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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-13

Nerdy Q1 Earnings Call Highlights

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Interested in Nerdy Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Nerdy beat first-quarter expectations, with revenue of $48.7 million above guidance and adjusted EBITDA turning positive at $1 million. The company also reported its third straight quarter of margin improvement and said gross margin rose to 66.2%. The new V3 learner platform is gaining traction, with direct onboarding for new customers and migration of existing users underway. Management said the AI-powered experience, including the Maya concierge, is improving engagement and could help drive better retention. AI is reducing costs while institutional sales remain weak, as sales, marketing and G&A expenses fell year over year. However, institutional revenue declined and bookings dropped sharply, even as Nerdy reaffirmed its full-year 2026 revenue and breakeven EBITDA outlook. Duolingo Speaking Volumes: Forms Bullish Chart Ahead of Earnings Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) reported first-quarter 2026 revenue above its guidance range and posted its second consecutive quarter of positive non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA, as executives pointed to improving margins, AI-driven cost efficiencies and early traction from a new learner platform. Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chuck Cohn said revenue was $48.7 million, above the company’s $46 million to $48 million guidance range and up 2% from a year earlier. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was positive $1 million, ahead of the company’s guidance for approximately breakeven and an improvement of $7.3 million compared with the first quarter of 2025. → Rocket Lab Just Hit a New All-Time High—Time to Buy or Let It Breathe? Cohn said adjusted EBITDA margin expanded by more than 1,500 basis points year over year, marking Nerdy’s third consecutive quarter of sequential margin improvement. Gross margin reached 66.2%, up more than 800 basis points from the prior year. The company ended the quarter with $44.7 million in cash. “Three things stood out in the Q1,” Cohn said. “First, the product velocity that we said an AI native code base would unlock is now visible in shipped product. Second, our cost structure is structurally, not cyclically, better, and AI is the reason, and third, the rate of decline in active members on a year-over-year basis narrowed for the third consecutive quarter.” → MercadoLibre Boldly Invests in Growth: Discount Deepens Cohn said the company’s new learner...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-12

Earnings Update: Nerdy Inc. (NYSE:NRDY) Just Reported Its First-Quarter Results And Analysts Are Updating Their Forecasts

Simply Wall St.

A week ago, Nerdy Inc. (NYSE:NRDY) came out with a strong set of first-quarter numbers that could potentially lead to a re-rate of the stock. Revenues and losses per share were both better than expected, with revenues of US$49m leading estimates by 3.0%. Statutory losses were smaller than the analystsexpected, coming in at US$0.03 per share. Following the result, the analysts have updated their earnings model, and it would be good to know whether they think there's been a strong change in the company's prospects, or if it's business as usual. So we collected the latest post-earnings statutory consensus estimates to see what could be in store for next year. AI is about to change healthcare. These 20 stocks are working on everything from early diagnostics to drug discovery. The best part - they are all under $10bn in marketcap - there is still time to get in early. Taking into account the latest results, Nerdy's three analysts currently expect revenues in 2026 to be US$182.3m, approximately in line with the last 12 months. Losses are predicted to fall substantially, shrinking 24% to US$0.20. Yet prior to the latest earnings, the analysts had been forecasting revenues of US$183.0m and losses of US$0.20 per share in 2026. View our latest analysis for Nerdy As a result there was no major change to the consensus price target of US$2.08, implying that the business is trading roughly in line with expectations despite ongoing losses. Fixating on a single price target can be unwise though, since the consensus target is effectively the average of analyst price targets. As a result, some investors like to look at the range of estimates to see if there are any diverging opinions on the company's valuation. The most optimistic Nerdy analyst has a price target of US$3.00 per share, while the most pessimistic values it at US$1.25. Note the wide gap in analyst price targets? This implies to us that there is a fairly broad range of possible scenarios for the underlying business. Looking at the bigger picture now, one of the ways we can make sense of these forecasts is to see how they measure up against both past performance and industry growth estimates. We would highlight that Nerdy's revenue growth is expected to slow, with the forecast 1.6% annualised growth rate until the end of 2026 being well below the historical 7.4% p.a. growth over the last five years. Compare this a...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-09

