Harmonic (HLIT) 2026年第三季度业绩电话会:营收大增64%,上调全年业绩指引
Harmonic 2026财年第三季度营收同比增长64%至1.488亿美元,超出指引区间;Non-GAAP每股收益为0.23美元。其他市场营收占比达46%,同比大幅增长101%。积压订单与递延收入达5.34亿美元。基于强劲表现,管理层第三次上调2026财年全业绩指引,预计全年营收将达5.45亿至5.55亿美元,每股收益为0.80至0.84美元。公司持续推进连接、智能及边缘AI计算战略,但需关注内存及零部件成本上升及供应链带来的挑战。
核心要点
- Harmonic 2026财年第三季度营收同比增长64%至1.488亿美元,超出公司1.25亿美元至1.35亿美元的指引区间。
- Non-GAAP营业利润达到3300万美元,每股收益为0.23美元。毛利率为52.1%,其中包含不到300万美元的未回收内存净成本。
- 其他市场营收同比增长101%,环比增长39%,创纪录地占总营收的46%。同时,该业务还占本季度新签订单额的60%以上。
- 积压订单与递延收入同比增长58%至5.34亿美元,其中72%预计将在12个月内转化为营收。
- 管理层将2026财年全年营收指引上调至5.45亿至5.55亿美元,每股收益指引上调至0.80至0.84美元。这是2026财年第三次上调全年业绩预期。
- Harmonic在7个国家和地区新增了9家客户,其中包括3家区域性一级运营商,同时推进其连接、智能及边缘AI计算的增长战略。
关键财务数据
| 指标 | 2026财年第三季度业绩 | 变化或背景 |
|---|---|---|
| 营收 | 1.488亿美元 | 同比增长64%;指引区间为1.25亿至1.35亿美元 |
| 其他市场营收 | 占总营收的46% | 同比增长101%,环比增长39% |
| 毛利率 | 52.1% | 包含不到300万美元的未回收内存净成本 |
| 运营费用 | 4450万美元 | 增长部分源于激励提存、收购业绩对赌款项以及研发费用重分类 |
| 营业利润 | 3300万美元 | 指引区间为2300万至2800万美元 |
| 每股收益 | 0.23美元 | 指引区间为0.15至0.19美元 |
| 积压订单与递延收入 | 5.34亿美元 | 同比增长58%;较第二季度的5.876亿美元有所下降 |
| 自由现金流 | 负510万美元 | 受库存及应收账款增加影响 |
| 现金 | 1.43亿美元 | 此外还拥有1.6亿美元的可用循环贷款额度 |
| 库存 | 增加2830万美元 | 库存周转天数由第二季度的95天升至120天 |
| 订单出货比 | 0.7 | 其他市场的订单出货比约为1.0 |
四家客户各自贡献了第三季度总营收的10%以上。Harmonic最大的两家客户合计占总营收的54%;管理层指出,这两家客户各自的贡献比例分别为37%和16%。
业务与运营表现
Harmonic的cOS已在167家客户部署,覆盖近5300万台CPE设备。统一DOCSIS 4.0正批量发货,同时Pearl-1XL光纤产品与Oyster+也在加速量产爬坡。
公司在7个国家和地区新增了9家客户。新赢得的客户包括采用DOCSIS和光纤方案的Liberty Latin America、进行统一DOCSIS 4.0升级的TDC以及比利时的一家一级运营商。Harmonic还拓展了日本的Baycom和委内瑞拉的光纤运营商Fibex。
Harmonic收购了一款中立于厂商的光纤管理与配置平台,并将其重新命名为cOS Loop。管理层表示,该平台在既有的巴西客户群中表现良好,并正在吸引来自北美和欧洲客户的兴趣。
在智能业务方面,Harmonic开始了新的SensAI部署以及现有云客户的迁移。Beacon已在25家运营商上线,高于上季度的约20家。公司还推出了与康卡斯特联合开发的Recon,以提供实时光纤监控与故障定位。
管理层继续围绕三大增长引擎构筑其战略,到2030年,这三大引擎的可寻求市场空间合计将超过70亿美元。其中,连接业务约占54亿美元的机会。Harmonic计划于2027年推出其50G光纤解决方案,并预计智能业务在未来三年内将占到营收的10%左右。
管理层业绩指引
| 指标 | 2026财年第四季度指引 | 2026财年全年指引 |
|---|---|---|
| 营收 | 1.41亿至1.51亿美元 | 5.45亿至5.55亿美元 |
| 毛利率 | 51%-52% | 52.1%-52.4% |
| 营业利润 | 2800万至3400万美元 | 1.18亿至1.24亿美元 |
| 每股收益 | 0.19至0.23美元 | 0.80至0.84美元 |
按第四季度指引中值计算,管理层预计营收将同比增长约49%。第四季度营业利润指引包含了约150万美元的沉没成本。
全年营业利润指引包含了约760万美元的沉没成本,低于此前预期的1000万美元。管理层预计,在2027财年第二季度末之前,最初的1000万美元沉没成本中至少有30%将被消除。2026财年预计的Non-GAAP税率维持在23%。
风险与关注事项
- 管理层表示,其谨慎的指引制定方式反映了与中东局势、零部件供应及定价相关的因素与不确定性。
- 第四季度指引包含了约300万美元的内存成本上升,这部分成本预计不会转嫁给客户。
- Harmonic预计面临挑战的内存供应与成本环境将延续至2027年。此外,公司也观察到关键芯片、PCB及其他零部件成本有所上升。
