Thank you for standing by. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the IQSTEL second quarter 2026 earnings call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to turn the conference over to Ethan Walfish. Head of Investor Relations. The floor is yours.

Good morning, and thank you for joining IQSTEL's second quarter 2026 earnings call. Joining me today, I am pleased to have Leandro Iglesias, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Alvaro Quintana, Chief Financial Officer. During the call, we will make forward-looking statements such as dialogue regarding our revenue expectations or forecast for remaining quarters in the full fiscal year of 2026 and 2027. Our current expectations and information available as of today and are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially as a result of various risk factors that have been described in our periodic filings with the SEC. As a result, we caution you against placing undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events except as required by law. In addition, other risks are more fully described in the IQSTEL's public filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which can be reviewed at www.sec.gov. Yesterday, August 18, 2026, the company filed with the SEC its Form 10-Q for Q2 2026, and this morning issued a press release announcing those financial results. So, participants of this call who may not have already done so may wish to look at those documents as we provide a summary of the results on this call. With that, I will now turn the call over to our CEO, Leandro Iglesias.

Thanks, Ethan. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. I'm Leandro Iglesias, CEO of iQSTEL, and joining me today is our CFO, Alvaro Quintana. I want to begin by thanking our shareholders and previous customers and partners for their continued support. Today, I want to focus on one central message. IQCEL has spent years building a scale. We believe we are now entering the next major phase of our evolution, the EBITDA expansion. During the first six months of 2026, IQSTEL generated approximately $207 million in revenue, compared with approximately $130 million during the same period last year, representing growth of approximately 59%. That puts IQSTEL at an analyzed revenue level of approximately This is a significant milestone, but our story is no longer only about growing revenue. Our focus is increasingly on converting this scale into a stronger gross profit, adjusted EBITDA, cash generation, and ultimately, shareholders' values. Today, we increasingly see IQSTEL having two complementary business pillars, our telecom business and our digital services business. Our telecom division is the foundation of the company. Over nearly two decades, we have built a global telecommunications platform with more than 600 telecom operator relationships and a potential commercial reach through our customers to approximately 2.3 billion end users. This platform gives us scale, infrastructure, international relationships and importantly, a global distribution network. Our strategy is now to leverage that platform to accelerate our higher margin digital service business. Digital service already represents approximately 12.5% of IQSTEL's revenue, currently driving by our subsidiary, Locktopper. We believe this percentage can continue to grow as we commercialize additional fintech, AI-powered communications, cybersecurity, and other digital solutions through our existing global network. And this is important because digital services have the potential to contribute exponentially to gross profit and adjust data. The upcoming ultranet acquisition is another important step in this strategy. Ultranet will expand our international telecom footprint and, more importantly, is expected to significantly strengthen profitability. Following the acquisition, we expect IQSTEL's adjusted EBITDA run rate to increase to approximately $8 million to $9 million. This is exactly the direction that we want to take the company. Going forward, our focus is not simply on acquisition that adds revenue. We are increasingly focusing on opportunities that can add gross profit Evita, Cash Generation, and Strategic Value. For the remainder of 2026, we continue pursuing our previously announced $430 million revenue objective. With $207 million generated during the first half We need approximately $223 million during the second half to achieve that objective. We believe we remain on track, particularly because historically the second half of the year has been stronger for IQSTEL than the first half. But again, revenue is only part of the story. We are increasingly focused on adjusted EBITDA, operating leverage, cash generation, and the growth of higher margin digital services. Our long-term vision remains to build IQSTEL into a company capable of reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, but our objective is not simple to become larger. Our objective is to become larger and significantly more profitable. We are also increasing our efforts to communicate the IQSTEL story to a broader investment audience. Our recent CNBC interview with Seth Fartman and the launch of our new corporate telecom digital services and investor websites are part of this effort. We believe there continues to be significant disconnect between IQSTEL's operating scale and the valuation currently being assigned to the company by the public market. The truth is that we cannot control the stock price, but we can control the execution. We can continue growing business, expanding EBITDA, strengthening our balance sheet, growing digital services, completing strategic acquisitions, and communicating our progress more efficiently. And we believe consistent execution is ultimately the best way to close that valuation gap. So, if there is one message I would like shareholders to take from today's call. It is this. We have built the scale. We are operating at more than 400 million in annualized revenue. We have built a global platform with more than 600 telecom operator relationships. Digital service already represents We believe this is an important inflection point for IQSTEL. And we are very excited about What comes next? Thank you again to our shareholders and to our entire team around the world. With that, I turn the call over to our CFO, Alvaro Quintana, to discuss our first half financial results in greater detail. Alvaro, please go ahead.

