EXL reports 2026 Second Quarter Results

2026 Second Quarter Revenue of $594.8 Million, up 15.6% year-over-year

Q2 Diluted EPS (GAAP) of $0.42, up 4.9% from $0.40 in Q2 of 2025

Q2 Adjusted Diluted EPS (Non-GAAP) (1) of $0.59, up 22.3% from $0.49 in Q2 of 2025

NEW YORK – July 28, 2026 -- ExlService Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXLS), a global data and AI company, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rohit Kapoor said, “We entered 2026 with strong momentum that accelerated through the first half, delivering second quarter revenue growth of 16% year-on-year and adjusted diluted EPS of 22% year-on-year. Our sustained double-digit growth reflects continued execution of our data and AI strategy and our differentiated position which helps clients effectively adopt AI across the enterprise. We have very good visibility into the balance of the year and look forward to a solid finish to 2026.”

Chief Financial Officer Maurizio Nicolelli said, “Our strong second quarter performance, sustained growth momentum and healthy pipeline give us the confidence to increase our organic full-year revenue growth guidance to 13% to 14% up from 10% to 12%. In addition, we are also updating our guidance to include $28.0 million to $32.0 million of anticipated revenue from the iMerit acquisition, which is expected to close on July 31, 2026. We now expect full-year 2026 total revenue to be in the range of $2.390 billion to $2.415 billion, up from our prior guidance of $2.30 billion to $2.33 billion, reflecting 14% to 16% year-over-year growth on a reported basis. We now expect adjusted diluted earnings per share of $2.25 to $2.29, a 16% to 18% increase over 2025, up from our prior guidance of $2.18 to $2.23.”

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(1) Reconciliations of adjusted (non-GAAP) financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, where applicable, are included at the end of this release under “Reconciliation of Adjusted Financial Measures to GAAP Measures.” These non-GAAP measures, including adjusted diluted EPS and constant currency measures, are not measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Financial Highlights: Second Quarter 2026

• Revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, increased to $594.8 million compared to $514.5 million for the second quarter of 2025, an increase of 15.6% on a reported basis and 15.9% on a constant currency basis. Revenue increased by 4.3% sequentially on a reported basis and 4.4% on a constant currency basis, from the first quarter of 2026.
  
  
   
• Operating income margin for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 was 14.7%, compared to 15.8% for the second quarter of 2025 and 16.1% for the first quarter of 2026. Adjusted operating income margin for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 was 19.7%, compared to 19.6% for the second quarter of 2025 and 20.5% for the first quarter of 2026.
• Diluted earnings per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 was $0.42, compared to $0.40 for the second quarter of 2025 and $0.43 for the first quarter of 2026. Adjusted diluted earnings per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 was $0.59, compared to $0.49 for the second quarter of 2025 and $0.58 for the first quarter of 2026.

Business Highlights: Second Quarter 2026

• Won 17 new clients in the second quarter of 2026.
• EXL agreed to acquire iMerit, advancing its leadership in enterprise AI by adding foundation model expertise and technology.
• EXL achieved gold status with Databricks and deepened its collaboration to help enterprises build trusted data foundations for AI at scale.
• EXL became an OpenAI Services Partner, expanding its AI delivery capabilities through OpenAI’s enterprise capabilities.
• EXL joined the Claude Partner Network, further strengthening its AI ecosystem with Anthropic’s frontier AI models.
• EXL achieved Snowflake Premier Partner status, reinforcing its commitment to delivering strategic data and AI solutions for clients.
• EXL integrated with NVIDIA Transaction Foundation Model, bringing next-generation fraud detection and risk intelligence to financial institutions.
• EXL named a Horizon 3 - Market Leader in the HFS Horizons Data Modernization and AI, 2026 report for EXL’s ability to operationalize AI through semantic data foundations, agentic workflow orchestration, and proven enterprise-scale transformation outcomes.
• Appointed Bhupender Singh as president and head of international growth markets.

2026 Guidance

Based on current visibility, and a U.S. dollar to Indian rupee exchange rate of 95.0, U.K. pound sterling to U.S. dollar exchange rate of 1.33, U.S. dollar to the Philippine peso exchange rate of 61.0 and all other currencies at current exchange rates, we are providing the following guidance for the full year 2026:

• Revenue of $2.390 billion to $2.415 billion, representing an increase of 14% to 16% on a reported basis, which includes $28.0 million to $32.0 million of anticipated revenue from the iMerit acquisition, which is expected to close on July 31, 2026, and 13% to 14% on an organic constant currency basis from 2025.
• Adjusted diluted earnings per share of $2.25 to $2.29, representing an increase of 16% to 18% from 2025.

Conference Call

ExlService Holdings, Inc. will host a conference call on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. ET to discuss the Company’s second quarter operating and financial results. The conference call will be available live via the internet by accessing the investor relations section of EXL’s website at ir.exlservice.com, where an accompanying investor-friendly spreadsheet of historical operating and financial data can also be accessed. Please access the website at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software.

To join the live call, please register here. A dial-in and unique PIN will be provided to join the call. For those who cannot access the live broadcast, a replay will be available on the EXL website ir.exlservice.com for a period of twelve months.

About ExlService Holdings, Inc.

EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a global data and artificial intelligence ("AI") company that offers services and solutions to reinvent client business models, drive better outcomes and unlock growth with speed. EXL harnesses the power of data, AI, and deep industry knowledge to transform businesses, including the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare and life sciences, banking and capital markets, retail, communications and media, and energy and infrastructure, among others. EXL was founded in 1999 with the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. We are headquartered in New York and have over 68,000 employees spanning six continents. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.

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