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Csquare Reports Record Second Quarter 2026 Results

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Revenue Increased 14.5% Year-Over-Year, Record Bookings of $64.7 Million, Net Loss of $48.8 Million Reflects Pre-IPO Capital Structure, and Adjusted EBITDA Grew 21% to $120.3M Second Quarter Highlights Successfully completed the Company's initial public offering on July 17 and commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CSQR. Total revenue increased 14.5% year-over-year to $280.4 million, driven by continued strength in the Company's core colocation business and recurring infrastructure services. Colocation revenue increased 17.5% year-over-year to $210.6 million, reflecting sustained customer demand and deployment activity. Achieved bookings of $64.7 million, a 13th consecutive quarter of record bookings, reflecting strong commercial execution and broad-based demand across all customer profiles. Net loss of $48.8 million, primarily reflecting higher interest expense associated with debt issued prior to IPO reduction in debt levels. Adjusted EBITDA increased 21.0% year-over-year to $120.3 million demonstrating the operating leverage of the Company's platform. COPPELL, Texas, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Csquare, Inc. (NYSE: CSQR) ("Csquare" or the "Company"), a leading provider of carrier-neutral data center solutions, today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. "Our second quarter results demonstrate the disciplined execution by our team and the continued strength of Csquare's platform," said Spencer Mullee, Chief Executive Officer of Csquare. "We delivered 14.5% revenue growth, achieved a record $64.7 million in bookings, increased Adjusted EBITDA by 21%, and continued to benefit from strong demand for our carrier-neutral digital infrastructure platform." "These results reflect the durability of our recurring revenue model, the strength of customer demand across our markets, and the operating leverage inherent in our business as Adjusted EBITDA margin increased 330 basis points to 46.2%. We also reached an important milestone with the successful completion of our initial public offering in July, positioning Csquare with enhanced financial flexibility to support our long-term growth strategy." "Demand for high-quality digital infrastructure continues to accelerate as customers expand cloud deployments, AI-enabled workloads, and mission-critical connectivity requirements. We believe our diversified portf…Read full document

