Inseego (INSG) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Date

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

Call participants

  • Chief Executive Officer — Juho Sarvikas

  • Chief Financial Officer — Steven Gatoff

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Full Conference Call Transcript

Juho Sarvikas: Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. This is a very exciting chapter for Inseego and an important step in the company's transformation to diversify revenue and at scale. Over the past year, we have been executing a strategy focused on increasing stockholder value by strengthening the foundation of the company, expanding our product portfolio and customer base, broadening our routes to market and solidifying our leading position as the partner of choice across mobile and enterprise FWA. Last week, we accelerated that strategy in a very significant way with the announcement of a truly transformational acquisition for Inseego.

It is the largest revenue deal in the company's history, and it's one that we structured very thoughtfully to meaningfully derisk the profile of the transaction. We view it as a major milestone and important inflection point for the company for three reasons: First, it will more than double the revenues as of the company and take us from a North America-centric player to be the new global leader in wireless broadband in one decisive move as our end markets expand from North America to Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Second, it gives us one of the broadest portfolios in the industry across consumer and business markets, including FWA, mobile routers and IoT gateways that we can use to address the expanded TAM. And third, it establishes a unique and strategic partnership with Nokia across go-to-market, AI, 6G and the future of the wireless edge. Before I discuss the acquisition in more detail, I want to first cover our Q1 2026 results and provide color on our operational progress and some challenges in the quarter that we're managing through. Q1 revenue grew 8% year-over-year to $34.3 million. Adjusted EBITDA was $1.8 million, and both revenue and adjusted EBITDA were within our guidance. We also delivered healthy gross margins at 48.9%.

As we said on our Q4 call in February, 2026 is a year of investment in carrier ramps, product launches and portfolio expansion in the first half, followed by benefits of greater scale, improving operating leverage and stronger profitability as the year progresses. Q1 played out largely as we expected and in line with what we discussed on our Q4 call. One challenge in Q1 was in FWA. Our large FWA customer overhauled its executive team and changed its approach to enterprise go-to-market, which created disruption for us in the quarter. We are working with them to realign the go-to-market and expect to see progress.