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Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-05-13

This Analyst Just Made A Huge Upgrade To Their SLP Resources Berhad (KLSE:SLP) Earnings Forecasts

Simply Wall St.

Celebrations may be in order for SLP Resources Berhad (KLSE:SLP) shareholders, with the covering analyst delivering a significant upgrade to their statutory estimates for the company. The analyst greatly increased their revenue estimates, suggesting a stark improvement in business fundamentals. We've found 21 US stocks that are forecast to pay a dividend yield of over 6% next year. See the full list for free. After the upgrade, the one analyst covering SLP Resources Berhad is now predicting revenues of RM194m in 2026. If met, this would reflect a sizeable 34% improvement in sales compared to the last 12 months. Per-share earnings are expected to bounce 160% to RM0.064. Previously, the analyst had been modelling revenues of RM166m and earnings per share (EPS) of RM0.046 in 2026. So we can see there's been a pretty clear increase in analyst sentiment in recent times, with both revenues and earnings per share receiving a decent lift in the latest estimates. Check out our latest analysis for SLP Resources Berhad One way to get more context on these forecasts is to look at how they compare to both past performance, and how other companies in the same industry are performing. One thing stands out from these estimates, which is that SLP Resources Berhad is forecast to grow faster in the future than it has in the past, with revenues expected to display 34% annualised growth until the end of 2026. If achieved, this would be a much better result than the 2.1% annual decline over the past five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in the industry are forecast to see their revenue grow 11% per year. So it looks like SLP Resources Berhad is expected to grow faster than its competitors, at least for a while. The biggest takeaway for us from these new estimates is that the analyst upgraded their earnings per share estimates, with improved earnings power expected for this year. Fortunately, the analyst also upgraded their revenue estimates, and our data indicates sales are expected to perform better than the wider market. With a serious upgrade to expectations, it might be time to take another look at SLP Resources Berhad. These earnings upgrades look like a sterling endorsement, but before diving in - you should know that we've spotted 2 potential flag with SLP Resources Berhad, including the risk of cutting its dividend. You ca...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-20

Badger Meter's Q1 Earnings & Revenues Miss Estimates, Stock Dips

Zacks

Badger Meter, Inc. BMI reported earnings per share (EPS) of 93 cents for first-quarter 2026, which missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 22.5%. The bottom line compared unfavorably with the year-ago quarter’s EPS of $1.30. Quarterly net sales were $202.3 million, down 9% from $222.2 million in the year-ago quarter due to delayed project deployments and weaker-than-expected short-cycle order activity. The Zacks Consensus Estimate was pegged at $230.1 million. Management highlighted that the year-over-year decline in revenue and the associated operating leverage primarily stemmed from fluctuations in project timing and short-cycle customer ordering patterns, rather than any deterioration in underlying demand, competitive positioning, or long-term market drivers. The company maintains confidence in its outlook, supported by a solid pipeline of awarded projects set to commence in the second half of 2026 and a robust multi-year opportunity funnel. Amid this near-term variability, the company remains focused on executing its long-term strategy. As part of this effort, it has announced a definitive agreement to acquire UDlive, a U.K.-based provider of hardware-enabled software solutions for sewer line monitoring. The addition of UDlive enhances the SmartCover platform by broadening sewer line monitoring capabilities across diverse use cases, network conditions and geographies. These solutions strengthen the company’s leadership in a growing global market driven by aging infrastructure, evolving regulatory requirements and climate-related challenges. Furthermore, UDlive bolsters the BlueEdge suite, enabling utilities to gain deeper, actionable insights across the water cycle, while expanding the company’s presence and supporting the growth of higher-margin, recurring software revenue over time. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research BMI’s shares fell 24% on Friday, closing at $115.54 in response to the weaker-than-expected results. In the past six months, shares have lost 34.5% against the Zacks Instruments-Control industry’s growth of 4.9%. In the quarter under review, utility water sales decreased 10% year over year. The decline was due to project timing variability and softer short-cycle municipal customer orders, partially offset by strength in SaaS, SmartCover, water quality and network monitoring solutions. Flow instrumentation sales decreased 4% year over y...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-13

Simulations Plus Q2 Earnings Call Highlights

MarketBeat

Q2 revenue of $24.3 million (+8% YoY) topped management guidance, with adjusted EBITDA of $8.7 million (36% margin) and adjusted EPS $0.35; full-year revenue guidance remains $79–$82 million while adjusted diluted EPS was updated to $0.75–$0.85 reflecting a higher expected effective tax rate (23–25%). Operational momentum included software-led growth (software +9%, services +8%), a services backlog up 18% to $24 million, expanded gross margin to 66%, 297 commercial clients, and a quarterly renewal rate of 91%. AI and pharma collaborations are being embedded across the product roadmap and involve three large pharma partners, but management does not expect meaningful financial contribution from these programs until fiscal 2027. Interested in Simulations Plus, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. 52-Week Lows? No Problem for 3 Stocks With Big Upside Potential Simulations Plus (NASDAQ:SLP) reported second-quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $24.3 million, exceeding the top-line guidance management provided last quarter, as the company delivered growth in both its software and services segments. Chief Executive Officer Sean O’Connor said adjusted EBITDA was $8.7 million, representing a 36% margin, and adjusted diluted EPS was $0.35, which he said was “in line with our internal expectations.” O’Connor said the company continues to see “encouraging market conditions globally,” pointing to factors including “ongoing most favored nation pricing agreements, easing tariff concerns, and a more supportive funding environment for our customers.” He also noted that guidance around new approach methodologies (NAMs) issued late last year was “further clarified with an additional update last month.” → This New ETF Aims to Capitalize on Surging AI Memory Chip Demand Simulations Plus Stock Drops 15% Despite EPS Beat Against that backdrop, O’Connor said Simulations Plus is seeing “a pickup in client spending,” which he said is reflected in “solid software renewal rates, increased new logo activity, and strength in service bookings.” While he characterized the first half as strong, O’Connor also emphasized caution about the operating environment during the question-and-answer portion of the call, describing it as “fragile” given macro and industry uncertainty. Chief Financial Officer Will Frederick said total revenue increased 8% year over year to $24.3 million. Software revenue...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-10

