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Penguin Solutions — 2026Q3 earnings

reported 2026-07-07

EPS $0.84 vs $0.56 est — beat

next session +25.1% (close 2026-07-07 → 2026-07-08)

Source

Press release ↗

Earnings call

Earnings call webcast ↗

Transcript ↗

Review

From the report

Record net sales, with Integrated Memory net sales more than doubling year over year and non-GAAP diluted EPS sharply higher, came with a raised full-year outlook for both net sales and EPS.

  • Net sales reached a record $479 million, up 48% from the year-ago quarter. show quote
    “Record net sales of $479 million, up 48% versus the year-ago quarter”
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  • Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $0.84 against $0.47 a year earlier, a 79% increase. show quote
    “Q3 Non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.84 versus $0.47 in the year-ago quarter, an increase of 79%”
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  • Integrated Memory net sales more than doubled year over year, while the AI Infrastructure business kept building momentum. show quote
    “Integrated Memory net sales more than doubled year over year, and our AI Infrastructure business continued to build momentum, reflecting strong demand and execution across our memory and AI Infrastructure portfolio”
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  • The company added four new AI Infrastructure customer logos in Q3. show quote
    “Added four new AI Infrastructure customer logos in Q3.”
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  • Penguin raised its full-year fiscal 2026 outlook to net sales growth of 22% plus or minus 2% and non-GAAP EPS of $2.60 plus or minus 5 cents. show quote
    “Penguin Solutions is further raising its previously-issued improved financial outlook for full-year fiscal 2026, and as of July 7, 2026, expects both net sales and diluted EPS for full-year fiscal 2026 to be above the high end of its previously-issued outlook ranges. Supported by very strong agentic AI-driven customer demand across its Integrated Memory and AI Infrastructure businesses, Penguin Solutions now expects full-year fiscal 2026 net sales growth of 22% plus or minus 2%, full-year GAAP EPS of $1.97 plus or minus 5 cents, and full-year non-GAAP EPS of $2.60 plus or minus 5 cents”
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From the call

Management described agentic-AI memory demand as structural and more durable than a traditional cyclical upturn and gave a preliminary fiscal 2027 growth view, while expecting some downward pressure on gross margins as the year ends from less favorable memory pricing.

  • AI-driven businesses made up 74% of total net sales in Q3 and grew 104% year over year. show quote
    “In Q3, our AI-driven businesses represented 74% of total company net sales and grew 104% year over year.”
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  • The CEO argued that agentic AI is creating structural memory demand that should last longer than a normal cyclical memory upturn. show quote
    “Our strong results reflect a fundamental shift: agentic AI is driving sustained, structural demand for memory, reinforcing our view that this AI-driven demand is more durable than a traditional cyclical memory upturn.”
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  • The CFO gave a preliminary fiscal 2027 view of roughly 30% growth in both net sales and non-GAAP EPS from the midpoint of the FY26 outlook. show quote
    “our preliminary fiscal 2027 view contemplates both total company net sales growth and non-GAAP EPS growth of approximately 30% from the midpoint of our full-year FY26 outlook.”
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  • The Q4 outlook assumes less favorable memory pricing than Q3, so management expects some downward pressure on gross margins as the year ends. show quote
    “Our Q4 outlook assumes less pricing favorability than we experienced in Q3, and we therefore expect some downward pressure on gross margins as we exit the year.”
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  • Asked about memory pricing, the CEO said demand keeps rising even as prices go up, and that prices may stabilize at some point. show quote
    “So, the demand continues to increase. So, while the prices are going up, and it may stabilize at some point, but we see increased demand.”
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