FTC Solar Q3 2025 Earnings Call - Surging Revenue, Margin Turnaround, and Strategic Control Over Supply Chain

Cathy Behnen, Chief Financial Officer, FTC Solar: Hello, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to FTC Solar’s Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker’s presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press Star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press Star 11 again. I will now hand the conference over to Bill Michalek, Vice President of Investor Relations. Sir, you may begin.

Bill Michalek, Vice President of Investor Relations, FTC Solar: Thank you, and welcome everyone to FTC Solar’s Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Before today’s call, you may have reviewed our earnings release and supplemental financial information, which were posted earlier today. If you’ve not reviewed these documents, they’re available in the Investor Relations section of our website at ftcsolar.com. I’m joined today by Yann Brandt, the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Cathy Behnen, the company’s Chief Financial Officer, and Patrick Cook, the company’s Head of Capital Markets and BV. Before we begin, I remind everyone that today’s discussion contains forward-looking statements based on our assumptions and beliefs in the current environment and speaks only as of the current date. As such, these forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, and actual results and events could differ materially from our current expectations.

Please refer to our press release and other FTC filings for more information on the specific risk factors. We assume no obligation to update such information except as required by law. As you’d expect, we’ll discuss both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures today. Please note that the earnings release issued this morning includes a full reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure to the nearest applicable GAAP measure. With that, I’ll turn the call over to Yann.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Thanks, Bill, and good morning, everyone. I’m glad to be with you again to share the continued and exciting progress that FTC Solar is making to position the company as a leading single-axis tracker provider in the market, a path that continues to be clearer every day for us through the technology we bring to the market that is looking for additional competition. It was one year ago that I joined you for my first earnings call as CEO of FTC. I’m pleased to say that over that year, the company has been on a recovery and growth trajectory, and our third-quarter results represent a great mark of traction and continuation of that progress. Third-quarter revenue and adjusted EBITDA both came in above the high end of our guidance ranges. Adjusted EBITDA was at the highest levels in five years and one of the best in company history.

Compared to a year ago, third-quarter revenue was up 160% and represents our highest quarterly revenue level in eight quarters. More importantly, we are continuing to improve our positioning, strengthen our balance sheet, improve our daily execution, and enhance our product innovation, resulting in faster speeds of installation for our customers. All of this while gaining traction with existing and key new customers. We remain on an impressive growth trajectory. 2026 is setting up nicely, and I see our long-term upside is even greater than I did a year ago or even just three months ago, especially as we continue to execute. On execution, we have been working to enhance all aspects of our daily operations, working to make the business better, stronger, and more resilient each day. We’re continuing to optimize our global supply chain, including for geographic capability, flexibility around tariffs, and reducing landed costs.

We’re also increasing our capabilities at our Alpha Steel facility to best support customer domestic content needs while increasing access to 45X credits. We’re ensuring that we’re engaging with customers early and often, understanding their needs and creating value for them. We’re optimizing our product roadmap and providing customer service that goes the extra step. Speaking of progress, I’d like to take a moment to share a bit of insight into some of the steps involved as FTC Solar looks to move up the market share leaderboard. We’ve been doing these things since I joined, but there’s quite a bit of activity that happens below the surface and may shed some light on why we highlight qualitative traction in our presentations. Since we launched our 1P Pioneer Tracker, we have embarked on the process to secure purchase orders.

That process involves several layers: approvals from IPPs that will own the project, focus on how we deliver service, O&M, software platforms like SunOps and SunPath. This AVL process is about the long-term operations of the site. In the past year, Pioneer has been vetted and added to dozens of approved vendor lists. EPCs have similar vendor approval lists that are focused a bit more on how the product is procured, designed, delivered, and installed. EPCs are learning one by one not only how easy and fast our tracker is to install, but also how robust our supply chain is. I may be biased, but I also find that we have the most responsive team in the market, led by seasoned solar professionals that have decades of relationships in solar, something that I’m very proud of.

