동안 건설 매출과 반복 서비스 매출이 모두 증가할 것으로 전망했다. 전환 프로젝트 비중이 높아지면 종합건설업체 일정에 의존하는 신규 개발 프로젝트보다 건설 활동이 더 빠르고 예측 가능해질 것으로 예상된다.

엘라우잇은 일부 채용 및 기타 추가 비용을 차감한 후 연간 약 190만 달러 규모의 영업비용 절감 효과를 확인했다. 경영진은 2026년 하반기 동안 영업 실적과 순손실이 개선되고 2027년까지 개선세가 이어질 것으로 기대하고 있다.

회사는 네트워크 건설 매출총이익률 목표를 약 20%로 설정했다. 관리형 서비스, NaaS(Network as a Service) 및 기타 요인의 비중에 따라 반복 서비스 이익률은 10%~15% 범위를 유지할 것으로 예상된다.

리스크 및 주시 영역

건설 매출은 여전히 주기적이고 불균등한 특성을 보인다. 신규 개발 프로젝트의 경우 종합건설업체와 순차적으로 작업을 진행해야 하므로 엘라우잇이 일정을 통제하는 데 한계가 있다.

회사가 영업, 마케팅, 상장기업 인프라 및 비용 절감 프로그램에 투자함에 따라 2분기 영업비용이 대폭 증가했다. 경영진은 하반기 효율화 효과를 기대하고 있으나 이러한 이니셔티브로 인해 단기 비용이 발생했다.

포트폴리오 전환 역시 부동산 소유주가 기존 통신사 계약에서 해지되는 시점에 영향을 받을 수 있다. 경영진은 대형 포트폴리오의 경우 4~5년에 걸쳐 꾸준히 프로젝트가 진행되며 전환될 수 있다고 전했다.

회사는 이번 분기 동안 관세로 인한 심각한 공급망 차질은 없었다고 보고했다.

애널리스트 Q&A 주요 내용

경영진은 엘라우잇이 광범위한 영업 테스트 단계를 넘어 효율적으로 승산이 있다고 판단하는 시장과 고객군에 집중하는 타깃형 접근 방식으로 전환했다고 밝혔다. 영업 지출은 단기적으로 감소할 것으로 예상되며 영업 속도가 확장됨에 따라 투자가 다시 증가할 가능성이 있다.

회사는 신규 건설 대비 전환 프로젝트의 비중이 늘어나고 있음을 확인하고 있다. 경영진은 전환 프로젝트가 계약 체결부터 매출 발생 및 수익성 확보까지의 기간을 단축시킨다고 밝혔다.

경영진은 98,000가구 규모의 파이프라인이 대형 다가구 리츠(REITs) 2곳과의 관계에서 발생할 잠재적 향후 프로젝트와 별개라고 설명했다. 해당 소유주들은 추후 2027년 대상 부동산을 추가 배정할 것으로 예상되나, 구체적인 부동산은 아직 확정되지 않았다.

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경영진 발표

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Elauwit Second Quarter 2026 Results Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Matt Kreps of Investor Relations for the company. Please go ahead, sir.

Matthew Kreps

Thank you, and good morning to all. Thank you for joining us today to discuss Elauwit's Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Business Update. The earnings release covering our 2Q 2026 results is now available on the Investors page of our website at investors.elauwit.com. We plan to file our Form 10-Q in the next few days. I would encourage you to review the full text of the release and the accompanying financial tables in conjunction with today's discussion.

This conference call is being webcast live and will be available for replay on our Investors page. Speaking on the call today are Executive Chairman, Dan McDonough; Chief Executive Officer, Barry Rubens; and Chief Financial Officer, James Di Bartolo. We will cover our prepared remarks on the business and financial results, then open the call for questions from our analysts and institutional investors.

Please note that during this call, management will make projections and other forward-looking statements regarding our future performance. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, including those noted in the earnings release, as well as other risks that are more fully described in Elauwit's filings with the SEC. Our actual results may vary materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.

We encourage you to review our filings with the SEC for additional information on factors that could cause actual results to differ from our current expectations. Elauwit specifically disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements except as required by law. We'll also reference adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure. A description of adjusted EBITDA, along with a reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to the most comparable GAAP financial measure, can be found in our earnings release.

