Ituran Location and Control Q2 2026 Earnings Report

Ituran Location and Control EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.88
• Consensus EPS: $0.87
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.01
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Ituran Location and Control Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $104.79 million
• Expected Revenue: $99.84 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$4.95 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Ituran Location and Control Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2026
• Date: 8/12/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 9:00AM ET

Ituran Location and Control (NASDAQ:ITRN) is a provider of wireless vehicle tracking and stolen vehicle recovery services. The company leverages a combination of cellular and global positioning system (GPS) technologies to offer real-time monitoring and location-based solutions for private vehicle owners, fleet operators and insurance companies. Its core offerings include subscription-based tracking devices, centralized control centers and software platforms that enable clients to detect unauthorized vehicle use, dispatch recovery teams and manage fleet logistics.

Founded in 1994 in Israel, Ituran pioneered the use of wireless communications for security and telematics applications. Over the years, the company has expanded its footprint through organic growth and strategic partnerships, introducing advanced features such as two-way communications, remote immobilization and automated alerts. Ituran’s technology backbone supports both consumer-oriented stolen vehicle recovery programs and business-critical fleet management services, including driver behavior analysis, route optimization and maintenance scheduling.

Today, Ituran serves customers across multiple geographies, with a presence in Israel, North America, Latin America and parts of Europe. The company’s subscriber base spans retail vehicle owners as well as commercial and governmental fleets, and its network of monitoring centers operates around the clock to ensure rapid response and vehicle protection. Ituran’s management team brings together expertise in telecommunications, security operations and software development, with a focus on continuous innovation and customer service excellence.

Ituran Location and Control Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Ituran reported record second-quarter results, with revenue up 21% year over year to $104.8 million, EBITDA up 24% to $28.5 million, and net income up 29% to $17.3 million. EBITDA margin improved to 27.2%.
• Positive Sentiment: Recurring subscription revenue grew 25% to $79.8 million, while the subscriber base added 41,000 net customers to reach 2.711 million. OEM programs, particularly in South America and with Stellantis, Yamaha, and BMW, remain key growth drivers.
• Positive Sentiment: Strong cash generation continued, with record operating cash flow of $32.2 million and $103.7 million of net cash and marketable securities with no debt. The company declared a $10 million quarterly dividend and repurchased $3 million of shares.
• Neutral Sentiment: Big-data initiatives are progressing through pilots and discussions with governmental, transportation, and commercial customers, initially focused on Israel before potential expansion to Brazil and Mexico. However, management characterized IturanMOB in the U.S. as a midterm opportunity unlikely to contribute materially in 2026 or 2027.
• Neutral Sentiment: Motorcycle telematics is gaining traction in Brazil, while usage-based insurance is growing mainly in Israel but remains limited by low average revenue per user and the insurance industry's slow adoption of data-driven pricing.

Presentation

[Kenny Green, Investor Relations at Ituran]

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Kenny Green, and I'm part of the investor relations team at Ituran. I'd like to welcome all of you to Ituran's Results Zoom webinar, and I would like to thank Ituran's management for hosting this conference call. All participants other than the presenters are currently muted. Following the formal presentation, I'll provide some instructions for participating in the live question and answer session. I would like to remind everyone that this conference call is being recorded, and the recording will be available from the link in the earnings press release and on Ituran's website from tomorrow. With me today on the call are Mr. Eyal Sheratzky, CEO, Mr. Udi Mizrahi, Deputy CEO and VP Finance, and Mr. Eli Kamer, CFO of Ituran.

[Kenny Green, Investor Relations at Ituran]

Eyal will begin with a summary of the quarter's results, followed by Eli with a summary of the financials. We'll then open the call for the question and answer session. You should have all received by now the company's press release. If not, please view it on the company's website. I would like to remind everyone that the safe harbor statement in today's press release also covers the contents of this conference call and the associated presentation. Now, Eyal, would you like to begin, please?

