7/29/2026

speaker
Nick
Conference Operator

Welcome to Impinj Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star, and then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Andy Cobb, Vice President, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

speaker
Andy Cobb
Vice President, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations

Thank you, Nick. Good afternoon and thank you all for joining us to discuss Impinj's second quarter 2026 results. On today's call, Chris Diorio, Impinj's co-founder and CEO, will provide a brief overview of our market opportunity and performance. Cary Baker, Impinj's CFO, will follow with a detailed review of our second quarter financial results and third quarter outlook. We will then open the call for questions. You can find management's prepared remarks plus trended financial data on the company's investor relations website. We will make statements in this call about financial performance and future expectations that are based on our outlook as of today. Any such statements are forward-looking under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Whereas we believe we have a reasonable basis for making these forward-looking statements, our actual results could differ materially because any such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. We describe these risks and uncertainties in the annual and quarterly reports we file with the SEC. We do not undertake and expressly disclaim Any obligation to update or alter our forward-looking statements except as required by law. On today's call, all financial metrics, except for revenue, or where we explicitly state otherwise, are non-GAAP. All balance sheet and cash flow metrics, except for free cash flow, are GAAP. Please refer to our earnings release for a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial metrics to the most comparable GAAP metrics. Before turning to our results and outlook, note that we will participate in the 2026 Jefferies Semiconductor IT Hardware and Communications Technology Conference on August 25th in Chicago and the Piper Sandler Growth Frontiers Conference on September 15th in Nashville. We look forward to connecting with many of you this quarter. I will now turn the call over to Chris.

speaker
Chris Diorio
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Andy, and thank you all for joining the call. Our second quarter results were strong, with revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and earnings per share setting new quarterly records. For the second consecutive quarter, endpoint IC bookings also hit an all-time high, driven by strong demand across retail apparel, general merchandise, and supply chain and logistics. Looking to the third quarter, we see accelerating demand and strong product revenue growth. Starting with Silicon, Second quarter N.IC product revenue exceeded our expectations with unit volume setting a new quarterly record. In supply chain and logistics, the custom ASIC ramp at our second large North American supply chain and logistics end user is ahead of schedule with our inlay partners rapidly filling their supply chain and full conversion expected in the third quarter. In retail apparel and general merchandise, stronger than expected demand drove outsized revenue even as channel inventory declined. We believe market expansion, retailer pull-ins before temporary tariffs expired last week, and consumer resilience drove the demand strength. Looking forward, strong bookings suggest continued market expansion and demand on top of our inlay partners rebuilding their IC inventory back to normal levels. Reader IC revenue also beat our expectations, driven by strong enterprise demand. Looking to third quarter, we expect Reader ICs to be our fastest growing product line. For both Endpoint and Reader ICs, we have sufficient wafers to support the demand with strong support from our foundry partner. Turning to food, a few weeks ago, another large U.S. grocer publicly cited their ongoing bakery pilot, using rain to track in-store inventory and product expiration dates. Three of the five largest U.S. grocers have now announced pilots or deployments across bakery, deli, or meats. I'll take a moment to give some color on the food opportunity. We are currently supporting four distinct types of food programs. First, store replenishment, led by quick serve restaurants and focused on availability and freshness. Second, in-store inventory, led by supermarkets and focused on stocking and product expiration. Third, loss identification, also led by supermarkets and focused on flagging unscanned items at point of sale. And fourth, automated self-checkout, led by the large, vertically integrated European grocer we've discussed previously. A few enterprises in the first and second categories have progressed to chain-wide rollouts, consuming a modest number of endpoint ICs relative to current rain industry volumes, but still small relative to the total opportunity. The third and fourth categories are still in proof of concept with encouraging results to date. Notably, the opportunity breadth and sheer number of large engaged enterprises so early in the market cycle is far larger and faster than anything I've seen in our industry's history. With all the excitement around food, I need to encourage you not to lose sight of the opportunities in the supply chain and logistics and general merchandise markets. The former is poised to expand from shipments to e-commerce and third-party logistics. The latter continues its inexorable growth and expansion with many large categories such as OTC pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and health and beauty not yet deployed. Given their head start, both markets today are consuming significantly more endpoint ICs than food. Also, both offer significant solutions opportunities for us. Touching on those solutions, despite only modest second quarter reader and gateway shipments to our lighthouse enterprises, our solutions engagements with those enterprises continue advancing. We're focused on two enterprise pain points, replenishment and point of sale, using our endpoint and reader ICs, readers, gateways, and software to provide real-time event data around supply chain transitions and at front of store. and we are engaging partners to sell and deploy those solutions. We believe the event data our solutions deliver, for example, a 100% certain event that a store received an item, will dramatically improve AI models that analyze and automate enterprise operations. We're incredibly well positioned to lead and win in solutions using machine learning to find moving items in confined read zones, Gen2x to improve item readability, label production systems to ensure label quality and reliability, custom ASICs as needed, and solutions engineering and sales to truly deliver the use case. Although we are still in the early days of solutions delivery, my focus is expanding our company from being primarily a component seller to also being a solution provider. I'm confident we can do so, and given our solutions demand, I have never been more excited about our future than I am today. In closing, this month marks our 10-year anniversary as a public company, and our timing couldn't be better. Our market opportunity is expanding rapidly, with the growth rate in supplies and logistics, general merchandise and food outpacing retail apparel, which is in mainstream adoption. We delivered a quarter with record revenue, adjusted EBITDA, earnings per share, and end-point AC volumes, and look to another strong quarter ahead. And we have a stellar team, energized by the opportunities in front of us and driving forward with pace and conviction. As always, before I turn the call over to Cary for our financial review and third quarter outlook, I'd like to thank every member of the Impinj team for your tireless effort. I feel honored by my incredible good fortune to work with you.

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