And with that, I will now turn the call over to Dan. Please go ahead.

Daniel McDonough

Thank you, Matt, and thank you to everyone who has joined today's call. I'll begin today with an overview of the business trends. Barry will have a discussion around our operations, and James will provide a few highlights from the financial results. Then we'll open to questions from our analysts. The second quarter showed continued strong progress on the key metrics that will drive our growth in long-term recurring service revenue.

We remain fully focused on execution, and the sales activity shows the traction in those efforts. In fact, we achieved record year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter increases in contracted units, with almost 5,900 new units across 21 properties contracted in the second quarter alone.

For those tracking, that represents a 16% quarterly increase in contracted units and 33% annual. Year to date, we have signed more than 10,000 units, and the momentum continues into the third quarter. Our activated units also grew substantially, rising 94% year-over-year, and billed units increased 163% year-over-year, supporting growth in our long-term recurring services revenue.

While revenue declined in the short term, this was due to the timing of our construction contracts for new networks, which can occasionally have an outsized short-term effect on our quarters at the moment. They are lumpy and not evenly distributed throughout the year, as this quarter demonstrated. Even so, we believe we are still on track to our full-year goals, with more construction activity weighted to the second half this year versus the first half.

As we scale, we expect to smooth out the quarters more as construction projects will likely become more evenly distributed through the year, and recurring services revenue will become a larger component of our overall revenue composition. At that point, all of our key customer metrics that measure the overall pace of our business long term, new contracted units, activated units, and billed units increased significantly year-over-year as they did last quarter, and our contracted backlog for long-term services continued to grow. We also have good line of sight to potential new contract awards in our pipeline and contracts that have been verbally awarded ahead to us of formal contracting.

The key takeaway here is that contracted units is the most important KPI we track. And with now almost 43,000 units under contract through June 30th and a robust start to the third quarter, I fully expect to exceed 50,000 units under contract before year end. Doing so would achieve a more than 46% annualized increase in contracted units for 2026.

These wins will drive both construction revenue and long-term recurring revenue as we seek to build a robust and durable business at Elauwit. Before I hand the call over, I'll do a quick recap of our business for those still new to the story.

At its core, the Elauwit model provides simplicity, service, and profit through differentiated broadband infrastructure services provided to multifamily properties in a nearly $26 billion market opportunity. Instead of residents choosing the service provider for just their unit through an inconvenient, expensive, and outdated process, we install and activate ubiquitous carrier-grade gigabit service via fiber and WiFi 6 access throughout an entire property.

The internet fee is then included in every new lease on the property as a standard cost, but usually at a savings compared to other market offerings. The resident signs their lease, gets their keys, and the property-wide WiFi passcode at the same time and is online before they even walk into their unit. Once installed, we generate long-lived recurring service revenue from these properties under a managed service or Network as a Service contract. That alone is a compelling case but we take it one step further by integrating the property owner into the monthly recurring revenue stream, which provides a source of profit, increased recurring cash flow, and higher value for their property.

We call this the win-win-win model because it creates a compelling case for Elauwit across all three constituents in the transaction, the resident, the property owner, and our business. This is a proven model with a large number of units already under contract, plus a rapidly growing pipeline of new installations ahead as more and more properties seek to expand revenue through added services.

We are now moving ahead quickly to expand our service base and sales pipeline of targeted managed services and Network as-a-Service opportunities. In addition to the growth I noted at the start of my comments, our sales team has secured verbal commitments on additional properties, giving insight to our continued selling activity as we work a pipeline of hundreds of thousands of potential units.

We also have increasing expected revenue visibility as we scale, with backlog of more than $38 million in construction and recurring service revenue. The first half of this year has also included a heavy focus on creating a more efficient operating structure. Barry can speak to this more in a moment. We have invested in enhanced business intelligence such as next generation ERP and advanced inventory platforms to provide real-time visibility into business health and rigorous cost controls.

We are also partnering with software development experts to bridge disparate systems, reducing duplicative data entry and reclaiming valuable leadership time. We are scaling our network operation center and account management teams to provide a consistent customer experience.

