WisdomTree, Inc. (WT) Q2 2026 Earnings Report, Transcript and Summary

Greetings, and welcome to the WisdomTree Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Jessica Zaloom, Head of Corporate Communications. Please go ahead.

Good morning. Before we begin, I would like to reference our legal disclaimer available in today's presentation. This presentation may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the risks set forth in this presentation, in the Risk Factors section of WisdomTree's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, and in subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. WisdomTree assumes no duty and does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements. Now, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to WisdomTree's CFO, Bryan Joseph Edmiston.

Thank you, Jessica, and good morning, everyone. I will begin with a review of our second quarter results followed by updates to our forward-looking guidance before turning the call over to Jarrett and Jono for additional business updates. Our assets under management reached $162.9 billion at quarter end, marking our sixth consecutive quarter of record AUM. Assets increased 7% from March 31, driven by favorable market conditions, positive net inflows and the addition of Atlantic House, which closed on May 1. Record AUM was achieved across both our U.S. and European businesses, reflecting continued growth across our global platform. During the quarter, we generated $3.1 billion of net inflows, including $2.1 billion in Europe and $1 billion in the U.S. Year-to-date net inflows totaled $9 billion, representing annualized organic growth rate of approximately 13%. Flows were generated across a broad range of strategies and geographies, contributing to another quarter of strong organic growth. We also completed the acquisition of Atlantic House, adding more than $4 billion of assets under management along with complementary revenue streams. The acquisition expands our presence in Europe, enhances our capabilities and outcome-oriented and derivatives-based investment solutions, and provides additional avenues for growth across our international business. Alongside our growth initiatives, we continue to execute on our capital management priorities. During the quarter, we retired approximately $127 million principal amount of our convertible notes maturing in 2026 and 2029 using cash to reduce leverage and our capital structure. We also commenced open market share repurchases during the quarter and have repurchased approximately $29 million through today, representing roughly 1.7 million shares. These repurchases reflect our confidence in the business and our commitment to enhancing shareholder value. Overall, the first half of the year has been characterized by strong organic growth, targeted strategic expansion and disciplined capital allocation. Together, these initiatives have strengthened our platform and position us well for continued growth and long-term shareholder value creation. Global AUM currently stands at approximately $164 billion, up 1%, reflecting $700 million of net inflows and positive market movements since quarter end. Next slide. Revenues were $177.2 million during the quarter, an increase of 11% from the first quarter and 57% from the prior-year quarter, driven by higher AUM including the Atlantic House acquisition, contributions from Ceres and growth in other revenues. Ceres contributed $5.4 million of management fees and $6 million of performance fees. Other revenues of $19.5 million reflected higher AUM in our European products and revenues from Atlantic House, partly offset by more moderate European trading activity. Year-to-date revenues increased 53%, driven by higher AUM, elevated trading activity relative to the prior year, and contributions from the Ceres and Atlantic House acquisitions. Operating leverage in our business model together with our recent acquisitions resulted in a year-to-date adjusted operating margin of 41.1%, an expansion of 900 basis points compared to the prior-year period. Surpassing a 40% operating margin marks an important milestone and underscores the scalability of our operating model as we continue to grow. Adjusted net income for the quarter was $48.1 million, or $0.31 per share. Next slide. Now a few comments on our forward-looking guidance. As mentioned previously, we have commenced open market share repurchases this quarter and expect to continue repurchasing our common stock over time. We are not committing to a specific level of repurchases each quarter, we anticipate ongoing activity, balancing capital return with our continued focus on deleveraging, maintaining flexibility for strategic initiatives. Our diluted share count guidance for the second half of the year is 152 million to 155 million compared with previous guidance of 154 million shares previously. This guidance reflects repurchases to date of 1.7 million shares and also contemplates incremental shares associated with our convertible notes assuming a stock price approximating recent levels. As a reminder, our remaining convertible notes have conversion prices of approximately $19 and $21. An illustration is included within our earnings presentation to assist in quantifying the incremental shares associated with our convertible notes going forward. We are also updating our interest income guidance to $8 million from $10 million, reflecting the allocation of a portion of our interest-earning assets to share repurchases, which we believe is a more efficient use of capital. All other elements of our forward-looking guidance remain unchanged from the guidance we provided last quarter. That concludes my remarks. I will now turn the call over to Jarrett.