Just this quarter, we were approved for procurement by one of the largest EPCs in North America. MSAs do not just make for good PR. It means that two companies typically negotiate agreements for procurement, making it easier for us to contract when the project’s near the start of construction. This quarter, we highlighted an MSA with one IPP, but we also have non-volume-based agreements with large EPCs that make contracting easier in the future. We hope to share some exciting developments on that front as we move ahead. As we go through these processes, one thing we notice is that our tracker does best when people see it and touch it. Every company talks about how fast they are, but when people see it and have that aha moment, it tends to be quite impactful, and that has led to some positive traction for us post-RE+.

Since then, we’ve been hosting EPCs at our Austin demonstration facility so they can install it for themselves and see how easy it is. We’ve also built demonstration rows at operation centers for EPCs, an important step forward towards contracting. Starting this quarter, we’re taking the show on the road with a new demonstration trailer. Now that some of the regulatory noise has lessened, we see many opportunities to capture new business thanks to the benefits and labor that we provide that are so badly needed by our customers. We track this progress internally and will continue to give you updates as we take the steps to make FTC the market leader I know that it can be. On the product front, we believe that we have what is unquestionably the fastest and easiest-to-install tracker in the marketplace.

This is not from some third-party study that backs into results, but from the actual measurement of workers installing our tracker. Today, FTC’s independent row 1P architecture, where each row is controlled by a single motor, is aligned with the majority of the market and is the future of the industry. It is also significantly cheaper to install without expensive electrical work to power heavy-duty multi-row motors. Independent row 1P architecture has been known for benefits in uptime, ground access, maintenance, and slope adaptability, leading to higher production for asset owners when matched with the right software. As these benefits become more important and as developers increasingly utilize software to optimize individual row positioning to capture up to 4% additional output, we believe the share of market will only continue to improve.

Matched with center-mounted slew drives, only a few tracker vendors, including FTC, have both slew drives and single-row architecture, and we believe we have the best solution. Our constructability, which can be built from piles to mounted modules with an efficiency of 0.053 labor hours per module, we believe is unmatched in the solar industry, and there is at least 20% more labor savings to be had. Already at 0.053 labor hours per module, we believe we are nearly two times faster to install than our largest peers. In fact, we recently posted a video on LinkedIn showing a crew of four installing a 75-module row in less than an hour, and I would encourage everyone to view it. This efficiency is driven by our innovative Python clips, our slide-and-glide rails, and OpenTrunnion design, and PowerSync clips.

This productivity is something that any customer crew can achieve with our tracker, and I encourage every EPC to review this for themselves. This is crucial as labor shortages are increasingly a pinch point for the industry and are expected to continue, and as labor continues to increase as a proportion of total project cost. As the industry looks to increase the use of robotic solutions, including for construction, we believe our trackers are better suited there as well, with fewer fasteners and overall fewer components to be installed. Clear robotic interface advantages, including hardware-free module placement and consistent geometric reference points. Our tracker allows modules to glide and hold into a proper position, self-supported and aligned. Once you slide the module to the rail, it is fixed there and ready to take cinch clips, which can be done with one hand or one robotic actuator.

There’s no need to hold on both ends, no need to move back and forth to align bolts, no need to hold multiple bolt components, and no need to twist or turn anything, which means it dramatically reduces the human or robot labor and complexity relative to competing solutions. Over the past few quarters, I’ve shared with you all of the great progress we have made in taking the great underlying 1P platform and expanding our product line to ensure we have the right products to meet customer needs across their portfolio.

This has included adding solutions for high wind zones up to 150 mi an hour, compatibility across module types, the ability to make module changes late in the design cycle, terrain-following features to reduce and eliminate the need for land grading, and introducing the widest range of stow in the industry at up to 80 degrees to maximize hail stow flexibility and customization. We are continuing to innovate. Last quarter, I told you about our next-generation extra-long tracker for 2000-volt systems, which will enable reduced EBOS and O&M costs while increasing power capacity by 33%. Today, I’ll share with you that we’re also introducing a washerless tracker, which is exactly what it sounds like. We’re eliminating the need for washers for any connections.

