iQSTEL Q2 2026 Earnings Report

iQSTEL EPS Results

• Actual EPS: -$0.38
• Consensus EPS: -$0.23
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.15
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

iQSTEL Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $109.07 million
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

iQSTEL Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2026
• Date: 8/18/2026
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 8:00AM ET

iQSTEL (NASDAQ:IQST), Inc. (NASDAQ: IQST) is a U.S.-based telecommunications company that operates a global connectivity platform for voice, data and messaging services. The company leverages cloud-native infrastructure to deliver international roaming solutions, prepaid mobile top-up services and eSIM provisioning. Its technology enables seamless wireless communications for both individual subscribers and business clients across a broad network of partner carriers.

The company’s core offerings include instant airtime reloads, cross-border mobile voice and data plans, machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Through partnerships with mobile network operators in over 150 countries, iQSTEL provides turnkey prepaid services to retailers, distribution channels and end-users. It also offers bespoke enterprise packages designed to support global logistics, remote asset monitoring and large-scale device deployments.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, iQSTEL maintains regional offices in Latin America to support its growing subscriber base and carrier partnerships. The company has pursued a strategy of platform expansion and product diversification, adding digital financial services and value-added applications to its portfolio. iQSTEL’s leadership team is led by President and Chief Executive Officer Paulo Carini, who has guided the firm’s evolution from traditional international calling services to a full-featured, cloud-based telecommunications provider.

iQSTEL Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Strong revenue growth: First-half 2026 revenue rose approximately 59% year over year to $207 million, including $109 million in Q2. Management said it remains on track for its $430 million full-year revenue objective, supported by historically stronger second-half performance.
• Profitability focus is gaining traction: Operating-company EBITDA increased from approximately $190,000 in Q1 to more than $700,000 in Q2, while gross profit rose 26% year over year to $4.8 million in the first half. Management expects further efficiency gains from consolidating telecom operations.
• Ultranet could materially expand EBITDA: The company expects to complete the acquisition agreement this quarter, subject to final due diligence and documentation, and projects an adjusted EBITDA run rate of approximately $8 million to $9 million after integration. Management also cited Ultranet’s expansion opportunities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
• Balance sheet and capital structure remain relatively clean: As of June 30, iQSTEL reported $48.2 million in assets, $17.2 million in stockholders’ equity, no convertible notes, and no warrants outstanding, which management said limits potential dilution and supports financing flexibility.
• Higher-margin digital services are a key long-term growth initiative: Digital services, currently led by GlobeTopper, account for approximately 12.5% of revenue, and the company plans to use its telecom network and reach of roughly 2.3 billion potential end users to sell fintech, AI communications, cybersecurity, and content products. These opportunities remain dependent on execution and successful commercialization.

Presentation

[Operator]

Thank you for standing by. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the iQSTEL second quarter 2026 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star, followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to turn the conference over to Ethan Walfish, Head of Investor Relations. The floor is yours.

[Ethan Walfish, Head of Investor Relations at iQSTEL]

Good morning, and thank you for joining iQSTEL's second quarter 2026 earnings call. Joining me today, I'm pleased to have Leandro Iglesias, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Alvaro Quintana, Chief Financial Officer. During the call, we will make forward-looking statements such as dialogue regarding our revenue expectations or forecast for remaining quarters in the full fiscal year of 2026 and 2027. These statements are based on our current expectations and information available as of today and are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially as a result of various risk factors that have been described in our periodic filings with the SEC. We caution you against placing undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events, except as required by law.