Nerdy (NRDY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Motley Fool

Image source: The Motley Fool. Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET Chief Executive Officer — Charles Cohn Chief Financial Officer — Atul Bagga Charles Cohn: Thanks, TJ, and thank you to everyone for joining today's call. In the first quarter of 2026, we beat the top end of our revenue guidance and delivered our second consecutive quarter of positive non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA. We also translated the AI native foundation we finished building at the end of 2025 into shipped learner-facing products at a cadence we have never matched in the company's history. Revenue was $48.7 million, above the top end of our $46 million to $48 million guidance range and 2% up year-over-year. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was positive $1.0 million, ahead of our guidance of approximately breakeven and improved by $7.3 million compared to Q1 2025. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded more than 1,500 basis points year-over-year, our third consecutive quarter of sequential margin improvement. That represents roughly $30 million of annualized operating leverage on a flat-top line. Gross margin reached 66.2%, an expansion of more than 800 basis points year-over-year. We ended the quarter with $44.7 million of cash on the balance sheet. Three things stood out in the first quarter. First, the product velocity that we said an AI-native code base would unlock is now visible in shipped products with a meaningful slate of additional learner-facing releases reaching customers in the weeks ahead. Second, our cost structure is structurally not cyclically better, and AI is the reason. And third, the rate of decline in active members on a year-over-year basis narrowed for the third consecutive quarter, and we expect to return to positive growth by the end of 2026. When we finished replatforming on an AI native code base as we wrapped up 2025, we said the point of that work was not about the architecture itself. It was about the speed and quality of the products that we could ship on top of it. Q1 was the first full quarter operating in that new mode, and the cadence has fundamentally changed. The most visible expression of that shift is our new Learner Experience internally referred to as V3, which became the universal customer experience and surface for our consumer business in March. Every newly acquired customer is now onboarded directly to this new V3 experience, and we have begun migrating existing cus...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-08

Nerdy, Inc. Q1 2026 Earnings Call Summary

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Our analysts just identified a stock with the potential to be the next Nvidia. Tell us how you invest and we'll show you why it's our #1 pick. Tap here. Achieved 1,500 basis points of adjusted EBITDA margin expansion on flat revenue, driven by a structural shift from manual processes to AI-automated workflows. Completed the transition to an AI-native code base, enabling a product release cadence that management describes as the fastest in company history. Launched 'V3', a universal learner experience featuring 'Maya', an AI concierge that handles a meaningful share of in-product interactions without human intervention. Reduced fixed headcount by approximately 20% year-over-year while increasing product output, demonstrating that AI is fundamentally lowering the company's cost floor. Narrowed the rate of active member decline for the third consecutive quarter, with early V3 cohorts showing improved retention and engagement signals. Expanded gross margins by over 800 basis points, primarily attributed to the full-period benefit of price increases enacted in early 2025. Expects to return to positive year-over-year active member growth by the end of 2026 as V3 cohorts mature and retention benefits scale. Anticipates a return to free cash flow positive status by investing with discipline in high-LTV member growth areas. Planned releases include an AI-enabled language learning experience and a college/career readiness counselor for high school districts targeted for the back-to-school 2026 season. Full-year guidance assumes a more stable institutional funding environment in the second half of 2026 and successful reception of the new Varsity Tutors for Schools platform. Management expects ARPM growth to moderate starting in Q2 as the company laps the significant price increases implemented in February 2025. Institutional bookings declined to $1.1 million from $4 million year-over-year, which will create a revenue headwind in Q2 due to recognition lags. The transition to V3 is ongoing, with approximately 10,000 existing customers migrated so far; full migration is expected to conclude by the end of the year. Liquidity remains stable with $44.7 million in cash, though the company currently has $20 million drawn on its term loan. One stock. Nvidia-level potential. 30M+ investors trust Moby to find it first. Get the pick. Tap here. Management noted that new customer co...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-08

Nerdy Announces First Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Business Wire

Nerdy delivers revenue above guidance and achieves positive non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA in Q1 2026, beating guidance on both metrics and driving over 1,500 basis points of margin improvement year-over-year. ST. LOUIS, May 07, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nerdy Inc. (NYSE: NRDY) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. "In the first quarter, we exceeded the top end of our revenue guidance range and delivered positive non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA, both ahead of our guidance. Our non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA margin improved over 1,500 basis points year-over-year, reflecting the operating discipline and efficiency gains we've driven across every line of the P&L," said Chuck Cohn, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Nerdy. "We're building on this momentum in 2026 by improving our Learner and Expert experiences, growing our active member base, and delivering sustainable profitability." Please visit the Nerdy investor relations website https://www.nerdy.com/investors to view the Nerdy Q1 Shareholder Letter on the Quarterly Results Page. First Quarter Financial Highlights: Revenue Beats Top End of Guidance Range – Revenue of $48.7 million, was above our guidance range of $46 to $48 million, and represented an increase of 2% year-over-year from $47.6 million during the same period in 2025. Revenue increased when compared to the prior year period due to higher Consumer revenue, partially offset by lower Institutional revenue. The increase in Consumer revenue was driven by higher ARPM, which was primarily a result of price increases enacted in February 2025. Consumer Learning Memberships – First quarter Learning Membership revenue increased 3% year-over-year. Revenue recognized in the first quarter from Learning Memberships was $38.9 million and represented 80% of total Company revenue. The growth was driven by higher ARPM, which was $374 as of March 31, 2026, a 12% increase year-over-year. As of March 31, 2026, there were 36.9 thousand Active Members, a 9% decrease year-over-year. This rate of decline has narrowed sequentially for three consecutive quarters, and we expect to return to positive growth by the end of 2026. Gross Margin – Gross margin was 66.2% for the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to a gross margin of 58.0% during the comparable period in 2025. The increase in gross margin was primarily due to the benefit of price increases ena...

