Earnings call transcript: Digital Turbine’s Q4 2025 beats expectations, stock rises

Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, surpassing analysts’ expectations with an earnings per share (EPS) of $0.10 against a forecast of $0.04. The company’s revenue also exceeded projections, reaching $119.2 million compared to the expected $116.21 million. Following the announcement, Digital Turbine’s stock rose by 2.78% in regular trading and an additional 4.87% in aftermarket trading, reflecting investor optimism. The stock, known for its high volatility with a beta of 2.54, has demonstrated remarkable strength with a 177% year-to-date return.

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Key Takeaways

• Digital Turbine’s Q4 EPS of $0.10 significantly surpassed the forecasted $0.04.
• Revenue for the quarter was $119.2 million, a 6% year-over-year increase.
• The company’s stock saw a notable rise post-earnings, gaining 2.78% during regular hours and 4.87% in aftermarket trading.
• Adjusted EBITDA grew by 66% year-over-year to $20.5 million.

Company Performance

Digital Turbine demonstrated strong performance in Q4 2025, with a notable year-over-year increase in revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Operating with a significant debt burden of $415 million and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.54, the company has shown resilience through strategic cost optimizations and innovations, such as the launch of a new Ignite version and advancements in AI/ML platforms. The company maintains a current ratio of 1.06, indicating adequate liquidity to meet short-term obligations. The company is expanding its device partnerships internationally and diversifying its revenue streams beyond gaming.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $119.2 million, up 6% YoY.
• Adjusted EBITDA: $20.5 million, up 66% YoY.
• Full Year Revenue: $490.5 million, a 10% decline YoY.
• Non-GAAP Gross Margin: 48%, up from 46% in the previous year.

Earnings vs. Forecast

Digital Turbine’s Q4 EPS of $0.10 exceeded the forecast of $0.04 by 150%, marking a significant earnings surprise. This performance highlights the company’s successful cost optimization and strategic initiatives, which have positively impacted the bottom line.

Market Reaction

Following the earnings release, Digital Turbine’s stock price increased by 2.78% during regular trading hours, closing at $4.68. In aftermarket trading, the stock further rose by 4.87%, reaching $4.908. This positive market reaction can be attributed to the company’s earnings beat and optimistic outlook for FY2026. The stock has shown impressive momentum, delivering a 223% return over the past six months, though it recently experienced an 8.4% decline over the past week.

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Outlook & Guidance

For FY2026, Digital Turbine projects revenue between $515 million and $525 million, alongside adjusted EBITDA of $85 million to $95 million. The company plans to continue expanding its device footprint and investing in first-party data and AI technologies, signaling confidence in its growth strategy.

Executive Commentary

• Bill Stone, CEO: "Our business has returned to year over year growth on both the top and bottom lines."
• Steve Lasher, CFO: "We continue to make progress on our capital structure and adding stability."
• Bill Stone, CEO: "We’re confident we have the right strategy, partners, market opportunity, commercial models, and products."

Risks and Challenges

• Regulatory shifts could impact app store dynamics and revenue streams.
• Market saturation in gaming may require diversification into other app categories.
• Macroeconomic pressures could affect consumer spending and device sales.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts focused on international revenue per device growth strategies and the benefits of the shifting regulatory environment. Executives confirmed stable operating expenses and highlighted opportunities in alternative app distribution channels.

Full transcript - Digital Turbine Inc (APPS) Q4 2025:

Conference Operator: Day, and welcome to the Digital Turbine Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal twenty twenty five Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen only mode. After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr.

Brian Bartholomew, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Brian Bartholomew, Head of Investor Relations, Digital Turbine: Thank you, Chuck. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Digital Turbine fourth quarter and fiscal twenty twenty five earnings conference call. Joining me on the call today to discuss our results are CEO, Bill Stone and CFO, Steve Lasher. Before we get started, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that our remarks today will include forward looking statements. These forward looking statements are based on our current assumptions, expectations and beliefs, including projected operating metrics, future products and services, anticipated market demand and other forward looking topics.

Although we believe that our assumptions are reasonable, they are not guarantees of future performance and some will inevitably prove to be incorrect. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward looking statements. For a discussion of the risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by our forward looking statements, please refer to the documents we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Also during this call, we will discuss certain non GAAP measures of our performance. Non GAAP measures are not substitutes for GAAP measures.

Please refer to today’s press release for important information about the limitations of using non GAAP measures as well as reconciliations of these non GAAP financial results to the most comparable GAAP measures. Now I’d like to turn the call over to our CEO, Bill Stone.

Bill Stone, CEO, Digital Turbine: Thanks, Brian, and thank you all for joining our call tonight. Before breaking down our specific operating results and commentary, I wanted to provide three important updates. First, our business has returned to year over year growth on both the top and bottom lines. Not only did our top line grow from March of this year compared to March of last year, but our year over year EBITDA grew by 66%. Our improved execution and actions are now bearing fruit.

