Beam Global (BEEM) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Chief Financial Officer - Lisa Potok
• President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman - Desmond Wheatley

TAKEAWAYS

• Revenue -- $8.6 million, growing 21% year over year and 174% compared to the first quarter of 2026.
• Gross Margin -- 17.8%, compared to 20.3% in the prior year period, reflecting a higher impact of fixed overhead allocations.
• Adjusted Non-GAAP Gross Margin -- 26.2%, excluding $700,000 in noncash depreciation and intangible amortization.
• Net Loss -- $3.1 million, or $0.14 per share, compared to $4.3 million, or $0.28 per share, in the second quarter of 2025.
• Backlog -- $5.4 million as of June 30, 2026, following the conversion of orders into shipments during the quarter.
• Operating Expenses -- $4.5 million, representing a decrease from $5.9 million in the prior year period which included a $1.4 million stock grant.
• International Sales -- 47% of total revenue in the quarter, up from 37% a year earlier, driven by the integration of European operations.
• Battery Orders -- $500,000 in a single week, specifically for drone and autonomous robotics applications.
• Relocation Savings -- $2.7 million in expected rent savings over a five-year lease term due to moving manufacturing operations from San Diego to Yuma, Arizona.
• Liquidity -- $1.0 million in cash and a $100 million unused line of credit with zero debt on the balance sheet.
• Customer Mix -- 62% non-government commercial and 38% state and local government customers.
• Credit Loss Provision -- $1.6 million increase for the first half of 2026, relating to a reserve for a single customer balance.
• Inventory -- $8.3 million as of June 30, 2026.
• First Half Net Loss -- $9.9 million, or $0.47 per share, compared to $19.8 million in the prior year period which included a $10.8 million goodwill impairment.
• European EV Market -- 35% growth in electric vehicle sales year over year in Europe, supporting demand for the company's off-grid infrastructure.
• Manufacturing Capacity -- 250,000 square feet under roof in Serbia and 30,000 square feet in Chicago, supporting production for batteries and energy storage products.
• Intellectual Property -- Two new patents issued during the quarter, including one for battery solutions in Europe and one for energy generation in the United States.
• Utilization Rates -- 90% in certain European deployments, including Spain, Montenegro, Romania, Hungary, and Serbia.

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RISKS

• Wheatley stated, "The disruption in the Middle East has certainly gone on longer than I think any of us anticipated," noting that regional uncertainty has affected the pace of business development and investment.
• Wheatley stated, "Nobody can pretend that business and investments are advancing at the same pace as they were before the war," acknowledging that current hostilities in the Gulf region have slowed expected growth.
• Management reported a $1.6 million increase in the provision for credit losses for the first half of 2026, which was reserved in accordance with company policy related to a single customer balance.

SUMMARY

Management of Beam Global (NASDAQ:BEEM) reported a reacceleration of business growth following a 174% sequential increase in revenue. The company is expanding its technology platform beyond electric vehicle charging into specialized battery solutions for drones, AI data centers, and robotics. Operational shifts, including the relocation of manufacturing to Yuma, Arizona, are intended to reduce fixed costs and improve gross margins as production volumes increase. Additionally, international expansion has resulted in European operations contributing approximately half of the company's total revenue, supported by new patent protections and high utilization rates in the region.

• Desmond Wheatley stated, "Europe is now producing as much revenue as the United States is," reflecting the accretion from recent international acquisitions.
• Management noted that the company's battery technology for AI data centers was selected for presentation at IECON 2026 in Qatar from 1,800 submissions.
• Wheatley indicated that the company is targeting 50% gross margins as volume increases enough to overcome fixed overhead allocations.
• The company is expanding a recurring revenue sponsorship model in Europe, demonstrated by the deployment at Belgrade International Airport funded by Globus Insurance.
• Management highlighted the BeamFlight platform, which provides off-grid charging for drones in locations without grid connectivity or human operators.
• Wheatley noted that the Yuma facility allows the company to insource processes such as coatings, sandblasting, and painting that were previously outsourced in San Diego.
• Management reported that the company's battery solutions are utilized in underwater drones where silent operation and heat management are critical requirements.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

• EV ARC: An autonomous renewable charger that integrates solar energy and battery storage to power electric vehicle charging stations without grid connectivity.
• GSA: The General Services Administration, which manages procurement and contracts for the United States federal government.
• Sourcewell: A government procurement organization used by state and local government entities to acquire equipment and services.
• Non-GAAP: Financial metrics that exclude certain noncash charges, such as depreciation and stock-based compensation, to provide an alternative view of operating performance.
• IECON: The International Conference on Industrial Electronics Society, an annual event focused on industrial electronics and applications.
• BeamFlight: A patented drone recharging platform that operates off-grid and without human intervention.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Good day, and welcome to the BEAM Global Second Quarter 26 Operating Results Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Lisa Potok, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead.

