Elauwit (ELWT) 2026财年第二季度业绩电话会：签约单位数增长33%

核心要点

• 2026财年第二季度营收同比下降46%至290万美元，主要是受可变施工及安装项目进度的影响。
• 已签约套数同比增长33%至42,687套。Elauwit本季度在21处物业中新增了近5,900套，上半年累计签约超10,000套。
• 已激活套数增长94%至27,134套，计费套数增长163%至22,967套，扩大了预计产生经常性服务收入的客户基础。
• Elauwit报告第二季度净亏损为310万美元，调整后EBITDA亏损为300万美元，反映出上市公司相关费用以及在销售、营销和效率举措方面的投资。
• 管理层预计施工活动将集中在2026财年下半年，并力争在年底前使签约套数突破50,000套。
• 已签约在手订单超过3890万美元。该公司还确认了约190万美元的年化运营成本优化效益。

核心财务数据

截至2026年6月30日，Elauwit报告拥有120万美元的现金及现金等价物、360万美元的应收账款、290万美元的存货以及530万美元的递延收入。

业务与运营表现

Elauwit的三大核心运营指标均实现增长。签约套数达到42,687套，高于去年同期的32,094套；激活套数从13,960套增至27,134套；计费套数则从8,733套升至22,967套。

该公司表示，由于物业方会将上线接入与租约到期续签相结合，已激活套数通常在安装后的12个月内逐步转化为计费套数。这形成了一条从签约套数到经常性服务收入的天然转化路径。

截至6月30日，通过书面或口头中标涵盖的项目约包含57处物业、21个业主集团的16,000套房屋。这些项目的安装预计将在2026年剩余时间内及2027年进行。追踪的销售意向管线包含500多处物业和98,000套房屋。

Elauwit正将销售力量集中于高密度市场，并拓展与大型物业所有者的合作关系。管理层透露，其“落地并扩张”策略正持续带来来自现有客户的新增物业项目。

管理层业绩指引

管理层预计在2026年底前签约套数将突破50,000套，这意味着该年度签约套数的年化增长率将超过46%。

公司预计下半年的施工收入与经常性服务收入均将实现增长。与受制于总承包商进度的开发新项目相比，更高比例的既有项目改造将使施工活动更为快捷且更具可预测性。

扣除特定招聘及其他新增支出后，Elauwit已确认约190万美元的年化运营成本优化效益。管理层预计，2026财年下半年的经营业绩和净亏损将有所改善，并将在2027财年持续改善。

公司的目标是网络建设毛利率达到20%左右。根据托管服务、网络即服务（NaaS）及其他因素的组合情况，预计经常性服务毛利率将保持在10%至15%的范围内。

风险与关注领域

施工营收仍具有周期性和不均匀性。对于新开发项目，由于其施工进度必须与总承包商保持顺次配合，Elauwit对施工进度的掌控力有限。

由于公司在销售、营销、上市公司基础设施及成本削减计划方面加大投入，第二季度运营费用大幅增加。管理层预计效率效益将在下半年显现，但这些举措在短期内产生了成本。

物业组合改造还取决于物业所有者是否解除与原有运营商的合同。管理层表示，大型物业组合可能需要在四到五年的时间里通过一系列持续的项目来完成过渡。

该公司报告称，本季度未受到关税带来的重大供应链中断影响。

分析师问答环节亮点

管理层表示，Elauwit已从广泛的销售测试阶段转向更具针对性的策略，重点关注其认为能够高效赢得业务的市场和客户群体。预计短期内销售支出将有所减少，但随着销售增速的扩大，投资可能会再次增加。

与新建设项目相比，公司看到了更多的既有项目改造需求。管理层指出，改造项目缩短了从合同签署到产生营收和实现盈利的时间周期。

管理层明确指出，98,000套意向项目管线并不包含与两家大型多家庭住宅房地产投资信托（REIT）合作的未来潜在项目。预计这些业主将在稍后分配额外的2027年物业，但具体的物业尚未确定。

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管理层陈述

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.

分析师问答

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.