Synaptics Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2026 Results

Launched the next-generation of Astra multimodal GenAI processors to power the intelligent IoT edge

Core IoT product sales increased 74 percent year-over-year

Q1'26 Financial Results

• Revenue of $292.5 million, up 14% year-over-year
• Fiscal first quarter Core IoT product sales grew by 74% year-over-year
• GAAP gross margin of 42.6%
• Non-GAAP gross margin of 53.2%
• GAAP loss per share of $0.53
• Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $1.09

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics Incorporated (Nasdaq: ) today reported financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2026 ended September 27, 2025.

Net revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 was $292.5 million. GAAP net loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 was $20.6 million, or a loss of $0.53 per basic share. Non-GAAP net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 was $43.3 million, or $1.09 per diluted share.

“We delivered a strong start to fiscal 2026, with first quarter Core IoT product sales increasing 74% year-over-year and driving total revenue up 14% year-over-year. During the quarter, we achieved a key milestone with the launch of our next-generation Astra processors, an AI-native silicon platform purpose-built for intelligent Edge applications. We also hosted a successful Tech Day, highlighting our technology leadership across processors, wireless connectivity, and mixed-signal solutions supporting Edge AI use cases such as industrial vision, fleet management, IoT hubs, and robotics. Overall, we are seeing solid momentum in our business, with improving revenue, a growing pipeline, and increasing design-wins," said Rahul Patel, Synaptics' President and Chief Executive Officer.



Business Outlook

Ken Rizvi, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, added, “Revenues increased year-over-year for the sixth consecutive quarter, reflecting steady demand and disciplined execution. Our Core IoT product sales were up 74% year-over-year, reaching their highest level in three years. Channel inventories remain lean and our backlog for the quarter is healthy. At the mid-point of our guidance range, we expect approximately 12% year-over-year revenue growth in the fiscal second quarter. With a strong balance sheet and solid operating cash flow, we believe that we remain well positioned to invest in key organic growth initiatives while continuing to return capital to stockholders through share repurchases.”

The second quarter fiscal 2026 outlook information provided below is based on the Company’s current estimates and is not a guarantee of future performance. These statements are forward-looking and actual results may differ materially. Refer to the “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” section below for information on the factors that could cause the Company’s actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements.

For the second quarter of fiscal 2026, the Company expects:

*   Projected Non-GAAP gross margin excludes $30.0 to $32.0 million acquisition and integration-related costs and $1.0 million share-based compensation.

**  Projected Non-GAAP operating expense excludes $38.0 to $40.0 million in share-based compensation costs, $1.0 to $2.0 million in restructuring costs, and $5.0 to $6.0 million in acquisition and integration related costs.

*** Projected Non-GAAP earnings (loss) per share excludes $1.00 to $1.01 in share-based compensation costs, $0.03 to $0.05 in restructuring costs, $0.90 to $0.94 in acquisition and integration related costs, and ($0.18) to ($0.45) in other non-cash and Non-GAAP tax adjustments.

Our outlook is also subject to the fluid macroeconomic landscape, including ongoing global trade and tariff uncertainties (refer to the “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" below).

Earnings Call and Supplementary Materials

The Synaptics first quarter fiscal 2026 teleconference and webcast is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET), on Thursday, November 6, 2025, during which the Company may discuss forward-looking information.

Speakers:

• Rahul Patel, President and Chief Executive Officer
• Ken Rizvi, Chief Financial Officer

To participate on the live call, analysts and investors should pre-register at .

Supplementary slides, a copy of the prepared remarks, and a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be accessible from the “Investor Relations” section of the company’s website at .

About Synaptics Incorporated:

Synaptics (Nasdaq: ) is driving innovation in AI at the Edge, bringing AI closer to end users and transforming how we engage with intelligent connected devices, whether at home, at work, or on the move. As a go-to partner for forward-thinking product innovators, Synaptics powers the future with its cutting-edge Synaptics Astra™ AI-Native embedded compute, Veros™ wireless connectivity, and multimodal sensing solutions. We’re making the digital experience smarter, faster, more intuitive, secure, and seamless. From touch, display, and biometrics to AI-enabled wireless connectivity, video, vision, audio, speech, and security processing, Synaptics is a force behind the next generation of technology enhancing how we live, work, and play. Follow Synaptics on , and , or visit .

