SunPower Reports Q1’25: $80.2M Revenue, $1.3M Profit¹

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SunPower reported its Q1 2025 financial results, marking its first profitable quarter in four years with revenue of $80.2 million and an operating profit of $1.3 million. This milestone comes after the company's rebranding from Complete Solaria on April 21, 2025, following the SunPower asset purchase in September 2024.

Key achievements include:

• Successful headcount reduction from 3,499 to 906 employees
• Cash balance increase to $14.0 million from $13.3 million in Q4 2024
• Strategic partnership with Sunder for growth expansion
• Board strengthening with three new public-company ex-CEO directors

The company maintains a positive outlook, forecasting steady revenue and continued profitability for the next quarter. With an annualized revenue of $300 million-plus, SunPower has positioned itself for sustainable growth in the solar technology and installation sector.

Positive

• First profitable quarter in 4 years with $1.3M operating profit in Q1'25
• Revenue maintained at $80.2M in traditionally difficult winter quarter
• Cash balance increased from $13.3M to $14.0M quarter-over-quarter
• Successful headcount reduction by 3x to 906 employees, ahead of 980 target
• Strategic partnership with Sunder expected to drive growth from Q3'25
• Board strengthened with three experienced public-company ex-CEO directors
• Key industry hires including SunPower founder Dr. Richard Swanson and former Enphase Battery CTO

Negative

• Quarter-over-quarter revenue decline from $88.7M in Q4'24 to $80.2M in Q1'25
• Gross margin decreased from 47% in Q4'24 to 36% in Q1'25
• Low cash balance of $14M for a public company
• Significant workforce reduction from 3,499 to 906 employees indicates major restructuring

Insights

Financial Analyst

SunPower achieves first profitability in four years through dramatic operational restructuring, signaling potential turnaround in challenging solar market.

SunPower's Q1'25 results mark a significant milestone with the company achieving its first profitable quarter in four years. The non-GAAP operating profit of $1.3 million contrasts with a GAAP operating loss of $8.9 million, with the difference primarily due to depreciation, amortization, and stock-based compensation charges. Revenue remained solid at $80.2 million despite the traditionally challenging winter quarter for solar installations.

The dramatic operational transformation is evident in the company's headcount reduction from 3,499 employees to 906 - a 74% decrease that has fundamentally altered the cost structure. This restructuring has produced three consecutive quarters of improving financial performance, progressing from a $39.6 million loss in Q3'24, to a $5.9 million loss in Q4'24, to the current $1.3 million profit.

Cash stability has been achieved with a slight improvement in the balance from $13.3 million to $14.0 million, demonstrating that operations can now maintain positive cash flow. The company appears to have reached its target operational structure to be profitable at an annualized revenue of $300 million.

The successful rebranding from Complete Solaria to SunPower, strategic partnership with Sunder, and board strengthening with experienced public-company directors all indicate a company transitioning from restructuring to stability. Management's forecast of continued positive operating income for Q2'25 suggests this profitability milestone may represent the beginning of a sustained turnaround rather than a one-time event.

First Profitable Quarter In Four Years

OREM, Utah, April 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SunPower, formerly d/b/a Complete Solaria, Inc. (“SunPower” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SPWR), a solar technology, services, and installation company, will present its 2024 and Q1’25 results via webcast at 1:00pm ET on Wednesday, April 30. Interested parties may access the webcast by registering here or by visiting the Events page within the IR section of the company website: https://investors.sunpower.com/news-events/events.

Please see our SunPower rebranding announcement on the back page of the April 29 print version of the Wall Street Journal or on the mobile app for the WSJ print version, where it will reside for the next week.

SunPower chairman and CEO, T.J. Rodgers commented, “This is the Company’s second quarterly report after the SunPower asset purchase on September 30, 2024, and our first report as SunPower, after rebranding with that name on April 21, 2025. The rebranding also fortuitously coincides with SunPower’s first profitable quarter in four years.”

