ChargePoint share price spikes on earnings report
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ChargePoint’s share price spiked Wednesday, 1 September after the early-stage electric-vehicle (EV) charging company released its latest quarterly report.
At one point, shares were up 13.19%, or $2.80, at $24.03 in after-hours trading in New York. Following regular trading hours, the stock closed up a modest 0.38%, or just $0.08, at $21.23.
An early-stage company, Campbell, Calif.-based ChargePoint designs, tests and markets EV charging systems for home, business and vehicle-fleet use.
Investors bit into ChargePoint even though the company announced a net loss in spite of a large revenue increase. ChargePoint reported a loss $84.94m, which was 141% higher than a $35.24m loss suffered a year earlier.
ChargePoint attributed the larger loss to a $10.4m loss from the change in fair value of warrant liabilities and a $28.3m stock-based compensation expense.
The increased loss contrasted with 61% year-over-year revenue increase to $56.1m from $35.1m. ChargePoint only went public in the spring of 2021, through a blank-cheque-company acquisition, but still reported year-earlier results. For accounting purposes, the latest reporting period was ChargePoint’s second quarter of 2022.
ChargePoint’s per-share loss of $0.27 was higher than the $0.13 anticipated from a FactSet poll. But ChargePoint’s revenue almost tripled the 21% boost that analysts polled by FactSet had forecasted.
Larger company, future plans
“The results from this quarter can be described with one word – scale,” said ChargePoint CEO Pasquale Romano. “Scale across our three verticals and scale in both North America and Europe. We are a larger company than we were (before the COVID-19 pandemic) and growing more quickly.”
Romano said the company is poised for strong growth due to US President Joe Biden’s, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s and Euopean leaders’ plans to increase vehicle electrification between now and 2050 as part of the effort to reduce climate change.
The company expects to benefit in the near term from Biden’s $75bn EV spending bill, which has been approved by the US Congress.
Romano said ChargePoint added 6,000 public and private charging points in the period ending 31 July 2021, giving the company a total of 118,000. More than 5,400 of those ports are in Europe, where ChargePoint is expanding its presence, and the company has more than 3,700 director-current (DC) fast-charge ports. ChargePoint expects to add 40,000 charging ports once its €77m (US$88m) acquisition of Amsterdam-based ViriCiti closes later this year.
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Company boosts revenue guidance
The ViriCiti takeover, announced in August, followed ChargePoint’s acquisition of European EV-charging software company has•to•be for €250 million (US$295.96m) in July. Has•to•be operates a European charging software company.
ChargePoint’s other quarterly highlights included the introduction of a global fleet-charging portfolio and what the company called “a seamless charging integration in-vehicle and in-app” with Mercedes-Benz USA.
In light of the revenue growth, ChargePoint expects to generated at least $30m more in sales on a full-year basis. The company boosted its full-year 2022 revenue guidance to a range of $225m-$235m from $195m-$205m.
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