TranscriptFY2026 Q12026-05-07

FY2026 Q1 earnings call transcript

Earnings source - 40 paragraphs
Operator

Good afternoon. Thank you for attending Nerdy Inc. Q1 2026 earnings call. My name is Angela, and I will be your moderator for today's call. All lines will be muted during the presentation portion of the call with an opportunity to ask question and answer at the end. I would now like to pass the conference over to your host, TJ Lynn, Associate General Counsel of Nerdy. You may proceed.

TJ Lynn

Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us for Nerdy's first quarter 2026 earnings call. With me are Chuck Cohn, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Nerdy, and Atul Bagga, Chief Financial Officer. Before I turn the call over to Chuck, I'll remind everyone that this discussion will contain forward-looking statements, including but not limited to expectations with respect to Nerdy's future financial and operating results, strategy, opportunities, plans, and outlook. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results. Any forward-looking statements are made as of today's date, and Nerdy does not undertake or accept any obligation to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

TJ Lynn

Please refer to the disclaimers in today's shareholder letter announcing Nerdy's first quarter results and the company's filings with the SEC for a discussion of the risks. Not all of the financial measures that we will discuss today are prepared in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to today's shareholder letter for reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures. With that, let me turn the call over to Chuck.

Chuck Cohn

Thanks, TJ, and thank you to everyone for joining today's call. In the first quarter of 2026, we beat the top end of our revenue guidance and delivered our second consecutive quarter of positive non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA. We also translated the AI-native foundation we finished building at the end of 2025 into shipped learner-facing product at a cadence we have never matched in the company's history. Revenue was $48.7 million, above the top end of our $46 million-$48 million guidance range and 2% up year-over-year. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was positive $1 million ahead of our guidance of approximately breakeven and improved by $7.3 million compared to Q1 2025. Adjusted EBITDA margin expanded more than 1,500 basis points year-over-year, our third consecutive quarter of sequential margin improvement.

Chuck Cohn

That represents roughly $30 million of annualized operating leverage on a flat top line. Gross margin reached 66.2%, an expansion of more than 800 basis points year-over-year. We ended the quarter with $44.7 million of cash on the balance sheet. Three things stood out in the first quarter. First, the product velocity that we said an AI native code base would unlock is now visible in shipped product with a meaningful slate of additional learner-facing releases reaching customers in the weeks ahead. Second, our cost structure is structurally, not cyclically, better, AI is the reason. Third, the rate of decline in active members on a year-over-year basis narrowed for the third consecutive quarter, and we expect to return to positive growth by the end of 2026.

Chuck Cohn

When we finished replatforming on an AI native code base as we wrapped up 2025, we said the point of that work was not about the architecture itself, it was about the speed and quality of the products that we could ship on top of it. Q1 was the first full quarter operating in that new mode. The cadence has fundamentally changed. The most visible expression of that shift is our new learner experience, internally referred to as V3, which became the universal customer experience and surface for our consumer business in March. Every newly acquired customer is now onboarded directly to this new V3 experience. We have begun migrating existing customers as well.

Chuck Cohn

Roughly 6,000 new customers came in directly on V3 in the back half of the quarter, and approximately 10,000 existing customers have moved over from the prior experience, and we are seeing strong early signal and optimizing rapidly in response to user behavior and customer feedback, which is broadly positive with a constant point of feedback being it looks and feels like a whole different company or product. The same platform will imminently power our institutional offering, which we expect to expand the market opportunity in institutional beyond the more limited K-12 high-dosage tutoring market that business primarily targeted. Inside V3, the centerpiece for the learner is Maya, our AI concierge. Maya is the always-on guide built into the experience.

Chuck Cohn

She answers inbound questions, surfaces the right next step, helps the student find a diagnostic, and resolves day-to-day issues like scheduling a tutoring session, and she does so all without a phone call or a customer support ticket. She's available 24 hours a day with full context of each student's actual learning plan and past interactions, including past tutoring sessions, product interactions, diagnostics, and practice-related engagement, and the results of those, and more. She now handles a meaningful share of in-product customer interactions. For a student or parent, Maya turns a platform into a relationship that feels alive, responsive, and easy. Around Maya, V3 brings together the rest of the family experience. Our native mobile app launched in the App Store in Q1 and is approaching full feature parity with web, with releases now shipping to mobile within 48 hours of going live.

Chuck Cohn

The Tutor Gallery lets families browse tutor profiles, watch introductory videos, and book with guaranteed availability through Book Now. We also launched Games, a set of six math and ELA titles initially, built to drive daily engagement and learning. We also launched on-demand courses, converting our top live classes into self-paced courses with supporting materials. We are launching with more than 350 of these courses that collectively span thousands of hours of live instruction. These updates ship together as part of V3. They give families more ways to engage with our platform between live sessions, creating additional retention opportunities. We're seeing the early signal in the numbers. Active members ended the quarter at 36.9 thousand, down 9% year-over-year.

Chuck Cohn

The rate of decline has narrowed for 3 consecutive quarters, and customer churn has improved meaningfully year-over-year as customers enter or experience our new platform and ways to get value out of the relationship with us. ARPA was $374, up 12%, and Learning Membership revenue grew 3% to $38.9 million, 80% of total revenue. Adisa headlined the cohorts onboarded directly onto V3 are showing early indications that are directionally consistent with our thesis. While early, what we will say is the cohort signal is consistent across the metrics that matter and that retention is the highest growth lever we have, given how small changes in extending the customer life cycle can have a meaningful impact on long-term revenue and profitability.

