Fluence Energy, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results; Reaffirms Fiscal Year 2025 Guidance

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fluence Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLNC) ("Fluence" or the "Company"), a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage, operational services, and asset optimization software, today announced its results for the three and nine months ended June 30, 2025.

Financial Highlights for Fiscal Quarter ended June 30, 2025

Revenue of approximately $602.5 million, which represents an increase of approximately 24.7% from the same quarter last year, primarily driven by the significantly weighted second half compared to the revenue distribution seen in full year 2024.

GAAP gross profit margin was approximately 14.8%, compared to approximately 17.2% for the same quarter last year.   

Adjusted gross profit margin1 was approximately 15.4%, compared to approximately 17.5% for the same quarter last year.

Net income of approximately $6.9 million, compared to approximately $1.1 million for the same quarter last year.

Adjusted EBITDA1 of approximately $27.4 million, compared to approximately $15.6 million for the same quarter last year.

Signed approximately $508.8 million of order intake in the third fiscal quarter, bringing backlog as of June 30, 2025 to approximately $4.9 billion.

In addition, in July and August to date, the Company has signed approximately $1.1 billion of contracts, including two contracts in Australia.

Total Cash2 of approximately $459.9 million as of June 30, 2025, reflecting planned investments in working capital made during the third fiscal quarter. Total liquidity3 was approximately $903 million as of June 30, 2025, including capacity under the Company's revolving credit facility of $342.5 million.4

In August, the Company executed a new supply chain financing facility providing incremental liquidity of $150.0 million.

Financial Outlook

The Company is reaffirming its fiscal year 2025 revenue guidance range of $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion, but now expects to be at the lower end of the range due to a slower than expected production ramp up at its recently commissioned U.S. manufacturing facilities. This delay has shifted some anticipated revenue in fiscal year 2026. These facilities are expected to reach targeted capacity by calendar year-end, ensuring on-time customer deliveries and strengthening Fluence's domestic content position.

The Company is reaffirming its fiscal year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA guidance range of $0 to $20 million (midpoint $10 million), reflecting stronger gross margins for the third fiscal quarter than projected coupled with overhead cost reductions.

The Company is reaffirming its fiscal year 2025 annual recurring revenue ("ARR") guidance of approximately $145 million.

"We delivered strong margins this quarter, underscoring the strength of our operating model and improved execution," said Julian Nebreda, Chief Executive Officer of Fluence. "We also began ramping production and delivered our first domestic content products from U.S.-based manufacturing facilities to customer sites. However, delays in scaling our new manufacturing facilities in the U.S. resulted in lower-than-expected revenue for the quarter. We anticipate recovering this revenue in fiscal 2026 as these facilities reach their targeted production levels. We believe the fundamentals of our business remain incredibly strong, supported by a robust backlog, of which we expect approximately $2.5 billion to convert to revenue in fiscal 2026, including contracts signed in July and August to date."

"We are on track to hit key gross margin and Adjusted EBITDA targets inline with our fiscal 2025 guidance—even as some revenue shifts into 2026," said Ahmed Pasha, Chief Financial Officer of Fluence. Securing our first unsecured, low-cost supply chain financing facility of $150 million reflects market confidence in Fluence and our energy storage business. Providing us additional flexibility to capitalize on future opportunities for growth."

The foregoing Financial Outlook statements represent management's current best estimate as of the date of this release. Actual results may differ materially depending on a number of factors. Investors are urged to read the Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements included in this release. Management does not assume any obligation to update these estimates.

Share Count

The outstanding shares of the Company's common stock as of June 30, 2025 are presented below:

 

Common Stock

Class B-1 common stock held by AES Grid Stability, LLC

51,499,195

Class A common stock held by Siemens AG

39,738,064

Class A common stock held by SPT Invest Management, Sarl

11,761,131

Class A common stock held by Qatar Holding LLC

14,668,275

Class A common stock held by public

64,692,748

Total Class A and Class B-1 common stock outstanding

182,359,413

Conference Call Information

The Company will conduct a teleconference starting at 8:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, to discuss the third fiscal quarter results. To participate, analysts are required to register by clicking Fluence Energy Q3 Earnings Call Registration Link. Once registered, analysts will be issued a unique PIN number and dial-in number. Analysts are encouraged to register at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

General audience participants, and non-analysts are encouraged to join the teleconference in a listen-only mode at: Fluence Energy Listen - Only Webcast, or on www.fluenceenergy.com by selecting Investors, News & Events, and Events & Presentations. Supplemental materials that may be referenced during the teleconference will be available at: www.fluenceenergy.com, by selecting Investors, News & Events, and Events & Presentations.