Simulations Plus Q2 Earnings, Revenue Rise; Updates EPS Guidance

MT Newswires

Simulations Plus (SLP) reported fiscal Q2 adjusted earnings late Thursday of $0.35 per diluted share

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-10

Simulations Plus Q2 Earnings & Revenues Beat, Jump Y/Y, Shares Soar

Zacks

Simulations Plus, Inc. SLP reported second-quarter fiscal 2026 adjusted earnings of 35 cents per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 29%. The bottom line also compared favorably with the prior-year quarter’s 31 cents. Simulations Plus reported quarterly revenue of $24.3 million, marking an 8% year-over-year increase. This growth reflects continued demand for its core offerings, especially in drug discovery and development. The software segment remains the backbone of the company’s business model. Growth was driven by strong adoption of discovery and development solutions — areas where AI and modeling tools are becoming increasingly indispensable in biopharma workflows. However, SLP noted a decline in clinical operations software, which appears to be a structural shift rather than a temporary dip. The company continues to see strong momentum in new client acquisition (logo additions) alongside ongoing upselling efforts, contributing to an 18% increase in backlog and strong visibility into future revenues. On the macro front, management highlighted an improving funding environment for biopharma clients, easing tariff pressures and the growing adoption of new approach methodologies. These factors are driving higher client activity, as reflected in robust renewals and bookings. The company’s ability to grow both software and services while expanding margins suggests a healthy, scalable business model. In response to the results, SLP’s shares climbed 18% in pre-market today. Simulations Plus, Inc. price-consensus-eps-surprise-chart | Simulations Plus, Inc. Quote Fiscal second-quarter revenues from Software (60% of total quarterly revenues) rose 9% year over year to $14.6 million. Software revenue was led by Development products, mainly GastroPlus and MonolixSuite, which contributed 78%, while Discovery products, primarily ADMET Predictor, accounted for 19%, and Clinical Ops products, led by Proficiency, made up the remaining 3%. SLP ended the quarter with 297 commercial clients, generating average revenue of $124,000 per client and an 91% renewal rate. SLP’s top 25 customers account for roughly 46% of its total software revenue, with this group remaining highly stable, reflected in 100% logo retention and gross revenue retention exceeding 90%. Services’ revenues (40%) improved 8% to $9.7 million. For the quarter, development services (biosimulation)...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-10

Simulations Plus: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Associated Press

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (AP) — RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (AP) — Simulations Plus Inc. (SLP) on Thursday reported earnings of $4.5 million in its fiscal second quarter. The Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based company said it had profit of 22 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 35 cents per share. The maker of software used in pharmaceutical research posted revenue of $24.3 million in the period, which topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $21.4 million. Simulations Plus expects full-year earnings in the range of 75 cents to 85 cents per share, with revenue in the range of $79 million to $82 million. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on SLP at https://www.zacks.com/ap/SLP

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-10

Simulations Plus (SLP) Beats Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

Zacks

Simulations Plus (SLP) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.35 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.27 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.31 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +29.63%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this maker of software used in pharmaceutical research would post earnings of $0.18 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.13, delivering a surprise of -27.78%. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times. Simulations Plus, which belongs to the Zacks Computer - Software industry, posted revenues of $24.29 million for the quarter ended February 2026, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 13.51%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $22.43 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates four 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. Simulations Plus shares have lost about 28.7% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's decline of 0.9%. While Simulations Plus has underperformed 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 Simulations Plus 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 futur...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-10

Simulations Plus Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2026 Financial Results