Lisa Potok: Good afternoon, and thank you for participating in BEAM Global's Second Quarter 26 Operating Results Conference Call. We appreciate you joining us today. Desmond Wheatley, President, CEO and Chairman of Beam Global is joining me. We are both in San Diego today. Desmond will be giving his thoughts on 2026 and providing an update on recent activities at Beam Global followed by a question and answer session. But first, I would like to remind you that during this call, management will be making forward looking statements including statements that address Beam's expectations for future performance or results. Forward looking statements involve risks and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those statements.

For more information about these risks, please refer to the Risk Factors described in Beam's most recently filed Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed with the SEC. The content of this call contains time sensitive information, that is accurate only as of today. 08/19/2026. Except as required by law, Beam disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any information to reflect events or circumstances that occur after this call. Let me start with a few key highlights. Our revenue in second quarter was 8.6 million. it is up 21% year over year 174% over the first quarter, a clear signal that the business is reaccelerating after a slow start to the year.

We converted a substantial portion of our backlog into shipments during the quarter and backlog ended June at $5.4 million. We continue to operate with no debt, no going-concern qualification, and an unused $100 million line of credit. Operationally, the quarter was active. We booked more than $500 thousand in drone and autonomous robotics battery orders in a single week. We extended our federal GSA and Sourcewell with repeat EV ARC orders from Stanislaus County and the City of Long Beach. And we completed our relocation of our manufacturing operations to Yuma, Arizona.

A move that we expect to generate approximately $2.7 million in rent savings alone over the 5-year lease term when compared to what we have historically spent on manufacturing in San Diego. Desmond will take you through the business in more detail in a moment. Turning to the financials. Our second quarter revenue was $8.6 million an increase of 21% compared to the $7.1 million in the second quarter of 2025. And an increase of 174% over the $3.1 million we reported in the first quarter. On gross profit, we reported $1.5 million or gross margin of 17.8%, compared to $1.4 million or 20.3% the second quarter of 2025.

Both periods included a $700 thousand of non-cash depreciation and intangible amortization and cost of revenues. Excluding these items, our adjusted non-GAAP gross margin was 26.2% compared to 29.6% in the prior year period. We expect our margins to improve as our volumes continue to recover reducing the impact of our fixed overhead on each unit sale and as our cost reduction initiatives take further effect. Our operating expenses were $4.5 million compared to $5.9 million a year ago, which included a $1.4 million stock grant Excluding that item, our operating expenses were essentially flat year over year.

Our first half results absorbed a $1 million non-cash provision for credit losses related to a single customer balance reserved in accordance with our policy. Largely offset by reductions in our compensation, our facilities, and our other G&A expenses. We maintain a positive relationship with that customer and continue to work toward collecting the balance. Our net loss was $3.1 million or $0.14 per share compared to $4.3 million or $0.28 per share a year earlier. The quarter's net loss included a $1.1 million of non-cash charges. Excluding these items, our non-GAAP net loss was $2 million compared to $1.8 million in the prior year quarter.

For the 6 months, net loss was $9.9 million or $0.47 per share compared to $19.8 million or $1.30 per share, which included last year's $10.8 million goodwill impairment. We believe the improvement in both our GAAP and non-GAAP results together with our 21% revenue growth over the prior year quarter reflects our initiatives to expand our opportunities, our disciplined cost structure and a largely fixed nature of our noncash charges, is indicative of our meaningful operating leverage as our revenue recovers. We remain debt free with an unused $100 million line of credit, and we believe we are well positioned to fund operations and support our growth initiatives.

In closing, the second quarter marked a clear reacceleration in our business. Our revenue grew sharply. Our net loss narrowed. Our diversification continued to gain traction, and our cost structure remained disciplined. We believe the actions we are taking are positioning Beam Global for more stable and scalable growth as market conditions continue to evolve. in our favor. I will now turn the call over to Desmond to provide a business update.

