Ich empfehle sehr, das Transkript des Calls zu lesen.
Entscheidend ist für mich diese Passage:
"Finally, I'd like to just like to reflect on the conversation I had yesterday morning with a European customer supplier and partner. He just toured our facilities and reminded me that no one has built hydrogen infrastructure on the scale we have. No one has our product set, no one has the technical talent, no one has our customer relationships, and no one has our real-life experiences. It remains our belief and that as the market for hydrogen fuel cell grows, no one is in a better position than Plug to take advantage of this opportunity. This is just a bump on the road."
Quelle: www.nasdaq.com/articles/...g-q3-2023-earnings-call-transcript
Plug bringt die PS, die es hat, nicht auf die Straße. Wenn ich die Aussagen im Call richtig interpretiere, wird erwartet (!), dass die Probleme bis Ende des Jahres (!) beseitigt sind. Das verheißt nichts Gutes für Q4, aber eventuell einen Durchbruch im kommenden Jahr, wenn alle Kapazitäten voll im Einsatz sind.
Bestätigt wird das auf die Frage von UBS-Analyst Manav Gupta: "How do you get to positive gross margin and by when?"
"We expect some additional abatement in Q4, but the real step function change in fuel happens as we turn on our own facilities. And so, Georgia is coming online this quarter. Tennessee will be reinstating and turn that back up. And then we're looking to turn on the new facility in Louisiana toward the end of Q1. And so those will be very accretive events as we start to turn those facilities up and start to be able to source a lot of that hydrogen from ourselves, which, in many cases, is at least 30% cheaper -- or I'm sorry, is 30% of the market cost that we're paying today. In some cases, only 10% when you factor in the PTC credit. So, those are the most two massive effects that are going to have on margin in the near term. And we expect that to start to see that in Q4 and start to really ramp as we move through 2024."
Quelle: www.nasdaq.com/articles/...g-q3-2023-earnings-call-transcript