second quarter 2026
Filed Aug 6, 2026AlphAI · Earnings readINOD · second quarter 2026 · ended June 30, 2026
Innodata Reports Record Second Quarter 2026 Results
✓Strong quarter
Revenue grew 58% year-over-year to $92.1 million, adjusted gross margin expanded to 49%, adjusted EBITDA rose to $25.4 million, and the company reiterated full-year 2026 revenue growth guidance of 40% or more year-over-year.
Revenue
$ 92,142 (In thousands)
58% y/y
Gross margin · GAAP
46 %
EPS · GAAP
$ 0.41
full-year 2026 outlook
40% or more year-over-year
Key metrics
as reported| Metric | Value | q/q | y/y |
|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueGAAP | $ 92,142 (In thousands) | – | 58% |
| Six-month revenueGAAP | $ 182,238 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Direct operating costsGAAP | 49,682 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Selling and administrative expensesGAAP | 26,600 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Interest income, netGAAP | (1,695) (In thousands) | – | – |
| Income before provision for income taxesGAAP | 17,555 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Provision for income taxesGAAP | 3,143 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Net income attributable to Innodata Inc. and SubsidiariesGAAP | $ 14,412 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Basic income per share attributable to Innodata Inc. and SubsidiariesGAAP | $ 0.43 | – | – |
| Diluted income per share attributable to Innodata Inc. and SubsidiariesGAAP | $ 0.41 | – | – |
| Weighted average shares outstanding, basicGAAP | 33,468 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Weighted average shares outstanding, dilutedGAAP | 34,771 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Gross Profit attributable to Innodata Inc. and SubsidiariesGAAP | $ 42,460 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Gross MarginGAAP | 46 % | – | – |
| Adjusted Gross Profitnon-GAAP | $ 45,383 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Adjusted Gross Marginnon-GAAP | 49 % | – | – |
| Adjusted EBITDAnon-GAAP | $ 25,355 (In thousands) | – | 92% |
| Six-month net income attributable to Innodata Inc. and SubsidiariesGAAP | $ 29,310 (In thousands) | – | – |
| Six-month basic income per share attributable to Innodata Inc. and SubsidiariesGAAP | $ 0.89 | – | – |
| Six-month diluted income per share attributable to Innodata Inc. and SubsidiariesGAAP | $ 0.86 | – | – |
| Six-month Adjusted EBITDAnon-GAAP | $ 50,339 (In thousands) | – | – |
full-year 2026 outlook
- Revenue40% or more year-over-year
- NoteThere are large potential programs from both new and anticipated customers that are not factored into our 40% number.
What drove it
- Adjusted Gross Margin of 49% was driven by mix: off-the-shelf datasets, where the company retains intellectual property and monetizes the same asset across multiple customers, as well as high-value pre-training programs.
- The company announced a significant new program with its largest customer covering personalization of long-horizon agents and a second program covering reinforcement-learning environments for computer-use agentic tasks.
- Innodata landed a new customer in the quarter described as one of the fastest-scaling frontier labs.
- The company released two public benchmarks and the first stage of its AI Cyber Training Suite, comprising twelve datasets and evaluation systems.
Concerns
- The largest customer represented 37% of revenue in Q2, despite declining from 56% in Q1.
- The largest customer contributed less revenue in Q2 than in Q1.
- Large potential programs from new and anticipated customers are not factored into the 40% revenue-growth guidance.
- The company states that contracts may be terminated by customers and that projected or committed volumes of work may not materialize.
- The company cites continued reliance on project-based work and the primarily at-will nature of such contracts.
What to watch
- Whether the largest customer grows year-over-year for the full year, as forecast by management.
- The timing, scope and conversion of potential programs from new and anticipated customers into guidance.
- Customer concentration following the change in mix between the largest customer and the Big Tech customer.
- Execution of enterprise-scale, multi-modal data-collection programs following robotics pilots.
- The planned leadership transition effective September 30, 2026, when Rahul Singhal becomes President and Chief Executive Officer and Jack Abuhoff becomes Executive Chairman.
