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IREN (NASDAQ: IREN) — Q4 FY2026 Pre Earnings

Pre earnings note company quarterly analysis

Operations

As of August 27, 2026
Q3 Revenue ↓ 1.4% YoY $144.8M
Divisions
Bitcoin Mining 76.8%
AI Cloud Services 23.2%

Key Earnings Driver

AI Cloud Services Bitcoin Mining revenue declined 21.3% year over year to $111.2 million while AI Cloud Services revenue increased 833% to $33.6 million. IREN reported that the decrease in Bitcoin Mining revenue was driven by lower average Bitcoin prices and decommissioning mining hardware ahead of GPU installation and billing. Average operating hashrate increased 22.4% year over year to 36.0 EH/s from 29.4 EH/s.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Bitcoin Mining↓ 21.3%

🟠 Weakening

AI Cloud Services↑ 833%

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 72.44% +1.38 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue N/A
CapEx Intensity 935.93% 9.35x Revenue

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) — Q2 FY2027 Post Earnings

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Operations

As of August 27, 2026
Q2 Revenue ↑ 11% YoY $11.3B
Divisions
Subscription and support 95.4%
Professional services and other 4.6%

Key Earnings Driver

Data 360, Headless Platform, and Other Subscription and support revenue increased 11.7% year over year to $10.820B. Within Subscription and support, Agentforce Apps revenue increased 7.7% to $7.193B, Data 360, Headless Platform, and Other revenue increased 20.3% to $3.618B, and Hedging gains was $9M. Professional services and other declined 4% to $525M. Management cited strong momentum in Agentforce Apps and Data 360, bolstered by the acquisition of Informatica.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Subscription and support↑ 11.7%

Agentforce Apps↑ 7.7%

Data 360, Headless Platform, and Other↑ 20.3%

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 76.65% -1.4 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue 295.3% 2.95x Qtr Rev
CapEx Intensity 1.51% 0.01x Revenue

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) — Q2 FY2027 Post Earnings

NVIDIA Q2 2027 Post Earnings

Operations

As of August 26, 2026
Q2 Revenue ↑ 106% YoY $96.2B
Divisions
Data Center 92.5%
Edge Computing 7.5%

Key Earnings Driver

Data Center Data Center revenue increased 117% to $89.0 billion, representing 92.5% of total revenue. Within Data Center, NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform is ramping into full production, and NVIDIA Blackwell led across every category in the MLPerf Training 6.0 benchmarks. Edge Computing revenue increased 27% to $7.2 billion.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Data Center↑ 117%

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 75.00% +2.6 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue N/A
CapEx Intensity 2.78% 0.02x Revenue

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

BOX Inc (NYSE: BOX) — Q2 FY2027 Post Earnings

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Operations

As of August 26, 2026
Q2 Revenue ↑ 9.2% YoY $321.15M
Divisions
Box 100.0%

Key Earnings Driver

Enterprise Advanced Box revenue increased 9.2% year over year to $321.15M. Management said Box delivered exceptional second quarter results, led by the rapid customer adoption of Enterprise Advanced.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Box↑ 9.2%

Enterprise Advanced

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 79.10% +0 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue 528.2% 5.28x Qtr Rev
CapEx Intensity 3.46% 0.03x Revenue

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD) — Q2 FY2027 Pre Earnings

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Operations

As of August 26, 2026
Q1 Revenue ↑ 26% YoY $1.39B
Divisions
Subscription 95.3%
Professional Services 4.7%

Key Earnings Driver

Falcon Platform Subscription revenue increased 26% year over year to $1.32 billion. Subscription revenue growth was primarily driven by new customer additions and sales of additional sensors and modules to existing customers. 51% of CrowdStrike’s subscription customers were using six or more Falcon modules. Professional Services revenue increased 23% to $64.8M.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Subscription↑ 26%

Falcon Platform

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 75.00% +1 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue 288.7% 2.88x Qtr Rev
CapEx Intensity 8.67% 0.08x Revenue