[Ethan Walfish, Head of Investor Relations at iQSTEL]

In addition, other risks are more fully described in the iQSTEL's public filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which can be reviewed at www.sec.gov. Yesterday, August 18th, 2026, the company filed with the SEC its Form 10-Q for Q2 2026, and this morning issued a press release announcing those financial results. Participants of this call who may not have already done so may wish to look at those documents as we provide a summary of the results on this call. With that, I will now turn the call over to our CEO, Leandro Iglesias.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Thanks, Ethan. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. I'm Leandro Iglesias, CEO of iQSTEL, and joining me today is our CFO, Alvaro Quintana. I want to begin by thanking our shareholders and previous customers and partners for their continued support. Today, I want to focus on one central message. iQSTEL has spent years building a scale. We believe we are now entering the next major phase of our evolution, the EBITDA expansion. During this first six months of 2026, iQSTEL generated approximately $207 million in revenue, compared with approximately $130 million during the same period last year, representing growth of approximately 59%. That puts iQSTEL at an annualized revenue level of approximately $414 million. This is a significant milestone, but our story is no longer only about growing revenue.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Our focus is increasingly on converting this scale into a stronger gross profit, adjusted EBITDA, cash generation, and ultimately, shareholders value. Today, we increasingly see iQSTEL having two complementary business pillars, our telecom business and our digital services business. Our telecom division is the foundation of the company. Over nearly two decades, we have built a global telecommunications platform with more than 600 telecom operator relationships and a potential commercial reach through our customers to approximately 2.3 billion end users. This platform gives us scale, infrastructure, international relationships, and importantly, a global distribution network. Our strategy is now to leverage that platform to accelerate our higher margin digital service business. Digital service already represents approximately 12.5% of iQSTEL's revenue, currently driven by our subsidiary, GlobeTopper. We believe this percentage can continue to grow as we commercialize additional fintech, AI-powered communications, cybersecurity, and other digital solutions through our existing global network.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

This is important because digital services has the potential to contribute exponentially to gross profit and adjusted EBITDA. The upcoming Ultranet acquisition is another important step in this strategy. Ultranet will expand our international telecom footprint and, more importantly, is expected to significantly strengthen profitability. Following the acquisition, we expect iQSTEL's adjusted EBITDA run rate to increase to approximately $8 million to $9 million. This is exactly the direction that we want to take the company. Going forward, our focus is not simply on acquisition that adds revenue. We are increasingly focusing on opportunities that can add gross profit, EBITDA, cash generation, and strategic value. For the remainder of 2026, we continue pursuing our previously announced $430 million revenue objective. With $207 million generated during the first half, we need approximately $223 million during the second half to achieve that objective.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

We believe we remain on track, particularly because historically, the second half of the year has been stronger for iQSTEL than the first half. But again, revenue is only part of the story. We are increasingly focused on adjusted EBITDA, operating leverage, cash generation, and the growth of higher-margin digital services. Our long-term vision remains to build iQSTEL into a company capable of reaching $1 billion in annual revenue. But our objective is not simply to become larger. Our objective is to become larger and significantly more profitable. We are also increasing our efforts to communicate the iQSTEL story to a broader investment audience. Our recent CNBC interview with Seth Farbman and the launch of our new corporate telecom digital services and investor website are part of this effort.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

We believe there continues to be significant disconnect between iQSTEL's operating scale and the valuation currently being assigned to the company by the public market. The truth is that we cannot control the stock price, but we can control the execution. We can continue growing business, expanding EBITDA, strengthening our balance sheet, growing digital services, completing strategic acquisitions, and communicating our progress more efficiently. We believe consistent execution is ultimately the best way to close that valuation gap. If there is one message I would like shareholders to take from today's call, it is this. We have built the scale. We are operating at more than $400 million in annualized revenue. We have built a global platform with more than 600 telecom operator relationships. Digital service already represents 12.5% of our revenue.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

With Ultranet, we expect to move toward approximately $8 million-$9 million in adjusted EBITDA run rate. The next chapter of iQSTEL is about turning that scale into profitability and long-term shareholder value. We believe this is an important inflection point for iQSTEL, and we are very excited about what comes next. Thank you again to our shareholders and to our entire team around the world. With that, I'll turn the call over to our CFO, Alvaro Quintana, to discuss our first-half financial results in greater detail. Alvaro, please go ahead.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

