Intellicheck Q2 Earnings Call Highlights

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Intellicheck (NASDAQ:IDN) reported second-quarter revenue of $5.9 million and net income of $633,000, while management said a major customer’s vendor-resiliency review could pressure transaction volumes and cause full-year revenue to fall modestly below 2025 levels if the customer completes its plan as communicated.

Chief Financial Officer Adam Sragovicz said the customer represented approximately 29% of the company’s revenue during the first half of 2026. The customer began a broader review of vendors, departments and use cases in late June and early July, including but not limited to identity verification services. The initiative did not materially affect Intellicheck’s financial results for the three or six months ended June 30, he said.

“Assuming the customer that Bryan referenced completes its plan as communicated, and as we noted in the 10-Q, we have not seen that level of volume reduction,” Sragovicz said. “We would expect total revenue for 2026 to be slightly lower than 2025.”

Customer Review Creates Uncertainty

President and Chief Executive Officer Bryan Lewis said the customer is evaluating a multi-vendor identity-verification approach intended to reduce reliance on any one provider. He emphasized that the review was driven by the customer’s vendor strategy rather than an issue with Intellicheck’s system or performance.

Lewis said transaction traffic has not shifted to the extent the customer initially indicated, and that the customer recently issued another purchase order. The customer has also expressed an intention to migrate to Intellicheck’s newest application programming interface, which would provide access to additional fraud-risk signals, according to Lewis.

During the question-and-answer session, management said the review covers substantially all of the use cases that generate volume, though not every use case. Sragovicz said the company learned of the initiative near the end of the second quarter and that it was expected to be a third-quarter evaluation project.

“It has not gone as quickly as they said, and it has not resulted in as much volume shift as they said,” Sragovicz told analysts. He added that if current transaction patterns continued, Intellicheck would expect 2026 revenue to exceed 2025 revenue, but characterized the situation as early-stage and volatile.

Lewis attributed some uncertainty surrounding the customer’s process to its merger-related environment. He said Intellicheck plans to provide further disclosure if developments become significant.

Second-Quarter Profitability and Balance Sheet

Intellicheck recorded $573,000 of operating income and adjusted EBITDA of $1.1 million during the second quarter, its fifth consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA. Gross margin was 91%, according to Lewis.

• Second-quarter revenue: $5.9 million
• Second-quarter net income: $633,000
• Second-quarter operating expenses: $4.9 million, down 1% year over year
• First-half revenue: $11.5 million
• First-half net income: $1.3 million
• First-half adjusted EBITDA: $2 million
• First-half cash from operations: $2.2 million

The company ended the quarter with $11.8 million of cash and no debt. Accounts receivable declined to $2.7 million from $3.4 million at the end of 2025, while deferred revenue was $1.2 million.

Sragovicz said Intellicheck expects to remain disciplined on expenses while continuing to invest in engineering and go-to-market initiatives. The company expects positive EBITDA in the second half of 2026 and expects to be profitable on a GAAP basis for the full fiscal year. However, it expects cash generated from operations to decline slightly during 2026 and said it could use cash in operations in future periods, partly because some customer fees have historically been invoiced ahead of usage.

Diversification Efforts Target Banking and New Markets

Lewis said the company’s diversification strategy has continued to shift its revenue mix. Banking and lending accounted for about 48% of second-quarter revenue, compared with roughly 40% in the prior-year quarter, according to management’s comments during the call. Retail represented about 26% of second-quarter revenue, with retail revenue down approximately 2% from a year earlier.

The company signed three new banking and lending customers through Intellicheck Desktop, a delivery method that does not require a major integration, Lewis said. Management is also in discussions with several additional institutions, particularly smaller and mid-sized banks. Lewis said these customers can be implemented more quickly than large financial institutions and may pay higher per-transaction rates despite having lower volumes.

In title insurance, Intellicheck said its direct customer relationships represent an estimated 43% of the market. Lewis said mortgage loan originations rose 14% year over year in the second quarter and benefited the company.

Elsewhere, the company said a nationwide cargo and freight deployment with a food manufacturer, already carrying a low six-figure annual contract value, is expected to grow. Revenue in stadium and venue concessions increased from a year earlier, primarily at college and university locations. Automotive scanning volumes at dealer and channel-partner customers trended lower, while age-verification and background-checking businesses experienced volatility from smaller revenue bases.

Lewis also said a large global customer in the social-media vertical has resolved image-capture issues and is again actively sending data to Intellicheck. The company can process more than 99% of the data it is receiving from that customer, he said, but Intellicheck has not included any revenue from the customer in its current forecast.

Fraud Prevention Focus

Lewis said increasing synthetic identity and deepfake-driven fraud supports demand for Intellicheck’s identity-verification technology. He said the company’s barcode-level decisioning and its long-standing relationships with state motor vehicle departments differentiate its offering from alternatives that rely on visual document reviews or templates.

“Our core differentiator, gold standard barcode-level decisioning, is durable,” Lewis said, adding that it becomes more valuable as artificial intelligence advances.

About Intellicheck (NASDAQ:IDN)

Intellicheck, Inc is a provider of mobile identity verification and authentication solutions designed to help organizations verify credentials and combat fraud. The company’s technology leverages optical character recognition, machine learning, and biometric facial recognition to validate government‐issued IDs, passports, and other identity documents in real time. These solutions are deployed via on‐premises hardware or cloud‐based platforms, enabling clients to integrate identity checks directly into digital workflows and point‐of‐sale systems.

The firm’s flagship offerings include mobile credential scanning applications and software development kits (SDKs) that support Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti–Money Laundering (AML), age verification, and regulatory compliance across multiple industries.

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