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

Thank you, Kenny. I'd like to welcome all of you to our second quarter 2026 results call, and thank you for joining us today. We are very pleased to report an excellent second quarter for Ituran, with record revenue and profitability, with strong growth across every line of our income statement. For the quarter, overall revenue grew 21% year-over-year to a record of $104.8 million. Our recurring subscription revenue grew by 25% to $80 million, making up 76% of our total revenues. Beyond that, we grew all of our profit metrics, operating income, EBITDA, and net income, all ahead of revenue, allowing the operating leverage built into our business model to shine through. During the quarter, we added 41,000 net new subscribers, bringing our total subscriber base to 2,711,000 at the end of June 2026.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

This is in line with our expected run rate and shows continued healthy organic growth across our core markets. Our long-term success is growing our global subscriber base constantly. It's due to our ongoing efforts in offering new products and value-added services to our customer base, while at the same time, tapping into new market segments and new regions. Our OEM relationships remain a key growth driver. During the second quarter, we continued to ramp our existing OEM program across South America, including Connect Fiat, our new program with Stellantis, launched earlier this year, exclusive to the Fiat Strada. We remain in active discussions with additional OEMs that you do not see on this list, while at the same time looking to expand our existing relationships with Nissan, Renault, General Motors, Yamaha, BMW, and others.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

Growing our OEM roster has been, and continues to be, the main vector for Ituran long-term growth. Beyond our core subscriber-based telematics business, we continue to advance the growth initiatives I have discussed on previous calls, which we believe can become meaningful long-term contributors to Ituran. These include IturanMOB, our car rental solution, which we recently launched in the U.S. market; Credit Carbon, our platform that lets drivers of electric and zero-emission vehicles generate and sell verified carbon savings, connecting them with the companies that need to offset emissions; and leveraging our big data capabilities, all of which significantly grow our addressable markets. On the big data side, following the initial agreement we announced last quarter, we are continuing in advanced discussions with a number of potential customers, and we are active on a number of pilot projects.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

We would hope to be able to announce a further big data agreement with one of these in the near term. Our big data capabilities have significant long-term potential to support governments, transport authorities, commercial centers, OEMs, and other customers, enabling them to make better decisions based on vast amounts of transportation data while creating revenue opportunities that can grow beyond our traditional subscription model. Ituran continues to be a strongly cash-generating business, and we generated our highest-ever cash flow from operations during the quarter, amounting to $32.2 million. Reflecting our continuing strong profitability, ongoing and significant positive cash flow, and strong balance sheet, the board of directors declared a dividend of $10 million for the quarter, which represents $0.50 per share, in line with our standard dividend policy.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

In addition, $3 million in shares were purchased under our buyback program, which is another return of capital to shareholders to enhance value. We see our ongoing dividends and buyback program as a reward to our shareholders for their loyalty and long-term support of our company. In summary, we are very pleased with our performance in the second quarter with record revenue and record profitability and continued healthy subscriber additions. At the same time, we continue to look for new revenues to drive further growth across all of our regions. Our expanding OEM programs, our growth engines, and opportunities to monetize our big data assets are all example of this. We remain confident in our ability to deliver continued growth and profitability through 2026, and in our long-term strategy to transform Ituran into a significantly larger company. With that, I hand over to Eli. Eli, please go ahead.

[Eli Kamer, EVP and CFO at Ituran]

Thanks, Eyal. I will provide a short summary of the financial results. You can find the more detailed results in the press release that we issued earlier today. Second quarter revenues were a record $104.8 million, a 21% increase compared with revenues of $86.8 million in the second quarter of last year. Revenues from subscription fees in the quarter were $79.8 million, an increase of 25% year-over-year, and represented 76% of total revenues. Product revenues in the quarter were $25 million, an increase of 8% year-over-year. The subscriber base expanded to 2,711,000 by the end of the second quarter, an increase of 41,000 from the end of the previous quarter. The geographic breakdown of revenues in the second quarter was as follows; Israel 56%, Brazil 22%, Rest of World, 22%.

[Eli Kamer, EVP and CFO at Ituran]

EBITDA for the quarter was $28.5 million or 27.2% of revenues, an increase of 24% compared with EBITDA of $22.9 million or 26.4% of revenues in the second quarter of last year. Finance expenses in the second quarter were $1.3 million, in line with finance expenses of $1.3 million in the second quarter of last year. The expense this quarter was mainly due to the strengthening of the Israeli shekel against the U.S. dollar, which lowered the value of U.S. dollar-linked deposits held in Israel, resulting in a finance expense on those deposits. Net income for the second quarter was $17.3 million, or 16.5% of revenues, or diluted earning per share of $0.88, an increase of 29% compared with $13.5 million or 15.5% of revenues, or diluted earning per share of $0.68 in the second quarter of last year.