Business Wire

Revenue grew 8% with increases in both software and services RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., April 09, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Simulations Plus, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLP) ("Simulations Plus" or the "Company"), a global leader in model-informed and AI-accelerated drug development that advances biopharma innovation, today reported financial results for its second quarter fiscal 2026, ended February 28, 2026. Second Quarter 2026 Financial Highlights (as compared to second quarter 2025) Total revenue increased 8% to $24.3 million Software revenue increased 9% to $14.6 million, representing 60% of total revenue Services revenue increased 8% to $9.7 million, representing 40% of total revenue Gross profit was $16.1 million and gross margin was 66%, compared to $13.1 million and 59% Net income of $4.5 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.22, compared to net income of $3.1 million and diluted EPS of $0.15 Adjusted EBITDA of $8.7 million, representing 36% of total revenue, compared to $6.6 million, representing 29% of total revenue Adjusted net income of $7.0 million and adjusted diluted EPS of $0.35 compared to adjusted net income of $6.2 million and adjusted diluted EPS of $0.31 Six Months 2026 Financial Highlights (as compared to six months 2025) Total revenue increased 3% to $42.7 million Software revenue decreased 3% to $23.5 million, representing 55% of total revenue Services revenue increased 12% to $19.2 million, representing 45% of total revenue Gross profit was $27.0 million and gross margin was 63%, compared to $23.3 million and 56% Net income of $5.2 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.26, compared to net income of $3.3 million and diluted EPS of $0.16 Adjusted EBITDA of $12.3 million, representing 29% of total revenue, compared to $11.1 million, representing 27% of total revenue Adjusted net income of $9.6 million and adjusted diluted EPS of $0.48, approximately equivalent to the same period last year Management Commentary "We delivered solid second quarter results, with revenue increasing by 8%," said Shawn O’Connor, CEO of Simulations Plus. "Software growth was driven by strong performance in discovery and development solutions, partially offset by an anticipated decline in clinical operations software. We also saw continued success with new logo additions and client upsells. Services revenue growth was primarily driven by development solutions a...

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-04-10

Simulations Plus Inc (SLP) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Highlights: Strong Revenue Growth Amidst ...

GuruFocus.com

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Revenue: $24.3 million, an 8% increase. Adjusted EBITDA: $8.7 million, reflecting a 36% margin. Adjusted Diluted EPS: $0.35. Software Revenue: Increased 9%, representing 60% of total revenue. Services Revenue: Increased 8%, representing 40% of total revenue. Discovery Revenue: Increased 19% for the quarter. Development Revenue: Increased 12% for the quarter. Clinical Operations Revenue: Declined 54% for the quarter. Gross Margin: Total gross margin of 66%; Software gross margin of 89%; Services gross margin of 33%. Cash and Short-term Investments: $41.8 million. Effective Tax Rate: 23% for the quarter. Guidance for Fiscal 2026: Total revenue between $79 million to $82 million; Adjusted diluted EPS between $0.75 to $0.85. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 6 Warning Signs with SLP. Is SLP fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Release Date: April 09, 2026 For the complete transcript of the earnings call, please refer to the full earnings call transcript. Simulations Plus Inc (NASDAQ:SLP) exceeded top-line guidance with $24.3 million in revenue for the second quarter, showing growth in both Software and Service segments. The company reported an adjusted EBITDA of $8.7 million, reflecting a strong 36% margin. Simulations Plus Inc (NASDAQ:SLP) has strategic collaboration programs with three large pharmaceutical companies to advance AI workflows, indicating strong industry partnerships. The company maintains a high software renewal rate of 91% for the quarter, demonstrating customer loyalty and satisfaction. Simulations Plus Inc (NASDAQ:SLP) ended the quarter with a robust cash position of $41.8 million and no debt, indicating strong financial health. Clinical operations revenue declined significantly by 54% for the quarter and 58% for the trailing 12-month period. The company experienced a decline in software renewal rates, particularly among smaller biopharma and precommercial biotech clients. Simulations Plus Inc (NASDAQ:SLP) reported an increased effective tax rate of 23% compared to 12% last year, impacting net income. The company anticipates minimal AI monetization in fiscal year 2026, indicating that AI-related revenue contributions are still in the early stages. Despite strong performance, the company maintained cautious revenue guidance for fiscal 2026, reflecting uncertainty in the macro envi...

TranscriptFY2026 Q22026-04-09

FY2026 Q2 earnings call transcript

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Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the Simulations Plus, Cooperative second quarter fiscal year 2026 financial results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note that this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Lisa Fortuna. Thank you. You may begin.

Lisa Fortuna

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Simulations Plus second quarter fiscal year 2026 financial results conference call. With me today are Sean O'Connor, Chief Executive Officer, and Will Frederick, Chief Financial Officer of Simulations Plus. Please note that we updated our quarterly earnings presentation, which will serve as a supplement to today's prepared remarks. You can access the presentation on our investor relations website at simulationsplus.com. After management's commentary, we will open the call for questions. As a reminder, the information discussed today may include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Words like believe, expect, and anticipate refer to our best estimates as of this call, and actual future results could differ significantly from these statements. Further information on the company's risk factors is contained in the company's quarterly and annual reports and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Lisa Fortuna

In the remarks or responses to questions, management may mention some non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are available in the most recent earnings release available on the company's website. Please refer to the reconciliation tables in the accompanying materials for additional information. With that, I'll turn the call over to Sean O'Connor. Please go ahead.

Sean O'Connor

Thank you and welcome, everyone. We exceeded the top-line guidance that we communicated to you last quarter and delivered $24.3 million in revenue during second quarter, with growth in both our software and service segments. Adjusted EBITDA was $8.7 million, reflecting a 36% margin, and adjusted diluted EPS was $0.35, in line with our internal expectations. Turning to the macro environment, we continue to see encouraging market conditions globally, supported by ongoing most favored nation pricing agreements, easing tariff concerns, and a more supportive funding environment for our customers. On the regulatory front, the new approach methodologies, or NAMs guidance issued late last year was further clarified with an additional update last month. Against this backdrop, we're seeing a pickup in client spending reflected in solid software renewal rates, increased new logo activity, and strength in service bookings.