SunPower Revenue & Operating Income
Our First Two Quarters as SunPower
	GAAP2						NON-GAAP
($1000s, except gross margin)	Q1 2025			Q4 2024			Q1 20253			Q4 2024
Revenue	80,174			88,674			80,174			88,674	4
Gross Margin	36	%		47	%		36	%		47	%4
Operating Expenses	27,366			62,769			27,366			62,769
Operating Expenses	12,270			49,870			12,270			49,870
Less Commission
Operating Income/(Loss)	(8,876	)		(21,501	)		1,274			(5,940	)
Cash Balance5	13,995			13,308			13,995			13,308

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_{¹ Operating profit based on the non-GAAP results posted on our website [us.sunpower.com].
² To see our audited 2024 GAAP financial statements, go to the SEC 10K filing on our website [us.sunpower.com].
³ Our non-GAAP financials are used to run the company and differ from the official GAAP report in three ways: 1) no non-cash amortization of intangibles, no employee stock compensation charges (already reflected in share count by dilution) and no one-time events, including favorable and unfavorable events. (See note 4.)
⁴ The Q4’24 revenue and gross margin reported in our unaudited January 21, 2025 shareholder letter were lower, $81,103 and 37%, respectively. These figures were accurate and conformed to our CSLR revenue recognition standards on that date. The numbers presented here are calculated using the harmonized revenue recognition standards for the combined company from the audited 2024 results. Internally, we use our original Q4’24 forecast to judge our performance. For example, the 47% Q4’24 gross margin is inflated by jobs bought from SunPower at no COGS cost, and should not be used in a forward-looking projections.
⁵ Cash balance is exclusive of restricted cash.}

Fellow Shareholders:

Our Q1’25 revenue, earnings and cashflow are given above. They feature identical GAAP and non-GAAP results for the quarter, except for GAAP operating income, which contains charges from depreciation and amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation charges, and non-recurring events, mostly from the asset purchase.

Rodgers added, “I congratulate our team for breaking the profit barrier just 180 days after launch, despite enduring layoffs and some hard times in the solar industry. The rest of this report will focus on our other important first-quarter accomplishments.”

Summary of SunPower Q1’25 Accomplishments

• Our $80.2 million Q1’25 revenue was in line with expectations, and it was achieved in the traditionally difficult winter quarter. (For example, Blue Raven operates in the Midwest and often has to remove snow from customers’ roofs during winter.)
  
  
• SunPower is now properly and leanly staffed. The new SunPower was launched with the combined headcounts of Complete Solar, SunPower and Blue Raven Solar – 3,499 employees – on October 1, 2024. We reduced the staffing by 3x, to 1,140 one quarter later, as graphed below. Our final headcount target for the combined company was first set at 1,225 and then lowered to 980. We are currently ahead of that plan with 906 employees. We are at the right headcount to be profitable at $300 million in annualized revenue.
  

• Key new employees. We are now able to recycle a fraction of the salaries saved from headcount reductions to bring in key industry players. For example, we hired Dr. Richard Swanson, the Stanford technical genius and founder of SunPower, to advise us on technology, as well as our new CTO, Dr. Mehran Sedigh, a storage expert who ran the Enphase Battery business unit and ramped it to its current $500 million in revenue.
  
  
• Our headcount and cost reductions led to $1.3 million operating income in Q1’25. Our continuous cost-cutting measures have improved our operating income over the last three quarters from a $39.6 million loss in Q3’24 (unofficial sum of losses for three companies), to a loss of $5.9 million in Q4’24 (audited), to an operating profit of $1.3 million in Q1’25. 
  

• Our cash balance grew (slightly). We finished Q1’25 with $14.0 million in cash versus $13.3 million in Q4’24.
  

Outlook

We forecast steady revenue and positive operating income again next quarter. We will provide a more detailed forecast and growth plan during our May annual meeting.

Subsequent Events

We are now SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR). On April 21, the Company announced it has rebranded as SunPower, a tradename we own. The company’s ticker symbols have been changed from “CSLR” and “CSLRW” to “SPWR” and “SPWRW”, respectively, effective April 22, 2025.

Strategic partnership with Sunder. We have partnered with Sunder, a large, highly regarded Salt-Lake area solar sales firm. They are now supporting our growth, which should start to show up on the top line in Q3’25.

We strengthened our board with three pubic-company ex-CEO directors: Lothar Maier, former CEO of Linear Technology, a $1.4 billion Silicon Valley chip company; Dan McCranie, the former chairman of five high-tech companies, including Freescale and On, the two public companies spun out by Motorola Semiconductor; and Jamie Haenggi, the former CEO of ADT Solar.

