Arlo (ARLO) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Date

Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET

Call participants

  • Chief Executive Officer — Matthew McRae

  • Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer — Kurt Binder

Full Conference Call Transcript

Matthew McRae, CEO; and Mr. Kurt Binder, COO and CFO. If you have not received a copy of today's release, please visit Arlo's Investor Relations website at investor.arlo.com. Before we begin the formal remarks, we advise you that today's conference call contains forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements include statements regarding our potential future business, operating results and financial condition, including description of our revenue, gross margins, operating margins, earnings per share, expenses, cash outlook, free cash flow and free cash flow margin, ARR, Rule of 40 and other KPIs, guidance for the first quarter of 2026, the long-range plan targets, the rate and timing of paid subscriber growth, the commercial launch and momentum of new products and services, the timing and impact of tariffs, strategic objectives and initiatives, market expansion and future growth, partnerships with various market leaders and strategic collaborators, continued new product and service differentiation and the impact of general macroeconomic conditions on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Actual results or trends could differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. For more information, please refer to the risk factors discussed in Arlo's periodic filings with the SEC, including our annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed earlier today. Any forward-looking statements that we make on this call are based on assumptions as of today, and Arlo undertakes no obligations to update these statements as a result of new information or future events. In addition, several non-GAAP financial measures will be discussed on this call. A reconciliation of the GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures can be found in today's press release on our Investor Relations website.

At this time, I would now like to turn the call over to Matt.

Matthew McRae: Thank you, Tahmin, and thank you, everyone, for joining us today on Arlo's First Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. During the exhaustive earnings process, the repetition of superlatives probably rings hollow, but I hope that you can see by any measure, Arlo truly had a spectacular quarter built on strong execution across our entire business and across all our key metrics. Both revenue and EPS were records, underscoring the strength of our results and came in well above the top end of our guidance range for the quarter. In fact, total revenue was up 26% year-over-year and hit $150 million, while non-GAAP EPS came in at an incredible $0.28 per share, which was up 86% year-over-year.