Redwire Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results, Expands Backlog, Achieves Record Gross Margins

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redwire Corporation (NYSE:RDW, “Redwire” or the “Company”), a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, today announced results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2026.

“Redwire continued to see durable demand across our space and defense tech portfolio during the third quarter as evidenced by our record Backlog¹ of $619.7 million, a nearly 75% increase year-over-year, and Book-to-Bill¹ increasing to 1.73,” stated Peter Cannito, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Redwire. “Although revenue timing continues to be uneven, with another quarter of record gross margins expanding from 16.3% to 32.3% year-over-year, the quality of our revenue is improving as we deliver mission-critical products and solutions across multiple domains.”

Third Quarter 2026 Highlights

• Awarded a $20 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”) to complete additional testing and experimentation on a scaled version of Redwire’s SabreSat spacecraft for a precursor flight test in very low-Earth orbit (“VLEO”).
• Received follow-on contract from Axiom Space to develop and deliver two Roll-Out Solar Array (“ROSA”) wings for Axiom Space’s second space station module.
• Subsequent to the end of the third quarter of 2026, Redwire launched key technologies to the International Space Station, including four microgravity investigations and the fourth and final pair of Roll-Out Solar Arrays, completing a historic power modernization effort.
• Secured follow-on orders for the Stalker platform from key customers including the U.S. National Guard to meet evolving mission requirements and modernize and sustain fleet capabilities.
• Revenues increased 5.4% year-over-year to $109.0 million for the third quarter of 2026.
• Year-over-year improvement in gross margins to a record 32.3% for the third quarter of 2026 compared to 16.3% for the third quarter of 2025.
• Net Loss improved by $18.0 million year-over-year to $(23.2) million for the third quarter of 2026.
• Diluted EPS improved by $0.20 per share year-over-year to $(0.09) per share for the third quarter of 2026.
• Adjusted EBITDA² decreased by $2.7 million year-over-year to $(5.3) million for the third quarter of 2026; however, Research and Development expense increased $6.7 million or 87.1% over the same period, reflecting our investment in future growth.
• With $188.7 million in contracts awarded during the third quarter of 2026, achieved meaningful year-over-year increases in Book-to-Bill¹ ratio as of the third quarter of 2026, on a quarterly and last twelve months basis to 1.73 and 1.63, respectively.
• Ended third quarter 2026 with total liquidity³ of $538.9 million, a 313.9% increase over the end of 2025.

2026 Forecast

• For the full year ended December 31, 2026, Redwire reaffirms that it is forecasting revenues of $450 million to $500 million.

“During the third quarter of 2026, Redwire achieved record gross margins of 32.3%, driven by year-over-year and sequential improvement from both our Space and Defense Tech segments. With a focus on delivering proven capabilities to our customers at scale, we continued to invest in innovation and manufacturing capacity,” said Chris Edmunds, Chief Financial Officer of Redwire. “With $323.1 million of recorded revenue during the first nine months of 2026 supported by a record $619.7 million in Backlog¹ and $46.8 million of work in process and finished goods inventory, we again reaffirm our 2026 revenue forecast.”

Webcast and Investor Call

Management will conduct a conference call starting at 9:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, November 5, 2026 to review financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026. This release is available in the investor section of Redwire’s website at RDW.com.

Redwire will live stream a presentation with slides during the call. Please use the following link to follow along with the live stream: https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=lPYqTb5R. The dial-in number for the live call is 877-485-3108 (toll free) or 201-689-8264 (toll), and the conference ID is 13763085.

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About Redwire Corporation

Redwire Corporation (NYSE:RDW) is an integrated space and defense tech company focused on advanced technologies. We are building the future of aerospace infrastructure, autonomous systems and multi-domain operations leveraging digital engineering and AI automation. Redwire’s approximately 1,400 employees located throughout North America and Europe are committed to delivering innovative space and airborne platforms transforming the future of multi-domain operations. For more information, please visit RDW.com.

