--  Record quarterly revenue of $346 million, up 28% year-over-year 
 
   --  Quarterly Net Income of $7.4 million, up 67% year-over-year 
 
   --  Record quarterly Adj. EBITDA of $29.6 million, up 53% year-over-year 
 
   --  Expect new quarterly revenue record and continued margin expansion in 
      Fiscal Q4 
 
   --  Strong balance sheet and cash flow 
FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 07, 2026-- 

QuinStreet, Inc. (Nasdaq: QNST), a leader in performance marketplaces and technologies for the financial services and home services industries, today announced financial results for the fiscal third quarter ended March 31, 2026.

For the fiscal third quarter, the Company reported revenue of $346.1 million, up 28% year-over-year.

GAAP net income for the fiscal third quarter was $7.4 million, or $0.13 per diluted share. Adjusted net income for the fiscal third quarter was $17.8 million, or $0.31 per diluted share.

Adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal third quarter was $29.6 million, up 53% year-over-year.

For the fiscal third quarter, the Company generated $36.9 million in operating cash flow and closed the quarter with $102.0 million in cash and cash equivalents.

"Fiscal Q3 was another quarter of strong performance and progress for QuinStreet," commented Doug Valenti, CEO of QuinStreet. "We grew revenue 28% and Adj. EBITDA 53% year-over-year, both to new Company records. Our core business is strong, and we are making good progress on initiatives that we expect to continue to deliver strong revenue growth and margin expansion in Fiscal Q4 and beyond."

"We delivered record Auto Insurance revenue in Fiscal Q3 due to strong carrier demand and high levels of consumer shopping activity. Carriers continue to report strong results. We are confident that our full market opportunity in Auto Insurance is still in its early innings."

"Home Services also delivered a record quarter with revenue run-rates now approaching half a billion dollars annually. The work to integrate HomeBuddy and fully capture synergies from that acquisition is going well."

"Our success continues to be driven mainly by our industry-leading technologies, including our core AI optimization algorithms. We have also expanded the application of AI to dozens of other areas of the business to continue to drive improvements in performance and productivity. And we are seeing strong growth in revenue from AI media, including with Google and as an early participant with OpenAI's advertising platform. We have been, and expect to continue to be, an AI winner."

"Turning to our outlook, we expect revenue in fiscal Q4, to be between $350 and $370 million, up sequentially to yet another new quarterly record, and implying at least 34% growth year-over-year. We expect adjusted EBITDA to be between $37 and $43 million, also up sequentially to yet another new quarterly record, reflecting continued margin expansion, and implying at least 67% growth year-over-year," concluded Valenti.

Conference Call Today at 2:00 p.m. PT

The Company will host a conference call and corresponding live webcast at 2:00 p.m. PT. To access the conference call dial +1 800-717-1738 (domestic) or +1 646-307-1865 (international). A replay of the conference call will be available beginning approximately two hours after the completion of the call by dialing +1 844-512-2921 (domestic) or +1 412-317-6671 (international) and using passcode #1164108. The webcast of the conference call will be available live and via replay on the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://investor.quinstreet.com.

About QuinStreet

QuinStreet, Inc. (Nasdaq: QNST) is a leader in performance marketplaces and technologies for the financial services and home services industries. QuinStreet is a pioneer in delivering online marketplace solutions to match searchers with brands in digital media, and is committed to providing consumers with the information and tools they need to research, find and select the products and brands that meet their needs.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Definitions of Client Verticals

This release and the accompanying tables include a discussion of adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, adjusted diluted net income per share and free cash flow and normalized free cash flow, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures that are provided as a complement to results provided in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). The term "adjusted EBITDA" refers to a financial measure that we define as net income (loss) less provision for income taxes, depreciation expense, amortization expense, stock-based compensation expense, interest and other expense, net, acquisition costs, contingent consideration adjustment, litigation settlement expense, tax settlement expense, and restructuring costs. The term "adjusted net income" refers to a financial measure that we define as net income (loss) adjusted for amortization expense, stock-based compensation expense, acquisition costs, contingent consideration adjustment, litigation settlement expense, tax settlement expense, restructuring costs, and impairment of investment, net of estimated taxes. The term "adjusted diluted net income (loss) per share" refers to a financial measure that we define as adjusted net income divided by weighted average diluted shares outstanding. The term "free cash flow" refers to a financial measure that we define as net cash provided by operating activities, less capital expenditures and internal software development costs. The term "normalized free cash flow" refers to free cash flow less changes in operating assets and liabilities. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP results. In addition, our definition of adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, adjusted diluted net income per share and free cash flow and normalized free cash flow may not be comparable to the definitions as reported by other companies.

We believe adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income and adjusted diluted net income per share are relevant and useful information because they provide us and investors with additional measurements to analyze the Company's operating performance.

Adjusted EBITDA is useful to us and investors because (i) we seek to manage our business to a level of adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of net revenue, (ii) it is used internally by us for planning purposes, including preparation of internal budgets; to allocate resources; to evaluate the effectiveness of operational strategies and capital expenditures as well as the capacity to service debt, (iii) it is a key basis upon which we assess our operating performance, (iv) it is one of the primary metrics investors use in evaluating Internet marketing companies, (v) it is a factor in determining compensation, (vi) it is an element of certain financial covenants under our historical borrowing arrangements, and (vii) it is a factor that assists investors in the analysis of ongoing operating trends. In addition, we believe adjusted EBITDA and similar measures are widely used by investors, securities analysts, ratings agencies and other interested parties in our industry as a measure of financial performance, debt-service capabilities and as a metric for analyzing company valuations.

We use adjusted EBITDA as a key performance measure because we believe it facilitates operating performance comparisons from period to period by excluding potential differences caused by variations in capital structures (affecting interest expense), tax positions (such as the impact of changes in effective tax rates or fluctuations in permanent differences or discrete quarterly items), non-recurring charges, certain other items that we do not believe are indicative of core operating activities (such as litigation settlement expense, tax settlement expense, acquisition costs, contingent consideration adjustment, restructuring costs and other income and expense) and the non-cash impact of depreciation expense, amortization expense and stock-based compensation expense.

With respect to our adjusted EBITDA guidance, the Company is not able to provide a quantitative reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure without unreasonable efforts due to the high variability, complexity and low visibility with respect to certain items such as taxes, and income and expense from changes in fair value of contingent consideration from acquisitions. We expect the variability of these items to have a potentially unpredictable and potentially significant impact on future GAAP financial results, and, as such, we also believe that any reconciliations provided would imply a degree of precision that would be confusing or misleading to investors.

Adjusted net income and adjusted diluted net income per share are useful to us and investors because they present an additional measurement of our financial performance, taking into account depreciation, which we believe is an ongoing cost of doing business, but excluding the impact of certain non-cash expenses (stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, and contingent consideration adjustment), non-recurring charges and certain other items that we do not believe are indicative of core operating activities. We believe that analysts and investors use adjusted net income and adjusted diluted net income per share as supplemental measures to evaluate the overall operating performance of companies in our industry.

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