Mercury Systems

MRCY

Market cap $4.2B

Over $500 million in insider stock sales have hit three high-profile companies this month—an unsettling signal that even top executives and major stakeholders may be questioning the sustainability of recent gains.

Mercury Systems delivered strong Q1 results, driven by a $20M sales pull-forward, higher-margin backlog, and operational improvements. MRCY expects near-term revenue softness but forecasts robust margin and EBITDA growth through FY28, supported by automation and expanding defense demand. The price target is adjusted slightly to $84.49, with long-term upside supported by improved EBITDA, free cash flow, and a $200M share buyback program.

Mercury Systems, Inc. ( MRCY ) Q1 2026 Earnings Call November 4, 2025 5:00 PM EST Company Participants Tyler Hojo - VP of Investors Relations William Ballhaus - President, CEO & Chairman David Farnsworth - Executive VP & CFO Conference Call Participants Kenneth Herbert - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division Peter Arment - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division Austin Moeller - Canaccord Genuity Corp., Research Division Jonathan Ho - William Blair & Company L.L.C.

The headline numbers for Mercury Systems (MRCY) give insight into how the company performed in the quarter ended September 2025, but it may be worthwhile to compare some of its key metrics to Wall Street estimates and the year-ago actuals.

Mercury Systems (MRCY) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.26 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.08 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.04 per share a year ago.

Q1 FY26 Bookings of $250.2 million ; book-to-bill of 1.11 Record backlog of $1.4 billion ; up 6.5% year-over-year Q1 FY26 Revenue of $225.2 million , up 10.2% year-over-year; GAAP net loss of $12.5 million ; and adjusted EBITDA of $35.6 million , up 66% year-over-year Q1 FY26 Operating Cash Flow of $2.2 million with Free Cash Flow of $(4.4) million ANDOVER, Mass., Nov. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), reported operating results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, ended September 26, 2025.

Baron Discovery Fund ended the quarter up 2.85% but underperformed its benchmark, the Russell 2000 Growth Index. Leading defense technology provider Kratos Defense & Security Solutions contributed to performance following a strong earnings report and continued momentum across its business segments. PAR Technology's shares fell during the quarter after the company lowered its full-year growth outlook to 15% from 20%.

Supply has tightened over the past few years, setting NAND up for strong demand and pricing amid constrained supply. TSEM produces Silicon Photonics chips that are used in optical transceivers, which connect data center servers via optics rather than copper Ethernet. Everus Construction Group, Inc. (ECG), a commercial and utilities construction company, rounded out the list of top contributors.

Sold 279,026 Mercury Systems shares; estimated transaction value of $17.35 million, based on the quarterly average price for Q3 2025 Post-trade position: 2,279,909 shares valued at $176.46 million as of the third quarter Mercury Systems stake now represents 2.83% of fund AUM, outside the top five holdings

ANDOVER, Mass., Oct. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a global technology company that delivers mission-critical processing to the edge, today announced it was awarded a multi-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee development contract in September to develop a multi-mission, multi-domain subsystem for a U.S. defense prime contractor.