NETGEAR® Reports Third Quarter 2026 Results

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NETGEAR, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTGR), a global leader in intelligent networking solutions designed to power extraordinary experiences, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 27, 2026.

Q3 2026

• Net revenue of $167.3 million, down 9.3% as compared to Q3 prior year

• GAAP gross margin of 40.1%, up 100 basis points year over year

Non-GAAP gross margin of 41.3%, up 170 basis points year over year

• GAAP operating income of $(13.7) million compared to $(7.1) million from Q3 prior year

Non-GAAP operating income of $3.3 million compared to $3.8 million from Q3 prior year

• GAAP EPS of $(0.45) compared to $(0.17) from Q3 prior year

Non-GAAP EPS of $0.13 compared to $0.12 from Q3 prior year

The accompanying schedules provide a reconciliation of financial measures computed on a GAAP basis to financial measures computed on a non-GAAP basis.

CJ Prober, Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We are encouraged by the continued progress in our transformation into a software-differentiated, Enterprise-led company. Our Enterprise business continues to benefit from strong customer demand, particularly across our line of ProAV managed switches, while our expanding software and services capabilities are strengthening our competitive differentiation and creating new opportunities for long-term profitable growth. While the underlying fundamentals of our Enterprise business continue to improve, manufacturing challenges at a key production partner have constrained our ability to fully translate customer demand into revenue during the quarter. We are working closely with our partner to improve production output and product availability and expect to be back to normal production levels by Q1 2027. When combined with our supply constraints, our strategy to harvest our consumer Service Provider products and optimize the Consumer segment for gross profit are intentionally constraining our topline revenue. We remain confident in our strategic direction and remain focused on translating the progress we are making across our business into sustainable growth, greater profitability, and long-term shareholder value.”

Bryan Murray, Chief Financial Officer, added, “Our third-quarter results demonstrate the continued progress toward a structurally more profitable business model, with Enterprise accounting for over 54% of our revenue and now approximately 70% of non-GAAP gross profit, underscoring the financial benefits of our strategic transformation. We delivered non-GAAP operating income of $3.3 million and a non-GAAP operating margin of 2.0%, exceeding the high end of our guidance range, while consolidated non-GAAP gross margin expanded approximately 170 basis points year over year to 41.3%. These results reflect the growing contribution from our higher-margin Enterprise business and continued financial discipline, even as manufacturing constraints impacted shipments during the quarter. We also maintained a strong balance sheet, ending the quarter with over $242 million in cash and short-term investments, while repurchasing approximately $15 million of common stock during Q3, bringing our cumulative share repurchases since the beginning of 2024 to more than $131 million. Looking ahead, we remain focused on improving manufacturing execution, managing Consumer profitability, and maintaining the financial flexibility to invest in our strategic priorities and drive sustainable long-term value creation.”

Enterprise Segment Results

• Revenue was $90.7 million, down 0.1% year over year
• Non-GAAP gross margin was 53.2%, up 220 basis points year over year
• Non-GAAP contribution margin was 24.5%, down 40 basis points year over year

Mr. Prober continued, “Our Enterprise business continues to demonstrate encouraging underlying momentum, particularly across our Pro AV line of managed switches. Despite our supply constraints, end customer sell through increased approximately 6% year over year globally, led by double-digit growth from our managed switch products, with even more positive trends in both the Americas and Europe. While sell through and our reported revenue does not fully reflect end customer demand, these trends reinforce our confidence in the competitiveness of our solutions and the opportunities ahead. Enterprise backlog exited Q3 more than 2.5x times higher than the end of Q2, which was already at an elevated level due to shortages in the prior quarter as well. Our most immediate priority is restoring reliable product availability following the factory transition at one of our key manufacturing partners given we have secured critical components to support our production plans. Given the elevated cost of supply and our pricing leverage in this category, we implemented an additional price increase for our Enterprise products that will take effect in November.”