[Eli Kamer, EVP and CFO at Ituran]

Cash flow from operation for the second quarter of 2026 was $32.2 million. As of June 30, 2026, the company had net cash including marketable securities of $103.7 million, which includes no debt. This is compared with net cash including marketable securities of $107.6 million as of year end 2025. The board of directors declared a dividend of $10 million for the quarter, or $0.50 per share. The current dividend takes into account the company's continuing strong profitability, ongoing positive cash flow, and a strong balance sheet. During the quarter, $3 million in shares were purchased under the buyback program. The total remaining authorization is about $10 million. Share buybacks will be funded by available cash and will be made in line with SEC Rule 10b-18. With that, I'd like to open the call for a question and answer session. Operator?

[Kenny Green, Investor Relations at Ituran]

Okay. We'll now open the call for the question and for the question. We'll open the call for the question and answer session. We'll give a-

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

On behalf of the management of Ituran-

[Kenny Green, Investor Relations at Ituran]

All right.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

-I would like to thank-

[Kenny Green, Investor Relations at Ituran]

Yeah. We'll poll for questions. Our first question will be from Derek Greenberg from Maxim. Derek, please go ahead.

[Derek Greenberg, Analyst at Maxim]

Hi, guys. Good morning. Good afternoon in Israel. I wanted to start just on the big data opportunity you're pursuing. I was wondering, first, if you could just talk about the engagement you already had with the Ministry of Transportion in Israel. I was wondering if that had concluded, any feedback you had received, and if that's concluded, where that might show up on the income statement.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

This deal transaction was already concluded, in the end, in Q1, and it was not, as we said, it was not a very large deal, but still it was a few millions of shekels, and it was basically a need of a specific division in this ministry to look for places where trucks in Israel are making specific accidents in order to analyze where is the best place to open a rest area. In Israel, there are no rest areas for trucks like in the States or in Europe, and this is the next phase they want to do in order to prevent accidents and fatigue of drivers, et cetera. Based on historical data, by the way, because we have different prices for real-time data, one-year-old data, et cetera.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

In that case, we sold data a few years ago for these millions of shekels, and this was their first needs. As I said in my speech, we see more needs of public transportations agents or governmental, which we have discussions, and as I said, we are optimistic that soon we are expecting to have more deal or deals, which can be more valuable and more larger deals in a different aspect of public transportation, municipality needs, et cetera.

[Derek Greenberg, Analyst at Maxim]

Okay, great. Just on the pipeline, I was curious, do you think the majority of opportunities currently are predominantly in Israel, or are you seeing opportunities internationally as well?

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

Currently, we started in Israel. The advantage that we have to start in Israel is that in Israel, the portion or the ratio between the total vehicles on roads with Ituran cars, I mean Ituran subscriber base, is very high. We have about million subscribers, million cars, among 3 million. So it means that we have a lot of data when we talk about roads, when we talk about cars, when we talk about preferences, et cetera. So first, it is something which we can create more confidence, and we can really start with a specific agents, such as governmental, et cetera. Our goal is after we will create a substantial market in Israel, and we will have some experience of more and more commercial deals to take it out to our next geographies, which is typical, should be Brazil and Mexico.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

But in that case, we will have to focus on our specific customers, which our customer base on those countries will allow us to provide a very accurate data. Just to remind you, if we have about half a million subscribers in Brazil, it represents much lower percentage of the total cars, and they drive in a lower number of places in Brazil. Still, we have a lot to contribute to customers, and we will do it, but we start with Israel.

[Derek Greenberg, Analyst at Maxim]

Okay. That makes a lot of sense. That was super helpful. Then I had one on just FX impacts in the quarter. I was wondering if there was anything noteworthy there. I know last quarter, I think there was a $1 million benefit from FX. I was wondering if there was anything to call out on that front.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

It is almost the same as the last quarter, meaning almost an effect of $1 million on the EBIT.

