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Ess Tech Inc · Q4 2022 earnings

Q4 2022 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Announced fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results, achieving record unit deliveries in Q4.

ESS Tech, Inc. reported its Q4 and full year 2022 financial results, highlighting a transformative year with landmark deals and significant progress in team building and manufacturing operations. The company achieved nearly 800 MWhs of annual capacity by year end and delivered a record 14 Energy Warehouses in the fourth quarter.

  • Completed installation of fully automated manufacturing line in Q4, increasing annual production capacity to almost 800 MWh.
  • Named a finalist of the 2022 Platts Global Energy Awards by S&P Global Commodity Insights.
  • Entered into an agreement with Burbank Water and Power (BWP) to deliver BWP’s first utility-scale battery storage project.
  • Announced an agreement to deliver two Energy Warehouse systems to Turlock Irrigation District (TID) in Central California.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$16K

No prior period
EPS (adj)

-$0.16

Previous: -$0.19+15.8%
Capital Expenditures

$2.99M

Previous: $2.48M+20.8%
Free Cash Flow

-$28M

Previous: -$53.9M+48.0%
Net Income

-$25.1M

Previous: -$181M+86.1%
Operating Income

-$31.4M

Previous: -$31.4M+0.1%
Gross Profit

-$985K

No prior period
Cash & Equivalents

$34.8M

Previous: $239M-85.4%
Total Assets

$174M

Previous: $250M-30.6%
Stock-Based Comp

$3.19M

Previous: $7.3M-56.4%

Revenue & EPS history

ESS Tech · Revenue · Quarterly

$16K

Q4 2022
Beat estimate in 1 of 14 quarters(7%)
ActualEstimate

Revenue by segment

ESS Tech · $1 total across 1 segment · Q1 2023

  • Revenue - Related Parties
    $1

Forward guidance

ESS plans to take a more calculated approach to scaling the business in 2023, leveraging team expertise to improve processes, optimize the supply base, and further drive down costs, with the expectation of driving considerable progress on unit profitability on Energy Warehouses.

Tailwinds

  • Continue progress in the market
  • Improve processes
  • Optimize the supply base
  • Drive down costs
  • Drive considerable progress on unit profitability on Energy Warehouses

Headwinds

  • Continuing supply chain issues
  • Delays, disruptions, or quality control problems in the Company’s manufacturing operations
  • The Company’s ability to hire, train and retain an adequate number of manufacturing employees
  • Issues related to the shipment and installation of the Company’s products
  • Risk of loss of government funding for customer projects

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 20 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q4 2022

Historical avgQ4 2022

-4.1%

Avg return

Earnings day

-9.7%

Avg return

5 days after

-16.4%

Avg return

30 days after

19%

4 / 21 earnings

Positive

+31.3%

Q1 2022

Best reaction

-34.5%

Q3 2025

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2026-2.6%-33.1%-21.8%
Q4 2025-4.4%-3.7%-11.0%
Q3 2025-34.5%-40.7%-50.8%
Q1 2025-15.2%-28.1%-58.6%
Q4 2024-12.6%-27.0%-27.6%
Q3 2024-19.5%-46.0%-44.1%
Q2 2024-12.9%-16.5%-45.8%
Q1 2024-10.9%-16.0%-18.5%
Q4 2023-5.8%-19.5%-17.8%
Q3 2023-7.2%-11.2%-6.4%
Q2 2023-4.1%-20.9%-11.0%
Q1 2023+13.8%+0.0%+22.9%
Q4 2022-8.2%-13.7%-23.6%
Q3 2022-4.9%-9.3%-13.1%
Q2 2022+13.5%+18.3%-6.9%
Q1 2022+31.3%+46.4%-14.1%
Q4 2021+12.1%+25.6%+43.2%
Q2 2021-12.5%-8.9%-27.6%
Q3 2021-1.1%-0.3%-13.1%
Q1 2021+0.0%+0.5%+0.7%
Q4 2020-0.9%-0.4%-0.1%
Q3 2020
Q2 2020
Q1 2020

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