A replay of the conference call will be available after 1:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 12, 2025. The replay will be available on the Company's website at www.fluenceenergy.com by selecting Investors, News & Events, and Events & Presentations.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We present our operating results in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. ("GAAP"). We believe certain financial measures, such as Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Gross Profit Margin, and Free Cash Flow, which are non-GAAP measures, provide users of our financial statements with supplemental information that may be useful in evaluating our operating performance. We believe that such non-GAAP measures, when read in conjunction with our operating results presented in accordance with GAAP, can be used to better assess our performance from period to period and relative to performance of other companies in our industry, without regard to financing methods, historical cost basis or capital structure. Such non-GAAP measures should be considered as a supplement to, and not as a substitute for, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. These measures have limitations as analytical tools, including that other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate these measures differently, reducing their usefulness as comparative measures.

Adjusted EBITDA is calculated from the consolidated statements of operations using net income (loss) adjusted for (i) interest income, net, (ii) income taxes, (iii) depreciation and amortization, (iv) stock-based compensation, and (v) other non-recurring income or expenses. Adjusted EBITDA also includes amounts impacting net income related to estimated payments due to related parties pursuant to the Tax Receivable Agreement, dated October 27, 2021, by and among Fluence Energy, Inc., Fluence Energy, LLC, Siemens Industry, Inc. and AES Grid Stability, LLC (the "Tax Receivable Agreement").

Adjusted Gross Profit is calculated using gross profit, adjusted to exclude (i) stock-based compensation expenses, (ii) depreciation and amortization, and (iii) other non-recurring income or expenses. Adjusted Gross Profit Margin is calculated using Adjusted Gross Profit divided by total revenue.

Free Cash Flow is calculated from the consolidated statements of cash flows and is defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities, less purchase of property and equipment made in the period. We expect our Free Cash Flow to fluctuate in future periods as we invest in our business to support our plans for growth. Limitations on the use of Free Cash Flow include (i) it should not be inferred that the entire Free Cash Flow amount is available for discretionary expenditures (for example, cash is still required to satisfy other working capital needs, including short-term investment policy, restricted cash, and intangible assets); (ii) Free Cash Flow has limitations as an analytical tool, and it should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of other GAAP financial measures, such as net cash provided by operating activities; and (iii) this metric does not reflect our future contractual commitments.

Please refer to the reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures included in tables contained at the end of this release.  

The Company is not able to provide a quantitative reconciliation of full fiscal year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA to GAAP Net Income (Loss) on a forward-looking basis because of the uncertainty around certain items that may impact Adjusted EBITDA, including stock compensation and restructuring expenses, that are not within our control or cannot be predicted at this time without unreasonable effort.

About Fluence

Fluence Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLNC) is a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage and optimization software for renewables and storage. The Company's solutions and operational services are helping to create a more resilient grid and unlock the full potential of renewable portfolios. With gigawatts of projects successfully contracted, deployed, and under management across nearly 50 markets, the Company is transforming the way we power our world for a more sustainable future.