Desmond Wheatley: Thank you, Lisa. And thank you to all of you for joining us today for this earnings call. At risk of being a little bit repetitive I am just going to go back over a couple of those numbers for you. So in the second quarter of 2026, we did return to growth at the top line, 174% increase in revenue over the prior quarter. Growth at the gross margin level with about a 30% improvement in gross margin over the prior quarter, that is 30 percentage points better gross margin than in the prior quarter.

And a simultaneous significant reduction in operating costs, $5 million less in spending in the first half of this year than in the same period in 2025. Now we are happy about this level of growth, but particularly because it is come from the very deliberate strategic diversifications that we have been focusing on for the last several quarters. Europe is now contributing more or less the same amount of revenue as the United States is. When we first created Beam Europe, I commented at the time that I thought that the contribution from that the largest market in the world for our products, would at some point outstrip revenue contributions from the United States.

Not at the expense of growth in the United States, but accretively. Well, Europe is now producing as much revenue as the United States is. I suppose time will tell who will win the race, but of course we will pushing for growth in both markets and also in the Middle East, where we believe we will see significant activity as soon as things settle down in the Gulf. At any rate, Europe continues to generate significant revenues for us but even more importantly, very large opportunities and no matter which market comes out on top, being global wins the race. I will come back to the European opportunities in a few minutes.

Our battery business is also making significant contributions some of the most exciting technology and solutions that we have ever had. We generated revenues from our diverse set of new products during the quarter, and also continue to bring in recurring revenue through innovative business models that we have uniquely developed. We have continued to grow our intellectual portfolio with 2 new patents being issued to us during the period. 1 in Europe for battery solutions and 1 in The United States for our innovative, robust, and reliable energy generation technology. These new patents expand the moat around BEAM Global and cement our competitive advantage in the most active markets and technologies of the day.

The batteries that we are producing for drones, robotics, AI, data centers and weapon systems are state of the art. And we continue to make extensive breakthroughs in that area of the business while protecting the intellectual property that we are developing with these patents. While I am on intellectual property, we just recently announced that a breakthrough battery technology which we developed for AI data centers was accepted for a presentation at IEcon 26 in Qatar from amongst 1.8 thousand submissions. This new technology will allow us to provide large amounts of power very rapidly for certain vital data center applications.

Interestingly, it is technology that we developed for defense systems that have similar requirements in terms of rapid discharge capabilities. Batteries generally do not like doing that kind of stuff. it is a real testament to the prowess of our battery scientists and engineers that they have come up with a safe, efficient and effective way of doing this. Clearly the intellectual property that we have developed is important enough to those people who understand these things, but they, as I said, selected us amongst 1.8 thousand submissions presentation at this very esteemed event, and we will go on to actually demonstrate that technology or present that technology at the battery show in The United States this year as well.

There were weeks in the second quarter when we brought in over $500 thousand of orders for batteries for applications like drones. Now drone batteries are not very large, so you can imagine what this means in terms of orders. Also be clear that we do not make cheap commoditized off the shelf solutions. We make highly specialized, complex, reliable, energy dense and robust batteries in form factors which actually suit drone manufacturers.

While other companies try to get those manufacturers to build their drones around large squares and rectangles, we are uniquely able to create batteries in a form factor that allows the manufacturers to create specialized airframes without the burden of having to design around a cheap battery solution. Beyond that, because our batteries are more energy dense, the cost per stored energy is lower. Because of our robust and safe technologies around preventing thermal runaway by just generally managing battery cells better than the cheap options do, we are able to provide a highly engineered and complex solution.

In the long run, that costs drone manufacturers less but most importantly allows them to execute on their missions with a bespoke solution rather than trying to make something off the shelf work. The additional layers of safety that our batteries deliver to these companies are also very important in their decision making process. You do not have to think very hard to consider how damaging it is for a drone to have 1 of their systems fail because a battery has caught fire or failed to deliver energy to the motors. that is an expensive error, not just in terms of replacing the drone itself but also in reputational costs and potential risk on the ground.

