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The Bear case, 20 quarters out

Model as of

Each segment is projected from its own operating driver, rolled up into consolidated cash flow, and discounted back to a fair value per share. The assumptions below are editable — change them and every number on this page moves with them.

Bloom reports four revenue streams — Product, Installation, Service and Electricity — on the face of every income statement, so all four verticals carry REPORTED revenue and nothing is apportioned. Every quarter from 2023 Q1 to 2026 Q2 is a disclosed split except the three fourth quarters, which are the full-year segment figure less the nine-month year-to-date and are flagged estimated. The stream revenues sum exactly to reported consolidated revenue in thirteen of fourteen quarters; 2023 Q4 differs by $1 thousand, a rounding artifact of that subtraction. What is NOT disclosed, and is therefore ours: the end-market split (AI data centre, utility channel, colocation, C&I) is nowhere in the filings and is deliberately not modelled; megawatts shipped or accepted are disclosed in no period, so every megawatt here is back-solved from an assumed $3.0M/MW; the installed service fleet is assumed; and Bloom allocates no operating expense to a stream, so verticals carry gross margin only and all opex sits in the corporate layer — which is what makes 33.38% gross margin less 16.27% opex reconcile to the reported 17.11% operating margin. One material item the engine cannot express: the Oracle warrant is contra-revenue, not cost. Its $324.4M fair value is recognised as a reduction of revenue as the Oracle systems ship, and $306.5M of that still sits on the balance sheet as a customer consideration asset. The product line here is GROSS of it, so cumulative product revenue through the Oracle delivery window is overstated by up to $306.5M — roughly 8.5% of that tranche. Net cash of -$17.6M treats the $206.5M of financing obligations as debt; excluding them it is +$188.9M.

BE forward model
Horizon
Fair value per share $36.33 −87% against $276.98
Terminal-year revenue $5.45B last four projected quarters
Enterprise value $11.76B $2.07B explicit + $9.70B terminal

The gap between the ~$20B management backlog and $419.4M of GAAP remaining performance obligations is where this case lives. Service backlog is cancellable annually, AEP's offtake is still conditional into December 2026, and 2.45 of Oracle's 2.8 GW sits at one New Mexico campus — so a site slipping is a lumpy quarter and a framework not converting is a lost year. What this case does NOT reach is a failure of demand: even here Bloom grows, just at a fraction of the guided pace.

BE REVENUE MODEL

Latest: $1.36B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2023Q1 $275M
2023Q2 $301M
2023Q3 $400M
2023Q4 $357M
2024Q1 $235M
2024Q2 $336M
2024Q3 $330M
2024Q4 $572M
2025Q1 $326M
2025Q2 $401M
2025Q3 $519M
2025Q4 $778M
2026Q1 $751M
2026Q2 $1.07B
2026Q3E $1.10B
2026Q4E $1.14B
2027Q1E $1.17B
2027Q2E $1.20B
2027Q3E $1.23B
2027Q4E $1.25B
2028Q1E $1.27B
2028Q2E $1.29B
2028Q3E $1.31B
2028Q4E $1.32B
2029Q1E $1.34B
2029Q2E $1.35B
2029Q3E $1.35B
2029Q4E $1.36B
2030Q1E $1.36B
2030Q2E $1.36B
2030Q3E $1.36B
2030Q4E $1.36B
2031Q1E $1.36B
2031Q2E $1.36B
Scenarios

Where each case comes from

Bear case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bear column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

AI sliver case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the AI sliver column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Valuation

From cash flow to fair value

The published model, discounted at 11.0% a year with an exit multiple of 3.0x on revenue. The horizon and sliders above do not change this walk.

Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters$2.07B
Terminal-year revenue$5.45B
Terminal-year EBITDA$902M
Exit multiple, on revenue3.0x
Terminal value$16.34B
Discounted at 11.0% a year, terminal value becomes$9.70B
Share of enterprise value from the terminal82%
Enterprise value$11.76B
Net cash−$18M
Equity value$11.75B
Shares0.32B
Fair value per share$36.33
Against the deployed price of $276.98, as of −87%

GAAP-profitable for two quarters, one product line, and heavy concentration in a single named counterparty — 11% is the rate that pays for that. The 4.5x exit is power-equipment hardware at maturity; the stock trades near 16x forward revenue on the FY26 guide midpoint today.