We are implementing AI and LLM tools to integrate vendor platforms into a single pane of glass, accelerating root cause analysis and proactive service level resolution. We have structured our project management office into pods, specializing in new construction and conversions that pair senior project managers with on-site construction managers for seamless stakeholder reporting. We are also prioritizing automation through custom and off-the-shelf tools to allow our network engineering team to provision and activate properties with unprecedented efficiency.

With that, I will turn the call over to Barry.

Barry Rubens

Thank you, Dan, and good morning, everyone. We are excited to be here and share the exciting progress as the vision for growth that continues to drive our business forward. As Dan said, we track our revenue-generating business across 3 nested metrics once a property is under contract. The first contracted units, those waiting to be built or in the process of installation. Then activated units that are fully installed and turned on for service, but may not be fully billing yet due to onboarding.

And lastly, billed units that are fully generating recurring service revenue under our managed services or NaaS contracts. As a reminder, activated units represent the rollover period throughout the 12 months following installation, and we onboard their costs pro rata to align with property lease renewals. In short, when we complete an installation, we know that we have 12 months of growth ahead, then long-term, stable, and sticky recurring revenue for years to follow. Giving some numbers to these categories based on June 30, 2026, counts.

Contracted units, those waiting to be built or in the process of installation, along with units we currently serve, increased 33% to 42,687 from 32,094 at the end of the prior year period. Activated units, units that are fully installed and on, but may not be fully billing yet due to onboarding, increased 94% to 27,134 from 13,960 at the end of the prior year period. Billed units that are fully generating revenue under our managed services or NaaS contracts, increased 163% to 22,967 from 8,733 at the end of the prior year period. These numbers are the metrics we track in terms of leading indicators for long-term performance.

They indicate our overall scale and the expected growth already built into our system over the next 6 to 24 months as contract units are installed, activated, and converted to billing. It is a steady, relatively predictable arc as we scale and will ultimately lead to a better ability to forecast the core of our business on both an annual and multi-year outlook. A second set of key metrics is the sales and contracts pipeline, which has also grown considerably over the past few quarters.

As the announcement today indicated, our awarded contracts number is moving rapidly north with 16,000 units committed in writing or verbally through June 30. It is interesting to note that our business often gets verbal awards first, and then these paper pretty reliable over a few weeks or months following. These awards to date represent units across 57 properties and 21 different ownership groups for installation over the rest of 2026 and 2027. Our pipeline is robust with more than 500 properties and 98,000 units in our tracking system and a much larger addressable market beyond that.

Digging into our sales activity a bit more, we have been engaged in an exciting sales effort this year, testing a number of new strategies and approaches throughout the first half. We expanded the sales team, deployed a number of in-person and AI-driven strategies, and tested different targeting and approach vectors to determine what worked best for us.

Now we have sharpened our efforts based on feedback that we have seen to date. That includes, right now we are targeting higher density markets, which we often have properties located in, which will give us greater selling and installation efficiency as we win accounts. We're also working closely with large property owners to onboard even larger portions of their total portfolios through incremental property additions.

This land and expand strategy has been working well and simplifies the sales process since they can simply refer to the already excellent service and economic benefit they are seeing at properties they have already awarded to us. The press release of wins at two large national multifamily property REITs is a great example, having won thousands of units, but with hundreds of thousands of units of incremental opportunities still available for future wins. The increased focus on higher density markets is also benefiting us in targeting the middle tier of owners, often managing 2,000 to 5,000 units in total.

This is a big part of our total addressable market, and we believe we are better able to address sales into that segment of the markets under our organization. I should note, and James will elaborate more, that we have undertaken a number of cost efficiency efforts this year to streamline and focus our business practices. This includes new software tools Dan referenced to help us manage resources and sales more effectively, engage in better planning, in inventory control, and other corporate functions. We have also streamlined our headcount and implemented efficiencies in our construction functions to improve operating results.

The first and second quarter largely saw the cost of implementing those solutions, driving costs a bit higher, while the second half will show the benefits. All in, we have identified about $1.9 million in operating cost benefits on an annualized run rate basis, net of a few hires and other add backs. As such, and coupled with increased construction and steadily growing billing unit counts, we expect our operating results and net loss should improve over the second half of this year and continue to do so into 2027.

And with that, I will hand it over to James to briefly recap some of our business highlights from the quarter and year to date. James?