Thanks, Bryan, and good morning, everyone. This was another strong quarter for WisdomTree and more importantly, another quarter that demonstrated the strength of the business we have been building. Repeating some of the metrics that Bryan just listed, in the quarter we generated $3.1 billion of net inflows. Year to date, we have delivered a 13% annualized organic growth rate. We finished the quarter with a record $162.9 billion of assets under management, our sixth consecutive quarter ending at an all-time high. We delivered adjusted earnings per share of $0.31 while expanding our adjusted operating margin by 900 basis points year over year. Those are excellent results. But what I find most encouraging is not any single number, it is where those results came from. For several years, we have talked about creating more ways to win, building a business with greater breadth across geographies, client channels, investment capabilities, and revenue streams. And this quarter showed exactly what that looks like. Growth came from both the U.S. and Europe. It came from multiple asset classes, multiple client segments, and businesses we have deliberately invested in over several years. No single product or market drove the quarter. And that diversification matters because it makes the business more durable. It gives us greater confidence that we can continue to perform across different market environments rather than depending on one product, one theme, or one geography. Portfolio solutions is another highlight. We have invested heavily in building deeper relationships with advisers, through models and SMAs, and that business continues to grow faster than the firm overall. And those are long-term relationships with stickier assets that should become an increasingly important contributor to our organic growth over time. This quarter also demonstrates the strength of our operating model. As we have continued to grow organically, we have translated that growth into higher revenues, expanding margins, and higher earnings while continuing to invest in the business. We are also executing against our broader strategic priorities. During the quarter, we completed the Atlantic House acquisition, we continued integrating Ceres, and we repurchased approximately 1.7 million of our shares and each reflects the disciplined way we are building the firm while thoughtfully allocating capital. Overall, the quarter reinforces something we have been saying for a long time. The strategy is working. We are creating more ways to win. Growth is becoming broader and more durable. And the operating model is delivering exactly as we expected. And with that, I will turn it over to Jono.

Thank you, Jarrett. Good morning, everyone. As Bryan and Jarrett have said, this was another strong quarter for WisdomTree. With record average AUM, strong diversified net inflows, adjusted operating margin expansion to 42.6% for the second quarter and EPS growth up 72% year over year and 15% from last quarter. This quarter also marks an important milestone for WisdomTree. 20 years since we launched our first 20 ETFs. Over the last two decades, we have grown from an ETF pioneer into a truly modern global asset manager spanning exchange-traded products, private markets, and tokenized financial infrastructure. Years of disciplined investments are tangibly paying off. Our operating model continues to do what it was designed to do. Translate sustained top line growth into expanding profitability and earnings per share growth. For years, we have described the financial model we are building at WisdomTree. Today, we are seeing that model play out. It starts with sustained organic growth. Layer on appreciation over time as you generate consistent asset growth. Add a stable to improving revenue yield as we diversify into higher-value capabilities like private markets and liquid alternatives, and you create the potential for double-digit revenue growth through the market cycle. That revenue growth drives operating leverage. We have consistently generated incremental margins of more than 50%. That formula has delivered compound annual earnings per share growth of 30% over the past five years and more than 50% over the past three years. And now with disciplined share repurchases, we have added another lever for long-term earnings per share growth. Switching gears, as you know, WisdomTree spent years building one of the industry's most advanced tokenization platforms. Today, public markets are assigning billion-dollar valuations to companies focused on tokenized financial infrastructure. Yet we believe our own platform, which spans regulated infrastructure, tokenized investment products, and institutional distribution capabilities and digital asset services, is largely unrecognized in our current valuation. If WisdomTree were simply a global ETF franchise, with industry-leading organic growth, expanding operating margins, and consistent earnings per share growth, we believe it should command a meaningfully higher valuation than where our shares trade today. But we are not simply an ETF company. We also have a growing private markets business with meaningfully higher revenue yields and expanded liquid alternatives platform through Atlantic House and a tokenization business that we believe is not reflected on current share price. As Bryan mentioned, we repurchased $29 million of our stock at an average price of $17.40. We will continue approaching capital allocation with discipline and at today's valuation, we believe repurchasing our own shares remains one of the most compelling opportunities to create long-term shareholder value. In conclusion, 20 years after launching our first ETFs, our vision has remained remarkably consistent. Our business has never been stronger, and we believe we are still in the early innings of what this platform can become. Our vision has never changed. The world around us has. That concludes my remarks. Thank you. We can now open the call up to questions.