Consumer Segment Results

• Revenue was $76.6 million, down 18.2% year over year
• Non-GAAP gross margin was 27.2%, down 120 basis points year over year
• Non-GAAP contribution margin was (1.9)%, down 390 basis points year over year

Mr. Prober continued, “In Consumer, we continued to execute our transformation with discipline, prioritizing gross profit in core home networking while managing the service provider business for value as we navigate the higher cost supply environment. Partner manufacturing challenges also impacted the availability of supply for a portion of our Consumer router product portfolio. Although revenue remained constrained for these reasons, the recurring revenue component of our home networking business continued to perform well, driving 12% year-over-year growth in our total annual recurring revenue. Consistent with the pricing actions in our Enterprise business, we are implementing a price increase for the products in this segment that will take effect in early 2027. In Q3, we also implemented a restructuring to drive efficiencies in this segment, and those cost reduction efforts will benefit our financial results beginning in 2027. We also continue to monitor developments in the U.S. regulatory environment that could positively influence the competitive landscape for home networking products. NETGEAR's position as a trusted U.S.-based company, our focus on security, and our established brands provide a strong foundation for capitalizing on these regulatory tail winds. Looking ahead, we remain confident in the strength of our Consumer brands, product portfolio, innovation roadmap and market position. While competitive pressures and rising component costs are expected to persist in the near term, we remain focused on optimizing profitability, expanding our higher-margin recurring services offerings, and positioning the business to capitalize on opportunities from the evolving regulatory landscape.”

Business Outlook

Mr. Murray continued, "Within Enterprise, we continue to see encouraging underlying demand, particularly for our Pro AV managed switches. However, our near-term revenue outlook remains constrained by manufacturing output and the timing of product availability, which we expect to persist into the first quarter of 2027. Our guidance reflects the uncertainty surrounding improvements in production execution which we expect will still fall short of customer demand for the fourth quarter. Within Consumer, we expect to continue to optimize this business for gross profit with increasing impact from component costs, with some additional impact from supply constraints. For service provider and related products, we expect revenue of approximately $17 million and, while it reflects our focus on optimizing contribution profits, this would represent an approximate 28% year over year decline for this category. Taking these factors into account, we expect fourth-quarter net revenue of $160 million to $175 million.

Turning to profitability, we anticipate approximately 150 basis points of consolidated gross margin pressure in the fourth quarter compared to the prior quarter, primarily driven by rising memory costs and increasing transportation costs associated with our production recovery efforts. While our pricing actions and cost mitigation efforts have offset the rising component cost headwinds within the Enterprise business, we expect elevated component costs to continue weighing on margins within the Consumer business in the fourth quarter. In addition, ongoing manufacturing challenges could affect our product mix and the timing of shipments, creating further uncertainty around near-term gross margin performance. Taking these factors into account, we expect fourth-quarter GAAP operating margin to be in the range of (8.7)% to (5.7)% and non-GAAP operating margin to be in the range of 0% to 3%. Our GAAP tax expense is expected to be in the range of a benefit of $0.5 million to an expense of $0.5 million, and our non-GAAP tax expense is expected to be in the range of zero to $1.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2026.”

A reconciliation between the Business Outlook on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis is provided in the following table:

Investor Conference Call / Webcast Details

NETGEAR will review the third quarter results and discuss management's expectations for the fourth quarter of 2026 today, Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT). The toll-free dial-in number for the live audio call is (833) 461-5787. The international dial-in number for the live audio call is (585) 542-9983. The conference ID for the call is 677 851 425. A live webcast of the conference call will be available on NETGEAR's Investor Relations website at http://investor.netgear.com. A replay of the call will be available via the web at http://investor.netgear.com.

About NETGEAR, Inc.

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in the USA, NETGEAR® (NASDAQ: NTGR) is a global leader in innovative networking technologies for businesses, homes, and service providers. NETGEAR delivers a wide range of award-winning, intelligent solutions designed to unleash the full potential of connectivity and power extraordinary experiences. For businesses, NETGEAR offers reliable, easy-to-use, high-performance networking solutions, including switches, routers, access points, software, and AV over IP technologies, tailored to meet the diverse needs of small and medium enterprises.

