Ambarella, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results

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Ambarella (NASDAQ: AMBA) reported third quarter fiscal 2026 results for the period ended October 31, 2025, with revenue of $108.5M, up 31.2% year-over-year. Nine‑month revenue was $289.8M, up 44.3% year-over-year. GAAP gross margin was 59.6% and GAAP net loss was $15.1M (loss per diluted share $0.35).

On a non‑GAAP basis Q3 non‑GAAP gross margin was 60.9% and non‑GAAP net profit was $11.9M (EPS $0.27). Cash and marketable securities totaled $295.3M at quarter end. For Q4 FY2026 (ending Jan 31, 2026) management guided revenue of $97.0M–$103.0M, non‑GAAP gross margin of 59.0%–60.5%, and non‑GAAP operating expenses of $55.0M–$58.0M.

Positive

• Q3 revenue +31.2% YoY to $108.5M
• 9‑month revenue +44.3% YoY to $289.8M
• Q3 non‑GAAP net profit $11.9M (EPS $0.27) vs $4.6M prior year
• Cash +13.1% QoQ to $295.3M at quarter end

Negative

• Q4 revenue guide below Q3: $97.0M–$103.0M vs Q3 $108.5M (up to 10.4% decline)
• Non‑GAAP gross margin declined YoY in Q3 from 62.6% to 60.9% (170 basis points)

Insights

Equity analyst

Ambarella posts strong revenue growth, returns to non-GAAP profitability, and gives Q4 guidance; balance sheet cash increases.

Ambarella delivered revenue of $108.5 million in Q3 FY2026, up 31.2% year-over-year, and reported non-GAAP net profit of $11.9 million (EPS $0.27). GAAP net loss narrowed to $15.1 million. Cash and marketable securities rose to $295.3 million, supporting ongoing R&D investment.

The business mechanism is straightforward: stronger edge AI product demand drove record quarterly revenue and shifted results back to non-GAAP profitability while gross margins compressed slightly versus the prior year (non-GAAP gross margin 60.9% this quarter). Risks and dependencies remain factual and contained in the data: quarterly gross margins are marginally lower than year-ago levels, and Q4 revenue guidance of $97.0 million to $103.0 million implies sequential moderation. Management also provided non-GAAP gross-margin guidance of 59.0% to 60.5% and non-GAAP operating expense guidance of $55.0 million to $58.0 million.

Watch the near-term execution against the Q4 guidance ending on January 31, 2026, any variance in gross-margin trend, and free-cash-flow conversion (year-to-date free-cash-flow is reported at 14.8% of revenue). These concrete metrics and the upcoming quarterly call today will clarify whether revenue and margin momentum sustain into the full fiscal year where management projects FY2026 revenue growth of 36 to 38.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an edge AI semiconductor company, today announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal year 2026 ended October 31, 2025.

• Revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 was $108.5 million, up 31.2% from $82.7 million in the same period in fiscal 2025. For the nine months ended October 31, 2025, revenue was $289.8 million, up 44.3% from $200.9 million for the nine months ended October 31, 2024.
• Gross margin under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 was 59.6%, compared with 60.6% for the same period in fiscal 2025. For the nine months ended October 31, 2025, GAAP gross margin was 59.5%, compared with 60.7% for the nine months ended October 31, 2024.
• GAAP net loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 was $15.1 million, or loss per diluted ordinary share of $0.35, compared with GAAP net loss of $24.1 million, or loss per diluted ordinary share of $0.58, for the same period in fiscal 2025. GAAP net loss for the nine months ended October 31, 2025 was 59.4 million or loss per diluted ordinary share of $1.40. This compares with GAAP net loss of $96.9 million, or loss per diluted ordinary share of $2.36, for the nine months ended October 31, 2024.
  

Financial results on a non-GAAP basis for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 are as follows:

• Gross margin on a non-GAAP basis for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 was 60.9%, compared with 62.6% for the same period in fiscal 2025. For the nine months ended October 31, 2025, non-GAAP gross margin was 61.1%, compared with 63.0% for the nine months ended October 31, 2024.
• Non-GAAP net profit for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 was $11.9 million, or earnings per diluted ordinary share of $0.27.   This compares with non-GAAP net profit of $4.6 million, or earnings per diluted ordinary share of $0.11, for the same period in fiscal 2025. Non-GAAP net profit for the nine months ended October 31, 2025 was $21.3 million, or earnings per diluted ordinary share of $0.49. This compares with non-GAAP net loss of $11.6 million, or loss per diluted ordinary share of $0.28, for the nine months ended October 31, 2024.