- 随着公司保障供应链稳定,库存与营运资金需求正在上升。第三季度库存增加了2830万美元,而应收账款周转天数由第二季度的61天升至71天。
- 尽管其他市场的营收与新签订单额正在扩大,但客户集中度仍然较高。
分析师问答要点
管理层表示,卫星宽带的竞争仍主要集中在农村地区,并未改变客户的投资优先级。然而,这也进一步强化了运营商对网络质量、客户体验以及运营成本的关注。
关于毛利率,管理层表示第三和第四季度反映了市场上高企的内存价格。提前采购保障了供应可用性,并减少了先前价格上涨带来的冲击,但内存及其他零部件成本在2027年可能仍将居高不下。Harmonic计划在适当情况下提高对客户的售价,以化解更高的零部件成本。
公司计划继续提前数个季度采购内存,以支持不断增长的需求,尤其是为了满足其持续扩大的其他市场客户群的需求。
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Operator
Welcome to the Third Quarter 2026 Harmonic Earnings Conference Call. My name is Heidi, and I will be the operator for today's call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Scott Eckstein, Investor Relations. Scott, you may begin.
Scott Eckstein
Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for Harmonic's Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. With me today are Nimrod Ben-Natan, President and CEO; and Walter Jankovic, Chief Financial Officer.
Before we begin, I'd like to point out that in addition to the audio portion of the webcast, we've also provided slides for this webcast, which you may view by going to our webcast on our Investor Relations website.
Now turning to Slide 2. During this call, we will provide projections and other forward-looking statements regarding future events or future financial performance of the company. Such statements are only current expectations, and actual events or results may differ materially. We refer you to documents Harmonic files with the SEC, including our most recent 10-Q and 10-K reports and the forward-looking statements section of today's preliminary results press release. These documents identify important risk factors, which can cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statements.
And please note that unless otherwise indicated, the financial metrics we provide you on this call are determined on a non-GAAP basis. These metrics, together with corresponding GAAP numbers and a reconciliation to GAAP are contained in today's press release, which we have posted on our website and filed with the SEC on Form 8-K. We will also discuss historical financial and other statistical information regarding our business and operation, and some of this information is included in the press release. The remainder of the information will be available on a recorded version of this call or on our website.
And now I'll turn the call over to our CEO, Nimrod Ben-Natan. Nimrod?