Secondly, the business continues to build on that momentum. Our current June is trending positively, and we expect to show improved performance both sequentially and year over year. And finally, we extended our credit facility with our bank group. We believe this extension, combined with our improved execution, will provide more opportunities to lower our cost of capital into the future. To move to our fiscal ’twenty five results, we achieved $119,100,000 of revenue, dollars 20,500,000.0 of EBITDA and $0.10 of non GAAP earnings per share.

It was an important transition year to begin our return to growth as our investments in a variety of activities to set us up well for today and tomorrow. Specifically, our new version of Ignite, our material progress on managing and leveraging our first party data into our AI machine learning platform, our launch of new improved bidding capabilities and many back end corporate systems that are simplifying automating our work. And all of these things are helping drive improved performance in the present and into the future. For the March, on the on device, or ODS, business, we showed double digit year on year top line growth. Devices on our legacy U.

S. Partners declined year over year, but was offset by new device launches from outside The U. S. The real highlight of our ODS growth was due to improved revenue per device, or RPD. Our RPDs were up more than 40% year over year in The U.

S. And over 100% internationally year over year. This was driven by strong advertiser demand and improved monetization over the life of the device. And as we’ve discussed on prior calls, the opportunity for organic growth with improved international revenue per device has been a focus area for us, and I was really pleased to see us build upon our improved execution from the December. Our AGP business generated $33,000,000 in revenue in the quarter.

One of our AGP focus areas continues to be our investment in brands that want to leverage our first party data to reach their existing and potential customers over our global network. As discussed on prior calls, it’s a strategic objective for us and something we’ve invested in to differentiate us from other players. We’re now in a great position to continue to grow, and we’ll continue to invest here as we believe we are building a moat given the high barriers to entry and work required to earn the trust of top brands and agencies looking to find digital channels for their audiences that are not just CTV or retail media. One of our other top priorities for the AGP business is improving our performance advertising by better leveraging our own first party data and AI machine learning platform on our demand side platform, or DSP. On the supply side, our consolidated exchange, which we brand as DTX, continues to return to growth as having focused on managing one versus multiple exchanges is paying dividends.

The legacy fiber and ad colony exchange businesses were focused on waterfall bidding with third party performance DSPs, primarily buying gaming advertising inside gaming applications. And as expected, these DSPs have been executing their own supply path optimization strategies to vertically integrate their demand connected to their own supply. And for those companies without a strong mediation footprint, it has become largely a commoditized ad tech gaming space for both iOS and Android. We saw this risk years ago, and that’s why we invested in our own brand and SDK bidding activities to mitigate that risk, increase our own first party data activities on our own network and continue to invest in mediation. These activities are bearing fruit as our DTX business has returned to growth.

We’ve also been able to expand our AGP supply from being largely dependent on game publishers to much more diversified over non gaming. To illustrate this point, our DTX revenues on non gaming applications have nearly doubled over the past year. Turning to future. Our focus is continuing to build on our growth while building increased efficiency in our work. The keys to driving growth are more devices, improved performance from our legacy and new products and a wider and deeper net of media and brand relationships.

The key to efficiency is automation, aligning operating cost to gross profit, realigning our people, process and systems for maximum benefit. And we’ve been able to realize significant efficiencies in our transformation cost savings, but we still have more opportunities to add this fiscal year as we use AI to automate and simplify our operational processes and organizational structures and leverage our technology and system investments for greater efficiencies. To drive faster growth, the first driver is expanding our device footprint. And despite the soft device sales here in The U. S.

With our legacy partners, I’m pleased to announce that T Mobile is now live with us in The U. S. On Ignite. And internationally, we continue to grow with more and deeper relationships with our international partners in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Our second growth driver is expanding our product portfolio for both our ODS and AGP businesses.

On the ODS side, the launch of our new version of Ignite is an important milestone. It’s now on over 100,000,000 devices. It enables us to launch more services more quickly to generate revenue, be more efficient with our resources and most importantly, improve the overall quality of our offerings to our customers and partners. We’ve also made significant strides in our first party data, leveraging our AI machine learning platform. We’ve been busy over the past two years taking our rich data sets and getting the data organized into a scalable, usable and consistent format in our data lake.

And with that work largely complete, we’re ingesting over 1,000 different dimensions and more than 1,500 unique data events by which we now can build our sophisticated AI machine learning models upon. We’ve already seen conversion rate improvements from these efforts and expect this work to be a growth driver for our top and bottom lines this year as we drive better outcomes for publishers, advertisers and end customers. Our other product priority is growing and scaling our alternative app efforts. We see alternative apps in a few different dimensions. First is through our alternative store.