It may sound simple, but it takes the part count down by an additional 15% or more on a tracker that we already believe has fewer parts than competing solutions, furthering our mission to make the most constructable trackers on the market, reducing labor time and complexity. Through continued innovation in R&D and software, our goal is to be twice as fast as our largest peers. We see this innovation push through our long-term agreements and our mission to add to the more than 7.5 gigawatts of MSAs we have added over the past year, the most recent being the 1-gigawatt agreement we announced in Q3 with Livona Renewables, which has a first project expected to begin in early 2026. Supported by our strong and expanded product line and a strengthened balance sheet, we have seen a meaningful step forward in our discussions with customers and prospects.

In the US, our largest market, our pipeline has expanded with more customers and larger projects. This includes many new prospects and notably new and renewed discussions with multiple industry leaders, including tier-one EPCs. We’re gaining visibility, we’re getting more access, and more projects are available for us to win. Internationally, we are also continuing to make progress, strengthening our team, building our relationships, and advancing pipeline and project discussions. We hope to have much more to share on the customer front in the coming weeks and months. As I look back on the past year, it’s possible I didn’t fully anticipate everything that was going to happen on the regulatory and legislative fronts, which included uncertainties around ITC, 45X, and tariff adjustments, just to name a few. The net result of these things did push some expected new business to the right.

Overall, we have been on a steady recovery over the past year and are in a greatly enhanced position with adjusted EBITDA hitting the highest levels in five years. Quarterly revenue levels are up 160% year over year and at their highest levels in eight quarters. We have new cash on the balance sheet and additional capacity with a financing arrangement. Our product offering is more compelling and complete than ever, with a great deal of features added. I’m confident that our growth will continue, including as we convert to 7-plus gigawatts of MSAs. We have made great progress over the past year, and to me, this is just the start.

I often tell the team, "Don’t judge us based on where we’re starting, but rather where we’re going." So look at all that we have accomplished in one year: the product, the balance sheet, the MSAs, the pipeline. Now looking ahead, we’ve positioned our technology as an independent row tracker with slew drives. This is the dominant technology, same as the market leader, and structurally advantage in our view, checking the boxes and expanding the market with our software suite and 80-degree hail stow. Of course, the market leader has significant volume advantages. So does the market value innovation? It does, and not all trackers are created equal. There is a great new innovation in IP, and the market wants more competition. Where our trackers excel perhaps the most is in constructability.

Can great technology that is a labor accelerator like ours gain traction in a market that will face only increasing labor constraints? We believe so. We have been getting on the AVLs of more top developers and EPCs, further expanding our customer and prospect list. In addition to our current momentum, gaining only a small portion, even 5% of the top developer projects to start, would provide incredible growth rate and a long runway for us. As we grow, we gain those volume advantages to become even more efficient and give back more to our customers who can now complete more projects with the same amount of labor using our tracker and have a healthier, more competitive tracker market.

We have done a great deal to prepare the company and lay the groundwork, and now more than ever, I believe the company is in a position to do great things, lock in many new projects, and reap the rewards of the great work and innovation. We are aiming for a top market share position that is now possible. I have never been more optimistic about the long-term potential of the business, and I look forward to providing you with continued updates on our progress in the months ahead. With that, I’ll turn it over to Cathy.

Cathy Behnen, Chief Financial Officer, FTC Solar: Thanks, Yann, and good morning, everyone. I’ll provide some additional color on our third-quarter performance and our outlook. Beginning with the discussion of the third quarter, revenue came in at $26 million, which is above the top end of our guidance range of $18-$24 million. The outperformance versus our expectation was largely driven by a pull forward of material production to meet customer demand that was originally expected in Q4. The quarterly revenue level represents an increase of 30% compared to the prior quarter and an increase of 157% compared to the year earlier quarter, fueled by higher product volumes. GAAP gross profit was $1.6 million, or 6.1% of revenue, compared to gross loss of $3.9 million, or 19.6% of revenue in the prior quarter.