Based on information available as of today, Ambarella is offering the following guidance for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, ending January 31, 2026:

• Revenue is expected to be between $97.0 million and $103.0 million.  
• Gross margin on a non-GAAP basis is expected to be between 59.0% and 60.5%.
• Operating expenses on a non-GAAP basis are expected to be between $55.0 million and $58.0 million.
  

Ambarella reports gross margin, net income (loss) and earnings (losses) per share in accordance with GAAP and, additionally, on a non-GAAP basis. Non-GAAP financial information excludes the impact of stock-based compensation and acquisition-related costs adjusted for the associated tax impact, which includes the effect of any benefits or shortfalls recognized. A reconciliation of the GAAP to non-GAAP gross margin, net income (loss) and earnings (losses) per share for the periods presented, as well as a description of the items excluded from the non-GAAP calculations, is included in the financial statements portion of this press release.

Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable debt securities on hand at the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2026 was $295.3 million, compared with $261.2 million at the end of the prior quarter and $226.5 million at the end of the same quarter a year ago.

“We reported record quarterly revenue, above the high-end of our third quarter guidance, with edge AI revenue setting its sixth consecutive revenue record. Year-to-date, our free-cash-flow is 14.8% of revenue, reflecting the strong growth and operating efficiency, as well as our ability to sustain our edge AI R&D investment. Our new F2026 revenue growth guidance range of 36% to 38% is projected to represent an all-time fiscal year record for the company, versus our prior estimate of 31% to 35%,” said Fermi Wang, President & CEO. “These results are encouraging, but we are even more excited about the opportunity ahead of us due to the rising breadth of edge AI applications demanding our products, the outlook for robust new product cycles given the demand for higher performance edge AI SoCs, as well as a rising average selling price outlook.”

Quarterly Conference Call

Ambarella plans to hold a conference call at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time / 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time today with Fermi Wang, President and Chief Executive Officer, and John Young, Chief Financial Officer, to discuss the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 results. A live and archived webcast of the call will be available on Ambarella’s website at http://www.ambarella.com/ for up to 30 days after the call.

About Ambarella

Ambarella’s products are used in a wide variety of edge AI applications, including video security, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electronic mirror, telematics, driver/cabin monitoring, autonomous driving, edge infrastructure, drones and other robotics applications. Ambarella’s low-power systems-on-chip (SoCs) offer high-resolution video compression, advanced image and radar processing, and powerful deep neural network processing to enable intelligent perception, sensor fusion, and planning. For more information, please visit www.ambarella.com.

"Safe harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are not historical facts and often can be identified by terms such as “outlook,” “projected,” “intends,” “will,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “believes,” “could,” “should,” or similar expressions, including the guidance for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026 ending January 31, 2026, and the comments of our CEO relating to our expectation of future revenue growth, including for the full year of fiscal 2026, our ability to sustain our edge AI R&D investment, the breadth of our opportunities in edge AI applications, our outlook for robust new product cycles, and the outlook for the average selling price of our products. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied and reported results should not be considered as an indication of our future performance.

The risks and uncertainties referred to above include, but are not limited to, global economic and political conditions; changes in government policies, including possible trade tariffs and restrictions; revenue being generated from new customers or design wins, neither of which is assured; the commercial success of our customers’ products; our customers’ ability to manage their inventory requirements; our growth strategy; our ability to anticipate future market demands and future needs of our customers, particularly for AI inference applications; our ability to introduce, and to generate revenue from, new and enhanced solutions; our ability to develop, and to generate revenue from, new advanced technologies, such as computer vision, AI functionality and advanced networks, including vision-language models and GenAI; our ability to retain and expand customer relationships and to achieve design wins; the expansion of our current markets and our ability to successfully enter new markets and applications, such as edge infrastructure; anticipated trends and challenges, including competition, in the markets in which we operate; risks associated with global health conditions and associated risk mitigation measures; our ability to effectively manage growth; our ability to retain key employees; and the potential for intellectual property disputes or other litigation.

