AppLovin (APP) Q2 2026 Earnings Report

The call conveyed a predominantly positive operational and financial picture: very strong year-over-year revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth, high margins, substantial free cash flow, a clean resolution to an SEC inquiry, and explicit momentum in the consumer vertical and product launch. However, management acknowledged near-term execution friction — principally the timing of model uplifts that caused results to fall slightly below internal expectations, higher compute costs, temporary free cash flow timing issues, and product bottlenecks around creative and self-service onboarding. The company provided confident Q3 guidance and noted that the key model improvements are now live, supporting a reacceleration narrative.

AppLovin guided Q3 revenue of $2.055–$2.085 billion (≈46%–48% YoY, ≈7%–8% sequential) and adjusted EBITDA of $1.71–$1.74 billion (≈48%–50% YoY) implying an adjusted EBITDA margin of ~83%; the outlook incorporates model improvements already live, higher training/inference compute costs (management noted roughly $0.10 of compute per incremental dollar of revenue) and explicitly excludes additional model releases not yet deployed. For context, Q2 actuals were $1.92 billion revenue (+53% YoY, +4% QoQ) and $1.61 billion adjusted EBITDA (+58% YoY, margins +~300 bps, 70% QoQ flow‑through), free cash flow of $863 million (conversion expected to normalize to ~75% of adjusted EBITDA for the full year), ending cash of $3.05 billion vs. $3.7 billion total debt (net leverage ≈0.1x TTM adj. EBITDA), 335 million shares outstanding after repurchasing ~1.14 million shares for $551 million with ~$1.8 billion remaining authorization, and management reiterated a long‑term growth view of roughly 30% annual compounding.