Thank you, Leandro. Good morning, everyone. From a financial perspective, our first half results reflect continued strong growth, improving gross profit, and a strengthening balance sheet. For the first six months of 2026, iQSTEL generated approximately $207 million in revenue, compared with approximately $130 million during the same period last year, representing growth of approximately 59% year-over-year. Gross profit increased to approximately $4.8 million, compared with approximately $3.8 million during the first half of 2025, representing growth of approximately 26%. The second quarter also demonstrated continued commercial momentum with approximately $109 million in revenue, compared with $97.9 million in the first quarter. As Leandro explained, we have spent years building revenue scale. From a financial perspective, our priority now is to increasingly convert that scale into gross profit, adjusted EBITDA, operating leverage, and cash generation.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

Our first half revenue of $207 million represents approximately $414 million on an annualized basis. To be clear, this annualized figure is simply the mathematical equivalent of multiplying our first half results by two and should not be considered as a forecast. Based on approximately 10 million shares used for our per-share calculation, first half revenue represents approximately $20.59 per share, or approximately $41.18 in annualized revenue per share. Our balance sheets also continue to strengthen. As of June 30, iQSTEL reported approximately $48.2 million in total assets, $31 million in total liabilities, and $17.2 million in stockholders' equity. Stockholders' equity increased approximately 5%, representing approximately $1.71 in equity per share, where total assets represent approximately $4.79 per share. Equally important, iQSTEL maintains a clear capital structure with no convertible notes and no warrants outstanding. We believe this is particularly important for our shareholders.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

Maintaining a disciplined capital structure reduces potential sources of dilution and provides the company with greater flexibility as we execute our growth strategy. Our objective is to continue funding growth in a disciplined manner while carefully considering the long-term interests of our shareholders. We believe these financials and per-share metrics provide shareholders with another useful perspective on the financial scale and underlying balance sheet value of iQSTEL. I also want to highlight an important point regarding valuation. At current market levels, our approximately $17.2 million in stockholders' equity is more than 50% greater than iQSTEL's current market capitalization. In other words, the market is currently evaluating the entire company at a substantial discount to its reported stockholders' equity. That comparison does not assign additional value to a business generating more than $400 million in annualized revenue.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

Our global telecom infrastructure, our more than 600 carrier relationships, our digital services business, and our future earnings potential. We believe this represents a significant disconnect between iQSTEL's current public market valuation and the underlying financials and operating value of the company. Of course, our responsibility is not simply to point out that disconnect. Our responsibility is to continue improving the fundamentals of the business. That means increasing gross profit, expanding adjusted EBITDA, improving operating leverage, strengthening cash generation, and maintaining disciplined capital allocation. As we move through the second half of 2026, our financial priorities remain very clear. Improve EBITDA performance, expand gross profit, enhance operating leverage and cash generation, support the growth of higher margin digital services, maintain a disciplined and clean capital structure, and continue strengthening our balance sheet.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

With $207 million in first-half revenue, $48.2 million in assets, $17.2 million in stockholders' equity, no convertible notes, and no warrants outstanding, we believe iQSTEL enters the second half of 2026 with a strong financial foundation for the next phase to growth. Our objective now is to convert that scale into stronger profitability and long-term shareholders' value. Thank you. Ethan, we are ready to open the line for questions.

[Ethan Walfish, Head of Investor Relations at iQSTEL]

Thank you, Alvaro. Operator, we are now ready to open the line for questions.

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press star one again. Your first question comes from Barry Sine with Litchfield Hills Research. Your line is open.