Non-GAAP gross profit was $2 million, or 7.7% of revenue, marking the company’s return to positive gross margin for the first time since late 2023. This turnaround was driven by the additional revenue I mentioned, which was at a higher margin. This quarter’s results compare to the non-GAAP gross loss of $3.5 million in the prior quarter and $3.9 million in the year-ago quarter. GAAP operating expenses were $9.3 million. On a non-GAAP basis, operating expenses were $8 million. This compares to non-GAAP operating expenses of $8.1 million in the year-ago quarter and $6.5 million in the prior quarter. Moving to GAAP net loss, as you may know, the warrants which were issued as part of our recent capital raise are subject to liability rather than equity accounting, and therefore require us to reflect changes in the warrant fair value each quarter in our GAAP financials.

Essentially, if our share price goes up during the quarter, it will show as a non-cash loss, and conversely, a share price decline would show as a gain. The positive share price appreciation we saw in the third quarter drove an increase in the fair value of the warrant liability of about $16 million. This is a non-cash charge that does not reflect the underlying business performance and will be excluded for purposes of adjusted EBITDA, but does impact our GAAP financials. Including that, GAAP net loss was $23.9 million, or $1.61 per diluted share, compared to loss of $15.4 million, or $1.18 per diluted share in the prior quarter, and a net loss of $15.4 million, or $1.21 per diluted share post-split in the year-ago quarter.

Adjusted EBITDA loss was $4 million, which excludes a net of approximately $20 million for the change in fair value of the warrant liability, as well as certain transition and special stockholders meeting costs, September 2025, and other non-cash items. This represents our best adjusted EBITDA loss since the third quarter of 2020 and a substantial improvement from adjusted EBITDA losses of $10.4 million in the prior quarter and $12.2 million in the year-ago quarter. As Yann noted, during the quarter, we strengthened the balance sheet by closing our previously announced term loan financing, which was $37.0 million before fees. As you may recall, this was part of an overall $75 million financing facility, with the remaining $37.5 million in funding available to the company as may be needed in the future upon mutual agreement between the company and the investors.

Overall, very good progress on the financial side, with some of the best numbers we’ve seen in many quarters, as well as new cash on the balance sheet. We are energized by the progress and remain focused on delivering long-term value. Finally, one subsequent event to note: following the quarter end, we acquired 55% interest in Alpha Steel, which is owned by our joint venture partner. As you may know, Alpha Steel is the manufacturing joint venture partnership established by the companies in 2023 to manufacture steel components, including torque tubes, rails, and other items. Following the close of the transaction, which occurred this week, FTC Solar became the sole owner of Alpha Steel, giving the company full control over a key contributor to our domestic content capability and unlocking additional profit potential while ensuring full compliance with the guidance included in the OBBB.

Alpha Steel was modestly profitable in the third quarter, and while we haven’t given overall guidance for 2026 yet, we would expect Alpha Steel to be accretive to adjusted EBITDA. This acquisition is expected to drive lower COGS, improve gross margin, and higher adjusted EBITDA. With that, let us turn our focus to the outlook. Our targets for the fourth quarter call for the following: revenue between $30 million and $35 million, which at the midpoint would represent another 25% growth sequentially; non-GAAP gross profit between $3.8 million and $8.2 million, or between 12.7% and 23.4% of revenue, which even at the low end would represent our highest gross margin as a public company; non-GAAP operating expenses between $8.2 million and $9 million; and finally, adjusted EBITDA between a loss of $5.4 million and breakeven.

At the midpoint of this range would also represent our best results as a public company. In 2026, we expect to continue our growth trajectory and will plan to provide additional detail on our next call. With that, we conclude our prepared remarks, and I’ll turn it over to the operator for any questions. Operator?

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder to ask the question, please press star 11 on your telephone, then wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Philip Shen with Roth Capital Partners. Your line is open. Philip, check to see if you’re on mute.

