uCloudlink Group Inc. American Depositary Shares 2026 Q2 Earnings Call

Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us on uCloudlink second quarter 2026 earnings call. The earnings release and our earnings presentation are now available on our IR website at ir.ucloudlink.com. Joining me on today's call are Mr. Zhiping Peng, co-founder and chairman of the board of directors, Mr. Chaohui Chen, co-founder, director, and the chief executive officer, and Mr. Yimeng Shi, chief financial officer. Mr. Chen will begin with an overview of our recent business highlights. Mr. Shi will then discuss our financial and operational highlights for the quarter. They will all be available to take your questions in the Q&A section that follows. Before we proceed, please note that this call may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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uCloudlink press release contains a reclassification of their unaudited non-GAAP measures to their most directly comparable unaudited GAAP measures. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Chen. Please go ahead. Thank you, Daniel.

Good morning or good evening, everyone. Total revenues for the quarter were US$18.2 million, reflecting the continued impact of macroeconomic headwinds, geopolitical tensions affecting outbound travel from China, and a significant surge in chip costs. Our uCloudlink 1.0 international data connectivity services remain under pressure from these factors. However, this impact is increasingly being offset by the rapid scaling of our uCloudlink 2.0 local data connectivity business, which delivered strong growth, particularly from our GlocalMe IoT business. We expect our uCloudlink 2.0 and the new business lines to fully offset the continued contraction in our 1.0 international business by the third quarter as we continue to execute on our strategic priorities. We continue to see strong momentum across our new product portfolio during the second quarter.

GlocalMe IoT and Unicompro, in particular, gained solid traction with revenue contribution significantly increasing as the transition out of the initial market wind-up phase. Each reached key strategic milestones during the quarter, positioning us well for accelerated commercialization going forward. Across our new growth engine, revenues from GlocalMe IoT and SIM increased by 392.4% and 78% year-over-year, respectively. To drive early adoption and fuel market leadership, we maintained an elevated level of investment in market for the platform and technical ecosystems during the quarter. I will now review the highlights for each of our key business lines. I will start with the GlocalMe IoT, which saw its install base expand further with monthly order now contributing meaningfully to revenue and the business operating profitability on a consistent basis. In the second quarter, revenue from the GlocalMe IoT grew 392.4% year-over-year.

Our total install base reached 3.34 million units, and the MAU grew 210 year-over-year. User adoption is growing rapidly across key verticals as we further solidify our position in high-growth sectors, including in-car infotainment and security cameras. Moving on to our platform ecosystem, which has undergone a comprehensive upgrade into a dedicated pet AI agent. Building on the AI-powered platform social model we pioneered in the fourth quarter. This marks a major step forward in functionality and performance, redefining AI-powered communication between humans and their pets. The agent can precisely sense a pet's condition and emotion state, and intelligently support the owner at every stage of care, from prevention through real-time response and engagement, delivering a seamless pet care experience. This powerful agent creates enormous opportunities across pet health, veterinary care, pet safety, and pet data analytics, each of which we see a source of new value creation.

As consumer acceptance of AI pet services grows, we expect to build both a valuable data asset and a leading position in pet AI. We are now extending our pet AI capabilities across communication, safety, and health management. On the market front, we have made significant progress in branding and promotional efforts, generating substantial external attention, with select content pieces reaching tens of millions of views in major platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, et cetera. We look forward to achieving even greater breakthroughs in the second half of the year. Turning to our GlocalMe Life and SIM business line, where our strategy is beginning to generate results. GlocalMe Life solutions saw DAU growth explode, increasing by 801.6% year-over-year, reflecting strong market adoption of the new product line. GlocalMe SIM continued to steadily expand as well, with DAU increasing 132% year-over-year.

Our eSIM solution is gaining strong momentum, leading the market in China and building market share steadily across East Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Together, this result shows two product lines at a different stage of maturity, with GlocalMe Life growing rapidly with exceptional triple-digit growth and GlocalMe SIM scaling consistently. Our premium MeowGo G50 Max is the world's pioneering sky-to-ground integrated mobile connectivity hub, delivering seamless connectivity across satellite, flight, and ground networks. It offers the broadest 5G country coverage in the industry, spanning nearly 100 countries. The performance is reliable across a wide range of scenarios, from the urban environment to in-flight travel. Powered by our AI HyperConn technology, the G50 Max has built a market-leading position in the $500-plus premium MiFi segment and has set a new benchmark for premium mobile connectivity solutions.