Our battery solutions are complex and highly safe and so we significantly reduce the risk for the manufacturers and the operators. Our BeamFlight drone recharging platform, which is patented, does for drones what EV ARC does for electric vehicles. We are able to deploy charging for drones in locations without construction, without any connection to the electrical grid. This means that drones can fly their missions and recharge without returning to an operator. Well, clearly, that is a very significant advantage in a contested environment where an enemy might follow a drone back to an operator while it needs to be recharged.

With BeamFlight, the drone can recharge without ever returning to the operator thus denying the enemy the opportunity to locate that operator. We also believe that BeamFlight will be very important in terms of the scaling of drone operations around industries like package delivery, where drones with limited range can touch down and refuel on route, thus extending their range and capabilities significantly. It should be apparent that we are increasingly becoming a vital and vertically integrated platform for the drone industry through our ability to provide pieces of the puzzle, are absolutely vital to their success.

High quality, energy dense and safe batteries and innovative robust and scalable means to recharge drones they can be more effective on their missions. This is clearly a market with a great deal of growth ahead and Beam Global is already playing a role in its success. I am confident that we will be reporting more and more significant contributions to the drone industry as we continue to evolve. But it is not only drones. We are also producing batteries for robotic AI controlled devices, and even wildfire detection.

Obviously, wildfires have been in the news a lot recently, Our ability to provide safe and energy dense batteries for devices which can be deployed in remote locations and detect fires long before humans might do so is clearly very relevant at a time when wildfires seem to be growing in intensity and in their destructive nature. Fighting wildfires is an extremely expensive business. And the damage that they cause of course is very much more expensive. Providing solutions to an industry that can reduce or prevent is another excellent market vertical for us and it fits very well with our existing technology and superb engineering prowess.

Similarly, our ability to generate electricity and deliver it to our customers in a manner which is more reliable and robust than that which you get from the utility grid is another highly current topic and 1 for which we are continuing to receive new patents and recognition. We have long been recognized for our almost unique ability to create products which deliver rapidly deployed and highly scalable energy generation and storage infrastructure for the electrification of transportation. But the days of our being a single product single country, single customer company are long over. We are now a vertically integrated platform and a platform for solutions serving the most exciting and vibrant technologies and industries of today.

Beam Global is focused on energy, mobility and intelligence. And we are producing patented products for those verticals and selling them to excellent customers globally. We have often been branded as I said as an electric vehicle charging company. But if you look at what we actually provide to the electrification of transportation, what you will see is that we do not provide charging services or even the appliances which charge the vehicles. What we provide are rapidly deployed, highly scalable, highly robust and very dependable sources of electrical energy for the electrification of transportation. We just do it in really innovative and patent protected manners without construction, without electrical work, and without the requirement to extend the utility grid.

And of course without vulnerability to blackouts and brownouts. Much of what we have learned from manufacturing these products and deploying them in the harshest environments in the world The hottest, the coldest, the wettest, the windiest places you can imagine. Has informed the way we design our other energy infrastructure products. And also played a role in advancing our battery technologies. Our off grid products are adding capacity at a time when data centers, AI, the electrification of industry, the electrification of transportation are making demands on the existing utility grid for which it was never intended.

The EV industry is certainly out of favor with public markets at the moment and yet it continues to drive significant amounts of revenue for us. That lack of market favor is primarily in the United States. In Europe and in the Middle East, we are seeing tremendous appetite for products like ours. But even here in the United States, we have seen encouraging new developments in the second quarter.

Our GSA, or General Services Administration contract, which is the contract that we have with the US federal government, which was recently renewed by the way and our SourceWell procurement channel make it easy for customers like the city of Dallas, Stanislaus County, the city of Long Beach, and many others to make multiple EV ARC acquisitions from us. In Massachusetts, we work with a new community electric vehicle sharing company to provide charging infrastructure to them. Most interestingly, with no unit cost for the energy.

Now if you think about that, if you are running a car sharing company and you do not have a unit cost for the energy, that tremendously reduces your operating costs and makes it much more likely that you will be successful in that endeavor. Beam Global is uniquely able to provide rapidly deployed and highly scalable infrastructure without the need for construction or electrical work and without ever producing a utility bill. And that capability becomes very much more exciting when you include our patented and unique off grid autonomous wireless charging solution, which is absolutely ideal for autonomous vehicles.

