The Earnings Debate
For the second quarter of fiscal 2026, CEO Shantanu Narayen stated that Adobe achieved "$6.62 billion in revenue in Q2". GAAP earnings per share for the quarter was $4.25, and non-GAAP earnings per share was $5.96. Senior Vice President Steve Day noted that cash flows from operations in the quarter were $2.17 billion, and total Adobe ending ARR reached $27.1 billion, which included approximately $480 million from the acquisition of Semrush. Management emphasized a strategic shift to capture a broader audience. Shantanu Narayen highlighted the opportunity to "accelerate new user acquisition and lifetime value through a freemium offering" for both Acrobat and Express, as well as a plan to "attract hundreds of millions of additional creators through a freemium funnel based on the early success of Firefly." To prioritize this user acquisition, Adobe made the decision to defer previously planned Creative Cloud second half line optimizations. Adobe also announced the departure of CFO Dan Durn, with Steve Day stepping in as interim CFO.Product and partnership announcements focused heavily on new AI capabilities. President of Creativity and Productivity David Wadhwani introduced the Adobe productivity agent for Acrobat and the Adobe Creative Agent beta. President of Customer Experience Orchestration Anil Chakravarthy highlighted native integrations with Microsoft CoPilot, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, alongside an NVIDIA partnership that brings CX enterprise coworker capabilities into the Nemo Claw enterprise agent platform. The company provided guidance for the third quarter of fiscal 2026, targeting total Adobe revenue of $6.67 billion to $6.72 billion. For the third quarter, GAAP EPS is targeted at $4.40 to $4.45, and non-GAAP EPS is targeted at $6.05 to $6.10. For the full fiscal year 2026, management set a total Adobe ARR growth target of 10.2 percent.
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