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2026 earnings call transcript
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Hold: Quantum delivered Q3 revenue of $74.6 million, positive adjusted EBITDA of $2.9 million and backlog above $20 million versus a historical $8 million-$10 million, supporting a credible tape and cold-storage demand recovery. However, Q4 guidance falls to $68 million plus or minus $2 million with adjusted EBITDA around breakeven, while component prices have reportedly doubled or tripled in some cases, gross margin remains below 40%, and net debt is $116.7 million.
- Tape Storage
- Cold Storage
- StorNext
- Supply Chain
- Backlog
- Gross Margin
- Debt Restructuring
- Primary Storage
Near term
- Q4 shipments and backlog conversion are the key near-term variables; management expects backlog to remain elevated but acknowledges fulfillment may be delayed by shortages.
- Gross margin may remain around Q3's 38.8% rather than return to the 40% target because component prices and lead times are volatile.
- Tape sales doubled sequentially, and additional enterprise and hyperscale purchase orders could support sentiment if they convert into recognized revenue.
Longer term
- Tape, ActiveScale Cold Storage and StorNext could benefit from customers moving data away from expensive, power-intensive primary storage and repatriating workloads from the cloud.
- The restructuring lowered expenses and drove adjusted EBITDA to $2.9 million, but sustainable earnings improvement requires gross margins to recover above 40% and interest expense to decline.
- Primary storage systems were down approximately 23% year to date, highlighting a material weakness that management addressed only with a broad assertion that the business is now on a stronger path.
- Services remain pressured by execution problems and excessive discounting, limiting the quality and durability of the margin recovery.
Red flags
- Management could not provide meaningful Q4 gross-margin guidance and characterized industry pricing and lead times as comparable to the COVID-era disruption.
- The company has approximately $13.8 million of cash and $116.7 million of net debt, while continuing to incur roughly $5.9 million of quarterly interest expense.
- The QSA receivable required an additional GAAP provision after Quantum terminated QSA's distribution rights; recovery remains uncertain and management did not quantify the balance or expected recovery.
- The debt exchange reduces term debt but introduces recurring fair-value volatility from the convertible note and forbearance warrants, largely driven by the stock price.
- Backlog growth is partly constrained by an inability to fulfill orders, so elevated backlog is not yet equivalent to demand translating into revenue or cash flow.
Forward outlook
| Metric | Period | Range | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| revenue | Q4 2026 | 66–70 $million | official guidance |
| adjusted eps | Q4 2026 | -0.43–-0.23 $per share | official guidance |
| ebitda | Q4 2026 | -2–2 $million | official guidance |
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CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS
Tara Ilges William H. White
Vice President-Corporate Affairs & Corporate Secretary, Quantum Corp. Chief Financial Officer, Quantum Corp.
Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Eric Martinuzzi
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets LLC
Nehal Chokshi
Analyst, Northland Securities, Inc.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION SECTION
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, greetings and welcome to the Quantum Corporation Third Quarter Fiscal 2026
Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and- answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes.
It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Quantum's Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Corporate
Secretary, Tara Ilges. Please go ahead.
Tara Ilges
Vice President-Corporate Affairs & Corporate Secretary, Quantum Corp.
Good afternoon and thank you for joining today's conference call to discuss Quantum's third quarter fiscal 2026 financial results. With me on today's call are Hugues Meyrath, Quantum CEO, and William White, our Chief
Financial Officer. Following management's prepared remarks, we will open the call up to questions from analysts.
Before we begin, I would like to remind you that comments made on today's call may include forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact should be viewed as forward-looking, including any projections of revenue, margins, expenses, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, cash flows or other financial operational or performance topics. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that we refer to as risk factors. Risk factors may cause our actual results to differ materially from our forecast. For more information, please refer to the detailed descriptions we provide about these and additional risk factors under the Risk Factors section in our 10-K and 10-Qs filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company does not intend to update or alter forward-looking statements once they are issued, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except where required by applicable law.
