SunPower, formerly d/b/a Complete Solaria, Inc. (“SunPower” or the
“Company”) (Nasdaq: SPWR), a solar technology, services, and
installation company, will present its 2024 and Q1’25 results via
webcast at 1:00pm ET on Wednesday, April 30. Interested parties may
access the webcast by registering here or by visiting the Events
page within the IR section of the company website:
https://investors.sunpower.com/news-events/events.
Please see our SunPower rebranding announcement
on the back page of the April 29 print version of the Wall Street
Journal or on the mobile app for the WSJ print version, where it
will reside for the next week.
SunPower chairman and CEO, T.J. Rodgers
commented, “This is the Company’s second quarterly report after the
SunPower asset purchase on September 30, 2024, and our
first report as SunPower, after rebranding with
that name on April 21, 2025. The rebranding also fortuitously
coincides with SunPower’s first profitable quarter in four
years.”
SunPower
Revenue & Operating
Income |
Our First Two
Quarters as SunPower |
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GAAP2 |
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NON-GAAP |
($1000s,
except gross margin) |
Q1 2025 |
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Q4 2024 |
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Q1 20253 |
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Q4 2024 |
Revenue |
80,174 |
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88,674 |
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80,174 |
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88,674 |
4 |
Gross
Margin |
36 |
% |
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47 |
% |
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36 |
% |
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47 |
%4 |
Operating
Expenses |
27,366 |
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62,769 |
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27,366 |
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62,769 |
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Operating
Expenses |
12,270 |
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49,870 |
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12,270 |
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49,870 |
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Less Commission |
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Operating
Income/(Loss) |
(8,876 |
) |
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(21,501 |
) |
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1,274 |
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(5,940 |
) |
Cash
Balance5 |
13,995 |
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13,308 |
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13,995 |
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13,308 |
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1 Operating profit based on the non-GAAP results
posted on our website [us.sunpower.com].2 To see our audited 2024
GAAP financial statements, go to the SEC 10K filing on our website
[us.sunpower.com].3 Our non-GAAP financials are used to run the
company and differ from the official GAAP report in three ways: 1)
no non-cash amortization of intangibles, no employee stock
compensation charges (already reflected in share count by dilution)
and no one-time events, including favorable and unfavorable events.
(See note 4.)4 The Q4’24 revenue and gross margin reported in our
unaudited January 21, 2025 shareholder letter were lower, $81,103
and 37%, respectively. These figures were accurate and conformed to
our CSLR revenue recognition standards on that date. The numbers
presented here are calculated using the harmonized revenue
recognition standards for the combined company from the audited
2024 results. Internally, we use our original Q4’24 forecast to
judge our performance. For example, the 47% Q4’24 gross margin is
inflated by jobs bought from SunPower at no COGS cost, and should
not be used in a forward-looking projections.5 Cash balance is
exclusive of restricted cash.
Fellow Shareholders:
Our Q1’25 revenue, earnings and cashflow are
given above. They feature identical GAAP and non-GAAP results for
the quarter, except for GAAP operating income, which contains
charges from depreciation and amortization of intangible assets,
stock-based compensation charges, and non-recurring events, mostly
from the asset purchase.
Rodgers added, “I congratulate our team for
breaking the profit barrier just 180 days after launch, despite
enduring layoffs and some hard times in the solar industry. The
rest of this report will focus on our other important first-quarter
accomplishments.”
Summary of SunPower Q1’25
Accomplishments
- Our $80.2 million Q1’25
revenue was in line with expectations, and it was achieved
in the traditionally difficult winter quarter. (For example, Blue
Raven operates in the Midwest and often has to remove snow from
customers’ roofs during winter.)
- SunPower is now properly
and leanly staffed. The new SunPower was launched with the
combined headcounts of Complete Solar, SunPower and Blue Raven
Solar – 3,499 employees – on October 1, 2024. We reduced the
staffing by 3x, to 1,140 one quarter later, as graphed below. Our
final headcount target for the combined company was first set at
1,225 and then lowered to 980. We are currently ahead of that plan
with 906 employees. We are at the right headcount to be profitable
at $300 million in annualized revenue.
- Key new employees.
We are now able to recycle a fraction of the salaries saved from
headcount reductions to bring in key industry players. For example,
we hired Dr. Richard Swanson, the Stanford technical genius and
founder of SunPower, to advise us on technology, as well as our new
CTO, Dr. Mehran Sedigh, a storage expert who ran the Enphase
Battery business unit and ramped it to its current $500 million in
revenue.
- Our headcount and cost
reductions led to $1.3 million operating income in Q1’25.