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

In evaluating its business, Synaptics considers and uses Non-GAAP Net Income, which we define as net income excluding share-based compensation, acquisition-related costs, and certain other non-cash or recurring and non-recurring items the company does not believe are indicative of its core operating performance, as a supplemental measure of operating performance. Non-GAAP Net Income is not a measurement of the company’s financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to GAAP Net Income. The company presents Non-GAAP Net Income because it considers it an important supplemental measure of its performance since it facilitates operating performance comparisons from period to period by eliminating potential differences in net income caused by the existence and timing of share-based compensation charges, acquisition and integration-related costs, restructuring costs, and certain other non-cash or recurring and non-recurring items. Non-GAAP Net Income has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the company’s GAAP Net Income. The principal limitations of this measure are that it does not reflect the company’s actual expenses and may thus have the effect of inflating its net income and net income per share as compared to its operating results reported under GAAP. In addition, the company presents components of Non-GAAP Net Income, such as Non-GAAP Gross Margin, Non-GAAP operating expenses and Non-GAAP operating margin, for similar reasons.

As presented in the “Reconciliation of GAAP Financial Measures to Non-GAAP Financial Measures” tables that follow, Non-GAAP Net Income and each of the other Non-GAAP financial measures excludes one or more of the following items:

Acquisition and integration-related costs

Acquisition and integration-related costs primarily consist of:

• amortization of purchased intangibles, which include acquired intangibles such as developed technology, customer relationships, trademarks, backlog, licensed technology, patents, and in-process technology when post-acquisition development is determined to be substantively complete;
• inventory fair value adjustments affecting the carrying value of inventory acquired in an acquisition;
• transitory post-acquisition incentive programs negotiated in connection with an acquired business or designed to encourage post-acquisition retention of key employees; and
• legal and consulting costs directly associated with acquisitions, potential acquisitions and refinancing costs, including non-recurring acquisition related costs and services.

These acquisition and integration-related costs are not factored into the company’s evaluation of its ongoing business operating performance or potential acquisitions, as they are not considered as part of the company’s principal operations. Further, the amount of these costs can vary significantly from period to period based on the terms of an earn-out arrangement, revisions to assumptions that went into developing the estimate of the contingent consideration associated with an earn-out arrangement, the size and timing of an acquisition, the lives assigned to the acquired intangible assets, and the maturity of the business acquired. Excluding acquisition related costs from Non-GAAP measures provides investors with a basis to compare Synaptics against the performance of other companies without the variability and potential earnings volatility associated with purchase accounting and acquisition-related items.

Share-based compensation

Share-based compensation expense relates to employee equity award programs and the vesting of the underlying awards, which includes stock options, deferred stock units, market stock units, performance stock units, phantom stock units and the employee stock purchase plan. Share-based compensation settled with stock, which includes stock options, deferred stock units, market stock units, performance stock units and the employee stock purchase plan, is a non-cash expense, while share-based compensation settled with cash, which includes phantom stock units, is a cash expense. Settlement of all employee equity award programs, whether settled with cash or stock, varies in amount from period to period and is dependent on market forces that are often beyond the company’s control. As a result, the company excludes share-based compensation from its internal operating forecasts and models. The company believes that Non-GAAP measures reflecting adjustments for share-based compensation provide investors with a basis to compare the company’s principal operating performance against the performance of peer companies without the variability created by share-based compensation resulting from the variety of equity-linked compensatory awards used by other companies and the varying methodologies and assumptions used.

Restructuring costs

Restructuring costs are costs incurred to address cost structure inefficiencies of acquired or existing business operations and consist primarily of employee termination, asset disposal and office closure costs, including the reversal of such costs. As a result, the company excludes restructuring costs from its internal operating forecasts and models when evaluating its ongoing business performance. The company believes that Non-GAAP measures reflecting adjustments for restructuring costs provide investors with a basis to compare the company’s principal operating performance against the performance of other companies without the variability created by restructuring costs designed to address cost structure inefficiencies of acquired or existing business operations.

