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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-15Magnite (MGNI) Stock Looks Overvalued On Cash Flow And Earnings
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Magnite (MGNI) Stock Looks Overvalued On Cash Flow And Earnings
Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Magnite stock has delivered a very strong 209.1% return over the past three years, yet current valuation checks suggest the shares trade at a premium to the company’s intrinsic value estimate and to more traditional market multiples. Over the last three years, Magnite has returned 209.1%, which puts extra focus on whether the current price still reflects a reasonable long term payoff for new buyers. Growth in connected TV advertising can support higher revenue and cash flow expectations, while ongoing questions about the sustainability of Magnite’s competitive position may limit how much investors are willing to pay for that growth. Magnite scores 2 out of 6 on the broader valuation checks, which leans more toward expensive than a clear bargain. The issue now is whether Magnite’s recent share price strength leaves enough valuation headroom against its intrinsic value estimate and earnings based benchmarks to justify taking or adding to a position. Magnite delivered 4.3% returns over the last year. See how this stacks up to the rest of the Media industry. The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model values Magnite based on the cash it is expected to generate for shareholders. Magnite currently produces last twelve month free cash flow of about $216.7 million, and the cash flow projections used here assume the business keeps growing from this starting point rather than shrinking or relying on a sharp one off improvement. On these assumptions, the DCF framework points to an intrinsic value of about $19.94 per share. This sits below the current share price, which implies the stock trades roughly 24.0% above this cash flow based estimate and therefore screens as overvalued on this method. Magnite’s raised 2026 guidance, helped by connected TV growth, helps explain why the market is willing to pay above what the cash flow model suggests. Overall, the DCF workup indicates Magnite stock currently looks overvalued relative to its modeled cash generation. Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests Magnite may be overvalued by 24.0%. Discover 50 high quality undervalued stocks or create your own screener to find better value opportunities. Head to the Valuation section of our Company Report for more details on how we arrive at this Fair Value for Magnite. P/…Read full documentShow less
Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Magnite stock has delivered a very strong 209.1% return over the past three years, yet current valuation checks suggest the shares trade at a premium to the company’s intrinsic value estimate and to more traditional market multiples. Over the last three years, Magnite has returned 209.1%, which puts extra focus on whether the current price still reflects a reasonable long term payoff for new buyers. Growth in connected TV advertising can support higher revenue and cash flow expectations, while ongoing questions about the sustainability of Magnite’s competitive position may limit how much investors are willing to pay for that growth. Magnite scores 2 out of 6 on the broader valuation checks, which leans more toward expensive than a clear bargain. The issue now is whether Magnite’s recent share price strength leaves enough valuation headroom against its intrinsic value estimate and earnings based benchmarks to justify taking or adding to a position. Magnite delivered 4.3% returns over the last year. See how this stacks up to the rest of the Media industry. The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model values Magnite based on the cash it is expected to generate for shareholders. Magnite currently produces last twelve month free cash flow of about $216.7 million, and the cash flow projections used here assume the business keeps growing from this starting point rather than shrinking or relying on a sharp one off improvement. On these assumptions, the DCF framework points to an intrinsic value of about $19.94 per share. This sits below the current share price, which implies the stock trades roughly 24.0% above this cash flow based estimate and therefore screens as overvalued on this method. Magnite’s raised 2026 guidance, helped by connected TV growth, helps explain why the market is willing to pay above what the cash flow model suggests. Overall, the DCF workup indicates Magnite stock currently looks overvalued relative to its modeled cash generation. Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests Magnite may be overvalued by 24.0%. Discover 50 high quality undervalued stocks or create your own screener to find better value opportunities. Head to the Valuation section of our Company Report for more details on how we arrive at this Fair Value for Magnite. P/E is a useful check for Magnite because the company is now generating positive earnings, so you can compare what you pay per dollar of profit with peers in the media sector. Magnite trades on a P/E of about 21.3x, which sits slightly below the wider media industry average of 23.1x and well below the peer group average of 49.5x. On the surface that might look reasonable, but the tailored fair P/E ratio that blends factors like Magnite’s risk profile, margin structure and size sits closer to 14.7x. That means the current 21.3x multiple is higher than what this framework suggests for Magnite’s earnings power, so the stock screens as expensive relative to this earnings based benchmark. Overall, Magnite appears overvalued on its P/E multiple compared with the fair ratio implied by its fundamentals. See what the numbers say about this price — find out in our valuation breakdown. Simply Wall St Narratives for Magnite pick up where the valuation work leaves off by spelling out which paths for Magnite's growth, margins and earnings would need to play out for the stock to be worth materially more or materially less than today's price. Each idea links its number back to a clear view on how Magnite's growth, profitability and risks could evolve, which you can revisit on the Community page as new information comes through. Community views on Magnite sit wide apart, with one side focused on connected TV upside and the other on structural headwinds in digital advertising. Bull case: 7% undervalued Read the full Bull Case to see why Magnite could be undervalued Bear case: 45% overvalued Read the full Bear Case to see why Magnite could be overvalued Do you think there's more to the story for Magnite? Head over to our Community to see what others are saying! Magnite looks overvalued on both the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) intrinsic value estimate and its earnings multiple, so the current price builds in a fair amount of optimism already. The DCF workup sits below the market price and the tailored fair P/E comes in under where the stock trades, which is consistent with the low broader valuation score. From here the key question is whether Magnite can deliver the growth and margin resilience that bullish investors expect, particularly in connected TV, or whether competitive and structural pressures in digital advertising keep the current premium under strain. This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned. Companies discussed in this article include MGNI. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? 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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-09What to Know When a Magnite Director Sells Into a 36% Growth Quarter
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What to Know When a Magnite Director Sells Into a 36% Growth Quarter
Douglas S. Knopper, a director at Magnite, Inc. (NASDAQ:MGNI), sold 37,337 shares of common stock on August 6 at $22.72 per share, according to an SEC Form 4 filing. Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average sale price ($22.72); post-transaction value based on the August 6 market close ($24.32). What was the catalyst for this transaction?The sale was pre-arranged under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan established in December 2025, a mechanism frequently used by corporate insiders to execute trades according to predetermined parameters to avoid potential conflicts. What is the extent of the insider's remaining exposure?Following this transaction, Knopper retains direct ownership of 88,473 shares, representing a 0.06% insider interest in the company. What financial context surrounds the company?Magnite operates in the communication services sector as an advertising agency platform provider, with a market capitalization of $3.5 billion and trailing-twelve-month revenue of $742.0 million as of the August 6 market close. How has the stock performed leading up to this filing?As of the transaction date, the company has delivered an 8% one-year total return, while reporting trailing-12-month net income of $166.9 million. Magnite operates a global digital advertising marketplace platform that provides publishers—including connected TV channels, mobile applications, and websites—with comprehensive tools and applications to manage and monetize their advertising inventory. The company generates revenue through a two-sided marketplace model, offering services and technology solutions to both supply-side participants (publishers) and demand-side participants (advertisers, agencies, agency trading desks, and demand-side platforms), facilitating programmatic advertising transactions. Magnite's primary customers include digital publishers seeking to optimize ad revenue, advertising agencies and brands requiring efficient media buying solutions, and demand-side platforms that leverage the company's infrastructure to execute targeted advertising campaigns at scale. Magnite is a leading independent platform in the digital advertising technology sector, with a market capitalization of $3.5 billion and TTM revenues of $742.0 million. The company maintains a competitive advantage through its sophisticated, independent marketplace infrastructure that connects a diverse ecosy…Read full documentShow less
Douglas S. Knopper, a director at Magnite, Inc. (NASDAQ:MGNI), sold 37,337 shares of common stock on August 6 at $22.72 per share, according to an SEC Form 4 filing. Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average sale price ($22.72); post-transaction value based on the August 6 market close ($24.32). What was the catalyst for this transaction?The sale was pre-arranged under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan established in December 2025, a mechanism frequently used by corporate insiders to execute trades according to predetermined parameters to avoid potential conflicts. What is the extent of the insider's remaining exposure?Following this transaction, Knopper retains direct ownership of 88,473 shares, representing a 0.06% insider interest in the company. What financial context surrounds the company?Magnite operates in the communication services sector as an advertising agency platform provider, with a market capitalization of $3.5 billion and trailing-twelve-month revenue of $742.0 million as of the August 6 market close. How has the stock performed leading up to this filing?As of the transaction date, the company has delivered an 8% one-year total return, while reporting trailing-12-month net income of $166.9 million. Magnite operates a global digital advertising marketplace platform that provides publishers—including connected TV channels, mobile applications, and websites—with comprehensive tools and applications to manage and monetize their advertising inventory. The company generates revenue through a two-sided marketplace model, offering services and technology solutions to both supply-side participants (publishers) and demand-side participants (advertisers, agencies, agency trading desks, and demand-side platforms), facilitating programmatic advertising transactions. Magnite's primary customers include digital publishers seeking to optimize ad revenue, advertising agencies and brands requiring efficient media buying solutions, and demand-side platforms that leverage the company's infrastructure to execute targeted advertising campaigns at scale. Magnite is a leading independent platform in the digital advertising technology sector, with a market capitalization of $3.5 billion and TTM revenues of $742.0 million. The company maintains a competitive advantage through its sophisticated, independent marketplace infrastructure that connects a diverse ecosystem of publishers and advertisers globally. With a demonstrated ability to generate substantial net income of $166.9 million TTM, Magnite is positioned as a critical infrastructure provider in the programmatic advertising landscape. Unlike executives who cashed in options on the same day, Knopper simply sold shares he already held, under a plan set back in December. Still, a director trimming a stake on a preset schedule is about the quietest signal in the insider-filing world, and he kept 88,473 shares.What all five sales have in common is the strong quarter they followed. Connected TV, the piece of Magnite that matters most, grew contribution ex-TAC 36% to $97 million and now makes up more than half the total, while adjusted EBITDA rose 30%. Management raised full-year guidance across its main measures on the strength of that momentum.Five insiders selling in one day sounds like a stampede until you notice every sale ran on a plan set months earlier. There are a number of other things long-term investors should focus on instead: The firm is positioning its new agentic products as a "great future tailwind," and it's now projecting higher adjusted EBITDA, stronger margins, and greater free cash flow. The upcoming quarters will show just how those projections hold up, but so far, shares are rallying post-earnings. Before you buy stock in Magnite, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Magnite wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $399,832!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $1,374,595!* Now, it’s worth noting Stock Advisor’s total average return is 968% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 215% for the S&P 500. Don't miss the latest top 10 list, available with Stock Advisor, and join an investing community built by individual investors for individual investors. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of August 9, 2026. Jonathan Ponciano has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Magnite. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. What to Know When a Magnite Director Sells Into a 36% Growth Quarter was originally published by The Motley Fool
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-07Trade Desk Plunges 28% After Earnings Miss Triggers Downgrade Avalanche; Ad-Tech Peers AppLovin and Magnite Hold Firm
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Trade Desk Plunges 28% After Earnings Miss Triggers Downgrade Avalanche; Ad-Tech Peers AppLovin and Magnite Hold Firm
