Norman Rosenberg
Analyst · Deutsche Bank
Thank you, Lee, and good afternoon. Total revenue for the third quarter of 2026 was $73.4 million, up 4% from $70.8 million in the third quarter of 2025. This was our first year-over-year revenue increase since the second quarter of 2023, a meaningful milestone that we believe reflects our progress in repositioning the business for growth. To put that in context, last year's third quarter included $8.4 million in migrant-related revenue. Excluding that revenue from the 2025 comparison, third quarter revenue increased 18% year over year. That increase was largely driven by SteadyMD, which we acquired in October 2025 and which contributed $7.8 million in revenue in the third quarter of 2026. Excluding both migrant-related revenue in the 2025 period and SteadyMD revenue in the 2026 period, revenue still increased about 5% year over year. Medical transportation services revenue reached $53.3 million in the third quarter of 2026, up 6.4% from $50.1 million in the third quarter of 2025. This surpassed the second quarter's transport revenue and set a new quarterly record for DocGo. Growth came from both large and small U.S. markets, with some of the strongest gains in the New York City market, in Delaware, Wisconsin, and Tennessee. We continue to see increasing demand across most of our markets. Mobile Health revenue was $20.2 million in the third quarter of 2026, which included no contribution from migrant-related revenue, compared to $20.7 million in the third quarter of 2025, which included $8.4 million of migrant-related revenue. Specifically, non-migrant Mobile Health revenue increased 64% year over year. That growth reflected increases in remote patient monitoring and mobile phlebotomy, as well as revenue from SteadyMD, which we acquired during the fourth quarter of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter of 2026 was a negative $3.2 million, compared to an adjusted EBITDA of negative $7.2 million in the third quarter of 2025. The adjusted gross margin, which removes the impact of depreciation and amortization, and is the measure of margins that we track most closely, was 33.3% in the third quarter of 2026, compared to 33% in the third quarter of 2025. During the third quarter of 2026, adjusted gross margins from the medical transportation segment were 34.7%, compared to 31.7% in Q3 of 2025, and up solidly from the first two quarters of this year. We took significant strides in increasing our field headcount in the first half of 2026, and we saw the overtime rate decline again in the third quarter of 2026 to near 10%, which is well below the nearly 14% that we experienced throughout much of 2025. Despite the strong improvement, medical transportation gross margins are still being restrained by a couple of factors. First, we continue to experience higher-than-expected fuel costs. Our average gas price was $4.18 per gallon in Q3, down slightly from $4.27 in Q2 of 2026, but more than a dollar per gallon higher than in last year's third quarter. We estimate that the increase in fuel costs restrained transport gross margins by about 52 basis points versus last year, and the consolidated gross margin by about 38 basis points. Secondly, transport gross margins were impacted by continued weak results in the Upstate New York market, where we have begun the process of winding down our operations, exiting that market, and selling our license. Excluding the Upstate New York market from our results, we estimate that our third quarter medical transportation gross margins would have approached 37%. Mobile Health segment adjusted gross margin was 29.7% versus 36.2% in the third quarter of 2025. SteadyMD gross margins were several points lower than normal, reflecting aggressive hiring in the year-to-date to catch up to the increased demand from large customers and in anticipation of much higher seasonal volumes in the fourth quarter. However, SteadyMD's gross margins increased during each month of the third quarter and reached a far more normalized level in the month of September, which bodes well for a fourth quarter improvement. The impact of SteadyMD's subpar margins was partially offset by greater relative contributions from other higher-margin service lines, such as remote patient monitoring and mobile phlebotomy. In addition to the expanded gross margins that we experienced this quarter, recurring operating expenses declined again as anticipated. This was due to our cost-cutting actions that we have implemented so far this year, primarily in the areas of headcount and vendor spending. Offsetting this impact were increased recruiting costs due to ramped-up hiring, onboarding, and training of EMTs and Mobile Health clinical staff to meet customer demand. During the third quarter, we spent approximately $200,000 on recruiting outreach, supplementing the efforts of our in-house recruiting team. With SteadyMD's recent hiring push mostly behind us, our continued cost-cutting efforts during the first half of 2026, and additional savings from our efficiency portfolio initiative that are still to come, we expect continued sequential declines in SG&A over the next several quarters. We now expect full-year 2026 revenue of approximately $300 million, as Lee noted earlier and as we stated in our press release. This is slightly below our most recent guidance range of $305 million-$310 million, but it is at the higher end of our initial guidance range of $280 million-$300 million. The revenue outlook excludes any revenue from the Hicuity Health acquisition, which is expected to close later this month or early next month. Our adjusted EBITDA outlook is unchanged. We continue to anticipate a full-year adjusted EBITDA loss of between $17 million and $22 million. Finally, turning to the balance sheet. At September 30, 2026, available cash was $19.1 million, down from $25.2 million at June 30. On October 1, right after the third quarter ended, we closed the first $12.5 million tranche of funding from the Perceptive term loan, which has increased our available cash balance. This term loan commitment from Perceptive, which has replaced our asset-based line of credit, will immediately reshape our balance sheet, providing us with the flexibility and the security we need to execute our growth plans. Over the longer term, we will continue to explore and execute steps necessary to reposition our business line portfolio and to strengthen our balance sheet, making the company leaner and more profitable. At this point, I'd like to turn the call back over to Lee for some closing comments.