SunPower held back $15.3 million of already-signed, already-financed jobs from its own second quarter, on purpose, over blurry photos and missing utility bills. The company reported the results anyway on July 28. Revenue came in at $56.0 million, down 23% from the prior quarter, and the stock kept sliding toward $0.31, a level that makes the Nasdaq delisting clock started last month even harder to beat.
SunPower’s Q2 Revenue Falls 23% to $56.0 Million
SunPower Inc. (Nasdaq: SPWR) reported second-quarter 2026 results on July 28, disclosed the same day in an 8-K filed with the SEC. Revenue was $56.0 million, down $16.8 million, or 23%, from the $72.8 million reported in Q1’26. GAAP operating loss was $18.1 million. Non-GAAP operating loss was $12.5 million, which the company said was slightly better than the $12.9 million non-GAAP loss it booked in Q1.
The company’s explanation for the drop is unusual: management says roughly 1,105 SunPower Direct jobs, representing about $15.3 million in revenue, had signed contracts and financing in place but were deliberately held back from funding submission over documentation quality issues, including blurry photographs, missing utility bills, and jobs needing re-design or re-permitting. The company frames this as a quality-control choice rather than a demand problem, saying its New Homes division has gone more than 70 weeks without a financing-package rejection from its funding partner as a result of the same standard. That is the company’s own characterization. There is no independent verification of how many of the 1,105 held-back jobs would have cleared review without the hold, or of how much the underlying order book actually grew during the quarter.
On the cost side, operating expense fell $19.7 million, with $7.1 million of that from fixed-cost reductions the company says will carry into future quarters. Management’s Q3’26 guidance calls for revenue of $75 million or more and an operating loss under $1 million, a roughly 90% reduction from Q2, built almost entirely on the assumption that the held-back jobs clear funding review and ship this quarter.
None of this has stabilized the stock. Shares were trading around $0.31 as of August 3, down from the roughly $0.47 to $0.60 range reported in this chat’s last article, and market cap has fallen to approximately $56 million from the roughly $75 million to $100 million range cited a week earlier. The Nasdaq minimum bid price deficiency notice from July 21 still stands, with a cure deadline of January 19, 2027 unchanged; a stock price that has fallen further away from $1.00 makes hitting ten consecutive trading days above that threshold a bigger climb than it was last week.
SPWR: What to Watch
Q3’26 guidance calls for revenue of $75 million or more and an operating loss under $1 million, contingent on the approximately $15.3 million in delayed jobs clearing funding review this quarter; SunPower has not disclosed an interim update on that process.
The Nasdaq cure deadline remains January 19, 2027. The stock closed in the low-$0.30s in early August, meaningfully below the $1.00 threshold it needs to hold for ten consecutive trading days to regain compliance.
Sources
- GlobeNewswire: SunPower Reports Q2’26 Results, July 28, 2026
- SEC EDGAR (via StockTitan): SunPower Inc. Form 8-K, Q2’26 Results, filed July 28, 2026
- Robinhood: SunPower Inc. (SPWR) stock data, August 3, 2026
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