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The financial outlook and projections, estimates and targets in this press release are forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions that are inherently subject to significant uncertainty and contingencies, many of which are beyond Redwire’s control. Redwire’s independent auditors have not audited, reviewed, compiled or performed any procedures with respect to the financial projections for purposes of inclusion in this press release, and, accordingly, they did not express an opinion or provide any other form of assurance with respect thereto for the purposes of this press release. While all financial projections, estimates and targets are necessarily speculative, Redwire believes that the preparation of prospective financial information involves increasingly higher levels of uncertainty the further out the projection, estimate or target extends from the date of preparation. The assumptions and estimates underlying the projected, expected or target results for the Company are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the financial projections, estimates and targets. The inclusion of financial projections, estimates and targets in this press release should not be regarded as an indication that Redwire, or its representatives, considered or consider the financial projections, estimates or targets to be a reliable prediction of future events. Further, inclusion of the prospective financial information in this press release should not be regarded as a representation by any person that the results contained in the prospective financial information will be achieved.

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These factors and circumstances include, but are not limited to (1) risks associated with economic uncertainty, including high inflation, market volatility, and the potential worsening of macro-economic conditions; (2) geopolitical and macroeconomic events; (3) tariffs impacting demand for our products; (4) the failure of financial institutions or transactional counterparties; (5) our evolving industry, limited operating history since our acquisition of Redwire Defense Tech Intermediate Holdings, LLC and its subsidiaries (f/k/a Edge Autonomy Intermediate Holdings, LLC) (“Edge Autonomy”) and history of losses makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and the risks and challenges we may encounter; (6) the inability to successfully integrate recently completed and future acquisitions or successfully select, execute or integrate future acquisitions into the business and realize the anticipated benefits or do so within the expected timeframe; (7) the development and continued refinement of many of Redwire’s proprietary technologies, products and service offerings; (8) competition with new or existing companies; (9) a limited number of customers make up a high percentage of our revenue; (10) potential litigation arising from time to time; (11) natural disasters, geopolitical conflicts, or other natural or man-made catastrophic events; (12) adverse publicity stemming from any incident or perceived risk involving Redwire or our competitors; (13) incurring significant risks and uncertainties not covered by insurance or indemnity; (14) failure to respond to industry cycles in terms of our cost structure, manufacturing capacity, and/or personnel needs; (15) customers unwillingness to adopt our core offerings; (16) delays in the development, design, engineering and manufacturing of our core offerings; (17) unsatisfactory performance of our core offerings; (18) impacts to our cash flows caused by our mix of fixed-price, cost-plus and time-and-material type contracts; (19) incurrence of expenditures prior to final receipt of a contract; (20) failure of new offerings and technologies to materialize; (21) the inability to convert orders in backlog into revenue; (22) the inability to properly manage the use of artificial intelligence in our business; (23) reliance on third-party launch vehicles to launch our spacecraft and customer payloads; (24) risk of an accident on launch or during a journey into space; (25) Redwire’s inability to meet expected financial results; (26) unfavorable changes in the proportion of cost-plus-fee or fixed-price contracts in our total contract mix and the resulting impact on our margins and operating results; (27) shorter lives than anticipated for our systems, products, technologies, services and related equipment; (28) cyber-attacks and other security threats and disruptions; (29) risks resulting from broader geographic operations; (30) impairment of goodwill; (31) inability to use net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes; (32) requirements of the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual for our facility security clearance, which is a prerequisite to performing on classified contracts for the U.S. government; (33) changes to the U.S. government’s budget deficit and the national debt, as well as any inability of the U.S. government to complete its budget process for any government fiscal year, and any resulting government shutdowns; (34) dependence on U.S. government contracts; (35) disputes with our subcontractors or the inability of our subcontractors to perform, or of our key suppliers to timely deliver components, parts or services, resulting in our core offerings being produced or delivered in an untimely or unsatisfactory manner; (36) the potential application of U.S. foreign investment regulations to investments in us, which may impose conditions on or limit certain investors' ability to purchase our common stock, potentially making our common stock less attractive to investors; (37) Redwire is subject to stringent U.S. economic sanction laws and regulations, and trade control laws and regulations, as well as risks related to doing business in other countries; (38) the wide variety of extensive and evolving government laws and regulations to which our business is subject, and the potential material adverse effect of any failure to comply with such laws and regulations; (39) the potential impact on our reputation and ability to do business resulting from improper conduct of our employees, agents or business partners; (40) failure to comply with federal, state and foreign laws and regulations relating to privacy, data protection and consumer protection, or the expansion of current or enactment of new laws or regulations relating to privacy, data protection and consumer protection, and the resulting adverse effect on our business and financial condition; (41) changes in tax laws or regulations and the resulting increase in tax uncertainty and adverse effect on our results of operations and effective tax rate; (42) failure to adequately protect our intellectual property rights; (43) potential violations of third-party proprietary rights by our technology; (44) failure to obtain necessary additional funding; (45) the possibility of sales of a substantial amount of our common stock by our current stockholders; (46) the inability to remain in compliance with the continued listing requirements of the New York Stock Exchange; (47) the issuance of additional common stock or other equity securities and the resulting dilution of our shareholders' ownership interests; (48) volatility in the trading price of our common stock; (49) our existing material weaknesses and the identification of material weaknesses or other deficiencies or failure to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting and (50) other risks and uncertainties described in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and those indicated from time to time in other documents filed or to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Redwire. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on us. If underlying assumptions to forward-looking statements prove inaccurate, or if known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from those anticipated, estimated, or projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and Redwire disclaims any intention or obligation, other than imposed by law, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Persons reading this press release are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

