NeoVolta Inc (NEOV) (Q4 2025) Earnings Call Highlights: Strategic Transformation Meets ...

Negative Points

• Fourth quarter revenue was approximately $13,000 compared with $4.8 million in the prior year fourth quarter, reflecting a sharp slowdown in residential and traditional installer channel demand following changes in the federal incentive environment.

• Fiscal year 2026 GAAP net loss was $21.5 million or $0.55 loss per share, compared with a net loss of $5 million or $0.15 loss per share in fiscal year 2025.

• Fourth quarter GAAP net loss was $11.7 million compared with $1.6 million in the same period prior year, primarily driven by $3.9 million provision for credit losses and bad debt expenses and $1.1 million of residential inventory reserves.

• Fiscal year 2026 adjusted EBITDA was negative $12.8 million compared with negative $2.6 million in fiscal year 2025, and fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA was negative $8 million compared with negative $0.7 million in the prior year fourth quarter.

• The company filed a $200 million shelf registration after the close, which may raise concerns about potential shareholder dilution, and the stock declined on the news.

Q & A Highlights

Q: You filed a $200 million shelf after the close, and the stock is down on that. Could you talk through liquidity at year-end plus the debt raise, how much you think you need through the initial startup of the factory, and the rationale behind the shelf and willingness to use equity at current prices? A: CFO Jing Nealis explained the shelf is an administrative filing not intended to be used right away, as the current S-3 is running low on balance; the new filing provides flexibility over a few years. With the recent financing through Roth, the company is good for working capital for a period of time, and customer POs are coming in, so she characterized it as an administrative filing.

Q: The SK On agreements seem particularly interesting. What do they say about your ability to manufacture the packs and the controls layer, and is that attracting attention or a halo effect from other potential customers? A: CEO Ardes Johnson said the team's ability to turn a battery cell into a pack is, in their opinion, one of the best in the world, and it is a testament that a company of SK's size is looking to NeoVolta for packs, reflecting its capability, IP, and trade secrets. The SK relationship started over a year ago prior to the joint venture with LONGi, and they are now going through a design phase, with manufacturing to be done in the US at the Pendergrass facility. It has created large interest, with many customers reaching out and qualifying the facility, and the grand opening generated a lot of interest.

Q: What are the gating items to getting the formal purchase agreement signed for the 9 gigawatt hours on the pack side? Are you assuming you'll have that in hand before you accelerate Line 2? A: CEO Ardes Johnson said it is designed to be done in the coming weeks. From a commercial perspective, high-level agreements on timing and pricing are already in place; the remaining work is the technical portion and process. He expects it done in the next six to eight weeks, and they want to do it properly rather than rush.

Q: Could you characterize the sales pipeline at this point, the next steps in converting it to POs, and what the dependencies are? A: CEO Ardes Johnson said the pipeline is very robust and conversion is starting. Under the Infinite Grid Capital LOI, they have a high-level commitment and reservation on the first 300 megawatt hours for edge data center applications in the Canada area, delivered from the US factory in 2027, with a financial commitment tied to it. The next step is the qualification QA/QC process, which could take a few weeks to a month or two. He expects to start receiving orders between now and the end of the calendar year, has procured materials for the first 10 units with a home for them, and expects C&I product deliveries in Q1 of next year.

Q: On the decision to accelerate the second line, when would you start ordering equipment and installing it, and how would that line ramp to the 2028 deliveries? A: CEO Ardes Johnson said final designs are still being worked through, but it will move rapidly; equipment takes months to order, deliver, install, and start up. They look to begin at the start of the next fiscal year and expect to start producing off that line by the middle of next calendar year, with both pack lines producing and supporting the final BESS line, ramping in the second half of next calendar year.

Q: Just to clarify, do you expect the second line up and running in the second half of calendar 2027, and should we adjust models accordingly? Will you be running two shifts on the first line and starting the second line? A: CEO Ardes Johnson said not to characterize it as a second line changing the final BESS numbers. They are working through a pack manufacturing arrangement with SK On that would bring revenue in the second half of next year, still in discussion depending on final BESS demand. Think of it as flexibility on the front end to produce packs with prismatic or pouch cells going into the final BESS solution, while maintaining the pace of final BESS output. The typical ramp is two shifts to four, second line to six, and two shifts there to eight, but this is more about front-end flexibility with a quicker ramp as needed, with an additional additive portion at the end of calendar 2027 moving into 2028 on pack delivery to SK On.

Q: What's the timeline for the commercial product line coming out of Pendergrass? A: CEO Ardes Johnson said they are looking toward the second quarter of next calendar year. They updated the design from a 233-kilowatt-hour solution to a 313-kilowatt-hour solution, moving from 125 to 150 kilowatt PCS. The transition to the US with more domestic content, qualifying vendors, and finalizing design is taking time; they are in first beta production now, with certification starting around November and taking two to three months. First deliveries are expected February, March, or April next year, though they are already marketing and selling the solution.

Q: How important of a channel is Luminia for that product? Is that what will allow you to leverage that relationship, or is it one of many? A: CEO Ardes Johnson said Luminia is definitely a very strategic partner, with a non-binding LOI for potential M&A activity. They bring a portfolio and pipeline of opportunities they are developing based on NeoVolta's product portfolio, and they supported the third-party ownership platform for both C&I and residential. He thinks of them as a development arm of NeoVolta, bringing pull-through in C&I, with dozens of megawatts of solar-plus-storage and storage-only opportunities, mostly behind the meter and programmatically in California and other places. The sales team also sees a lot of demand, and there is huge demand for a FEOC-compliant domestic content product, which NeoVolta expects to be one of the few to have available next year.

Q: How are you thinking about cash burn rate ahead of purchase orders, securing prepayments, and the path from A to B in managing costs ahead of revenue? A: CFO Jing Nealis said the term loan gives time to hit major milestones, including signing the SK On pack deal and turning pipeline into initial POs. They are working on a potential ABL-type facility to fund working capital as customer POs and prepayments turn into AR and inventory, which would allow an asset-based working capital revolver. Customer prepayments are another channel, and the I

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