Sean O'Connor

Overall, we're pleased with our first half fiscal 2026 performance and encouraged by the momentum that it is building across the business. Next, I want to address the broader discussion around artificial intelligence and its impact on software companies, including our own. Over the past quarter, AI-related competitive concerns have weighed on valuations across most software-based business models, and biosimulation has not been entirely immune to that sentiment. That said, we believe it's important to separate short-term market perception from long-term fundamentals. From our perspective, ongoing advances in AI are a net positive for biosimulation. AI is accelerating the industry's transition toward data-driven drug development workflows and importantly, enhancing the value of trusted and validated scientific engines rather than replacing them.

Sean O'Connor

We have been an early adopter of AI for decades, beginning with the introduction of ADMET Predictor in the late 1990s, and we continue to lead in its practical application today. Beyond using machine learning for property prediction or to improve software development efficiency, we are embedding AI across our product roadmap, improving compute performance, interoperability between scientific engines, data management and curation, automation of repetitive modeling tasks, and making our tools more accessible across organizations. While certain software models may face disruption from AI, we believe the core value of our scientific engines, including property predictions, PBPK, PK/PD, and QSP modeling functionality and science, remain strong and durable. These capabilities are built on decades of scientific investment, deep domain expertise, validated methodologies, and integration into customer workflows and regulated environments. In contrast to black box approaches, our solutions are trusted, auditable, and difficult to replicate.

Sean O'Connor

That is why we have long been the preferred choice for commercial drug developers, even during a period of significant investment in AI-driven discovery companies and a number of open source applications. At our Investor Day in January, we outlined a roadmap focused on further leveraging AI across our ecosystem, and we continue to make solid progress executing against that plan. Just a few weeks ago, we announced strategic collaboration programs with three large pharmaceutical companies to advance AI workflows across the drug development life cycle. The close collaboration between Simulations Plus and leading pharmaceutical organizations will provide direct insight into how AI will be integrated into real-world environments, informing product direction, workflow standardization, and future commercial models. The programs will utilize Simulations Plus' major software platforms, including GastroPlus, MonolixSuite, ADMET Predictor, and PKpluS.

Sean O'Connor

Participating companies will integrate our internally developed AI agents directly into model-informed drug development workflows, enabling natural language interaction, automation of data processing, coordination of simulations across multiple modeling engines, and generation of interoperable outputs from complex multi-step pipelines. These programs represent an important step in moving us and our partners beyond experimentation and into practical implementation as we advance our software and services into a unified modeling ecosystem. Finally, it's important to emphasize that our customers are not looking to replace biosimulation engines. Instead, they are looking to enhance their value, using AI to improve efficiency, broaden deployment, and accelerate drug discovery and development. Furthermore, cost benefits accrue at any point that Simulations Plus can help us simplify and shorten the drug development process or mitigate costly miscalculations.

Sean O'Connor

This approach aligns closely with our strategy to be a key partner in our clients' AI journey and supports our long-term growth plans. With that, I'll turn the call over to Will.

Will Frederick

Thank you, Sean. To recap our second quarter performance, total revenue increased 8% to $24.3 million. Software revenue increased 9%, representing 60% of total revenue, and services revenue increased 8%, representing 40% of total revenue. Turning to software highlights for the quarter. Discovery revenue, primarily from ADMET Predictor, increased 19% for the quarter and 6% for the trailing 12-month period. The contribution as a percentage of total software revenue was 19% during the quarter and 18% for the trailing 12 months. Development revenue, primarily from GastroPlus and MonolixSuite, increased 12% for the quarter and 3% for the trailing 12-month period. The contribution was 78% of total software revenue for both the quarter and the trailing 12 months. Clinical operations revenue, primarily from Pro-ficiency, declined 54% for the quarter and 58% for the trailing 12-month period.

Will Frederick

The contribution during the quarter was 3% of total software revenue and 3% for the trailing 12 months. We ended the quarter with 297 commercial clients, achieving an average revenue per client of $124,000 and a 91% renewal rate for the quarter. On a trailing 12-month basis, we achieved average revenue per client of $148,000 and our renewal rate was 87%. While we've seen a decline in software renewal rates, it's worth diving a bit deeper into the patterns we've seen. For top 20 pharma clients, we've historically had 100% logo retention. For $1 billion-PlusPharma, defined as companies generating over $1 billion in global revenue, we've seen 90% logo retention. Churn has predominantly been with other commercial pharma, defined as biopharma companies with at least one approved product and less than $1 billion in revenue, and pre-commercial biotech, defined as biotech companies without an approved therapy.

Will Frederick

This is consistent with historically more episodic versus recurring demand as pipelines progress with the challenging early-stage biopharma market backdrop over the last few years. Our top 25 customers represent about 46% of overall software revenue, and these customers are highly stable, with 100% logo retention and 90%-Plus gross revenue retention. As we continue to assess software renewal rates and advance our sales team reorganization from product-focused selling to a regional, account-based model centered on deepening client relationships, we plan to provide increased visibility into software retention and cross-sell expansion opportunities. For example, in fiscal 2025, we saw the following from clients with software revenue greater than $100,000. 50% purchased two software products, 23% purchased three software products, and 15% purchased four or more products. We believe this creates meaningful cross-sell and upside opportunities, as reflected in the continued growth of average software revenue per client.