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Please note that today's press release and management statements during today's call will include certain financial information in GAAP and non-GAAP measures. We will include definitions and reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP items in our press release.
With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Quantum's CEO, Hugues Meyrath.
Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
Thank you, Tara, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for our third quarter earnings call. As announced earlier this afternoon, revenue EBITDA exceeded the high end of our forecasted range. These results reflect our efforts to maintain disciplined execution of our strategy. Over the past two quarters, we've put a deliberate structure and focus in place to execute our operating plan. As a result, we've seen meaningful improvement in revenue, pipeline and backlog.
We also continue to strengthen our financial foundation. Through restructuring initiatives, we've lowered our cost structure in support of our near-term goal of achieving positive cash flow. During the third quarter, shareholders approved a proposal to exchange the term debt held by Dialectic for convertible notes, reducing our outstanding term debt by approximately 50% to historically low levels. We continue to evaluate options for our remaining term debt as we work toward further strengthening our balance sheet.
To better frame up our results, let me first address the broader market environment and the conditions impacting infrastructure decisions across the industry. As AI use cases continue to accelerate, customers are feeling the real impact from cost, power, cooling and the volume of data that must be retained for the long term. At the same time, AI-driven demand is increasing pressure on global supply chains. Critical components, particularly memory, disk and flash, are becoming increasingly difficult to procure, and prices are rising as a result. In just the last 10 days, we've seen pricing double and, in some cases, triple! This is not unique to Quantum. It's affecting the entire industry.
In addition to pricing volatility, lead times are extending into weeks and sometimes even months. Similar to the early COVID period, the timing and path to stabilization remains unpredictable. Against this backdrop, it's important to highlight that we delivered a strong Q3, and we believe we're off to a strong start to Q4. We are executing on our sales plan and have now delivered two consecutive quarters of healthy backlog.
Early in Q4, we secured multiple million-dollar purchase orders from enterprise and hyperscale customers, reinforcing the strength of demand for our solutions. That said, given the pricing dynamics and component availability, we're erring on the side of caution with our Q4 forecast. The uncertainty is not about the demand or our expectations for execution of our plan. It's about when we can fulfill and ship orders as supply chains continue to fluctuate. This is a prudent approach in an environment that is changing in real time.
These conditions also reinforce where Quantum is uniquely advantaged. Tape is in Quantum's DNA. We are early inventors and long-standing innovators in tape with decades of engineering leadership and deep intellectual property. Quantum's Scalar tape libraries are designed to be modern, high-performance systems that deliver near line accessibility for AI workloads. It also offers the lowest cost and lowest power consumption of any storage medium available.
As flash and disk become more expensive and harder to secure, we believe tape provides customers with a practical way to offload massive volumes of data to a cold tier , freeing up primary storage while meaningfully reducing power, cooling and operating costs. This is especially critical as customers retain more
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Q3 2026 Earnings Call 17-Feb-2026 data than ever for AI, compliance and long-term reuse. We are already seeing this shift clearly in our results. Our tape sales doubled quarter-over-quarter as customers pivoted toward architectures designed to reduce dependence on constrained components and deliver predictable economics at scale for warm and cold data.
As a recent example, in Q3, we secured a seven-figure deal with a large multinational production studio, driven by cost, power efficiency, durability and security of Quantum's cold storage architecture. The customer selected
ActiveScale Cold Storage integrated with our Scalar tape libraries. This customer was able to repatriate content from the cloud to an on-premise archive with predictable long-term economics, while maintaining near line access to archive data for AI-driven repurposing and reuse. The initial deployment is 100 petabytes, with plans to scale to
400 terabytes over time.
