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FuelCell Energy

FCEL
15
Electrical Equipment & Parts · Industrials
Price
$18.50
+1.24 (+7.16%)
Market Cap
$979.8M
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
15
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.

Share count falling — buybacks

92.3% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 334.7M (2021) → 25.7M (2025)

FuelCell Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, sells, installs, operates, and services stationary fuel cell power plants for distributed baseload power generation. It offers SureSource1500, a 1.4-megawatt (MW) platform; SureSource 3000, a 2.8 MW platform; SureSource 4000, a 3.7 MW platform; SureSource 250, a 250- kilowatt (kW) platform; SureSource 400, a 400-kW platform; and SureSource Hydrogen, a 2.3 MW platform that is designed to produce up to 1,200 kilograms of

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+60.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+65.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$34M/ year

Declining (-38% vs prior year)

21.5% of revenue

5.4x the sector average (4%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

0.3%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~2 years

$312M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

$312M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue accelerating

FuelCell Energy grew revenue 61% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

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Quality

Gross Margin
-19.2%
Thin — -19.2% gross margin
Operating Margin
-86.1%
Losing money on operations — -86.1%
ROCE
-2.9%
Weak — -2.9% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+48.3%
Fast-growing sales (48.3% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
0/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
FCF Margin
-77.6%
Burning cash (-77.6%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.20
Conservative — low debt load (0.20)
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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