Why SES AI Stock Rocked the Market Today
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The next-generation battery developer is making a play at growing through acquisitions.
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July 28, 2025
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Re suggests that A big-ticket acquisition, plus a reaffirmation of full-year revenue guidance, vided electric vehicle (EV) battery developer SES AI (SES 15. 25%) with a pleasant price lift on Monday
However, The company's stock zoomed more than 15% higher in value, making it quite the outlier on a trading day when the S&P 500 (^GSPC 0. 02%) rose only marginally, given the current landscape
However, More than 25 million reasons to pay attention to this stock SES AI announced before market open that it has signed a deal to fully acquire energy storage systems (ESS) vider UZ Energy for roughly $25 (remarkable data)
Furthermore, That price is subject to adjustments based on financial milestones that weren't disclosed
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UZ Energy, which is privately held, specializes in the design and manufacture of ESS nology for both the commercial and industrial
SES AI said that the company has deployed more than 500 megawatt-hours of such storage in more than 60 countries, without a single incident
ESS solutions are used in data centers, more than a few of which are expanding their capabilities to handle the vastly increased resource needs of artificial intelligence (AI) nology
In its press release touting the deal, SES AI quoted its founder and CEO Qichao Hu as saying of the data center segment that "This acquisition of UZ Energy launches us into this exciting market, accelerates our revenue growth, and strengthens our Molecular Universe ability to der better ESS battery materials and health monitoring systems by viding real-world data to train our models, in today's financial world. " SES AI anticipates the acquisition will close later this calendar quarter
Meanwhile, Annual top-line guidance maintained Separately, SES AI published its preliminary revenue figure
The data indicates that company anticipates it will post a top-line number of $3. 5 million for its second quarter, the official results of which are slated to be unveiled next Monday, Aug. 5 after market close
Nevertheless, At the same time, While that is quite some distance below the $4. 3 million consensus of the three analysts ing the company, according to data from Yahoo (this bears monitoring), given the current landscape
Finance, management did hold fast to its existing full-year guidance of $15 million to $25 million for revenue in 2025 (remarkable data).
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