NASDAQ:ELVA Electrovaya Q4 2025 Earnings Report $6.35 -0.04 (-0.63%) Closing price 09/25/2026 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$6.36 +0.02 (+0.24%) As of 09/25/2026 07:41 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Electrovaya EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.06Consensus EPS $0.05Beat/MissBeat by +$0.01One Year Ago EPSN/AElectrovaya Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$20.51 millionExpected Revenue$20.26 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$255.00 thousandYoY Revenue GrowthN/AElectrovaya Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2025Date12/10/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateWednesday, December 10, 2025Conference Call Time5:00PM ETUpcoming EarningsElectrovaya's Q4 2026 earnings is estimated for Wednesday, December 9, 2026, based on past reporting schedules, with a conference call scheduled on Friday, December 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress ReleaseAnnual Report (40-F)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Electrovaya Q4 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrDecember 10, 2025ShareShareShare This ReportLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: First full year of profitability with fiscal 2025 revenue up ~43% YoY to $63.8M, Q4 revenue $20.5M, ~31% gross margin and positive adjusted EBITDA—management says this reflects structural operational scale, not one‑time items. Positive Sentiment: Balance sheet and liquidity materially strengthened — secured a $51M Exim loan (Make More in America), a $25M Bank of Montreal facility, and subsequent equity raises (including $28M in Nov), leaving management with >$40M available liquidity. Positive Sentiment: Jamestown cell manufacturing is under construction and being positioned to qualify for U.S. incentives (45X / investment tax credits), which management expects to support supply resilience, margin expansion and domestic content benefits. Neutral Sentiment: Technology and safety differentiate the company — Infinity cells track toward ~15,000 cycles and a claimed perfect safety record from the ceramic separator — but new initiatives (rapid charging, next‑gen separators, solid‑state) require R&D, IP filing and multi‑year validation before driving sizable revenue. Negative Sentiment: Revenue concentration and timing risk — material handling is expected to remain ~80%–85% of 2026 revenue while new verticals (robotics, GSE, ESS, defense) are early‑stage and contain binary outcomes and potential pushouts, creating execution and forecasting risk. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallElectrovaya Q4 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Everyone. Greetings. Welcome to the Electrovaya Q4 year-end 2025 financial results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, John Gibson, CFO. You may begin. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:00:34Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining today's call to discuss Electrovaya's Q4 and full year 2025 financial results. Today's call is being hosted by Dr. Raj DasGupta, CEO of Electrovaya, and myself, John Gibson, CFO. Today, Electrovaya issued a press release concerning its business highlights and financial results for the year ended September 30th, 2025. We would like to offer you the release. You can access it on our website. If you want to view our financial statements, management's discussion and analysis, and annual information form, you can access those documents on the SEDAR+ website at www.sedarplus.ca or on the SEC EDGAR website at sec.gov/edgar. As with previous calls, our comments today are subject to the normal provisions related to forward-looking information. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:01:22We will provide information relating to our current views regarding market trends, including their size and potential for growth, and our competitive position within our target markets. Although we believe that expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do obviously involve risk and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Additional information about factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations and about material factors or assumptions applied in making forward-looking statements may be found in the company's press release announcing the Q4 fiscal 2025 results and the most recent annual information form and management discussion and analysis under risks and uncertainties, as well as in other public disclosure documents filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulatory authorities. Also, please note that all numbers discussed on this call are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:02:14Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Raj. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:02:17Thank you, John, and good evening, everyone. It is a pleasure to speak with you today as we review our fourth quarter and full fiscal 2025 results. Fiscal 2025 has been the most significant year in my tenure as CEO of Electrovaya. It marked a clear financial and strategic inflection point for the company, characterized by strong, profitable growth, major balance sheet improvements, and continued execution of our long-term technology roadmap. Let me highlight a few key milestones. We grew revenue by over 40% year over year and achieved the first full year of profitability in Electrovaya's history. This is a structural improvement driven by operational scale, product mix, and disciplined execution, not a one-time event. We further strengthened our financial firepower with a new $25 million facility from Bank of Montreal, replacing our former high-cost private lender. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:03:22We closed a $51 million direct loan from EXIM under the Make More in America program and have begun drawing funds as we build out our Jamestown lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility. As a nice surprise, we were honored to receive EXIM's Deal of the Year award. Last year's winner was Beta Technologies, so we are in good company. We expanded our institutional investor base and improved liquidity with approximately $40 million in gross proceeds from two equity issuances over the last 12 months, which supports our long-term growth trajectory and positions us well as we continue scaling. Beyond these financial achievements, we made major strides in advancing our technology platform, entering new applications, and positioning Electrovaya at the forefront of the lithium-ion battery industry. Surpassing $20 million in quarterly revenue was another important milestone, and notably, we achieved this without straining our operational resources. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:04:28This reinforces the scalability of our business model and supports our view that Electrovaya is now entering a sustained period of profitable growth. Given the number of new investors who have joined the Electrovaya story this year, I'd like to revisit our technology vision and roadmap. Electrovaya is, at its core, a battery technology company. Our Infinity lithium-ion battery platform delivers industry-leading longevity, safety, and increasingly high-performance attributes that are becoming essential across mission-critical applications. Earlier, systems deployed at Walmart in 2018 have already outlasted the vehicles they power and continue operating. Our respected U.S. testing lab recently informed us that our cells are tracking towards approximately 15,000 cycles, providing rare real-world evidence of multi-decade performance. On safety, our ceramic separator technology continues to maintain a perfect safety record. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:05:37With lithium-ion-related recalls affecting electric vehicles, buses, consumer electronics, and energy storage installations worldwide, we believe our safety profile is a unique competitive advantage and one that is gaining increasing market visibility. As a subsequent event to the fiscal year in November, we completed a $28 million equity raise. Funds from this round are partially planned to be utilized to support our future technology roadmap, reinforcing that Electrovaya is not only scaling profitably today but also actively investing in our future. Some aspects of our roadmap include a rapid charging cell development project, including both cell and system-level architecture targeting sub-five-minute charging capabilities for select applications such as robotics and autonomous systems. Next-generation separator technologies aimed at further improving safety, high-temperature stability, as well as domestic manufacturing of this key technology. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:06:45Solid-state battery development, where we continue to make progress and expect to leverage our existing ceramic-focused intellectual property and know-how to provide a strong foundation. We are investing in our Electrovaya lab site to enable production of larger cells that can be sampled to potential strategic partners. These initiatives underscore that Electrovaya is executing a dual mandate: deliver profitable high-growth revenue today while advancing the technologies that will define the next decade of the lithium-ion battery industry. Turning to our commercial progress, our core material handling vertical continues to be a strong and durable foundation. We now have over 10,000 sets deployed globally, supporting 24/7 operations for some of the world's largest companies. This year, we deployed a record number of units, with the largest drivers of demand being a few Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, especially in the retail sector. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:07:50Demand indications from our largest-end customers point to continued growth into fiscal 2026. With this foundation solidly in place and expanding at sustainable levels, we are scaling into multiple additional mission-critical verticals. The first is robotics. This is one of the most exciting long-term opportunities we have. Autonomous systems require exceptional longevity, reliability, and rapid charging, all areas where our technology excels. We have received initial orders and expect to scale deliveries beginning in the second quarter of fiscal 2026. Another vertical that we are bullish on is airport ground equipment, or GSE. We showcased our first GSE products in Las Vegas in September, and several units are now in trials with a major U.S. airline. Safety and durability are key differentiators here, and we expect meaningful contributions in revenue beginning in 2026. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:08:57In the long run, I expect stationary energy storage systems, or ESS, to become a key element of our business. Our Infinity ESS platform, launched this September, is receiving strong early interest for applications such as data centers, backup power, and rapid charging infrastructure. Pilot deployments are expected in 2026, with commercial scale beginning in 2027. I believe we provide a solution that fits an underserved part of the strategic industry, namely solutions that provide high power density with reliable, safe performance metrics that are critical for backup power and data centers, especially. Importantly, domestic cell production from Jamestown will qualify for full U.S. Investment Tax Credits, enhancing both the competitiveness of our product and potential margins for our offering. Defense applications are also a strategic target for Electrovaya. We continue to see growing interest from defense customers, particularly in sea and land-based unmanned systems. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:10:09We expect deeper collaboration with two global defense firms in the coming year, with whom we have already had initial development work in progress. Finally, we are also targeting recurring revenue opportunities. We have historically highlighted the potential for recurring revenue through energy-as-a-service models, software and telemetry platforms, aftermarket, and maintenance contracts. As our installed base grows and as we deploy systems into new verticals such as robotics, GSE, and energy storage, we expect recurring revenue to become a more meaningful contributor to the long-term profitability and cash flow stability of the company. Turning to Jamestown, construction is progressing well. The first components of the drive arrived last week, with additional major infrastructure scheduled over the coming months. Jamestown is central to our strategy. It supports supply chain resilience, domestic content requirements, margin expansion, and qualification U.S. manufacturing incentives like 45X and Investment Tax Credits. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:11:22Before I hand it back to John, I want to reiterate that our approach to capital allocation remains disciplined and focused. We will continue investing in profitable growth opportunities in high-impact R&D that strengthens our technology leadership and in preserving a strong and flexible balance sheet. Our goal is long-term sustainable value creation. With that, I'll now turn the call over to John for a detailed review of our financial results. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:11:53Thanks, Raj. Electrovaya closed the year with our strongest quarter ever, capping off a very successful year for the company. Fourth quarter performance improved significantly both year over year and sequentially to Q3. During our Q3 call, we mentioned that we were steadily strengthening the financial foundation to drive scalable and sustainable growth. We demonstrated in this quarter that we can further improve throughput and productivity while maintaining margins and managing cost, providing us the platform to build on our growth to date and expand into new market verticals. Revenue for the quarter ended September 30th, 2025, was $20.5 million compared to $11.6 million in the prior year. Revenue for the 12 months ended September 30th, 2025, was $63.8 million compared to $44.6 million in the prior year, growth of 77% for the quarter and 43% for the full year. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:12:47Gross margins for the quarter was 31%, an increase of 530 basis points over the prior year. Full year gross margin was 30.9% compared to 30.7% prior year. As is the case with previous quarters, the gross margin is primarily driven by product mix. In a time of uncertainty around supply chains, increasing prices, and tariffs, we kept costs under control and drove efficiency through increased production. This will continue to be a focus through 2026, especially as we expand into additional verticals. As we continue to increase our production volumes, we're able to push for better pricing from our key suppliers. Management believes the company is well positioned to maintain strong margins as we continue through 2026. Operating profit increased significantly for both quarter and full year. The operating profit for Q4 was $2.4 million compared to $0.7 million in the prior year. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:13:42Operating profit for the 12 months ended September was $5.5 million compared to just $0.7 million in the prior year, an increase of 685% year over year. The company generated a net profit of $2 million for Q4, a significant increase over the net loss of $0.1 million in the prior year. Furthermore, the company generated a net profit for 12 months ended September of $3.4 million compared to a net loss of $1.5 million in the prior year. We were able to achieve our net profit during Q2 and Q3 of 2025, and maintaining that for the full year is a significant step forward for the company. We also achieved this feat with just under $1 million of a loss on the fair value calculation of a derivative liability, a non-recurring cost relating to warrants that were exercised during the year. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:14:30Despite this, we ended the year with an earnings per share figure of $0.09. We believe we can continue this trend of profitability into fiscal 2026 and beyond. Our adjusted EBITDA was $3.4 million for Q4 2025 compared to $1.5 million in the prior year, an increase of $1.9 million, or 126%. Adjusted EBITDA for the 12-month figure being $8.8 million for 2025 and $4.1 million for the prior year, an increase of $4.7 million, or 115%. Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue was 16% for the quarter and 14% for the full year. The company generated positive cash flow from operating activities of $1.7 million after accounting for net changes in working capital. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:15:16The company ended the fiscal year with positive net working capital of $38.5 million compared to $0.8 million in the prior year, a current ratio of 4.82 compared to 1.03, a significant improvement which demonstrates the continued improved financial and operating performance of the company, and management is committed to continue this positive trend. At September 30th, total debt was $20.7 million compared to $16.2 million in the prior year. This debt includes both working capital and the debt from the EXIM facility. Working capital debt was $17.7 million at the end of the fiscal year, an increase of $1.4 million over the prior year. We had also drawn $4.4 million from the EXIM loan as of September 30th. In addition to the cash on hand of $7 million at the end of September, the company had availability within its bank facility of over $7 million. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:16:09Subsequent to the end of the quarter, the company raised gross proceeds of $28 million from an equity issuance. This cash inflow, coupled with the turning of accounts receivable, has put us in a position where we have a very high cash balance and the lowest debt balance in the company's recent history. As of today, we have available liquidity of over $40 million. We believe we have adequate liquidity to support our anticipated growth as we move into fiscal 2026. With respect to the Jamestown financing, we continue to draw down on the loan in Q1 and, as of today, have now drawn over $15 million from this facility. We are currently in a period of no interest payments with EXIM, with those payments not starting until the end of March 2026 and principal payments starting at the end of March 2027. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:16:56Looking forward to 2026, when we look at our backlog and frontlog, we see significant growth year over year within material handling. When looking at the new sales vertical, forecasting becomes more difficult as they are less mature than material handling. However, our conversations with these customers within the new verticals continue to advance, and we anticipate these to represent between 10%-15% of revenue for fiscal 2026. Overall, we expect to exceed 30% growth in 2026, with revenue from material handling between 80%-85% of that total and the balance made up of the new verticals that are recurring revenue channels. That concludes the financial overview, and I turn the call over to Raj for concluding remarks. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:17:38Thank you, John. In closing, I want to reiterate my sincere appreciation for the hard work, resilience, and dedication of the entire Electrovaya team. Your efforts have made 2025 the most successful year in our history and, more importantly, laid the foundations for even more success in the years ahead. I'm confident that we are well positioned to build on the momentum that we had in 2025 as we head into 2026 and continue advancing our strategic objectives. That concludes our remarks this evening. John and I would now be pleased to hold a question-and-answer session. Operator00:18:19Thank you. At this time, we will be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press Star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press Star 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the Star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Once again, please press Star 1 if you have a question or a comment. The first question comes from Eric Stine with Craig-Hallum. Please proceed. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:18:52Hi, Raj. Hi, John. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:18:55Hey, Eric. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:18:56Hey. So you did mention expecting in fiscal 2026 the 10%-15% from new verticals, but just curious, as you think about those verticals, I don't know if it's ranking them or just some more color. Are there ones that you view as potentially being a little bit more near-term, could mean upside, kind of from how you've set things right now? And then conversely, on the other side, is there an area which maybe isn't as far along and potentially doesn't have the impact that you think it might? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:19:32Yeah. As John mentioned, these are all new verticals, so the maturity level is not the same as it is in the material handling space. That said, for robotics, we have two key customers who have provided us with, I would say, fairly reliable forecasting. So I'm pretty optimistic that robotics, after material handling, will be the second largest revenue driver. After robotics, we also have pretty good line of sight on the defense side. One of the two partners we're working with is giving us some level of visibility for 2026. The airport ground equipment, we have our products being trialed by a major U.S. airline. We're optimistic that airline is going to select our product, but that is more like a binary yay or nay type situation, which would either be a multi-million-dollar revenue source in 2026 or a very small revenue source in 2026. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:20:52So it's harder to predict. But that 10%-15% that John mentioned, from our perspective, sounds about right. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:21:01Okay. Thanks for that color. And then when thinking about fiscal 2026, I know you called out that part of that factors in the deferred orders. And as I think about what you've seen in the past, I mean, that has been something you've dealt with in material handling. I mean, should we assume that what you're talking about there is material handling? And if there were a surprise, is it fair to say that that's mostly upside or all upside, given that you are factoring the potential that that happens? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:21:40Yeah. I'd say we're being pretty conservative here on what we're, and that's what we should do. The surprises would lie beyond the upside. Correct. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:21:53Okay. All right. Maybe last thing for me, just energy storage. I know you just launched the product. You said that there was a positive reception to it. I believe you've got three customers that you're in discussions with and maybe one further than the others. But maybe how the pipeline is shaping up beyond those three customers, given that that would be targeted to an end market where you've clearly got a pretty deep list of material handling customers? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:22:25So, Eric, great question. So when we started developing this product, it was with some of our existing material handling customers in mind because they had inquired about it, and then that was what drove us to develop the product in the first place. What's happened since? Those customers still have strong interests, and we are planning, we're in initial discussions on projects with some of those names. Beyond that, though, we've seen quite a bit of interest since we announced the product. And what we've done with the product is we've focused our efforts on areas where the competition is somewhat lacking. So if you look at the energy storage space in general for lithium-ion batteries, most of the systems have been designed for, let's say, four-hour energy storage, which they're doing a good job of it. And that's, I'd say, a highly commoditized end of the market. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:23:33The demand that we're seeing for backup power. They require short durations of high power energy from an energy storage source, so our technology is actually ideal for high power. We can deliver high power in short bursts reliably and safely, and so we've designed our product to do that, and that's gaining quite a bit of interest across the board. All that said, 2026 energy storage is just proving the product, getting the product certified, and enabling us to scale it in 2027. Most definitely, energy storage could be a huge, huge place for the company. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:24:28Got it. Thank you. Operator00:24:31The next question comes from Colin Rusch with Oppenheimer. Please proceed. Colin RuschManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Oppenheimer00:24:37Thanks so much. Just following up on Eric's question. In terms of the ESS applications, I appreciate the ability to have faster pulse charging. But are you looking at applications inside data centers, warehouses? Just can you give us a sense of where you're seeing these things ultimately located? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:24:57Yeah, so we've had some discussions with partners looking at data centers specifically, and the idea there is that 30-minute backup. That's really what seems to be the sweet spot. Whether they're located inside the buildings or outside them, at this point, it's too hard to say, but one of the key selling points is the safety, right? The fact that our systems have this technology, have such a good record in use, are used inside buildings already, right, so a typical warehouse at one of these Fortune 100 companies that we are supporting might have five, six megawatt-hours of batteries operating inside buildings and performing flawlessly over and over and over again, and so that kind of performance gives these types of potential customers comfort in the technology. Colin RuschManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Oppenheimer00:26:04That's incredibly useful. So then just moving to the robotics market and the charge time that you guys offer, it sounds like you're competing with supercapacitors or ultracapacitors in some regards. Can you just talk about the competitive landscape of other batteries in that space and how long the design cycles ultimately end up looking like as you work with some of these companies that are emerging with new form factors? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:26:37Yeah. Great question, Colin. So there's the product we already have, right? The product we already have is a relatively fast-charging battery system, and it's going into robots, right? Then there's the product that we're developing, and that's the super fast-charging sub-five-minute type solution. And that would go head-to-head with supercapacitors or certain sort of niche lithium-ion chemistries. And we think we can do it with our technology. It does require a bit of investment, which we're making, both at the cell level and the system level. But it seems like in our initial discussions with a couple of major robot partners, that that is a direction that they are looking for, and I think we can fill that need. It's going to take a bit of time and effort, but we have the core fundamental technology to do it. Colin RuschManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Oppenheimer00:27:42Perfect. Thanks so much, guys. Operator00:27:45The next question comes from Jeffrey Campbell with Seaport Research Partners. Please proceed. Jeffrey CampbellSenior Analyst at Seaport Research Partners00:27:51First of all, congratulations on the strong quarter. I noticed that when you talked about some of the technology development that you have done some of the work again with lithium phosphate, lithium iron phosphate, and I was just wondering, it seems like it's back in play. What kind of applications are showing an appetite for that chemistry? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:28:15I mean, we developed this. We announced it about a year ago or a little, and so it is one we've gone and certified it, etc. One thing we've tried to do is avoid Chinese supply chains where possible, and our LFP product is going to utilize cathode chemistry coming from non-Chinese sources. What that ends up meaning is the cost of it is somewhat comparable to our existing NMC product, and so there are certain niche applications which may want it. I don't necessarily, at this point, see it being a huge product for us, but that could change. Having it is important. Fundamentally, the Electrovaya technology is agnostic to chemistry, so we can apply our Infinity technology to NMC, LFP, various anode chemistries. The outcome is enhancement on safety, enhancement on longevity. Jeffrey CampbellSenior Analyst at Seaport Research Partners00:29:25Thank you. I wanted to ask how the Energy as a Service initiative is progressing, and in particular, is it starting to bring the Infinity battery to a different type customer? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:29:38Yeah. It's progressing. We're working with at least one third-party logistics company in marketing that product, and now that we're able to support it better, I expect it to gain traction in 2026. Jeffrey CampbellSenior Analyst at Seaport Research Partners00:29:56And my last question is, you mentioned that you're doing work with robotics OEMs in both the U.S. and Japan. I just wondered, are their requirements generally the same, or are there any significant differences between these two markets? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:30:10The robots are all different, but there's no geographic driver for a difference. Operator00:30:20The next question comes from Theo Genzebu with Raymond James. Theo, please proceed. Theo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond James00:30:26Great. Thanks, John and Raj, for the time today. And congrats on a good quarter and year. Just as a quick follow-up on the rapid charging for the robotics, are there any upcoming major milestones you're looking to achieve or expectations you can speak of or shed some color on? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:30:48You'll hear it from us. So there's development work ongoing currently, both the cell level and the system level. We're also looking at filing some IP in the area, but it doesn't happen immediately. Theo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond James00:31:06Right. Okay. Understood. Thanks for that, and just on the $40 million in equipment orders, and I appreciate, John, I think you said it was $15 million already being drawn down from the EXIM loan. Will all these orders be funded over the next few quarters, or will some of that slip into 2027? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:31:26There will be probably a small portion. We'll hold back a small portion of the payments just for final testing. So that may slip into 2027 fiscal year, but the majority of the cash will be drawn in 2026. Theo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond James00:31:44Great. Okay. Thanks for that. And then maybe just another one from me. You guided to about greater than 30% revenue growth for fiscal 2026 and about $100-$105 million in backlog. I was just curious on what percentage of that backlog is tied to firm orders versus pipelines, if you can disclose that, and what other key bottlenecks that could defer revenue into 2027? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:32:10So when we look at our guidance, we kind of look at overall, all the total backlog to date, our run rate, our conversations with our customers, and where we see other variables going. Then we take that number and we discount it quite significantly to take into account any push-outs, any delays, customer change of their mind. And then you've got the uncertainty of the different verticals we're going into as well. So when it comes to guiding to percentage growth, it really is a difficult task with these different verticals. And the potential upside there is almost like closing your eyes and throwing a dartboard. It's difficult to put a number to it. But our backlog's healthy. Front log is looking really good, and the conversations with the customers are. We're getting new customers coming and speaking to us every single day, so. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:33:18Yeah. The other part is in the material handling space, especially, right? The orders come often in the last minute, right? So that actual firm orders come in the last minute, but we're given, I'd say, very high confidence forecasting well before that. And so that provides us the framework. Actual order might come a couple of weeks before it's meant to ship, right? Theo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond James00:33:49Okay. Great. Yeah. Understood. Thanks for that. Yeah. That's all I had. Appreciate the time today. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:33:55Thanks, Theo. Operator00:33:57Up next is Craig Irwin with Roth Capital Partners. Please proceed. Andrew BrennanManaging Director of Institutional Sales Trading at Roth Capital Partners00:34:02Hey, guys. It's Andrew on for Craig, and thanks for taking my questions. A lot of my questions have been answered, but just one quick one for me. In the last quarter you called out, you started a second shift in Mississauga. As we get closer to Jamestown commencing operations, how should we just think of the transition of capacity from one to the other? Will you keep the second shift in Mississauga, and how quickly do you think we'll get Jamestown up and running? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:34:34So the second shift, so what we do in Mississauga is we make battery systems. Primarily, we're also making some battery modules. Jamestown is going to make battery systems, battery modules, and cells, right? So it's somewhat apples and oranges. I don't anticipate us slowing down in Mississauga as Jamestown ramps up. So Jamestown is going to ramp up in all three areas. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:35:06The cell portion is the most complex, most cap intensive, and that's where most of the investment from EXIM is going in. But there's also a substantial amount for battery modules, and we're planning to make a much larger variety of battery modules in Jamestown. Battery systems will also be manufactured there. And so it's not a zero-sum game at all. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:35:36Yeah. We'll be looking to level load from a capacity standpoint as well. We don't want to be running significant overtime up in Canada if there's capacity available in Jamestown. So it's about looking to be as efficient as possible with our available capacity and basically determining what's best to be manufactured for. Operator00:36:04Okay. Next question comes from Amit Dayal with H.C. Wainwright. Please proceed. Amit DayalManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at H.C. Wainwright00:36:10Hi, guys. Thank you for taking my question. I just have one, actually. Most of my questions have been asked. Now that the balance sheet is strengthened pretty significantly, you have various lines of credit and funding to ramp capacity in Jamestown, so your working capital needs, your CapEx needs, all are sort of in good shape. Do you think it would be safe for us to assume that the company is going to be more aggressive with sales and business development efforts maybe compared to, say, a year ago? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:36:52So again, in 2026, I think we know what's going to happen. In 2027, we have significantly increased capacity. So what we're focused on is setting ourselves up to get to a position where we're rapidly filling up the plant in Jamestown. So for instance, energy storage is a good example. 2026, we prove out the product. We might do a couple of pilots. Revenue generation is not a priority for energy storage in 2026. Certifications most definitely are. But 2027, we think it can be a home run product, right? So that's our objective. Now, the other objective we have is to make very high-quality battery systems. There have been competitors out there who may launch products prematurely, and they get recalled. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:38:03I mean, just recently, I read one, probably the largest electric bus manufacturer in North America is recalling every single bus they've made because the batteries have problems. We want to make sure our batteries work perfectly before they get into customer hands, and then we've done a great job of doing that over the years, and that's number one focus. Amit DayalManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at H.C. Wainwright00:38:33Understood. And on the energy storage side, Raj, are you thinking you will take market share from sort of some of the existing folks, or are these new opportunities that you will be participating in? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:38:49We're going after non-commoditized parts of the energy storage space, right? Our mandate is to sell our Infinity product at 30% margins. We're focused on opportunities which can do that or exceed that. And I don't know whether that's taking away from our competition, it's really filling a specific demand in the market for what we provide. Amit DayalManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at H.C. Wainwright00:39:18Understood. Okay. Yeah, that's all I have, guys. Thank you. Operator00:39:25We have reached the end of the question and answer session, and I will now turn the call over to management for closing remarks. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:39:36That concludes our call, and thank you for listening. We look forward to speaking with you all again after we report our first quarter 2026 results. Have a wonderful evening. Operator00:39:48This concludes today's conference, and you may disconnect your lines at this time. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Everyone. Greetings. Welcome to the Electrovaya Q4 year-end 2025 financial results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, John Gibson, CFO. You may begin. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:00:34Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining today's call to discuss Electrovaya's Q4 and full year 2025 financial results. Today's call is being hosted by Dr. Raj DasGupta, CEO of Electrovaya, and myself, John Gibson, CFO. Today, Electrovaya issued a press release concerning its business highlights and financial results for the year ended September 30th, 2025. We would like to offer you the release. You can access it on our website. If you want to view our financial statements, management's discussion and analysis, and annual information form, you can access those documents on the SEDAR+ website at www.sedarplus.ca or on the SEC EDGAR website at sec.gov/edgar. As with previous calls, our comments today are subject to the normal provisions related to forward-looking information. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:01:22We will provide information relating to our current views regarding market trends, including their size and potential for growth, and our competitive position within our target markets. Although we believe that expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do obviously involve risk and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Additional information about factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations and about material factors or assumptions applied in making forward-looking statements may be found in the company's press release announcing the Q4 fiscal 2025 results and the most recent annual information form and management discussion and analysis under risks and uncertainties, as well as in other public disclosure documents filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulatory authorities. Also, please note that all numbers discussed on this call are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:02:14Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Raj. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:02:17Thank you, John, and good evening, everyone. It is a pleasure to speak with you today as we review our fourth quarter and full fiscal 2025 results. Fiscal 2025 has been the most significant year in my tenure as CEO of Electrovaya. It marked a clear financial and strategic inflection point for the company, characterized by strong, profitable growth, major balance sheet improvements, and continued execution of our long-term technology roadmap. Let me highlight a few key milestones. We grew revenue by over 40% year over year and achieved the first full year of profitability in Electrovaya's history. This is a structural improvement driven by operational scale, product mix, and disciplined execution, not a one-time event. We further strengthened our financial firepower with a new $25 million facility from Bank of Montreal, replacing our former high-cost private lender. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:03:22We closed a $51 million direct loan from EXIM under the Make More in America program and have begun drawing funds as we build out our Jamestown lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility. As a nice surprise, we were honored to receive EXIM's Deal of the Year award. Last year's winner was Beta Technologies, so we are in good company. We expanded our institutional investor base and improved liquidity with approximately $40 million in gross proceeds from two equity issuances over the last 12 months, which supports our long-term growth trajectory and positions us well as we continue scaling. Beyond these financial achievements, we made major strides in advancing our technology platform, entering new applications, and positioning Electrovaya at the forefront of the lithium-ion battery industry. Surpassing $20 million in quarterly revenue was another important milestone, and notably, we achieved this without straining our operational resources. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:04:28This reinforces the scalability of our business model and supports our view that Electrovaya is now entering a sustained period of profitable growth. Given the number of new investors who have joined the Electrovaya story this year, I'd like to revisit our technology vision and roadmap. Electrovaya is, at its core, a battery technology company. Our Infinity lithium-ion battery platform delivers industry-leading longevity, safety, and increasingly high-performance attributes that are becoming essential across mission-critical applications. Earlier, systems deployed at Walmart in 2018 have already outlasted the vehicles they power and continue operating. Our respected U.S. testing lab recently informed us that our cells are tracking towards approximately 15,000 cycles, providing rare real-world evidence of multi-decade performance. On safety, our ceramic separator technology continues to maintain a perfect safety record. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:05:37With lithium-ion-related recalls affecting electric vehicles, buses, consumer electronics, and energy storage installations worldwide, we believe our safety profile is a unique competitive advantage and one that is gaining increasing market visibility. As a subsequent event to the fiscal year in November, we completed a $28 million equity raise. Funds from this round are partially planned to be utilized to support our future technology roadmap, reinforcing that Electrovaya is not only scaling profitably today but also actively investing in our future. Some aspects of our roadmap include a rapid charging cell development project, including both cell and system-level architecture targeting sub-five-minute charging capabilities for select applications such as robotics and autonomous systems. Next-generation separator technologies aimed at further improving safety, high-temperature stability, as well as domestic manufacturing of this key technology. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:06:45Solid-state battery development, where we continue to make progress and expect to leverage our existing ceramic-focused intellectual property and know-how to provide a strong foundation. We are investing in our Electrovaya lab site to enable production of larger cells that can be sampled to potential strategic partners. These initiatives underscore that Electrovaya is executing a dual mandate: deliver profitable high-growth revenue today while advancing the technologies that will define the next decade of the lithium-ion battery industry. Turning to our commercial progress, our core material handling vertical continues to be a strong and durable foundation. We now have over 10,000 sets deployed globally, supporting 24/7 operations for some of the world's largest companies. This year, we deployed a record number of units, with the largest drivers of demand being a few Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, especially in the retail sector. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:07:50Demand indications from our largest-end customers point to continued growth into fiscal 2026. With this foundation solidly in place and expanding at sustainable levels, we are scaling into multiple additional mission-critical verticals. The first is robotics. This is one of the most exciting long-term opportunities we have. Autonomous systems require exceptional longevity, reliability, and rapid charging, all areas where our technology excels. We have received initial orders and expect to scale deliveries beginning in the second quarter of fiscal 2026. Another vertical that we are bullish on is airport ground equipment, or GSE. We showcased our first GSE products in Las Vegas in September, and several units are now in trials with a major U.S. airline. Safety and durability are key differentiators here, and we expect meaningful contributions in revenue beginning in 2026. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:08:57In the long run, I expect stationary energy storage systems, or ESS, to become a key element of our business. Our Infinity ESS platform, launched this September, is receiving strong early interest for applications such as data centers, backup power, and rapid charging infrastructure. Pilot deployments are expected in 2026, with commercial scale beginning in 2027. I believe we provide a solution that fits an underserved part of the strategic industry, namely solutions that provide high power density with reliable, safe performance metrics that are critical for backup power and data centers, especially. Importantly, domestic cell production from Jamestown will qualify for full U.S. Investment Tax Credits, enhancing both the competitiveness of our product and potential margins for our offering. Defense applications are also a strategic target for Electrovaya. We continue to see growing interest from defense customers, particularly in sea and land-based unmanned systems. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:10:09We expect deeper collaboration with two global defense firms in the coming year, with whom we have already had initial development work in progress. Finally, we are also targeting recurring revenue opportunities. We have historically highlighted the potential for recurring revenue through energy-as-a-service models, software and telemetry platforms, aftermarket, and maintenance contracts. As our installed base grows and as we deploy systems into new verticals such as robotics, GSE, and energy storage, we expect recurring revenue to become a more meaningful contributor to the long-term profitability and cash flow stability of the company. Turning to Jamestown, construction is progressing well. The first components of the drive arrived last week, with additional major infrastructure scheduled over the coming months. Jamestown is central to our strategy. It supports supply chain resilience, domestic content requirements, margin expansion, and qualification U.S. manufacturing incentives like 45X and Investment Tax Credits. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:11:22Before I hand it back to John, I want to reiterate that our approach to capital allocation remains disciplined and focused. We will continue investing in profitable growth opportunities in high-impact R&D that strengthens our technology leadership and in preserving a strong and flexible balance sheet. Our goal is long-term sustainable value creation. With that, I'll now turn the call over to John for a detailed review of our financial results. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:11:53Thanks, Raj. Electrovaya closed the year with our strongest quarter ever, capping off a very successful year for the company. Fourth quarter performance improved significantly both year over year and sequentially to Q3. During our Q3 call, we mentioned that we were steadily strengthening the financial foundation to drive scalable and sustainable growth. We demonstrated in this quarter that we can further improve throughput and productivity while maintaining margins and managing cost, providing us the platform to build on our growth to date and expand into new market verticals. Revenue for the quarter ended September 30th, 2025, was $20.5 million compared to $11.6 million in the prior year. Revenue for the 12 months ended September 30th, 2025, was $63.8 million compared to $44.6 million in the prior year, growth of 77% for the quarter and 43% for the full year. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:12:47Gross margins for the quarter was 31%, an increase of 530 basis points over the prior year. Full year gross margin was 30.9% compared to 30.7% prior year. As is the case with previous quarters, the gross margin is primarily driven by product mix. In a time of uncertainty around supply chains, increasing prices, and tariffs, we kept costs under control and drove efficiency through increased production. This will continue to be a focus through 2026, especially as we expand into additional verticals. As we continue to increase our production volumes, we're able to push for better pricing from our key suppliers. Management believes the company is well positioned to maintain strong margins as we continue through 2026. Operating profit increased significantly for both quarter and full year. The operating profit for Q4 was $2.4 million compared to $0.7 million in the prior year. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:13:42Operating profit for the 12 months ended September was $5.5 million compared to just $0.7 million in the prior year, an increase of 685% year over year. The company generated a net profit of $2 million for Q4, a significant increase over the net loss of $0.1 million in the prior year. Furthermore, the company generated a net profit for 12 months ended September of $3.4 million compared to a net loss of $1.5 million in the prior year. We were able to achieve our net profit during Q2 and Q3 of 2025, and maintaining that for the full year is a significant step forward for the company. We also achieved this feat with just under $1 million of a loss on the fair value calculation of a derivative liability, a non-recurring cost relating to warrants that were exercised during the year. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:14:30Despite this, we ended the year with an earnings per share figure of $0.09. We believe we can continue this trend of profitability into fiscal 2026 and beyond. Our adjusted EBITDA was $3.4 million for Q4 2025 compared to $1.5 million in the prior year, an increase of $1.9 million, or 126%. Adjusted EBITDA for the 12-month figure being $8.8 million for 2025 and $4.1 million for the prior year, an increase of $4.7 million, or 115%. Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue was 16% for the quarter and 14% for the full year. The company generated positive cash flow from operating activities of $1.7 million after accounting for net changes in working capital. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:15:16The company ended the fiscal year with positive net working capital of $38.5 million compared to $0.8 million in the prior year, a current ratio of 4.82 compared to 1.03, a significant improvement which demonstrates the continued improved financial and operating performance of the company, and management is committed to continue this positive trend. At September 30th, total debt was $20.7 million compared to $16.2 million in the prior year. This debt includes both working capital and the debt from the EXIM facility. Working capital debt was $17.7 million at the end of the fiscal year, an increase of $1.4 million over the prior year. We had also drawn $4.4 million from the EXIM loan as of September 30th. In addition to the cash on hand of $7 million at the end of September, the company had availability within its bank facility of over $7 million. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:16:09Subsequent to the end of the quarter, the company raised gross proceeds of $28 million from an equity issuance. This cash inflow, coupled with the turning of accounts receivable, has put us in a position where we have a very high cash balance and the lowest debt balance in the company's recent history. As of today, we have available liquidity of over $40 million. We believe we have adequate liquidity to support our anticipated growth as we move into fiscal 2026. With respect to the Jamestown financing, we continue to draw down on the loan in Q1 and, as of today, have now drawn over $15 million from this facility. We are currently in a period of no interest payments with EXIM, with those payments not starting until the end of March 2026 and principal payments starting at the end of March 2027. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:16:56Looking forward to 2026, when we look at our backlog and frontlog, we see significant growth year over year within material handling. When looking at the new sales vertical, forecasting becomes more difficult as they are less mature than material handling. However, our conversations with these customers within the new verticals continue to advance, and we anticipate these to represent between 10%-15% of revenue for fiscal 2026. Overall, we expect to exceed 30% growth in 2026, with revenue from material handling between 80%-85% of that total and the balance made up of the new verticals that are recurring revenue channels. That concludes the financial overview, and I turn the call over to Raj for concluding remarks. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:17:38Thank you, John. In closing, I want to reiterate my sincere appreciation for the hard work, resilience, and dedication of the entire Electrovaya team. Your efforts have made 2025 the most successful year in our history and, more importantly, laid the foundations for even more success in the years ahead. I'm confident that we are well positioned to build on the momentum that we had in 2025 as we head into 2026 and continue advancing our strategic objectives. That concludes our remarks this evening. John and I would now be pleased to hold a question-and-answer session. Operator00:18:19Thank you. At this time, we will be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press Star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press Star 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the Star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Once again, please press Star 1 if you have a question or a comment. The first question comes from Eric Stine with Craig-Hallum. Please proceed. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:18:52Hi, Raj. Hi, John. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:18:55Hey, Eric. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:18:56Hey. So you did mention expecting in fiscal 2026 the 10%-15% from new verticals, but just curious, as you think about those verticals, I don't know if it's ranking them or just some more color. Are there ones that you view as potentially being a little bit more near-term, could mean upside, kind of from how you've set things right now? And then conversely, on the other side, is there an area which maybe isn't as far along and potentially doesn't have the impact that you think it might? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:19:32Yeah. As John mentioned, these are all new verticals, so the maturity level is not the same as it is in the material handling space. That said, for robotics, we have two key customers who have provided us with, I would say, fairly reliable forecasting. So I'm pretty optimistic that robotics, after material handling, will be the second largest revenue driver. After robotics, we also have pretty good line of sight on the defense side. One of the two partners we're working with is giving us some level of visibility for 2026. The airport ground equipment, we have our products being trialed by a major U.S. airline. We're optimistic that airline is going to select our product, but that is more like a binary yay or nay type situation, which would either be a multi-million-dollar revenue source in 2026 or a very small revenue source in 2026. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:20:52So it's harder to predict. But that 10%-15% that John mentioned, from our perspective, sounds about right. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:21:01Okay. Thanks for that color. And then when thinking about fiscal 2026, I know you called out that part of that factors in the deferred orders. And as I think about what you've seen in the past, I mean, that has been something you've dealt with in material handling. I mean, should we assume that what you're talking about there is material handling? And if there were a surprise, is it fair to say that that's mostly upside or all upside, given that you are factoring the potential that that happens? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:21:40Yeah. I'd say we're being pretty conservative here on what we're, and that's what we should do. The surprises would lie beyond the upside. Correct. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:21:53Okay. All right. Maybe last thing for me, just energy storage. I know you just launched the product. You said that there was a positive reception to it. I believe you've got three customers that you're in discussions with and maybe one further than the others. But maybe how the pipeline is shaping up beyond those three customers, given that that would be targeted to an end market where you've clearly got a pretty deep list of material handling customers? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:22:25So, Eric, great question. So when we started developing this product, it was with some of our existing material handling customers in mind because they had inquired about it, and then that was what drove us to develop the product in the first place. What's happened since? Those customers still have strong interests, and we are planning, we're in initial discussions on projects with some of those names. Beyond that, though, we've seen quite a bit of interest since we announced the product. And what we've done with the product is we've focused our efforts on areas where the competition is somewhat lacking. So if you look at the energy storage space in general for lithium-ion batteries, most of the systems have been designed for, let's say, four-hour energy storage, which they're doing a good job of it. And that's, I'd say, a highly commoditized end of the market. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:23:33The demand that we're seeing for backup power. They require short durations of high power energy from an energy storage source, so our technology is actually ideal for high power. We can deliver high power in short bursts reliably and safely, and so we've designed our product to do that, and that's gaining quite a bit of interest across the board. All that said, 2026 energy storage is just proving the product, getting the product certified, and enabling us to scale it in 2027. Most definitely, energy storage could be a huge, huge place for the company. Eric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-Hallum00:24:28Got it. Thank you. Operator00:24:31The next question comes from Colin Rusch with Oppenheimer. Please proceed. Colin RuschManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Oppenheimer00:24:37Thanks so much. Just following up on Eric's question. In terms of the ESS applications, I appreciate the ability to have faster pulse charging. But are you looking at applications inside data centers, warehouses? Just can you give us a sense of where you're seeing these things ultimately located? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:24:57Yeah, so we've had some discussions with partners looking at data centers specifically, and the idea there is that 30-minute backup. That's really what seems to be the sweet spot. Whether they're located inside the buildings or outside them, at this point, it's too hard to say, but one of the key selling points is the safety, right? The fact that our systems have this technology, have such a good record in use, are used inside buildings already, right, so a typical warehouse at one of these Fortune 100 companies that we are supporting might have five, six megawatt-hours of batteries operating inside buildings and performing flawlessly over and over and over again, and so that kind of performance gives these types of potential customers comfort in the technology. Colin RuschManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Oppenheimer00:26:04That's incredibly useful. So then just moving to the robotics market and the charge time that you guys offer, it sounds like you're competing with supercapacitors or ultracapacitors in some regards. Can you just talk about the competitive landscape of other batteries in that space and how long the design cycles ultimately end up looking like as you work with some of these companies that are emerging with new form factors? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:26:37Yeah. Great question, Colin. So there's the product we already have, right? The product we already have is a relatively fast-charging battery system, and it's going into robots, right? Then there's the product that we're developing, and that's the super fast-charging sub-five-minute type solution. And that would go head-to-head with supercapacitors or certain sort of niche lithium-ion chemistries. And we think we can do it with our technology. It does require a bit of investment, which we're making, both at the cell level and the system level. But it seems like in our initial discussions with a couple of major robot partners, that that is a direction that they are looking for, and I think we can fill that need. It's going to take a bit of time and effort, but we have the core fundamental technology to do it. Colin RuschManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Oppenheimer00:27:42Perfect. Thanks so much, guys. Operator00:27:45The next question comes from Jeffrey Campbell with Seaport Research Partners. Please proceed. Jeffrey CampbellSenior Analyst at Seaport Research Partners00:27:51First of all, congratulations on the strong quarter. I noticed that when you talked about some of the technology development that you have done some of the work again with lithium phosphate, lithium iron phosphate, and I was just wondering, it seems like it's back in play. What kind of applications are showing an appetite for that chemistry? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:28:15I mean, we developed this. We announced it about a year ago or a little, and so it is one we've gone and certified it, etc. One thing we've tried to do is avoid Chinese supply chains where possible, and our LFP product is going to utilize cathode chemistry coming from non-Chinese sources. What that ends up meaning is the cost of it is somewhat comparable to our existing NMC product, and so there are certain niche applications which may want it. I don't necessarily, at this point, see it being a huge product for us, but that could change. Having it is important. Fundamentally, the Electrovaya technology is agnostic to chemistry, so we can apply our Infinity technology to NMC, LFP, various anode chemistries. The outcome is enhancement on safety, enhancement on longevity. Jeffrey CampbellSenior Analyst at Seaport Research Partners00:29:25Thank you. I wanted to ask how the Energy as a Service initiative is progressing, and in particular, is it starting to bring the Infinity battery to a different type customer? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:29:38Yeah. It's progressing. We're working with at least one third-party logistics company in marketing that product, and now that we're able to support it better, I expect it to gain traction in 2026. Jeffrey CampbellSenior Analyst at Seaport Research Partners00:29:56And my last question is, you mentioned that you're doing work with robotics OEMs in both the U.S. and Japan. I just wondered, are their requirements generally the same, or are there any significant differences between these two markets? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:30:10The robots are all different, but there's no geographic driver for a difference. Operator00:30:20The next question comes from Theo Genzebu with Raymond James. Theo, please proceed. Theo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond James00:30:26Great. Thanks, John and Raj, for the time today. And congrats on a good quarter and year. Just as a quick follow-up on the rapid charging for the robotics, are there any upcoming major milestones you're looking to achieve or expectations you can speak of or shed some color on? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:30:48You'll hear it from us. So there's development work ongoing currently, both the cell level and the system level. We're also looking at filing some IP in the area, but it doesn't happen immediately. Theo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond James00:31:06Right. Okay. Understood. Thanks for that, and just on the $40 million in equipment orders, and I appreciate, John, I think you said it was $15 million already being drawn down from the EXIM loan. Will all these orders be funded over the next few quarters, or will some of that slip into 2027? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:31:26There will be probably a small portion. We'll hold back a small portion of the payments just for final testing. So that may slip into 2027 fiscal year, but the majority of the cash will be drawn in 2026. Theo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond James00:31:44Great. Okay. Thanks for that. And then maybe just another one from me. You guided to about greater than 30% revenue growth for fiscal 2026 and about $100-$105 million in backlog. I was just curious on what percentage of that backlog is tied to firm orders versus pipelines, if you can disclose that, and what other key bottlenecks that could defer revenue into 2027? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:32:10So when we look at our guidance, we kind of look at overall, all the total backlog to date, our run rate, our conversations with our customers, and where we see other variables going. Then we take that number and we discount it quite significantly to take into account any push-outs, any delays, customer change of their mind. And then you've got the uncertainty of the different verticals we're going into as well. So when it comes to guiding to percentage growth, it really is a difficult task with these different verticals. And the potential upside there is almost like closing your eyes and throwing a dartboard. It's difficult to put a number to it. But our backlog's healthy. Front log is looking really good, and the conversations with the customers are. We're getting new customers coming and speaking to us every single day, so. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:33:18Yeah. The other part is in the material handling space, especially, right? The orders come often in the last minute, right? So that actual firm orders come in the last minute, but we're given, I'd say, very high confidence forecasting well before that. And so that provides us the framework. Actual order might come a couple of weeks before it's meant to ship, right? Theo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond James00:33:49Okay. Great. Yeah. Understood. Thanks for that. Yeah. That's all I had. Appreciate the time today. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:33:55Thanks, Theo. Operator00:33:57Up next is Craig Irwin with Roth Capital Partners. Please proceed. Andrew BrennanManaging Director of Institutional Sales Trading at Roth Capital Partners00:34:02Hey, guys. It's Andrew on for Craig, and thanks for taking my questions. A lot of my questions have been answered, but just one quick one for me. In the last quarter you called out, you started a second shift in Mississauga. As we get closer to Jamestown commencing operations, how should we just think of the transition of capacity from one to the other? Will you keep the second shift in Mississauga, and how quickly do you think we'll get Jamestown up and running? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:34:34So the second shift, so what we do in Mississauga is we make battery systems. Primarily, we're also making some battery modules. Jamestown is going to make battery systems, battery modules, and cells, right? So it's somewhat apples and oranges. I don't anticipate us slowing down in Mississauga as Jamestown ramps up. So Jamestown is going to ramp up in all three areas. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:35:06The cell portion is the most complex, most cap intensive, and that's where most of the investment from EXIM is going in. But there's also a substantial amount for battery modules, and we're planning to make a much larger variety of battery modules in Jamestown. Battery systems will also be manufactured there. And so it's not a zero-sum game at all. John GibsonCFO at Electrovaya00:35:36Yeah. We'll be looking to level load from a capacity standpoint as well. We don't want to be running significant overtime up in Canada if there's capacity available in Jamestown. So it's about looking to be as efficient as possible with our available capacity and basically determining what's best to be manufactured for. Operator00:36:04Okay. Next question comes from Amit Dayal with H.C. Wainwright. Please proceed. Amit DayalManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at H.C. Wainwright00:36:10Hi, guys. Thank you for taking my question. I just have one, actually. Most of my questions have been asked. Now that the balance sheet is strengthened pretty significantly, you have various lines of credit and funding to ramp capacity in Jamestown, so your working capital needs, your CapEx needs, all are sort of in good shape. Do you think it would be safe for us to assume that the company is going to be more aggressive with sales and business development efforts maybe compared to, say, a year ago? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:36:52So again, in 2026, I think we know what's going to happen. In 2027, we have significantly increased capacity. So what we're focused on is setting ourselves up to get to a position where we're rapidly filling up the plant in Jamestown. So for instance, energy storage is a good example. 2026, we prove out the product. We might do a couple of pilots. Revenue generation is not a priority for energy storage in 2026. Certifications most definitely are. But 2027, we think it can be a home run product, right? So that's our objective. Now, the other objective we have is to make very high-quality battery systems. There have been competitors out there who may launch products prematurely, and they get recalled. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:38:03I mean, just recently, I read one, probably the largest electric bus manufacturer in North America is recalling every single bus they've made because the batteries have problems. We want to make sure our batteries work perfectly before they get into customer hands, and then we've done a great job of doing that over the years, and that's number one focus. Amit DayalManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at H.C. Wainwright00:38:33Understood. And on the energy storage side, Raj, are you thinking you will take market share from sort of some of the existing folks, or are these new opportunities that you will be participating in? Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:38:49We're going after non-commoditized parts of the energy storage space, right? Our mandate is to sell our Infinity product at 30% margins. We're focused on opportunities which can do that or exceed that. And I don't know whether that's taking away from our competition, it's really filling a specific demand in the market for what we provide. Amit DayalManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at H.C. Wainwright00:39:18Understood. Okay. Yeah, that's all I have, guys. Thank you. Operator00:39:25We have reached the end of the question and answer session, and I will now turn the call over to management for closing remarks. Raj DasGuptaCEO at Electrovaya00:39:36That concludes our call, and thank you for listening. We look forward to speaking with you all again after we report our first quarter 2026 results. Have a wonderful evening. Operator00:39:48This concludes today's conference, and you may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesRaj DasGuptaCEOJohn GibsonCFOAnalystsEric StineSenior Research Analyst at Craig-HallumAndrew BrennanManaging Director of Institutional Sales Trading at Roth Capital PartnersColin RuschManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at OppenheimerTheo GenzebuAssociate Analyst Equity Research at Raymond JamesAmit DayalManaging Director and Senior Equity Analyst at H.C. WainwrightJeffrey CampbellSenior Analyst at Seaport Research PartnersPowered by