QuantumScape Needs to Change its Business Model to See Stock Gains

InvestorPlace2021-06-15

QS stock will tread water unless the company can move revenue forward In the past month,QuantumScape(NYSE:QS) stock has gone basically nowhere.When I last wrote about QS stock on May 12, it closed at ...

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钱来多多
2021-06-15
钱来多多
U wrote this too late. I'm in it already. ???
MIe
2021-06-15
MIe
Quantumscape’s current Low Value Share Price as a battery provider, new Leadership cum innovation with Cecilia as president of Manufacturing Engineering, to observe #
JohnWL
2021-06-15
JohnWL
Hmm, interesting
Khoo12
2021-06-15
Khoo12
Yes
Nmg
2021-06-15
Nmg
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HaoWen
2021-06-15
HaoWen
Wow

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But when I began the previous article on May 11, it was at $29.48. In effect, it has actually fallen over 5%.\nThis is what I predicted in my article, and what I expect will continue to happen. According to its September 2020 investor presentation, the company won’t even start to generate revenue until 2024. That is over two years from now, at which point QuantumScape will only make $14 million.\nMoreover, the revenue will not even begin to ramp up until 2026, when it is forecast to reach $275 million. The cash flow burn rate will be significant.\nHere is what I previously wrote about QuantumScape’s financials:\n\n “The page 28 slide shows that there is a $3.3 billion cash burn funding hole from 2022 through to 2027. This is seen on the second to last line item showing that free cash flow (FCF) losses, or cash burn, will be $184 million by the end of 2021.”“…This works out to an expected $1.4 billion in cash burn losses over the next four-plus years to 2025.”\n\nQuantumScape Needs To Change\nMy conclusion is that this solid-state battery company is nothing more than a research organization. Nothing about the company indicates that it intends to commercialize any of its technology over the next several years. This is despite the fact that the company probably has enough liquidity to cover its cash burn losses.\nThat means that QS stock does not deserve its present vaunted $11.33 billion market value. It needs to change its present business model and bring forward significant revenue generation.\nI have been a strategy consultant for several companies, so let me put on my strategy analyst hat. Why can’t the company start selling solid-state battery power units right now? They don’t have to be engineered to be part of an electric vehicle(EV.) This is what the company is trying to do with Volkswagen(OTCMKTS:VWAGY).\nIts technology must be advanced enough to have some practical application. For example,Tesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) sells its Powerwall units and also has a larger energy generation division. There is not much engineering involved here. It is mostly just selling batteries. So why can’t QuantumScape do something similar? At least that can start revenue generation before 2024.\nAnd if that is not feasible now, how soon could it be? Alternatively, what about licensing technology on a limited basis? Whatever their method, QuantumScape needs to find some way to move revenue forward on a substantial basis.\nAnd if none of these things make sense, just resort to the Wall Street favorite: mergers and acquisitions (M&A.) Buy an EV or battery company that has revenue and needs QuantumScape’s technology. 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I'm in it already. ???","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/187642760","repostId":1107050653,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":187948818,"gmtCreate":1623737014434,"gmtModify":1704210008795,"author":{"id":"3577182936341023","authorId":"3577182936341023","name":"MIe","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f84d87792f02cf78e80ee34979fd31e5","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577182936341023","authorIdStr":"3577182936341023"},"htmlText":"Quantumscape’s current&nbsp;Low&nbsp;Value Share&nbsp;Price as a battery provider, new Leadership cum innovation&nbsp;with Cecilia as president of Manufacturing Engineering,&nbsp;to observe&nbsp;#&nbsp;","listText":"Quantumscape’s current&nbsp;Low&nbsp;Value Share&nbsp;Price as a battery provider, new Leadership cum innovation&nbsp;with Cecilia as president of Manufacturing Engineering,&nbsp;to observe&nbsp;#&nbsp;","text":"Quantumscape’s current Low Value Share Price as a battery provider, new Leadership cum innovation with Cecilia as president of Manufacturing Engineering, to observe #","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/187948818","repostId":1107050653,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":187938732,"gmtCreate":1623733852326,"gmtModify":1704209926012,"author":{"id":"3586310790127154","authorId":"3586310790127154","name":"JohnWL","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b004d29f43f551bb076fcdd2e281d3a6","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3586310790127154","authorIdStr":"3586310790127154"},"htmlText":"Hmm, interesting","listText":"Hmm, interesting","text":"Hmm, interesting","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/187938732","repostId":1107050653,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":187083490,"gmtCreate":1623730389910,"gmtModify":1704209808557,"author":{"id":"3564738902623228","authorId":"3564738902623228","name":"Khoo12","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a1637796379aeed1538616117eb09330","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3564738902623228","authorIdStr":"3564738902623228"},"htmlText":"Yes&nbsp;","listText":"Yes&nbsp;","text":"Yes","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/187083490","repostId":1107050653,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":187008346,"gmtCreate":1623728106285,"gmtModify":1704209755271,"author":{"id":"3575885070278222","authorId":"3575885070278222","name":"Nmg","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c6cacd1383cc35bc853cf83cc6870fab","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575885070278222","authorIdStr":"3575885070278222"},"htmlText":"Nskjshsja","listText":"Nskjshsja","text":"Nskjshsja","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/187008346","repostId":1107050653,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":184773159,"gmtCreate":1623727574771,"gmtModify":1704209740010,"author":{"id":"3573011922503530","authorId":"3573011922503530","name":"HaoWen","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3573011922503530","authorIdStr":"3573011922503530"},"htmlText":"Wow","listText":"Wow","text":"Wow","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/184773159","repostId":1107050653,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":58,"commentSize":32,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; 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