[Barry Sine, Analyst at Litchfield Hills Research]

Hey, good morning, gentlemen, and congratulations on the quarter. I want to ask about organic growth. If I look at the quarterly results, that looks to me like it is all organic. GlobeTopper didn't close until July 1 of 2025, so that wasn't in the year-ago quarter. Ultranet is still pending. So it looks like, I think it is about 50% revenue growth was all organic growth. Correct me if I am wrong. What is driving that? Most importantly, the drivers of that growth, can they continue into the second half of the year to continue to drive organic growth? Thank you.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Thank you, Barry. Thank you very much for this question. Listen, we have been working over the last months with our team in the way to maximize our current technological platform and our current business relations with our customers. In that sense, we are in the process to reorganize the telecom business in one single subsidiary. As was announced, that we create an iQSTEL operating holding, and we move all of our subsidiaries telecommunications there. So our next move is to create a corporation with all the telecom business, and our idea is to keep increasing the synergies between the organizations and increasing the We have been moving all the technological and switching platforms to one single platform.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

So in this process, we have been accelerating and expanding the organic growth as part of our strategy, and this is like a process. We start like a holding company operating different subsidiaries, and right now we are moving into a corporation. So this is a process that will unlock the potential, the real potential that the company has, and the real potential that our technological platform advantage that we have and the business relationship that we have. So, as you have seen, the organic growth has been important and is going to even accelerate over the next months.

[Barry Sine, Analyst at Litchfield Hills Research]

That is very helpful. A lot of that sounds like it is forward-looking, it is actions that you expect to take. But the three months ended June 30th were very strong growth. Did you add more salespeople? Did you change their compensation? Did you just see more demand? Did you see competitive factors change? What drove the competitive growth in the quarter ended June 30th?

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Yeah. In two of our subsidiaries, like QXTEL and Q-Global, we have been making some change at the commercial side and the reorganization, hiring new sales divisions, and this is a process. This is like a standard regular process. We need to keep improving our sales team and giving them training and explaining them the potential of the company. At the same time, with our customer happens something really interesting to point out, that in the process that we have been becoming in a larger company, they trust more in us and selected us to increase the amount of business that we have been doing with them. So it's like a virtuous circle where as long as we grow the company, as long as we are in a better shape of the company, they are choosing us for doing more business with us.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Basically, we have been improving our sales team in two of our divisions. This is just the starting point of the things that we are going to do. We have plans to start moving toward create a corporation, and we are really excited about the future, about the complete acquisition of Ultranet, because it's going to increase our international footprint in a very attractive region of growth, like Africa is. That's the process. Our telecom business keeps representing the majority percentage of our revenue stream, and we are keep improving the business and the potential for the telecom business division.

[Barry Sine, Analyst at Litchfield Hills Research]

Yeah, that's very helpful. The last thing I wanted to ask about was EBITDA. What was the number for the quarter? Then two drivers. One, you just mentioned the integration of all the divisions, and I know you've been routing traffic between your operating subsidiaries to take advantage of least cost routing and improve margins that way. How much more margin lift is there once you've finished integrating all the divisions? Then the other thing, I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, you said, but with Ultranet, you'll be at an $8 million-$9 million annual EBITDA run rate. Is that all from Ultranet? Does that include some of the organic? Then I believe you've said that that'll close around end of third quarter, so that would be effective for fourth quarter results.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Okay.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Let me answer. Let us split this answer in two parts. Let us start, Alvaro, talking about EBITDA and all the things. Finally, I want to talk about the Ultranet acquisition. Thank you, Alvaro.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

Yes, sure. Yes. As Leandro remarked during the presentation, we have been focused on increasing our EBITDA. If you compare, we usually show a table in our 10-Qs showing the EBITDA of our operating entities and then the consolidated figures. If you focus your attention in the operating side of the business, the consolidated figures of the subsidiaries, you will see that the EBITDA in the first quarter of this year was close to $190,000. In the second quarter, just for the three months of between April, May, and June, we increased that EBITDA to over $700,000 for the operating company. That's an increase of more than 285%. That is basically impacted by the increase in the gross margin. The gross margin increased 18% quarter comparing first quarter with second quarter.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