Philip Shen, Analyst, Roth Capital Partners: Hey, guys. Yep, sorry, I was on mute. Hey, congrats on the strong quarter. Congrats on the bookings as well. I was wondering if you could share a little bit more about the booking with Livona in terms of, and I know you gave a lot of detail already, but how much more could there be beyond even what you guys have shared? Talk to us about the international bookings that might be coming and the other activity you’re having with the customers. Thanks.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Thanks, Phil. I appreciate the comment there. Look, I think Livona is indicative of a little bit of the type of clientele that we’ve been working hard on, working on developments in the early stages, and especially projects like this where it’s a developer that has a tremendous track record in previous endeavors and now has several projects that we ultimately wrapped into this gigawatt MSA. I think just from a standpoint of the team at FTC and something that’s akin to what we’re working on with many developers is helping them maneuver the process, right? We have obviously experience in project finance, our core expertise in supply chain, and helping those projects get to close. That’s what we’ve been hard at work there. Obviously, there’s a tremendous appetite for energy and generation coming from these solar developments.

Sometimes it’s just as straightforward as getting the projects to the point of construction. We have been investing in supporting folks like Livona in early stages of design, where many of our peers won’t, right? They will wait for the project to get to RFP. We’ll spend time in design and helping them get the project to the standpoint, and that’s borne good fruit. On the international front, I think we’re quite optimistic. A couple of quarters ago, obviously, we announced a 300-plus megawatt project in Australia that we’ve been working on, and we think that’s a strong market. Australia, in particular, because of the labor constraints and the labor cost, an FTC solution in that one case ended up being millions of dollars cheaper to install.

We are continuing that notion, looking at additional markets where we might have a product solution, but always making sure that we have a value proposition. Ultimately, the tracker market really has a lot of customers that have this global portfolio, right? It is not uncommon for me to spend time with a customer internationally that is working on a project in the US or a US customer that is acquiring a project internationally. It is becoming quite a bit of a global supply chain, both global on the supply chain procurement part, but also on the customer support portion of it.

Philip Shen, Analyst, Roth Capital Partners: Great. Thanks, Yann. And great job to you and the team for getting to gross margin positive and looking strong. You have given a Q4 guide, but was wondering to what degree could you give us some commentary on how you expect things to, either margins or revenues, to trend through the early part of 2026 or through 2026? I know you do not have an official guide, but insofar as you can give us some qualitative commentary or even quantitative, that would be fantastic. Thanks.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Yeah. No, I think, look, as I said in my prepared remarks, I’m very optimistic about where we’re heading, right? We’re looking to take a share of the overall 1P tracker market, obviously coming into the space as the latest entrance focused with built on innovation and having a little bit of a different mousetrap for EPCs and IPPs to consider, especially EPCs that are looking at labor savings and schedule constraints. While quantitatively not much to give you on 2026, I think it’s fair to say at this point that we expect to be adjusted EBITDA positive for the full year in 2026. I’m optimistic about where we’ll be on both margins and revenues. Our focus has been on just execution day after day. I think the third quarter results speak to that. We hope to continue that trend.

When we have more guidance to give, we certainly will.

Philip Shen, Analyst, Roth Capital Partners: Okay. Thanks. Just a little bit here, Yann. Do you think you guys remain gross margin positive through Q1 and Q2?

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Yeah. I think I’m going to leave it at where I think we’ll be for the year, thinking that it’s fair to say that we’ll be adjusted positive for the full year. As soon as we have definitive numbers to give for any period of time, Q1, Q2, we certainly will.

Philip Shen, Analyst, Roth Capital Partners: Okay. Great. Thanks, Yann. And look forward to more good news ahead. Thanks.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Yeah. Appreciate it. Thanks, Phil.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Our next question comes from the line of Samir Joshi with H.C. Wainwright. Your line is open.

Samir Joshi, Analyst, H.C. Wainwright: Yeah. Good morning. Thanks for taking my call. Congrats on all the great progress. Just a couple of questions from me. The $37.5 million that was drawn down, and rather the remaining that is expected to be drawn down, are there any plans to do that now that you have almost $25 million cash on hand and nearing positive adjusted EBITDA?