Chuck Cohn

At today's customer acquisition cost, every additional month of average tenure flows almost entirely through to contribution profit. We expect to provide a full read on our progress on our Q2 call in August. Our upcoming product releases have received strong early feedback. What has shipped in V3 today is the foundation, not the full picture. Three product areas in particular are moving from internal development into the hands of customers in the weeks ahead, with strong early feedback on all three. The first is college and career readiness. We were approached by the leadership from a top 10 U.S. school district about a need we're uniquely qualified to solve. This led to our always-on AI counselor, now targeted for back-to-school 2026 release in two flagship high schools in that district. Early indications show other districts have similar needs.

Chuck Cohn

The counselor is highly interactive and guides students through post-secondary decisions. It has real-time integration with school systems, maintains persistent memory across years, and is multimodal across mobile, desktop, voice, SMS, and inbound and outbound calling. For consumer learners, it extends Varsity Tutors as well as tutoring specifically into a multi-year goal-setting process previously outside our reach. The second upcoming Q2 planned product release is related to daily math and reading content and practice. We're launching more than 4,600 K-8 math skills aligned to academic taxonomies, achieving parity with several of the leading supplemental practice platforms, with reading parity coming soon. These additions expand the lesson library, including tens of thousands of lessons, all created year to date and mapped to K-12 and college taxonomies and standards. The content integrates into V3 as structured daily practice alongside tutoring or self-study.

Chuck Cohn

Progress is visible to learners and parents, and for tutors, it helps ensure all tutors have prepared professional relevant content for their tutoring sessions across the millions of tutoring sessions per year on the platform. AI orchestrates and personalizes the learning experience that spans all of these product modalities on the platform in service of the learner's goals and preferences. Early feedback on sequencing and quality is strong, and we anticipate similar learner reception when we roll it out more broadly. The third upcoming product is related to language learning, which is already a popular area for one-to-one tutoring on the platform. We're bringing to market an AI-enabled learning experience that will launch for both consumer and institutional customers, and we look forward to sharing more in the near future.

Chuck Cohn

I also wanted to touch upon our continuous efforts to utilize AI internally to improve product velocity and improve productivity. AI is at the center of how we're operating and expect our teams to operate. Not only is all of our software development done almost exclusively with AI, we are using it to do everything from automate our back-office workflows to handle inbound and outbound calls and help with customer service interactions on the platform and much, much more. Fixed headcount is lower year-over-year, even as we enhance our existing products and build numerous new ones. These changes drove more than 1,500 basis points of adjusted EBITDA margin expansion in the quarter on roughly flat revenue. The improvements are structural, with software and automation replacing manual processes.

Chuck Cohn

With both fixed and variable costs now lower, higher retention means new revenue flows through at a higher contribution margin rate to adjusted EBITDA. AI is how we operate. It's not what we sell. What we sell remains that relationship between a learner and an expert that's now supported by the best technology available, and it's informed by more than 10 million tutoring sessions. Moving on to Varsity Tutors for Schools. The new Varsity Tutors for Schools platform, built on the same V3 platform foundation and integrating AI-enabled tutoring and AI counseling layer and our expanded K-12 content library on the Live + AI™ engine that powers our consumer business, enters the back to school 2026 selling season as a meaningfully stronger offering than what we took to market a year ago.

Chuck Cohn

Now looking ahead to the rest of the year, the product velocity we have discussed, our V3 platform, Maya, our AI concierge for learners, having modern mobile apps with full feature parity to web, and the upcoming product releases in college and career readiness, daily math and reading practice, and language learning have shipped or will be shipping before the end of the second quarter. Our customer base is only beginning to experience these enhanced features. As more of our active customers move on to the new platform and our first full V3 new customer cohorts mature, the leading indicators we are watching today should translate into inflecting active member growth later this year. 1 year ago, we were rebuilding the foundation.

Chuck Cohn

Today, we're building on it, and the benefits of this increased product velocity will build throughout the year as we enhance more customer-facing surfaces and allow for us to drive long-term growth and profitability. With that, I'll hand the call over to Atul to discuss the financials in more detail. Atul?

Atul Bagga

Thanks, Chuck. Before I walk through the numbers, I'd like to take a couple moments to share what drew me to this role. Nerdy operates in one of the most under-penetrated markets in education technology. There are over 50 million K-12 and college students in the U.S. alone, and the tutoring market remains mostly fragmented and offline. Our active member base of about 37,000 represent a fraction of what this market can support, and that gap is the opportunity. What convinced me that Nerdy can close this gap, a genuinely AI-first culture, product velocity, and a team that moves fast. These are not just talking points. They translate directly into margin expansion and operating leverage you'll see in the results. My mandate as the CFO is clear: Get Nerdy to free cash flow positive while investing with discipline in the areas that drive member growth.