Further information on these and other factors that could affect our financial results is included in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for our 2025 fiscal year, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information will also be set forth in the company’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, annual reports on Form 10-K and other filings the company makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, copies of which may be obtained by visiting the Investor Relations portion of our web site at www.ambarella.com or the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this release, which are based on information available to us on the date hereof. The results we report in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the third fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2025 could differ from the preliminary results announced in this press release.

Ambarella assumes no obligation and does not intend to update the forward-looking statements made in this press release, except as required by law.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The company has provided in this release non-GAAP financial information, including non-GAAP gross margin, net income (loss), and earnings (losses) per share, as a supplement to the condensed consolidated financial statements, which are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"). Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally in analyzing the company’s financial results to assess operational performance and liquidity. The company believes that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing its performance and when planning, forecasting and analyzing future periods. Further, the company believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors because they allow for greater transparency with respect to key financial metrics that the company uses in making operating decisions and because the company believes that investors and analysts use them to help assess the health of its business and for comparison to other companies. Non-GAAP results are presented for supplemental informational purposes only for understanding the company’s operating results. The non-GAAP information should not be considered a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.

With respect to its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, the company has provided below reconciliations of its non-GAAP financial measures to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. With respect to the company’s expectations for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, a reconciliation of non-GAAP gross margin and non-GAAP operating expenses guidance to the closest corresponding GAAP measure is not available without unreasonable efforts on a forward-looking basis due to the high variability and low visibility with respect to the charges excluded from these non-GAAP measures. We expect the variability of the above charges to have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future GAAP financial results.

AMBARELLA, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
(unaudited)
		Three Months Ended October 31,								Nine Months Ended October 31,
			2025				2024				2025				2024
Revenue		$	108,452			$	82,653			$	289,835			$	200,850
Cost of revenue			43,866				32,605				117,482				78,901
Gross profit			64,586				50,048				172,353				121,949
Operating expenses:
Research and development			61,451				58,389				180,004				169,286
Selling, general and administrative			19,383				17,169				56,444				53,905
Total operating expenses			80,834				75,558				236,448				223,191
Loss from operations			(16,248	)			(25,510	)			(64,095	)			(101,242	)
Other income, net			2,074				2,091				6,496				6,507
Loss before income taxes			(14,174	)			(23,419	)			(57,599	)			(94,735	)
Provision for income taxes			933				652				1,831				2,157
Net loss		$	(15,107	)		$	(24,071	)		$	(59,430	)		$	(96,892	)
Net loss per share attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic		$	(0.35	)		$	(0.58	)		$	(1.40	)		$	(2.36	)
Diluted		$	(0.35	)		$	(0.58	)		$	(1.40	)		$	(2.36	)
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share
attributable to ordinary shareholders:
Basic			42,866,916				41,479,459				42,544,622				41,128,068
Diluted			42,866,916				41,479,459				42,544,622				41,128,068

The following tables present details of stock-based compensation and acquisition-related costs included in each functional line item in the condensed consolidated statements of operations above:

	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
		2025			2024			2025			2024
	(unaudited, in thousands)
Stock-based compensation:
Cost of revenue	$	658		$	899		$	2,389		$	2,339
Research and development		16,776			18,637			51,333			54,653
Selling, general and administrative		8,307			7,311			23,337			23,503
Total stock-based compensation	$	25,741		$	26,847		$	77,059		$	80,495

	Three Months Ended October 31,						Nine Months Ended October 31,
		2025			2024			2025			2024
	(unaudited, in thousands)
Acquisition-related costs:
Cost of revenue	$	757		$	757		$	2,271		$	2,271
Research and development		—			—			—			—
Selling, general and administrative		456			510			1,368			1,560
Total acquisition-related costs	$	1,213		$	1,267		$	3,639		$	3,831

The difference between GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin was 1.3% and 2.0%, or $1.4 million and $1.7 million, for the three months ended October 31, 2025 and October 31, 2024, respectively. The difference between GAAP and non-GAAP gross margin was 1.6% and 2.3%, or $4.7 million and $4.6 million, for the nine months ended October 31, 2025 and October 31, 2024, respectively. The differences were due to the effect of stock-based compensation and the amortization of acquisition-related costs.

