Energous outlines plan to complete installation at approximately 35 facilities in 2026 while holding off additional ATM usage this year

Earnings Call Insights: Energous (WATT) Q1 2026

MANAGEMENT VIEW

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"On this call, we will discuss a series of firsts, in other words, new milestones we have achieved on our path to profitability and cash flow breakeven" (CEO, CFO, & Director Mallorie Burak).

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"In 2022, we made the strategic decision to reposition Energous entirely around enterprise IoT" and "our operations and results today reflect a company that has crossed from technology validation into volume production" (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

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"Our flagship product, the PowerBridge PRO has shipped in meaningful volume, has yielded 0 returns since commercial production began in 2024" and "has received regulatory approval, including FCC, U.K. and EU market approval" (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

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"Earlier this year, we added a second contract manufacturer based entirely in the United States" and "we have no plans for additional ATM usage this year" (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

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"Supply chain visibility has moved from a competitive advantage to an operational and regulatory requirement" and "a single PowerBridge transmitter can deliver power to multiple receiver-enabled devices with range simultaneously" (Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Giampaolo Marino).

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"Our first Fortune 10 commercial deployment is with a leading national retailer" where "the first phase deployment program started at approximately 4,700 U.S. locations" and "the customer has completed installation at over 1,500 of those locations" (Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino).

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"This program has now expanded internationally with over 14 completed installations outside of the United States to date" and "we are planning to continue supporting this customer's international expansion... to complete installation at approximately 35 facilities in 2026" (Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino).

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"During the 3 months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we recorded revenue of $3.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively" (Chief Accounting Officer Gregory Sadikoff).

OUTLOOK

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No formal quarterly or full-year revenue or EPS guidance was provided in the prepared remarks; management instead emphasized execution and conversion of programs, saying, "Our job now is execution, converting pipeline into deployments, expanding within existing customers and scaling our platform across new industries and geographies" (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

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Management provided a 2026 deployment timeline for one large customer, stating, "we are planning to continue supporting this customer's international expansion... to complete installation at approximately 35 facilities in 2026" (Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino).

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Capital and financing posture was framed as stable for the year: "With approximately $37 million in cash as of the end of the first quarter... we believe we are well positioned to support our pipeline through commercialization" and "We have no plans for additional ATM usage this year" (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

FINANCIAL RESULTS

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In Q1 2026, the company reported "revenue of $3.1 million" and "cost of revenue... approximately $2 million, yielding a 36% gross margin" (Chief Accounting Officer Sadikoff).

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Expense and profitability trends were described as improving year over year: "Total operating expense... decreased by approximately $0.8 million to $2.9 million" and "The GAAP net loss... was $1.7 million versus a net loss of $3.4 million" (Chief Accounting Officer Sadikoff).

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Liquidity and recent financing were highlighted alongside commercialization needs: "we raised net proceeds of approximately $31.9 million through our ATM equity program, resulting in a cash position of approximately $37 million at the end of the first quarter" (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

Q&A

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Jon Hickman, Ladenburg Thalmann: asked about sustaining sequential growth; CEO, CFO, & Director Burak said, "we're working really hard to not just try to produce sequential growth on the top line, but also working toward a path to profitability and cash flow breakeven," adding that "A lot of the top line growth is based on our ability to convert proof-of-concept deployments... Many of those are co-selling efforts with AWS."

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Mark Gomes, Pipeline Data: asked about AWS ISV Accelerate momentum and what "5-plus to 50-plus" signaled; Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino said, "the relationship is -- it's a very strong relationship," describing that "we get introduced by AWS" and that "oftentimes, we see AWS stepping in, sort of like sponsoring the POCs" to accelerate movement "into what we want, the deployment phase." CEO, CFO, & Director Burak added, "The 50-plus launches on the AWS partner page, that doesn't necessarily reflect that as 50-plus customers... it's more like an order."

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Mark Gomes, Pipeline Data: asked about fit with Amazon’s supply chain services; Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino replied by analogy to UPS, stating, "UPS basically uses a company that is called Trackonomy... but it's battery based," and added, "I think we have a superior technology" and "yes, I think it's converging to a direction where -- why not, right? Why Amazon could not be -- make use of what we are building today?"

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Jon Hickman, Ladenburg Thalmann: asked whether the company can serve smaller customers and about naming customers; Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino said, "we're looking at every opportunity that comes our way" and highlighted scaling via partners: "We work with system integrators, with installers." CEO, CFO, & Director Burak said, "Oh my gosh, we would love to name a name" but "the customers we have won't grant us permission to do it."

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John Henderson, Inflections Consulting: asked to quantify AWS opportunity; Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino said, "we're talking about thousands of customers" across "retail IoT, manufacturing and logistics."

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Michael Molnar, MYDA Advisors: asked about international go-to-market and margins; Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino said, "from a margin standpoint, it's pretty much flat" and pointed to frequency differences: "917 megahertz and also 865 megahertz," adding, "we have products that are capable of meeting both requirements." Molnar also asked about ramp costs for the U.S. manufacturer; CEO, CFO, & Director Burak said, "there is some tooling and test fixtures... I think that will be settled within Q2" and that "between the 2 contract manufacturers, I believe we're in very good shape" for accelerated growth.

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Mark Gomes, Pipeline Data: asked about other use cases beyond food/drug compliance and about AI as a driver; Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino said, "manufacturing... is also a market segment" and described AI linkage as, "if you don't feed the AI with a meaningful data, then there is no AI," adding, "we are right at that intersection point where we're generating the data, and then we're pushing the data into AI models."

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS

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Analyst sentiment was slightly positive and opportunity-focused, with prompts such as "Congratulations on the seminal inflection point" (John Henderson, Inflections Consulting) and "Well done" (Michael Molnar, MYDA Advisors), alongside probing questions on scalability, AWS monetization, customer naming, and international complexity.

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Management sentiment was positive and execution-oriented, using confidence language including "we have crossed the turnaround chasm" and "The transformation is real and it is documented" (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak), while also clarifying limitations such as "the customers we have won't grant us permission" to disclose names (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

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A quarter-over-quarter sentiment comparison was not possible because the prior-quarter transcript was not provided beyond a note that it was "not available."

QUARTER-OVER-QUARTER COMPARISON

* The previous-quarter transcript was not provided (it was labeled "not available"), so specific comparisons of guidance language, strategy emphasis, analyst focus, or tone could not be made.

RISKS AND CONCERNS

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Customer concentration and disclosure constraints remained a theme, as management said, "the customers we have won't grant us permission" to name them (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

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Execution and conversion risk was acknowledged in the focus on moving evaluations into deployments, including that "A lot of the top line growth is based on our ability to convert proof-of-concept deployments" (CEO, CFO, & Director Burak).

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International deployment complexity was described as technical rather than economic, with "917 megahertz and also 865 megahertz" country differences (Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Marino).

FINAL TAKEAWAY

Management positioned Q1 2026 as continued commercialization progress, emphasizing "5 consecutive quarters of revenue growth" and improved year-over-year financials, while framing near-term stock-moving catalysts around scaling two Fortune 10 deployments, accelerating AWS-sourced proofs of concept into commercial rollouts, and supporting an international customer plan "to complete installation at approximately 35 facilities in 2026," alongside a stated intention that the company has "no plans for additional ATM usage this year."

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