Thank you, Leandro. Good morning, everyone. From a financial perspective, our first half results reflect continue strong growth, improving gross profit, and a straightening balance sheet. For the first six months of 2026, IQSTEL generated approximately $207 million in revenue compared with approximately $130 million during the same period last year, representing growth of approximately 59% year over year. Gross profit increased to approximately Thank you very much. We have spent years building revenue scale. From a financial perspective, our priority now is to increasingly convert that scale into gross profit, adjusted EBITDA, operating leverage, and cash generation. Our first half revenue of $207 million represents approximately $414 million on an annualized basis. This analyzed figure is simple the mathematical equivalent of multiplying our first half results by two and should not be considered as a forecast. Based on approximately 10 million shares used for our per share calculation, first half revenue represents approximately $20.59 per share or approximately $41.18 in annualized revenue per share. Our balance sheets also continue to strengthen. As of June 30, Eykistel reported approximately $48.2 million in total assets, $31 million in total liabilities, and $17.2 million in stockholders' equity. Stockholders' equity increased approximately 5%, representing approximately $1.71 in equity per share, where total assets represent approximately $4.79 per share. Equally important, IQSTEL maintains a clear capital structure, with no convertible notes and no warrants outstanding. We believe this is particularly important for our shareholders, maintaining a disciplined capital structure with used potential sources of dilution and provides the company with greater flexibility as we execute our growth strategy. Our objective is to continue funding growth in a disciplined manner while carefully considering the long-term interests of our shareholders. We believe these financials and Per Share Metrics provides shareholders with another useful perspective on the financial scale and underlying balance sheet value of IQSTEL. I also want to highlight an important point regarding valuation. At current market levels, our approximately $17.2 million in stockholders' equity is more than 50% greater than IQSTEL's current market capitalization. In other words, The market is currently evaluating the entire company at a substantial discount to its reported stockholders' equity. And that comparison does not assign additional value to a business generating more than $400 million in annualized revenue. Our global telecom infrastructure, our more than 600 carrier relationships, our digital services business, and our future earnings potential. We believe this represents a significant disconnect between IQSTEL's current public market valuation and the underlying financials and operating value of the company. Of course, our responsibility is not simple to point out that disconnect. Our responsibility is to continue improving the fundamentals of the business. That means Increasing gross profit, expanding adjusted EBITDA, improving operating leverage, strengthening cash generation, and maintaining disciplined capital allocation. As we move through the second half of 2026, our financial priorities remain very clear. Improved EBITDA performance expands gross profit and ends Operating leverage and cash generation support the growth of Harvard Margin Digital Services, maintain a disciplined and clean capital structure, and continue strengthening our balance sheet. With $207 million in first-half revenue, $48.2 million in assets, $17.2 million in soleholder's equity, no convertible notes, and no warrants outstanding, We believe IQSTEL enters the second half of 2026 with a strong financial foundation for the next phase to grow. Our objective now is to convert that scale into stronger profitability and long-term shareholders' value. Thank you. Ethan, we are ready to open the line for questions.

Thank you, Alvaro.

Operator, we are now ready to open the line for questions.

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star then the number one on your telephone keypad to raise your hand and join the queue. If you would like to withdraw your question, simply press star one again. Your first question comes from Barry Sine with Litchfield Hills Research. Your line is open.

Hey, good morning, gentlemen, and congratulations on the quarter. I want to ask about organic growth. If I look at the quarterly results, that looks to me like it's all organic. The Globetopper didn't close until July 1 of 25, so that wasn't in the year-ago quarter. Ultranet is still pending. So it looks like I think it's about 50% revenue growth was all organic growth. Correct me if I'm wrong. What is driving that? And then most importantly, The drivers of that growth, can they continue into the second half of the year to continue to drive organic growth? Thank you.

Thank you, Barry. Thank you very much for this question. Over the last month with our team in the way to maximize our current technological platform and our current business relations with our customers. In that sense, we are in the process to reorganize the telecom business. or in one single subsidiary that was announced, we create a IQSTEL operating holding and we move all of our subsidiaries telecommunications there. So our next move is to create a corporation with all the telecom business. And our idea is to keep increasing the synergies between the organizations and increasing the, we have been moving all the technological and switching platforms to one single platform. So in this process, we have been accelerating and expanding the organic growth as part of our strategy. And this is like a process, you know, we start like a holding company operating different subsidiaries. And right now we are moving into a corporation. So this is a process that will unlock the potential, the real potential that the company has and the real potential that our technological platform advantage that we have and the business relationship that we have. So as you have seen, the organic growth has been important and is going to even accelerate over the next months.

That's very helpful. But a lot of that sounds like it's forward-looking. It's actions that you expect to take. But the last three months into June 30th were very, very strong growth. Did you add more salespeople? Did you change their compensation? Did you just see more demand? Did you see competitive factors change? What drove the competitive growth in the quarter ended June 30th?

Well, in two of our subsidiaries, like QSTEL and Q-Global, we have been making some changes. at the commercial side and their reorganization, hiring new sales divisions. And this is a process, you know, but this is like a standard regular process. We need to keep improving our sales team and, you know, giving them training and explaining them the potential of the company. But at the same time, with our customer, happens something really interesting too. Thank you very much. Alvaro Quintana Cardona, Juan Carlos Lopez, Alvaro Quintana Cardona, Alvaro Quintana Cardona, Alvaro Quintana Cardona, to start moving toward creating a corporation. And we are really excited about the future, about the complete acquisition of ULTRANET because it's going to increase our international footprint in a very attractive region of growth like Africa is. And that's the process. Our telecom business keeps representing The majority percentage of revenue stream. And we are keep improving the business and the potential for the telecom business division.

