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This remains a cautious monitoring memo, not a confirmed post-earnings thesis change. As of April 29, 2026 UTC, Pulmonx's investor-relations news page still showed the April 15 scheduling release rather than posted Q1 2026 results, and the company SEC-filings page showed no newer earnings filing than the March 2026 items checked here. That means earnings surprise, analyst revisions, and immediate post-print price reaction were unavailable for confirmation in this T+1 run, so the deterministic negative prior still carries more weight than narrative hope.
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Pulmonx said on April 15, 2026 that it would report first-quarter 2026 financial results after the close on April 29, 2026, but as of the company pages checked for this run the result itself was not yet posted, leaving revenue, cash-burn trajectory, guidance confirmation, and the first market read-through unconfirmed [#IR-2026-04-15].
Pulmonx guided 2026 revenue to $90 million-$92 million versus $90.5 million in 2025, expects about $23 million of cash usage in 2026 absent extra drawdowns, and refinanced with a Perceptive facility whose undrawn tranches depend on revenue milestones; that leaves little room for a commercial miss before financing risk becomes the dominant equity narrative [#PR-2026-03-04] [#8-K-2026-03-05] [#10-K-2026-03-10].
Management framed 2025 as a transition year and said the operating plan is aimed at reaccelerating commercial growth while advancing the clinical pipeline; the underlying setup is still a concentrated Zephyr story, with fourth-quarter 2025 U.S. revenue down 11% year over year even as international revenue grew 8%, so a durable rerating still requires proof that procedure demand and hospital adoption can improve in the core business [#PR-2026-03-04] [#10-K-2026-03-10].
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