Our continuous cost-cutting measures have improved our operating
income over the last three quarters from a $39.6 million loss in
Q3’24 (unofficial sum of losses for three companies), to a loss of
$5.9 million in Q4’24 (audited), to an operating profit of $1.3
million in Q1’25.
- Our cash balance grew (slightly). We finished
Q1’25 with $14.0 million in cash versus $13.3 million in
Q4’24.
Outlook
We forecast steady revenue and positive
operating income again next quarter. We will provide a
more detailed forecast and growth plan during our May annual
meeting.
Subsequent Events
We are now SunPower (Nasdaq:
SPWR). On April 21, the Company announced it has rebranded
as SunPower, a tradename we own. The company’s ticker symbols have
been changed from “CSLR” and “CSLRW” to “SPWR” and “SPWRW”,
respectively, effective April 22, 2025.
Strategic partnership with
Sunder. We have partnered with Sunder, a large, highly
regarded Salt-Lake area solar sales firm. They are now supporting
our growth, which should start to show up on the top line in
Q3’25.
We strengthened our board with three
pubic-company ex-CEO directors: Lothar
Maier, former CEO of Linear Technology, a $1.4 billion
Silicon Valley chip company; Dan McCranie, the
former chairman of five high-tech companies, including Freescale
and On, the two public companies spun out by Motorola
Semiconductor; and Jamie Haenggi, the former CEO
of ADT Solar.
We have a fully independent
board. A current independent director, Ron Pasek, now has
been named the Lead Director for the corporation and Dan McCranie
has been named as the Compensation Committee Chairman serving
respectively for T.J. Rodgers (Chairman) and Tony Alvarez
(Compensation Committee Chair) who are not independent directors
because they worked for the company or a predecessor company in the
last five years.
SunPower Board (4/30/25) |
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DIRECTOR |
STATUS |
PRIOR |
DEGREE/UNIVERSITY |
SOLAR VETERAN (Bolded) |
Tony Alvarez |
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CEO |
BEE Georgia Tech, MSEE Georgia
Tech |
Complete Solar,
SunEdison, ChipMOS, Cypress* |
Will Anderson |
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CEO |
BS Mgmt Science MIT, MBA
Stanford |
Same Day Solar,
Complete Solar |
Adam Gishen |
I |
VPIR |
BS Int'l Studies Univ. of
Leeds |
Credit Suisse, Ondra, Lehman
Bros. |
*Jamie Haenggi |
I |
CEO |
BS Int'l Relations Univ. of
Minnesota |
ADT Solar,
Vonage |
Chris Lundell |
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CEO |
BS Finance, MBA Finance
BYU |
Vivint, DOMO,
Novell |
*Lothar Maier |
I |
CEO |
BS Chemical Eng UC
Berkley |
Linear Tech, Cypress |
*Dan McCranie |
I |
CEO |
BS EE Virginia Tech |
ENVX, Cypress Semi, SEEQ,
AMD |
Ron Pasek |
I |
CFO |
BS Finance SJSU, MBA Santa
Clara |
NetApp, Alterra, Sun
Micro |
T.J Rodgers |
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CEO |
BA Dartmouth, MA/PhD EE
Stanford |
SunPower, Complete
Solar, Enphase, Cypress |
Tidjane Thiam |
I |
CEO |
BS Ecole Polytechnique, MBA
INSEAD |
Credit Suisse, Prudential,
Aviva, McKinsey & Co. |
Devin Whatley |
I |
VC |
BA East Asian Studies UCLA,
MBA Penn |
Ecosystem Integrity
Fund, Zep Solar, Pegasus |
* New (3) |
Independent (64%) |
*Cypress Semiconductor
Corporation |
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Rodgers concluded, “Our successive $80
million-plus quarters re-define our Company with an annualized
revenue of $300 million-plus, now producing a $1 million-plus
quarterly operating profit. The market is beginning to recognize
that fact.”
About SunPowerSunPower has
become a leading residential solar services provider in North
America. SunPower’s digital platform and installation services
support energy needs for customers wishing to make the transition
to a more energy-efficient lifestyle. For more information visit
www.sunpower.com.
Non-GAAP Financial MeasuresIn
addition to providing financial measurements based on generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States of America
("GAAP"), SunPower provides an additional financial metrics in this
press release that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP
("non-GAAP"). Management believes the non-GAAP financial measures,
in addition to GAAP financial measures, are useful measures of
operating performance because the non-GAAP financial measure does
not include the impact of items that management does not consider
indicative of SunPower’s operating performance, such as
amortization of goodwill and expensing employee stock options in
addition to accounting for their dilutive effect, which facilitates
the analysis of the company’s core operating results across
reporting periods. The non-GAAP financial measures do not replace
the presentation of SunPower’s GAAP financial results and should
only be used as a supplement to, not as a substitute for,
SunPower’s financial results presented in accordance with GAAP.