Atul Bagga

That is the financial thread running through everything we are doing in 2026. Let me walk you through our first quarter results. We beat the top end of our revenue guidance range. Revenue was $48.7 million, ahead of our guidance range of $46 million-$48 million and up 2% year-over-year, driven by higher consumer revenue and partially offset by lower institutional revenue. Within consumer revenue, Learning Membership revenue was $38.9 million, up 3% year-over-year and represented 80% of total company's revenue. Consumer revenue growth was driven by higher average revenue per month, or ARPM, of $374, which was up 12% year-over-year, primarily driven by price increases enacted in February 2025.

Atul Bagga

As of March 31st, active members were 36.9 thousand, a decrease of 9% year-over-year. This rate of decline has narrowed sequentially for the 3 consecutive quarters, and we expect to return to positive active member growth by the end of 2026. Our institutional revenue was $9.3 million, a decrease of 1% year-over-year and represented 19% of total company's revenue during the first quarter. As a reminder, the institutional revenue in the first quarter was mostly supported by the prior period bookings. During Q1, Varsity Tutors for Schools bookings were $1.1 million versus $4 million in Q1 of 2025. Gross margin was 66.2%, an expansion of 820 basis points compared to a gross margin of 58.0% during Q1 2025.

Atul Bagga

The increase in gross margin was primarily due to the benefit of price increases enacted in February 2025. Moving to operating expenses. Sales and marketing expenses were $14.2 million, a decrease of 10% year-over-year driven by AI-enabled productivity gains and reduced investment in our institutional business. General and administrative expenses for the quarter were $23.9 million, down 16% year-over-year. G&A costs included product development cost of $9.2 million compared to $10.7 million in the same period last year. The cost reductions are primarily driven by our focus on applying AI systematically across the tech stack, which is resulting in durable efficiency gains and better unit economics. In the first quarter, non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was positive $1 million and ahead of our guidance of break even.

Atul Bagga

To put that in context, a year ago this quarter, we posted a non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA loss of $6.4 million. That's an improvement of more than $7 million just in a year. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA margin improved by more than 1,500 basis points year-over-year, our third consecutive quarter of year-over-year margin improvement. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA outperformance was driven by gross profit outperformance, efficiency improvement, and strong cost control across every P&L item. Moving to liquidity and capital resources. We ended the quarter with $44.7 million in cash and cash equivalents. Free cash flow was negative $3 million compared to negative $7.6 million in the same period in 2025.

Atul Bagga

Free cash flow improvement was driven by non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA improvement, as previously discussed, and partially offset by higher working capital and by interest payment of $0.5 million on our term loan. With our cash on hand and the funding available under our term loan, we believe we have ample liquidity to fund operations and growth initiatives as we execute towards free cash flow positive. Turning to our business outlook. Today, we are introducing second quarter guidance and reaffirming full-year 2026 guidance. Before sharing guidance, I want to flag two dynamics that shape the Q2 revenue and EBITDA outlook. First, the decline in Q1 Varsity Tutors for Schools bookings will negatively impact Q2 institutional revenue, given the lag between bookings and revenue recognition.

Atul Bagga

Second, beginning in Q2, we start lapping the price increases implemented in Feb 2025, which will moderate ARPM year-over-year growth for our consumer business. We expect to see continued benefits from improving client retention to our consumer business as that momentum builds through the year. The full-year outlook assumes a more stable institutional funding environment in the second half of the year, reception of new Varsity Tutors for Schools platform, and continued improvements in consumer retention. Revenue guidance. For the second quarter of 2026, we expect revenue in the range of $42 million-$44 million. For the full year of 2026, we expect revenue in the range of $180 million-$190 million. Turning to adjusted EBITDA guidance. For the second quarter of 2026, we expect non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA to be negative $2 million to break even.

Atul Bagga

For the full year of 2026, we expect non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA to be approximately break even. We expect to end the year with $40 million-$45 million in cash, inclusive of $20 million currently drawn on our term loan. To close, this quarter's result, a revenue beat, 820 basis point improvement in gross margin, and non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA that improved from a loss of $6.4 million to a positive $1 million in one year reflect on the progress across every line of the P&L. The work ahead is on active member growth and institutional bookings recovery. We know what we need to do, and we are executing against it. With that, I'll turn it over to the operator for Q&A. Operator?

Operator

We will now begin the question-and-answer session. Please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, press star one again. We ask that you pick up your handset when asking a question to allow for optimum sound quality. If you are muted locally, please remember to unmute your device. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Brian S. Milich with JP Morgan. Your line is now open.

Bryan Smilek

Great. Thanks for taking the questions, and good to see the pro- velocity in V3 starting to drive improved learner trends. As we go through the back half here, Chuck, can you just talk about the underlying confidence in achieving return to active member growth? Just the overall durability of these new cohorts that are seeing improved retention and engagement. I guess conversely as well, you mentioned, I believe, right, 6,000 new active members on V3 and then 10,000 or so of the existing members migrating there. Can you just help us walk through the timeline of migrating your overall, you know, entire member base towards V3 and, you know, when you would start to realize returns on that shift? Thank you.