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

Semtech Corp (NASDAQ: SMTC) — Q2 FY2027 Post Earnings

Operations

As of August 25, 2026
Q2 Revenue ↑ 33% YoY $341.9M
Divisions
Signal Integrity 36.9%
Analog Mixed Signal and Wireless 34.3%
IoT Systems and Connectivity 28.8%

Key Earnings Driver

Signal Integrity Signal Integrity revenue increased 64% to $126.2M, the fastest year over year growth among Semtech’s reported operating divisions. Analog Mixed Signal and Wireless revenue increased 27.6% to $117.4M, and IoT Systems and Connectivity revenue increased 10.7% to $98.3M.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Signal Integrity↑ 64%

🟢 Scaling

Analog Mixed Signal and Wireless↑ 27.6%

IoT Systems and Connectivity↑ 10.7%

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 53.80% +1.7 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue N/A
CapEx Intensity 2.19% 0.02x Revenue

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

PDD Holdings (NASDAQ: PDD) — Q2 2026 Post Earnings

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Operations

As of August 25, 2026
Q2 Revenue ↑ 8% YoY ¥112.4B
Divisions
Online Marketing Services and Others 51.3%
Transaction Services 48.7%

Key Earnings Driver

Transaction Services Online Marketing Services and Others revenue increased 3.4% year over year to RMB57.6B and rebounded 15.4% sequentially. Transaction Services revenue increased 13% to RMB54.7 billion.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Online Marketing Services and Others↑ 3.4%

Transaction Services↑ 13%

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 57.26% +1.37 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue N/A
CapEx Intensity N/A

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

Tuya (NYSE: TUYA) — Q2 2026 Post Earnings

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Operations

As of August 25, 2026
Q2 Revenue ↑ 16% YoY $92.9M
Divisions
PaaS 73.1%
AI application & others 12.4%
Smart home & robot product 14.5%

Key Earnings Driver

Smart Home & Robot Product PaaS revenue increased 16.9% year over year to $67.9 million in Q2. AI application & others revenue increased 3.9% to $11.5 million. Smart home & robot product revenue increased 23.2% to $13.5 million, primarily due to growing customer demand. Tuya noted revenue performance reflected resilient demand across selected home appliance categories and increasing adoption of differentiated, AI-enabled products and solutions.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

PaaS↑ 16.9%

AI application & others↑ 3.9%

Smart home & robot product↑ 23.2%

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 46.30% -2.1 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue N/A
CapEx Intensity N/A

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

BOX Inc (NYSE: BOX) — Q2 FY2027 Pre Earnings

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Operations

As of August 24, 2026
Q1 Revenue ↑ 11% YoY $305.9M
Divisions
Box 100.0%

Key Earnings Driver

Enterprise Advanced and Box AI BOX revenue increased 11% year over year to $305.9M. Management said continued customer adoption of Enterprise Advanced and Box AI solutions is driving accelerating revenue growth.

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Box↑ 11%

Enterprise Advanced

🟢 Scaling

Box AI

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 79.50% +1.5 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue 536.7% 5.36x Qtr Rev
CapEx Intensity 4.07% 0.04x Revenue

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.

PDD Holdings (NASDAQ: PDD) — Q2 2026 Pre Earnings

Pre earnings note company quarterly analysis

Operations

As of August 23, 2026
Q1 Revenue ↑ 11% YoY ¥106.2B
Divisions
Online Marketing Services and Others 47.0%
Transaction Services 53.0%

Key Earnings Driver

Transaction Services Online Marketing Services and Others revenue increased 2.5% year over year to RMB49.9B, but declined 16.8% sequentially. Transaction Services revenue increased 20% to RMB56.3B

Key Operating Metrics¹

METRIC

STATUS

Online Marketing Services and Others↑ 2.5%

Transaction Services↑ 20%

🟢 Scaling

Key Financial Metrics

Gross Margin 55.86% -1.35 pp YoY
Backlog / Revenue N/A
CapEx Intensity N/A

Key Operating Metrics¹: Core operating metrics relevant to revenue, sourced from website and/or SEC filings for Q, with status based on reported data.