• Credit Acceptance first-quarter 2026 earnings call drew CEO Vinayak Hegde, CFO Jay Martin, SVP and Treasurer Jay Brinkley, VP and Assistant Treasurer Jeff Soutar; analysts included TD Cowen’s Moshe Orenbuch, Autonomous Research’s Robert Wildhack, Philadelphia Financial’s Daniel Furtado.
• GAAP net income $135.8 million, or $12.40 per diluted share; adjusted net income $117.3 million, or $10.71 per diluted share.
• Forecasted net cash flows from loan portfolio fell $9.1 million, or 0.1%, smallest quarterly decline in three years; unit volume fell 4.3% year over year, moderation from prior quarter; market share in core used-vehicle subprime segment 4.5% for first two months, down from 5.2% a year earlier.
• Management cited April workforce reduction of about 6% as part of a broader cost and operating-model reset; added Chief Business Officer Steffen Schumann and Chief Sales Officer Robert Bourrier to tighten pricing, analytics, dealer segmentation, and frontline execution.
• CFO flagged lower-than-forecast prepayments as a key driver of provision volatility despite smaller forecasted cash-flow decline; CEO said share strategy targets segmented “pockets of opportunity” without pricing for volume, while AI tools lifted an AI-enabled call-center agent’s inbound capacity about fivefold versus prior quarter.

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