Bloom Energy Corporation Q1 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Context
  • This quarter occurred during the early height of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting operations, permitting, and economic conditions globally.
  • Despite the environment, Bloom Energy operated as an essential business, kept manufacturing running, supported emergency medical facilities, and refurbished 1,200 ventilators.
Financial Highlights (Compared to Q1 2019)
  • Revenue: $156.7M, up 6.6% year-over-year.
  • System acceptances: Up 8.9% year-over-year.
  • Non‑GAAP operating expenses: $48.8M, at the low end of guidance.
  • Adjusted EBITDA loss: $9.8M, significantly better than guidance (guided range: -$25M to -$15M).
  • Cash & short-term investments: $353.9M (excluding PPA and restricted cash: $180.3M). Cash decreased by $22.5M as Bloom pre-built systems for second‑half demand.
Operational Highlights
  • No cancellations in the more than $1B backlog of contracted systems.
  • Service revenue base: $2.1B from installed fleet, plus $1.1B potential from backlog.
  • 37 microgrids powered in Q1, supporting 155 grid outages.
  • Increased inbound interest from hospitals, manufacturing, telecom, and food service sectors.
  • South Korea installations resumed quickly after early COVID disruption; a 19.8 MW project is entering service.

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Operator: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bloom Energy First Quarter 2020 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. As a reminder this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mark Mesler, Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations at Bloom Energy. Please go ahead. Mark Mesler: Thank you, operator. Good afternoon all, and thank you for joining us on Bloom Energy's first quarter 2020 earnings conference call. To supplement this conference call, we have filed our Q1 2020 shareholder letter and earnings release with the SEC and have posted it along with supplemental financial information that we will periodically reference throughout this call to our Investor Relations website. The matters we will be discussing today include forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future financial performance of the company. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that we discussed in detail in our documents filed with the SEC, specifically the most recent reports on forms 10-K and 10-Q, which identify important risk factors including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. These include statements about the effects of COVID-19 on the company's business results, financial position,

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