Revenue Increased 14.5% Year-Over-Year, Record Bookings of $64.7 Million, Net Loss of $48.8 Million Reflects Pre-IPO Capital Structure, and Adjusted EBITDA Grew 21% to $120.3M Second Quarter Highlights Successfully completed the Company's initial public offering on July 17 and commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CSQR. Total revenue increased 14.5% year-over-year to $280.4 million, driven by continued strength in the Company's core colocation business and recurring infrastructure services. Colocation revenue increased 17.5% year-over-year to $210.6 million, reflecting sustained customer demand and deployment activity. Achieved bookings of $64.7 million, a 13th consecutive quarter of record bookings, reflecting strong commercial execution and broad-based demand across all customer profiles. Net loss of $48.8 million, primarily reflecting higher interest expense associated with debt issued prior to IPO reduction in debt levels. Adjusted EBITDA increased 21.0% year-over-year to $120.3 million demonstrating the operating leverage of the Company's platform. COPPELL, Texas, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Csquare, Inc. (NYSE: CSQR) ("Csquare" or the "Company"), a leading provider of carrier-neutral data center solutions, today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. "Our second quarter results demonstrate the disciplined execution by our team and the continued strength of Csquare's platform," said Spencer Mullee, Chief Executive Officer of Csquare. "We delivered 14.5% revenue growth, achieved a record $64.7 million in bookings, increased Adjusted EBITDA by 21%, and continued to benefit from strong demand for our carrier-neutral digital infrastructure platform." "These results reflect the durability of our recurring revenue model, the strength of customer demand across our markets, and the operating leverage inherent in our business as Adjusted EBITDA margin increased 330 basis points to 46.2%. We also reached an important milestone with the successful completion of our initial public offering in July, positioning Csquare with enhanced financial flexibility to support our long-term growth strategy." "Demand for high-quality digital infrastructure continues to accelerate as customers expand cloud deployments, AI-enabled workloads, and mission-critical connectivity requirements. We believe our diversified portfolio, disciplined capital allocation strategy, and deep customer relationships position Csquare to capitalize on these long-term secular growth trends while creating sustainable value for shareholders." Second Quarter 2026 Results SummaryRevenuesRevenue excluding metered power increased 12.3% to $260.2 million, underscoring the continued strength of the Company's recurring revenue base and customer expansion activity. Second quarter total revenue increased 14.5% year-over-year to $280.4 million, compared to $244.8 million in the prior-year period. Growth was driven by continued demand for the Company's colocation platform, customer deployments across existing and newly acquired facilities, and expansion of recurring infrastructure services. Commercial ActivityCommercial momentum remained strong throughout the quarter as Csquare generated record bookings of $64.7 million, exceeding management's expectations. Quarterly bookings represent the annualized value of new and expansion customer contracts executed during the quarter and serve as a leading indicator of future recurring revenue growth. Demand was broad-based across enterprise customers, cloud and network providers, and large-scale infrastructure deployments. Management believes the diversity of bookings across customer segments, deployment sizes, workload types, and geographic markets demonstrates the resilience of demand and supports continued long-term growth across the platform. Net LossNet loss for the second quarter of 2026 was $48.8 million, compared to a net loss of $13.9 million in the second quarter of 2025. The increase was primarily driven by higher interest expense and one-time expenses related to the Company's initial public offering. After quarter end, the Company completed its initial public offering and used a significant portion of the proceeds to repay debt, eliminating approximately $63 million of annualized interest expense. As a result, both the elevated interest expense and the one-time IPO-related costs reflected in the second quarter are not indicative of the Company's expected go-forward earnings profile. Adjusted EBITDAAdjusted EBITDA increased 21.0% year-over-year to $120.3 million, compared to $99.4 million in the second quarter of 2025.Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 46.2%, compared to 42.9% in the prior-year period, reflecting continued revenue growth, disciplined operating execution, and the inherent operating leverage of the Company's highly recurring business model. A reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to Net Loss is included in the financial tables accompanying this release. Funds From OperationsFunds from Operations for the second quarter of 2026 were $40.8 million, compared to funds from operations of $50.2 million during the second quarter of 2025, representing a 18.9% decline year-over-year. The decrease was primarily the result of an increase in net loss, which was primarily driven by higher interest expense. A reconciliation of FFO to Net Loss, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, is included in the financial tables accompanying this release. The Company does not provide a reconciliation of forward-looking Adjusted EBITDA because certain items that affect the comparable GAAP measure cannot be reasonably provided without unreasonable effort. Business Highlights Generated record bookings of $64.7 million, marking the Company's 13th consecutive quarter of sequential bookings growth and reflecting sustained demand across enterprise, cloud, and network customers. Expanded contracted power capacity by 44% year-over-year to 410 MW, supported by strategic acquisitions and continued customer deployments. Contracted utilization reached 107%, demonstrating demand that exceeds current sellable capacity and is supported by the Company's development pipeline and planned capacity expansions. Executed strategic portfolio optimization initiatives through the divestiture of two underperforming leased data centers. As a result, sellable capacity totaled 385 MW as of June 30, 2026, while improving the overall quality and efficiency of the Company's operating portfolio. Improved customer retention, with quarterly net revenue churn declining to 2.4%, compared to 2.9% in the prior-year period, reflecting continued customer satisfaction and the resilience of the Company's recurring revenue base. Continued investing in long-term growth, deploying $128 million of growth capital expenditures during the quarter while investing an additional $15 million in recurring capital expenditures to maintain and enhance the Company's core infrastructure platform. IPO HighlightsDuring July 2026, Csquare successfully completed its initial public offering of 50.0 million shares of common stock at a public offering price of $21.00 per share and commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NYSE: CSQR. The IPO represents a significant milestone in the Company's evolution and strengthens its ability to execute its long-term growth strategy. As a public company, Csquare believes it is well positioned to benefit from enhanced access to capital markets, increased visibility among customers and investors, and greater strategic and financial flexibility. On July 27, 2026, the underwriters exercised their option to purchase an additional 7,499,000 shares at the initial public offering price. The offering generated approximately $1.16 billion in net proceeds, after underwriting discounts and commissions. The Company used the net proceeds to repay outstanding indebtedness, significantly reducing leverage and strengthening its balance sheet to support future investment opportunities. The debt repayment is expected to reduce the Company's annual interest expense by approximately $63 million, improving future earnings and cash flow. Management believes its strengthened capital structure, diversified digital infrastructure platform, and continued investment in capacity expansion position Csquare to capitalize on favorable long-term industry trends and create sustainable value for shareholders. Conference Call and Webcast InformationCsquare will host a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2026 results.Date: August 6, 2026Time: 5:00pm ET Webcast: https://app.webinar.net/x07g2Pl2BMQA live webcast of the conference call will be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website. A replay of the webcast will be available shortly following the conclusion of the event. About CsquareCsquare is a leading North American digital infrastructure platform providing carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services that support the applications powering the modern economy. The company owns and operates a geographically diverse portfolio of highly engineered data centers across major metropolitan markets in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Csquare delivers mission-critical infrastructure solutions to a diversified base of enterprise, network, cloud and technology customers. Its facilities provide secure space, resilient power, advanced cooling and dense connectivity ecosystems that enable customers to deploy and operate critical IT infrastructure with confidence. Through its enterprise-focused approach and interconnection-rich environments, Csquare helps organizations scale efficiently while supporting demanding workloads, including hybrid cloud architectures, latency-sensitive applications and emerging AI-enabled use cases. Headquartered in Coppell, Texas, Csquare is committed to delivering exceptional reliability, operational excellence and long-term customer partnerships across its portfolio.For additional information, visit www.Csquare.com. Non-GAAP Financial MeasuresThis earnings release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures, including Adjusted EBITDA and FFO. Management believes these measures provide useful supplemental information regarding the Company's operating performance, cash-generating ability, and underlying business trends. These measures should not be considered as alternatives to financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"). Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in the accompanying financial tables. We prepare our financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, though we believe evaluating our ongoing results of operations may be difficult if limited to reviewing only GAAP financial measures. Accordingly, we use non-GAAP financial measures to supplement our evaluation of our operations. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures, when taken collectively with our U.S. GAAP financial statements, may be helpful to investors because they allow for greater transparency into what measures we use in operating our business and measuring our performance and enable comparison of financial trends and results between periods where items may vary independent of business performance. These non-GAAP financial measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only, should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. Because of these limitations, our non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes for net (loss) income, or any other measure calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP, as applicable, and should be considered together with our GAAP financial measures and the reconciliations to the corresponding GAAP financial measures set forth in this press release. Adjusted EBITDAWe define Adjusted EBITDA as net (loss) income, excluding (i) income taxes, (ii) interest expense, (iii) depreciation and amortization, (iv) gain on lease modification, (v) loss on extinguishment of debt, (vi) bargain purchase gain, (vii) other income (loss), net, and (viii) transaction and other costs. Transaction and other costs consist primarily of acquisition and integration costs, restructuring costs, costs associated with our initial public offering, and employee loan extinguishment expenses directly attributable to specific transactions. The employee loan extinguishment costs are recorded within Selling, marketing, general and administrative expenses in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Management uses Adjusted EBITDA as a key measure of our operating performance and to assess the results of our business excluding certain items that we believe are not indicative of our core operating results. In addition, we believe Adjusted EBITDA is frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties in the evaluation of data centers and other real estate companies. However, because Adjusted EBITDA is calculated before recurring cash charges, including interest expense and income taxes, which represent significant recurring cash charges necessary to operate our business, and is not adjusted for capital expenditures or other recurring cash requirements of our business, it should not be considered a measure of liquidity or an indicator of our cash flows and its utility as a measure of our performance is limited. Further, Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect our cash requirements or our ability to generate cash to meet those obligations. Other companies may calculate Adjusted EBITDA differently than we do and, as a result, Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to other companies' Adjusted EBITDA. Accordingly, Adjusted EBITDA should not be viewed in isolation or as a substitute for net (loss) income or any other performance measure calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Note: Adjusted EBITDA margin excludes metered power revenue. Funds from Operations Management uses FFO, which is a non-GAAP financial measure commonly used in the real estate industry. This measure is used by management to evaluate performance corresponding to the retail colocation data center industry which has similarities to other real estate type companies. FFO is calculated in accordance with the standards approved by the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. FFO represents net (loss) income (calculated in accordance with GAAP), excluding, when applicable (i) loss or gain from the disposition of real estate assets, (ii) depreciation and amortization and (iii) impairment write-downs of real estate assets and investments in entities when the impairment is directly attributable to decreases in the value of depreciable real estate held by the entity. Management uses FFO as a supplemental performance measure because, in excluding the items identified in the calculation, it provides a performance measure that, when compared year over year, captures trends in utilization rates, pricing and operating costs. In addition, we believe FFO is frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties in the evaluation of data centers and other real estate companies. However, because FFO excludes depreciation and amortization and does not capture the changes in the value of our data centers that result from use or market conditions, or the level of capital expenditures necessary to maintain the operating performance of our data centers, all of which have real economic effect and could materially impact our financial condition and results from operations, the utility of FFO as a measure of our performance is limited. Other companies may calculate FFO differently than we do and, as a result, FFO may not be comparable to other companies' FFO. Accordingly, FFO should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net (loss) income or any other performance measure calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA increased by $20.9 million, or 21%, to $120.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2026, compared to $99.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and increased by $42.9 million, or 23%, to $228.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, compared to $185.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. This increase reflected continued improvement in operating performance across our platform, driven by growth in recurring colocation and interconnection revenues and operating leverage from our cost structure. FFO decreased by $9.5 million, or 18.9%, to $40.8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2026, compared to $50.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and decreased by $19.7 million, or 25%, to $59.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, compared to $79.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. This decrease was primarily attributable to an increase in net loss, primarily driven by higher interest expense resulting from the assumption of the 2021 ABS Notes in connection with the 2025 Portfolio Acquisition and interest incurred on additional ABS notes issued during the latter part of 2025. These impacts were partially offset by improved operating performance driven by growth in recurring revenue and a gain on lease modification incurred during the second quarter. The following table presents the calculation of FFO for the periods presented, with a reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP metric: Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company's expectations, beliefs, objectives, plans, strategies, future performance, growth opportunities, market demand, trends in bookings, portfolio optimization, AI inference adoption, embedded expansion opportunities, capital allocation strategy, financial position and other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "seek," "should," "target," "will," "would," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, changes in general economic conditions; our concentration in certain geographic areas; demand for colocation and connectivity services; competition; the availability of utility power, fiber connectivity and other critical infrastructure; customer demand and retention; our customer concentration; the pace and extent of AI adoption; a long sales cycle for our products and services; the Company's ability to execute its growth strategy and expansion projects; capital market conditions; regulatory developments; cybersecurity incidents; and the other risks described in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required by applicable law, Csquare undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise. View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/csquare-reports-record-second-quarter-2026-results-302845374.html

