Financial Overview - Third Quarter

• Revenues of $251 Million, Up 53% From a Year Ago and Up 61% From the Second Quarter
• GAAP Pre-Tax Income of $35 Million, Adjusted Pre-Tax Income of $56 Million
• GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.21, Adjusted EPS of $0.39
  
  

Financial Overview - Nine Months

• Revenues of $557 Million, Up 5% From a Year Ago
• GAAP Pre-Tax Income of $31 Million, Adjusted Pre-Tax Income of $80 Million
• GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.29, Adjusted EPS of $0.63
  
  

Talent Investment

• Year-To-Date Added Fourteen Partners and Thirteen Managing Directors
• Closed Acquisition of Gleacher Shacklock on September 1
  
  

Capital Management

• Strong Balance Sheet with $150 Million of Cash and No Debt
• Year-To-Date Retired More Than Three Million Shares and Share Equivalents through Net Settlement and Open Market Repurchases
• Year-To-Date Returned $88 Million in Aggregate to Equity Holders
• Declared Quarterly Dividend of $0.07 Per Share
  
  

NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Perella Weinberg Partners (the “Firm,” “Company,” “Perella Weinberg”) (NASDAQ:PWP) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026.

Revenues

For the third quarter of 2026, revenues were $251.4 million, an increase of 53% from $164.6 million reported in the third quarter of 2025, driven by a higher number of fee-paying clients and a greater share of fee events exceeding $5 million. For the nine months ended September 30, 2026, revenues were $556.8 million, an increase of 5% from $531.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025. The increase was driven by higher M&A revenue, reflecting a greater number of fee events, partially offset by lower financing and capital solutions revenue.

Expenses

Three Months Ended

GAAP total compensation and benefits were $175.0 million for the third quarter of 2026, compared to $116.3 million for the third quarter of 2025. Adjusted total compensation and benefits were $157.2 million for the third quarter of 2026, compared to $110.3 million for the same period a year ago. The increase in total compensation and benefits was due to higher revenues, partially offset by the impact of a lower adjusted compensation margin versus the third quarter of 2025, and, on a GAAP basis only, included acquisition-related compensation and previously disclosed business realignment costs.

GAAP non-compensation expenses were $41.4 million for the third quarter of 2026, compared to $39.4 million for the third quarter of 2025. Adjusted non-compensation expenses were $37.0 million for the third quarter of 2026, compared to $36.8 million for the same period a year ago. The increase in GAAP non-compensation expenses was primarily driven by increased amortization expenses related to acquisitions as well as higher technology expenses.

Nine Months Ended

GAAP total compensation and benefits were $413.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2026, compared to $373.9 million for the prior year period. Adjusted total compensation and benefits were $373.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2026, compared to $356.3 million for the same period a year ago. The increase in total compensation and benefits was due to higher revenues and, on a GAAP basis only, higher acquisition-related compensation and previously disclosed business realignment costs. The adjusted compensation margin was 67% for the nine months ended September 30, 2026, consistent with the prior year period.

GAAP non-compensation expenses were $116.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2026, compared to $128.4 million for the prior year period. Adjusted non-compensation expenses were $105.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2026, compared to $122.4 million for the same period a year ago. The decrease in non-compensation expenses was largely driven by a decrease in professional fees, partially offset by a modest increase in technology spend and, on a GAAP basis only, increased transaction and amortization expenses related to acquisitions.

Provision for Income Taxes

As of September 30, 2026, Perella Weinberg Partners owned 81.5% of the operating partnership (“PWP OpCo”) and is subject to U.S. federal and state corporate income tax on its allocable share of earnings. Income earned by PWP OpCo is subject to certain state, local, and foreign income taxes. The GAAP income tax expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2026 was $1.7 million, which included $10.9 million of tax benefit from restricted stock units (“RSUs”) that vested at a share price higher than the grant price.

For purposes of calculating adjusted if-converted net income, we present our results as if all partnership units had been converted to shares of Class A common stock and as if all of our adjusted results were subject to U.S. corporate income tax. For the nine months ended September 30, 2026, adjusted if-converted net income included $11.5 million of tax benefit from the vesting of RSUs at a share price higher than the grant price.

Balance Sheet and Capital Management

As of September 30, 2026, we had $150 million of cash with no outstanding indebtedness and an undrawn revolving credit facility.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2026, we returned $88.3 million in aggregate to our equity holders through: (i) the net settlement of 3,018,699 share equivalents at an average price per share of $19.85, (ii) the repurchase of 127,328 shares at an average price per share of $15.73 in open market transactions pursuant to PWP’s Class A common stock repurchase program, (iii) the payment of aggregate dividends of $22.7 million to Class A common stockholders and (iv) the payment of $3.6 million in distributions to limited partners.

At September 30, 2026, there were 79.5 million shares of Class A common stock and 18.0 million partnership units outstanding.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2026, Perella Weinberg made $7.2 million of cash payments related to the business realignment. Currently, we are estimating future cash payments of approximately $7.0 million related to the business realignment, substantially all of which is expected to be paid by or soon after December 31, 2026.

The Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.07 per share of Class A common stock. The dividend will be paid on December 8, 2026 to Class A common stockholders of record on November 24, 2026.

Conference Call and Webcast

Management will host a webcast and conference call on Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 9:00 am ET to discuss Perella Weinberg’s financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026.

A webcast of the conference call will be made available in the Investors section of Perella Weinberg’s website at https://investors.pwpartners.com/.

The conference call can also be accessed by the following dial-in information:

• Domestic: (800) 245-3047
• International: (203) 518-9765
• Conference ID: PWPQ326
  
  

Replay

A replay of the call will also be available two hours after the live call through November 5, 2026. To access the replay, dial (800) 839-7076 (Domestic) or (402) 220-6063 (International). The replay can also be accessed on the Investors section of the Company’s website at https://investors.pwpartners.com/.

For those who listen to the rebroadcast of the call, we remind you that the remarks made are as of October 29, 2026, and have not been updated subsequent to the initial earnings call.

About Perella Weinberg

Perella Weinberg is a leading global independent advisory firm, providing strategic and financial advice to a broad client base, including corporations, financial sponsors, governments, and sovereign wealth funds. The Firm offers a wide range of advisory services to clients in some of the most active industry sectors and global markets. With approximately 700 employees, Perella Weinberg currently maintains offices in New York, London, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Chicago, Munich, Palm Beach, Calgary, and Greenwich. The financial information of Perella Weinberg herein refers to the business operations of PWP Holdings LP and Subsidiaries.

Contacts

For Perella Weinberg Investor Relations: investors@pwpartners.com
For Perella Weinberg Media: media@pwpartners.com

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to financial measures presented in accordance with GAAP, we monitor certain non-GAAP financial measures to manage our business, make planning decisions, evaluate our performance and allocate resources. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures are key financial indicators of our business performance over the long term and provide useful information regarding whether cash provided by operating activities is sufficient to maintain and grow our business. We believe that the methodology for determining these non-GAAP financial measures can provide useful supplemental information to help investors better understand the economics of our platform.

These non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, the analysis of other GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures are not universally consistent calculations, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures. Other companies may calculate similarly titled financial measures differently. Additionally, these non-GAAP financial measures are not measurements of financial performance or liquidity under GAAP. In order to facilitate a clear understanding of our consolidated historical operating results, you should examine our non-GAAP financial measures in conjunction with our historical consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this press release.

Management compensates for the inherent limitations associated with using these non-GAAP financial measures through disclosure of such limitations, presentation of our financial statements in accordance with GAAP and reconciliation of such non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” and the tables at the end of this release for an explanation of the adjustments and reconciliations to the comparable GAAP numbers.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements made in this press release, and oral statements made from time to time by representatives of PWP are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements regarding expectations for the business are “forward-looking statements.” In addition, words such as “estimates,” “projected,” “expects,” “estimated,” “anticipates,” “forecasts,” “plans,” “intends,” “believes,” “seeks,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “future,” “propose,” “target,” “goal,” “objective,” “outlook” and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside the control of the parties, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements.
Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include (but are not limited to): global economic, business and market conditions; the Company’s dependence on and ability to retain employees; the Company’s ability to successfully identify, recruit and develop talent; conditions impacting the corporate advisory industry; the Firm’s dependence on its fee-paying clients and fluctuating revenues from its non-exclusive, engagement-by-engagement business model; the high volatility of the Company’s revenues as a result of its reliance on advisory fees that are largely contingent on the completion of events which may be out of its control; the Company’s ability to appropriately manage conflicts of interest and tax and other regulatory factors relevant to the Company’s business, including actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest and other factors that may damage its business and reputation; the Company’s successful formulation and execution of its business and growth strategies; substantial litigation risks in the financial services industry; cybersecurity and other operational risks; assumptions relating to the Company’s operations, financial results, financial condition, business prospects, growth strategy and liquidity; extensive regulation of the corporate advisory industry and U.S. and foreign regulatory developments relating to, among other things, financial institutions and markets, government oversight, fiscal and tax policy and laws (including the treatment of carried interest); and other risks and uncertainties described under “Part I—Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.

The forward-looking statements in this press release and oral statements made from time to time by representatives of PWP are based on current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on the Company. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting the Company will be those that the Company has anticipated. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 27, 2026 and the other documents filed by the Firm from time to time with the SEC. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

Notes to GAAP Reconciliation of Adjusted Results:

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* Throughout this release, adjusted figures represent Non-GAAP information. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” and the tables at the end of this release for an explanation of the adjustments and reconciliations to the comparable GAAP numbers. GAAP diluted net income (loss) per share attributable to Class A common shareholders and Adjusted net income (loss) per Class A share—diluted, if-converted will be referred to as “GAAP Diluted EPS” and “Adjusted EPS,” respectively.