AMBARELLA, INC.
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP DILUTED EARNINGS (LOSSES) PER SHARE
(in thousands, except share and per share data)
	Three Months Ended October 31,								Nine Months Ended October 31,
		2025				2024				2025				2024
	(unaudited)
GAAP net loss	$	(15,107	)		$	(24,071	)		$	(59,430	)		$	(96,892	)
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Stock-based compensation expense		25,741				26,847				77,059				80,495
Acquisition-related costs		1,213				1,267				3,639				3,831
Income tax effect		17				416				53				1,016
Non-GAAP net income (loss)	$	11,864			$	4,459			$	21,321			$	(11,550	)
GAAP - diluted weighted average shares		42,866,916				41,479,459				42,544,622				41,128,068
Non-GAAP - diluted weighted average shares		43,954,650				41,632,232				43,117,403				41,128,068
GAAP - diluted net loss per share	$	(0.35	)		$	(0.58	)		$	(1.40	)		$	(2.36	)
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Stock-based compensation expense		0.60				0.65				1.81				1.96
Acquisition-related costs		0.03				0.03				0.09				0.09
Income tax effect		0.00				0.01				0.00				0.03
Effect of Non-GAAP - diluted weighted average shares		(0.01	)			—				(0.01	)			—
Non-GAAP - diluted net income (loss) per share	$	0.27			$	0.11			$	0.49			$	(0.28	)

AMBARELLA, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(unaudited, in thousands)
	October 31,				January 31,
		2025				2025
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	174,057			$	144,622
Marketable debt securities		121,241				105,643
Accounts receivable, net		42,227				29,767
Inventories		39,159				34,428
Restricted cash		442				7
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		6,541				6,084
Total current assets		383,667				320,551
Property and equipment, net		10,725				9,084
Intangible assets, net		37,954				47,279
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net		12,765				5,188
Goodwill		303,625				303,625
Other non-current assets		3,154				3,241
Total assets	$	751,890			$	688,968
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable		34,923				21,775
Accrued and other current liabilities		88,398				80,781
Operating lease liabilities, current		1,733				2,829
Income taxes payable		1,890				1,383
Deferred revenue, current		17,509				14,226
Total current liabilities		144,453				120,994
Operating lease liabilities, non-current		11,913				2,436
Other long-term liabilities		5,411				4,126
Total liabilities		161,777				127,556
Shareholders' equity:
Preference shares		—				—
Ordinary shares		19				19
Additional paid-in capital		901,047				813,683
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)		534				(233	)
Accumulated deficit		(311,487	)			(252,057	)
Total shareholders’ equity		590,113				561,412
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity	$	751,890			$	688,968

Contact:

Louis Gerhardy
408.636.2310
lgerhardy@ambarella.com

FAQ

What were Ambarella (AMBA) Q3 FY2026 revenue and growth rate?

Ambarella reported Q3 FY2026 revenue of $108.5M, a 31.2% increase year‑over‑year.

Did Ambarella (AMBA) report GAAP profit or loss in Q3 FY2026?

Ambarella reported a GAAP net loss of $15.1M for Q3 FY2026 (loss per diluted share $0.35).

What was Ambarella's (AMBA) Q3 FY2026 non‑GAAP EPS and net income?

Q3 non‑GAAP net profit was $11.9M, or $0.27 per diluted share.

How much cash did Ambarella (AMBA) hold at the end of Q3 FY2026?

Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable debt securities were $295.3M at quarter end.

What guidance did Ambarella (AMBA) give for Q4 FY2026 revenue and margins?

Management guided Q4 revenue of $97.0M–$103.0M, non‑GAAP gross margin of 59.0%–60.5%, and non‑GAAP OPEX of $55.0M–$58.0M.

How did Ambarella's (AMBA) year‑to‑date revenue growth look through Q3 FY2026?

Nine‑month revenue was $289.8M, up 44.3% versus the same period a year earlier.