[Derek Greenberg, Analyst at Maxim]

Okay, got it. Then lastly, just on IturanMOB in the U.S., I was wondering if you could just talk about how that is progressing so far, the discussions you are having and what you are seeing there.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

From the side of the marketing side, the interest of the market, we see higher and higher traction. On the other end, or the other part is our parts to install to marketing and sales. We are still going in a very low mode in order to get our own confidence before we start spending more money, more budget, basically on business development and sales. But compared to last quarter, we have more and more pilots and more and more customers. The numbers in terms of our, I mean, when we monetize it from customers to money, we are still in very low numbers, so this is the reason why we are not yet provide specific data. We are in the beginning, but as I said, the most important issue is the interest of the market, of the car rentals company, et cetera.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

We spread now, and we expand our capabilities in more and more cities. As I said in the beginning, this is a midterm project. It is not something that will contribute substantial amount in 2026 and also in 2027. But once we will see that it is ramping up with more material numbers, of course, I will inform everyone.

[Derek Greenberg, Analyst at Maxim]

Great. Thanks for taking my questions, guys.

[Kenny Green, Investor Relations at Ituran]

Thanks, Derek. Our next question is going to be from Sergey Glinyanov of Freedom Capital Markets. Sergey, please go ahead.

[Sergey Glinyanov, Analyst at Freedom Capital Markets]

Yeah. Good afternoon, guys. I am just wondering how today the training such products and markets like motorcycle market and UBI segment, how it is training for Ituran.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

Regarding motorcycles, as you know, Sergey Glinyanov, and as we stated in the past, our main focus in the Brazilian market, we started with the OEM deals with Yamaha and BMW, and this is ramping up very impressive. We see that our customers, Yamaha and BMW, are very satisfied with the capabilities, with the no problems, et cetera, and it is now started to contribute to our growing subscriber base in Brazil. Our next phases will be, or already exist, is talking and try to expand those names to other names. We have discussion. Again, I do not have any new deal that I can report, but I hope and believe that we will continue to push and we will get it, and then, of course, you will know.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

This is regarding motorcycles, and I really believe that it is start and go and to be a major portion of our growth in subscribers in Brazil. Regarding UBI, we are still focusing in the Israeli market. We see a growth, but it is still something that I have to remind you, the ARPU is low and second is go to a specific, usually segments of the second car at home or young people cars. But it is still growing, but it is not yet something that we succeed to expand it to other geographies, except Argentina, which is a small numbers as well.

[Sergey Glinyanov, Analyst at Freedom Capital Markets]

Okay, got it. Then maybe you can share with us on could you use your big data project to accumulate the data for using it in UBI segments as well?

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

The answer is absolutely yes. Currently, we use the UBI based on personal data. We have discussions with insurance companies in Israel for showing them there is a lot of usage that they can do, not only based on Ituran subscriber and Ituran hardware, but also about the big data that Ituran can provide. This something that can give for them a lot of benefits of how they can pricing new and old insurers based on where they live, how they drive, where they drive, et cetera. They are looking on that, but like it was with the UBI, insurance industry is a very traditional industry, very traditional ways of taking decision. It changing, but it changing slow. This what we believe will be the next phase after we will continue to close deals with the governmental authorities and public transportation authorities.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

Then we have two, I would say two customers, which are today traditionally our channels, which is insurance companies and car dealers and car importers to Israel. This is something that will be the next phase, and we put a lot of efforts on that.

[Sergey Glinyanov, Analyst at Freedom Capital Markets]

Okay. Got it. Thank you for taking my question.

[Kenny Green, Investor Relations at Ituran]

Thanks, Sergey. That looks like the end of the questions. Before I hand back to Eyal, I just want to let everybody know that this conference call will be available from tomorrow on Ituran's website, on the investor relations side, or alternatively, you can get through the Zoom link. With that, I'd like to hand back to Eyal for the closing statement. Eyal, please go ahead.

[Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran]

On behalf of the management of Ituran, I would like to thank you, our shareholders, for your continued interest and long-term support of our business. We look forward to continuing our success over the coming years. If you are interested in meeting or speaking with us, please feel free to reach out to our investor relations team. With that, we end our call. Have a good day. Thank you.

Participants

Analysts

• Kenny Green, Investor Relations at Ituran
• Eyal Sheratzky, Co-CEO and Director at Ituran
• Eli Kamer, EVP and CFO at Ituran
• Derek Greenberg, Analyst at Maxim
• Sergey Glinyanov, Analyst at Freedom Capital Markets