We have a fully independent board. A current independent director, Ron Pasek, now has been named the Lead Director for the corporation and Dan McCranie has been named as the Compensation Committee Chairman serving respectively for T.J. Rodgers (Chairman) and Tony Alvarez (Compensation Committee Chair) who are not independent directors because they worked for the company or a predecessor company in the last five years.

SunPower Board (4/30/25)
DIRECTOR	STATUS	PRIOR	DEGREE/UNIVERSITY	SOLAR VETERAN (Bolded)
Tony Alvarez		CEO	BEE Georgia Tech, MSEE Georgia Tech	Complete Solar, SunEdison, ChipMOS, Cypress*
Will Anderson		CEO	BS Mgmt Science MIT, MBA Stanford	Same Day Solar, Complete Solar
Adam Gishen	I	VPIR	BS Int'l Studies Univ. of Leeds	Credit Suisse, Ondra, Lehman Bros.
*Jamie Haenggi	I	CEO	BS Int'l Relations Univ. of Minnesota	ADT Solar, Vonage
Chris Lundell		CEO	BS Finance, MBA Finance BYU	Vivint, DOMO, Novell
*Lothar Maier	I	CEO	BS Chemical Eng UC Berkley	Linear Tech, Cypress
*Dan McCranie	I	CEO	BS EE Virginia Tech	ENVX, Cypress Semi, SEEQ, AMD
Ron Pasek	I	CFO	BS Finance SJSU, MBA Santa Clara	NetApp, Alterra, Sun Micro
T.J Rodgers		CEO	BA Dartmouth, MA/PhD EE Stanford	SunPower, Complete Solar, Enphase, Cypress
Tidjane Thiam	I	CEO	BS Ecole Polytechnique, MBA INSEAD	Credit Suisse, Prudential, Aviva, McKinsey & Co.
Devin Whatley	I	VC	BA East Asian Studies UCLA, MBA Penn	Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Zep Solar, Pegasus
* New (3)	Independent (64%)			*Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Rodgers concluded, “Our successive $80 million-plus quarters re-define our Company with an annualized revenue of $300 million-plus, now producing a $1 million-plus quarterly operating profit. The market is beginning to recognize that fact.”

About SunPower
SunPower has become a leading residential solar services provider in North America. SunPower’s digital platform and installation services support energy needs for customers wishing to make the transition to a more energy-efficient lifestyle. For more information visit www.sunpower.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to providing financial measurements based on generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"), SunPower provides an additional financial metrics in this press release that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP ("non-GAAP"). Management believes the non-GAAP financial measures, in addition to GAAP financial measures, are useful measures of operating performance because the non-GAAP financial measure does not include the impact of items that management does not consider indicative of SunPower’s operating performance, such as amortization of goodwill and expensing employee stock options in addition to accounting for their dilutive effect, which facilitates the analysis of the company’s core operating results across reporting periods. The non-GAAP financial measures do not replace the presentation of SunPower’s GAAP financial results and should only be used as a supplement to, not as a substitute for, SunPower’s financial results presented in accordance with GAAP. Descriptions of and reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release are included in the financial table above and related footnotes. We encourage investors to carefully consider our preliminary results under GAAP, as well as our preliminary non-GAAP information and the reconciliations between these presentations, to more fully understand our business. Non-GAAP financial measures are reported in addition to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.