Nimrod Ben-Natan
Thanks, Scott, and welcome, everyone, to our third quarter 2026 earnings call. This is our first call since our September Investor Day, where we laid out a strategy built on 3 growth engines: connectivity, intelligence and edge AI compute. AI is produced in data centers, but it is experienced over broadband. As it moves into homes, businesses and billions of connected devices, the network has to deliver more capacity, lower latency and higher reliability. AI agents already generate a large and fast-growing share of Internet traffic.
What's new this quarter is that the largest AI platforms began launching always-on personal assistants that work around the clock interacting with us and with the connected devices in our homes. That means more sessions, more upstream traffic and tighter latency demands on home broadband. At the same time, broadband remains hypercompetitive. Operators are fighting for every subscriber, so they need to deliver the best customer experience while keeping operating costs in check. That is the role of intelligence and SensAI, which I will cover shortly. Whether operators need more capacity or an enhanced quality of experience and more efficient operations, they are turning to the virtualized distributed architecture we pioneered and the intelligence we've built on it.
Now let's discuss third quarter. It was another quarter of strong execution and a breakout one. Revenue grew 64% year-over-year to $148.8 million, well above the high end of our guidance. Rest-of-Market revenue more than doubled year-over-year to reach a record 46% of total revenue. That's the trend we highlighted at Investor Day, and it puts us on track for Rest-of-Market to become the majority of our business. Rest-of-Market also represented over 60% of our bookings in the quarter.
Reflecting this performance and a more favorable environment, we are once again raising our full year 2026 outlook. We're also continuing to expand our customer base. In the third quarter, we added 9 new customers across 7 countries, spanning DOCSIS and fiber and including telco operators. Three of them are regional Tier 1 operators. Liberty Latin America, which serves more than 20 countries and territories across Latin America and the Caribbean, selected us for DOCSIS and fiber. TDC, Denmark's largest telecommunication and digital infrastructure company, selected our platform for a unified DOCSIS 4.0 upgrade. And we also signed a Tier 1 operator in Belgium.
We also added Baycom, a major regional cable and broadband operator serving Japan's Osaka metropolitan area; and Fibex, a fiber broadband operator expanding high-speed connectivity across Venezuela. We continue to lead in DOCSIS and to extend that leadership position. Our deployed cOS footprint now includes 167 customers serving almost 53 million CPE devices and unified DOCSIS 4.0 is now shipping in volume with a growing number of operators. COS is also helping operators compete for multi-dwelling units, one of the most competitive segments in broadband.
In Washington State, Lightcurve used cOS and our compact Oyster node to deliver 8x1 gigabit per second service over existing in-building coax, giving MDU residents fiber-like speeds without a costly fiber overbuild while keeping the option to add fiber later. And earlier this month, Cablenet, the second largest fixed network operator in Cyprus, announced it is modernizing its access network on cOS, consolidating data centers and hub sites to lower operating costs while improving the subscriber experience. Fiber momentum continued as well. Pearl-1XL introduced earlier this year is now shipping in volume, and we booked another strong quarter for it in the quarter. Oyster+ is ramping too, giving operators a compact power-protected way to extend fiber without a street cabinet.
We also acquired a vendor-agnostic fiber management and provisioning platform this quarter and rebranded it cOS Loop. Loop is performing well with its established customer base in Brazil, and we are seeing strong interest from Harmonic customers in North America and Europe. Intelligence was also a big part of our quarter. In September, we launched SensAI, an open intelligence fabric that works across any network and any vendor, turning data from every system into decisions operators can act on. SensAI came to market after extended trials with operators, and customers' feedback has been very strong.
We are now in the next stage. New wins and the migration of our existing cloud customers onto SensAI have already begun. At SCTE TechExpo, we demonstrated SensAI running live on a production network, finding issues inside the home and out in the plant on DOCSIS and fiber regardless of vendor. And it is already delivering value. At one operator, SensAI pinpointed in about 10 minutes a field issue the team had chased for 10 days, then caught another fault further down the same line.