Trade Desk stock crashed 28% after Q2 revenue of $715M missed estimates and Q3 guidance of at least $650M fell $155M short of the $805M consensus. MoffettNathanson slashed its Trade Desk stock price target to $6 from $23, leading a wave of downgrades as Truist and Wells Fargo warn a turnaround could take several quarters. AppLovin's steady trading and Magnite's raised full-year outlook confirm that Trade Desk stock's collapse today is company-specific, not a signal of a broken ad-tech market. It sounds nuts, but SoFi1 is giving new Active Invest users up to $3,000 in stock for a limited time, and all it takes is a $50 deposit to get started.2 See for yourself (Sponsor) The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) stock is plunging 28% to $12.76 in Friday morning trading after the advertising-technology company delivered a disappointing second-quarter report and offered a sharply weaker outlook for the third quarter. The collapse comes one day after The Trade Desk stock fell 6.8% to $17.67 without any obvious company-specific news, making Friday's selloff a much clearer signal about the company's own business. The contrast with other ad-tech stocks is striking. AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP) stock is up 1% to $340.55, while Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI) stock is down just 1% to $24.15, and the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) is up 0.82% to $720.61 as investors digest a weaker-than-expected July jobs report. The Trade Desk reported second-quarter revenue of $715 million, below expectations of $751 million, while adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.34 versus the $0.40 consensus estimate. The Trade Desk's third-quarter outlook was even more concerning, with revenue expected to reach at least $650 million compared with expectations of roughly $805 million. Management pointed to macroeconomic pressure affecting consumer packaged goods and automotive advertisers, along with execution problems and a shift toward lower-cost programmatic fixed-price media. The Trade Desk also faces competition from cheaper alternatives, creating a difficult combination of weaker demand, pricing pressure and potential market-share losses. SoFi Active Invest is offering a limited-time promotion. Open an account, fund it with $50 or more, and you could receive up to $3,000 in complimentary stock for Active Invest accounts. See for yourself by clicking here now. (Sponsor) Wall Street responded with an unusually broad…Read full documentShow less
Trade Desk stock crashed 28% after Q2 revenue of $715M missed estimates and Q3 guidance of at least $650M fell $155M short of the $805M consensus. MoffettNathanson slashed its Trade Desk stock price target to $6 from $23, leading a wave of downgrades as Truist and Wells Fargo warn a turnaround could take several quarters. AppLovin's steady trading and Magnite's raised full-year outlook confirm that Trade Desk stock's collapse today is company-specific, not a signal of a broken ad-tech market. It sounds nuts, but SoFi1 is giving new Active Invest users up to $3,000 in stock for a limited time, and all it takes is a $50 deposit to get started.2 See for yourself (Sponsor) The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) stock is plunging 28% to $12.76 in Friday morning trading after the advertising-technology company delivered a disappointing second-quarter report and offered a sharply weaker outlook for the third quarter. The collapse comes one day after The Trade Desk stock fell 6.8% to $17.67 without any obvious company-specific news, making Friday's selloff a much clearer signal about the company's own business. The contrast with other ad-tech stocks is striking. AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP) stock is up 1% to $340.55, while Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI) stock is down just 1% to $24.15, and the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) is up 0.82% to $720.61 as investors digest a weaker-than-expected July jobs report. The Trade Desk reported second-quarter revenue of $715 million, below expectations of $751 million, while adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.34 versus the $0.40 consensus estimate. The Trade Desk's third-quarter outlook was even more concerning, with revenue expected to reach at least $650 million compared with expectations of roughly $805 million. Management pointed to macroeconomic pressure affecting consumer packaged goods and automotive advertisers, along with execution problems and a shift toward lower-cost programmatic fixed-price media. The Trade Desk also faces competition from cheaper alternatives, creating a difficult combination of weaker demand, pricing pressure and potential market-share losses. SoFi Active Invest is offering a limited-time promotion. Open an account, fund it with $50 or more, and you could receive up to $3,000 in complimentary stock for Active Invest accounts. See for yourself by clicking here now. (Sponsor) Wall Street responded with an unusually broad wave of downgrades and price-target cuts. BMO Capital downgraded The Trade Desk stock to Market Perform with a $15 target from $38, while Citi moved to Sell with an $11 target from $21 and Evercore ISI cut its target to $13 from $27. Guggenheim downgraded The Trade Desk to Neutral and reduced its target to $12 from $25, while RBC Capital moved to Sector Perform with a $15 target from $33. MoffettNathanson went further by cutting its target to $6 from $23, underscoring how dramatically expectations have changed. AppLovin stock is holding up despite the broader market uncertainty, while Magnite stock is also showing relative strength after Magnite delivered a better-than-expected second quarter and raised its full-year outlook. Yesterday's ad-tech split therefore appears even more significant today, with investors increasingly distinguishing between companies facing company-specific problems and those showing stronger operating momentum. AppLovin and Magnite also provide an important counterpoint to the argument that Friday's Trade Desk collapse simply reflects a weak advertising market. Trade Desk's pricing pressure, execution issues and advertiser losses appear to be more specific problems, although softer economic conditions could still create headwinds across the broader industry. The bullish case for Trade Desk stock is that the 28% plunge could eventually price in a significant portion of the company's near-term deterioration. UBS remains constructive with a $16 price target and believes improved sales execution, product updates and growing joint-business-plan momentum could provide early signs of a recovery. However, the bearish case currently has more immediate evidence behind it. Raymond James downgraded Trade Desk to Underperform, while Truist argued that fixing the company's problems could take several quarters, and Wells Fargo warned that trends could continue deteriorating unless Trade Desk aligns pricing with the broader industry. Investors can watch for whether Trade Desk can stabilize advertiser relationships, reverse share losses and turn product improvements into renewed spending growth. Given the magnitude of the earnings-driven reset and the wide range of reduced price targets, investors choosing to own Trade Desk stock may want to keep their position sizes moderate, even if the sharp decline makes the shares appear increasingly tempting to contrarian buyers. Looking to grow your money but unsure where to begin? SoFi Active Invest is offering a limited-time promotion—open a new Active Invest account, fund it with $50 or more, and you could receive up to $3,000 in complimentary stock. From $0 commission trading3 to fractional shares4 and automated investing, this app is designed to simplify investing for everyone, whether you’re just starting or already experienced. Its easy to sign up and secure your bonus.(Sponsor) Contact [email protected] for any questions or corrections.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-06Magnite Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
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Magnite Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
Interested in Magnite, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Magnite exceeded Q2 expectations, with revenue rising 11% to $193 million and Contribution ex-TAC increasing 17% to $190 million. CTV led growth, up 36% year over year, while Adjusted EBITDA rose 30% to $71 million, producing a 37% margin. The company raised its full-year outlook, now expecting Contribution ex-TAC growth of 13%–14%, Adjusted EBITDA growth above 20%, a margin of at least 37%, and free-cash-flow growth in the high-40% range. Magnite is expanding its CTV and commerce-media businesses through partnerships with major media owners and retailers, while developing AI-enabled advertising tools. Management said agentic advertising remains early but could eventually broaden the programmatic market. As Digital Ad Spend Hits a High, These Firms Could Reap Rewards Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI) reported second-quarter results that exceeded its expectations, driven by continued growth in connected television and a return to growth in its DV+ business. The company raised its full-year outlook for Contribution ex-TAC, Adjusted EBITDA growth, margin expansion and free cash flow. Chief Executive Officer Michael Barrett said total Contribution ex-TAC exceeded consensus expectations by approximately $10 million, with CTV contributing about $6 million of the outperformance and DV+ adding roughly $4 million. Adjusted EBITDA exceeded consensus by $8 million, producing a 37% margin. → SpaceX’s First Earnings Report Could Decide Whether Shorts or Bulls Have Control 3 Stocks Offering Strong Value and Stability “We significantly exceeded expectations across the business,” Barrett said, citing broad-based CTV strength and improving trends in DV+. He said the company expects its momentum to continue. Total revenue in the second quarter was $193 million, up 11% from the same quarter of 2025, according to CFO David Day. Contribution ex-TAC rose 17% to $190 million, exceeding the high end of the company’s guidance range. CTV Contribution ex-TAC increased 36% year over year to $97 million. DV+ Contribution ex-TAC rose 2% to $93 million. CTV represented 51% of total Contribution ex-TAC, while mobile represented 35% and desktop accounted for 14%. Adjusted EBITDA increased 30% to $71 million, with a 37% margin, compared with 34% a year earlier. Net income was $19 million, compared with $11 million in the prior-year quarte…Read full documentShow less
Interested in Magnite, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Magnite exceeded Q2 expectations, with revenue rising 11% to $193 million and Contribution ex-TAC increasing 17% to $190 million. CTV led growth, up 36% year over year, while Adjusted EBITDA rose 30% to $71 million, producing a 37% margin. The company raised its full-year outlook, now expecting Contribution ex-TAC growth of 13%–14%, Adjusted EBITDA growth above 20%, a margin of at least 37%, and free-cash-flow growth in the high-40% range. Magnite is expanding its CTV and commerce-media businesses through partnerships with major media owners and retailers, while developing AI-enabled advertising tools. Management said agentic advertising remains early but could eventually broaden the programmatic market. As Digital Ad Spend Hits a High, These Firms Could Reap Rewards Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI) reported second-quarter results that exceeded its expectations, driven by continued growth in connected television and a return to growth in its DV+ business. The company raised its full-year outlook for Contribution ex-TAC, Adjusted EBITDA growth, margin expansion and free cash flow. Chief Executive Officer Michael Barrett said total Contribution ex-TAC exceeded consensus expectations by approximately $10 million, with CTV contributing about $6 million of the outperformance and DV+ adding roughly $4 million. Adjusted EBITDA exceeded consensus by $8 million, producing a 37% margin. → SpaceX’s First Earnings Report Could Decide Whether Shorts or Bulls Have Control 3 Stocks Offering Strong Value and Stability “We significantly exceeded expectations across the business,” Barrett said, citing broad-based CTV strength and improving trends in DV+. He said the company expects its momentum to continue. Total revenue in the second quarter was $193 million, up 11% from the same quarter of 2025, according to CFO David Day. Contribution ex-TAC rose 17% to $190 million, exceeding the high end of the company’s guidance range. CTV Contribution ex-TAC increased 36% year over year to $97 million. DV+ Contribution ex-TAC rose 2% to $93 million. CTV represented 51% of total Contribution ex-TAC, while mobile represented 35% and desktop accounted for 14%. Adjusted EBITDA increased 30% to $71 million, with a 37% margin, compared with 34% a year earlier. Net income was $19 million, compared with $11 million in the prior-year quarter. GAAP diluted earnings per share were $0.13, versus $0.08 a year earlier, while non-GAAP EPS was $0.26, compared with $0.20. → 3 Drone Stocks That Should Soar After the Summer Slump The Trade Desk: When Sell the News Turns Into Buy the Dip Day said health and fitness, technology and finance were the strongest advertising verticals during the quarter. Automotive, which had been the company’s largest declining category in the first quarter, returned to growth but remained depressed. Magnite ended the quarter with $333 million in cash, up from $185 million at the end of the first quarter. Operating cash flow, defined by the company as Adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures, was $57 million. Net leverage stood at 0.1 times at quarter-end. → The Bitcoin Comeback May Already Be Underway—2 ETFs for Exposure The company repurchased or withheld more than 2.1 million shares for approximately $28 million during the quarter. Through the first half of 2026, it repurchased or withheld approximately 4.4 million shares for about $57 million. Magnite had $165 million remaining under its repurchase authorization, which runs through February 2028. Barrett said Magnite’s top 10 CTV accounts grew at a mid- to high-40% year-over-year rate. He attributed the growth primarily to greater adoption of programmatic advertising by premium streamers and buyers, as well as a greater willingness by publishers to use Magnite to bring in demand from DSPs and advertisers with whom they do not have direct relationships. Magnite reported strong growth across large media owners including Disney and ESPN, Netflix, Roku, VIZIO Walmart and Warner Bros. Discovery. Barrett also highlighted international expansion as a growth driver, saying major streamers rely heavily on programmatic channels to activate demand in markets where they may not have local direct-sales operations. Mobile in-app, meanwhile, grew 17% year over year. Barrett said Magnite views the market as an attractive long-term opportunity, supported by deeper DSP integrations, publisher onboarding and its SDK strategy. Day