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Arteris, Inc. (AIP) · Q2 2026 results and valuation
Share price: $20.32 · 2026-11-11
Results Q2 2026 vs Q1 2026 · previous quarter · published 6 Aug 2026 and 12 May 2026
Net loss widened on the previous quarter. Management sounded about as positive as a typical company call, in its script and in answers to analysts.
Only a basic analysis is available for this company at the moment.
1 · Numbers
Loss widened
Net income vs Q1 2026
Outlook given
Net income -14.1M vs -8.0M
Revenue +5.2%
Net income -14.1M vs -9.1M in Q2 2025 and -8.0M last quarter.
2 · How management spoke
Typical
More upbeat than 63% of company calls
Answers to analysts: typical, in line with the script.
Similar to last call.
3 · What stood out Nothing unusual flagged this period.
Valuation
Is Arteris, Inc. undervalued?
Reverse DCF. Free cash flow from the last full fiscal year (2025-12-31), grown for 10 years, discounted back, plus a terminal value. “Implied growth” is the rate the current price assumes.
At 11.9% growth a year (3-year revenue growth), the model's fair value is $5.30 a share — the stock trades 284% above it. Today's price assumes 37.2% growth a year.
Current price
$20.32
close of 2026-11-11
Market implies growth of iThe yearly free-cash-flow growth, for the next 10 years, that today’s share price already assumes. If you believe the company grows faster than this, the stock is cheap under this model; slower, and it is expensive.
+37.2% for 10 yrs
Fair value / share
$5.30
Buy below
$3.97
Price vs fair value
Overvalued >200%
Price vs buy-below price
Overvalued >200%
Read between the lines
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Guidance
AIP expects just over half of its RPO at the end of the second quarter to be recognized as revenue starting July 1, 2026.
Source quote
“We expect just over half our RPO at the end of the second quarter will be recognized as revenue in the province starting July 1, 2026.”
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Figure
Over the past 4 quarters, enterprise computing has made up an average of 29% of Arteris' tariffs ACV plus royalties…
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Last period
The requirement for secure data movement is driving growing adoption of Arteris products as chips and chiplets become more complex and perform advanced computing.
Source quote
“Efficient, safe, secure data movement within those devices is essential which is driving the growing adoption of Arteris products and solutions. New chips and chiplets continue to get more complex and perform more advanced computing. Every semiconductor must move data to be a chip or chiplet.”
Tone
How upbeat the language was, compared with other companiesiTone counts positive minus negative finance words, adjusted for length. Executives mostly speak positively, so the labels compare each call with every company's latest call: “typical” is the middle third, “very upbeat” the top tenth, “cautious” the bottom tenth.. Dot: Q2 2026. Ring: Q1 2026.
Script and answers carried a similar tone, so the script's message held up under questioning.
Sentences that drove the tone
“With momentum and increasing customer engagement leading us to believe that we will see continued strength in the second half of the year.”
“Building on our strong revenue growth, coupled with carefully focused expense discipline that is delivering operating leverage, we continue to believe that Arteris is on a path to profitability.”
“Our customers continue to innovate in exciting high growth areas.”
Full figures
USD · SEC EDGAR XBRL (10-Q, period end 2026-06-30)
| Metric | Q2 2026period end 2026-06-30 | Q1 2026period end 2026-03-31 | Change | Q2 2025 | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 24.1M | 22.9M | +5.2% | 16.5M | +46.2% |
| Gross profit | 20.5M | 19.7M | +4.3% | 14.8M | +39.1% |
| Operating income | -13.9M | -9.3M | Loss widened | -8.2M | Loss widened |
| Net income | -14.1M | -8.0M | Loss widened | -9.1M | Loss widened |
| EPS | -0.30 | -0.17 | Loss widened | -0.22 | Loss widened |
| P/E | 12-mo loss | 12-mo loss | — | 12-mo loss | — |
Topics
Most discussed now
- New Arteris' long term guide on royalties CAGR, growth rate annual, is high thirties to low forties percent.
- New There was 1 of Arteris' customers, I obviously cannot mention who, but who had some logistical and supply chain issues...
- New Pretty broadly distributed sort of growth and deal flow
- Rapidly evolving high performance computing or HPC workloads continue to drive demand for more complex chips and chiplets across data...
- This in turn is increasing the demand for Arteris products that help deliver the underlying high performance, efficient, safe, and...
Faded since Q1 2026
- Dropped It has been a privilege to serve under Charlie and Arteris' excellent board alongside its industry leading leadership team and...
- Dropped During my 7 years at Arteris, in addition to leading the company through its IPO, I have also led Arteris'...
- Dropped Arteris does not like to get over its skis on guidance but it is seeing a very strong trajectory in...
- Fading Rapidly advancing data movement powered by chips is evident in recent earnings releases by semiconductor companies.
Latest announcements
Official filings, newest first.
- Results of operations · SEC 8-K
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- Results of operations; Director or officer change · SEC 8-K
- Results of operations · SEC 8-K
- Material agreement · SEC 8-K
- Results of operations · SEC 8-K
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