Losses Continue at FuelCell

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FuelCell Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: FCEL) released its fiscal second-quarter financial results Monday after the markets closed. The company had a net loss of $0.04 per share on $28.6 million in revenue, compared to Thomson Reuters consensus estimates of a net loss of $0.02 per share on $41.30 million in revenue. The same quarter from the previous year had a net loss of $0.04 per share on $38.27 million in revenue.

The company’s total backlog at the end of the quarter was $342.8 million, but this did not include the Pepperidge Farm or Riverside projects, which will contribute roughly $40 million to backlog in the fiscal third quarter of 2015. This will begin contributing to revenue in fiscal 2016.

Product sales backlog totaled $91.6 million in the fiscal second quarter, compared to $146.6 million in the same period last year. Service backlog totaled $203.7 million, versus $181.9 in the previous year. Finally, advanced technologies contracts backlog totaled $16.9 million at the end of the quarter, an increase from $14.3 million last year.

Chip Bottone, president and CEO of FuelCell, said:

We are advancing the development of a 63 megawatt project, the largest in the history of the Company and announced the repeat business with two customers. We have taken tangible measures to support these and other larger scale opportunities and expect meaningful revenue growth in the coming quarters as we execute on our strong pipeline and backlog. Our prudently planned capacity expansion in North America and our partner’s fuel cell manufacturing addition in Asia are on-track and will double the global production capacity while reducing product costs simultaneously.

Cash and cash equivalents (both restricted and unrestricted) totaled $90.0 at the end of the quarter, versus $89.2 million at the end of the 2014 fiscal year.

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Shares of FuelCell closed Monday down 0.8% at $1.21. Following the release of the earnings report, shares were down 9.9% at $1.09 in premarket trading. The stock has a consensus analyst price target of $2.59 and a 52-week trading range of $1.05 to $2.84.

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Chris Lange is a writer for 24/7 Wall St., based in Houston. He has covered financial markets over the past decade with an emphasis on healthcare, tech, and IPOs. During this time, he has published thousands of articles with insightful analysis across these complex fields. Currently, Lange's focus is on military and geopolitical topics.

Lange's work has been quoted or mentioned in Forbes, The New York Times, Business Insider, USA Today, MSN, Yahoo, The Verge, Vice, The Intelligencer, Quartz, Nasdaq, The Motley Fool, Fox Business, International Business Times, The Street, Seeking Alpha, Barron’s, Benzinga, and many other major publications.

A graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, Lange majored in business with a particular focus on investments. He has previous experience in the banking industry and startups.

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