Our installed intelligence base also grew with Beacon now live at 25 operators, up from about 20 last quarter. And now the cOS Loop is part of Harmonic, we have integrated its data into SensAI and launched proof of concept with a handful of Loop customers. We also launched Recon developed with Comcast, which brings fiber monitoring technology proven in Comcast network to cable and fiber operators alike. It gives operators real-time visibility across their fiber, spotting degradation and fiber cuts before customers notice and pinpointing where to fix them. And because it integrates with SensAI, small issues are stopped before they become outages.
Let me now turn to Slide 5 and give you our first quarterly update on the 3 growth engines we outlined at our Investor Day, which together represent a total addressable market opportunity of more than $7 billion by 2030. We will report on each of them every quarter. Connectivity is our core market, representing roughly $5.4 billion of that opportunity. Our strategy is to address it on one cOS platform, extend our leadership in DOCSIS, continue taking our fiber portfolio beyond cable into telco and get ahead of the move to 50 gig. For telcos, our OLT portfolio, including hardened remote OLTs and our open ONT approach provide the interoperability and supply choice they want. And with cOS Loop, our fiber offering is now end-to-end and works across multi-vendor networks.
Our differentiated 50-gig solution received very positive feedback at recent industry events and is on track for introduction in 2027, positioning us for the next wave of fiber investment. Intelligence is our newest growth market and the timing could not be better. In a hypercompetitive environment, operators win and keep subscribers on reliability and experience, and they have to do it without adding cost. That is exactly what SensAI is built for. And with Recon and cOS Loop feeding it, our intelligence portfolio now spans DOCSIS and fiber from inside the home to the broader network.
Our strategy is to turn our installed base into a natural on-ramp for SensAI revenue. Starting this quarter and running through 2027, we are migrating all of our premium cloud customers onto SensAI, so when they choose to expand into its full capabilities, there is nothing new to deploy. With an expanding SensAI pipeline, we remain on the path we outlined at the Investor Day. We expect Intelligence to reach about 10% of revenue over the next 3 years, adding a new and growing recurring revenue stream for Harmonic.
Edge AI compute is our third growth engine, and it represents potential upside to our long-term model. As operators modernize with cOS, they free up space and power and facilities that sit milliseconds from their subscribers and businesses. This quarter, our largest customers highlighted where Edge AI compute is heading. One begun live streaming for more than 200 Edge compute sites inside its network and another announced commercial Edge AI partnerships on compute it can activate across more than 1,000 facilities. Our opportunity is to bring this capability to the broader market using cOS as the orchestration layer, and we are in development with key customers and partners.
That concludes my opening remarks. With that, I will turn the call over to Walter to walk through our financials in more detail.
Walter Jankovic
Thanks, Nimrod, and thank you all for joining us today. Before I discuss our quarterly results and outlook, I'd like to remind everyone the financial results I'll be referring to on this call are provided on a non-GAAP basis. As Scott mentioned earlier, our Q3 press release and earnings presentation include reconciliations of our non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures, both of these are available on our website.
I'm pleased to report that we had a breakout third quarter with revenue increasing 64% year-over-year to $148.8 million, which far exceeded the high end of our guidance. This included over 100% growth in Rest-of-Market. In addition, we closed the quarter with backlog and deferred revenue of $534 million, up 58% year-over-year. Notably, over 60% of bookings in the quarter came from Rest-of-Market. Given these results and a strengthening demand environment, we are once again raising our full year guidance with revenue now expected to be between $545 million and $555 million, up from our prior range of $505 million to $525 million. I'll provide a more detailed breakout of our guidance shortly.
Let's move to Slide 7, where we have the financial highlights for the quarter. Revenue was $148.8 million, well above our guidance range of $125 million to $135 million. Gross margin for the quarter was 52.1%, just above the high end of our guidance range, inclusive of net unrecovered memory costs of less than $3 million. Operating expenses were $44.5 million, above our guidance range, mainly due to performance-based incentive accruals tied to our improved full year 2026 financial performance forecast and earn-outs associated with our Q3 tuck-in acquisition of a vendor-agnostic fiber management and provisioning platform.