Thank you. And our first question comes from the line of Christoph Kotowski with Oppenheimer. Please proceed.

Yes, good morning. Thanks for taking the questions. I wonder just a couple of things. One is we are wondering is there a cadence to the Ceres both flows and or and also the incentive fees from Ceres or should we assume that those are kind of random through the year?

Bryan, do you want to go first on that?

Yeah, I can take that question. On the flows, if you recall, we generated, I think it was $75 million in the first quarter. I would suggest that is a nice quarter for us. It is about $5 million this quarter, but we just closed the flagship fund to new investment. We just launched Fund II, so there is a transition period there with respect to flow cadence. I would not necessarily think of flows as fits and starts. Although there may be certain periods in the year where it may very well be fits and starts. But this particular quarter, it was a transition quarter. And I think I would attribute it to that. On the performance fee, $6 million this quarter was maybe $3 million in the prior quarter, if my memory serves correctly. The first quarter does have some seasonality in it. There is some seasonality with respect to the performance fee structures. This $6 million number, in my mind, is a, call it, more normalized number. If you are thinking about modeling, I guess I would, you know, keep my message consistent. Just take our AUM and multiply it by a reasonable rate of return, maybe 7% or 8%. And multiply that by a 15% fee capture.

Okay. Yeah.

And I just, I would throw one more thing on about Ceres. We are very happy that the Ceres team is part of the WisdomTree team today. And as Bryan said, a little bit of transition or integration right now as we have closed Fund I to new investment, launched Fund II in June. But more importantly, the pipeline looks great. We have got over 100 interested investors that have come from the WisdomTree distribution team, representing over $100 million of assets. So feeling very good today.

Okay. Great. Then the other kind of more technical modeling question is you had Atlantic House in for two months of the quarter and I guess we can see the advisory fees just from the AUM disclosures that you give. But just, I am curious in terms of the AUA and the structuring fees that they generate, how would that have looked in your P&L you disclosed on Page 23? How would it have looked if Atlantic House had been in for the whole quarter?

Yes. And I will take this one, again. So you are right, Atlantic House, we closed on May 1. We have two months of Atlantic House in our P&L. As it relates to the advisory fees, that should be because you have our AUM, you have our fees that we are earning on our AUM. That is all embedded in the information that we provide on our website. The other portion of Atlantic House rolls through other revenue. They have a models business. There is about $1.5 billion of assets AUA in their models business. Captures 25 basis points. That is not gonna fluctuate meaningfully quarter to quarter. So whatever that math is, that would establish a good run rate. It will grow over time, but it is not gonna be highly sporadic. The structuring fees stuff, that could ebb and flow each quarter. The prior 12 months, just to provide some kind of indication as it relates to magnitude. In the 2025 year, that number was $13 million for the year. And, again, I cannot tell you exactly how that is gonna come in each quarter because it is dependent upon when a particular product gets structured, launched, issued. But that was their baseline number in 2025. We think there is a lot of opportunity to grow that line over time, by providing those offerings not only in the UK market, but also in the U.S. and Europe as well.

Right. But we will see all the Atlantic House revenues in what you classify as other revenues in European other revenue.

And then if I were just to shed a little color on other revenue, we were $19.5 million this quarter, $16 million last quarter. It is probably a good baseline going into the third quarter. We will have one more month of Atlantic House but the transaction fees markets are not as volatile as they once were in our products. That might be a partial offset versus Atlantic House rolling in for a full three months next quarter.

Okay. Great. Thank you. That is it for me.

The next question comes from the line of George Sutton with Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Please proceed.