TranscriptFY2026 Q22026-08-06

FY2026 Q2 earnings call transcript

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Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Csquare second quarter 2026 earnings announcement 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'll be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press the star key, then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. Please note, this event is being recorded. I'd now like to turn the conference over to Michael Bowen. Please go ahead.

Michael Bowen

Good afternoon, welcome to Csquare's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Joining me today are Spencer Mullee, Chief Executive Officer, and Steve Cook, Chief Financial Officer. Earlier today, we issued our second quarter earnings release and supplemental materials, which are available in the investor relations section of our website. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that today's discussion will include forward-looking statements regarding our expectations for future operating performance, capital allocation, market demand, pricing trends, leverage, and other future events. These statements are based on our current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer to today's earnings release and our SEC filings for additional information regarding these forward-looking statements and the risks associated with them, as well as reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures discussed today to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Michael Bowen

With that, I'll turn the call over to Spencer.

Spencer Mullee

Thank you, Michael, Good afternoon, everyone. I appreciate you joining us today. The second quarter reflected the consistency of the business we've been discussing with investors over the past several months. Revenue increased 14.5% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA grew by 21%. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded by more than 300 basis points. We delivered record annualized bookings of $64.7 million, marking our 13th consecutive quarter of sequential bookings growth. More importantly, the quarter unfolded largely as we expected. Commercial execution remained strong, our pipeline continued to build, and the underlying trends across the business remained very constructive. Nothing we saw during the quarter changed our confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead. Rather than simply walk through the numbers, I'd like to spend a few minutes discussing what we're seeing across the business today, because that's ultimately what gives us confidence in the outlook.

Spencer Mullee

The first observation is that demand continues to grow. I've learned over the years that infrastructure customers rarely make decisions based solely on today's requirements. They're making long-term decisions about where critical applications will reside and how they will serve their own customers for years to come. What gives me confidence today isn't simply that activity levels remain strong. It's that customer conversations have become noticeably more strategic. Customers are planning further ahead. They're thinking differently about capacity and increasingly viewing digital infrastructure as long-term competitive advantage rather than simply a real estate decision. That's exactly the environment that Csquare has been preparing for. What stood out during the second quarter wasn't simply the level of customer activity. It was the breadth of that activity.

Spencer Mullee

Demand remained diversified across enterprise customers, cloud and network providers, healthcare, financial services, technology companies, and larger infrastructure deployments. We also continue to see activity across both our largest metropolitan markets and several secondary markets. Many customers are beginning to think through how AI inference, increasing data intensity, and low latency application requirements will influence where and how they will deploy infrastructure. That planning process is creating greater urgency around securing available capacity today, particularly in markets where power availability is becoming increasingly constrained. While AI continues to receive significant attention across our industry, what we're seeing extends well beyond AI alone. Customers continue investing in resilient, highly connected infrastructure capable of supporting an increasingly distributed compute environment, and we believe those trends remain durable. That demand translated into another quarter of strong commercial execution. Annualized bookings reached nearly $65 million, representing our 13th consecutive quarter of record bookings.

Spencer Mullee

While we're certainly pleased with the bookings result, what gave us the greatest confidence wasn't simply that record number. It was why we achieved it. The sales pipeline continued to strengthen through the quarter. Customer conversations became more strategic. We continued to see demand across both smaller enterprise deployments and larger infrastructure opportunities. Customers continue choosing Csquare for a few straightforward reasons. They value reliable operations, highly connected facilities, responsive customer service, and importantly, available capacity in many of the markets where they need to deploy infrastructure. In an environment where available power and capacity remain constrained across portions of the industry, our ability to support customer deployments today continues to differentiate us. Of course, not every aspect of the quarter exceeded our expectations.

Spencer Mullee

One area that continues to require patience is the amount of time some larger customers need to complete Basis of Design work before their deployment begins. Those projects are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and while that can extend deployment timelines, we view this as a reflection of the complexity of the environments our customers are building and our own ability to meet the requirements of next gen deployments rather than any change in underlying demand. One question we've received frequently over the past several months is what differentiates Csquare in an increasingly competitive market? From my perspective, it comes down to execution. When customers evaluate providers, the conversation usually centers on four questions. Those are: Can you deliver capacity when I need it? Can I rely on your operations? Can you support me as my deployments expand? Can you provide all of that at a competitive value?

Spencer Mullee

We believe our platform is well-positioned across each of these dimensions. Operationally, we continue delivering consistently high levels of uptime while maintaining world-class Net Promoter Scores, typically ranging from the 70s to the 80s. These metrics matter because they lead directly to customer retention, expansion activity, and long-term relationships. Our portfolio also gives customers flexibility. Whether they're deploying within a single metropolitan market, across a region, or nationally, we can often support those requirements through a single operating platform. As hybrid infrastructure strategies continue to evolve, we believe that flexibility becomes increasingly valuable. Finally, we continue to benefit from available capacity in many of the markets we serve. While power availability has become an increasingly important consideration throughout the industry, we've continued investing behind customer demand and expanding capacity where we see attractive long-term opportunities. Businesses like Csquare aren't built one quarter at a time.

Spencer Mullee

They're built through thousands of operating decisions made consistently over years. Over the past several years, we've become a stronger and more mature organization. We've refined our operating processes, strengthened our commercial organization, improved the way we allocate capital, and built an experienced operating team that has successfully managed through periods of rapid growth, as well as more challenging market environments. That experience gives me confidence in our ability to continue executing as the business grows. Looking ahead, I'm encouraged by what we're seeing across the business. Our commercial pipeline continues to strengthen, customer conversations continue to become more strategic, demand remains broad-based, and we're continuing to execute against a clear long-term strategy. Like every infrastructure company, we also recognize the challenges that come with growth. One area we're watching closely is the availability of labor.

Spencer Mullee

Competition for experienced construction, commissioning, and technical personnel continues to increase as investment across digital infrastructure accelerates. Successfully attracting, developing, and retaining that talent will remain an important priority for Csquare. Stepping back, I believe we're exceptionally well-positioned for the years ahead. Demand continues to grow across our customer base, commercial execution remains strong, and we're continuing to invest behind attractive long-term opportunities with discipline. At the same time, we're benefiting from favorable industry fundamentals, including improved pricing, constrained supply in many markets, and increasing customer demand for highly connected infrastructure. We believe those trends, combined with our operating platform, customer relationships, and disciplined approach to capital allocation, position us to create meaningful long-term value for our shareholders.

