Key Highlights

● Second-quarter revenue rose 30% to US$6.18 million from US$4.77 million.

● Gross profit rose to US$3.45 million from US$1.78 million.

● Net income of US$47.84 million was driven by a US$53.17 million gain on asset sale.

● Cash reached US$112.31 million at 30 June 2026, up from US$33.03 million in March.

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Duos Technologies Group Inc. (NASDAQ:DUOT) reported second-quarter 2026 results in August, with a summary posted on 19 August 2026. Revenue for the quarter ended 30 June was US$6.18 million, up 30% from US$4.77 million a year earlier. Technology Solutions contributed US$3.23 million, Services and Consulting US$2.91 million and Hosting US$32,549. Gross profit rose to US$3.45 million from US$1.78 million, and operating income was US$49,093.

Headline net income was US$47.84 million, or US$1.35 per diluted share. That figure is not operating profit: it was driven by a US$53.17 million gain on the sale of investments tied to the sale of substantially all of the New APR assets. The operating result was close to breakeven, while the gain is non-operating in nature.

The margin trend was more encouraging. Using the reported figures, gross profit was about 56% of revenue in the second quarter, against roughly 37% a year earlier, an improvement of around 19 percentage points.

Balance sheet and guidance

Cash and cash equivalents were US$112.31 million at 30 June 2026, compared with US$33.03 million at 31 March 2026 and US$15.47 million at the end of 2025. The increase appears linked to the asset-sale gain.

Management has reaffirmed its expectation that 2026 revenue will exceed US$50 million. Against it, first-half revenue totals roughly US$8.9 million, combining US$2.72 million in the first quarter and US$6.18 million in the second, so the target implies a steep second-half ramp of more than US$41 million.

Strategic shift toward AI infrastructure

Duos has historically sold rail-inspection technology and related services. Commentary around its first-quarter report, dated 28 May 2026, described a shift toward higher-margin AI infrastructure and GPU hosting, with a pipeline of edge data-centre services that management still has to convert into sustainable revenue. The second-quarter summary also mentions a US$111 million contract with an investment-grade hyperscaler for 10 megawatts of critical IT-load capacity over five years, and 25 megawatts of contracted capacity planned for deployment during 2026.

Those capacity figures describe contracted or planned deployments rather than recognised revenue. The first quarter showed how uneven the transition can be: revenue was US$2.72 million and the net loss widened to US$3.49 million.

Contracted capacity and the second-half ramp

For the second half to approach the 2026 revenue target, contracted megawatts under the hyperscaler agreement have to turn into billed revenue, since the Hosting line contributed only US$32,549 in the second quarter. The cash built up after the asset sale, US$112.31 million against a first-quarter net loss of US$3.49 million, sets the cushion for that conversion.