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Quantinuum filed its first quarterly results as a public company, with $8M in revenue against $2.1B in cash and a $563M operating expense line driven mostly by IPO related charges.
Quantinuum, the trapped-ion quantum computing company now trading on NASDAQ as QNT, filed its first quarterly results this week following a $1.7 billion traditional IPO completed in June 2026.
Revenue for the quarter came in at $8.00 million, up from $2.11 million in Q2 2025, a 279% year-over-year increase. Adjusted gross margin reached 61.7%, but the company still booked a $5.15 million GAAP gross loss on the quarter.
The operating expense line grew to $563.02 million in Q2 2026 from $53.20 million a year earlier, up 958%. Most of that spike is one-time, non-cash items tied to the IPO: $464.59 million in stock-based compensation, $10.62 million in transaction costs, and a $47.62 million warrant fair-value adjustment. Strip those out, and the adjusted EBITDA loss is $68.31 million against $43.45 million a year ago, a 57% increase that reflects ongoing operations, not the IPO pop.
GAAP net loss on an as-converted basis reached $596.52 million, driven by the same one-time charges. The number that matters for the next few quarters is $2.11 billion in cash and short-term investments, up from $762.64 million at the end of 2025, against $8 million in quarterly sales.
The same release flagged an Oracle Cloud integration, positioning Oracle as a distribution channel for Quantinuum's hardware access. The question for the next earnings cycle is whether that channel shows up as a revenue line, or stays press-release-only.