5/7/2026

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Operator
Conference Call Operator

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us and welcome to the Owlet Q1 2026 earnings conference call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, press star one again. I will now hand the conference over to Jay Jenskow, Investor Relations. Jay, please go ahead.

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Jay Jenskow
Investor Relations

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Earlier today, Allett released financial results for the first quarter ended March 31st, 2026. I'm pleased to be joined today by Kurt Workman, Allett's president, CEO, and co-founder, and Amanda Tweed Crawford, Allett's CFO. Before we begin, please note that our financial results press release and presentation slides referred to on this call are available under the events and presentation section of our investor relations website at investors.allettcare.com. This call is also being webcast live with a link at the same website. The webcast and accompanying slides will be available for replay for 12 months following this call. The content of today's call is the property of Owlette. It cannot be reproduced or transcribed without our prior consent. Before we begin today, I'd like to refer you to our safe harbor disclaimer on slide three of the presentation. Today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements based on the company's current views and expectations as of today's date. These statements are only predictions and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in our most recent filings with the SEC and in the risk factors section of our annual report on Form 10-K, as updated in the company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the SEC. Please note that the company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Kurt.

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Kurt Workman
President, CEO, and Co-founder

Thanks, Jay. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining. Before we dive into the business results, I want to address a recent leadership transition and a renewed path forward for Allett. On behalf of the board and the entire Allett team, I'd like to share our deep gratitude for Jonathan Harris. Jonathan was instrumental in navigating Owlet's breakthrough growth following FDA clearances. Owlet is in a better position as a result of his contributions, and we wish him well. As Owlet enters this next stage of our growth and evolution, I'm stepping back into the CEO role as announced in April. I'm back to build on the mission I started in a garage 12 years ago with a clear long-term mandate to lead Owlet through this next phase of scale and development in pediatric health. While our core mission hasn't changed, We are sharpening our focus on execution and concentrating resources on our highest value opportunities. I want to highlight three strategic priorities where we see the greatest opportunity to improve performance. First, we're prioritizing the Owlet360 subscription and telehealth opportunity more deliberately than we have in the past. With well over half a million parents purchasing a new Owlet device every year, we already have an established user base to support subscription conversion. We believe the structure of the modern parenting journey creates a meaningful opportunity. Among parents, the average family grows to just over two children, with siblings typically arriving within a few years of each other. Allett is uniquely positioned to secure a four-year subscription window. By extending high-value subscription features that span a child's first two years, we aim to increase engagement and retention over time, evolving the customer relationship from a one-time user into a four-year subscriber. This evolution from a hardware-centric sale to a multi-year subscription model fundamentally shifts our growth trajectory, compounding our recurring subscriber base into the millions. Owlet is increasingly operating with a subscription-first approach across the business. That means the product roadmap, marketing, and channel partnerships are aligned toward increasing subscription penetration across our entire customer base. Here are three key Owlet 360 subscription priorities to execute this year. Number one, launch new features and AI integrations for DreamSock to enhance the subscription value proposition and support continued increases in our attach rate. Number two, launch compelling new camera subscription features that deliver value to hundreds of thousands of nightly active cam users. The DreamSight subscription feature set is critical toward extending LTV as many families use their cameras throughout the toddler years. Number three, expand subscription access to our large and growing customer base outside of the U.S. Our objective is to establish Outlet 360 subscription as a foundational value add for a family's first two years of parenthood. For families with a single child, this can significantly extend LTV. For those families that grow to a second child, it can extend the subscription lifecycle to multiple years, supporting a longer-term, high-margin subscription relationship. This evolution from a hardware-centric sale to a multi-year subscription model has the potential to