Will Frederick

We look forward to providing additional insight into these performance metrics over time. Turning to services highlights for the quarter. Development services, which includes our biosimulation services, increased 12% for the quarter and declined 3% for the trailing 12-month period. The contribution during the quarter was 77% of total services revenue and 75% for the trailing 12 months. Commercialization services, which includes our MedComm services, declined 1% for the quarter and increased 66% for the trailing 12-month period. The contribution during the quarter was 23% of total services revenue and 25% for the trailing 12 months. Total services projects worked on during the quarter were 199, and ending backlog increased 18% to $24 million from $20.4 million last year. Overall, we have a healthy pipeline of services projects. Total gross margin for the second quarter was 66%, with software gross margin of 89% and services gross margin of 33%.

Will Frederick

On a comparative basis, total gross margin for the prior period was 59%, with software gross margin of 81% and services gross margin of 25%. The increase in software gross margin was primarily driven by increased software-related revenue, particularly from development and discovery solutions, and lower software-related costs, largely reflecting reduced amortization expense following the impairment charge in the third quarter of fiscal 2025. Other income was $0.3 million for the quarter, compared to $0.8 million last year. The prior year amount included the gain on the change in fair value of contingent consideration related to the Immunetrics holdback liability. Income tax expense was $1.4 million compared to $0.4 million last year, and our effective tax rate was 23% compared to 12% last year.

Will Frederick

The increase in the tax rate is primarily due to the result of favorable discrete item in the prior year that did not recur in the current year, a less favorable jurisdictional mix of earnings between the U.S. and France, increased unfavorable global intangible low taxed income or GILTI impacts driven by higher French taxable income, and a lower foreign-derived intangible income or FDII benefit. In addition, certain items affecting the current year effective tax rate relate to accelerated deductions elected under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. These deductions are expected to be favorable to cash flows as they accelerate the timing of tax benefits and reduce near-term cash tax payments. As a result, we now expect our effective tax rate for fiscal 2026 to be between 23%-25%, as compared to our previous expectation of 12%-14%.

Will Frederick

Moving to our balance sheet, we ended the quarter with $41.8 million in cash and short-term investments. We remain well capitalized with no debt and strong free cash flow as we continue to execute our growth and innovation strategy. Our guidance for fiscal 2026 remains relatively unchanged from what we previously provided. Total revenue between $79 million-$82 million. Year-over-year revenue growth between 0%-4%. Software mix between 57%-62%. Adjusted EBITDA margin between 26%-30%. Adjusted diluted earnings per share is now expected to range between $0.75-$0.85, which reflects the change in our effective tax rate we just discussed. For the third quarter of 2026, we anticipate revenue to be between $20 million-$22 million, adjusted EBITDA margin of 27%-33%, and adjusted diluted EPS between $0.20-$0.27. I will now turn the call back to Sean.

Sean O'Connor

Thank you, Will. As I mentioned before, we're pleased with our first half performance and remain excited about the opportunities ahead. Simulations Plus is transitioning from a set of innovative modeling tools into an integrated AI-driven biosimulation ecosystem, supporting the full drug development life cycle from discovery through commercialization. Our core purpose remains unchanged, empowering our clients to deliver safer, more effective therapies through science-driven innovation. What's accelerating is how we execute against that mission. By combining our validated scientific engines with enhanced cloud capabilities, AI-powered workflows, and a coordinated roadmap, we're delivering greater speed, consistency, and interoperability to our clients. Thank you for joining the call today. With that, we'll open the call for questions.

Operator

Thank you. With that, we will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate that your line is in the question queue. You may press star two to remove yourself from the queue. For any participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up the handset before pressing the star keys. One moment while we poll for questions. Our first question comes from the line of Matt Hewitt with Craig-Hallum. Please proceed with your question.

Matt Hewitt

Good afternoon, and thanks for taking the questions. Obviously, it's nice to hear we're starting to see some positive impact from the changes that we started to see last fall. Maybe first up, I was hoping we could dig in a little bit on the three large pharma customers that you announced here a couple weeks ago, coming in and adopting the four major platforms. Could you walk through exactly how that's going to work? What do those contracts look like? Is it cross-selling that's already occurring? Just any more color there I think would be helpful.

Sean O'Connor

Sure, Matt. Yeah, we announced a few weeks ago, the collaborations with three large pharma accounts. Those collaborations have been underway for a longer period of time. These are not new relationships beginning. They've been involved in our product roadmap development for some time, prior to our unveiling of it at the Investor Day meeting in January. Each of the collaborations has a little bit different focus across the scientific engines, but they cover, collectively, all of our scientific engines. Collaboration is one of working together to ensure that we've got good visibility to their needs, their workflows, internal to their organization, so that we can match the development of the AI capabilities, to meet their needs, and fit into their environments. It's good to have two or three of these relationships so that, not every company is unique as to how they're deploying their efforts on the AI side.

Sean O'Connor

It allows us to develop our solutions in a way that can be tailored to different needs across the pharma companies. We're engaging with them on a product development basis. There has been some financial component to at least one of the relationships already. The financial relationship going forward with each of the parties is in discussion right now as to what the long-term takedown across the technology platform will be and what the financial circumstances will be around that. Very important relationships for us. It's similar to what we've done through our lifetime as a company. Our scientific engines have been developed in a series of collaborations with our clients, with regulatory bodies. It's what's made them on target in terms of the needs of drug development, and good to see that that's continuing through our AI developments today.

