BN · rank #14 · 2026-07-20
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NYSE · $61.14B (USD)
The exact numbers the algorithm saw.
| Composite score Z-score blend of the factors below; drives the rank. | 0.30 |
|---|---|
| Forward revenue growth Consensus forward revenue growth. | +73.7% |
| Forward net margin Consensus forward net margin. | +0.3% |
| Net margin TTM Trailing twelve month net margin. | +0.3% |
| Margin expansion Forward minus trailing net margin (percentage points). | +0.1% |
| Forward PEG Forward P/E to growth. Below 1 is cheap for the growth. | 1.04 |
| Debt / FCF Net debt relative to free cash flow. Lower is safer. | 11.90× |
| Analyst upside Spread between the consensus 12m target and the current price. | +31.7% |
| Last EPS surprise Most recent reported EPS versus consensus. | +238% |
| Market cap (USD) | $61.14B |
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Summary
Bloom Energy manufactures solid oxide fuel cell systems providing always-on, high-efficiency onsite power increasingly deployed as off-grid AI data center infrastructure under multi-year supply agreements with hyperscalers and utilities.
Rationale
The bottleneck-solver thesis is directly reinforced by Bloom's structural position as a scarce SOFC supplier with a multi-gigawatt Oracle agreement and a potential $5B Brookfield deployment partnership, giving it contracted revenue visibility into a genuine grid-capacity bottleneck that competitors cannot quickly replicate given its 1,786-patent SOFC moat.
Material risks
- 1Bloom's 34% gross margin and near-zero net margin (0.30% fwd) leave it highly exposed to any manufacturing scale-up cost overruns or supply chain disruptions, and debt-to-FCF of 11.9x means execution stumbles could force dilutive financing before the Brookfield capital is deployed.
- 2Hyperscaler customers (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) are actively investing in alternative on-site power solutions including small modular reactors and advanced gas turbines, which could erode Bloom's sole-supplier leverage at renewal if SOFC economics don't improve faster than competing technologies.
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