As the cost of flash and disk continues to rise and availability becomes more constrained, customers are increasingly looking for reliable, low risk ways to move data off expensive primary storage without disruption. This is where Quantum StorNext creates a unique opportunity for us. StorNext is a leading data movement platform with thousands of customers worldwide. Unlike traditional data movers, StorNext can seamlessly and reliably migrate data from virtually any storage platform across vendors and architectures directly to tape. This allows customers to offload data from high-cost primary storage to tape with confidence and reclaim valuable capacity. It also allows customers to avoid continuously provisional additional primary storage amid rising prices and component shortages.
Together, StorNext and Scalar tape enable customers to reduce their dependence on constrained components, lower costs and extend the life of their existing primary storage infrastructure. Given StorNext’s proven reliability and broad installed base, we see this as a meaningful opportunity for incremental growth as customers reassess their storage strategies in today's market environment.
We also continue to execute our broader go-to-market initiatives. We strategically realigned our North American sales model to mirror the successful approach used in EMEA, where we have seen strong results improving focus, coverage and execution. The alignment is driving tighter account prioritization, stronger coordination across sales, marketing and our channel partners and greater consistency in how we pursue and close opportunities.
At the same time, our lead generation initiatives are gaining traction, delivering higher quality opportunities into the field and supporting pipeline growth. These efforts are resulting in larger, more strategic multi-product opportunities as customers increasingly look for trusted partners to help them navigate cost pressure, supply constraints and also long-term data growth. We're seeing channel partners lean in more actively, particularly around tape and StorNext, as customers reassess their storage infrastructures.
Before turning the call over to review our financial results in greater detail, I'd like to take this time to welcome our newly appointed CFO, Will White, who's joining us on today's conference call. Will brings an exceptional combination of financial discipline, operational leadership and strategic vision to help drive Quantum's execution in this next stage of our growth. I look forward to working more closely with Will for his contributions to our future financial strategy and operations.
With that, I will now turn the call over to Will.
William H. White
Chief Financial Officer, Quantum Corp.
Thank you, Hugues. Good afternoon to those joining us on the phone and webcast. I'll provide an overview of the company's GAAP and non-GAAP financial results for our third fiscal quarter 2026 ended December 31, 2025.
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Revenue in the quarter was $74.6 million, an increase over the $62.7 million in the prior quarter and $68.7 million in the prior year third quarter. The higher-than-expected revenue was partially driven by a strong backlog coming into the quarter, as well as a strong shipment into the quarter end. The positive variance to the preliminary result was due to a conservative assumption related to deferred revenue contracts.
We exited the third quarter with a strong backlog of over $20 million, which is significantly above our historical run rate of $8 million to 10 million. We expect backlog to remain meaningfully above our historical run rate in the fiscal fourth quarter, reflecting the continued success of our revitalized sales organization.
GAAP gross margin for the third quarter was 38.8%, compared to 37.6% in the prior quarter and 40.6% in the fiscal third quarter of 2025. Although we still have more work to do in order to expand gross margins back above
40%, the sequential increase in the third quarter reflects the initial improvement in operating efficiencies from our restructured service organization. As Hugues mentioned, we're also seeing volatility in pricing and component availability throughout the industry, which may be a headwind to our 40% margin target in near term.
GAAP operating expenses for the third quarter were $30.1 million compared to $31.7 million in the prior quarter and $35.6 million in the year ago quarter. The increase in GAAP operating expense from our preliminary results announcement is due to additional provision for the outstanding receivable balance with Quantum Storage Asia, also known as QSA, following the termination of their distribution rights in fiscal Q2. We believe that this is prudent for our GAAP results. However, we are now seeking alternative measures to recover these balances to protect our customers' ability to make valid service and warranty claims. As mentioned in last quarter, QSA is not affiliated with Quantum and is not authorized to use our name or sell our products or support.
Operating expenses on a non-GAAP basis for the third quarter were $26.9 million, compared to $24.8 million in fiscal second quarter of 2026 and $30.1 million in the year ago quarter. The sequential increase preliminarily reflects higher variable sales and marketing expenses related to higher commissions. The year-over-year decrease reflects the realized savings from a lowered cost structure following our more recent restructuring actions in the current fiscal year.
