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Garmin posts record second quarter. * By Gary Reich * July 29, 2026 Garmin today reported record second-quarter results, with consolidated revenue climbing 11% to roughly $2.02 billion and operating income increasing 30% to $616 million. Garmin said in a statement that the marine segment turned in one of the quarter's standout performances, with revenue rising 14% to $341.4 million, compared with $299.3 million a year earlier. Marine operating income also grew, climbing 59% year-over-year to nearly $100 million, as gross and operating margins expanded to 61% and 29%, respectively. Garmin attributed the marine strength to "broad-based growth across multiple categories." The company also introduced new products in the quarter: Signal VHF radios, with color touch screens and upgraded communication tools, and the next-generation LiveScope 2 sonar. For the first half of 2026, marine revenue of $696.4 million was up 13% from $618.7 million in the same period last year, with operating income increasing to $190.6 million from $149.8 million, underscoring sustained momentum in the category rather than a one-quarter blip. "Each business segment contributed to these impressive results," president and CEO Cliff Pemble said in the statement, pointing to the company's first-half performance as the basis for its increased full-year outlook. Beyond marine, Garmin's other segments posted mixed results: Aviation grew 8%, Auto OEM inched up 1% and returned to profitability, and Outdoor revenue slipped 2% amid softer demand in consumer auto and adventure watch categories. Companywide gross margin expanded 360 basis points to 62.4%, aided in part by roughly $21 million in tariff refunds. Garmin ended the quarter with approximately $4.4 billion in cash and marketable securities, and generated $276 million in free cash flow, while continuing its quarterly dividend program and share buybacks. The company's full-year guidance is now projected at annual revenue of about $8.05 billion and pro forma earnings per share of $10.

RingConn Gen 3 is here, now with vibration alerts. Heres what to know about the new smart ring. July 24, 2026 Oura isn't the only one with a new smart ring. RingConn, a subscription-free alternative, just dropped its Gen 3 smart ring. It measures all the essential biometrics you want in a smart ring, and works around the screen-free design with a new innovation: a vibration motor. The announcement of the new RingConn Gen 3 also comes the same week as Garmin announced the Cirqa, a tracker that looks noticeably similar to Whoop's health trackers. About the RingConn Gen 3 smart ring. The new RingConn Gen 3 comes in 10 sizes and five finishes. Credit: RingConn Sponsored Content What sets RingConn apart from fellow smart ring maker Oura is that it is subscription-free, meaning once you buy the ring, there's no recurring cost. The new Gen 3 comes in 10 sizes (6 to 16) and five different finishes, including silver, gold, black, brushed silver, and brushed rose gold. The new ring claims outstanding battery life, up to 14 days, one of the longest of any fitness tracker Mazech Media has seen. However, it's a bit shorter if you have vibration turned on. The vibration motor is a new addition to the Gen 3, notifying you of health alerts, sedentary reminders, and low battery. When Oura launched the Oura Ring 5, its slimmer design was the headline, and the RingConn Gen 3 is only slightly bigger. It has a thickness of 2.3mm and a width of 6.8mm, while the Oura Ring 5 is 2.28mm thick and 6.09mm wide. Take the RingConn Gen 3 with you in the water as its waterproof up to 100m. Credit: RingConn The Gen 3 now detects blood pressure and sleep apnea, although neither feature is FDA-cleared. It's water-resistant, waterproof up to 100m. Included with RingConn Gen 3 models is a travel charging case, which provides over 150 days of battery life. The RingConn Gen 3 starts at $349 (brushed finishes cost $369) and is now available to order from RingConn and Amazon.

Garmin acquires TrainingPeaks. The end of vendor independence? Garmin has acquired TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic from Peaksware. Why your training planning should not depend on a device manufacturer. On 22 July 2026, Garmin announced the acquisition of the training platforms TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic from Peaksware Holdings. Around 120 employees join Garmin, financial terms were not disclosed. For more than two decades, TrainingPeaks was the largest manufacturer-independent platform for structured endurance training. With this acquisition it now belongs to a device manufacturer. That is, first of all, a sober observation and not a reason for alarm. Nobody knows today what Garmin plans for TrainingPeaks in the long run. Still, something fundamental changes. If you wear a Coros, Suunto, Polar or Wahoo watch, or coach a mixed fleet of devices, you are now entrusting your training planning to a platform whose owner competes with exactly these manufacturers. Whether all integrations will be maintained equally in the long run is no longer in the hands of the platform itself. The industry has seen this play out before. Today's Plan was shut down completely in March 2024 after being acquired by Zwift. Tredict witnessed up close what that felt like for the athletes and coaches affected. The clearest example is sending planned workouts to a watch. A training platform pushes your structured sessions straight onto your device, even when it is another manufacturer's watch. That is write access to a competitor's hardware, and it is the one feature a device manufacturer has the least reason to maintain just as well for other brands. Tredict sends planned workouts to Garmin, Coros, Suunto, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Zwift, icTrainer and the Apple Watch via Watchletic. Then there is switching brands. When you change your watch, your history and your form curve come with you, because Tredict keeps activities from every manufacturer in the same training calendar and calculates your form from all of them. And finally there is the way back out. You can retrieve your activities and workouts at any time through the OAuth2 API, the Personal API, Dropbox sync or as a .fit file, subscribe to your training calendar in your calendar software, and delete your account completely with a single click. Independence is not measured by how easily you get in. Independence does not pay off within one season, it pays off over years and decades. Your training history stays with you for your entire athletic career, while the ownership of a platform may change hands several times along the way. So a platform decision is worth thinking through in these longer timeframes. Tredict is owner-run, developed and operated in Europe, and belongs to no device manufacturer. Garmin is integrated through the official API and remains a valued partner, just like Coros, Suunto, Polar, Wahoo, Hammerhead and Zwift. All manufacturers are treated equally, because Tredict has no interest in selling you a particular device. Tredict is convinced that a training platform is best positioned when it is independent of device manufacturers. Your training data and your training planning should not depend on which watch you wear on your wrist. For coaches and clubs this goes double, because in a training group everyone wears a different watch anyway. As a coach you connect directly with your athletes on Tredict, plan their training, apply your training plans and keep an eye on form curve and training log, no matter whether there is a Garmin, Coros, Suunto, Polar or Wahoo on the wrist. If you use TrainingPeaks and are looking for an independent alternative, its overview page walks you through the complete migration path. You import your training history either directly from your device manufacturer or from a TrainingPeaks data export. Tredict recalculates fitness, fatigue and performance from your history using the Banister model, so you do not start from zero. The same applies if you are coming from TrainingPeaks as a coach. Your athletes connect with you on Tredict and import their training history themselves, and Tredict recalculates their form curves from it automatically. You set up your training plans once, then apply them to your athletes, publish them in the public directory or sell them through Tredict free of charge. And with an entry in the free coaches directory, new athletes can find you directly. composed at 7/22/2026, 5:30:00 PM by Felix Gertz Glossary. Blog. Friendly asked questions. Training plans.