ZDGE: Revenue up 5.8% to $7.6M, net income $788K, with improved margins and lower costs

Revenue grew 5.8% year-over-year to $7.6M, with record subscription growth and strong marketplace performance offsetting declines at Emojipedia and GuruShots. Adjusted EBITDA rose to $1.2M, and free cash flow was temporarily impacted by restructuring-related tax payments.

Based on Zedge, Inc. [ZDGE] Q1 2026 Audio Transcript — Dec. 12 2025

Record active subscriptions and strong ARPMAU growth drove a 5.8% revenue increase and a return to profitability, with GAAP net income of $0.8 million. Free cash flow declined due to timing and reinvestment, while innovation initiatives like DataSeeds showed promising traction.

Original document: Zedge, Inc. [ZDGE] SEC 8-K Current Report — Dec. 12 2025

Active subscriptions1 reached a record 1.1 million, up 54% year-over-year; subscription revenue grew 29% year-over-year; ARPMAU1 grew 29% year-over-year

Revenue returned to growth at 6%, GAAP and Non-GAAP EPS2 of $0.06 and $0.07, respectively

Repurchased 240,000 shares and paid first quarterly dividend

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / Zedge, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN:ZDGE), $ZDGE, a leader in digital marketplaces and interactive games that provide content, enable creativity, empower self-expression and facilitate community, today announced results for its first quarter fiscal 2026, ended October 31, 2025.

Jonathan Reich, Zedge's CEO, commented:

"Zedge delivered a solid start to fiscal 2026 with a return to topline growth even as we continued to navigate the anticipated headwinds at Emojipedia and GuruShots. The Zedge Marketplace demonstrated resilience and efficiency amid a broader digital ecosystem that continues to shift. Improved ARPMAU stood out as a key achievement of the quarter, driven by sustained CPMs, a core ad pricing metric, optimization and stronger subscription gains. These serve as strong signals that our core engine remains healthy.

"I'm excited by the traction we're experiencing with DataSeeds. While the number of closed deals is still small, the opportunity is huge. AI models' success depends on their ability to secure a critical mass of high-quality training data that meets unique techincal specifications. That's where DataSeeds Production Cloud, our network of creative experts built to fulfill bespoke content requests, is experiencing a surge in demand. In Q1, we received our second order from an existing customer, a leader in the AI space, with an increased dollar size of roughly 25X from the customer's first order. Furthermore, our pipeline is ripe with many six-figure revenue opportunities. It is still early, but our value proposition - mainly access to and experience with a coveted community of creators that can generate rights-cleared, ethically sourced content, at scale, is in great demand. Moreover, it's not only the content that is fueling interest, but also our ability to deliver many other aspects of a customer brief with consistency and accuracy including unique naming and metadata conventions and search capabilities that set us apart. We are proceeding deliberately, for the most part using existing resources to execute.

"Turning to our financial results, I want to address free cash flow2 because the offsets this quarter were meaningful, but fully anticipated. Free cash flow reflected the impact of the timing of restructuring-related compensation tax payments, which are now largely behind us, as well as some quarter-specific timing in receivables and payables. We also chose to reinvest part of our restructuring savings into high-potential initiatives, including DataSeeds, Tapedeck and our product innovation initiative. These items temporarily reduced our free cash flow generation, but they do not change our long-term free cash flow expectations.

"Looking forward, we entered the second quarter of fiscal 2026, which is typically seasonally stronger, with a leaner operating structure, a stronger business engine and a growing portfolio of innovation bets. We are executing from a position of confidence, discipline and momentum, and will invest prudently based on where opportunity knocks."

First Quarter Highlights (fiscal 2026 versus fiscal 2025)

• Revenue increased 5.8% to $7.6 million;

• GAAP operating income of $0.9 million, compared to an operating loss ($0.5) million;

• GAAP net income and income per share (EPS) of $0.8 million and $0.06, compared to a net loss of ($0.3) million and ($0.02) per share;

• Non-GAAP net income (loss) and EPS of $0.9 million and $0.07, compared to break-even;

• Free cash flow2 of $0.6 million; Adjusted EBITDA2 of $1.2 million;

• ARPMAU increased 29.2%;

• Zedge Premium's GTV1 decreased 3.7% to $0.66 million;

• Repurchased approximately 240,000 shares of Class B Common Stock.