Read the other way round: at $276.98 the market is paying 27.1x terminal-year revenue, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.

Capital programmes

Capex outside the verticals

Each vertical's capex is a share of its own revenue, which is the right shape for capacity that scales with sales. These are not that: fixed-size programmes with their own schedule that spend whether or not any segment grows. They are added on top, and they are why free cash flow dips in the years below.

Fremont capacity expansion, each incremental gigawatt beyond 2 GW

2027 Q1 → 2027 Q3
Programme total$125M
Cash out$42M/qtr

The 10-K prices each incremental GW of run rate at $100-150M and six to nine months to install, up to a 5 GW ceiling the building can accommodate. This is the midpoint of one such step, and it belongs to no vertical.

Quarter by quarter

The projected path

The published model's 20 quarters. The horizon and sliders above do not change this table.

Quarter Product — Energy ServersInstallationService — O&M on the installed fleetElectricity — Bloom-owned systems Revenue YoY EBITDA Capex FCF R40 PV of FCF
2026 Q3E $969M$50M$76M$9M $1.10B +113% $166M $48M $106M +122 $104M
2026 Q4E $998M$49M$83M$9M $1.14B +47% $174M $49M $113M +56 $107M
2027 Q1E $1.02B$49M$91M$8M $1.17B +56% $181M $91M $81M +63 $75M
2027 Q2E $1.05B$48M$98M$8M $1.20B +13% $188M $91M $87M +20 $78M
2027 Q3E $1.07B$48M$106M$8M $1.23B +11% $194M $92M $92M +19 $81M
2027 Q4E $1.08B$48M$113M$7M $1.25B +10% $199M $50M $134M +21 $114M
2028 Q1E $1.10B$47M$121M$7M $1.27B +9% $204M $50M $138M +20 $115M
2028 Q2E $1.11B$47M$128M$7M $1.29B +8% $208M $51M $142M +19 $115M
2028 Q3E $1.12B$47M$136M$6M $1.31B +7% $212M $51M $145M +18 $115M
2028 Q4E $1.13B$47M$143M$6M $1.32B +6% $215M $50M $148M +17 $114M
2029 Q1E $1.13B$47M$149M$6M $1.34B +5% $218M $50M $151M +16 $113M
2029 Q2E $1.14B$47M$156M$5M $1.35B +4% $220M $50M $153M +15 $112M
2029 Q3E $1.14B$47M$162M$5M $1.35B +3% $222M $50M $155M +15 $110M
2029 Q4E $1.14B$47M$168M$5M $1.36B +3% $224M $50M $156M +14 $108M
2030 Q1E $1.14B$47M$174M$5M $1.36B +2% $225M $50M $158M +14 $107M
2030 Q2E $1.13B$47M$179M$4M $1.36B +1% $225M $49M $159M +13 $104M
2030 Q3E $1.13B$47M$184M$4M $1.36B +1% $226M $49M $159M +13 $102M
2030 Q4E $1.12B$47M$189M$4M $1.36B 0% $226M $49M $160M +12 $100M
2031 Q1E $1.12B$47M$193M$4M $1.36B 0% $226M $48M $160M +12 $97M
2031 Q2E $1.11B$47M$197M$4M $1.36B −1% $225M $48M $160M +11 $95M

Every row is projected. A year-over-year change is shown only where the quarter it compares against exists — an em dash means there is no comparable quarter, not a flat year.

Track record

Model revisions

Assumptions are marked to reality as each quarter prints. Every change is appended here, with the fair value the model produced at the time, so the model's own history stays visible.

DateFair value thenNote
2026-08-27 — Audited quarterly cyclicality across all four revenue streams. Kept projections numerically unchanged: filings tie installation volatility to project mix and milestone timing, while product is already paced by capacity and customer delivery windows rather than a repeatable calendar quarter.
2026-08-23 — First cut, built from the scope-model intake brief on the 2026 Q2 basis.