Our ability to provide highly scalable infrastructure which allows those autonomous vehicles to recharge without any human intervention, and without any unit cost for energy is, I believe, a fundamentally important shift for that burgeoning industry. I do not think anybody doubts anymore that autonomous vehicles are here to stay that there will be a very significant growth in their use in the future. We are seeing companies like Waymo and others deploying in cities even as complex as London. They are going to need an awful lot of infrastructure to support that, and an awful lot of electricity.

We can provide the infrastructure in innovative ways which are much less disruptive and expensive and we can provide them with the electricity at no cost, no unit cost that is and no impact to the grid or requirement for capacity increases. Most importantly, because of our patented wireless charging autonomous solution, we are able to refuel their vehicles without them having to return somewhere to have a human being do that. that is real autonomy and I think it will be really important to the industry. We are uniquely positioned to provide that solution and we have it well patented. I can assure you that our customers with existing autonomous vehicles are backing that theory up.

I have just returned from Europe I have been working out of our Beam Europe offices in Belgrade. While I was there, we made several business development trips to governments and commercial entities alike across the region. We have a growing installed base of EV ARC and other products in Europe now. And as we have learned repeatedly through our history, the best way to sell our products is to have them deployed for customers because when other people see them, they want them. Beyond that, the results delivered by those deployments we have done in Spain, Montenegro, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Serbia, other places have been staggering.

We are seeing more than 90% utilization rates and tremendous amounts of energy generated and delivered to electric vehicles in locations where it would have been either too expensive, too disruptive or even impossible to extend the utility grid. By the way, those are not always remote locations. Quite often find that our ability to deploy in the middle of cities, leaves them from the tremendously expensive and disruptive operations of digging up their streets and extending cabling to places where people want to charge their cars. You may be aware that New York City is our largest municipal customer and all of those systems are deployed within highly urbanized areas.

In Europe, I met with government ministers and senior executives at very large corporations and in every instance, I was encouraged to see that they already knew who we were, and in many cases had already seen our products. We are now going through the procurement processes with our Beam Europe team. All of these countries and companies know that they are going to need a tremendous amount of infrastructure over the next decade. All of them are looking for ways to deploy quickly without disruption and in ways which will not negatively impact their utility grids. They are now seeing our products providing precisely those solutions in the field.

They are now seeing our happy customers who are delighted that they elected to use our solutions instead of going through the lengthy, expensive, risky and onerous process of construction electrical work. Now they have seen it is possible to run large fleets of vehicles on nothing but locally generated and stored electricity without ever paying a utility bill and without being vulnerable to blackouts and brownouts and other lack of capacity related risks. We may have been ahead of our time for much of our existence but our time certainly seems to be arriving in Europe. Again, this is not about providing EV chargers or EV charging services. We leave that to others.

This is about providing highly robust and innovative electrical generation and electrical storage infrastructure in locations which are vital to the operations of these types of organizations. Anybody can buy a charger and get the services behind But getting that charger installed and getting electricity to it, it is a very burdensome project and full of risk. Our products solve for that risk and also provide sources of emergency power which are increasingly recognized as vital by the types of organizations we target. Our products also provide extra capacity to overburden grids I cannot find anybody in government or industry who does not recognize that is a serious risk and 1 that we are solving.

These solutions again derived from the suite of patented technologies that we have developed and evolved into a platform which addresses energy, mobility and intelligence. And it is not just innovative technology that we are providing for the electrification of transportation. We have also introduced business models that have upended the normal thinking have been extremely popular with our customers and their guests.

Part of the reason that we are so well known in the Balkans is because of our highly visible deployment of Belgrade International Airport. that is a deployment which is a sponsorship funded creating a profitable recurring revenue stream for us and providing electric vehicle charging at the airport without construction or disruption or utility bill. it is making electric vehicle charging actually free to the visitors of their premium parking. And the best part about this model is that Globus Insurance that is the company who is sponsoring it, is extremely happy with the results. Like any insurance company they are good at data analysis and crunching numbers.

The positive reactions that they are seeing, the cost per impression, and all round positive impacts of this deployment have made them continually happy and increasingly happy with their investment and inclined to renew their agreements with us. We also announced in the second quarter the expansion of our recurring revenue sponsorship model through further deployments in the region. I have long believed that this can be an extremely successful model for us, It creates a profitable recurring revenue stream and it provides a mechanism for us to deploy larger volumes of our products to customers who do not provide the capital for the infrastructure. They see benefits which are far more lucrative for them than simply supplying kilowatt hours.