Matt Hewitt

That's super helpful, and then maybe a follow question. You noted you're having some success with cross-selling already. You also mentioned that during the quarter you won some new logos. I'm just curious, are those new logos customers that maybe hadn't adopted your software services before? Are these competitive conversions, like you're winning business or taking share? Just any other color there would be helpful as well. Thank you.

Sean O'Connor

Yeah. As new logos, non-existing customers that are taking on solutions for the first time. They're new to us. In terms of the competitive situation, in terms of their selection of our product, we'd have to anecdotally go through each and every one. As Will described in terms of the stability of our client base at certainly the large top 20, as well as the billion-dollar large pharma companies. New logo opportunities are going to be at the lower end of the environment or size of clients. Those customers can be clients that are just initially starting up internal capabilities for biosimulation. In some cases, they may be movement from competitive scenarios.

Matt Hewitt

Got it. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Constantine Davides with Citizen. Please proceed with your question.

Constantine Davides

Thanks. Just a couple questions here. First, noticed a large sequential uptick in the commercial portion of the services backlog, and just wanted to get a sense for maybe the Pro-ficiency pipeline in both software and services, size of deals that you're seeing, and then any seasonality we should consider as we think about that business over the back half of the year?

Sean O'Connor

Sure. The backlog is, as a reminder, entirely service revenue-based. That's driven 75% of our service businesses in the development space. 25% is in the med communications space. That revenue service revenue stream that came to us through the acquisition of Pro-ficiency. We started to see a good pipeline activity and closure, as we exited 2025, and saw a good delivery in terms of service revenue in the first quarter. That's continued into the second quarter here. I feel that side of our business is flowing quite nicely right now. Turning to the Pro-ficiency question. I'll go backwards. Leverage off of the service med communications service business through the halfway point of the year is up nicely. They had very good first quarter.

Sean O'Connor

Second quarter growth was not as high on a percentage basis, but good contribution, and certainly cumulatively through the midpoint of the year, they're performing quite nicely. On the software side, that performance has gone as anticipated. To recall, beginning of 2025, post-acquisition and Pro-ficiency, their first couple of quarters delivered good revenue. Clinical trial stepped back in the back half of 2025, certainly brought that run rate of software revenue contribution down. That's continued into the first half of the year. It stabilized at a good starting point, if you will, and we look for reasonable growth on a go-forward basis for Pro-ficiency from this point forward.

Constantine Davides

Great. Just appreciate the added color on some of the product update. I think you said 50% of your customers have two or more and some other metrics around that. I guess when you think about upsell, Sean, where's the biggest opportunity? Is it getting single product customers to two? Is it getting some of the two product customers to three? Just how should we think about progress in that metric over time and what's feasible?

Sean O'Connor

Yeah, it's an opportunity exists at all of those levels. Taking a client from one to two and two to three and beyond. We historically have seen good linkage between ADMET Predictor and GastroPlus. Often our two product customers might start with those two. Obviously the Monolix product that came to us through acquisition four or five years ago now, is a nice complement in the PK/PD space for our clients to reach out and bring on board. We've seen over the last number of years, very strong growth in our revenue from the Monolix PK/PD platform. Opportunity exists across all the machinations there in terms of which products.

Sean O'Connor

I think, the opportunity here is for that to accelerate, driven by A, our reorganization of our business development organization from sellers, if you will, of each of the point solutions independently, so to speak, or quoted by product to an environment in which we are geographically and named account organized with quotas that our business development people carry that are quotas for our clients as opposed to quotas for specific products. I think that focus will help in terms of our cross-selling efforts. Secondly, the development and delivery of our ecosystem, as we've described, that enhances the interoperability across these scientific engines tremendously. And as well, putting it into the cloud offers more opportunity for the smaller and medium-sized entities out there to gain access. That may be a new logo opportunity, but that new logo opportunity then rolls into cross-selling opportunities.

Sean O'Connor

From both an organizational and our sales approach perspective as well as our product roadmap, I think we are very focused on our cross-selling efforts going forward and the opportunity certainly is quite large there.

Constantine Davides

Thanks, Sean.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Max Smock with William Blair. Please proceed with your question.

Max Smock

Hi, Sean. Hi, Will. Thanks for taking our questions. Wondering if you can discuss kind of where you're at right now, halfway through the year relative to your expectations when you gave your initial guide at the end of last year. Just trying to get a sense for the level of conservatism that's embedded in the guide in light of your bullish macro commentary and the growing interest in NAMs. Just kind of looking at the numbers, revenue up 3% in 1H, but I think guidance implies basically flat revenue in the second half off of what looks like easier comps. If you could just maybe level set and help us understand the thought process behind not taking up the guide on the back of the really strong results we saw here in the second quarter. Thank you.

Sean O'Connor

Sure, Max. Not a surprising question. Each quarter, each opportunity we report, take a look at the guidance opportunity to adjust as warranted. I'd say we're operating still in an environment that fragile might be a reasonable term to use. We see a lot of momentum, good spending in part of our clients, but we've got macro issues in terms of global politics, as well as the more specific pharma-related scenarios that could raise their head. A cautious approach to this, based upon our experience over the last 24 months, drives us pretty strongly here. That being said, yeah, the momentum seems to be building a bit.