OpEx also reflects the completion of a multiyear custom development project in Q2. The engineers on this program were previously charged to cost of revenue and are now in R&D assigned to other products, which adds approximately $2 million per quarter to operating expenses starting in Q3.
Moving to the bottom line. EPS was $0.23, well above our guidance range of $0.15 to $0.19; and operating profit was $33 million, exceeding our guidance of $23 million to $28 million. These results include $1.5 million in stranded costs related to the Video business sale, net of TSAs. The revenue upside was broad-based and included a number of Rest-of-Market customers ramping their deployments during the quarter as well as a seasonal increase in our outside plant services business.
In Q3, 4 customers each accounted for more than 10% of revenue. Our top 2 customers represented 54% of total revenue combined. Our Q3 Rest-of-Market revenue showed very strong year-over-year growth of 101% and sequential growth of 39% and represented 46% of total revenue, highlighting our expanding customer diversification. As a reminder, Rest-of-Market revenue describes all revenue that is not from our 2 largest customers as measured by subscriber count.
Turning to Slide 8, you can see our balance sheet and cash flow highlights. Our sequential cash change was largely due to a $75 million repayment of borrowings under our revolving credit facility during the quarter, leaving $160 million available under this facility at October 2. Additionally, we had negative free cash flow of $5.1 million for the quarter, which was due in part to a continued increase in inventory, including memory as we took delivery to secure supply for growth and an increase in receivables. DSO at the end of Q3 was 71 compared to 61 in Q2 '26 and 61 in Q3 '25. As we've stated on past calls, we expected DSO to trend back to the low 70s based on our customer mix and timing of revenue.
Inventory increased $28.3 million in the quarter, and our days inventory on hand increased to 120 days from 95 days last quarter. This too was expected as we support growth and secure supply. Our overall book-to-bill was 0.7 in Q3 with rest of market book-to-bill around 1.0. Q3 has traditionally been a lower bookings quarter for the business. As we have said before, we expect book-to-bill to fluctuate from quarter-to-quarter, but over time to return to our historical benchmark of greater than 1, reflecting the growth in our business.
At the end of Q3, backlog and deferred revenue was $534 million, up 58% year-over-year and down from $587.6 million in Q2 on seasonally lower bookings, of which 72% is expected to convert to revenue within the next 12 months. This gives us increased visibility for the remainder of 2026 and into '27. As shown on Slide 9, we continue to believe we have ample liquidity to support our capital allocation priorities with $143 million in cash and $160 million undrawn credit facility. We repaid $75 million under our revolving credit facility in the quarter to reduce interest costs, while keeping the full $160 million available to us. This total available liquidity gives us the financial flexibility to execute our capital allocation plan. Our capital allocation priorities remain unchanged: invest in organic growth and diversification, return capital to our shareholders and pursue strategic M&A to accelerate our growth strategy and diversify our business.
In line with our first key priority, we plan to keep investing in organic growth. Organic opportunities exist in both our Intelligence Platform business and Fiber portfolio, including 50 gig; as well as in the new markets we outlined during our recent Investor Day. We will also continue to invest in inventory over the next several quarters, including advancing memory and other purchases to secure supply. Under our current $200 million share repurchase program, to date, we've already repurchased $142 million of our shares, including $4 million of shares during the third quarter and $16 million following the end of the third quarter.
As we stated previously, we expect to fund ongoing repurchases through both current cash and strong free cash flow generation over the next several years with a minimum goal of purchasing enough shares each year to offset any dilution from equity compensation awards. In addition, with our substantial cash position and available liquidity, we are well positioned to explore additional inorganic growth opportunities that would accelerate our growth and diversification strategy, including scaling our Intelligence platform. In Q3, we completed the tuck-in acquisition of a vendor-agnostic fiber management and provisioning platform company referred to now a cOS loop.