James Di Bartolo

Thank you, Barry. Today, I'll walk through a few of the financial highlights of our second quarter 2026. Revenue for the second quarter decreased 46%, or $2.5 million to $2.9 million year-over-year, reflecting the timing of client construction and installation project revenues, which are periodic and variable in nature. For the six months ended June 30, 2026, total revenue decreased 32.4%, or $3.5 million to $7.3 million compared to the 6 months ended June 30 in 2025, also due to the timing on new construction projects.

New construction in 2026 is weighted to the second half, and the company anticipates an uptick in both construction revenue and recurring services revenue from its growing base of billed units in the balance of the year. Cost of revenue decreased to $2.4 million for the second quarter, compared to $4.5 million for the prior year period. Gross profit was $0.4 million for the second quarter, decreased from $0.8 million for the prior year period, reflecting the short-term decline in construction revenue. Gross margin increased to 15.5% in the second quarter, compared to 15.1% in the prior year quarter.

We have also implemented cost reduction actions intended to further improve our network construction gross margin back into our expected range of approximately 20%, and hold our recurring services margins in a range of 10%-15%, depending on MSP, NaaS, and other factors. Operating expenses were $3.5 million for the second quarter, compared to $1.5 million for the prior year period. The increase reflects our overall increased scale and new listing as a public company on NASDAQ in November 2025, as well as the added investment in our sales and marketing organization and costs associated with our long-term cost reduction initiatives, as Barry just described. We anticipate an annualized run rate of about $1.9 million in total OpEx reductions going forward. We reported an operating loss of $3.1 million for the second quarter, compared to an operating loss of $0.7 million for the prior year period.

Net loss was $3.1 million, compared to $0.9 million for the second quarter last year, driven by our investment in our sales and marketing teams, as well as public company related expenses. Adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter was a loss of $3 million, compared to a loss of $0.7 million in the prior year quarter. The balance sheet remains strong, with cash and cash equivalents at $1.2 million, plus accounts receivable of $3.6 million, and inventories of $2.9 million. Deferred revenue was $5.3 million, and we have contracted backlog of new installations and long-lived recurring service revenues of more than $38.9 million, compared to $35.9 million as of June 30, 2025.

With that, I'll turn it back to Dan.

Daniel McDonough

Thanks, James. A few final comments before moving into Q&A. 2026 has been a year of investing in growth and the future of our business.

We've made substantial gains in unit counts, which will generate long-term recurring service revenue and continue to win more awards to further our growth activity. The most important metric is contracted units, which has grown 33% year-over-year and has us on track to exceed 50,000 units by year-end. We believe this metric drives all of our other KPIs and is a key leading indicator of our continued performance.

We've tested and refined our sales strategy, focusing on key high-density markets and broadening our reach within large property managers who can award dozens of properties and thousands of units in incremental growth over the years to come. We're also making investments into our organization to create a more efficient organization with better tools and resources to support this growth.

These bring the short-term costs, but we believe the gains are already beginning to materialize in the second half of this year and we'll have an even larger benefit as we continue to scale the business. We are excited for the second half and our continued execution to build Elauwit's leading position in our industry and sharing our progress on additional property awards and progress in these efforts.

With that, I'd like to ask the operator to open the call for questions.

Operator

[Operator Instructions]

And the first question will come from Derek Greenberg with Maxim Group.

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Derek Greenberg

My first question is just on the sales team and the ramping of that. I was wondering if you could maybe talk about their progress year-to-date, if you think they're kind of fully ramped and ready to sell or if you think there's still some lag time there? And then two, if you expect any incremental investments in the sales team for the second half?

Daniel McDonough

Yes. Thanks for that question, Derek. Thanks for joining the call, too. I think the broadest way I could say is we talked about this quite a bit in our roadshow that we wanted to really make a big investment coming out of the gates into sales to figure out what works, what doesn't work and really test the market. I think even in certain times, I've referenced it as like almost an R&D kind of approach to sales. And we gained a lot of insight. We stood up systems and processes and gained a lot of insight. And over the last 30, 45 days, we've really refined the process going from a shotgun approach to more of a rifle approach in the areas that we see -- we think we can really win.

So I see our sales expense actually going down because in the beginning, we spent a lot to try to figure out what's the best approach to scale this. And now we're sort of in Phase 2 of the sales process. So I would see us pulling back the expense in sales over the short term, but still getting a lot of velocity. And then as we scale that velocity, adding more sales expense back in.