And again we are expanding this business now, so we are proving it. I am confident that we will see many more such deployments in the future in Europe I think it is only a matter of time before American entities start to see that they can benefit more by spending their advertising and marketing dollars on this type of infrastructure deployment than the benefit that they receive from billboards or other more traditional advertising media. Let's face it, off grid, renewably energized, free electric vehicle charging and energy security infrastructure is a hell of a lot more exciting than a billboard is.

If you are looking to enhance your brand image, consumers are going to be a lot more impressed by you providing them free fuel than they would be by you putting up another billboard along the freeway. Remember these deployments are not targeted electric vehicle drivers, They are targeted to everyone who sees the striking attractive and highly visible infrastructure which we deploy. Globus Insurance is not interested in the number of people who charge their electric vehicles on the branded systems. Not solely, anyway. Although that is an and growing number of people.

They are much more interested in the 7 million people a year that transit the airport and walk past their heavily branded systems when exiting or entering. About creating highly visible and attractive infrastructure that enhances a corporation's brand image. Dispensing electricity into electric vehicles is secondary in importance. We are also continuing to see success in our smart cities infrastructure solution deployments. During the second quarter, we deployed these sorts of solutions in more than 30 cities across 5 countries.

The revenue from these deployments is of course important, but from a strategic growth point of view, expanding our footprint and getting more and more of our products in front of customers makes us more stable but also creates a platform from which we can sell our other solutions. We have already seen this working. Much of the revenue that we are now generating is coming from customers for whom we have deployed products before. And often quite different products from those that were most recently selling to them. Our strategy of creating a vertically integrated platform producing unique and intellectual property protected products for energy, mobility, and intelligence is paying off.

While our products are diverse, they are all related and that they all have aspects of these 3 pillars. Most of the customers that we have for 1 or more of our products can be equally interested in the rest of our portfolio, or at least be very clear on who in their organization would be. Vertical integration is helping us control costs and create further barriers to entry for the competition. For example, I am not aware of anybody in our industry who creates their own batteries. I am not aware of anybody in the drone industry that makes batteries and charging infrastructure products which are able to generate and store their own energy and be deployed anywhere.

I am not aware of anybody in the smart cities infrastructure industry who has so much experience around the electrification of mobility as we do. And the electrification of mobility is gonna be a massive and central pillar in the deployment of future smart cities. I am not aware of anybody in any of the industries that we serve who is able to deploy rapidly scale autonomous wireless infrastructure for the autonomous vehicles that are coming in fact already here. Autonomous vehicles are certainly going to play a very important role in the future of mobility and we have a unique and patented and tried and tested solution, which is paradigm shifting for them.

In the second quarter, we demonstrated our product platform at the Make It in the Emirates event, which took place in Abu Dhabi. Even during a war when there is tremendous amount of uncertainty in that region, this event was very well attended. And interesting, at least from my point of view, any reduction in attendees was the consumer level, which we do not really focus on. While corporate and government leaders were there in abundance. We were extremely busy during the several days that we were there, meeting with the leaders of law enforcement, military, government, energy, and transportation, and oil and gas and many others from across The Middle East.

The unique attributes of our products were not lost on this audience, and our BEAM Middle East team is now following up with senior decision makers in a region that has an abundance of sunshine, an abundance of cash and a powerful ambition to be technology leaders, particularly in the fields of mobility and smart cities infrastructure. We actually sold 1 of our demonstration units right there and then at the show. It is now deployed and providing charging in Abu Dhabi. The disruption in the Middle East has certainly gone on longer than I think any of us anticipated. Nobody can pretend that business and investments are advancing at the same pace as they were before the war.

However, there is a great deal of confidence that this war will come to an end eventually, whatever the outcome. And that when it does, the entire Gulf region will return to an aggressive investment posture. BEAM Middle East with our highly influential joint venture partner, The Platinum Group, is in the perfect position to take advantage of that return to investment. We are continuing to advance opportunities and relationships and I continue to remain confident that when there is an end to the hostilities, and return to something like normality over there, we will reap the fruits of these efforts.

Beam Global is now truly a global technology platform company providing energy generation, storage and security, to vital new industries like AI data centers, drones, robotics, and new and innovative forms of mobility. We are being increasingly recognized for the value of our intellectual property, and our ability to provide technology solutions that are vital and add a great deal of value to our customers. Our centers of excellence in The Western United States the Midwest, Europe, and the Middle East place us firmly where the action is. With a product platform which could not be more relevant for the fastest growing industries and markets of today.