Descriptions of and reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial
measures used in this press release are included in the financial
table above and related footnotes. We encourage investors to
carefully consider our preliminary results under GAAP, as well as
our preliminary non-GAAP information and the reconciliations
between these presentations, to more fully understand our business.
Non-GAAP financial measures are reported in addition to, and not as
a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in
accordance with GAAP.
Forward Looking
Statements This press release contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, about us and our
industry that involve substantial risks and uncertainties.
Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our
future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can
identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such
as “will,” “goal,” “prioritize,” “plan,” “target,” “expect,”
“focus,” “forecast,” “look forward,” “opportunity,” “believe,”
“estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” and “pursue” or the negative
of these terms or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements
in this press release include, without limitation, our Q1’25
revenue projection, our expectations regarding our Q1’25 and fiscal
2025 financial performance, including with respect to our Q1’25 and
fiscal 2025 combined revenues and profit before tax loss,
expectations and plans relating to further headcount reduction,
cost control efforts, and our expectations with respect to when we
achieve breakeven operating income and positive operating income,
including our forecast to be operating income breakeven in Q2’25.
Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking
statements as a result of certain risks and uncertainties,
including, without limitation, our ability to implement further
headcount reductions and cost controls, our ability to integrate
and operate the combined business with the SunPower assets, our
ability to achieve the anticipated benefits of the SunPower
acquisition, global market conditions, any adjustments, changes or
revisions to our financial results arising from our financial
closing procedures, the completion of our audit and financial
statements for Q1’25 and fiscal 2025, and other risks and
uncertainties applicable to our business. For additional
information on these risks and uncertainties and other potential
factors that could affect our business and financial results or
cause actual results to differ from the results predicted, readers
should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks
and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of our
annual report on Form 10-K to be filed with the SEC on April 30,
2025, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC and
other documents that we have filed with, or will file with, the
SEC. Such filings identify and address other important risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ
materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of
the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue
reliance on forward-looking statements, and SunPower assumes no
obligation and does not intend to update or revise these
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events, or otherwise.
Preliminary Unaudited Financial
ResultsThe selected unaudited financial results for the
Q1’25 are preliminary and subject to our quarter and year-end
accounting procedures and external audit by our independent
registered accounting firm. As a result, the financial results
presented in this press release may change in connection with the
finalization of our closing and reporting processes and financial
statements for Q1’25 and fiscal 2025 and may not represent the
actual financial results for such quarter and full year. In
addition, the information in this press release is not a
comprehensive statement of our financial results for Q1’25 or the
2025 fiscal year, should not be viewed as a substitute for full,
audited financial statements prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, and are not necessarily indicative
of our results for any future period.
Company Contacts:
Dan Foley CFO
daniel.foley@SunPower.com (858) 212-9594 |
Sioban Hickie
VP Investor Relations & MarketingIR@SunPower.com (801)
477-5847 |
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RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
(PRELIMINARY) |
(In Thousands) |
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COMPLETE SOLARIA, INC. - AS REPORTED |
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SPWR - Unaudited |
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13 weeks ended |
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13 weeks ended |
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13 weeks ended |
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*13 weeks ended |
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*13 weeks ended |
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March 31, 2024 |
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June 30, 2024 |
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29-Sep-24 |
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29-Dec-24 |
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30-Mar-24 |
GAAP operating
loss from continuing operations |
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(7,544) |
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(9,494) |
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(29,770) |
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(21,501) |
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(8,876) |
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Note |
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Depreciation and
amortization |
A |
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357 |
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329 |
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305 |
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1,745 |
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1,146 |
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Stock based compensation |
B |
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1,341 |
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1,229 |
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1,516 |
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(1,019) |
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5,756 |
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Restructuring charges |
C |
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406 |
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2,603 |
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21,072 |
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14,835 |
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3,248 |
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Total of Non-GAAP
adjustments |
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2,104 |
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4,161 |
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22,893 |
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15,561 |
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10,150 |
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Non-GAAP net loss |
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(5,440) |
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(5,333) |
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(6,877) |
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(5,940) |
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1,274 |
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Notes: |
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(A) Depreciation and amortization: Depreciation and
amortization related to capital expenditures. |
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(B) Stock-based
compensation: Stock-based compensation relates to our equity
incentive awards and for services paid in warrants. Stock-based
compensation is a non-cash expense. |
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(C) Acquisition Costs: Costs primarily related to acquisition,
headcount reductions (i.e. severance), legal, professional services
(i.e. historical carveout audits) and due diligence. |
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*Reflects the
acquisition of the SunPower Assets which Complete Solaria acquired
on 9/30/24. |
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Source: SunPower
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