| Metric | Value ($ M) | Q1 FY26 | Q2 FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 2.49 | 11.7% | 29.5% |
| Total Income | 2.49 | 11.7% | 29.5% |
| Expenditure | 2.11 | 10.6% | 18.2% |
| PBT | 0.41 | 510.0% | 57.7% |
| Net Profit | 0.29 | 462.5% | 59.7% |
| OPM | 15.07% | 20.86pp | 11.80pp |
| NPM | 11.81% | 15.27pp | 8.61pp |
| EPS | 0.12 | 500.0% | 58.6% |
Acorn Energy Reports Q2 2026 Results with Strong Monitoring Revenue Growth
06 Aug 2026 · 6 Aug, 6:12 pm
Summary
Acorn Energy announced its second quarter 2026 results, highlighting a continued strength in high-margin, recurring monitoring revenue, which grew 8.0% year-over-year. However, total revenue saw a 29.4% decrease to $2,489,000, primarily due to a significant drop in hardware revenue compared to the prior year. Despite the revenue decline, gross margin improved substantially to 82.4% due to a greater mix of monitoring revenue. The company also launched its new OMNI360 product suite and secured a new partnership with Champion Power Equipment, expecting these growth initiatives to drive more favorable revenue comparisons in upcoming quarters.
Key Highlights
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Acorn Energy reported Q2'26 diluted EPS of $0.12, reflecting increasing high-margin, recurring monitoring revenue.
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Monitoring revenue grew 8.0% to $1,425,000 in Q2'26 compared to $1,320,000 in Q2'25.
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Total revenue for Q2'26 decreased 29.4% to $2,489,000 from $3,525,000 in Q2'25, primarily due to lower hardware revenue.
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Gross margin improved to 82.4% in Q2'26 from 74.9% in Q2'25, driven by a higher proportion of monitoring revenue.
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Net income attributable to Acorn stockholders was $294,000 in Q2'26, a decrease from $720,000 in Q2'25.
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The company launched OMNI360, a new remote monitoring and control solution for cell tower campuses.
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Acorn Energy expects more favorable revenue comparisons moving forward as the impact of large hardware revenue from a national cell phone provider cycles through.
Management Comments
Jan Loeb
Q2 results showed continued strength in high-margin, recurring monitoring revenue from a growing base of monitored endpoints, offset by lower hardware revenue, primarily due to the timing of deployments for a national cell phone provider initiated in late 2024. Hardware revenue from the customer was $263,000 in Q2’26, compared to $1,338,000 in Q2’25. Supporting our long-term growth prospects in the residential market is a new partnership agreement with Champion Power Equipment which makes OmniMetrix remote monitoring and control the standard monitoring option on Champion’s aXis and fleX home standby generators. Champion is one of the fastest-growing generator brands in the industry, with a strong position in the residential market. It’s a significant opportunity for us that should begin to positively impact our results in the current quarter. Earlier this year, we secured North American rights to a comprehensive suite of remote monitoring solutions with AI-driven insights for telecommunication towers, energy sites, and data centers and formed an Infrastructure Solutions reporting segment for this business. Following several months of development, customization and product enhancements, we formally launched the segment’s first product – OMNI360, which delivers remote monitoring and control solutions for a wide range of critical functions at cell tower campuses. OMNI360 is an all-in-one site level management system offered in three different tiers of varying scope with 24/7 network operations center (NOC) support. Capabilities include monitoring/management of environmental changes (temperature, humidity, HVAC control, smoke detection, flood sensors); campus security (AI cameras, site access and intrusion sensing, two-way audio and live incident response); power monitoring and management solutions (fuel sensing and usage prediction, commercial power automatic transfer switch, battery health, transformer temperature, voltage/current imbalance detection); plus smart energy and cooling optimization. We are very excited about OMNI360’s potential and are actively working to introduce the product suite across the telecom industry. Given the breadth of the solution, its expanded capabilities and the large size of prospective customers, we anticipate a longer sales cycle but hope to be surprised. Accordingly, it’s too early to provide visibility on the timing of potential revenue opportunities for the OMNI360 suite. We also remain active in pursuing complementary strategic M&A opportunities that are accretive to revenue and earnings, where the challenge has been finding the right opportunity on terms that can create value for shareholders. With the significant hardware revenue contributions from our large national cell phone provider now cycled through our year-ago comparison periods, we expect more favorable revenue comparisons moving forward. These factors combined with our growth initiatives should enable us to bring our top-line growth more in line with our three- to five-year target of 20% average annual growth in coming quarters.
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