said the difference between CTV revenue growth and CTV Contribution ex-TAC growth was attributable to the declining managed-service business. Managed services represented about 9% of Magnite’s CTV business a year ago and approximately 2% in the second quarter, according to Day. He said the managed-service decline should begin to be lapped early next year. Barrett characterized SpringServe as Magnite’s operating system for CTV monetization, encompassing ad serving, mediation, monetization, demand facilitation and data enablement. During the quarter, Samsung selected SpringServe to power ad serving for premium smart-TV home-screen inventory and open that inventory to programmatic buying through Magnite’s DSP ecosystem. The company also cited an expansion with WPP, which added pause ads to its media supply hub enabled by SpringServe and integrated open audience segments through ClearLine. Magnite said 21 commerce-media partners are now deployed and actively ramping across DV+ and CTV. Those partners include Fanatics, CVS Media Exchange, Best Buy and PayPal Ads. Through its Walmart Connect partnership, Magnite is combining Walmart first-party commerce data with premium CTV inventory, including VIZIO supply, while supporting off-site execution and closed-loop measurement. The company also introduced Magnite Orchestration, which Barrett described as an infrastructure layer designed to enable agents from buyers, sellers, data providers and measurement firms to operate in a trusted environment. Disney Advertising, Spectrum Reach, Kepler, MiQ, Publicis Media Exchange, Dentsu and DirecTV are working with components of Magnite’s AI suite, he said. Barrett said agentic advertising remains in an early “crawl” phase. He said Magnite has transacted a handful of millions of dollars through agentic tools to date and does not expect that channel to represent a majority of company spend in the near term. Still, he said agentic tools could expand the programmatic addressable market by bringing direct insertion-order deals into the programmatic ecosystem. For the third quarter, Magnite expects total Contribution ex-TAC of $188 million to $192 million, representing year-over-year growth of 13% to 15%. CTV Contribution ex-TAC is projected at $98 million to $100 million, or growth of 29% to 32%, while DV+ is expected to range from $90 million to $92 million, representing a decline of 1% to growth of 1%. The company expects third-quarter Adjusted EBITDA operating expenses of $119 million to $121 million, implying an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 36% to 38%. For the full year, Magnite raised its forecast for total Contribution ex-TAC growth to 13% to 14%, from prior guidance of at least 11%. It now expects Adjusted EBITDA growth of more than 20%, compared with a prior expectation of mid-teens growth, and Adjusted EBITDA margin of at least 37%, up from at least 35.5%. Magnite also raised its expectation for free cash flow growth to the high-40% range from the mid-30% range, while reaffirming approximately $60 million in capital expenditures. Day said the company remains conservative in its outlook due to potential macroeconomic risks. Its forecasts do not include potential market-share gains from remedies that could emerge from the Google Ad Tech trial, for which Magnite said it had no update. Day, who plans to retire at the end of September after more than 13 years with the company, said Magnite expects continued margin expansion through revenue growth, technology-cost efficiencies and increased use of on-premises infrastructure. He said the company’s historical long-term Adjusted EBITDA margin range of 35% to 40% should not be viewed as a cap on its potential. Magnite, Inc (NASDAQ: MGNI) operates as an independent sell-side advertising platform that enables publishers and digital media owners to monetize their inventory through programmatic advertising. Formed in 2020 through the merger of Rubicon Project and Telaria, Magnite combines technologies for desktop, mobile, connected television (CTV) and digital out-of-home (DOOH) ad exchanges. The company provides an end-to-end solution designed to help media owners optimize yield across open marketplaces, private marketplaces and programmatic guaranteed deals. At the core of Magnite's offering is its supply-side platform (SSP), which connects publishers' ad impressions to demand-side platforms (DSPs) through real-time bidding (RTB). This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to [email protected]. The article "Magnite Q2 Earnings Call Highlights" was originally published by MarketBeat. View MarketBeat's top stocks for August 2026.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-06Magnite (MGNI) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates
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Magnite (MGNI) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates
Magnite (MGNI) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.26 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.15 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.2 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +73.33%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this digital ad exchange operator would post earnings of $0.05 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.13, delivering a surprise of +160%. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times. Magnite, which belongs to the Zacks Internet - Software industry, posted revenues of $189.6 million for the quarter ended June 2026, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 6.28%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $161.96 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates three times over the last four quarters. The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call. Magnite shares have added about 28.5% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 13%. While Magnite has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock? There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately. Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions. Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Magnite was mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stock…Read full documentShow less
Magnite (MGNI) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.26 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.15 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.2 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +73.33%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this digital ad exchange operator would post earnings of $0.05 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.13, delivering a surprise of +160%. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times. Magnite, which belongs to the Zacks Internet - Software industry, posted revenues of $189.6 million for the quarter ended June 2026, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 6.28%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $161.96 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates three times over the last four quarters. The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call. Magnite shares have added about 28.5% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 13%. While Magnite has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock? There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately. Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings estimate revisions. Ahead of this earnings release, the estimate revisions trend for Magnite was mixed. While the magnitude and direction of estimate revisions could change following the company's just-released earnings report, the current status translates into a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) for the stock. So, the shares are expected to perform in line with the market in the near future. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. It will be interesting to see how estimates for the coming quarters and the current fiscal year change in the days ahead. The current consensus EPS estimate is $0.16 on $186.2 million in revenues for the coming quarter and $0.95 on $745.6 million in revenues for the current fiscal year. Investors should be mindful of the fact that the outlook for the industry can have a material impact on the performance of the stock as well. In terms of the Zacks Industry Rank, Internet - Software is currently in the top 44% of the 250 plus Zacks industries. Our research shows that the top 50% of the Zacks-ranked industries outperform the bottom 50% by a factor of more than 2 to 1. Salesforce (CRM), another stock in the same industry, has yet to report results for the quarter ended July 2026. This customer-management software developer is expected to post quarterly earnings of $3.27 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +12.4%. The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days. Salesforce's revenues are expected to be $11.3 billion, up 10.4% from the year-ago quarter. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Magnite, Inc. (MGNI) : Free Stock Analysis Report Salesforce, Inc. (CRM) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com). Zacks Investment Research
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-06Magnite Inc (MGNI) (Q2 2026) Earnings Call Highlights: CTV Surges 36% as Company Raises ...
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Magnite Inc (MGNI) (Q2 2026) Earnings Call Highlights: CTV Surges 36% as Company Raises ...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Total Revenue: $193 million, up 11% year-over-year. Contribution ex-TAC: $190 million, up 17% year-over-year, exceeding the high end of guidance. CTV Contribution ex-TAC: $97 million, up 36% year-over-year. TV+ Contribution ex-TAC: $93 million, up 2% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA: $71 million, up 30% year-over-year, with a margin of 37%. Net Income: $19 million, compared to $11 million in Q2 2025. GAAP Earnings Per Share (Diluted): $0.13, compared to $0.08 in Q2 2025. Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share: $0.26, compared to $0.20 in Q2 2025. Operating Cash Flow: $57 million, defined as adjusted EBITDA less CapEx. Capital Expenditures: $13 million. Cash Balance: $333 million at end of Q2. Net Leverage: 0.1 times at quarter end. Share Repurchases: Over 2.1 million shares repurchased or withheld for approximately $28 million in Q2. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 6 Warning Signs with MGNI. Is MGNI fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: August 05, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Magnite Inc (NASDAQ:MGNI) significantly exceeded Q2 2026 expectations, with contribution ex-TAC of $190 million, up 17% year-over-year, and adjusted EBITDA of $71 million, up 30%, reflecting strong operating leverage. CTV contribution ex-TAC grew 36% year-over-year to $97 million, driven by broad-based strength across major media owners like Disney, Netflix, Roku, and Warner Bros. Discovery, with top 10 CTV accounts accelerating to mid-to-high 40% growth. The company raised its full-year 2026 guidance for contribution ex-TAC growth to 13%-14% (from at least 11%) and adjusted EBITDA margin to at least 37% (from at least 35.5%), signaling confidence in continued momentum. SpringServe continues to be a key differentiator, with new wins like Samsung selecting it to power ad serving for its smart TV home screen inventory, expanding Magnite's leadership among OEMs. Magnite is making early strides in AI with its Magnite Orchestration layer, attracting partnerships with major agencies and publishers (e.g., Publicis, Dentsu, DirecTV), positioning the company as a potential infrastructure layer for agentic advertising. The company's balance sheet remains strong with net leverage of 0.1x, and it continues to return capital to shareholders, repurchasing $2…Read full documentShow less
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Total Revenue: $193 million, up 11% year-over-year. Contribution ex-TAC: $190 million, up 17% year-over-year, exceeding the high end of guidance. CTV Contribution ex-TAC: $97 million, up 36% year-over-year. TV+ Contribution ex-TAC: $93 million, up 2% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA: $71 million, up 30% year-over-year, with a margin of 37%. Net Income: $19 million, compared to $11 million in Q2 2025. GAAP Earnings Per Share (Diluted): $0.13, compared to $0.08 in Q2 2025. Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share: $0.26, compared to $0.20 in Q2 2025. Operating Cash Flow: $57 million, defined as adjusted EBITDA less CapEx. Capital Expenditures: $13 million. Cash Balance: $333 million at end of Q2. Net Leverage: 0.1 times at quarter end. Share Repurchases: Over 2.1 million shares repurchased or withheld for approximately $28 million in Q2. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 6 Warning Signs with MGNI. Is MGNI fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: August 05, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Magnite Inc (NASDAQ:MGNI) significantly exceeded Q2 2026 expectations, with contribution ex-TAC of $190 million, up 17% year-over-year, and adjusted EBITDA of $71 million, up 30%, reflecting strong operating leverage. CTV contribution ex-TAC grew 36% year-over-year to $97 million, driven by broad-based strength across major media owners like Disney, Netflix, Roku, and Warner Bros. Discovery, with top 10 CTV accounts accelerating to mid-to-high 40% growth. The company raised its full-year 2026 guidance for contribution ex-TAC growth to 13%-14% (from at least 11%) and adjusted EBITDA margin to at least 37% (from at least 35.5%), signaling confidence in continued momentum. SpringServe continues to be a key differentiator, with new wins like Samsung selecting it to power ad serving for its smart TV home screen inventory, expanding Magnite's leadership among OEMs. Magnite is making early strides in AI with its Magnite Orchestration layer, attracting partnerships with major agencies and publishers (e.g., Publicis, Dentsu, DirecTV), positioning the company as a potential infrastructure layer for agentic advertising. The company's balance sheet remains strong with net leverage of 0.1x, and it continues to return capital to shareholders, repurchasing $28 million in Q2 2026. TV+ contribution ex-TAC growth was only 2% year-over-year in Q2 2026, indicating continued softness in the non-CTV segment, though it returned to growth. The company's guidance for Q3 2026 implies a deceleration in CTV growth to 29%-32% (from 36% in Q2), partly due to tougher comps and conservative assumptions around macro risks. The managed service business within CTV continues to decline, representing only 2% of CTV revenue (down from 9% a year ago), which is a drag on overall CTV revenue growth versus contribution ex-TAC growth. The company remains cautious about the second half of 2026, citing potential macro risks such as stubborn inflation, volatile energy prices, and geopolitical challenges, which could impact advertising spend. Agentic advertising is still in its early 'crawl' stage, with only a handful of millions of dollars transacted to date, and