Yeah, that's very helpful. And the last thing I wanted to ask about was EBITDA. What was the number for the quarter? And then two drivers. One, you just mentioned the integration of all the divisions. And I know you've been routing traffic between your operating subsidiaries to take advantage of least cost routing and improve margins that way. How much more margin lift is there once you integrate, once you finish integrating all the divisions? And then the other thing, I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, you said with Ultranet, you'll be at an $8 to $9 million annual EBITDA run rate. Is that all from Ultranet? Does that include some of the organic? And then I believe you've said that that'll close around end of third quarter, so that would be effective for fourth quarter results.

Okay, let me have... Let me answer... Let us split this answer into parts. Let's start, Alvaro, talking about Evita and all the things, and finally I'm going to talk about the Ultranet acquisitions. Thank you, Alvaro.

Yes. Sure. Yes. As Leandro remarked during the presentation, we have been focused on increasing our EBITDA. If you compare, we usually show a table in our case and choose showing the EBITDA of our operating entities, and then the consolidated figures. If you focus your attention in the operating side of the business, so the consolidated figures or the subsidiaries, you will see that the EBITDA in the first quarter of this year was close to $190,000. And in the second quarter, so just for the three months between Every May and June, we increased that EBITDA to over $700,000 for the operating company. So that's an increase of more than 285%. And that is basically impacted by the increase in the gross margin. The gross margin increased 18% comparing first quarter with second quarter. This is the result of the integration of the subsidiaries, and there are more room to grow in that regard, which was one of your questions, Barry.

Now, Leandro, you can comment about alternate and how that will impact the company.

Yes, thank you. Thank you. Just to point out that Eduardo was talking about EBITDA. and you are asking us about adjusted EBITDA. Our adjusted EBITDA run rate is around 2.7 million dollars and growing, the adjusted EBITDA run rate. And the consolidation process to moving every single operation into a corporation, we believe that the EBITDA expansion is going to affect around 20%. Just put that measure, you know, reducing costs and increasing the efficiencies and everything. So with that base and adding the ultranet is how we are going to jump to $8 to $9 million EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA run rate. So about the timing, right now we are in the final stage. of the due diligence of Ultranet and completing everything about the documents and everything. We are really excited about this process. Our intention is to execute the agreement this quarter and that's the idea and we are still on track for this. I think we already Something important to remark is that we already got the financial statements from Ultranet of the first half of the year, and they are growing with respect to the 2025 that we filed in the AK. So the company keeps in excellent shape. It's increasing regions on marketing, so they have been doing an amazing job this year. So we truly believe that, you know, one IQSTEL plus IQSTEL is going to be more than one plus one. It's going to be three. It's going to be a fantastic process of synergy. And, you know, ULTRANET has an incredible plan to penetrate the Middle East and Asia markets, and we are going to work together hand by hand. So... That's basically where we stand with Ultranet and the EBITDA contribution.

Thank you very much.

Your next question comes from Ralph Shepherd with Kraft and Moore. Your line is open.

Yes, thank you so much. Are you ever concerned about a hostile takeover because the market cap is so low?

and yet you have revenues of $400 million. Yes.

Thank you, Ralf, for coming and this question, giving us the chance to say something that, listen, we have been this year giving presentations to several family offices and to several investment banks talking about the company. And, you know, in a private session with them, We explained that basically we did something really good last year when we got listed in a direct listed without an investment bank. And then that point was a very good idea doing that. But to be completely honest, one of the consequences of doing that is that we haven't had a retail support So this is one of the things that we decided to change this year and start talking and attending to investors' events. We have attended to four investors' events so far. We have had like for a webinar to family offices. And we are explaining to the market the reason why of our company market cap is because in all this process, getting in ATT&CK, We haven't had return support from an investment bank. It's something that we need to improve. The way that we are working and, you know, addressing this is increasing the presentation, explaining the plans of the company, and this is the process that we truly believe that is going to impact our market cap. But at the same time, Something that we need to explain that, you know, we can keep talking here about our telecom business and everything, but the really potential that the company has to unlock the market cap of the company is explaining to the market that we could reach 2.3 billion users and our digital service strategy is the The top is the tip of the arrow of this strategy because we are going to start, and we are right now, knocking at the doors of the telecom operators, the mobile operators, offering digital services in order to increase our revenue, selling more than telecommunication services. Right now, we are starting this process with content, something that we are going to be announcing over the next weeks. We have had a very successful process about this with great products and everything. So that's the real potential that the company has. Not only, you know, the revenue, looking at the How can we reach 2.3 billion users and start selling them products and services through our customers is the real potential that the company has. I don't know, Alvaro, if you want to round up something at this point.

No, I think you summarized very well the thing. So we are, as Leandro said in the presentation, we cannot control the stock price, but we can That concludes the Q&A session and our call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect and have a wonderful rest of your day.