Chuck Cohn

Thanks, Brian, and good question. Yeah, we made a ton of progress on new product development in the quarter, and were able to take the sort of base platform that we had built that we considered to be, you know, a brand-new version of the old platform. It was full parity, feature parity and, you know, AI native code base, which then allowed us to build and ship quickly. We were able to really, I think, enhance it just over the course of the last, you know, 90 days or so in a pretty material way.

Chuck Cohn

What we have seen is as we first introduced new customer cohorts to that experience, and were able to work through the best way to onboard them to a experience that frankly is much more rich, much more robust, and in many ways looks like a whole new company, and really optimize that onboarding experience to get them into many different non-tutoring products than we'd had before. We saw sequential improvements in retention of those cohorts as they onboarded and started gaining confidence and accelerating that path to a broader rollout. You know, over the course of the rest of the quarter, you know, we would expect to get to 100% of, you know, the existing customers on the current experience.

Chuck Cohn

Broadly, what we've seen is that the new customers who come in that are then benefiting from, you know, an enhanced product suite, much deeper content and, you know, there's several more big enhancements planned over the course of the next couple of months. We have seen a pretty tight relationship between getting them into those new products and driving engagement and then that pulling through to early signs on customer retention. The signals are quite promising, but it's early.

Atul Bagga

Brian S. Milich, this is Atul Bagga. Just adding on to that, we are seeing some very good traction with the new customers who are onboarding on V3. You asked about when do we realize the benefit of this in financials. What we see with the retention, the improvement of retention is going to drive higher lifetime value of the customer, and that is going to be seen over the lifetime. You see that continue to build the momentum on financial improvements from retention. It will come over time.

Bryan Smilek

Great. Thank you both.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Greg Gibas with Northland Securities. Your line is now open.

Greg Gibas

Great. Good afternoon, Chuck, Atul, thanks for taking the questions. wanted to follow up there, if you could add a little bit more color on the trends you saw with churn versus maybe new or additions with new cohorts within active members. That would be helpful. It sounds like you're seeing some improvements on the churn side of things and wanted to get a sense of how those trended within the quarter. Thanks.

Chuck Cohn

Thanks, Greg. Good question. You know, I think the consumer business has sort of shaped up, you know, collectively consistent with expectations. We're obviously still early in the year but, you know, feel good about our ability to drive, you know, growth in that business through enhancing the product and then kind of pulling it up funnel and making a lot of the product enhancements we have more visible, which we think is pretty compelling.That so the initial traction there is positive early in the year, but thus far tracking pretty consistent with expectations. The retention benefits that we're seeing on the new platform, you know, those are still early and applied to a relatively small percentage of the total business. he recent weeks, you know, trends and, you know, the initial sort of launch has gone well. As it relates to, you know, deviating from expectations earlier in the year, I don't think we've seen that at all. It's been a pretty good start to the year, and the product velocity is exceeding expectations.

Greg Gibas

Got it. great, that's good to hear. you know, if I could, as it relates to just the full year guidance, Tul, would you be willing to maybe go into a little bit more depth in terms of the trends on a quarterly basis, with ARPU and then active members?

Atul Bagga

Yes. We can talk about it. On active member, this is going to be a big focus for us. As you've seen, our trend on active member has been improving consistently in the last few quarters. We do expect that to get better as we see higher retention. Higher retention also translates into higher LTV, which means that improves our ability to acquire new customers more effectively. That's one. Second, on the cost structure side, we have made some substantial improvements. If you look at Q1 2025 to Q2 to Q1 2026, we have delivered 1,500 basis points of margin expansion, 820 basis points coming from gross margin. We've improved efficiency of all our variable expenses, sales, marketing, operations. On the fixed headcount, we are seeing higher productivity.

Atul Bagga

Just to give you a little context, our headcount is down about 20% year-over-year, while the revenue is roughly flat. That momentum we expect continue to build. We will continue to see more opportunities to lean on AI and improve our productivity. In terms of the rest of the business, Q two and Q three, as you know, is seasonally weaker quarter for us. We do expect some drop in Q two and Q three, and Q four, again, that picks up.

Greg Gibas

Got it. Very helpful. Thank you.

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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-06