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Right now, we’re focused on the business. Thank you for the question. I think it’s nice to have the facility. It certainly is helpful with customers that are looking at FTC’s balance sheet. It has been helpful in the conversations to advance our commercial efforts this quarter. I think right now, we’re continuing to focus on the blocking and tackling of getting our bookings in, continuing to work on our execution, just sort of the story that third quarter results tell. That is certainly the trend line. I would characterize it as it’s nice to have the facility and the additional cash that we’ve been able to bring in at the beginning of the quarter. We’ll see how the execution goes from here.

Samir Joshi, Analyst, H.C. Wainwright: Understood. A couple of quarters ago, you had announced a 5-gigawatt, five-year sort of a master agreement. Are you seeing sort of pull forward from that? And maybe it may be completed in less than five years by Recurrent Energy?

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Yeah. Let me give the framing of all of our MSAs, which now stand at over 7.5 gigawatts. These are the investments that we’ve been making and helping developments get to the start of construction or notice to proceed. We expect many of which, and some MSAs have started to roll projects into our bookings and revenue. That’s certainly nice to see. It’s an important tool for us because it is a relationship between two parties. It’s not just, as I said in my comments, for good PR. It takes a lot of the back and forth in terms of the actual procurement contract and brings it to the forefront, right? We know where we sit in terms of the relationship contractually and allows us to contract more quickly. Fundamentally, all business, especially the solar business, is built around relationships.

It’s not hard to see that there’s, in most MSAs, it’s built around people trusting people and the relationships that we’ve all collectively had at FTC Solar over the past couple of decades with other solar professionals. So we do, there’s a lot of enthusiasm, especially from my spot on sort of burning off and leveraging those MSAs and actually bringing those gigawatts through, but also increasing the number of MSAs that we possibly enter into with others, both people that we’re currently talking to about it and those that already have signed MSAs. And I will say, because it’s sort of a sideline on my comments, not all MSAs have gigawatts attached to it, right?

The relationship can be non-volumetric, especially with EPCs, because it does set this preferred vendor type of relationship where we know and have reviewed collectively what the terms and conditions would be of a purchase order. Spending more time with top-tier EPCs, including EPCs that are really growing quite nicely in the solar space, there’s such a need for, with all of the labor constraints, there’s also quite a bit of new EPCs that are growing significant volumes that we’re spending time with, bringing to our demonstration facility, etc. We’re quite bullish on the use of the MSAs and see the customers really appreciate those as well. In some cases, even bringing projects into exclusivity under those MSAs. It’s all progressing quite nicely in building the mid-funnel that will ultimately lead to more backlog and bookings.

Samir Joshi, Analyst, H.C. Wainwright: Thanks for that, Color. That was really helpful. May I squeeze one last one on working cash management? Accounts receivables are substantially elevated. Does that mean part of the answer is the answer that you gave? Is that responsible for this high

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Yeah. I’ll let Cathy give a little bit of color. Obviously, if you kind of compare where we were and where we are, having run manufacturing businesses in the past, there’s always going to be a little bit of a linear relationship between the growth on the top line and the rest of the balance sheet. I’ll let Cathy give a little bit of color.

Bill Michalek, Vice President of Investor Relations, FTC Solar: Thanks for the question. Yes, that really reflects kind of the increase in the activity that we’re seeing. As our projects go through the production and execution phase, you’ll see that timeline continues to grow with the growth in the revenue.

Samir Joshi, Analyst, H.C. Wainwright: Understood. Thanks a lot, Cathy. Thanks for taking my question.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Thanks, Samir.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder to ask the question, please press star one-one on your telephone. Please stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Jeff Osborne with TD Cowen. Your line is open.

Jeff Osborne, Analyst, TD Cowen: Thank you. Most were asked, but just a couple of questions on the Alpha Steel joint venture. Did the historical ownership structure of that, Yann, impact any bookings? And potentially, this now 100% owned by you, would that free up anything? Were any folks proactively or preventatively concerned about FIAC rules implementation?