While our uCloudlink 1.0 international data connectivity business has been affected by micro-halving, this same condition has created new opportunities for the G50 Max and premium solutions, driving demand from the resilient, reliable connectivity in critical environments. We also made solid progress and created new and strong revenue with our newly launched 4G and 5G CPE product during the second quarter for local connectivity services. Both have demonstrated stable performance and have successfully passed smaller batch market validation, receiving positive market feedback. Several large orders are currently under negotiation, and we expect to accelerate market deployment and drive stronger growth in Q3. We also achieved notable recognition during the quarter, winning the Customer Impact Award at the MVNOs World Awards in the year 2026 and have been shortlisted for Leading Consumer MVNO Startup Brand, further validating our technology leadership and market positioning.

Looking ahead, we remain focused on strengthening operational management and cost discipline with a clear priority on improving cash flow. Together with the ongoing commercial progress of the PetPhone AI and the social platform, the ramp-up of MeowGo G50 Max, and the continued expansion of GlocalMe IoT, CPE R50 and R55, we believe these efforts will position us to navigate the current market environment and emerge stronger. We remain committed to bridging the digital divide in cross-border connectivity, as well as the emotion distance between people and their pets, while creating long-term value for our shareholders. With that disciplined optimism in mind, we are confident that we have the right strategy in place to drive sustainable growth going forward. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Shi.

Thank you, Mr. Chen. Hello, everyone. I will go over our operational and financial highlights for the second quarter of 2026. Average daily active user, DAU, and monthly active users, MAUs, represent average number of unique users engaging with our GlocalMe service on a daily and monthly basis respectively. Both metrics record robust growth in the second quarter. Average DAUs in the second quarter were 376,376, representing an increase of 13.3% from 332,323 in the second quarter of 2025. GlocalMe IoT, GlocalMe SIM, and GlocalMe Life all achieved substantial growth, with average DAUs up 277.3%, 132%, and 801.6% respectively from the same period last year. Average DAU from our GlocalMe MeowGo business declined by 7.3% year-over-year. Average MAUs were 744,966, representing an increase of 6.6% from 698,862 in the second quarter of 2025.

Average MAUs from our GlocalMe IoT, GlocalMe SIM, and GlocalMe Life business line saw increase of 210%, 53.8%, and 599.7% respectively from the same period last year. Average MAU from our GlocalMe MeowGo business decreased by 10.1% year-over-year. In the second quarter of 2026, average DATs were 341,511, with 12,763 owned by the company and 328,748 not owned by the company, representing an increase of 7.4% from the second quarter of 2025. During the quarter, 56.3% of DATs were from uCloudlink 1.0 international data connectivity service, and 43.7% were from uCloudlink 2.0 local data connectivity service. In June 2026, the average daily data usage per terminal was 1.5 gigabytes. Average MATs in the second quarter were 306,382, representing an increase of 6.5% from 663,197 in the second quarter of 2025.

Growth was driven by strong momentum across our three new growth engines with average MATs from GlocalMe IoT, GlocalMe SIM, GlocalMe Life, increasing 93.6%, 35.4%, and 843.2% respectively from the same period last year. Average MAT from GlocalMe MeowGo business decreased by 5.7% year-over-year. Following the stable growth last year, platform continued to gain traction with user adoptions and engagement increasing further during the quarter. In the second quarter, average DAU and MAUs were 1,519 and 1,845 respectively. While average DATs and MATs for platform reached 507 and 1,028, reflecting the growing traction of this new offering. As of June 30th, 2026, the company had 212 patents with 184 approved and 28 pending approval, and approval of SIM cards from 398 MNOs globally. Total revenue from the second quarter of 2026 were $18.2 million, representing a decrease of 5.9% from $19.4 million in the same period, 2025.