Nerdy Inc (NRDY) Q1 2026 Earnings Report Preview: What to Expect

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This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Nerdy Inc (NYSE:NRDY) is set to release its Q1 2026 earnings on May 7, 2026. The consensus estimate for Q1 2026 revenue is $47.45 million, and the earnings are expected to come in at -$0.06 per share. The full year 2026's revenue is expected to be $184.04 million, and the earnings are expected to be -$0.23 per share. More detailed estimate data can be found on the Forecast page. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 6 Warning Signs with NRDY. Is NRDY fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Over the past 90 days, revenue estimates for Nerdy Inc (NYSE:NRDY) have declined from $186.66 million to $184.04 million for the full year 2026, and from $208.57 million to $202.50 million for 2027. Earnings estimates have also decreased from -$0.20 per share to -$0.23 per share for 2026, and from -$0.15 per share to -$0.17 per share for 2027. In the previous quarter ending on December 31, 2025, Nerdy Inc's (NYSE:NRDY) actual revenue was $49.11 million, which beat analysts' revenue expectations of $45.95 million by 6.88%. Nerdy Inc's (NYSE:NRDY) actual earnings were -$0.08 per share, which missed analysts' earnings expectations of -$0.053 per share by -50.94%. After releasing the results, Nerdy Inc (NYSE:NRDY) was up by 3.93% in one day. Based on the one-year price targets offered by 3 analysts, the average target price for Nerdy Inc (NYSE:NRDY) is $2.08, with a high estimate of $3.00 and a low estimate of $1.25. The average target implies an upside of 137.63% from the current price of $0.88. Based on GuruFocus estimates, the estimated GF Value for Nerdy Inc (NYSE:NRDY) in one year is $1.53, suggesting an upside of 74.52% from the current price of $0.88. Based on the consensus recommendation from 4 brokerage firms, Nerdy Inc's (NYSE:NRDY) average brokerage recommendation is currently 3.0, indicating a "Hold" status. The rating scale ranges from 1 to 5, where 1 signifies Strong Buy, and 5 denotes Sell.

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-21

Nerdy to Announce First Quarter 2026 Results on May 7, 2026

Business Wire

ST. LOUIS, April 20, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nerdy Inc. (NYSE: NRDY), a leading platform for delivering live online learning, today announced the Company will release its first quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, 2026 after the U.S. stock market closes on Thursday, May 7, 2026. Following the release, Nerdy management will host a conference call and webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the company’s financial and operating results. Interested parties in the U.S. may listen to the call by dialing 1-833-461-5787. International callers can dial 1-585-542-9983. The Access Code is 397446705. A live webcast of the call will also be available on Nerdy’s investor relations website at https://www.nerdy.com/investors. About Nerdy Inc. Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) operates a next-generation live tutoring and intervention platform that leverages the power of human expertise with advanced artificial intelligence ("AI") to personalize learning, accelerate student achievement, and empower educators. Our mission is to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including AI, to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across thousands of subjects and multiple formats—including Learning Memberships, one-on-one instruction, small group tutoring, large format classes, and adaptive assessments. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes. Its solutions are available directly to students and consumers, as well as through schools and other institutions. Learn more about Nerdy at https://www.nerdy.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260420374725/en/ Contacts Investor Relations [email protected]

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-03-01

Nerdy Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

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Nerdy reported Q4 revenue of $49.1 million (up 2% YoY and above guidance) and delivered positive non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA of $1.3 million, driven by margin expansion, cost cuts (headcount down ~22%) and ending the year with $47.9 million in cash. The company completed a ground-up re-platform to an AI-native "Live+AI" product that pairs one-on-one tutors with AI tools to improve outcomes, with surveys showing 85% of users rated the new experience better or the same and an 82% customer satisfaction score. Nerdy shifted to higher-frequency, higher-price memberships—lifting ARPM to $364 (+21% YoY) with 33.2k active members—and guided 2026 revenue of $180–$190 million while targeting breakeven non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA for the year. Interested in Nerdy Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. Duolingo Speaking Volumes: Forms Bullish Chart Ahead of Earnings Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that management said met three goals set at the start of the year: returning the business to growth, accelerating its shift to an AI-native platform, and reaching positive non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA. Founder and CEO Chuck Cohn said revenue in the quarter was $49.1 million, up 2% year-over-year and above the company’s guidance range of $45 million to $47 million. He added that the quarter marked the first time since Q1 2024 that both Nerdy’s consumer and institutional businesses grew simultaneously. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was positive $1.3 million, ahead of the company’s guidance range of a $2 million loss to breakeven and improving by $6.8 million from Q4 2024, according to Cohn. → Diamondback Sees Resilient Demand Despite Cautious Guidance Cohn emphasized that Nerdy rebuilt its platform “from the ground up” during 2025 using an AI-native code base. He said the company’s aim is to combine live tutoring with AI tools to improve outcomes, rather than replace human instruction, arguing that one-on-one tutoring remains a durable premium market driven by “human connection, accountability, expertise, rapport, and trust.” He cited the U.S. academic tutoring market at approximately $20 billion annually and said Nerdy currently serves fewer than 40,000 active members. Management’s approach, he said, is to scale “high-quality live learning” focused on one-to-one relationships while using AI to improve the tutor and parent experience. → AI Is Separating Software Winn...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-27

