SunPower: SunPower Reports Q1'25: $80.2M Revenue, $1.3M Profit

First Profitable Quarter In Four Years OREM, Utah, April 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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 GAAP 2 NON-GAAP ($1000s, except gross margin) Q1 2025 Q4 2024 Q1 2025 3 Q4 2024 Revenue 80,174 88,674 80,174 88,674 4 Gross Margin 36 % 47 % 36 % 47 % 4 Operating Expenses 27,366 62,769 27,366 62,769 Operating Expenses 12,270 49,870 12,270 49,870 Less Commission Operating Income/(Loss) (8,876 ) (21,501 ) 1,274 (5,940 ) Cash Balance 5 13,995 13,308 13,995 13,308 _____________________________________ 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) DIRECTOR STATUS PRIOR DEGREE/UNIVERSITY SOLAR VETERAN (Bolded) Tony Alvarez CEO BEE Georgia Tech, MSEE Georgia Tech Complete Solar, SunEdison , ChipMOS, Cypress * Will Anderson 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 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 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 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 SunPower SunPower 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 Measures In 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 uncertainti