We’re live here in The U. S. On many operators, including Verizon are working closely with many publishers, including Epic Games, King and others to help in their distribution to a wider audience. Specifically, many of you may have seen Epic’s announcement of 40,000,000 installs of their alternative store, where we are a major partner with them, leveraging our products such as Single Tap dynamic installs and others. Another way is helping publishers distribute their billing to end customers, where we can leverage our on device footprint and products like such as Single Tap, AppMatch and so on.

Here, we partner with both the app publisher and the payment partners to help them drive more users. We’ve seen the global regulatory and legal activity against Google and Apple accelerate over the past quarter, not just in The EU, but in other places such as Brazil, Japan, India, Turkey and as well as here in The U. S. Our final growth driver is broader and deeper media relationships. We continue to make positive progress with more brands and performance advertisers.

A specific example here is Pinterest, who we’ve had a nice relationship with on our ODS products for many years, but recently expanded our relationship to include single tap licensing. We’re also seeing new categories emerge such as the large AI model players trying to improve their distribution footprints. We’ve recently launched with one of them and see this as an interesting growth area into the future.

Steve Lasher, CFO, Digital Turbine: In conclusion, I want

Bill Stone, CEO, Digital Turbine: to give our team at DTE a shout out. Due to their hard work and focus, we’ve regained busy momentum and growth. Building on our momentum and growing our top and bottom lines remains a top priority of the company. We’re confident we have the right strategy, partners, market opportunity, commercial models and products to have a very bright future as we’re in the right space at the right time, which is critical for any technology company. And with that, I’ll turn it over to Steve to take you through the numbers.

Steve Lasher, CFO, Digital Turbine: Thanks, Bill, and good afternoon, everyone. It’s been a privilege to meet several of you during my time so far as CFO of Digital Turbine. And I look forward to engaging with many more of you in the near future as we continue building value together. Before we get into the results, I want to briefly reflect on my three months as CFO at Digital Turbine. I spent this time focused on strengthening financial execution, improving cash flow visibility, tightening working capital management and aligning more closely with our business and product teams to support smarter, more efficient growth.

Importantly, we continue to make progress on our capital structure and adding stability as we move into fiscal year twenty twenty six. Now turning to our performance in the fiscal fourth quarter and full year fiscal twenty twenty five. The fiscal fourth quarter marked a true inflection point for the company. As we returned to year over year growth for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA during the quarter, Revenue of $119,200,000 represented 6% growth year over year. At a segment level, revenue for our ODS segment was up 11% year over year, while our revenue for the AGP segment was down 3% year over year.

The combination of renewed top line growth and the realization of expense savings via the enactment of our transformation program in late calendar twenty twenty five led to more significant gains in EBITDA and free cash flow during the quarter. Our fiscal fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA of $20,500,000 represented 66% growth year over year. And perhaps more importantly, our positive free cash flow of $5,500,000 in the March represented an increase of more than $21,000,000 as compared to the prior year period. We are pleased to be benefiting from the combination of renewed revenue growth and lower cash operating expenses and expect to realize additional expansion in adjusted EBITDA margins moving forward. Non GAAP gross margin expanded to 48% in the fiscal fourth quarter, up from 46% in the year earlier period.

This was primarily influenced by product mix changes in our ODS segment in addition to our continued focus on disciplined cost control measures. Our cash operating expenses in the March were $36,100,000 representing a 7% decline year over year and a 4% decline on a sequential basis. We have made real progress on a number of expense related fronts, not merely with reduced headcount, but also with the migration to more cost effective platforms and the implementation of more streamlined day to day business automation processes. While we’re happy with the progress made around our transformation cost savings, we continue to focus on expense optimization efficiencies while still making the necessary strategic investments in the business to maximize the profitability of our growth strategy in fiscal year twenty twenty six. Turning now to the bottom portion of the income statement.

We reported a GAAP net loss of $18,800,000 or $0.18 per share in the fiscal fourth quarter. On a non GAAP basis, we recorded net income of $10,100,000 or $0.10 per share on 108,000,000 shares outstanding in the fiscal fourth quarter. For the full fiscal year 2025, we generated total revenue of $490,500,000 representing a year over year decline of approximately 10% compared to the $544,500,000 generated in fiscal year 2024. EBITDA for the full fiscal year 2025 totaled $72,300,000 as compared to EBITDA of $92,400,000 for the fiscal year 2024. GAAP net loss for all of fiscal year 2025 was $92,100,000 or $0.89 per share as compared to a GAAP net loss of $420,400,000 or $4.15 per share in full fiscal year 2024.