the company acknowledges it is difficult to predict when it will become a meaningful growth driver. The automotive vertical, while returning to growth, remains depressed, and the company noted that political advertising upside is uncertain and not fully embedded in guidance. Q: Can you discuss the sustainability of the strong CTV growth rate and the opportunities for further margin expansion?A: Michael Barrett (CEO) stated that while the current growth rate is 2.5 to 3 times the market, the company's stated goal is to outpace the market, and they believe a 25% CTV growth rate is achievable over the next several years. David Day (CFO) added that margin expansion will continue through high incremental flow-through from revenue growth, ongoing tech stack cost efficiencies (including moving workloads from cloud to on-prem), and a future shift in headcount strategy. He noted that while the long-term margin range was historically 35%-40%, 40% is not a cap on potential. Q: What drove the significant outperformance in Q2, and are there any one-time items or cyclical events, like the World Cup, that contributed?A: Michael Barrett (CEO) attributed the beat to broad-based strength, not one-timers. Growth was driven by greater adoption of programmatic by premium publishers and strong international expansion, where streamers rely on Magnite's programmatic channel. He clarified that the World Cup was mostly a linear TV event with minimal impact on Magnite's streaming business, so there are no difficult comps ahead. Q: Can you explain the disparity between CTV revenue growth (21%) and contribution ex-TAC growth (36%)?A: David Day (CFO) explained that the difference is 100% due to the decline of the managed service business, which fell from 9% of CTV business a year ago to 2% today. This is a drag on reported revenue growth but not on contribution ex-TAC. Michael Barrett (CEO) added that core take rates are stable and not under pressure. The company will lap this decline early next year, after which revenue and contribution ex-TAC growth rates will align more closely. Q: Regarding the new Magnite Orchestration layer, will it have a better take rate than SpringServe, and how does it expand the total addressable market?A: Michael Barrett (CEO) clarified that while SpringServe as a standalone ad server has a lower take rate, it is now embedded across all Magnite platforms and is not a low-take-rate product overall. Magnite intends to charge for Orchestration, and transactions conducted agentically so far carry take rates similar to their normal product suite. He confirmed that Agentic advertising brings TAM expansion by converting direct IO deals into the programmatic ecosystem. Q: How are you thinking about the political advertising environment for the 2026 midterms, and is there upside to your guidance?A: David Day (CFO) noted that Magnite generated about $11 million in contribution ex-TAC during the last midterms and $19 million during the last presidential cycle, with guidance targeting a level in between. He stated that primaries were stronger than anticipated, so there is cautious optimism for additional upside, though the volatility of races makes it hard to handicap. Q: Can you provide more detail on the customer conversations around Agentic advertising and when it might inflect the growth rate?A: Michael Barrett (CEO) said Agentic is the dominant topic in customer conversations, and Magnite is leading the industry discussion. However, it is early, and customer predictions for 2027 industry-wide agentic spend range from zero to $1 billion. For a company processing over $9 billion in ad spend, this is not yet meaningful to near-term financials, but it will be a mid-to-long-term growth driver through TAM expansion. Q: How does the strategy of supply-side audience enablement and decisioning make it easier for demand to flow to Magnite's inventory?A: Michael Barrett (CEO) explained that these initiatives reduce friction by surfacing valuable first-party data from both media owners and advertisers. The success with Commerce Media partners demonstrates how matching data on the supply side democratizes DSP involvement, allowing buyers to use their preferred DSP while accessing premium data. This brings more seamless demand into the ecosystem without eliminating DSPs. Q: What is the strategy for getting publishers to adopt the seller agent, and how does that catalyze Magnite Orchestration as critical infrastructure?A: Michael Barrett (CEO) stated that all agentic transactions to date have involved publishers using Magnite's seller agent. However, success does not require everyone to adopt Magnite's tools. The orchestration layer is designed to allow any agent to work seamlessly with others across the ecosystem. He believes the scale and trust Magnite provides will make it the single orchestration layer needed, similar to how SpringServe became the operating system for CTV. Q: How should we think about the upside from live sports as a revenue catalyst, and how is it pacing compared to the rest of CTV?A: Michael Barrett (CEO) highlighted that live sports has traditionally had zero programmatic dollars, but all major sports leagues have now renegotiated broadcast agreements to include streaming. Magnite has invested heavily in tools to make live sports work programmatically. While the World Cup was not a significant driver this quarter, the company is confident in its ability to monetize football and college basketball this fall, making live sports a big part of the growth story domestically and internationally. Q: Given the high growth of your top 10 CTV accounts, can you speak to customer concentration risk?A: David Day (CFO) stated that while the company does not disclose the concentration of its top 10 accounts, no individual publisher represents more than 5% of total contribution ex-TAC. CTV is somewhat more concentrated given the limited number of major streamers, but there is no significant concentration risk. For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript.
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-06Stock Market Today, Aug. 6: Trade Desk Plummets After Hours on Weak Q2 Results
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Stock Market Today, Aug. 6: Trade Desk Plummets After Hours on Weak Q2 Results
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD), a cloud-based programmatic advertising platform for data-driven digital ad buyers, closed at $17.67, down 6.80%. Investors sold shares throughout the day ahead of Q2 results, and things got worse after hours as the company reported dismal results. As of 5 p.m. ET, TTD stock is down 22%. Trading volume reached 49.5M shares, coming in about 152% above its three-month average of 19.7M shares. Trade Desk IPO'd in 2016 and has grown 487% since going public. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) closed at 7,711, down 0.16%, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) finished at 26,348, down 0.06%. Among advertising technology rivals, Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI) closed at $24.32, up 17.66%, and PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM) closed at $13.48, down 0.22%, highlighting a split in the peer group. The market was already pessimistic about The Trade Desk’s Q2 earnings call after close today, as the stock slid 7% during market hours -- and the company’s actual results did nothing to dissuade this negative outlook once they hit the press, as the stock declined another 22% after close. Not only did the company’s Q2 earnings fall well short of analyst consensus, but Trade Desk guided for sales of “at least” $650 million -- far shy of Wall Street’s expectations for $805 million. If this revenue guidance is correct, it would represent a 12% year-over-year decline in sales. While The Trade Desk was once a core holding for me -- I still hold all my original shares -- I can’t imagine adding to the position anytime soon. Rather, I’m content to see what new management can bring to the table and see what niche the company can carve out for itself in a rapidly evolving advertising landscape. That said, today’s results show that the company has seemingly lost its grip as the leader in its “open internet” slice of the advertising market, and I would need to see a 180 in results over the next few quarters to really get excited about the stock again. Before you buy stock in The Trade Desk, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and The Trade Desk wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut are built for long-term growth and could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of ou…Read full documentShow less
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD), a cloud-based programmatic advertising platform for data-driven digital ad buyers, closed at $17.67, down 6.80%. Investors sold shares throughout the day ahead of Q2 results, and things got worse after hours as the company reported dismal results. As of 5 p.m. ET, TTD stock is down 22%. Trading volume reached 49.5M shares, coming in about 152% above its three-month average of 19.7M shares. Trade Desk IPO'd in 2016 and has grown 487% since going public. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) closed at 7,711, down 0.16%, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) finished at 26,348, down 0.06%. Among advertising technology rivals, Magnite (NASDAQ:MGNI) closed at $24.32, up 17.66%, and PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM) closed at $13.48, down 0.22%, highlighting a split in the peer group. The market was already pessimistic about The Trade Desk’s Q2 earnings call after close today, as the stock slid 7% during market hours -- and the company’s actual results did nothing to dissuade this negative outlook once they hit the press, as the stock declined another 22% after close. Not only did the company’s Q2 earnings fall well short of analyst consensus, but Trade Desk guided for sales of “at least” $650 million -- far shy of Wall Street’s expectations for $805 million. If this revenue guidance is correct, it would represent a 12% year-over-year decline in sales. While The Trade Desk was once a core holding for me -- I still hold all my original shares -- I can’t imagine adding to the position anytime soon. Rather, I’m content to see what new management can bring to the table and see what niche the company can carve out for itself in a rapidly evolving advertising landscape. That said, today’s results show that the company has seemingly lost its grip as the leader in its “open internet” slice of the advertising market, and I would need to see a 180 in results over the next few quarters to really get excited about the stock again. Before you buy stock in The Trade Desk, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and The Trade Desk wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut are built for long-term growth and could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $400,155!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $1,345,502!* That performance is why people listen. With a track record of beating the S&P 500 by 4x, Stock Advisor offers a distinct advantage. Don't miss the latest top 10 list, available with Stock Advisor, and join an investing community built for the long haul. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of August 6, 2026. Josh Kohn-Lindquist has positions in The Trade Desk. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends PubMatic and The Trade Desk. The Motley Fool recommends Magnite. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Stock Market Today, Aug. 6: Trade Desk Plummets After Hours on Weak Q2 Results was originally published by The Motley Fool
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-05Magnite: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
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Magnite: Q2 Earnings Snapshot
NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Magnite, Inc. (MGNI) on Wednesday reported profit of $19.4 million in its second quarter. On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had net income of 13 cents. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, were 26 cents per share. The digital ad exchange operator posted revenue of $192.8 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $189.6 million. For the current quarter ending in September, Magnite said it expects revenue in the range of $188 million to $192 million. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on MGNI at https://www.zacks.com/ap/MGNI
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-05Magnite (MGNI) Earnings Put Fair Value Back In Focus
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Magnite (MGNI) Earnings Put Fair Value Back In Focus
Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St. Magnite (MGNI) heads into Wednesday’s after hours earnings report with investors watching revenue expectations, recent earnings per share performance, and improving returns on capital as key clues about operational execution. See our latest analysis for Magnite. Magnite’s recent 6.6% 1 day and 55.8% 90 day share price returns, with the stock now at US$20.86, contrast with a 1 year total shareholder return that is still down 6.8%. This suggests improving momentum but a mixed longer term record. If you are watching how Magnite trades into earnings and want to broaden your search, this is a good moment to scan 56 AI infrastructure stocks For Magnite, a 56% move in three months can signal either a business story catching up with prior doubts or a sentiment swing running ahead of fundamentals. The valuation picture now becomes the key filter for that debate. The most followed valuation narrative currently places Magnite’s fair value at $22.21, a touch above the recent $20.86 close, which makes the earnings update more interesting for anyone weighing that gap. Read the complete narrative. Want to understand why this story still points to upside despite forecast earnings drifting lower? The narrative leans heavily on revenue mix, margin shifts, and a richer future earnings multiple. Curious which assumptions need to hold for that to add up. Result: Fair Value of $22.21 (UNDERVALUED) Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts. However, Magnite’s reliance on large CTV streamers and ongoing regulatory outcomes around Google could quickly change the story if partner behavior or remedies are disappointing. Find out about the key risks to this Magnite narrative. Given the mix of optimism and concern running through the Magnite story, this is a good time to look at the data directly and decide how you see the balance between potential upside and risk. Start by weighing the 2 key rewards and 2 important warning signs. Magnite’s setup around earnings is just one opportunity on your radar. Use this moment to line up a few more ideas so you are not reacting later. Target reliable income by checking out 7 dividend fortresses that could help anchor your portfolio with regular cash returns. Hunt for potential value by review…Read full documentShow less
Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St. Magnite (MGNI) heads into Wednesday’s after hours earnings report with investors watching revenue expectations, recent earnings per share performance, and improving returns on capital as key clues about operational execution. See our latest analysis for Magnite. Magnite’s recent 6.6% 1 day and 55.8% 90 day share price returns, with the stock now at US$20.86, contrast with a 1 year total shareholder return that is still down 6.8%. This suggests improving momentum but a mixed longer term record. If you are watching how Magnite trades into earnings and want to broaden your search, this is a good moment to scan 56 AI infrastructure stocks For Magnite, a 56% move in three months can signal either a business story catching up with prior doubts or a sentiment swing running ahead of fundamentals. The valuation picture now becomes the key filter for that debate. The most followed valuation narrative currently places Magnite’s fair value at $22.21, a touch above the recent $20.86 close, which makes the earnings update more interesting for anyone weighing that gap. Read the complete narrative. Want to understand why this story still points to upside despite forecast earnings drifting lower? The narrative leans heavily on revenue mix, margin shifts, and a richer future earnings multiple. Curious which assumptions need to hold for that to add up. Result: Fair Value of $22.21 (UNDERVALUED) Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts. However, Magnite’s reliance on large CTV streamers and ongoing regulatory outcomes around Google could quickly change the story if partner behavior or remedies are disappointing. Find out about the key risks to this Magnite narrative. Given the mix of optimism and concern running through the Magnite story, this is a good time to look at the data directly and decide how you see the balance between potential upside and risk. Start by weighing the 2 key rewards and 2 important warning signs. Magnite’s setup around earnings is just one opportunity on your radar. Use this moment to line up a few more ideas so you are not reacting later. Target reliable income by checking out 7 dividend fortresses that could help anchor your portfolio with regular cash returns. Hunt for potential value by reviewing screener containing 18 high quality undiscovered gems that the market might not be fully focused on yet. Protect your downside by scanning 82 resilient stocks with low risk scores that score well on resilience and overall risk profile. This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned. Companies discussed in this article include MGNI. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? Get in touch with us directly. Alternatively, email [email protected]
Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-08-05Magnite Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results
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Magnite Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results
Contribution ex-TAC(1) Grows 17% Year-Over-Year Contribution ex-TAC(1) from CTV Grows 36% Year-Over-Year Adjusted EBITDA(1) Grows 30% Year-Over-Year Adjusted EBITDA Margin(2) of 37% in Second Quarter NEW YORK, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the largest independent sell-side advertising company, today reported its results of operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Q2 2026 Highlights: Revenue of $192.8 million, up 11% year-over-year Contribution ex-TAC(1) of $189.6 million, up 17% year-over-year, exceeded the high end of the guidance range of $177 to $181 million Contribution ex-TAC(1) attributable to CTV of $97.1 million, up 36% year-over-year, exceeded the high end of the guidance range of $90 to $92 million Contribution ex-TAC(1) attributable to DV+ of $92.5 million, up 2% year-over-year, exceeded high end of the guidance range of $87 to $89 million Net income of $19.4 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared to a net income of $11.1 million, or $0.08 per share for Q2 2025 Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $70.6 million, up 30% year-over-year, representing a 37% Adjusted EBITDA margin(2), compared to Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $54.4 million or a 34% margin in Q2 2025 Non-GAAP earnings per share(1) of $0.26, compared to non-GAAP earnings per share(1) of $0.20 for Q2 2025 Operating cash flow(3) of $57.4 million Q3 2026 Expectations: Total Contribution ex-TAC(1) to be between $188 million and $192 million Contribution ex-TAC(1) attributable to CTV to be between $98 million and $100 million Contribution ex-TAC(1) attributable to DV+ to be between $90 million and $92 million Adjusted EBITDA operating expenses(4) to be between $119 million and $121 million Full-Year 2026 Expectations: Raising total Contribution ex-TAC(1) growth to be between 13% and 14%, up from at least 11% Raising Adjusted EBITDA(1) percentage growth to be greater than 20% from the mid-teens Raising Adjusted EBITDA margin(2) to be at least 37% from at least 35.5% Raising free cash flow(5) growth to be in the high 40% range from the mid 30% range “We significantly beat consensus expectations on both the top and bottom line in the second quarter, driven by outperformance in CTV—which grew 36% year-over-year—and a return to growth in DV+. Our CTV momentum continues to be broad-based across leading publisher partners and anchored by the strategic differentiation of SpringServ…Read full documentShow less
Contribution ex-TAC(1) Grows 17% Year-Over-Year Contribution ex-TAC(1) from CTV Grows 36% Year-Over-Year Adjusted EBITDA(1) Grows 30% Year-Over-Year Adjusted EBITDA Margin(2) of 37% in Second Quarter NEW YORK, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the largest independent sell-side advertising company, today reported its results of operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Q2 2026 Highlights: Revenue of $192.8 million, up 11% year-over-year Contribution ex-TAC(1) of $189.6 million, up 17% year-over-year, exceeded the high end of the guidance range of $177 to $181 million Contribution ex-TAC(1) attributable to CTV of $97.1 million, up 36% year-over-year, exceeded the high end of the guidance range of $90 to $92 million Contribution ex-TAC(1) attributable to DV+ of $92.5 million, up 2% year-over-year, exceeded high end of the guidance range of $87 to $89 million Net income of $19.4 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared to a net income of $11.1 million, or $0.08 per share for Q2 2025 Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $70.6 million, up 30% year-over-year, representing a 37% Adjusted EBITDA margin(2), compared to Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $54.4 million or a 34% margin in Q2 2025 Non-GAAP earnings per share(1) of $0.26, compared to non-GAAP earnings per share(1) of $0.20 for Q2 2025 Operating cash flow(3) of $57.4 million Q3 2026 Expectations: Total Contribution ex-TAC(1) to be between $188 million and $192 million Contribution ex-TAC(1) attributable to CTV to be between $98 million and $100 million Contribution ex-TAC(1) attributable to DV+ to be between $90 million and $92 million Adjusted EBITDA operating expenses(4) to be between $119 million and $121 million Full-Year 2026 Expectations: Raising total Contribution ex-TAC(1) growth to be between 13% and 14%, up from at least 11% Raising Adjusted EBITDA(1) percentage growth to be greater than 20% from the mid-teens Raising Adjusted EBITDA margin(2) to be at least 37% from at least 35.5% Raising free cash flow(5) growth to be in the high 40% range from the mid 30% range “We significantly beat consensus expectations on both the top and bottom line in the second quarter, driven by outperformance in CTV—which grew 36% year-over-year—and a return to growth in DV+. Our CTV momentum continues to be broad-based across leading publisher partners and anchored by the strategic differentiation of SpringServe. On the bottom line, we delivered 30% Adjusted EBITDA growth with a 37% margin. Given this strong execution and ongoing shift toward programmatic streaming, we are also raising both our full-year top-line and margin expectations. Furthermore, we are pleased with our agentic product launches and partner support, and view these as a great future tailwind. We are uniquely positioned between supply and demand, and with our agentic offerings we believe we will benefit from serving as vital infrastructure for the future of digital advertising,” said Michael G. Barrett, CEO of Magnite. NM = Not meaningful Second Quarter 2026 Results Conference Call and Webcast: The Company will host a conference call on August 5, 2026 at 1:30 PM (PT) / 4:30 PM (ET) to discuss the results for its second quarter of 2026. About MagniteWe’re Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile high Denver, historic London, colorful Singapore, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC. Forward-Looking Statements: This press release and management's prepared remarks during the conference call referred to above include, and management's answers to questions during the conference call may include, forward-looking statements, including statements based upon or relating to our expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections. 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We do not provide a reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial expectations for Contribution ex-TAC and Adjusted EBITDA, or a forecast of the most comparable GAAP measures, because the amount and timing of many future charges that impact these measures (such as amortization of future acquired intangible assets, acquisition-related charges, foreign exchange (gain) loss, net, stock-based compensation, impairment charges, provision or benefit for income taxes, and our future revenue mix), which could be material, are variable, uncertain, or out of our control and therefore cannot be reasonably predicted without unreasonable effort, if at all. In addition, we believe such reconciliations or forecasts could imply a degree of precision that might be confusing or misleading to investors. Contribution ex-TAC: Contribution ex-TAC is calculated as gross profit plus cost of revenue, excluding traffic acquisition cost ("TAC"). Traffic acquisition cost, a component of cost of revenue, represents what we must pay sellers for the sale of advertising inventory through our platform for revenue reported on a gross basis. Contribution ex-TAC is a non-GAAP financial measure that is most comparable to gross profit. We believe Contribution ex-TAC is a useful measure in facilitating a consistent comparison against our core business without considering the impact of traffic acquisition costs related to revenue reported on a gross basis. 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We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors in evaluating our performance for the following reasons: Adjusted EBITDA is widely used by investors and securities analysts to measure a company’s performance without regard to items such as those we exclude in calculating this measure, which can vary substantially from company to company depending upon their financing, capital structures, and the method by which assets were acquired. Our management uses Adjusted EBITDA in conjunction with GAAP financial measures for planning purposes, including the preparation of our annual operating budget, as a measure of performance and the effectiveness of our business strategies, and in communications with our board of directors concerning our performance. Adjusted EBITDA is also used as a metric for determining payment of cash incentive compensation. Adjusted EBITDA provides a measure of consistency and comparability with our past performance that many investors find useful, facilitates period-to-period comparisons of operations, and also facilitates comparisons with other peer companies, many of which use similar non-GAAP financial measures to supplement their GAAP results. Although Adjusted EBITDA is frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluations of companies, Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results of operations as reported under GAAP. These limitations include: Stock-based compensation is a non-cash charge and will remain an element of our long-term incentive compensation package, although we exclude it as an expense when evaluating our ongoing operating performance for a particular period. 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Non-GAAP income is equal to net income excluding stock-based compensation, cash and non-cash based merger, acquisition, and restructuring costs, which consist primarily of professional service fees associated with merger and acquisition activities, cash-based employee termination costs, and other restructuring activities, including facility closures, relocation costs, contract termination costs, and impairment costs of abandoned technology associated with restructuring activities, amortization of acquired intangible assets, gains or losses on extinguishment of debt, certain litigation expense, non-operational real estate and other expenses or income, foreign currency gains and losses, interest expense associated with Convertible Senior Notes, other debt refinance expenses, and the tax impact of these items. 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FY2026 Q2 earnings call transcript
Hello, thank you for standing by. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Magnite Q2 2026 earnings call. Please note that this call is being recorded. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. There will be some opening remarks followed by a question-and-answer session. If you wish to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Thank you. I'd now like to hand the call over to Nick Kormeluk, investor relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Magnite's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. Joining me on the call today are Michael Barrett, CEO, and David Day, our CFO, for his final earnings call prior to retiring. I would like to point out that we have posted financial highlight slides on our investor relations website to accompany today's presentation. Before we get started, I will remind you that our prepared remarks and answers to questions will include information that might be considered to be forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements concerning our anticipated financial performance and strategic objectives, including the potential impacts of macroeconomic factors on our business.
They reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and estimates and subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from expectations or results projected or implied by forward-looking statements. A discussion of these other risks, uncertainties, and assumptions is set forth in the company's periodic reports filed with the SEC, including our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and our 2025 annual report on Form 10-K. We undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements or relevant risks. Our commentary today will include non-GAAP financial measures, including Contribution ex-TAC or less traffic acquisition costs, Adjusted EBITDA, and non-GAAP income per share.
Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP metrics for our reported results can be found in our earnings press release and in our financial highlights deck that is posted on our investor relations website. At times, in response to your questions, we may offer additional metrics to provide greater insights into the dynamics of our business. Please be advised that this additional detail may be one-time in nature, and we may or may not provide an update on the future of these metrics. I encourage you to visit our investor relations website to access our press release, financial highlights deck, periodic SEC reports, and the webcast replay of today's call to learn more about Magnite. I will now turn the call over to Michael. Please go ahead, Michael.
Thank you, Nick, and thanks everyone for joining us today. I am pleased to report an outstanding second quarter for Magnite. We significantly exceeded expectations across the business. Contribution ex-TAC came in well above consensus, driven by strength in both CTV and DV+. That translated into meaningful bottom-line outperformance. We expect this momentum to continue. Based on our first half results and the strength we are seeing across the business, we are raising both our full year Contribution ex-TAC outlook and our expectations for margin expansion. Total Contribution ex-TAC exceeded consensus by approximately $10 million. CTV contributed roughly $6 million of that outperformance and grew 36% year-over-year. DV+ contributed approximately $4 million of the beat and returned to growth, increasing 2%. Adjusted EBITDA exceeded consensus by $8 million, resulting in a margin of 37%, demonstrating the operating leverage in our business.
These results were broad-based. CTV represented 51% of total Contribution ex-TAC in the quarter, continuing the momentum that began in the second half of 2025. We believe the market has reached an important inflection point as programmatic becomes the desired way to transact on streaming television. We saw strong growth across many of the industry's largest media owners, including Disney and ESPN, Netflix, Roku, VIZIO Walmart, and Warner Bros. Discovery. Across our top 10 CTV accounts, growth accelerated to the mid to high 40% range year-over-year. While the secular shift of advertising dollars towards CTV continues, we are encouraged by the improving trajectory of DV+. In particular, mobile in-app grew 17% year-over-year. We continue to believe mobile in-app is an attractive long-term growth market, supported by deeper DSP integrations, new publisher onboarding, and our SDK strategy.
To be clear, this is both an industry and Magnite share growth story. Our results demonstrate that we are expanding our share with growth that is outpacing the broader market as customers increasingly choose our platform. Stepping back, there are three structural trends driving our business today. First, SpringServe has become the operating system for CTV monetization. Second, audience enablement and decisioning are moving from the buy side to the supply side, we believe Magnite is leading that transition. Third, as AI reshapes advertising, our newly announced Magnite Orchestration shows early signs of becoming a critical infrastructure layer for agentic advertising. Taken together, these three trends are improving our long-term competitive position and growth prospects. SpringServe remains our primary differentiator.
What began as a best-in-class ad server has evolved into the operating system for CTV monetization. It has become the intelligent control layer for premium streaming, combining ad serving, mediation, monetization, demand facilitation, and data enablement. These functions are increasingly being enhanced by agentic tools. Publishers want to work with a trusted partner capable of maximizing yield while preserving control over their inventory, data, pricing, business rules, and viewer experience. Buyers want direct, transparent, and scaled access to premium streaming supply. SpringServe uniquely sits directly between those objectives. The power of SpringServe is evidenced by a string of major new wins and partner expansions. On the publisher side, we announced Samsung selected SpringServe to power ad serving for its premium smart TV home screen inventory, reaching hundreds of millions of smart TVs globally, to open this inventory to programmatic buying for the first time through our DSP ecosystem.
We are excited to add Samsung as another key home screen customer, solidifying Magnite's leadership position among OEMs in this increasingly valuable environment. On the buy side, WPP has expanded ad formats in its media supply hub, enabled on SpringServe, to include pause ads and has validated Magnite's ability to seamlessly pair CTV ad formats with WPP's open audience segments via ClearLine through a custom real-time data integration. Moving to the second structural trend, the acceleration of supply-side audience enablement and decisioning. Historically, many of the most important optimization decisions in digital advertising were made on the buy side. Today, publishers and buyers have access to richer first-party data, commerce signals, AI, pricing intelligence, and much more workflow flexibility. As a result, more valuable decisions are moving toward the supply side and the breadth of our relationships and technology position us well to capture the shift.
One of the most compelling applications of supply-side audience enablement and decisioning is commerce media. Commerce media continues to scale with 21 partners now deployed and actively ramping across DV+ and CTV. Partners, including Fanatics, CVS Media Exchange, Best Buy, and PayPal Ads, are all using Magnite to activate valuable first-party data across owned and operated inventory and the broader open internet. With our partnership with Walmart Connect, we are helping combine Walmart's first-party commerce data with premium CTV inventory, including VIZIO supply, while supporting off-site execution and closed-loop measurement. Now turning to AI. Earlier this year, much of the discussion focused on whether companies like Magnite could be disintermediated. Today, the conversation has largely changed. Our customers are increasingly leaning on us to develop and deploy AI capabilities within our platform, converting AI into a tailwind. buyer agents and seller agents will become increasingly common across digital advertising.
Agents do not eliminate infrastructure, they increase the need for it. As thousands of agents from publishers, marketers, data providers, and measurement companies interact simultaneously, someone must coordinate those interactions. Someone must discover inventory, interpret campaign objectives, package audiences, enforce publisher controls, protect privacy, optimize monetization, clear transactions, and provide the trust required for advertising to function at scale. We believe Magnite is uniquely positioned to play that role. Last quarter, we announced our seller and buyer agents. Our seller agent allows publishers to seamlessly create custom inventory and audience packages that are discoverable and purchasable by buyer agents. While our buyer agent enables buyers to create custom media plans from simple RFIs, generate ad creatives, and activate and discover audience opportunities. This quarter, we took the next major step by introducing Magnite Orchestration. Earlier, I described SpringServe as the operating system for CTV monetization.
As AI reshapes advertising, we believe Magnite Orchestration has the potential to become the critical infrastructure for agentic advertising. Rather than simply introducing another AI agent, we are building the orchestration layer that enables any agent to work together in a trusted environment across a scaled, independent marketplace. Disney Advertising, Spectrum Reach, Kepler, MiQ, Publicis Media Exchange, Dentsu, and DirecTV are already working with different components of our AI suite. These partnerships provide early but meaningful validation of agentic advertising operating across both the buy side and the sell side. As advertising evolves with advancements in AI and becomes more automated, more data-driven, and more interconnected, the value of intelligent decisioning and trusted orchestration only increases. We believe Magnite is uniquely positioned to lead in these areas.
If CTV has been the defining growth story for Magnite over the past several years, we believe supply-side audience enhancement, enablement and decisioning and AI orchestration together have the potential to define the next chapter of our growth. Before I conclude, I would like to recognize David. As previously announced, David plans to retire at the end of September after more than 13 years of outstanding leadership and service to Magnite. David has been an exceptional partner and a trusted advisor. His financial leadership helped guide Magnite through transformational acquisitions, significant industry change, and tremendous growth. Just as importantly, he has built a deep and talented finance organization that will provide an excellent foundation for his successor. Our search continues to progress well, and we are evaluating a strong group of internal and external candidates.
On behalf of our board, our leadership team, and everyone at Magnite, I want to sincerely thank David for his extraordinary contributions. With that, I'll turn the call over to David for more detail on our financial results. David?
Thanks for those kind words, Michael. Very much appreciated. We are extremely pleased with our second quarter results. As Michael mentioned, we exceeded contribution ex-TAC and bottom-line expectations across the board. Given the momentum in our business and the many catalysts driving our growth, we are raising our guidance for the remainder of the year. Total revenue for Q2 was $193 million, up 11% from Q2 2025. Contribution ex-TAC was $190 million, up 17%, well above the high end of our guidance range. CTV contribution ex-TAC was $97 million, up 36% year-over-year, well above our guide of $90 million-$92 million. DV+ contribution ex-TAC was $93 million, an increase of 2% from the second quarter last year, above the top end of our guidance range. Our contribution ex-TAC mix for Q2 was 51% CTV, 35% mobile, and 14% desktop.
From a vertical perspective, health and fitness, technology, and finance were the strongest performing categories, while automotive, our top declining category in Q1 2026, has returned to growth, but remains depressed. Total operating expenses, which includes cost of revenue, were $162 million, up from $151 million last year. The increase was primarily due to increased personnel costs, higher tech stack-related expenses, and higher facility expenses. These were offset by lower traffic acquisition costs. Adjusted EBITDA operating expense for the second quarter was $119 million, an increase from $108 million in the same period last year, with similar drivers as previously noted. Our net income was $19 million for the quarter, compared to net income of $11 million for the second quarter of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA grew 30% year-over-year to $71 million, reflecting a margin of 37% compared to 34% in Q2 last year.
We're seeing encouraging productivity benefits from AI across engineering, operations, sales, and G&A. While we are still early, these capabilities are helping us accomplish more, improve execution, and support continued margin expansion. GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.13 for the second quarter of 2026, compared to earnings of $0.08 for the second quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP earnings per share for the second quarter of 2026 were $0.26 compared to $0.20 in Q2 last year. Our cash balance at the end of Q2 was $333 million, an increase from $185 million at the end of the first quarter. Operating cash flow, which we define as Adjusted EBITDA less CapEx, was $57 million. Capital expenditures, including both purchases of property and equipment and capitalized internal use software development costs, were $13 million.
Net interest expense for the quarter was $6 million, and net leverage was 0.1x at quarter end. During the second quarter, we repurchased or withheld over 2.1 million shares for approximately $28 million. Year-to-date, through the second quarter, we repurchased or withheld approximately 4.4 million shares, or about $57 million. As of quarter end, $165 million remained available under our current repurchase authorization, which is effective through February of 2028. I will now share our expectations for the third quarter of 2026 and our current thoughts for the full year. For the third quarter, we expect contribution ex-TAC to be in the range of $188 million-$192 million, which represents growth of 13%-15%. Contribution ex-TAC attributable to CTV to be in the range of $98 million-$100 million, which represents a growth range of 29%-32%.
DV+ Contribution ex-TAC to be in the range of $90 million-$92 million, which represents a growth range of -1% to 1%. We anticipate Adjusted EBITDA operating expenses to be in the range of $119 million-$121 million, which implies Adjusted EBITDA margin of 36%-38%. For the full year 2026, we are raising total contribution ex-TAC growth to be between 13% and 14%, up from at least 11% previously, raising Adjusted EBITDA percentage growth to be greater than 20% from the mid-teens previously, raising Adjusted EBITDA margin to be at least 37% from at least 35.5% previously, raising free cash flow growth to be in the high 40% range from the mid 30% range previously, reaffirming CapEx of approximately $60 million, a reduction from prior year.
On the Google Ad Tech trial front, we have no updates since last quarter, and our estimates do not include any market share gains that might result from potential remedies. A final note of context for our revenue guide, even with our raised full-year guidance, we remain somewhat conservative in our estimates for the rest of the year to properly capture potential macro risk. Finally, on a personal note, I continue to be incredibly pleased with our performance and the robust financial position the company maintains today. I'm very proud of the durable company we've built, our winning culture, and our world-class finance team. We have incredible momentum in the business, and I look forward to another great quarter and closeout to the year. The best is yet to come. With that, let's open the line for Q&A.
Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. If you have dialed in and would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press star one again. We will pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Matt Swanson of RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Great. Thank you guys so much, and thank you for taking my questions. David, you will be missed. Hopefully, get to see you a little bit more, before you start fishing and golfing.
