Digital Turbine, Inc. (APPS) Stock Price & How to Invest

Digital Turbine is a mobile-growth and advertising company that operates an on-device software platform. Through partnerships with wireless carriers and original equipment manufacturers, it preinstalls, recommends, and delivers apps on smartphones, using products such as SingleTap to enable one-tap app installs. Its business is organized around on-device media and app-growth advertising, and it earns revenue when apps are installed, promoted, or monetized through its platform.

The company grew rapidly through acquisitions, then went through a downturn as mobile-ad budgets contracted and integration proved challenging. By fiscal 2026 it had returned to growth, reporting revenue of about $565 million, up 15% year over year, with adjusted EBITDA up sharply and net debt declining. Its prospects hinge on the value of its on-device distribution position, the health of the mobile-advertising market, and its ability to keep reducing debt while expanding higher-margin products.

Digital Turbine's revenue is tied to mobile-advertising budgets, which are cyclical and can contract quickly in a downturn, as the company experienced. It still carries meaningful net debt of roughly $361 million, and a portion of revenue depends on a limited set of carrier and OEM partners, creating concentration risk if a relationship changes. The company also reported a GAAP net loss in fiscal 2026 even as non-GAAP metrics improved, so profitability on a reported basis remains a work in progress.

4 analysts publish price targets on APPS, averaging $11.00 against a $8.06 price as of August 2026, or +36.5%. The published targets run from $7.50 to $15.00, a moderate spread, and the ratings split 4 buy, 0 hold, 0 sell. Over the last six months there have been 0 raises and 0 cuts among the published actions. A price target is what an analyst published on a date, not a prediction, and sell-side ratings skew positive across the whole market.

Read the full APPS forecast and price target for the target table, the recent rating actions by firm, and how the consensus has shifted.

We give no verdict on Digital Turbine, Inc.. Both cases are real, which is why the question is contested at all, so here is the strongest version of each.

The case for buying. On-device distribution position. Digital Turbine's software sits directly on carrier and OEM devices, giving it a distribution channel for app installs and recommendations that is hard for pure ad-networks to replicate. The most optimistic published target, $15.00, assumes this works close to its best case.

The case against. Digital Turbine's revenue is tied to mobile-advertising budgets, which are cyclical and can contract quickly in a downturn, as the company experienced. The most pessimistic target, $7.50, is roughly what APPS is worth if this bites instead.

Read the full bull and bear case on APPS, including what would have to change to break either one. Walnut is not an investment adviser.

A simple financial snapshot. These are approximations and refresh quarterly; for current figures see Digital Turbine, Inc.'s investor relations page or your broker.

• Revenue (FY2026): ~$565 million (+15% YoY)
• Adjusted EBITDA: ~$122 million (+69%)
• Non-GAAP net income: ~$65 million (~$0.56/share)
• GAAP net loss: ~$38 million (improved from ~$92M)
• Net debt: ~$361 million
• FY2027 revenue guidance: ~$630-650 million

Digital Turbine is most often valued on EV/EBITDA and revenue growth rather than P/E, given its GAAP losses and debt. The fiscal 2026 rebound in revenue and EBITDA, plus guidance for further fiscal 2027 growth, frames it as a turnaround; the debt load and ad-market sensitivity are the offsetting cautions.

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There are three common ways to get APPS exposure. Buy shares (or fractional shares) directly at any major broker. Hold an ETF that includes it, which spreads the position across many companies. Or build it into a focused thematic portfolio, so APPS sits alongside other stocks that express the same thesis.

Walnut takes the portfolio route. Describe a thesis where APPS fits (for example “AI infrastructure” or “dividend-growth large-caps”) and the AI proposes 5 to 6 constituents with target weights. You review the plan and fund it through your own broker when you're ready.

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Digital Turbine is a mobile app-distribution and ad-monetization business in recovery: it sits on devices via carrier and OEM deals and earns money placing and promoting apps. If you believe its on-device position is a durable channel as alternative app stores and AI-driven ad targeting grow, the question becomes how much cyclicality and debt you will tolerate, not timing. The risk is that mobile-ad spending is cyclical, the balance sheet still carries meaningful net debt, and a few large partners drive much of the revenue.

Whether APPS is worth buying today depends more on your time horizon and what you already hold than on any single call. We walk through valuation, what would have to go right, and the risks in is APPS a buy or a sell?, and where the stock could go from here in the APPS stock forecast.

For income investors, whether APPS pays a dividend and how the payout looks is covered in does APPS pay a dividend? And to weigh APPS against a peer, read the full side-by-side comparisons: APPS vs APP and APPS vs U.