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Quantinuum reported Q2 revenue of $8 million, up 279% year over year, beating the $7.6 million consensus in its debut as a public company.
"The question is no longer whether quantum computing will be real and valuable," CEO Raj Hazra said on the earnings call. "The real question is who will lead the creation of this new era of computing."
The company raised its 2026 revenue outlook to $28-32 million, above the $26.5 million Wall Street forecast. Non-GAAP gross margin was 62 percent, while adjusted EBITDA loss widened to $68 million from $43.5 million a year earlier. The GAAP net loss of $596.5 million included $447.5 million of one-time stock-based compensation tied to the June IPO.
Bookings reached about $81 million year to date, including a multi-year deal with Oracle to deploy a Helios quantum system inside an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center in the United States. CFO Nitesh Sharan said revenue growth will exceed 100 percent in 2027 based on current backlog, with remaining performance obligations of about $74 million at quarter-end.
The Oracle transaction is the first Helios placed on U.S. soil outside Quantinuum's own facilities; a second system is headed to Singapore. Revenue from initial cloud activation will be modest this year, with the bulk recognized upon system delivery in early 2027. The company expects full-year bookings of at least $120 million.
On the hardware side, the first Sol trap chip, manufactured by Honeywell Aerospace, returned from the foundry and is undergoing validation, keeping Sol on track for a 2027 launch with 192 physical qubits and 100 logical qubits. The company also demonstrated near five-nines logical fidelity on Helios using a new family of quantum error correction codes. The Nexus cloud platform now counts more than 180 organizations building applications, up from about 150 at the time of the IPO.
Quantinuum ended the quarter with $2.1 billion in cash, providing runway for its multi-generation hardware roadmap spanning Helios, Sol, Apollo, and Lumos. The company's market capitalization stands at $1.76 billion, with shares trading at $55.98, down 0.97 percent on the day. Insiders purchased about $24.7 million of stock over the past three months with no selling, and insider ownership stands at 6.86 percent.
The guidance raise shows management expects quantum demand to accelerate as enterprises embed quantum capability into existing AI and high-performance computing environments. Investors will watch the next quarterly report for updated bookings and the timing of the Oracle system delivery.
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