Spencer Mullee

If I leave you with one thought for today's call, it's this: demand continues to accelerate, our commercial execution continues to deliver, and we're well-positioned to convert that demand into long-term recurring growth through disciplined execution and thoughtful capital investment. With that, let me turn the call over to Steve Cook, our CFO.

Steve Cook

Thank you, Spencer. I'll begin with our second quarter financial results before discussing our balance sheet, capital allocation priorities, and our outlook for the balance of the year. Revenue for the second quarter was $280.4 million, an increase of 14.5% compared to the second quarter of 2025. Excluding metered power revenue, which can fluctuate based on customer power consumption and generally has little impact on profitability, revenue totaled approximately $260.2 million and performed in line with our expectations. Continued growth in our core colocation business remained the primary driver of our financial performance during the quarter. While reported revenue remains an important metric, we believe the composition of that revenue is equally important. Approximately 95% of our revenue during the quarter was recurring in nature, supported by long-term customer relationships, contractual pricing escalators, and strong customer retention.

Steve Cook

That recurring revenue profile provides a high degree of visibility and creates a durable foundation for long-term growth. From a commercial perspective, we generated record annualized bookings of $64.7 million during the quarter, representing our 13th consecutive quarter of sequential bookings growth. As Spencer discussed, those results reflected broad-based customer demand across our markets and continue to provide good visibility into future recurring revenue growth. Because this is our first earnings call as a public company, I'd like to spend a minute discussing how we think about bookings and, more broadly, how we think about the financial model. Bookings represent future contracted recurring revenue rather than current period revenue. Once contracts are signed, customers begin designing, constructing, and deploying their environments before revenue commences.

Steve Cook

While the timing of that varies depending on the complexity of each deployment, those bookings ultimately become long-term recurring revenue streams supported by contractual pricing escalators and ongoing customer expansions. For that reason, we continue to view bookings as one of the best leading indicators of future financial performance. While quarterly revenue can move modestly based on deployment timing or metered power usage, bookings provide a great indication of the long-term earnings power of the business. Pivoting to EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA increased 21% year-over-year to $120.3 million, while adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 46.2%, an increase of approximately 330 basis points from the prior year quarter. Operating income increased to $59.2 million from $33.5 million in the prior year, reflecting the operating leverage embedded within our business model as revenue growth outpaced expense growth.

Steve Cook

From our perspective, adjusted EBITDA remains one of the best indicators of the underlying operating performance of the business. This quarter's growth was driven primarily by two factors. First, we realized the benefit of acquisitions completing during 2025 as those assets contributed for a full reporting period. Second, our core colocation business continued to perform well, supported by customer demand, disciplined commercial execution, and the inherent scalability of our platform. Another encouraging trend was the continued strength in our pricing environment. Renewal pricing improved, contractual escalators performed as expected, and we achieved higher pricing on new customer deployments. Importantly, we expect those positive pricing dynamics to benefit the business over time in multiple ways. New growth investments are being deployed at current market pricing, improving the economics of those projects from day one.

Steve Cook

At the same time, our installed customer base continues to reprice gradually through contractual escalators and lease renewals. While that process occurs over time, we believe it provides an additional tailwind to recurring revenue and EBITDA growth for years to come. Approximately 35% of our second quarter bookings came from existing customers expanding their deployments. Those customers continue adding power, cabinets, and additional space within our facilities, and during the quarter, several customers expanded into new Csquare locations. We believe that's an important characteristic of our business because it demonstrates that a meaningful portion of our future growth comes from customers who already know our platform and continue choosing to grow with us. Our operating model also benefits from meaningful operating leverage dynamics. Once a facility has been developed and placed into service, incremental leasing activity generally requires relatively modest incremental operating expense.

Steve Cook

As utilization increases, a significant portion of incremental gross profit flows through to EBITDA. That's one of the reasons we've consistently delivered EBITDA growth that outpaces revenue growth. We expect that characteristic of the business to remain intact over the long term. Turning to our GAAP results, net loss for the quarter was $48.8 million, compared to a net loss of $13.9 million in the prior year period. The increase was primarily driven by higher interest expense associated with debt issued during the second half of 2025 and debt assumed in connection with our 2025 portfolio acquisition. Importantly, those financing costs reflect the capital structure we carried prior to our IPO and are not indicative of the underlying operating performance or long-term earnings potential of the business.

Steve Cook

Turning to the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with approximately $120.8 million of cash and cash equivalents, $209.5 million of restricted cash, and approximately $4.9 billion of long-term debt. Following the quarter's end, we successfully completed our initial public offering and used all of the net proceeds to repay outstanding indebtedness. As a result, we've materially strengthened our balance sheet, improved our financial flexibility, and expect annualized interest expense to decline by approximately $63 million on a go-forward basis. That reduction in interest expense meaningfully improves our future earnings profile while increasing the cash flow available to reduce debt and invest in attractive growth opportunities. On a pro forma basis for the IPO, net leverage improved to approximately 8.2x following the application of the IPO proceeds. We remain committed to steadily reducing leverage while continuing to invest behind attractive customer demand.