Nerdy, Inc. Q4 2025 Earnings Call Summary

Moby

Achieved simultaneous growth in consumer and institutional segments for the first time since 2024, driven by a return to fundamentals and higher-frequency learning memberships. Completed a full-scale replatforming to an AI-native code base, which management claims has increased product development velocity by approximately 10 times. Shifted the consumer model toward recurring weekly tutoring habits, resulting in a 21% year-over-year increase in Average Revenue Per Active Member (ARPAM) to $364. Implemented a 'Live + AI' strategy that uses automation to generate lesson plans and real-time insights while preserving human-led emotional connection and accountability. Realized structural cost improvements through a 22% headcount reduction enabled by automating marketplace functions like tutor matching and customer service. Expanded non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA margins by over 1,400 basis points year over year through gross margin expansion and durable operational efficiencies. Validated the new platform through a survey of 277 active customers, where 85% rated the experience as better or equal to the legacy system. Targets full-year 2026 revenue between $180 million and $190 million, assuming a more stable institutional funding environment in the second half of the year. Aims for full-year non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA breakeven, representing a year-over-year margin improvement of more than 1,000 basis points. Prioritizes a return to active member growth by accelerating top-of-funnel marketing and launching an improved mobile experience to drive virality. Expects sequential gross margin expansion throughout 2026 as tutor incentive programs are further optimized and revenue mix continues to shift. Anticipates that the new architecture will allow for faster innovation in personalized learning, deepening engagement beyond traditional one-on-one tutoring. Recorded a one-time abandonment charge in Q4 related to legacy capitalized internal-use software as part of the transition to the new AI-native platform. Institutional bookings decreased 11% year over year due to ongoing federal and state funding delays affecting high-dosage tutoring contract starts. Invested in front-loaded tutor incentives to drive behavioral changes, which initially pressured gross margins but improved early-stage customer retention. Maintains a liquidity position of $47.9 million in cash, with a projecte...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-27

Nerdy Inc (NRDY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Highlights: Surpassing Expectations with Revenue and ...

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This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Revenue: $49.1 million, up 2% year over year, above guidance range of $45 million to $47 million. Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA: $1.3 million, beating guidance range of negative $2 million to break even, improving by $6.8 million from Q4 2024. Consumer Revenue: $41.6 million, representing a 6% increase year over year. Institutional Revenue: $7.2 million, representing 14% of total company revenue. Gross Margin: 66.8%, excluding a one-time abandonment charge, with sequential improvement for the third consecutive quarter. Active Members: 33.2 thousand at year-end. ARPA (Average Revenue Per Active Member): $364, a 21% increase year over year. Sales and Marketing Expenses: $14.2 million, a decrease of $4.2 million from the same period in 2024. General and Administrative Expenses: $24.7 million, a decrease of $5.2 million from the same period in 2024. Cash and Cash Equivalents: $47.9 million as of December 31st. Full Year 2026 Revenue Guidance: $180 million to $190 million. Full Year 2026 Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA Guidance: Approximately break-even. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with NRDY. Is NRDY fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: February 26, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Nerdy Inc (NYSE:NRDY) achieved positive non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA of $1.3 million in Q4 2025, surpassing guidance and marking a significant improvement from the previous year. The company reported Q4 2025 revenue of $49.1 million, exceeding the top end of guidance and representing a 2% year-over-year increase. Nerdy Inc (NYSE:NRDY) successfully completed the rollout of a new AI native platform, enhancing product development velocity and improving unit economics. The company's consumer learning membership revenue grew by 6% year-over-year, driven by a shift towards higher frequency learning memberships and price increases. Nerdy Inc (NYSE:NRDY) reported a 21% year-over-year increase in ARPA, reaching $364, indicating improved monetization and customer retention. Institutional revenue faced challenges, with Varsity Tutors for Schools experiencing an 11% year-over-year decrease in quarterly bookings due to federal and state funding delays. Despite improvements, the company still serves fewer than 40,000 active members in a $20 bil...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-02-27

Nerdy (NRDY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Motley Fool

Image source: The Motley Fool. Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET Chief Executive Officer — Chuck Cohn Chief Financial Officer — Jason H. Pello Chuck Cohn: Thanks, TJ, and thank you to everyone for joining today's call. In the fourth quarter, I am pleased to share we delivered on the three goals we set entering 2025: return the business to growth, accelerate our transformation into an AI-native platform, and achieve positive non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA. Fourth quarter revenue was $49.1 million, above the top end of guidance and up 2% year over year. This is the first quarter since 2024 in which both our consumer and institutional businesses grew simultaneously. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was positive $1.3 million, beating our guidance range of negative $2 million to breakeven and improving by $6.8 million from Q4 2024. We completed the rollout of our new learner and expert experiences in the fourth quarter with an AI-native code base and entered 2026 with a stronger, more flexible foundation, improved unit economics, and significantly higher product development velocity. Zooming out, we get a lot of questions about how AI is changing how we think about our business and our industry. The demand signals we are seeing and the conversations we are having with customers indicate that the market for high-quality, personalized, one-on-one tutoring remains large and enduring, and it represents a big opportunity for us to better serve and reach these learners. Roughly 50 million students progress through the K-12 education system and higher education system in the United States each year, and families seek premium private tutoring for meaningful long-term goals whether it is the first grader learning to read with a specialist, a high school junior aiming for an elite college, or a college student fighting to stay on the path to medical school and get past organic chemistry. These are deeply personal journeys where sustained human connection, accountability, expertise, rapport, trust, and a little pushing can go a long way to getting differential results. The U.S. academic tutoring market is estimated at approximately $20 billion per year, yet we currently serve fewer than 40,000 active members. Given our strong monetization, success does not require capturing the entire market, and we have very purposely focused our platform and go-to-market on serving that long-ter...

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