An Investing.com summary of Comscore's second-quarter 2026 results reported that the company "posted an adjusted loss of $0.97 a share on revenue of $79.25 million for the quarter ended June 2026, missing analysts' expectations for earnings of $0.72 a share and revenue of $89.84 million" [1]. The word doing the damage is "adjusted."
Comscore's own release labels the figure the other way. Its statements of operations report a "Basic and diluted" loss per common share of $(0.97) as a GAAP measure, and no adjusted-EPS line appears anywhere in the release [2]. The only non-GAAP profitability metric the company presents is Adjusted EBITDA, which came in at $1.3M for the quarter, down from $8.9M a year earlier [2]. Calling the $(0.97) an "adjusted loss" inverts the disclosure, dressing a GAAP number as a non-GAAP one the company never published.
The estimate the loss was measured against is shaky on its own. Investing.com puts the expected result at earnings of $0.72 a share [1]; the aggregator MarketBeat has carried a figure of $0.13. Neither is a primary source, and the two do not agree, so the specific claim of a "miss versus $0.72" should not be repeated as established fact.
What Investing.com got right deserves to be said plainly, because the directional story holds. Comscore did post a net loss, $14.8M, widened from $9.5M a year earlier [2]. Revenue did fall, to $79.2M from $89.4M, a decline of 11.3% year over year [2]. Shares did drop after hours. The quarter was weak by any reading.
The correction is narrow and it matters. Comscore lost $0.97 per share on a GAAP basis, not an adjusted one, and there is no adjusted-EPS figure in the release to support the label. Getting the basis right is the difference between describing what a company disclosed and describing something it did not.