Turning to guidance on Slide 10. Here, we provide our continuing operations non-GAAP financial guidance for Q4 '26 and full year '26, which reflects our raised full year 2026 outlook. We continue to take a measured approach to guidance for both revenue and margins. We believe this is prudent given external factors such as the situation in the Middle East, and secondarily, component supply dynamics and pricing. Our full year margin guidance incorporates the current market pricing for memory.
Now let me walk you through the guidance. For Q4 '26, we expect to deliver revenue between $141 million and $151 million; gross margins between 51% and 52%, reflecting elevated memory costs; operating profit between $28 million and $34 million; and EPS between $0.19 and $0.23. As our guidance shows, we expect strong year-over-year revenue growth to continue in Q4 '26 at approximately 49% at the midpoint. Q4 operating profit includes approximately $1.5 million in stranded costs.
For the full year 2026, we expect revenue between $545 million and $555 million, up $35 million or 6.8% from the midpoint of our prior guidance. Gross margins between 52.1% and 52.4%, up from 51% to 52% previously guided. Operating profit between $118 million and $124 million and EPS between $0.80 and $0.84, up approximately $0.11 or 15.5% from the midpoint of our prior guidance.
This is the third time this year that we have raised our full year outlook. Compared to the full year outlook provided at the start of the year in February, our current full year outlook at the midpoint reflects a revenue increase of approximately 20% and EPS increase of [ 50% ]. This demonstrates the momentum that has been building in our business. In addition, with minimal debt and a net cash position, changes in interest rates have little impact on our earnings.
As we noted last quarter, we have built in approximately $3 million in Q4 for net increased memory costs that are not expected to be passed on. Our team has done a terrific job securing memory supply for the rest of 2026 and well into 2027. We believe the current challenging supply and cost environment will persist into 2027. Beyond memory, we are beginning to see other component costs rising through 2027, and we plan to mitigate these cost pressures by passing through increases to customers where appropriate. Additionally, full year operating profit now includes approximately $7.6 million in stranded costs, down from our prior estimate of $10 million. And to reiterate what we said on prior earnings calls, we continue to believe approximately 30% or more of the original $10 million of stranded costs are temporary and will be eliminated by the end of Q2 '27. Please note that our expected non-GAAP tax rate for full year '26 remains at 23%.
In summary, in the third quarter, we delivered results that once again significantly exceeded our guidance with revenue growing 64% year-over-year. Our strong backlog and deferred revenue and secured supply give us increased visibility, enabling us to once again raise our full year '26 guidance.
Thank you for your attention. And now I'll turn it back to Nimrod for closing remarks before we open up the call for questions.
Nimrod Ben-Natan
Thanks, Walter. To close, Q3 marked another quarter of strong execution and a record-setting one. Revenue was up 64% year-over-year. Rest-of-Market was a record 46% of total revenue. We signed 9 new customers, including 3 regional Tier 1s, and we made real progress on each of our 3 growth engines. And as a result of all of this, we are once again raising our full year 2026 outlook.
Our long-term growth rests on 4 pillars: technology leadership, an expanding addressable market, a strong operating model and proven execution. This quarter, we delivered on all 4 of these, and operators keep choosing Harmonic because we let them evolve their networks from DOCSIS to fiber to intelligence and the Edge on one platform.
That concludes our prepared remarks. Walter and I are now happy to take your questions.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] We will take our first question, and your question comes from Simon Leopold from Raymond James.
分析师问答
Simon Leopold
First, just a quick clarification, if I might, and then the question. You mentioned 54% of revenue from your top 2 customers. I want to confirm that these are the same top 2 we've seen and if you might be able to give us the breakdown between those 2?
And then the question I wanted to ask about is regarding -- I would characterize as at least a perceptual threat of competition to your customers coming from satellite. I want to get your perspective on how you're hearing and what you're discussing with your customers as far as their need to upgrade and their consideration of a new dimension of not just competing against cable versus telco, but versus satellite as an alternate broadband provider.
Walter Jankovic
Simon, it's Walter. I'll take your first question. With regards to the top 2 customers, those are always the same top 2 because it's based on the highest subscriber count. And in the quarter, as we mentioned, they were 37% and 16% in terms of those 2 customers.