Steve Cook

We continue to believe we have a clear path toward our previously communicated year-end 2027 leverage objective, supported by EBITDA growth from projects already underway, disciplined capital deployment, and the benefit of lower interest expense following the IPO. Our recurring revenue model also continues to generate strong operating cash flow, providing us with the flexibility to invest in growth while strengthening the balance sheet. Our approach to capital allocation has remained consistent over the years and begins with disciplined underwriting. We build capacity based on informed conviction, not speculation. Significant growth in capital investments generally require customer commitments before construction begins. Every major project is supported by a formal investment memorandum evaluating customer credit quality, construction costs, project timelines, expected returns, strategic fit within our portfolio, and key execution risks. Only after completing that analysis do we commit capital.

Steve Cook

Historically, we've deployed growth capital at attractive EBITDA multiples, generally in the 4x-5x range. As those projects are completed and begin contributing EBITDA, they expand earnings faster than they increase leverage. We believe that's an important characteristic of our capital allocation strategy and one of the reasons disciplined growth investment supports long-term deleveraging while also creating shareholder value. During the quarter, we invested approximately $128 million in growth capital expenditures and approximately $15 million in recurring capital expenditures. Those investments were directly aligned with customer demand and continue expanding capacity in markets where we see attractive long-term opportunities. Turning to our outlook, our guidance reflects continued confidence in the underlying business. As we look toward the second half of the year, there are three areas we're watching particularly closely. First is continued commercial execution and leasing activity.

Steve Cook

Second is the timing of customer deployments as existing bookings convert into recurring revenue. Third is the continued execution of our development pipeline, including the large customer deployments signed near the end of the second quarter. Based on what we're seeing today, we remain comfortable with the assumptions underlying our outlook and are issuing full year guidance. We expect total revenue in the range of $1.13 billion-$1.17 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $460 million-$480 million, recurring capital expenditures of $55 million-$65 million, and growth capital expenditures of $610 million-$660 million. As investors begin following Csquare as a public company, I'd encourage you to evaluate our performance through three primary lenses. First is commercial execution, reflected in bookings and customer demand. Second is operating performance, reflected in recurring revenue growth, EBITDA, and margin expansion.

Steve Cook

Third is capital allocation, where our objective is to convert operating performance into long-term shareholder value through disciplined investment, prudent balance sheet management, and consistent execution. Ultimately, our priorities remain straightforward: continue executing for our customers, continue allocating capital with discipline, continue strengthening the balance sheet, continue creating long-term value for shareholders. We believe our second quarter results demonstrate meaningful progress against each of those priorities. We remain confident in the long-term outlook of the business. With that, I'll turn the call back to Spencer.

Spencer Mullee

Thanks, Steve. Operator, we're ready to take questions.

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up the handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then two. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Your first question today comes from Michael Elias from TD Cowen. Please go ahead.

Michael Elias

Great. Thanks for taking the question, and as part of that, congrats, guys, on another record quarter on the IPO. Looking forward to the road ahead. Two questions from me. You know, first, I want to start on the enterprise side. You know, we've seen one-megawatt deals become five-megawatt deals, and five-megawatt deals become 10-20 MW deals. I'm sure you're aware of some of the requirements on the market. You know, as we think about the trajectory of bookings or what you can do, what is the largest deal size that you'd be willing to take on? And as part of that, what's a bridge too far, either in terms of financial commitment or just size? That's the first question. Second, I want to double-click on your comments about constraints.

Michael Elias

You were talking about how labor is constrained. You know, since you're doing a lot of refresh of the existing sites, you know, what labor are you specifically running into that you need that you're not able to get access to? That'd be very helpful. Thank you.

Spencer Mullee

Thanks, Michael. I appreciate the call, and it's good to hear from you. On the enterprise side, you're right, there are deals that are better left to the hyperscalers. Given the unique nature of the data centers and their infrastructure, we wouldn't want to do deals in the 30, 40, 50 MW range, and in fact, probably not even in the 20 MW range. We have found a sweet spot for sure in that one to five-megawatt range, but those customers would like to grow, and we've recently allowed some customers to grow. We're comfortable in the 15 MW range. We've just recently signed a large deal in the 14 MW range. I would say really that sub-20 MW range is where we're gonna continue to play.

Spencer Mullee

That's been a very consistent story with us, throughout the time period that I've been here, and I see no reason to change it in any way. Your second question with regard to the labor constraints, this is something you hear really at all data center companies, and quite frankly, it's not new. It has been an issue in the data center industry for many years in terms of construction, project managers, and it's a little bit unique at Csquare and some of our peers in that we're operating in live environments. Finding people that have operated in those live environments who know how to work within the MOPs and SOPs that are necessary in live environments, those are talented people that are in high demand. I wouldn't say that we're not able to find those people.

Spencer Mullee

I would just say it takes an effort, we work really hard to keep them happy, keep them motivated, and keep them here. I wouldn't overstate that we can't get the people. I would just say that it is a effort to keep them happy and keep them motivated.

Michael Elias

Perfect. Thank you for the call.

Spencer Mullee

Sure. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from Cameron McVey from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Cameron McVey

Hi, guys. Thank you for taking the questions. First, you know, excluding dispositions organically, how many megawatts were you able to bring on in the quarter? Secondly, just curious, any further commentary on current leasing trends or conversations with your tenants, how your visibility is looking into the potential expansion cadence on a megawatt basis over the remainder of the year. Thank you.