Thank you. First, 41% margin, just outstanding. Congratulations. So I wonder, Jono, as we look at this, the market has endorsed you, and I believe we will continue to endorse your M&A strategy. As I look at the AUM breakdown chart, you have got some smaller sleeves, obviously, like the newer private assets or liquid alts. I am curious how you are thinking of broadening out via future M&A. Would it be in some of these smaller sleeves? Would you be looking for more international distribution? Just curious how you are thinking about that.

Thanks for the question, George. So first, M&A has historically been and I think will continue to be a secondary strategy. Though I think we have proven to be very adept at it considering that we have made now three acquisitions in Europe plus private assets Ceres acquisition. You know, we have guardrails when we are trying to make acquisitions. We want it to be accretive. We would like it to be revenue enhancing or revenue capture enhancing. And really strategically important to the firm as opposed to just trying to buy AUM for the sake of AUM. Think you have to be somewhat opportunistic which we were in both of Ceres and in Atlantic House. So but I think we will continue to try to find those winning opportunities. And when we do, we will, I think, pounce on them again, particularly if it meets those criteria.

So I am curious relative to your tokenized plans, where are we in terms of expanding partnerships? And we are in a weird period in the tokenized market, but we are also hopefully just in front of the Clarity Act. So I am just kind of curious how you are thinking of expansion opportunities in that part of the market.

Thank you. Yes, happy to take this one. Good morning. You know, the pipeline's never been more robust. I mean, it is, I think, as you noted, it is kind of an interesting time, pre-Clarity Act. I think certainly post-Genius Act, you have just seen an immense amount of investment and interest across different parts of the financial services ecosystem in tokenization and in stablecoins. I mean, you saw a big stablecoin consortium announced recently that is bringing a lot of new people in. You have heard major U.S. broker dealers talk about adding wallet offerings to their platforms. You have seen some of the largest fintechs as well engaging in the space on top of just what we call crypto platforms. So for us, those are all opportunities. I mean, that is a very rich pipeline and opportunity set for us to sell products and services into. Right now, that is largely the tokenized money market fund, WTGXX. I would also highlight that we have got a very novel filing in for a tokenized ETF, which we would believe if it were to launch and become effective, would be the first tokenized ETF in the market. We have not seen anyone thinking about things the way that we are thinking about them with that. That would just open up a whole new set of opportunities for WisdomTree extending into products beyond the money market fund, so to equities and others. So I would say the opportunity set's never been larger than it is today. We feel extremely confident in it and excited about it. And I think, you know, maybe it happens with the Clarity or whatever the next couple months. Nothing's gonna slow us down there. We think that the, you know, things are out of the barn, so to speak. And things are going to keep growing from here.

Great. Just to add a little color on this as well, if you do not mind. Recently, Broadridge survey of asset managers where 85% of asset managers say tokenization is strategically important. They say tokenization is not an if, it is a when. You know, personally, I have to be one of the few CEOs in asset management who feels great, who feels extraordinarily confident in our tokenization strategy. As I indicated in my opening remarks, I think we have, you know, a billion dollars of value in our on-chain platform that has yet to be recognized. And, you know, why does tokenization matter? You know, the practical problem that tokenization addresses is simple. Modern markets increasingly operate in real time 24/7, 365 days a year, while most traditional financial infrastructure still depends on business hours, batch processing, and multi-day settlement. That is the mismatch. And that is what tokenization solves. And WisdomTree has demonstrated with our 24/7 trading of our money market fund that we are actually executing currently on the strategy and on the promise of tokenization. So we are feeling great about it going forward.

You are speaking to the choir there. Last question. Relative to the farm assets, we are obviously seeing a lot of these NIMBY, not in my backyard, concerns relative to data centers. You obviously have a wide portfolio with a lot of different potential use cases, including solar. But I am curious specifically about the AI data center opportunity, and I know you have contemplated pursuing some opportunities there. Can you give us a sense of that opportunity?

Jarrett or Jeremy, would you want to take this? Or I can.