Sean O'Connor

We've delivered quite nicely in the first couple of quarters here, and certainly it puts us moving into the back half of the year with greater confidence in terms of the guidance that we've got out there, but a relatively cautious approach in terms of let's not take a one or two quarter and drive it into a trend just yet.

Max Smock

Yeah, that's really helpful. Thank you, Sean. Maybe just following up on that, particularly your comment around the fragile environment. I know it's probably hard to tell to some extent, but just wondering if you can bifurcate a little bit between the momentum you're seeing, how much of that's coming from just an overall recovery in the macro environment and biopharma spend more broadly, versus how much of that recovery do you think is more a function of just increasing interest in growing adoption of NAM specifically?

Sean O'Connor

I'd say broadly, when we say NAM, some people might jump and say, "Boy, is that the animal testing announcement?" I would say the momentum build here is certainly that's on the horizon. It's a horizon still a couple of years out. In general, the support for biosimulation for in silico methodologies for AI is strong broadly from the regulatory perspective. I think our clients shifted in 2025 to AI investment strategy, which was partnership with other AI discovery companies. That shift is now causing them to take a look at internal implementation of AI. I think there's a lot of momentum building out of those endeavors, certainly in the large pharma environment. I think it's pretty broad-based, but we operate it in an industry that is somewhat fragile in the sense of external announcements and macro issues.

Max Smock

Got it. Thanks again for taking our questions.

Sean O'Connor

Sure.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jeff Garro, Stephens. Please proceed with your question.

Jeff Garro

Yeah, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the questions. Wanted to ask a little bit more on cross-sell. You just kind of hit the macro versus micro part of that topic, but was hoping you could dive a little bit further on evaluating your progress to reach multiple buyers within your clients' organizations, getting kind of beyond the modeling department with these clients.

Sean O'Connor

That's a good question, Jeff. Getting as much of your targeted budget as you can is an objective, but also looking for other pockets of budget within our clients has always been something that has been at the forefront here. Our efforts in terms of the Pro-ficiency acquisition opened up our reach into clinical trial operation budgets, and so that certainly presents more TAM at a macro level and specifically a network into another part of our client organizations and new budget dollars. I'd say the most predominant one, again, is in the arena of the AI budget within our clients. I think in that regard, the collaborations that we've announced, those collaborations have served well our ability to leverage our very strong modeling and simulation relationships, leverage that into relationship builds with the AI leaders within those collaborative clients.

Sean O'Connor

Building that relationship and in fact, opportunity for the funding of our ecosystem and our AI functionality to be sourced outside the traditional modeling and simulation budget. I think that bodes well. When I step back and look at it and you sort of estimate the growth of modeling and simulations budgets you really need to open up your eyes and see that that growth is incremental when you look at the AI budgets alongside the modeling and simulation budgets. Certainly the AI spend those budgets in our clients is broad-based across the full continuum from patient recruitment to all kinds of investments of AI that a pharma company may be making. A portion of that AI budget is in the biosimulation space. When we look for budget growth and modeling and simulation, we see the traditional momentum picking up there.

Sean O'Connor

The icing on the cake, a very thick icing, can be found in the AI budgets within large pharma as well.

Jeff Garro

Excellent. I appreciate all those comments and probably a nice segue to the other question I wanted to ask on AI monetization. You said that we should have low to minimal expectations for AI monetization this year. You mentioned that discussions are really still ongoing on the economic model with your collaborative partners that you recently announced, but still want to ask just what timing is on when AI monetization starts to show in the P&L, how we should think about the pacing of those discussions, and maybe just more broadly, what we can look to as potential proof points that AI is generating incremental value outside from the likely aid that it will provide to renewal and retention efforts?

Sean O'Connor

Yeah, good question. Those discussions are underway with those collaborators, which will, just as they are proving the path forward on the technology development, they will prove the path forward in terms of monetization. I'd say at this stage that the recognition of the value of the incremental technology is very visible and accepted on the part of our clients. The groundwork, if you will, in terms of value and monetization is there. The mechanics of how that rolls out is where the discussions lie right now. We've certainly not anticipated, in fiscal year 2026, significant contribution from this arena at all in our guidance per se. It inevitably is also tied to commercial delivery of this technology. I would look out to this being a contributor to fiscal year 2027.

Jeff Garro

Great. Thanks for taking the questions.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of David Larsen with BTIG. Please proceed with your question.

David Larsen

Hi. Are any of the sort of large AI companies clients of yours, like Google DeepMind comes to mind, or any of these other organizations? Thank you.

Sean O'Connor

Yeah. Those in the circle of drug discovery, primarily AI entities, Recursion, DeepMind, BenevolentAI of the world. Yeah, generally, it's not 100% coverage, but a good percentage of those are licensing some footprint of our software, yes.

David Larsen

You're generating revenue from the AI market already, supporting these AI organizations. I would imagine they need SLP because of your data dictionaries, because of the training of your scientists, because of all of the data and models that you've built over the past decades, they can then search that. Is that right?

Sean O'Connor

Well, ultimately, they have evolved into drug development companies. They are all, for the most part, in discovery. Some have reached early clinical status with a program or two. Historically to date, primarily the opportunity, our discovery platform is ADMET Predictor. It's ADMET Predictor and its utility in terms of property prediction, is what is of value to them now as they move into the clinic. The scientific engines of GastroPlus and Monolix and PKpluS become candidates for their use in the clinical development cycle of their development of drugs.