Balance sheet and cash flow
- Cash and cash equivalents: $ 240,278 as of June 30, 2026; $ 82,216 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Short term investments: 10,093 as of June 30, 2026; 14 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Accounts receivable, net: 47,560 as of June 30, 2026; 46,510 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Prepaid expenses and other current assets: 22,833 as of June 30, 2026; 6,654 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Total current assets: 320,764 as of June 30, 2026; 135,394 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Property and equipment, net: 8,392 as of June 30, 2026; 7,966 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Right-of-use asset, net: 3,571 as of June 30, 2026; 4,094 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Other assets: 3,206 as of June 30, 2026; 1,648 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Deferred income taxes, net: 4,515 as of June 30, 2026; 3,429 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Intangibles, net: 14,189 as of June 30, 2026; 13,983 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Goodwill: 2,036 as of June 30, 2026; 2,079 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Total assets: $ 356,673 as of June 30, 2026; $ 168,593 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Accounts payable: $ 53,039 as of June 30, 2026; $ 9,615 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Advances from customers: 66,962 as of June 30, 2026; 1,812 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Accrued expenses and other liabilities: 36,346 as of June 30, 2026; 7,800 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Accrued salaries, wages and related benefits: 15,568 as of June 30, 2026; 16,480 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Deferred revenues: 6,246 as of June 30, 2026; 7,493 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Income and other taxes: 3,900 as of June 30, 2026; 4,471 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Total current liabilities: 185,603 as of June 30, 2026; 50,532 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Long-term obligations, net of current portion: 8,944 as of June 30, 2026; 7,625 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Total liabilities: 197,139 as of June 30, 2026; 61,531 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Stockholders' equity: 159,534 as of June 30, 2026; 107,062 as of December 31, 2025 (In thousands)
- Net cash provided by operating activities: 164,441 for the six months ended June 30, 2026; 14,990 for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Capital expenditures: (5,309) for the six months ended June 30, 2026; (4,058) for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Purchase of short term investments: (10,079) for the six months ended June 30, 2026; - for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Net cash used in investing activities: (15,388) for the six months ended June 30, 2026; (4,058) for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Proceeds from exercise of stock options: 10,904 for the six months ended June 30, 2026; 1,468 for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Payment of long-term obligations: (877) for the six months ended June 30, 2026; (117) for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Net cash provided by financing activities: 9,965 for the six months ended June 30, 2026; 1,351 for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Net increase in cash and cash equivalents: 158,062 for the six months ended June 30, 2026; 12,895 for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Cash and cash equivalents, end of period: $ 240,278 for the six months ended June 30, 2026; $ 59,792 for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (In thousands)
- Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments: $250.4 million as of June 30, 2026, an increase of $168.2 million from $82.2 million as of December 31, 2025.
- Cash as of June 30, 2026 includes customer prepayments related to pass-through costs; net of these prepayments, cash was approximately $134 million as of June 30, 2026.
Analysis
Innodata reported a record second quarter, with GAAP revenue of $ 92,142 (In thousands), up 58% year-over-year from $ 58,393 (In thousands). GAAP net income attributable to Innodata Inc. and Subsidiaries was $ 14,412 (In thousands), versus $ 7,219 (In thousands), while diluted income per share was $ 0.41, compared with $ 0.20. The six-month figures also showed higher revenue of $ 182,238 (In thousands), net income of $ 29,310 (In thousands), and diluted income per share of $ 0.86.
Management, verbatim
Q2 was another record quarter for Innodata - and another across-the-board beat. Revenue, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted EBITDA, and cash all reached new highs, and we exceeded analyst consensus on every key metric.
Jack Abuhoff, CEO
We are reiterating our full-year 2026 revenue growth guidance of 40% or more year-over-year. There are large potential programs from both new and anticipated customers - likely wins, in our judgment - that are not factored into our 40% number.
Jack Abuhoff, CEO
Research and innovation have become our growth engine - the means by which we differentiate, expand existing partnerships, and forge new customer relationships across the full model training lifecycle, from pre-training and post-training to model evaluation and benchmarking.
Rahul Singhal, incoming President and Chief Executive Officer
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