Thank you.
I guess starting on the top 10 CTV accounts, you're talking about the mid to high 40% growth. Could you just talk about those three buckets in which you grow CTV revenue, being increased supply, people moving up the rate card and increasing take rates or just where that growth is coming from.
Hey, Matt, it's Michael. I would see generally in two buckets. One is just greater adoption of programmatic. It just becomes table stakes, in the upfronts to be able to offer buyers the option to buy programmatically. Each year we're just seeing a greater adoption of programmatic with the big streamers, the premium streamers, right? The second bucket is a willingness to have, instead of publisher-led programmatic, publisher-sold programmatic, Magnite demand, Magnite able to come in and bring demand from DSPs that they don't have relationships, advertisers that these premium publishers haven't had relationships with. That obviously carries with it a different profile in terms of take rates. I think that you can look at it in those two lenses, the greatest contributors to that.
Thanks, Michael. Maybe this builds on that second part of your answer there. You're now connected to the vast majority of CTV or streaming supply out there. It feels like a lot of the long-term TAM expansion for Magnite comes with also increasing the amount of demand or the amount of people spending on your supply. Two of the three big themes you highlighted seem like they're at least in some ways about making it easier, if not, obviously you're not going to be doing the DSP job, but making it easier to buy within CTV. Could you just talk about how that strategy shifts in terms of making it as easy as possible for dollars to flow to all your inventory?
It's a really good point. Listen, I think, if you look at the three pillars we talked about, SpringServe being one, I assume you're alluding to audience decisioning and enablement, and our efforts in AI with Magnite Orchestration. I think they both fit that bill, right? The idea is there's valuable first-party data on the media owner side and on the advertiser side, what's the easiest, most frictionless way to surface that inventory. To your point, you're right, it's not about eliminating DSPs, but you are bringing some very valuable decisioning and enablement onto the supply side that is new. You see the success we're having with commerce media. That's really the tip of the spear there. They have great data on their side. The Disneys of the world, the Netflix of the world, great data on their side.
What's the easiest way to get that data to match and open it up so that it democratizes DSP involvement so that you just don't have to use one DSP where that data has been housed. You now are able to bring your own DSP and access the data. That definitely Brings more seamless demand into the picture. AI, obviously, it's early stages. To date, we've transacted a handful of millions of dollars. Next year, it'll be much bigger than that, but it's not going to represent the majority of our overall spend. Building tools that enable these advancements to work closely together in a safe way, a trusted way, is going to be very important for our buyers and sellers to be able to realize the benefits of AI. Yeah, I think those two areas definitely fit the bill of decreasing friction and bringing demand into the ecosystem.
Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Shyam Patil of SFG. Please go ahead.
Hey, guys. Congrats on the very strong results and some of the industry-leading growth rates there. David, congrats again. All the best with the next chapter. Michael, I had a couple of questions. One was on CTV, one on agentic. On CTV, again, very strong growth rate. I think might be the highest in the industry right now. I know you talked about strength over the past couple of quarters, just being broad-based across the board. Just wondering, for this past quarter, was there anything that really surprised you to the upside? Was there one or two things that really surprised you? Then second, on agentic, it sounds like this could be a pretty significant opportunity. Heard you talk about it for a while now, just in terms of the momentum there.
I was just wondering if you could talk a bit more about what customer conversations are like right now. When this starts to ramp, I know timing's always tough, but when it starts to ramp, do you think this is something that can really inflect the growth rate? Thank you.
Yeah, sure. On the CTV front, as we kind of cited in the script, it was quite broad-based. It wasn't certainly led by one publisher. I think the two things drove it. Number one, just increasing adoption of programmatic by the buyers and media owners, particularly with our premium accounts. Secondly, international growth. When these big streamers expand internationally and global, we go along for the ride. They really lean heavily on us in the programmatic channel to activate demand in these markets because they don't have necessarily boots on the ground to sell direct. I think you saw it in Disney's earnings. They cited international growing faster in the programmatic bucket, and we can attest that we see that as well. I think it's just seeing broader-based adoption of programmatic and international expansion, which comes almost as a programmatic-first expansion.
As far as agentic is concerned, customer conversations, it's the topic. We recently were at an industry event in France, there wasn't one conversation you had with customers that didn't involve agentic. It's early stages. I think we feel really pleased with the level of investment we made in it. I don't think we've over-invested, but we're ready for it when it comes. I think we've been leading the discussion in the industry, we feel good about that. It's really hard, as you pointed out, to pinpoint when the tipping point occurs. We end every big conversation with customers asking them what their prediction is for 2027, and you get a range of 0 to $1 billion in terms of for the whole industry.
For a company that's going to do $9+ billion in ad spend, if $1 billion for the whole industry gets transacted, it's not all that meaningful in terms of impact to our financials in the near term. I definitely think mid to long term, it will definitely be a growth driver. Largely because I think you'll have more money put to work, the working media will be larger. I think that you're going to have TAM expansion because a lot of the experiments that we've seen have been direct IOs that have been converted to the programmatic channel. That will bring in new dollars into the TAM of programmatic, that's a positive too.
Great. Thank you, guys.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Jason Kreyer of Craig-Hallum. Please go ahead.
I couldn't draw up a better quarter for David's last quarter and for investors to see the David Day effect. Congratulations there. Just wanted to get an updated view on the political environment. We're hearing positive trends there. I'm curious if you're thinking any differently about what you were embedding into the guide previously versus the updated guide today.
Yeah, that's a good question. Just to kind of level set again, four years ago in midterms, we had about $11 million in contribution ex-TAC. Presidential, we had about $19 million. We entered this year kind of targeting something in between those. We've continued to include that level in our forecast. That said, I think the primaries ended up a little stronger than we might have anticipated. We're cautiously optimistic that there could be some additional upside there. It's just so hard to handicap given the volatility in these races, candidates in and out and how competitive they're going to be. Yeah, we do think there's hopefully some upside in the political realm.
Thank you. A follow-up for you, Michael. Sticking with the agentic topic, I want to ask about just Orchestration in your seller agent. Can you just talk about the strategy to get publishers to utilize the seller agent, how that adoption progresses, and how that catalyzes Orchestration to be this critical infrastructure layer that you had called out?
Yeah. Great question, Jason. All of the experiments that we have transacted, all the buys, have involved the publishers using our seller agent. I don't think success for us looks like everyone has to adopt Magnite Seller Agent. The idea of the Orchestration layer is to allow people to bring whatever tool they have and be able to have it work seamlessly with the other side of the fence. If you're a buyer working with a seller working with a buyer, data provider, et cetera. We really think the future is being able to be this trusted partner that allows inventory discovery, execution, clearance, brand safety, and I think that only can be accomplished by someone as scaled as we are. I think you're going to see far fewer competitors of ours in an agentic world.
You don't need multiple Orchestration layers, and that's why I think we feel so bullish about the prospects of Magnite Orchestration. Just like SpringServe is that operating system for CTV, we think we have a real fighting shot to be that operating system for the agentic-enabled advertising world and feel very good about the level of investment we've made here.
All right. Thanks for the thoughts, guys.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Laura Martin of Needham. Please go ahead.
Okay, Michael. I want to stay with agentic, and the minute you tell me that you want the agentic layer to be similar to SpringServe being the OS. SpringServe has a horrible margin and a horrible take rate. I'd like for you first to address, is the orchestration layer sort of going to be free, or is it going to have a better take rate than SpringServe, A. B, when we were talking about agentic and Cannes, you were really quick to say that it was a new total addressable market because it was basically a workforce automation tool for linear TV moving into CTV, automating CTV. To me, the upside there was a $50 billion TAM you guys have never touched. To me, that's the primary agentic benefit so far, having nothing to do with agentic.
Am I just thinking about the two ideas not integrated enough?
No, a great question, Laura. Questions. SpringServe, as you know, plays a myriad of roles in our technology suite. There is SpringServe, as you pointed out, the ad server, and ad serving takes a different take rate than mediation or demand facilitation. SpringServe has now become embedded in all of our platforms. There's an instance of SpringServe in everything that we do. To characterize SpringServe as a very low take rate product might refer to it from an ad serving standpoint, but it's certainly not the case for SpringServe enabled across the Magnite technology suite. SpringServe is not a low take rate. In orchestration, we intend to charge for it. It won't represent SpringServe the ad server. Orchestration will do many things that folks will value, and we'll be able to charge appropriately for it.
To date, all of our transactions that we've done agentically have carried with it a similar take rate structure to our normal suite of products. You are absolutely right and did note that in one of the questions and answers that we see TAM expansion with agentic because what we have seen to date has been one-to-one deals that normally would have been processed outside the programmatic ecosystem as direct sold deals. Now we're seeing it brought into the programmatic ecosystem. So, you're absolutely right. There's a TAM expansion involved in agentic that will take direct dollars and bring it into programmatic.
Okay. My follow-up question, thank you for that's helpful, especially on the take rate stuff. My other thing, Michael, is one of the ways Magnite is different and not better from my point of view, is you're adding FTEs at the speed of light. At a time when we're saying that technology should be replacing employees. You clearly disagree with me. Could you please tell me why we have to be adding all this headcount at a time when I think tech should be replacing people?
We definitely share that worldview. The people that we are adding are mission-critical. They're generally engineers. We didn't over-hire during the pandemic, which a lot of our tech peers did, a lot of the folks that are shedding bodies are shedding extra bodies. We see this opportunity as being so rich, and the path for Magnite so clear, that adding 100 people over the course of a year, we don't think is a counter to the notion that AI is making us more efficient. If you look at what AI has done for us internally, I'll give you two examples of big cost savings for us that involved headcount in one instance, that is we no longer are working with any contractors in our ops organization.
We've built agents that do that work for us, we've been able to let go all those, they're not FTEs, but it's real cost for the company, you've seen that in the margin expansion. The second piece is on the engineering side, we've been able to build our own load balancer and not have to use Amazon's, that's resulted in $20,000 of savings on a daily basis. We are experienced in enjoying AI from a margin expansion. The people that we hired, mission-critical superstars, they're going to help us get there faster.
Thank you very much. Great numbers. Congratulations.
Thanks, Laura.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Robert Coolbrith with Evercore ISI. Please go ahead.
Hi. Thanks for the opportunity to ask a question. David, congratulations once again on a great run. Michael, we love you too. Just wanted to ask, and maybe sort of related to Laura's question, but some of the early work that people are doing on agentic, it seems like it's less sort of real-time decisions. Wanted to ask you, in the fullness of time, do you believe the agentic sort of infrastructure stack or workflow stack or however you want to talk about this, will that include a robust sort of decisioning and auction component to it that maybe addresses some of the questions Laura had? Wanted to ask a little bit about just any sort of, not one-timers, but cyclical events that may have contributed to some of the Q2 strength.
Any call-out on World Cup in particular, anything you can tell us about that. Thank you very much.
Robert. Good questions. So, on the agentic side, you're very accurate in pointing out that most of the agentic that has been ballyhooed has been one-to-one, publisher to buyer. A lot of folks question, can these agents do one to many? That goes right to the heart of our argument for Magnite Orchestration, that you're not blowing up the infrastructure, because you're right, you can't do this with just agents. You need the infrastructure that exists today. Our scale, our server farms, our cloud capabilities, most definitely agents can do one to many and do RTB, but we will be the processor, we will do the transaction, we will run the auction. It's going to be done on our rails, and the interfaces will be agentic. That's the world we believe in, and that's the reason behind Magnite Orchestration.