Non-GAAP Financial Information

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Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) adjusted for interest (income) expense, net, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation and amortization, impairment expense, transaction expenses, acquisition integration costs, acquisition earnout costs, purchase accounting fair value adjustment related to deferred revenue and inventory, severance costs, capital market and advisory fees, disposal of long-lived assets, litigation-related expenses, equity-based compensation, committed equity facility transaction costs, debt financing costs and extinguishment losses, gains on sale of joint ventures, net of costs incurred, and warrant liability change in fair value adjustment.

Adjusted Gross Profit is defined as revenues less cost of sales as computed in accordance with U.S. GAAP, excluding adjustments resulting from the application of purchase accounting included in cost of sales and Adjusted Gross Margin is defined as Adjusted Gross Profit as a percentage of revenue. Management believes these non-GAAP measures provide investors meaningful insight into results from ongoing operations as the calculation of these measures excludes the impact of certain non-recurring charges. Management believes that by using Adjusted Gross Margin in conjunction with GAAP Gross Margin, investors will get a more complete view of what management considers to be the Company’s core operating performance and allow for comparison of this measure when compared to those of prior periods.

Segment Adjusted EBITDA is defined as income (loss) before taxes, excluding, depreciation and amortization, impairment expense, transaction expenses, acquisition integration costs, acquisition earnout costs, purchase accounting fair value adjustment related to deferred revenue and inventory, severance costs, disposal of long-lived assets, equity-based compensation, capital market and advisory fees, litigation-related expenses and gains on sale of joint ventures, net of costs incurred. Segment Adjusted EBITDA also excludes intra- and inter-segment sales and costs and corporate pushdown costs.

Adjusted EPS is defined as U.S. GAAP diluted earnings per share (the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure) before transaction expenses, acquisition integration costs, purchase accounting fair value adjustment related to deferred revenue and inventory, litigation expenses, equity-based compensation, debt financing costs and extinguishment losses and changes in fair value of private warrants, adjusted to assume the Company’s Convertible Preferred Stock does not exist. Adjusted EPS is a useful measure because it eliminates the impact of infrequent or non-recurring items that do not relate to operational performance and provides additional information to investors about certain material non-cash items that we do not expect to continue at the same level in the future.

Free Cash Flow is computed as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less capital expenditures.

We use Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Margin, Segment Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS to evaluate our operating performance, generate future operating plans, and make strategic decisions, including those relating to operating expenses and the allocation of internal resources. We use Free Cash Flow as an indicator of liquidity to evaluate our period-over-period operating cash generation that will be used to service our debt, and can be used to invest in future growth through new business development activities and/or acquisitions, among other uses. Free Cash Flow does not represent the total increase or decrease in our cash balance, and it should not be inferred that the entire amount of Free Cash Flow is available for discretionary expenditures, since we have mandatory debt service requirements and other non-discretionary expenditures that are not deducted from this measure.

Key Performance Indicators

Management uses Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) to assess the financial performance of the Company, monitor relevant trends and support financial, operational and strategic decision-making. Management frequently monitors and evaluates KPIs against internal targets, core business objectives as well as industry peers and may, on occasion, change the mix or calculation of KPIs to better align with the business, its operating environment, standard industry metrics or other considerations. If the Company changes the method by which it calculates or presents a KPI, prior period disclosures are recast to conform to current presentation.

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