Star Metro - BlackBerry Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Results

WATERLOO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 24, 2026 / BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:BB)(TSX:BB) today reported financial results for the three months ended August 31, 2026 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where otherwise indicated).

"Our strong second quarter performance provides further evidence that BlackBerry's profitable growth model is working, with revenue, profitability, and cash flow generation all exceeding our expectations," said John J. Giamatteo, CEO, BlackBerry. "QNX delivered record performance in the quarter, driven by strength in our core automotive business. The first Alloy Kore design win, the largest design win in QNX history, marks an important commercial milestone. We also continue to build momentum beyond automotive in the General Embedded Markets and Physical AI. Secure Communications remained a stable and profitable contributor following a particularly strong first quarter. As we enter the second half of the year, we remain focused on disciplined execution, investing behind our growth opportunities, and leveraging the strength of our balance sheet to create long-term value for our shareholders."

Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 Financial Highlights

• Total company revenue of $163.3 million increased 26% year-over-year.
• Total company adjusted gross margin improved 3 percentage points year-over-year to 78.2%; GAAP gross margin improved by 3 percentage points year-over-year to 77.8%.
• Total company adjusted EBITDA increased by $21.1 million year-over-year to $47.0 million, 81%; GAAP operating income improved by $22.1 million year-over-year to $33.6 million, or 192%.
• QNX revenue increased 27% year-over-year to $80.3 million; QNX segment adjusted gross margin expanded by 4 percentage points year-over-year to 87%.
• QNX segment adjusted EBITDA increased 41% year-over-year to $29.0 million, representing a 36% margin.
• Secure Communications revenue increased by 2% year-over-year to $60.9 million; Secure Communications segment adjusted gross margin decreased by 5 percentage points year-over-year to 61%.
• Secure Communications segment adjusted EBITDA decreased 18% year-over-year to $8.0 million, representing a 13% margin.
• Secure Communications ARR remained stable at $221 million and DBNRR was 91%.
• Licensing revenue was $22.1 million; Licensing segment adjusted EBITDA was $20.0 million.
• Adjusted net income increased 79% year-over-year to $43.2 million; GAAP net income was positive for the sixth consecutive quarter at $33.9 million.
• Adjusted basic earnings per share was $0.07; GAAP basic earnings per share was $0.06.
• Operating cash flow for the second quarter was $29.3 million, an improvement of $25.9 million from the $3.4 million cash provided in the prior-year quarter.
• Ended the second quarter with $447.1 million in cash and investments.

¹ The company defines the Rule of 40 metric as the sum of its GAAP revenue year-over-year growth percentage and its non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA margin percentage. Where the sum equals or exceeds 40, then the Rule of 40 is considered to have been achieved.

Business Highlights & Strategic Announcements

• Coretura, the joint venture between Volvo Group and Daimler Truck, has chosen Alloy Kore for its next-generation commercial vehicle software platform. This first Alloy Kore design win is the largest in QNX history and adds over $100 million to the QNX royalty backlog.
• Momenta and XHEART selected QNX OS for Safety, built on SDP 8.0, as the foundation for a production-ready Physical AI-defined autonomous-driving platform certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D.
• QNX added support for the Hailo-8 AI Accelerator on SDP 8.0, expanding its Physical AI ecosystem; benchmark testing demonstrated higher throughput, lower latency, low power consumption and heat, and significantly greater consistency than the real-time Linux environment tested.
• BlackBerry^® SecuSUITE^® renewed its NIAP Common Criteria certification, reinforcing its sovereign-grade security credentials and position in government and mission-critical communications.
• BlackBerry^® AtHoc^® added Microsoft Teams and Entra ID integrations, strengthening mission-critical response and operational resilience for enterprise and government customers.

Financial Outlook

BlackBerry is providing the following guidance for the third fiscal quarter ending November 30, 2026 and the fiscal year ending February 28, 2027.

² EPS guidance does not include the effect of any potential future share repurchases not yet completed as of the date of this release.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The tables at the end of this press release include a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP financial ratios used by the Company to comparable U.S. GAAP measures and an explanation of why the Company uses them. The Company does not provide a reconciliation of expected Adjusted EBITDA and expected Adjusted basic EPS for the third quarter and full fiscal year 2027 to the most directly comparable expected GAAP measures because it is unable to predict with reasonable certainty, among other things, restructuring charges and impairment charges and, accordingly, a reconciliation is not available without unreasonable effort. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could have a material impact on GAAP reported results for the guidance period. For more information on the non-GAAP financial measures, please refer to the tables at the end of this press release.

Conference Call and Webcast
A conference call and live webcast will be held today beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET, which can be accessed

using the following link (here) or through the Company's investor webpage (BlackBerry.com/Investors) or by dialing toll free +1 (877) 883-0383 and entering Entry Number 5340355.

A replay of the conference call will be available at approximately one hour after the event using the same webcast link (here) or by dialing toll free +1 (855) 669-9658 and entering Replay Access Code 2584952.

About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE:BB)(TSX:BB) provides enterprises and governments the intelligent software and services that power the world around us. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company's high-performance foundational software enables major automakers and industrial giants alike to unlock transformative applications, drive new revenue streams and launch innovative business models, all without sacrificing safety, security, and reliability. With a deep heritage in Secure Communications, BlackBerry delivers operational resiliency with a comprehensive, highly secure, and extensively certified portfolio for mobile fortification, mission-critical communications, and critical events management.

BlackBerry. Safe. Certified. Secure

For more information, visit BlackBerry.com and follow @BlackBerry.