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The statements contained in this press release and statements that are made on our earnings call that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements set forth above under "Financial Outlook" and other statements regarding the Company's future financial and operational performance, including revenue conversion and growth of our backlog, the Company's business, growth, and innovation strategy and the efficacy of our products and services to meet evolving needs, future market and industry growth and related opportunities for the Company, projected operating costs, our ability to differentiate our products and optimize our cost structure, our ability to compete, liquidity and access to capital, expectations related to delivering on our customer obligations, the timing of future revenue recognition, future capital expenditures and debt service obligations, our expected growth and demand for our energy storage solutions, services, and digital application offerings and the industry generally, including as result of increased demand for electricity, demand for the Company's energy storage solutions, services, and digital applications offerings, our total addressable market and our positioning to benefit from our domestic content offering and new product offerings, expected impacts and benefits from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and related domestic content guidelines on us, our suppliers, and our customers, potential impact of the changes to the IRA pursuant to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ("OBBBA") and related executive orders and agency guidance on us, our customers, and our suppliers, the timing, implementation and success of our compliance and risk mitigation strategies related to the foregoing regulatory impacts and uncertainty, our domestic content strategy, potential or estimated impact of tariffs and uncertainty around U.S. and foreign trade policy on the Company, our suppliers, and our customers, relationships with new and existing customers and suppliers, anticipated impact from operational efficiency improvements, expectations relating to backlog, pipeline, order intake, and contracted backlog, expectations relating to working capital and working capital management, potential impact from recent delays in ramp up of U.S. production facilities on the Company, timeline for ramp up of U.S. production facilities, and projected costs, beliefs, assumptions, prospects, plans and objectives of management. Such statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. When used in this press release, words such as "may," "possible," "will," "should," "seeks," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "grows," "could," "intends," "targets," "projects," "contemplates," "commits", "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions and variations thereof and similar words and expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments, as well as a number of assumptions concerning future events, and their potential effects on our business. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance, and there can be no assurance that future developments affecting our business will be those that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control), or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, which include, but are not limited to, our relatively limited operating and revenue history as an independent entity and the nascent clean energy industry; anticipated increasing expenses in the future, and our ability to maintain prolonged profitability; fluctuations of our order intake and results of operations across fiscal periods; potential difficulties in reaching or maintaining target manufacturing capacity and establishing expected mass manufacturing capacity in the future; risks relating to delays, disruptions, and quality control problems in our manufacturing operations; risks relating to quality and quantity of components provided by suppliers; risks relating to our status as a relatively low-volume purchaser as well as from supplier concentration and limited supplier capacity; risks relating to operating as a global company with a global supply chain; changes in the cost and availability of raw materials and underlying components; failure by manufacturers, vendors, and suppliers to use ethical business practices and comply with applicable laws and regulations; significant reduction in pricing or order volume or loss of one or more of our significant customers or their inability to perform under their contracts; risks relating to competition for our offerings and our ability to attract new customers and retain existing customers; ability to maintain and enhance our reputation and brand recognition; ability to effectively manage our recent and future growth and expansion of our business and operations; our growth depends in part on the success of our relationships with third parties; ability to attract and retain highly qualified personnel; risks associated with engineering and construction, utility interconnection, commissioning and installation of our energy storage solutions and products, cost overruns, and delays; risks relating to lengthy sales and installation cycle for our energy storage solutions; risks related to defects, errors, vulnerabilities and/or bugs in our products and technology; risks relating to estimation uncertainty related to our product warranties; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; risks related to our current and planned foreign operations; amounts included in our pipeline and contracted backlog may not result in actual revenue or translate into profits; risks related to acquisitions we have made or that we may pursue; events and incidents relating to storage, delivery, installation, operation, maintenance and shutdowns of our products; risks relating to our impacts to our customer relationships due to events and incidents during the project lifecycle of an energy storage solution; actual or threatened health epidemics, pandemics or similar public health threats; ability to obtain financial assurances for our projects; risks relating to whether renewable energy technologies are suitable for widespread adoption or if sufficient demand for our offerings do not develop or takes longer to develop than we anticipate; estimates on size of our total addressable market; barriers arising from current electric utility industry policies and regulations and any subsequent changes; risks relating to the cost of electricity available from alternative sources; macroeconomic uncertainty and market conditions; risk relating to interest rates or a reduction in the availability of tax equity or project debt capital in the global financial markets and corresponding effects on customers' ability to finance energy storage systems and demand for our energy storage solutions; reduction, elimination, modification or expiration of government incentives or regulations regarding renewable energy and/or energy storage, the potential of such reduction, elimination, modification, expiration, or determination of inapplicability of such government incentives or regulations; decline in public acceptance of renewable energy, or delay, prevent, or increase in the cost of customer projects; severe weather events; increased attention to ESG matters; restrictions set forth in our current credit agreement and future debt agreements; uncertain ability to raise additional capital to execute on business opportunities; ability to obtain, maintain and enforce proper protection for our intellectual property, including our technology; threat of lawsuits by third parties alleging intellectual property violations; adequate protection for our trademarks and trade names; ability to enforce our intellectual property rights; risks relating to our patent portfolio; ability to effectively protect data integrity of our technology infrastructure and other business systems; use of open-source software; failure to comply with third party license or technology agreements; inability to license rights to use technologies on reasonable terms; risks relating to compromises, interruptions, or shutdowns of our systems; changes in the global trade environment, including imposition of new tariffs, changes to existing tariffs, and related economic uncertainty; potential changes in tax laws or regulations; risks relating to environmental, health, and safety laws and potential obligations, liabilities and costs thereunder; failure to comply with data privacy and data security laws, regulations and industry standards; risks relating to potential future legal proceedings, regulatory disputes, and governmental inquiries; risks related to ownership of our Class A common stock; risks related to us being a "controlled company" within the meaning of the NASDAQ rules; risks relating to the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws; risks relating to our relationship with our founders and continuing equity owners; risks relating to conflicts of interest by our officers and directors due to positions with continuing equity owners; risks related to short-seller activists; we depend on distributions from Fluence Energy, LLC to pay our taxes and expenses and Fluence Energy, LLC's ability to make such distributions may be limited or restricted in certain scenarios; risks arising out of the Tax Receivable Agreement; unanticipated changes in effective tax rates or adverse outcomes resulting from examination of tax returns; risks relating to improper and ineffective internal control over reporting to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act; risks relating to changes in accounting principles or their applicability to us; risks relating to estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies; and other factors set forth under Item 1A."Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on November 29, 2024 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2025 to be filed on August 11, 2025, as well as in other filings we make with the SEC from time to time. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time and it is not possible for us to predict all such risk factors, nor can we assess the effect of all such risk factors on our business or the extent to which any factor or combination of factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements made in this press release. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular statement, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur, or which we become aware of, after the date hereof, except as otherwise may be required by law.