Nimrod Ben-Natan
And Simon, to your question about the competitive environment, it's hypercompetitive. And it is very competitive on the fixed wireless and on fiber in different geographies. I think the satellite broadband is mostly in rural areas. You definitely see that less in the urban kind of more densely populated areas. Regardless, we see our customers really focusing on making sure their network is competitive, making sure they provide the best quality of experience and they do all of that at the lowest possible cost.
It's -- they want to make sure that they don't kind of break the envelope of their operating environment. So in summary, the broadband -- the satellite broadband by itself does not change the investment or priorities that we're seeing. It is simply sharpening the focus that they have on what they need to do.
Operator
We will take our next question, and the question comes from Steven Frankel from Rosenblatt Securities.
Steven Frankel
Congratulations. Walter, you've shown some good resilience on gross margin. How would you kind of contribute that? How much of that is buying well ahead of time versus maybe pricing or product mix as we move forward, and incorporating Q4 as well as you think about that because that guidance seems a little higher than at least I was anticipating?
Walter Jankovic
Yes, Steve. So with regards to the memory cost, what you're seeing in both Q3 and Q4 is now the elevated level of cost for memory. So think of it as kind of the market price that's out there for memory. So we did front run a lot of memory, and that benefited us on the first half of the year. Now we've continued to see memory prices going up even from the levels that, let's say, we're at in the Q3, Q4 time frame. However, that increase is marginal compared to what we had seen earlier in the year when we were stockpiling memory to facilitate the supply for this year as well as well into 2027.
So the way I think about the margins right now, you see Q3 and Q4 are kind of similar in that range that we've provided previously, and in both quarters, we are anticipating in Q4, again, about a $3 million impact as a result of the -- those elevated memory costs. And as we think about next year, we'll continue seeing that kind of level of cost, if not a little bit higher than that in memory. I think one of the other things I mentioned in the prepared remarks today is that we're also seeing other component costs increasing as we go through 2027. And as I mentioned on the -- in the remarks that we expect to mitigate that by passing that on to customers as appropriate.
Steven Frankel
Okay. And could you give us an update on the fiber customer count?
Nimrod Ben-Natan
We did not break down the fiber customers out of the total that we provide every quarter. The total itself is broken down into 3 categories: cable only, cable and fiber and fiber only, but we don't break them down. Out of the 9 that we announced this quarter, there's a handful that are fiber customers and our fiber business is expanding with existing customers as well.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] We will take our next question, and the question comes from George Notter from Wolfe Research.
Taran Katta
This is Taran Katta on for George. Can you talk a little bit about what components you're seeing price increases? And then kind of on the tail end of that, to what extent do you expect to raise pricing on those? It sounds like this is more of a '27 event.
Walter Jankovic
Yes, certainly. As we are looking forward and working with the supply base, we're seeing components going up in terms of key silicon as well as items like PCBs as well as other components across the board. It's something that we're very focused on as we go through 2027. And as I mentioned, our expectation is to raise prices accordingly for the increases that we're seeing in some of these key components.
Taran Katta
Okay. Got it. And then just one last question here. To what extent do you intend to make more memory purchases? Because it sounds like you guys are going to continue pursuing that even though you have inventory into -- well into '27. What's your strategy there?
Walter Jankovic
Our strategy has been to stay way ahead of it in terms of making sure we've got supply for our customers to be able to fulfill the increasing demand that we're seeing across all of our customer base, as you've seen today, definitely increasing in terms of the Rest-of-Market revenue and customer base. So we are staying ahead of it in terms of going ahead so many quarters and picking up memory to ensure that we've got the supply. And as in the earlier question, by getting ahead of it, it's actually saved us some money as those commodities have increased in cost.
Operator
There are no further questions. I will now hand the call back to management for closing remarks.
Nimrod Ben-Natan
We appreciate your continued interest in Harmonic and look forward to updating you on our progress in the future. Thank you all for joining the call. Have a good day.
Operator
This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.
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