As far as one-timers in Q2, there really weren't any to speak of. This is broad-based. World Cup, we marginally participated. Most of that was linear pass-through to even when it was streaming. World Cup didn't turn out to be that huge sporting event for us that we're going to have to worry about comps going forward. Q2's a pretty clean You're not going to hear us worrying about any one-time, non-recurring comp problems in 2027. Of course, David won't be around to worry about that, but that's okay. Operator, we'll move to next question.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Tyler DiMatteo of BTIG. Please go ahead.
I guess at a higher level, guys, how do you think about kind of the sustainability of that CTV growth rate? Obviously, things have accelerated, and they're very good, and they continue to outperform. When you take a step back and you look at the multi-year view on that growth rate, I guess, how do you kind of think about that sustainability? That's my first question. Secondarily, obviously margin upside. I'm curious from here, where's the opportunity to continue to pull cost out of the business and see greater operating leverage from here as you take a step back on that front as well?
Sure. I'll talk about the growth, David can address the operating leverage. Our stated goal has always been to outpace the market in terms of growth when it relates to CTV. Presently, by any estimate, we're 2.5x-3x the market growth rate. Is that sustainable? I think you'll have ups and downs on that. We fully believe that looking out several years, that a 25% growth rate for CTV is something that we not only aspire to, but we think is achievable. That, of course, then translates into margin expansion at that front. We think if you look at the industry estimates, low teen to mid-teen growth right now is CTV. Will we always be 3x that? Probably not. You can, I think, consistently see us as someone being multiples of the industry growth rate.
Yeah. On the margin front, I think a couple of factors to think about. As we have revenue growth that just gets into the double digits, you see incremental flow-through to EBITDA and to free cash flow at pretty high rates. You'll see natural margin expansion even with some of our current cost levels and cost growth levels. That said, on the cost side, I think you're going to see continuing gains as we continue to work on our tech stack costs. Those tech stack cost gains come from two fronts. One is as we continue to get more efficient in working in the cloud. Michael mentioned this load balancer project that we had recently was just one example of that.
Second is, as we move more and more of our activities from the cloud to on-prem, which can be up to 3x more cost-efficient over time. I think you'll see those factors. Third, from a headcount perspective, we have added a few heads, but we think that's been the right thing to do. There's so much opportunity. We're getting more productivity, but we want to double down because of the opportunity ahead of us. That will also not stay the same, and we're very cognizant of headcount and headcount-related costs. I think you'll see that turning a different direction at some point in the future, and that's another additional bucket of cost savings.
All of which point to you seeing the tremendous increase in our margin just in the last quarter and through the rest of the year. I think that margin will continue to expand. Historically, we've talked about long-term margin ranges of the 35%-40% range, and we're going to start bumping up against the top end of that. There's no reason to think that 40% is a cap on our potential margin, and we have opportunity to certainly exceed that down the road.
Great. Thanks, guys. Really appreciate the time.
You bet.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Shweta Khajuria of Wolfe Research. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Retake my question. This is Ken on for Shweta. Congrats, David, again, on the retirement. Two questions from me. Can you help us frame what drove the beat and raise beyond what was already said on the CTV side? Any particular segment, macro conditions, or partnerships that perhaps helped drove the beat? Does the team have any early insights for demand in 2027? Thank you.
Yeah. We've kind of touched upon the outstanding growth rate, right? Again, there wasn't really any one-timer. Broad-based, the top accounts outpaced the growth of the rest in the top 40% range. Again, no concentration challenges or worries going forward. I think generally speaking, it just can be attributed to greater adoption of programmatic and greater adoption of Magnite-driven programmatic, which obviously carries a different profile from a take rate standpoint. As far as demand for 2027, our intelligence, generally speaking, comes from talking in the marketplace, talking to our media partners, talking to agencies, to marketers, et cetera. That's a timeline that is even scary for them. The second half is what we're focused on for 2026.
There's just so many macro ups and downs that can occur between now and budget planning for 2027 that it's difficult to shed any insights on it at this juncture.
Sounds good. Thanks, Michael.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Barton Crockett of Rosenblatt. Please go ahead.
Okay. Thanks for taking the question. I was wondering about the disparity between revenue growth in CTV and Contribution ex-TAC growth in CTV. I think the delta was like 21% and 36%. What's going on there? Why is that happening? Are you guys basically growing your take rate because you're rolling more services and features? That's my first question.
Yeah, I'll take that. Yeah, good question. It's 100% around our managed service business. That managed service business has represented, I think, 9% of our CTV business a year ago, and it represents 2% today. It's 70% down, and that's what's driving that difference. That's 100%.
Okay.
There's no take rate-
Take rate.
Impact other than if you consider that a take rate in the average impact. If you look at our core lines of business, there's no other take rate differences that are driving any of that at all.
Take rates have been very stable.
Yeah.
They're not under pressure, and that's not the result of the difference between spend and ex-TAC.
Those two lines should coalesce soon because we're at 2%, so it's nearly done.
Exactly. We'll lap that significant decrease starting early next year. You'll see that continue through the fourth quarter, and then you'll see those numbers conform fairly closely, starting Q1.
When that happens, does that mean the CTV CXT growth rate is more like what we're seeing today in the revenue for CTV or vice versa?
It'll be higher. That's currently a drag.
Yeah, Barton, if you look at it, that's a similar drag to what we had in the first quarter. If you back that out, the programmatic piece of our CTV business is growing even faster than the 36% this quarter and the 30% last quarter.
Okay. All right. Then, for your guide next quarter on CTV, you're talking to a deceleration of the growth rate to, I think, like 31% for CTV CXT. Is there any political in there? Why is it decelerating?
Yeah. Well, listen, we had a great quarter. I think we're hitting some comps from last year as we get into the latter half of this year that we have to take into account. We need to think a little conservatively given potential macro challenges with stubborn inflation and volatile energy prices and the related kind of geopolitical challenges. There's some conservatism, I think, as we're thinking about the latter half of the year. I think those are considerations, then you do have this continued drop from the managed service business. Kind of throw all that in the mix. All that said, on the margin, maybe it's a little drop, but it's a very strong guide when you really step back, there's nothing that has changed that we see in the momentum of our business and our enthusiasm.
We'll certainly be working our tails off to exceed those expectations.
Okay. Well, that's great. I guess some people will be working their tails off, and some will be retiring. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Yeah, to be very clear, we know who's not going to be working there.
Yeah.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Naved Khan from B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead.
Hi there. This is Ethan Widell on for Naved. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on the strong results. To start, as we think of live sports as a revenue catalyst, how would you frame the upside there, maybe compared to some of the elevated cloud costs from surge viewership during those events? Can you maybe quantify how your take in live sports compares to the rest of CTV more broadly?
Yeah. We've often talked about the opportunity of live sports for a couple of reasons. Mainly because in the last several years, every major sports league has renegotiated their broadcast agreements to include streaming. Streaming is now a big carrier of sporting events. We also have pointed out that live sports traditionally has had zero programmatic dollars directed towards it. You not only have an incredibly well-watched, big audience events now in streaming, but all of them have been absent programmatic spend. We've invested a lot of money, time, tools into making live sports work. We think we have one of the best, if not the best product in market. We have often cited live sports as being a driver in certain quarters. This quarter, not particularly because World Cup overwhelmed everything, and that was more of a broadcast story than a streaming story.
This fall, we feel really confident about our ability to monetize football, college basketball, et cetera. We think it's going to be a big part of the growth story for Magnite, both domestic and international.
Got it. Thank you. That's helpful. I think you mentioned that your top 10 CTV accounts grew in the 40% range. Can you speak to maybe how much of CTV business that represents? Given that it seems to be a theme that your largest customers are also outsized growers, what would your thoughts be just in terms of customer concentration?
We don't share that concentration of our top 10. From an individual concentration, there's no individual publisher that represents more than 5% of our total Contribution ex-TAC across the company. I'd say CTV is a little more concentrated because there are 30 whatever streamers that matter. Even in CTV, there's a lack of a significant concentration.
Got it. That makes sense. Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Tim Nollen of SSR. Please go ahead.
Hi. Thanks for taking my question. I'd like to ask you about the state of the ad supply chain, given that agentic AI really collapses the supply chain in a lot of ways, and you've got this newish buyer agent. I wonder if you could talk about client take-up of that, and then how would you characterize the roles of ad agencies and DSPs, face-to-face with the SSPs, especially Magnite, obviously, in this evolving landscape?
Good question, Tim. State of supply chain. Our belief is that an agentic-enabled programmatic world will lead to far fewer partnerships, or partners. We think we're extraordinarily well-positioned to be one of the few, because the role of the SSP evolves, right? It's not about just harnessing undifferentiated DSP demand like it used to be a Rubicon Project for the open web, right? For a web display. It's much more technical. It requires scale, it requires product, it requires engineering prowess. Gone will be the days where you can make an easy buck just stringing a bunch of DSPs together and slinging banners. I think that that really bodes well for Magnite. Maybe not for the whole ecosystem, but it bodes well for Magnite.
As it relates to DSPs, SSPs, certainly, we are introducing products that are DSP-like, but we, in no way, shape, or form, are trying to replace the DSP. As a matter of fact, I think they'll just do fine. There might be fewer of them. The agentic interface is wonderful, but at the end of the day, when this becomes one to many, and you're bidding on trillions of ad impressions a day, you're going to need your DSP to be there for you. Whether you bring an agentic interface to the DSP engine or the DSP becomes agentic and you use that, I think they're going to be just fine in an agentic world, just like we're gonna be just fine because we're gonna be that system of record, the person that processes the transaction, that makes all of this work from an orchestration layer.
We feel very good about where this is heading from an agentic standpoint and for Magnite's prospects.
Thanks, Michael. It does feel like the pendulum is shifting in your direction. Your results are speaking to that, I guess. Maybe just any quick comment on client take-up of the buyer agent, which you began to roll out, I think, last quarter?
I think that by the end of this year, we won't have a major buyer or seller that won't dabble in it, but that's a far cry from shifting their complete spend to the agentic channel. I think this is a crawl, walk, run, and we are in the crawl stage.
Got it. Thanks very much.
Nick.
Thank you, operator. Before we conclude, I want to thank the entire Magnite team for their dedication, hard work, and accomplishments to date. We believe these outstanding results are just the beginning, and we're incredibly excited about our recent momentum and the opportunities ahead. I'll turn it back over to Nick to cover our upcoming marketing events.
Thanks, Michael. After this quarter, we are very much looking forward to speaking with many of you at our upcoming investor events. We're participating in our post Q2 virtual NDR tomorrow, hosted by Susquehanna, the KeyBanc Tech Leadership Forum in Park City on August 10th, BofA MidCap Conference on August 11th, the Cannonball Virtual Conference on August 11th as well. Investor meetings in London on August 13th, Rosenblatt's Virtual Tech Summit on August 18th. Investor meetings with Wells Fargo in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York on August 25th and 26th. The Citi TMT Conference in New York on September 8th. BofA Media, Communications, and Entertainment Conference in New York on September 9th. The B. Riley Conference and Lake Street Conferences in September in New York on September 10th. The Wolfe Conference in San Francisco, with a different team there on September 10th as well. Investor meetings in Boston on September 15th.
Benchmark StoneX Conference in New York on September 17th, investor meetings in San Diego, L.A., Seattle, and San Francisco with Rosenblatt at the end of September. Thank you very much for joining, and have a great evening.
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