Gartner (IT) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Tue, May 5, 2026 astatine 10:49 AM CDT 48 min read

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DATE

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 astatine 8 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Chief Executive Officer — Eugene Hall

• Chief Financial Officer — Craig Safian

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Full Conference Call Transcript

Eugene Hall: Good morning. Thanks for joining america today. First 4th insights, revenue, EBITDA, adjusted EPS and escaped currency travel were up of expectations. New concern with endeavor leaders was beardown successful the archetypal 2 months of the quarter. Due to changes successful the geopolitical environment, lawsuit decisions slowed somewhat successful March. Year-over-year declaration worth maturation accelerated successful the archetypal quarter. We were agile successful managing expenses, and we proceed to present unparalleled worth to our clients. Gartner's strategy is to usher executives connected their journeys to execute their mission-critical priorities. Our clients are the elder astir executives and their teams who pb each large endeavor function.

For example, Chief Information Officers and Senior IT leaders, Chief Supply Chain Officers and Heads of Logistics, Chief Financial Officers and Corporate Controllers and more. These roles are enduring careless of alteration successful the world. The executives who pb these roles volition ever person priorities that are ngo captious to the occurrence of their enterprise, their functions and their idiosyncratic careers. Priorities that are mission-critical thin to beryllium long, analyzable journeys. They instrumentality clip and effort to achieve. Executives privation and request help. In today's environment, astir executives look accusation overload. It could beryllium challenging to differentiate authoritative sources from others. Trust is astatine a premium.

Gartner is the best, astir trusted root for the assistance executives request to execute success. We proactively present insights that usher smarter decisions and stronger outcomes connected mission-critical priorities. Gartner insights are derived from a immense excavation of highly proprietary data. Every year, we clasp much than 0.5 cardinal 2-way conversations with much than 80,000 executives crossed each large relation and successful each industry. We behaviour much than 27,000 briefings with the executives from exertion providers. We besides leverage information from proprietary surveys, tools, models, benchmarks and more. This gives america a heavy knowing of what executives attraction astir most, what's moving and what isn't. Our insights are autarkic and objective.

They bespeak the latest accusation and situations our clients are experiencing. They're continually updated and they're disposable exclusively from Gartner. A ample portion of our worth comes from helping clients spot astir corners. We assistance leaders recognize issues and approaches they're often not alert of. We assistance them place unsighted spots, prioritize issues and debar costly mistakes. Our insights are forward-looking. We usher clients connected however the satellite is apt to alteration and what they should bash to thrive successful uncertain environments. We present unparalleled lawsuit worth done some integer and quality interactions. Clients tin entree our written insights, fund quadrants, tube cycles, captious capabilities, ignition guides, toolkits for procurement and governance and galore more.