Forward Looking Statements 
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, about us and our industry that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words such as “will,” “goal,” “prioritize,” “plan,” “target,” “expect,” “focus,” “forecast,” “look forward,” “opportunity,” “believe,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” and “pursue” or the negative of these terms or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, our Q1’25 revenue projection, our expectations regarding our Q1’25 and fiscal 2025 financial performance, including with respect to our Q1’25 and fiscal 2025 combined revenues and profit before tax loss, expectations and plans relating to further headcount reduction, cost control efforts, and our expectations with respect to when we achieve breakeven operating income and positive operating income, including our forecast to be operating income breakeven in Q2’25. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, our ability to implement further headcount reductions and cost controls, our ability to integrate and operate the combined business with the SunPower assets, our ability to achieve the anticipated benefits of the SunPower acquisition, global market conditions, any adjustments, changes or revisions to our financial results arising from our financial closing procedures, the completion of our audit and financial statements for Q1’25 and fiscal 2025, and other risks and uncertainties applicable to our business. For additional information on these risks and uncertainties and other potential factors that could affect our business and financial results or cause actual results to differ from the results predicted, readers should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of our annual report on Form 10-K to be filed with the SEC on April 30, 2025, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC and other documents that we have filed with, or will file with, the SEC. Such filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and SunPower assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Preliminary Unaudited Financial Results
The selected unaudited financial results for the Q1’25 are preliminary and subject to our quarter and year-end accounting procedures and external audit by our independent registered accounting firm. As a result, the financial results presented in this press release may change in connection with the finalization of our closing and reporting processes and financial statements for Q1’25 and fiscal 2025 and may not represent the actual financial results for such quarter and full year. In addition, the information in this press release is not a comprehensive statement of our financial results for Q1’25 or the 2025 fiscal year, should not be viewed as a substitute for full, audited financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and are not necessarily indicative of our results for any future period.

Company Contacts:

Dan Foley CFO daniel.foley@SunPower.com  (858) 212-9594	Sioban Hickie VP Investor Relations & Marketing IR@SunPower.com  (801) 477-5847

RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (PRELIMINARY)
(In Thousands)
			COMPLETE SOLARIA, INC. - AS REPORTED								SPWR - Unaudited
			13 weeks ended		13 weeks ended		13 weeks ended		*13 weeks ended		*13 weeks ended
			March 31, 2024		June 30, 2024		29-Sep-24		29-Dec-24		30-Mar-24
GAAP operating loss from continuing operations			(7,544)		(9,494)		(29,770)		(21,501)		(8,876)
	Note
Depreciation and amortization	A		357		329		305		1,745		1,146
Stock based compensation	B		1,341		1,229		1,516		(1,019)		5,756
Restructuring charges	C		406		2,603		21,072		14,835		3,248
Total of Non-GAAP adjustments			2,104		4,161		22,893		15,561		10,150
Non-GAAP net loss			(5,440)		(5,333)		(6,877)		(5,940)		1,274
Notes:
(A) Depreciation and amortization: Depreciation and amortization related to capital expenditures.
(B) Stock-based compensation: Stock-based compensation relates to our equity incentive awards and for services paid in warrants. Stock-based compensation is a non-cash expense.
(C) Acquisition Costs: Costs primarily related to acquisition, headcount reductions (i.e. severance), legal, professional services (i.e. historical carveout audits) and due diligence.
*Reflects the acquisition of the SunPower Assets which Complete Solaria acquired on 9/30/24.

Source: SunPower

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FAQ

How much profit did SunPower (CSLR) report in Q1 2025?

SunPower reported a $1.3 million operating profit in Q1 2025, marking its first profitable quarter in four years. This profit was based on non-GAAP results with revenue of $80.2 million.

What happened to SunPower's employee headcount after the October 2024 merger?

SunPower reduced its headcount from 3,499 employees on October 1, 2024, to 906 employees by Q1 2025, exceeding their target of 980. This restructuring was designed to achieve profitability at $300 million in annualized revenue.

What are SunPower's Q1 2025 revenue and cash balance numbers?

SunPower reported Q1 2025 revenue of $80.2 million with a 36% gross margin. The company's cash balance increased slightly to $14.0 million from $13.3 million in Q4 2024.

When did Complete Solaria change its name to SunPower and ticker to SPWR?

Complete Solaria rebranded as SunPower on April 21, 2025, changing its ticker symbols from CSLR and CSLRW to SPWR and SPWRW respectively, effective April 22, 2025.

Who are the key new hires at SunPower in Q1 2025?

SunPower hired Dr. Richard Swanson, Stanford technical expert and original SunPower founder, as technology advisor, and Dr. Mehran Sedigh, former Enphase Battery unit head, as CTO.

What is SunPower's financial outlook for Q2 2025?

SunPower forecasts steady revenue and expects positive operating income to continue in Q2 2025, with more detailed forecasts and growth plans to be presented at their May annual meeting.