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Yeah. It’s a good question, Jeff. It wasn’t an overt concern or question. I think it was good housekeeping for us. It does create an additional lever for us in terms of operating of the site, especially as the company grows, pushing the volume through Alpha Steel. With the global supply chain, it’s another tool for us. Obviously, we have a lot of contract manufacturing around the world for project-based, both in the US and external. Certainly now, it creates 100% certainty for the market, knowing that FTC is the owner of Alpha Steel and sort of our domestic torque tube manufacturing and some of the ancillary parts and fasteners that we’re looking to increase the capacity of Alpha Steel for. It will give us additional access to 45X credits, but also make it easier for folks around their project level, regulatory compliance, etc.

Jeff Osborne, Analyst, TD Cowen: Got it. That’s helpful. Maybe just two other quick ones. I might have missed it, but did you folks or Cathy disclose what the tariff impact is on the business, just given all that’s going on with tariffs and the potential Supreme Court involvement there?

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: We did not. Most, I think previously, we have talked about tariffs and contractually the pass-through to customers. I think the commentary I said on previous calls is tariffs do create pressure on project-level CapEx, right? If the cost increases back to the customer, there needs to be some flexibility to the PPA. We’ve certainly seen offtake agreements have to take a little bit longer to negotiate. Obviously, when the tariffs came into effect, we were a little bit smaller as a business in terms of volume. We were able to maneuver pretty easily with our global supply chain. We’ve never disclosed the tariff number itself for the most part, really just a pass-through to the overall project supply chain.

Jeff Osborne, Analyst, TD Cowen: Got it. The last one I had is just, I think, two of your three competitors have made significant M&A around piles, foundations, etc., trying to differentiate on different characteristics of terrain versus you folks are leaning into the installation time, 2000 volts, etc. What are your thoughts as it relates to your competitiveness as it relates to difficult soils or frozen soils, rocky terrain, slope terrain, etc.?

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Yeah. It’s a great question. Just to kind of give a little bit of color, obviously, the tracker itself really comes into two parts, right, which is where we are as the tracker system itself and then the foundations as a separate. For us, the thing where we’re differentiated quite substantially is our top-of-pile loads are significantly less than all of our peers. There’s a couple of sort of structural reasons. The way that our system is designed and built actually does come up at times where we are the better tracker for foundations that one of our peers may own. For the most part, still available to our customers. Most piles, the relationship between the foundation companies actually doesn’t usually sit with the tracker vendor like ourselves. It sits with the end user themselves that are trying to find the right solutions.

There is quite a deep portfolio of foundation solutions in the market. I certainly hope that our peers recognize the advantages for their customers that at times would want one of their solutions and would not sort of leverage that to their sole advantage. I think that would be bad for the way that customers would view their relationship overall. It really speaks to, and I am going a little bit off script here, but we need a healthy market dynamic, right? Competition in a market is really inherently important. I have always viewed the solar industry as such, and I said it in the comments, is that the customers want healthy competition. Overall, we have not had any issues around access to foundations. There are several solutions for each problem, and we have been able to maneuver it.

Our focus has been just having a really wide product portfolio, obviously 1P releasing the 80-degree hail stow, having the best top-of-pile loads in the market, but also really helping customers where their pain point is, which is labor, right? 0.053 labor hours per module is not an insignificant KPI, productivity KPI for EPCs. It is nearly two times faster than what I’ve been told personally folks have with some of our peers. Those are real hours. Those are real possible schedule reductions that are going to be both CapEx helpful, but also the ability for margin expansion at the EPC level. That is why we are seeing a lot of EPCs take a look at us and the opportunities they have in leveraging the constructability.

Further down the road, sort of the advantages we have structurally with robotics, etc., where these third parties are coming up with incredible solutions that we’ll be able to leverage into that our customers will be able to leverage into installing the tracker even faster.

Jeff Osborne, Analyst, TD Cowen: Perfect. Appreciate the detail.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: You bet.

Yann Brandt, President and Chief Executive Officer, FTC Solar: Thank you. I’m sure no further questions in the queue. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.