GAAP net loss in the fiscal third quarter was $27.8 million or a loss of $2.03 per share compared to a net loss of
$46.5 million or a loss of $3.49 per share in the previous quarter, and a net loss of $75.3 million, or a loss of
$15.35 per share in the year ago third quarter. The current GAAP net loss includes $28.9 million in debt extinguishment costs related to the most recent amendment to our term loan, in which we converted term debt for a senior secured convertible note. The convertible note was issued in exchange for $54.7 million of term debt that was recorded at a fair value of approximately $76 million. Each quarter, we will record an adjustment to the fair value for both the Convertible Note and for Forbearance Warrants, which will be largely driven by our stock price.
This requirement will introduce some volatility into our GAAP earnings on a go-forward basis.
Non-GAAP loss for the third quarter was $4.9 million or loss of $0.36 per share compared to a net loss of $7.1 million or loss of $0.54 per share in the prior quarter and a net loss of $7.8 million or loss of $1.59 per share in the same quarter a year ago. The improvement in non-GAAP net loss for the quarter reflects the combination of the revenue increase in the quarter combined with the significant reduction in operating expenses while we continue to bear approximately $5.9 million of interest expense. As we execute on our plan to further strengthen our balance sheet, we expect to benefit from reduced interest burden.
Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter improved sequentially and year over year to a positive $2.9 million from a positive $0.5 million in the fiscal second quarter of 2026 and a $0.8 million in the prior-year quarter. The significant
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Q3 2026 Earnings Call 17-Feb-2026 improvement in adjusted EBITDA was primarily driven by the execution of our restructuring initiatives that significantly lowered our cost structure over the prior quarter.
Turning to an overview of debt and liquidity at quarter end. Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the fiscal third quarter were approximately $13.8 million. Total outstanding debt split between term debt and our convertible note was $54.6 million and $75.9 million respectively. At the end of the quarter, the company's net debt position was approximately $116.7 million. The significant decrease in our term debt reflected the successful completion of our strategic debt exchange, in which we issued senior secured convertible notes to Dialectic and a dollar-for-dollar exchange for approximately $54.7 million of term debt previously held by Dialectic.
Turning to the company's outlook for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2026. As Hugues discussed, we are erring on the side of caution with our Q4 forecast due to increasing difficulty in procuring critical components across the entire industry. It is not a question of demand or our ability to execute on our plan. It is about when we can fulfill and ship orders in a challenging supply chain environment.
In light of the industry-wide supply chain challenges, revenue for the fourth quarter is expected to be approximately
$68 million plus or minus $2 million. We expect fourth quarter non-GAAP operating expenses to be approximately
$27 million plus or minus $2 million. As a result, non-GAAP adjusted net loss per share for the fiscal fourth quarter is anticipated to be negative $0.33 plus or minus $0.10 per share, based on an estimated 15 million shares outstanding. Adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal fourth quarter is expected to be breakeven plus or minus $2 million.
With that, I now hand the call back to Hugues.
Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
In closing, I'm pleased with the continued progress the team is making in our sales and operating initiatives, as evidenced by our third quarter results. Our revitalized sales team is executing and delivering meaningful improvements to our pipeline and backlog with a growing number of multimillion-dollar deals. We've also significantly lowered our cost structure while further strengthening our balance sheet.
We're cautiously navigating the industry-wide pricing dynamics and component shortages. And I believe Quantum is uniquely positioned with our portfolio of Scalar tape libraries, ActiveScale Cold Storage and StorNext platforms to reduce customers' dependence on constrained components and deliver predictable economics at scale for hot, warm and cold data.
With that, I'll now turn the call to the operator for the Q&A session.
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QUESTION AND ANSWER SECTION
Operator
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Eric Martinuzzi with Lake Street Capital Markets. Please proceed.