fundamentally transform our business profile and strengthen Outlet's role as a long-term partner in the parenting journey. Owlet is building a generational opportunity on AI, anchored by what we believe is the most scaled pediatric health data set in the world. By combining our data moat, FDA-cleared hardware, and trusted parent relationships, we believe we can deliver the kind of personalized, proactive infant care that has never before been possible in the home and establish Owlet as the defining pediatric health platform of this AI era. Turning to our second strategic priority, we are sharpening focus on the high-value opportunities within our existing core markets, where we continue to see meaningful growth potential. In the geographies we're currently in, we still have large, under-penetrated markets of just under 20 million children under 24 months of age. With market penetration sitting at just over 11% in the US and low single digits in Europe, we believe there is substantial room for expansion within our existing footprint. We continue to see significant runway for growth in the U.S. with penetration rates approaching at or above 20% in key states like Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Kentucky. We view these markets as potential benchmarks for what we can accomplish nationwide and in Europe. We believe the business has the potential to scale toward over 1 million new customers annually over time. Combined with our efforts to extend LTV, we believe this can support a four-year family subscription lifecycle, a recurring subscriber base that can scale meaningfully over time. To capitalize on what we see as a significant opportunity ahead in our core markets, we are consolidating our focus and resources to capture the significant white space available in our current high-value geographies where we have established category leadership. As part of this targeted approach, we have deferred our plan entries into India, Hong Kong, and Singapore for the current year and redirected investments to core markets with higher near-term return potential. This leads into our final strategic priority, a heightened focus on operational efficiency and financial discipline to drive profitable growth. While we continue to invest in operating expenses year over year, we've optimized our spending plans to support operating at a higher level of efficiency. Our goal is to drive meaningful operating leverage by prioritizing a discipline strategy where we align our cost structure to scale efficiently. Specifically, we're pausing new global clearances and delaying country launches that carry upfront regulatory app development quality and marketing costs. We've eliminated previously planned headcount additions through leveraging internal technology and AI-driven efficiencies, allowing us to grow efficiently with fewer resource constraints. We are deferring lower ROI projects outside of our core 0-24-1 segment. This disciplined financial profile prioritizing growing profitability is intended to provide flexibility to reinvest strategically, which we believe will support our long-term growth and strengthen our market position. To fully align with these three priorities and a more focused, profitable growth strategy, we are proactively updating our full year 2026 outlook. For the full year, we are adjusting our revenue guidance to a range of 118 to 122 million, representing 12 to 15% year-over-year growth, compared to our previous guidance of 126 to 130 million. This revised range accounts for our deliberate decision to exit lower margin, high burden revenue streams in non-core geographies and new channels. Additionally, this outlook incorporates a more conservative view on sell-through for the remainder of the year. I will provide more specific color on these category trends in our consumer data in a few moments. By concentrating our resources only on high-impact priorities and eliminating the overhead associated with non-core channels, we've created a much more efficient engine. Consequently, we are raising full-year 2026 adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $7 to $9 million, or 250 to 350% growth year-over-year. compared to our previous guidance of 3 to 5 million. While this disciplined approach may result in lower near-term revenue, it is a purposeful trade-off designed to improve operating leverage and profitability. We believe this approach will provide greater flexibility to invest in our highest value opportunities and support stronger, more sustainable long-term growth. I'll now turn to our first quarter business update. I want to give more clarity on where we're gaining momentum and identify specific areas where we need to sharpen our execution. To align with the strategic priorities I just outlined, going forward, we will focus our quarterly updates on the following core growth drivers. First, driving adoption of DreamSoc and Duo in core global markets. And second, expanding the subscription platform with Outlet 360 and Outlet OnCall. In the U.S., our Q1 domestic sell-through units for Sock and Duo grew 10.5% year-over-year, led by a 45% increase in Duo and a 3% increase in DreamSoc. One item of note, Owlet was the only brand in the category to grow during a period of general decline. Excluding Owlet, the baby monitoring category was down 19% in