Spencer Mullee

Sure. I'm going to let Steve address your first question, and I'll address your second one. We're continuing to see a very constructive leasing environment. Demand still is very broad-based across enterprise, cloud, network, and importantly, I think it's becoming more strategic, with customers planning further ahead, securing capacity earlier in the process. We're also seeing healthy expansion from existing customers, which accounted for about 35% of the bookings this past quarter, but higher percentages than previous quarters. From a pricing standpoint, renewal pricing remains strong. Contractual escalators are performing just as we've expected, and new deployments continue to be signed at, what I would say, is very attractive market rates. As we step back, I think I continue to see healthy demand, improved pricing, and a very strong pipeline, which gives us confidence in that go-forward outlook.

Steve Cook

Yeah, I can address the comment. I would call this quarter a bit of a holding pattern quarter-over-quarter in terms of installed base. We added just over a megawatt in the quarter. We've got a number of large projects set to come online in the back half of the year in terms of our installed base.

Spencer Mullee

This really was a focus quarter on installing what we have sold through the year. There is a significant amount of capacity being installed this quarter.

Cameron McVey

Got it. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from Eric Luebchow from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Eric Luebchow

Great. Thank you. Just touching back on that, Spencer, a little bit. Maybe you could talk about pricing a little more. I don't know if you can quantify what the renewal environment looks like today. I know that had been really strong last year and current. I'm curious what you're seeing on renewals, given how strong pricing's been. Secondly, just on the forward construction costs, obviously with higher labor costs, higher equipment costs, are you still able to deliver at kind of a $4 million-$8 million per megawatt net CapEx cost, or are you seeing any inflation on that front? Thank you.

Spencer Mullee

Yep. As we talked about, if you remember back to when we did Analyst Day and talked to all of you that day, we said $4 million-$8 million was the average. There are a few things that are a little bit more expensive. There's a lot of things that are a lot less expensive. Nothing today has changed our view from that. In fact, we're finding pricing to be relatively stable since the last time we spoke. I would say we haven't seen any material change in the pricing. I'm so sorry, I forgot the other part of the question.

Eric Luebchow

Pricing trends.

Spencer Mullee

Pricing is strong. As you know, we don't like to discuss actual pricing here at Csquare publicly. I would say this, I would say from a renewal standpoint, we're having what I would think is one of our best years ever in terms of mark-to-market. While we did, again, we talked at Analyst Day about the relative price increase this year. I would say in the third quarter, we've seen some additional pricing strength, and we've done very well on new business. Pricing still very strong, and we continue to see good repricing through either escalators and through renewals.

Eric Luebchow

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Again, if you have a question, please press star then one and wait for your name to be announced. Your next question comes from Maher Yaghi from Scotiabank. Please go ahead.

Maher Yaghi

Great. Thank you for taking my question, and congratulations on your public listing. I wanted to ask you, the gain on lease modification, can you just help us to understand the economics and how that flows into your P&L? Is it a one-time event or could be more down the road?

Steve Cook

Sure. Happy to answer that. The gain is a one-time event. It was related to a give back of a non-strategic facility that we elected not to renew a lease on. You see the derecognition of the liability. It's one time.

Maher Yaghi

Okay, great. Just to go back on the two large deals that you guys signed. Margin-wise or how do they compare to your other deals that you signed during the quarter? Also, do they require any specific or amplified spending on CapEx to bring them online?

Steve Cook

Sure. The two deals definitely fell in line with the broader trends we've been seeing in our bookings performance. Great rate points. We do have some capital requirements that we'll put to work to support those deals over the remainder of 2026. Overall, falling broadly in line with our return profiles, our underwriting standards that we work through on every single deal with respect to risk assessment, financial profile, and capital deployed.

Maher Yaghi

Great. Those two deals are included in your bookings in the quarter, or did they stack into multiple quarters?

Spencer Mullee

Those two, yeah, those two were in the second quarter.

Maher Yaghi

Okay, perfect. Maybe one last question on interconnection revenues. Any views on how should we think about those turning around in the second half, or how should we think about that revenue run rate exiting 2026?

Spencer Mullee

Yeah. No different than we talked about at Analyst Day, which is we're currently installing well over 30 MW of installations and a number of customers being installed and just have started revenue from things that we sold in the previous three quarters, which are our three best quarters ever and significantly larger than previous quarters. Those customers take some time to enter the ecosystem, and it takes 6-12 months for them to fully involve themselves in that ecosystem. I expect that we will see interconnection continuing to grow. That's been a focus for us, as we spoke about. I think by the end of the year, you'll see that head in the right direction.

Maher Yaghi

Okay, great. One last question from me, on churn. Going from 2.9% to 2.4%. Maybe just how should we think about that bump in churn? Are we through that elevated churn and now we're heading back down towards the 2% range?

Spencer Mullee

Yeah, I have no doubt that we'll end up this year in the range that we've all talked about previously. I'm very comfortable with the churn as we see the pipeline for the next six months. There was one customer, we had talked about this on the roadshow, that there was one large customer that exited in Q2. They exited in May. However, that space had been released for a number of months before that, and that customer is currently being installed and at a higher rate and higher capacity. We're very comfortable with the churn metrics going forward, and we have every indication that we'll deliver in the range that we've indicated.

