REPAY Q2 2026 revenue reached $100.7 million, up 33% year over year. Meanwhile net loss came in at $11.5 million. That looks dramatically better than the $108.0 million loss a year earlier. However, the comparison misleads. Last year carried a non-cash goodwill impairment of $103.8 million.

Strip that out and the underlying REPAY Q2 2026 trend turns modest. Adjusted EBITDA grew from $31.8 million to $36.3 million. Also, free cash flow landed at $27.4 million, a 75% conversion rate. By most measures, that reads as a solid quarter.

What REPAY Q2 2026 Organic Growth Really Shows

The headline number needs a second look. Organic revenue growth, meaning growth excluding acquisitions, came in at 6% year over year. Political media spending around the midterm cycle supplied roughly two points of that. Normalised for it, REPAY Q2 2026 growth sits near 4%.

Yet the rest of the 33% arrived through one deal. REPAY closed its acquisition of KUBRA, a Canadian bill payment and customer communications platform, on 1 June. Notably, KUBRA contributed about $21 million of revenue during the single month it was owned.

CEO John Morris cited “6% organic revenue growth” in the same breath as the 33% headline. That counts as honest disclosure. Still, the framing lets the bigger number carry more emotional weight than the math supports.

The KUBRA Math Behind REPAY Q2 2026

Here is the detail that sharpens the point. KUBRA itself grew roughly 5% to 6% year over year in the period. So REPAY bought a business expanding at close to its own organic rate.

That is no knock on the deal. KUBRA brings REPAY into consumer bill payment and communication services at meaningful scale. Besides, plenty of payments incumbents are chasing that same direction. Today the combined company reaches over 352 software partners, of which 54 arrived with KUBRA. Management positions the group as a leading consumer bill-payment platform across the US and Canada.

But scale and speed differ. Consider a payments company growing 33% by acquisition while organic growth sits in the mid single digits. Such a company has bought a bigger business rather than a faster-growing one.

REPAY Q2 2026 Margins Tell the Cost Story

The margin line shows what that scale costs. REPAY Q2 2026 adjusted EBITDA margin fell to 36%. Because KUBRA started at roughly 20% margins, the blended figure fell. Management attributes the gross margin decline to mix from lower-margin print and professional services rather than pricing pressure.

Q3 will carry a full quarter of that drag. Meanwhile REPAY booked $4.5 million of annualised run-rate synergies in the first month alone. Then it targets more than $8 million exiting 2026 and over $20 million by 2028. Integration costs rarely stay invisible, though, so those numbers deserve tracking.

Why REPAY Q2 2026 Leverage Is the Number That Matters

REPAY paid about $354.1 million in cash for KUBRA. It funded the deal with a new $500 million senior secured term loan priced at SOFR plus 5.5%. Consequently long-term debt jumped from $280.1 million at year-end to $748.1 million.

So net leverage moved from roughly 2.5x pro forma in March to 3.7x today. Management wants it back below 3x within eighteen months, funded by free cash flow and integration synergies. That target is the honest test of whether the deal creates value or merely adds revenue.

Interest expense becomes a real drag from here. Free cash flow conversion should fall toward 30% across the full year, down from the 75% posted this quarter. The cost of that capital is the quiet story inside REPAY Q2 2026.

REPAY Q2 2026 Segment Split Hides the Best News

The REPAY Q2 2026 segment split rewards a closer read. Business Payments, the smaller segment, posted the more interesting number. Normalised organic growth there ran 19%, against 32% reported. However, Consumer Payments organic growth came in at 4%.

Crucially, that 19% excludes political media, which sits inside Business Payments. So the fastest-growing part of REPAY is expanding without either an acquisition or an election cycle doing the lifting. Alongside that, the AP supplier network grew about 65% year over year to 731,000 suppliers.

What to Watch After REPAY Q2 2026

One more piece of context belongs here. The $103.8 million impairment was not isolated. Then REPAY took a further $138.9 million goodwill write-down in Q4 2025, also in Consumer Payments. Two impairments in one year say something about how that segment was valued before KUBRA arrived.

Guidance stayed unchanged at $490 million to $500 million in revenue. KUBRA should supply $150 million to $154 million over seven months. Organic growth is guided at 10% to 12%, or 7% to 9% excluding political media.

So the integration now has to lift organic growth into the double digits promised for the second half. Otherwise REPAY simply runs two separately growing businesses under one roof. Watch Business Payments rather than the headline print.

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