This is Jeremy Schwartz, our Global CIO. I am part of our investment committee on the Ceres group, and we are looking at these things, very closely. We always wanna work with the communities for sure and not against them in all those places. But we do see a continued exploration across the portfolio. There is a number of opportunities that the team's looking at. And, you know, these things are not overnight things. People buy options to do the development, and there is a number of conversations ongoing where there is opportunities that we think potentially will still very much come to market. You see the demand for compute and energy and all these things are like the most important theme for the global economy today and we feel very strong about the position that Ceres has in the optionality on the best use case of their land. So we do think a number of these things will hit over time, and it just takes time for to come to fruition.

Perfect. Thanks, guys.

The next question comes from the line of Wilma Burdis with Raymond James. Please proceed.

Hey, good morning. Can you give us some color on how far you are along in incorporating private farmland into an ETF and what the liquidity profile could look like? Thanks.

Jeremy, would you want to touch on it?

Yeah. We have talked about this on prior calls that is one of our goals that we are working for, and we do not have an exact timeline today, but we are absolutely looking to do it, and we will be thoughtful of how you do that in a way that manages liquidity of the different publicly traded vehicles like ETFs. We do not have a timeline today, but it is something that we think is manageable and that we have a plan and working towards it as quickly as we can.

Thank you. You touched on this a bit earlier, but digital assets seem to have a little bit of outflows this quarter. And it is just been a little bit noisy there in that world in general. Could you talk about the development and just what you are expecting going forward? Thanks.

Yes, I mean, yes, AUM goes up and down. I think you have seen in the chart that we have had kind of ups and downs along a broader uptrend. In some sense, the business of asset management as I said in the answer earlier, we are just incredibly excited about the pipeline as it currently stands today and really where the industry is. So, really, the overall market size needs to grow a lot for all of us, for WisdomTree to really see the greatest possible benefit from this. And we are seeing a lot of the activity in the market that leads you to believe that market size is just going to continue to grow, right? That stablecoins will grow from $300 billion in total value outstanding into the trillions that people are forecasting. So we are feeling very optimistic, excited about that growth trajectory and our ability to win and grow share into it.

Okay. Thank you.

And the next question comes from the line of Mike Grondahl with Northland Securities. Please proceed.

Hey, thanks guys and congratulations. What are your top couple of priorities for Atlantic House in the back half of the year? And in 2027?

When we made the acquisition, we bought an asset manager of excellence but who, in the derivative swap-based defined outcome space. But what is interesting that they really operated solely in the United Kingdom. We expect that we will be launching ETFs both in Europe and in the United States using them as the underlying strategy to really develop, you know, what we have said in the past, expect something like 15 ETFs over the next 18 months between the U.S. and Europe. As well as we touched on earlier, the solutions business, which again generated $13 million last year for them, just in the United Kingdom to take that to the rest of the world as well. So I think you will see a lot of activity and it has been a very, very successful integration in a very short period of time.

That is great to hear. It will be great to see some of those funds in the U.S. And then just secondly, model portfolios, that kind of continues to do well and grab assets and it has grown a lot in a couple short years. What is next for that?

Yeah. I think it is a continuation. You are right. It has done well. We ended last year with about $6 billion. Today, we currently have $9 billion in model AUM. And importantly, you know, the flows that are going in the models are outpacing the ETF business as a whole. And are tracking ahead of last year. So momentum is increasing. But, you know, that is part of another one of our strategic initiatives is to continue to not only increase the sort of sustainability of our flows, but the quality of the flows. And model flows are stickier. And so going forward, it is really blocking and tackling like it is with every part of the business. We wanna increase the number of users and increase the assets per user. We continue to do that and that is continuing to produce these good results.

Great. Thanks, guys.

Thank you. This concludes the question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the call back over to Jonathan Laurence Steinberg for closing remarks.

Thank you. Markets investors, and analysts are starting to recognize WisdomTree's operational successes and superior strategic positioning as demonstrated by our total shareholder return year to date over 50% and over the last five years where we are the best of all of our public peers. That said, we are still significantly undervalued. Investors should know that management and our Board are fully committed to closing the valuation gap that exists. And we are highly confident that we will be able to do so. The best is yet to come. And with that, I wanna thank you all for your time and attention today, and we will speak to you again next quarter. Thank you. Have a great day.

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