FLUENCE ENERGY, INC.CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS(U.S. Dollars in Thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

Unaudited

 

 

 

June 30,2025

 

September 30,2024

Assets

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

$

436,322

 

 

$

448,685

 

Restricted cash

 

23,566

 

 

 

46,089

 

Trade receivables, net

 

152,557

 

 

 

216,458

 

Unbilled receivables

 

151,361

 

 

 

172,115

 

Receivables from related parties

 

158,376

 

 

 

362,523

 

Advances to suppliers

 

214,055

 

 

 

174,532

 

Inventory, net

 

654,301

 

 

 

182,601

 

Current portion of notes receivable - pledged as collateral

 

—

 

 

 

30,921

 

Other current assets

 

59,158

 

 

 

46,519

 

Total current assets

 

1,849,696

 

 

 

1,680,443

 

Non-current assets:

 

 

 

Property and equipment, net

$

46,321

 

 

$

15,350

 

Intangible assets, net

 

62,273

 

 

 

60,002

 

Goodwill

 

28,665

 

 

 

27,482

 

Deferred income tax asset

 

2,525

 

 

 

8,880

 

Other non-current assets

 

85,670

 

 

 

110,031

 

Total non-current assets

 

225,454

 

 

 

221,745

 

Total assets

$

2,075,150

 

 

$

1,902,188

 

Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

Accounts payable

$

255,645

 

 

$

436,744

 

Deferred revenue

 

545,222

 

 

 

274,499

 

Deferred revenue with related parties

 

47,790

 

 

 

38,162

 

Current portion of borrowings against note receivable - pledged as collateral

 

—

 

 

 

30,360

 

Personnel related liabilities

 

22,546

 

 

 

58,584

 

Accruals and provisions

 

221,508

 

 

 

338,311

 

Taxes payable

 

7,019

 

 

 

57,929

 

Other current liabilities

 

25,104

 

 

 

24,246

 

Total current liabilities

 

1,124,834

 

 

 

1,258,835

 

Non-current liabilities:

 

 

 

Deferred income tax liability

$

7,507

 

 

$

7,114

 

Convertible senior notes, net

 

390,356

 

 

 

—

 

Other non-current liabilities

 

31,609

 

 

 

29,100

 

Total non-current liabilities

 

429,472

 

 

 

36,214

 

Total liabilities

 

1,554,306

 

 

 

1,295,049

 

Stockholders' Equity:

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $0.00001 per share, 10,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2025 and September 30, 2024

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

Class A common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, 1,200,000,000 shares authorized; 131,675,553 shares issued and 130,860,218 shares outstanding as of June 30, 2025; 130,207,845 shares issued and 129,421,797 shares outstanding as of September 30, 2024, respectively

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

Class B-1 common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, 134,325,805 shares authorized; 51,499,195 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2025; 134,325,805 shares authorized; 51,499,195 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2024

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

Class B-2 common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, 200,000,000 shares authorized; 0 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2025 and September 30, 2024

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

Treasury stock, at cost

 

(9,950

)

 

 

(9,460

)

Additional paid-in capital

 

623,228

 

 

 

634,851

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

11,813

 

 

 

(1,840

)

Accumulated deficit

 

(217,708

)

 

 

(151,448

)

Total stockholders' equity attributable to Fluence Energy, Inc.

 

407,384

 

 

 

472,104

 

Non-Controlling interests

 

113,460

 

 

 

135,035

 

Total stockholders' equity

 

520,844

 

 

 

607,139

 

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity

$

2,075,150

 

 

$

1,902,188

 

FLUENCE ENERGY, INC.CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED)(U.S. Dollars in Thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

Nine Months Ended June 30,

 

 

2025

 

 

 

2024

 

 

 

2025

 

 

 

2024

 

Revenue

$

566,926

 

 

$

328,091

 

 

$

947,532

 

 

$

856,125

 

Revenue from related parties

 

35,607

 

 

 

155,226

 

 

 

273,407

 

 

 

614,289

 

Total revenue

 

602,533

 

 

 

483,317

 

 

 

1,220,939

 

 

 

1,470,414

 

Cost of goods and services