First Quarter Select Financial Metrics: FY26 versus FY25*

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Select Zedge Marketplace Metrics: FY26 versus FY25*

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1 We use the following supplemental business metrics in this release because we believe they are useful in evaluating Zedge's operational performance.

• Monthly active users, or MAU, captures the number of unique users that used our Zedge App during the previous 30 days of the relevant period, is useful for evaluating consumer engagement with our App, which correlates to advertising revenue as more users drive more ad impressions for sale. It also allows readers and potential advertisers to evaluate the size of our user base.

• Zedge Premium Gross Transaction Value, or GTV, is the total dollar amount of transactions conducted through Zedge Premium. As Zedge Premium is an internal focus for growth, we believe this metric will help investors evaluate our progress in growing this part of our business.

• Average Revenue Per Monthly Active User for our Zedge Marketplace, or ARPMAU, is useful in evaluating how well we monetize our user base.

• An Active Subscription is a subscription that has commenced and not been canceled, including paused subscriptions and subscriptions in free trials, grace periods, or account hold. This is important because it is a source of recurring revenue.

2 Throughout this release, Non-GAAP Net Income, Non-GAAP EPS, Free Cash Flow (FCF) and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures intended to provide useful information that supplement Zedge's results in accordance with GAAP. Please refer to the Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial measures at the end of this release for an explanation of Zedge's formulations of Non-GAAP Net Income, Non-GAAP EPS, Free Cash Flow and Adjusted EBITDA and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Trended Financial Information*

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Earnings Announcement and Supplemental Information

Management will host an earnings conference call today at 11:00 am Eastern to discuss its earnings results, outlook, and strategy, followed by a Q&A session with investors.

Live Call-in Info:

Toll Free: 888-506-0062

International: 973-528-0011

Participant Access Code: 866858

Webcast URL: https://www.webcaster5.com/Webcast/Page/2205/53246

Replay:

Toll Free: 877-481-4010

International: 919-882-2331

Replay Passcode: 53246

About Zedge

Zedge empowers tens of millions of consumers and creators each month with its suite of interconnected platforms that enable creativity, self-expression and e-commerce and foster community through fun competitions. Zedge's ecosystem of product offerings includes the Zedge Marketplace, a freemium marketplace offering mobile phone wallpapers, video wallpapers, ringtones, notification sounds, and pAInt, a generative AI image and audio maker; GuruShots, "The World's Greatest Photography Game," a skill-based photo challenge game; and Emojipedia, the #1 trusted source for 'all things emoji.'

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Forward-Looking Statements

All statements above that are not purely about historical facts, including, but not limited to, those in which we use the words "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "plan," "intend," "estimate," "target" and similar expressions, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these forward-looking statements represent our current judgment of what may happen in the future, actual results may differ materially from the results expressed or implied by these statements due to numerous important factors. Our filings with the SEC provide detailed information on such statements and risks and should be consulted along with this release. To the extent permitted under applicable law, we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

Contact:

Brian Siegel, IRC, MBA

Senior Managing Director

Hayden IR

(346) 396-8696

brian@haydenir.com

ir@zedge.net

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(1) Dividend payable was paid on November 7, 2025.

Use of Non-GAAP Measures

Adjusted EBITDA, defined as earnings (loss) before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock compensation expense, transaction-related expenses and other non-recurring expenses, Free Cash Flow, a common metric used by investors for valuation, and non-GAAP net income and EPS (which adjust out stock compensation expense, transaction-related expenses and other non-recurring expenses from GAAP net income and EPS), represent measures that we believe are customarily used by investors and analysts to evaluate the financial performance of companies in addition to the GAAP measures we present. Our management also believes these measures are useful in evaluating our core operating results. However, these are not measures of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to net income or operating income/margin as an indicator of our operating performance or to net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of our liquidity. Numbers in the following reconciliation tables may not add due to rounding.

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