Derek Greenberg

Okay. Great. That's really helpful. And then I was wondering on both just the contracted units coming in as well as the pipeline. I was wondering maybe if you could talk a little bit about the mix between existing customer portfolios you're converting versus new logos?

Daniel McDonough

Yes. We are seeing an uptick in conversions. It's as opposed to new construction. The good part about that is it speeds up our process from the time of contracting to seeing revenue and seeing profits from it. On the NaaS, in terms of like what part of that is Network as a Service versus managed WiFi side, we're also seeing an uptick, not quite as big uptick in getting into existing properties, but still we're seeing a small increase in that piece of our market share.

Derek Greenberg

Okay. Got it. And then last one for me. I was wondering if there is any commentary on like supply chain or tariff impacts, if there's any issues there, if you're pretty resilient on that front?

Daniel McDonough

I'm certain we're pretty resilient on that front. But James, I don't know if you have anything to add there?

James Di Bartolo

We have not encountered any significant supply chain disruptions over the quarter as a result of tariffs.

Operator

The next question will come from George Sutton with Craig-Hallum.

George Sutton

Dan, I wondered if you can give us a little more of a view on the slow construction in Q2 and then the ramp that you expect. I know a lot more of this is managed services sometimes out of your ability to time. But if you can just kind of walk us through what you're seeing in front of you relative to what we saw in Q2? And are you hitting your construction time lines as part of this?

Daniel McDonough

George, thanks for joining the call, and thanks for that question. It is a funny one. When we talk about backlog, a lot of times companies are talking about their operational inability to fulfill. That is not the case with us. In our instance, and I think it's funny, you mentioned we have limited control over it. We have almost no control over the construction side of this business because, of course, we're sequenced in with the general contractor on these new developments.

Operator

Pardon me, Mr. Sutton, are you muted?

George Sutton

Yes, I apologize. I'm not sure. I think it went into an AirPod.

Barry Rubens

Yes, I think we lost you for a bit, Dan. You may want to repeat your response to George.

George Sutton

Got you. Am I here? Can you hear me?

Daniel McDonough

We can hear you fine now.

Barry Rubens

Yes.

Daniel McDonough

Yes. So George, I was just saying that in the third and fourth quarter, we have a lot more conversion of construction for us as opposed to new construction. It's a lot more predictable, and it's a lot quicker from contracting to actual revenue. So that's why we were way more bullish on Q3 and Q4 for network construction revenue versus the first half of the year, and it's way more predictable.

George Sutton

Got you. I'm just wondering if we could talk about the 4,100 units from the 2 large REITs, and you mentioned hundreds of thousands of potential opportunities there in terms of units. But outside of that, I think, or perhaps inclusive, you're talking about 500 properties and 98,000 units in your pipeline. Can you just make sure we understand those 2 numbers and kind of how it flows in your opinion?

Daniel McDonough

Sure. Actually, Barry, do you want to grab that since you've been chasing the team.

Barry Rubens

Yes. A number of these companies are in their budgeting process, allocating properties that -- where they can get a release from the current carrier and move them over. So for most of these people, what we're looking at is large portfolios convert, it may very well be a steady stream of properties we see coming in over the next 4 or 5 years. So the process is being allocated out by these companies as they, again, free themselves from old contracts and are able to convert those properties, and that really becomes the gating factor.

George Sutton

Just to be clear, when we talk the 2 large REITs and the opportunity there versus what you're talking about in your 98,000 unit pipeline, are those -- are we looking at the same numbers or are those different numbers?

Barry Rubens

No. We're looking at mutually exclusive numbers. They will talk to us as we go into the third and fourth quarter about the properties they're allocating for 2027. We don't have those property names yet. So our focus is purely on execution right now, but we're well aware that these companies have future projects that they want -- that they'll be allocating to us. They are mutually exclusive numbers.

George Sutton

Yes. So to be clear, there's also 500 other properties that are currently in your pipeline that you're pursuing.

Barry Rubens

Correct. Unidentified at this point in time. But if we look at the size of these companies, that's a reasonable estimate.

Operator

And this will conclude our question-and-answer session as well as our conference call for today. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.