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Reconciliations of the Company's Segment Results and Segment Adjusted EBITDA to the Consolidated Results

The following tables show information by operating segments for the three and six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025. The Company reports segment information in accordance with U.S. GAAP, pursuant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Accounting Standard Codification Topic 280, Segment Reporting, based on the "management" approach. The management approach designates the internal reporting used by the Chief Operating Decision Maker ("CODM") for making decisions and assessing performance of the Company's reportable operating segments. The measure of segment profit or loss disclosed by the Company in the Consolidated Financial Statements under the "management" approach in reviewing the results of the Company's operating segments is segment adjusted gross margin. Additionally, the following tables include the additional measures of segment profit or loss used by the CODM which is segment adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, which excludes amounts related to investment income, taxes, amortization, restructuring charges, stock compensation expenses and long-lived asset impairment charge. For the three and six months ended August 31, 2026, the Company presented segment adjusted EBITDA results excluding amortization in segment research and development, segment sales and marketing and segment general and administrative to align to the operating expense presentation on the Consolidated Statement of Operations. For purposes of comparability, the Company's segment adjusted EBITDA for the three and six months ended August 31, 2025 has been updated to conform to the current year's presentation. See Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of the Company's operating segments.

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures with the Nearest Comparable U.S. GAAP Measures

In the Company's internal reports, management evaluates the performance of the Company's business on a non-GAAP basis by excluding the impact of certain items from the Company's U.S. GAAP financial results. The Company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP ratios provide management, as well as readers of the Company's financial statements, with a consistent basis for comparison across accounting periods and are useful in helping management and readers understand the Company's operating results and underlying operational trends. Beginning with the fiscal quarter ended May 31, 2026, the Company has included deferred share units revaluation adjustment as a non-GAAP adjustment and has applied this adjustment to comparative period.

Readers are cautioned that adjusted gross margin, adjusted gross margin percentage, adjusted operating expenses, adjusted net income, adjusted basic earnings per share, adjusted research and development expense, adjusted sales and marketing expense, adjusted general and administrative expense, adjusted amortization expense, adjusted operating income, adjusted EBITDA, segment adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income margin percentage, adjusted EBITDA margin percentage and free cash flow (usage) and similar measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by U.S. GAAP and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

Reconciliation of non-GAAP based measures with most directly comparable U.S. GAAP based measures for the three months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025

A reconciliation of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP gross margin and gross margin percentage for the three months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 to both adjusted gross margin and adjusted gross margin percentage is reflected in the table below:

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP operating expenses for the three months ended August 31, 2026, and August 31, 2025 to adjusted operating expenses is reflected in the table below:

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net income and U.S. GAAP basic earnings per share for the three months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 to adjusted net income and adjusted basic earnings per share is reflected in the table below:

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative, and amortization expense for the three months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 to adjusted research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative, and amortization expense is reflected in the table below:

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP operating income to adjusted operating income, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income margin percentage and adjusted EBITDA margin percentage for the three months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 is reflected in the table below.

⁽¹⁾ Adjusted operating income margin % is calculated by dividing adjusted operating income by revenue.
⁽²⁾ Adjusted EBITDA margin % is calculated by dividing adjusted EBITDA by revenue.

The CODM also uses segment adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP measure including segment expenses that exclude amounts related to investment income, taxes, amortization, restructuring charges, stock compensation expenses and long-lived asset impairment. The following table reconciles the U.S. GAAP measures of segment profit or loss disclosed by the Company in the Consolidated Financial Statements from segment adjusted gross margin to segment adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025.

Reconciliation of non-GAAP based measures with most directly comparable U.S. GAAP based measures for the six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025.

A reconciliation of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP gross margin and gross margin percentage for the six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 to both adjusted gross margin and adjusted gross margin percentage is reflected in the table below:

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP operating expenses for the six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 to adjusted operating expenses is reflected in the table below:

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net income and U.S. GAAP basic earnings per share for the six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 to adjusted net income and adjusted basic earnings per share is reflected in the table below:

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative, and amortization expense for the six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 to adjusted research and development, sales and marketing, general and administrative, and amortization expense is reflected in the table below:

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP operating income to adjusted operating income, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income margin percentage and adjusted EBITDA margin percentage for the six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 are reflected in the table below.

⁽¹⁾ Adjusted operating income margin % is calculated by dividing adjusted operating income by revenue.
⁽²⁾ Adjusted EBITDA margin % is calculated by dividing adjusted EBITDA by revenue.

The CODM also uses segment adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP measure including segment expenses that exclude amounts related to investment income, taxes, amortization, restructuring charges, stock compensation expenses and long-lived asset impairment. The following table reconciles the U.S. GAAP measures of segment profit or loss disclosed by the Company in the Consolidated Financial Statements from segment adjusted gross margin to segment adjusted EBITDA for the six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025.

Free cash flow (usage)

The Company uses free cash flow (usage) when assessing its sources of liquidity, capital resources, and quality of earnings. The Company believes that free cash flow (usage) is helpful in understanding the Company's capital requirements and provides an additional means to reflect the cash flow (usage) trends in the Company's business.

Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net cash provided by (used in) operating activities for the three and six months ended August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 to free cash flow (usage) is reflected in the table below:

Key Metrics

The Company regularly monitors a number of financial and operating metrics, including the following key metrics, in order to measure the Company's current performance and estimated future performance. Readers are cautioned that Secure Communications annual recurring revenue ("ARR") and Secure Communications dollar-based net retention rate ("DBNRR") do not have any standardized meaning and are unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

Comparative breakdowns of certain key metrics for the three months ended or as at August 31, 2026 and August 31, 2025 are set forth below:

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