Legal settlement accruals and other

Legal settlement accruals and other represent our estimated cost of settling legal claims and any obligations to indemnify a counterparty against third party claims that are unusual or infrequent. As a result, the company will exclude these settlement charges from its internal operating forecasts and models when evaluating its ongoing business performance. The company believes that non-GAAP measures reflecting an adjustment for settlement charges provide investors with a basis to compare the company’s principal operating performance against the performance of other companies without the variability created by unusual or infrequent settlement accruals designed to address non-recurring or non-routine costs.

Other non-cash items

Other non-cash items include non-cash amortization of debt discount and issuance costs. These items are excluded from Non-GAAP results as they are non-cash. Excluding other non-cash items from Non-GAAP measures provides investors with a basis to compare Synaptics against the performance of other companies without the variability associated with other non-cash items.

Other miscellaneous income

Other miscellaneous income items include funds previously paid to third parties refunded back to the Company. These miscellaneous items are excluded from our non-GAAP results because they are not indicative of the company’s core operating performance. Management believes that adjusting for these items enhances investors’ ability to meaningfully compare the company’s ongoing financial performance with that of other companies by removing variability caused by infrequent or non-routine personnel-related costs.

Non-GAAP tax adjustments

The company forecasts its long-term Non-GAAP tax rate in order to provide investors with improved long-term modeling accuracy and consistency across financial reporting periods by eliminating the effects of certain items in our Non-GAAP net income and Non-GAAP net income per share, including the type and amount of share-based compensation, the taxation of post-acquisition intercompany intellectual property cross-licensing or transfer transactions, and the impact of other acquisition items that may or may not be tax deductible. The company intends to evaluate its long-term Non-GAAP tax rate annually for significant events, including material tax law changes in the major tax jurisdictions in which the company operates, corporate organizational changes related to acquisitions or tax planning opportunities, and substantive changes in our geographic earnings mix.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains statements that are not historical facts but rather forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements related to the company’s current expectations and projections relating to its financial condition, results of operations, including the company’s financial guidance for the second quarter of fiscal 2026, plans, objectives, future performance and business, including the anticipated business trends and growth drivers in Core IoT and Edge AI, product development and integration activities, strategic investments and operational discipline, and the ability to deliver shareholder value through share repurchases and other capital return initiatives. Such forward-looking statements may include words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “plan,” “target,” “strategy,” “continue,” “may,” "commit," “will,” “should,” variations of such words, or other words and terms of similar meaning. All forward-looking statements are based upon the company’s current expectations or various assumptions. The company’s expectations and assumptions are expressed in good faith, and the company believes there is a reasonable basis for them. However, there can be no assurance that such forward-looking statements will materialize or prove to be correct as forward-looking statements are inherently subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual future results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the future results, performance or achievements expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Numerous risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those set out in the forward-looking statements, including risks related to global macroeconomic conditions, including the impact of trade restrictions, tariffs, or geopolitical tensions such as the conflict in the Middle East, any of which may lead to reduced customer demand, supply chain disruptions, increased costs, and operational adjustments (such as reductions in force); inflationary pressures, fluctuating interest rates, and exchange rate volatility; demand variability in the Core IoT and Enterprise and Automotive markets; risks related to customer concentration, inventory corrections, or changes in end-market adoption trends; the company’s dependence on one or more large customers, including risks relating to the loss or non-renewal of contracts with key customers; the company’s exposure to industry downturns and cyclicality in its target markets; expectations related to our financial performance for the upcoming quarter; manufacturing and supply chain risks, including the company’s dependence on third parties to maintain satisfactory manufacturing yields and deliverable schedules, the availability of critical components or delays from third-party foundries and assemblers; the company’s ability to successfully execute on its strategies, including new product introductions, acquisitions and strategic partnerships; the company’s ability to execute on its cost reduction initiatives and to achieve expected synergies and expense reductions; the company’s ability to maintain and build relationships with its customers; the company’s indemnification obligations for any third party claims; operational challenges related to the CEO transition, including leadership continuity and retention of other key technical or managerial personnel; risks related to our ability to deliver expected financial or strategic benefits from investing in growth while simultaneously returning capital to stockholders through share repurchases; and other risks as identified in the “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Business” sections of the company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q; and other risks as identified from time to time in the company’s Securities and Exchange Commission reports. For any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, the company claims ​the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and the company assumes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events, except as required by law.

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