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Eric Martinuzzi
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets LLC
Congrats on the good results for Q3 and on the healthy guide for Q4. I wanted to dive into the different product segments here, just based on the 10-Q filing. Looks like there was good strength in secondary, but primary systems were – I hate to judge by one particular quarter, so I'll go with the nine-month contraction here. Looks like, it is down about 23% in the nine months versus nine months a year ago. What's behind that? Typically, that would be StorNext. It would be flash related. What can you tell us about the primary storage systems?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
I would say we started the year probably very, very slow. But going into fiscal Q3, we saw strength across all the product lines. So, we feel confident right now that we're on the strong path for primary storage.
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Eric Martinuzzi
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets LLC
Okay. And then as far as the backlog goes, you talked about it's elevated, it's $20 million when it typically runs $8 million to $10 million. The expectation that that's going to stay high, is that driven more from the demand side or is that driven more from the lack of component availability side?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
The demand continues to be very strong. In fact, we had a very healthy January as well. So, we expect the backlog to be healthy going into our fiscal Q4. But it's – both demand is very strong. We do have some shortages in components, but like it's – the backlog is growing faster right now than anticipated for sure.
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Eric Martinuzzi
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets LLC
Okay. And then the services business, we've been in contraction mode here for a while. It was down a little bit less in Q3 than it was for the nine-month period. Are we getting to a point where that could potentially flatten out here and we're no longer seeing that contraction in services?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
I would think so. I think we still struggle a little bit from an execution perspective, in terms of getting the most from our services from customers, we tend to discount services too much on a blended basis, which is why we have kind of this SST mechanism in place to reallocate. So, I would think right now, it's more of our ability to execute a little bit better on services, and not discount so much, it is just more of an issue than the contraction. I think we’ve got to do a better job there for sure.
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Eric Martinuzzi
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets LLC
Okay. And then last question for me. You talked about gross margins being somewhat impacted by the price of the components that you needed to acquire, but you still are looking at a 40% target. We've seen good progress throughout the year with the non-GAAP gross margins rising in Q3 versus Q2 and Q2 versus Q1. What should we expect for Q4 based on the product mix and the services mix that you're thinking about for Q4? Could we go up sequentially? Do we retrace based on mix?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
I think this quarter is actually quite hard because the supply chain issues are hitting everybody in the industry like everybody, and it's pretty bad across the board from server delivery to memory to any storage that you're trying to acquire. The prices are going up. So, when prices go up, by the time you know you turn over a quote, build the product and ship the product, it's been very hectic environment, and there are a lot of examples in the industry that prove that's an issue industry-wide. So, it's really hard to guide to margin right now.
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Eric Martinuzzi
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets LLC
Okay. So, a conservative view would be to say an equivalent would be a good achievement? Equivalent to Q3?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
Yeah, so it would be a very good achievement if we could stay there, in rising prices and – I mean, we're hearing examples of people, literally like prices changing on the docks of some of our partners and the supply chain business. And until things are in a less state of flux, it's quite a challenging environment right now from a pricing perspective. And lead times are definitely stretching as well.
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Eric Martinuzzi
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets LLC
Got it. Thanks for taking my questions.
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
Thank you, Eric. Appreciate it.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Nehal Chokshi with Northland Capital Markets.
Please proceed.
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Nehal Chokshi
Analyst, Northland Securities, Inc.
Thanks, and congrats on a good, sustained demand here with the – as evidenced by the elevated backlog. You made a comment Hugues that tape sales doubled Q-over-Q. Could you give some color here in terms of where that demand is coming from with respect to hyperscalers versus non-hyperscalers?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
Tape is very strong across the board right now. But what we're seeing mostly from a growth perspective is people are just running out of storage, and with ActiveScale Cold Storage, they found a way to keep storage on- prem for longer. So some of it -- we see people that are migrating back from the cloud because they want to use data, and ActiveScale Cold Storage allows them to use and reuse the data.