dollars versus prior year Q1, while Owlet's dollars grew 11%. Q1 inherently has low promotional activity following the holidays. We believe customers are delaying purchases in anticipation of key promotional events like Mother's Day and Prime Day, which drive significant volumes at a lower selling price. We've started Q2 optimizing marketing and retail placements to accelerate momentum and take share from our competitors. These efforts are already yielding results. Quarter to date in Q2, sell-through has increased to over 30% for both Duo and DreamStock versus prior year. This performance validates our strategy and is a positive indicator for the rest of the year. However, we have not yet factored this Q2 performance into our full year outlook, preferring to see additional sell-through data before adjusting our projections. Brand health remains exceptional, evidenced by a DreamSoc NPS of 77 and a blended product NPS of 71 to MQ1. Also importantly for our DreamSight camera, customer service contact volumes have decreased by 74% versus our second generation camera, as DreamSight is clearly removing friction points with our customers, including solving core setup and connectivity issues. Outlook products are maintaining their position as a registry priority. In Q1, year-over-year registry additions increased 31% for DreamSoc and 44% for Duo. Finally, momentum in our current global markets remains robust. In Q1, international revenue grew 22% year-over-year. Sell-through continues to show strength internationally, ending Q1 with 37% year-over-year growth. We're excited about the progress we're seeing in our current international markets. For example, the Czech Republic already has nearly 9% of all babies born using an outlet. Other markets like the UK, Germany, France, and Australia are all on a similar trajectory for market penetration as the US on a year-by-year basis. Given there are more babies born in Europe than the US, our current growth opportunity in Europe is massive if we focus and continue to execute at a high level. Shifting to our second focus area, expansion of Allett360 and Allett on call, our subscription engine is thriving. Having surpassed the one-year mark since launch, We validated the value proposition of our subscription model, scaling to over 115,000 paying subscribers to MQ1. As a note, we'll begin reporting subscriber count at quarter ends to align with the subscription revenue metric we will begin disclosing in our quarterly files. The underlying subscriber momentum is translating into durable top line growth as monthly recurring revenue, or MRR, was 1 million to MQ1, highlighting the compounding value of our subscriber base. Furthermore, subscription achieved a 34% penetration rate for DreamStock users in the U.S. in the first quarter. This high conversion rate validates our bundled value proposition and demonstrates that parents increasingly view Owlet360's pediatric health insights as an important extension of DreamStock. As discussed, we're prioritizing the launch of camera-specific Owlet360 features to enhance the subscription value proposition and extend LTV across multiple children. In April, we launched Camera Extended Clips. The Extended Clips feature for DreamSight enhances the user experience by offering AI-assisted event detection, while Owlet360 subscribers gain expanded benefits like a 14-day cloud archive and longer 60-second recording. In addition, in the coming weeks, we are launching Built-in White Noise, a DreamSight subscription feature that transforms the camera into a daily sleep essential, eliminating the need for extra hardware. By integrating the product into nightly sleep routines, we can foster consistent platform engagement and support long-term Owlet360 subscription retention. Subscription is the cornerstone for our evolution into a data-driven pediatric health platform. The rapid adoption we've seen over the last year validates our decision to prioritize the growth and expansion of our recurring platform features. And finally, ending on Owlet's on-call telehealth opportunity, we're excited to report that this week, Owlet OnCall Telehealth is officially going live in our app for select participants. That means that for the first time, Owlet parents can communicate directly with the pediatrician in our app. We will begin scaling access to more and more users over the coming weeks and months to test and learn. As we further integrate our wellness data with professional pediatric access and oversight, we see an opportunity to provide deeper value to parents, potentially reduce healthcare costs, and extend the customer relationship. Our telehealth launch this year is a pivotal step in this evolution, and we expect the insights gained from this initiative to inform our long-term platform expansion and future revenue opportunities. We believe that combining insights from our platform with access to pediatric consultation will provide greater value to parents, simplify access to care, and lengthen the customer relationship. And we believe the learnings from this year's telehealth launch will fuel a significant new revenue stream for the business as we move into next year. I'll now turn the call over to Amanda to go over Q1 financial highlights. Amanda, take it away.

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