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To supplement our unaudited selected financial data presented on a basis consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”), we disclose certain non-GAAP financial measures that exclude certain charges, including non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP research and development, non-GAAP sales and marketing, non-GAAP general and administrative, non-GAAP total operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income (loss), non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP other income (expenses), net, non-GAAP net income (loss) and non-GAAP net income (loss) per diluted share, as well as segment gross profit, segment gross margin, segment operating expenses (consisting of segment research and development, and sales and marketing), segment contribution income (loss) and segment contribution margin. These supplemental measures exclude adjustments for amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition related expenses, restructuring and other charges, litigation reserves, net, gain/loss on investments and others, and adjust for effects related to non-GAAP tax adjustments. These non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with or an alternative for GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. We believe that these non-GAAP measures have limitations in that they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with our results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP and that these measures should only be used to evaluate our results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures. The presentation of this additional information is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the most directly comparable GAAP measures. We compensate for the limitations of non-GAAP financial measures by relying upon GAAP results to gain a complete picture of our performance.

In calculating non-GAAP financial measures, we exclude certain items to facilitate a review of the comparability of our operating performance on a period-to-period basis because such items are not, in our view, related to our ongoing operational performance. We use non-GAAP measures to evaluate the operating performance of our business, for comparison with forecasts and strategic plans, and for benchmarking performance externally against competitors. In addition, management’s incentive compensation is determined using certain non-GAAP measures. Since we find these measures to be useful, we believe that investors benefit from seeing results “through the eyes” of management in addition to seeing GAAP results. We believe that these non-GAAP measures, when read in conjunction with our GAAP financials, provide useful information to investors by offering:

• the ability to make more meaningful period-to-period comparisons of our on-going operating results;
• the ability to better identify trends in our underlying business and perform related trend analyses;
• a better understanding of how management plans and measures our underlying business; and
• an easier way to compare our operating results against analyst financial models and operating results of competitors that supplement their GAAP results with non-GAAP financial measures.

The following are explanations of the adjustments that we incorporate into non-GAAP measures, as well as the reasons for excluding them in the reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures:

Amortization of intangible assets consists primarily of non-cash charges that can be impacted by, among other things, the timing and magnitude of acquisitions. We consider our operating results without these charges when evaluating our ongoing performance and forecasting our earnings trends, and therefore exclude such charges when presenting non-GAAP financial measures. We believe that the assessment of our operations excluding these costs is relevant to our assessment of internal operations and comparisons to the performance of our competitors.

Stock-based compensation expense consists of non-cash charges for the estimated fair value of restricted stock units and shares under the employee stock purchase plan granted to employees. We believe that the exclusion of these charges provides for more accurate comparisons of our operating results to peer companies due to the varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of award types. In addition, we believe it is useful to investors to understand the specific impact stock-based compensation expense has on our operating results.

Other items consist of certain items that are the result of either unique or unplanned events, including, when applicable: acquisition related expenses, restructuring and other charges, litigation reserves, net, and gain/loss on investments and others. It is difficult to predict the occurrence or estimate the amount or timing of these items in advance. Although these events are reflected in our GAAP financial statements, these unique transactions may limit the comparability of our on-going operations with prior and future periods. The amounts result from events that often arise from unforeseen circumstances, which often occur outside of the ordinary course of continuing operations. Therefore, the amounts do not accurately reflect the underlying performance of our continuing business operations for the period in which they are incurred.

Non-GAAP tax adjustments consist of adjustments that we incorporate into non-GAAP measures in order to provide a more meaningful measure on non-GAAP net income (loss). We believe providing financial information with and without the income tax effects relating to our non-GAAP financial measures, as well as adjustments for valuation allowances on deferred tax assets, provides our management and users of the financial statements with better clarity regarding both current period performance and the on-going performance of our business. Non-GAAP income tax expense (benefit) is computed on a current and deferred basis with non-GAAP income (loss) consistent with use of non-GAAP income (loss) as a performance measure. The Non-GAAP tax provision (benefit) is calculated by adjusting the GAAP tax provision (benefit) for the impact of the non-GAAP adjustments, with specific tax provisions such as state income tax and Base-erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax recomputed on a non-GAAP basis, as well as adjustments for valuation allowances on deferred tax assets. The tax valuation allowance is a non-cash adjustment primarily reflecting our expectations of, and assumptions as to, future operating results and applicable tax laws, that are not directly attributable to the current quarter’s operating performance. For interim periods, the non-GAAP income tax provision (benefit) is calculated based on the forecasted annual non-GAAP tax rate before discrete items and adjusted for interim discrete items.