Maher Yaghi

Great. Thank you very much.

Spencer Mullee

Yep, thank you. Thanks for being here.

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from John Peterson from Jefferies. Please go ahead.

John Peterson

Oh, great. Thank you. I appreciate the time, congratulations on the public listing. I was hoping just to get a little more color on demand you might be seeing from neoclouds and the frontier AI model companies. Just curious how they're working themselves into the demand pipeline for your type of data centers.

Spencer Mullee

Yep. John, we are obviously credit-focused, we're very proud of our 60% investment grade characteristics of our MRR. Many of the neoclouds are difficult for us to do business with today. That being said, 60%-plus of what we did this past quarter was, in fact, AI type business or AI related. We're not focused on doing large installations with the neoclouds right now. We're focused on doing things that really are starting to relate to inference. We're talking to our enterprise customers about inference, and we really believe that Csquare is the location for enterprise inference going forward. We're really focused on that more than we're focused on the neoclouds today.

John Peterson

All right. That's very helpful. Maybe this is somewhat related, maybe it's not, I think in your prospectus, the average power density per cabinet is around 7-8 kW. Can you talk about the leases that you signed this past quarter and where power densities are on new leases that you're signing?

Spencer Mullee

Yeah. It's very interesting. There's quite a dichotomy today in terms of our cabinet densities. We still sign a number of 2 kW, 3 kW, and 4 kW a rack customers. In fact, that's a great business for us. We then move our way up to the 17 kW to 25 kW rack customers. We sign a number of those, and then we do as much as 150 kW and 250 kW. We're currently installing installations in Chicago and in Boston at 150 kW or plus a rack with several customers. It's a wide range. I don't expect our average today, like you said, is between seven and eight kW.

Spencer Mullee

I think you will see that slowly increase. I expect that our enterprise business is rock solid strong today. I think we'll still be doing a number of the just bread and butter 4 kW to 10 kW a rack customers.

John Peterson

Great. Very helpful. Thank you.

Spencer Mullee

The CPU is alive and well. Yep.

John Peterson

Sounds good. Thanks.

Operator

Thank you. Once again, if you have a question, please press star then one. As there are no further questions, this does conclude our question-and-answer session. Pardon me, we have one last question from Richard Choe from JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Richard Choe

Great. Thank you. We wanted to get a little bit more sense of what markets you're seeing strength in and where you're building and kind of, as you look out through your pipeline of new business, which ones are the ones that you're focusing on?

Spencer Mullee

I would say we're really seeing strength across the portfolio rather than just one or two markets, which is very encouraging for us. Demand continues to be broad-based across enterprise, cloud, and network customers. We're seeing activity in our largest metropolitan markets, but we're seeing them in a number of secondary markets as well. As we've discussed before, power availability remains constrained in many markets. Customers are planning deployments further in advance to secure that capacity. While there are certainly markets that are tighter than others, we continue to see healthy leasing activity and a strong pipeline across the platform. I think that's reflective in our 13th quarter of record bookings.

Richard Choe

You talked about it a little bit, but the two large deals, how much CapEx do they require? Can you tell us anything about the deals, whether the type of customer or why you feel comfortable kind of spending this level of incremental CapEx to get that return? It seems like those two were kind of bigger than normal deals.

Steve Cook

Yeah. Certainly the deals were large, and as we assess them, as I mentioned, the first thing you do is you make sure that it makes sense from a financial perspective. We're in a very unique demand environment. One of the deals in particular was in a market, one of our secondary markets, that represents really a transformational opportunity for that site. It has a strategic bent as well for us. The capital deployment was incremental to where we thought we were originally targeting. You see that tick up a little bit in the numbers we've leased. Excited about those deals and the economics they're going to bring as we look forward.

Richard Choe

Great. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Once again, if you have a question, please press star then one and wait for your name to be announced.

Spencer Mullee

It sounds like there are no more questions for this event. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. We appreciate the support and look forward to speaking to all of you soon.

Operator

Conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

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Csquare Sets Conference Call for Second-Quarter 2026 Results

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COPPELL, Texas, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Csquare (NYSE: CSQR), today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference call on Thursday, August 6, 2026, at 5:00PM EDT. The company will discuss second-quarter results for the period ended June 30, 2026. A live webcast of the call will be available using the following link: https://app.webinar.net/x07g2Pl2BMQ. A replay will be available approximately 2 hours after the live call. This webcast will also be available on our Investor Relations site. About Csquare Csquare is a leading North American digital infrastructure platform providing carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services that support the applications powering the modern economy. The company owns and operates a geographically diverse portfolio of highly engineered data centers across major metropolitan markets in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Csquare delivers mission-critical infrastructure solutions to a diversified base of enterprise, network, cloud and technology customers. Its facilities provide secure space, resilient power, advanced cooling and dense connectivity ecosystems that enable customers to deploy and operate critical IT infrastructure with confidence. Through its enterprise-focused approach and interconnection-rich environments, Csquare helps organizations scale efficiently while supporting demanding workloads, including hybrid cloud architectures, latency-sensitive applications and emerging AI-enabled use cases. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Csquare is committed to delivering exceptional reliability, operational excellence and long-term customer partnerships across its portfolio. View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/csquare-sets-conference-call-for-second-quarter-2026-results-302839604.html

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