On a non GAAP basis, net income for full fiscal year 2025 totaled $36,100,000 or $0.34 per share as compared to non GAAP net income of $60,300,000 or $0.58 per share recorded in fiscal year twenty twenty four. Moving to the balance sheet. Our cash balance at the end of the quarter totaled $40,100,000 an increase of approximately $5,000,000 as compared to the balance at the December. We had no new borrowings in the March and our debt balance at the end of the quarter stood at $408,700,000 As Bill mentioned, we closed on a short term extension of our credit facility with the existing bank group and are working on a more permanent debt solution with a variety of debt providers and we feel confident being able to deliver an attractive solution for stakeholders after these two most recent quarters, which point to the strength and stability of our core business. We’ll share more of these details as appropriate.

Now let me turn to our outlook for fiscal year twenty twenty six. We expect revenue to be in the range of $515,000,000 to $525,000,000 for the fiscal year twenty twenty six, reflecting our continued trajectory and momentum we are seeing in the market. Additionally, we project non GAAP adjusted EBITDA to between $85,000,000 and $95,000,000 as we continue to drive operational efficiencies and deliver value for our shareholders. In closing, we are actively positioning the company for sustained growth in 2026 and beyond. Our business is showing encouraging signs of continued momentum and we remain focused on execution, financial discipline and creating long term value for our shareholders.

With that, let me turn the call back to our operator, Chuck. Chuck, let’s open it up for questions.

Conference Operator: Yes, sir. We will now begin the question and answer And the first question will come from Anthony Stoss with Craig Hallum. Please go ahead.

Anthony Stoss, Analyst, Craig Hallum: Thanks. Nice execution guys and welcome aboard Steve. First question, Bill, I just wanted to focus on your RPD was up quite a bit internationally. Can you talk about the opportunities that you’re seeing? Are they with new device makers, new carriers or both?

Any color would be helpful. And I had a couple of follow ups.

Bill Stone, CEO, Digital Turbine: Yes. Thanks, Tony. Yes, on the international RPDs, as you know, we’ve been at this for a long time to really close the gap between what we see here in The U. S. And internationally.

And it’s really just pleased on a few fronts. One is our ability to take our international demand, whether that’s coming from The U. S. To our international partners or from Asia or coming from Europe and then bringing on to our international footprint is really number one, increasing our breadth. Number two is we’ve really improved our execution operationally to match a lot of the things that we do in terms of how things work in a market like Brazil or India or The U.

K. Versus how we’ve optimized it for here in The U. S. So that execution has been better for us. And third is just increasing our distribution footprint to be able to cast a wider net to go after partners.

So all of those three things together have really helped. And then as we add more and more devices in these regions from partners like Motorola, Telefonica and so on, it adds to more density of that supply to where more demand partners want to be honest. So all those things combined together really helped drive improved results for us.

Anthony Stoss, Analyst, Craig Hallum: Got it. And then Bill, you talked about the regulatory environment, definitely the trend heading your way. I’m just curious if you’ve seen an increase in activity from the app publishers interested in either Single Tap or your app install technology? And maybe you could share with us a number of new licensees signed last quarter.

Bill Stone, CEO, Digital Turbine: Yes. So the regulatory environment continues to be favorable for us. What we’re seeing right now is people want to see a level playing field. They want to make sure that publishers have access to customers without having to go through some of the gatekeepers that we see, and that’s a phenomenon. And the awareness continues to build.

I think it is important to separate out legislation from legal lawsuits, what we see here in The U. S. Those are different things, have different implications. But regardless of them, those are things that are positive for us as they just continue to build awareness and opportunity for us to distribute that. And one of the ways, as you mentioned, we distribute that is through our Single Tap licensing capabilities.

And we’ve got a number of good partners. You heard me talk about Epic in your remarks. You heard me mention Pinterest in remarks and a number of those we talked about in the past. We continue to see people wanting to figure out how can they reach consumers in a very scalable way. And our device footprint that we’ve been building over many, many years is a way to go do that.

And then combine that with the data that we’ve got access to is something that’s got a lot of interest and excitement.

Anthony Stoss, Analyst, Craig Hallum: Got you. And if I can include Steve, not to put him on the spot, but when you look at OpEx going forward, great adjusted EBITDA in the quarter and for the guide, do you expect your expense level needs to change quite a bit? Or is it going to be held relatively flat going forward?

Steve Lasher, CFO, Digital Turbine: When we look at it, it would be relatively flat going forward. You may see increases as we continue to grow the business, but for the most part, it be relatively flat.

Bill Stone, CEO, Digital Turbine: Perfect. Thanks for the color guys. Thank you.

Steve Lasher, CFO, Digital Turbine: Thanks, Tony.

Conference Operator: This will conclude our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Bill Stone for any closing remarks. Please go ahead, sir.

Bill Stone, CEO, Digital Turbine: Yes. Thanks, Chuck, and thanks, everyone, for joining the call today. We’ll talk to you again in our fiscal twenty twenty six first quarter call in a few months. Thanks, and have a great night.

Conference Operator: The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today’s presentation. You may now

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