David Larsen

Okay. Great. Thanks very much. I'll hop back in the queue.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Brendan Smith with TD Cowen. Please proceed with your question.

Brendan Smith

Great. Thanks for taking the questions, guys. Maybe first, just on some of the services metrics that you show, I think it's on slide 13, if I'm not mistaken. I just want to make sure I'm understanding correctly. I guess, how should we think about kind of the relative decline, albeit pretty minimal, in total projects year-over-year, kind of versus the increase in backlogs there specifically? Is that kind of a function more of the types of projects you're moving into, the customers themselves, or I guess, are there any other dynamics at play there?

Sean O'Connor

Yeah. A number of projects can evolve over time. We can have projects that are consuming a good percentage of our staff in a particular quarter, and other quarters where we're working on smaller or medium-sized projects and whatnot. That can kind of ebb and flow quite a bit. The backlog growth is nice getting back to prior year levels here in terms of our total backlogs, and it's good measurement in terms of our pipeline on service as it's closing ahead of actual performance of those projects.

Brendan Smith

Okay, got it. Super helpful. Maybe a second one, just looking at slide nine, I think this is where you had the comparison of Q2 versus trailing 12 months, and just looking at the breakdown of software solutions as a percentage of software revs. I mean, it looks pretty stable over the last year, but I guess I'm just wondering if you expect any meaningful shifts in that segment breakdown over the next 12 months, kind of as some of these new rollouts and broader sector interest starts to evolve, and I guess if not, what's maybe just underpinning some of those assumptions, presumably, I guess, based on your recent conversations? Thanks.

Sean O'Connor

The assumption, Brendan, I'm sorry, but just to clarify the assumption in terms of software and service mix, is that what you're referring to?

Brendan Smith

Actually, just within the software. I guess what I'm really asking is, it looks like the kind of relative breakdown of which software solutions you have over the last year is pretty consistent with what we saw in Q2. I'm just curious if you're expecting any shift in that, just between kind of discovery, development, clinical ops over the next year, just given the push to get new logos signed and expanding within the sector interest into this space.

Sean O'Connor

Yeah, okay. I understand now. Clearly, our development solutions of Monolix and the GastroPlus are the key drivers in terms of our software revenue, with ADMET Predictor contributed. The Pro-ficiency training platform provided contribution, but the smallest piece of the pie there. The cross-selling opportunities would support both somewhat in the ADMET Predictor and GastroPlus space, but significantly in terms of Monolix, seeing more of the large billion-dollar plus pharma plus top 20 clients take on Monolix as their preferred platform in the PK/PD space. That slice could grow. It's grown faster in terms of percentage growth than the other solutions for the last couple or three years. Seeing it grow would not surprise me. New logos, often the starting point there is going to be either GastroPlus or Monolix, if it's a development company. If it's a pre-product biotech company, they're in discovery of probably an ADMET Predictor.

Sean O'Connor

I think we've seen some stability in the pie chart there with contribution. I think that stability will remain pretty much the same with perhaps Monolix taking a little bit incremental piece of that pie.

Brendan Smith

Okay. Got it. Yep. Makes a lot of sense. Thanks, guys.

Operator

Thank you. With that, there are no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn the call back over to Sean O'Connor for any closing remarks.

Sean O'Connor

Very good. Over the next few months, we've got a number of investor conferences, including the RBC Global Healthcare Conference, Craig-Hallum Conference, TD Cowen Fifth Annual Tools and Diagnostics Revolution, and the Citizens Medical Devices and Healthcare Services Forum. Hopefully, we can see many of you there. Otherwise, I appreciate the opportunity to deliver this quarter's results to you and look forward to speaking again next quarter. Take care, everyone.

Operator

With that, ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's teleconference. We thank you for your participation, and you may now disconnect your lines, and have a wonderful rest of your day.

Investor releaseQuarter not tagged2026-03-27

Simulations Plus Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings and Conference Call Date

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Conference call to be on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at 5 p.m. ET RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., March 26, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Simulations Plus, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLP) ("Simulations Plus", "SLP"), a global leader in model-informed and AI-accelerated drug development that advances biopharma innovation, today announced that it will report second quarter fiscal 2026 financial results after the market close on Thursday, April 9, 2026. Management will host a conference call that same day at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the results. Investment professionals and all current and prospective shareholders are invited to join the live webcast by registering here. The conference call can also be accessed by dialing 1-877-451-6152 (domestic) or 201-389-0879 (international) or by clicking on this Call me™ link to request a return call. The webcast can be accessed on the investor relations page of the Simulations Plus website at www.simulations-plus.com/investorscorporate-profile/corporate-profile/ where it will also be available for replay approximately one hour following the call. About Simulations Plus, Inc. Simulations Plus is a global leader in model-informed and AI-accelerated drug development. We create value for our clients by accelerating the discovery, development, and commercialization of pharmaceuticals and other products through innovative science-based software and consulting solutions. For more information, visit www.simulations-plus.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260326930101/en/ Contacts Financial Profiles Lisa Fortuna 310-622-8251 [email protected]

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Adobe Systems (ADBE) Q1 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates

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