This is the result of the integration of the subsidiaries, and there are more room to grow in that regard, which was one of your questions, Barry. Now, Leandro, you can comment about Ultranet and how that will impact the company.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Yes. Thank you. Just to point out that Alvaro was talking about EBITDA, and you asking us about adjusted EBITDA. Our adjusted EBITDA run rate is around $2.7 million and growing, the adjusted EBITDA run rate. The consolidation process and to moving every single operation into a corporation, we believe that the EBITDA expansion is going to affect around 20%, just with that measure, reducing costs and increasing the efficiencies and everything. With that base and adding the Ultranet is how we are going to jump to $8 million-$9 million adjusted EBITDA run rate. About the timing, right now, we are in the final stage of the due diligence of Ultranet and completing everything about the documents and everything. We are really excited about this process.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Our intention is to execute the agreement this quarter, and that's the idea, and we are still on track for this. Something important to remark is that we already got the financial statements from Ultranet of the first half of the year, and they are growing with respect to the 2025 that we filed in the 8-K. So the company keeps in an excellent shape. It's increasing regions and marketing. They have been doing an amazing job this year. We truly believe that one iQSTEL plus iQSTEL is going to be more than one plus one. It's going to be three. It's going to be a fantastic process of synergy. Ultranet has an incredible plan to penetrate the Middle East and Asia markets, and we are going to work together hand by hand. That's basically where we stand with Ultranet and the EBITDA contribution.

[Barry Sine, Analyst at Litchfield Hills Research]

Thank you very much.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

Okay.

[Operator]

Your next question comes from [Ralph Shepherd] with Craft & Moore. Your line is open.

[Analyst at Craft & Moore]

Yes, thank you so much. Are you ever concerned about a hostile takeover because the market cap is so low and yet you have revenues of over $400 million?

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Yes. Thank you, [Ralph], for coming and this question, giving us the chance to say something that. Listen, we have been, this year, giving presentations to several family offices and to several investment banks talking about the company. In a private session with them, we explained that basically we did something really good last year when we got listed in a direct listing without an investment bank. At that point was a very good idea doing that. But to be completely honest, one of the consequences of doing that is that we haven't had a retail support from investment banks. This is one of the things that we decide to change this year and start talking and attending to investors events. We have attended to four investors events so far. We have had four webinars to family offices.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

We are explaining to the market the reason why of our company market cap is because in whole this process getting in Nasdaq, we haven't had retail support from an investment bank. It's something that we need to improve. The way that we are working and addressing this is increasing the presentation, explaining the plans of the company, and this is a process that we truly believe that is going to impact our market cap. But at the same time, something that we need to explain that we can keep talking here about our telecom business and everything, but the really potential that the company has to unlock the market cap of the company is explaining to the market that we could reach 2.3 billion end users, and our digital services strategy is the tip of the arrow of this strategy.

[Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO at iQSTEL]

Because we are going to start, and we are right now knocking at the doors of the telecom operators, the mobile operators, offering digital services in order to increase our revenue in selling more than telecommunication services, selling digital services. Right now, we are starting this process with content, something that we are going to be announcing over the next weeks. We have had a very successful process about this, with great products and everything. So that's the real potential that the company has. Not only the revenue, looking at the how can we reach 2.3 billion end users and start selling them products and services through our customers is the real potential that the company has. I don't know, Alvaro, if you want to round up something at this point.

[Alvaro Quintana, CFO at iQSTEL]

No, I think you summarized very well the thing. We are, as Leandro said in the presentation, we cannot control the stock price, but we can control the execution and where we are focused right now on delivering our targets and developing all the potential of our business.

[Operator]

That concludes the Q&A session and our call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect and have a wonderful rest of your day.

Participants

Executives

• Ethan Walfish, Head of Investor Relations
• Leandro Iglesias, President and CEO
• Alvaro Quintana, CFO

Analysts

• Barry Sine, Analyst at Litchfield Hills Research
• Analyst at Craft & Moore