We've seen some wins in the Fed space last quarter. So, I mean, it's pretty much across the board. Hyperscalers also have capacity upgrades planned. Some of them are not realized yet. They're more coming in as well. So, I think in general, I'm very optimistic on tape because people are running out of storage, and I think that's creating a new wave of demand in addition to what we have today. So, it's not just object store, but I think people are going to need to offload some of their primary storage data somewhere because clearly, the demand for storage is way ahead of the supply right now.
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Nehal Chokshi
Analyst, Northland Securities, Inc.
Okay. And then you also mentioned that you have a growing number of multimillion-dollar deals. Is that with respect to pipeline or in backlog?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
It's in – we have a bunch of them in backlog, yes.
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Nehal Chokshi
Analyst, Northland Securities, Inc.
Okay. Can you give us a sense of the composition there again with respect to hyperscalers versus non- hyperscalers?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
For the multi-million deals, we're talking mainly – I mean, we expect hyperscalers to be more multimillion-dollar deals than they are --so in general, what we're talking about there is our typical customers right now are adding more to their orders. So, you can have a combination of StorNext and ActiveScale and Cold Storage in order or we feel so people are really building larger and larger, like, environments, especially with regards to an I-7, for example. So, you can actually have good, like, AI content, like, around that solution with ActiveScale.
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Nehal Chokshi
Analyst, Northland Securities, Inc.
Okay. Great. And you already talked about backlog levels. You said at the end of the December quarter was already at
$20 million. That's growing faster than anticipated and so over the last six weeks, which then implies that it has gone up as the quarter has progressed. It sounds like it's a function of demand as well supply. But I guess you're trying frame up though that demand is – your core demand from the enterprises is up year-over-year and then also the hyperscalers are helping there as well. Is that a correct read through on the description that you're giving here on backlog and the trajectory there?
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President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
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Yes. So, January has been – it's been strong Q3, but it's fiscal Q3, but January's been strong as well and we don't fulfill as many orders in January. So, the backlog keeps growing. But we'll probably exit next quarter with a much greater backlog as well at the number we guided to. So, we're seeing strength across both enterprise and hyperscalers for sure.
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Nehal Chokshi
Analyst, Northland Securities, Inc.
Yeah. At this point in time, do you see supply – it sounds like you see supply actually worsening. So, if demand continues to sustain at this current level, you would anticipate then that backlog would continue to grow from whatever level that it is right now?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
At our guidance level, the backlog will grow, yes.
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Nehal Chokshi
Analyst, Northland Securities, Inc.
Okay. Last question for me is that you've been in the seat now for about nine months, right? And I know that you've gone through a lot of restructuring the reorganization. But you have really deep storage industry experience, and as a result, do you have some perspective as far as like what sort of long-term margin structures you can achieve?
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
Yeah. I mean, look – I mean, going back into the 40% long-term margin with the products we have right now – in our go-to market we have right now is obviously possible. I mean, I'm more concerned right now with the way the supply chain is working these days. It's – you can go listen to anybody else. It's not clear how there will be relief from a supply perspective in the near term, right? So, it feels like COVID era right now. It's hard to get lead times.
It's hard to get commits from suppliers. It's hard to get pricing from the suppliers. Right? So right now, we're just trying to manage the business that's ahead of us and what we can get our hands on where the prices are and make sure we treat our customers and partners with the utmost respect. Right? Now, from a long-term perspective, I don't know when that is, but the supply chain needs to normalize, we’ll get back into the 40s. I think we've done the restructuring needed to be in the 40% margin business and continue to improve it. But right now, it's kind of a little bit across the industry uncharted territory from a pricing and lead time perspective. But I think the restructuring has been, I think, definitely paying dividend for sure.
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Nehal Chokshi
Analyst, Northland Securities, Inc.
Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you for that perspective, initial perspective.
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Hugues Meyrath
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Quantum Corp.
Of course.
Operator
Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. And with that, this concludes today's webinar.
You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.
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