We are doing all of this while retaining our tremendous discipline with cash and equity. We still have a far lower number of shares outstanding than any of our near peers. 5 to 10x less. Than most of the companies that were often bundled. With. Incorrectly, I must add. We still have no debt and a $100 million line of credit which remains untapped and is dry powder for us in the event that we receive the very large orders which we anticipate and which we continue to work on.

I mentioned at the top of the call we have also significantly reduced our operating costs, with a $1 million in operating cost reduction in the first half from the same period prior year. A big and important step in that direction has been our moving our manufacturing facilities from San Diego, California where it is incredibly expensive and oppressive from a regulatory point of view to operate the type of manufacturing that our business requires. Now, we are in Yuma, Arizona where more or less exactly the opposite conditions exist. We announced in the quarter that we will save just under $3 million in lease payments alone as a result of this move.

Beyond that, labor savings, compliance savings tax savings and savings on just about every aspect of our business will be realized as a result of this move. You are now looking at being global which has significantly expanded its presence and its technology portfolio and is generating revenues from those new technologies and new geographic locations in a way that we have not previously. You are looking at Beam Global which grew revenues 174% quarter over quarter. You are looking at BEAM Global that improved gross margins by 30% over quarter. Quarter over quarter.

And BEAM Global that significantly reduced operating costs while delivering highly relevant and well patented products to some of the most highly sought after customers in the world. You are looking at a BEAM Global that is increasingly becoming a technology platform. For drones with our drone battery solutions and recharging solutions. I fully intend that we will continue to increase our presence in that and the role that we play in it. You are looking at a BEAM Global that for the moment at least is stuck in a rut of valuation with a bunch of EV charging stocks. Yet we do not provide EV charging. We provide highly robust and secure energy generation and storage products.

Which amongst other things make EV charging work in more innovative ways than anybody else that I know of. We intend to break out of that rut because the value of our products and technologies is undeniable. Our ambition to grow the business is matched only by our discipline in how we do it, and our history is 1 of proving again and again that we have the right products and the right stuff to build an incredible growth engine for our employees, our customers and above all, our shareholders. I thank you for your time and attention and now I will hand the call back to the operator and take any questions that you may have.

Operator: We will now begin the question and answer session. The first question comes from Craig Irwin with ROTH Capital Partners. Please go ahead.

Craig Irwin: Good evening and thanks for taking my questions. Desmond, I was hoping you could speak maybe a little bit more about the order book. You have seen some good progress there. Particularly around Europe, the Middle East, and your drone related products in North America. Can you maybe just unpack for us the areas of highest growth in the order book this last quarter? And are you seeing the trends that you have played that have played out in your revenue as far as the strong quarter that you just booked? Are you seeing those same trends continue in the backlog and in the overall revenue generation in the current quarter?

Desmond Wheatley: Yes. So we have seen increase in orders across the board, but I must say the battery and energy storage business is certainly standing at least from a percentage point of view, albeit coming from a lower base in the first place. But you are right that the particularly the stuff that we are doing for some of these defense applications, drones, those sorts of things are they are playing an increasingly important role for us and we are playing an increasingly important role for them. And as I said, a couple of times during my comments, I think you should anticipate that you are going to see us getting a lot more involved in those industries.

Because it just turns out that the platform that we have created over the last several years has just positioned us very well and the timing is very good for us now to take advantage of everything that we have learned creating these energy storage solutions, deploying them in very harsh environments, creating these form factors which are unusual and difficult to reproduce for most people in the industry. I think you might remember, I think it was a quarter ago or something that we announced that we were developing batteries for a company called Ray Systems. Makes an underwater drone where real estate and silence and heat and everything terribly important.

And-- they just do not know of anybody else who can do what we can do. And that is also true of some of the very high energy density, high energy release battery solutions that we are doing for weapon systems and now advancing into the data center market. So order book is telling us that we are shooting at the right targets. Our order book is also telling us that the investments that we made in international expansion were absolutely the right thing to do. You know, I got a lot of flack when I raised money to make the acquisitions to get us into Europe. Good god. With hindsight now, that was absolutely the perfect thing to do.

Opened massive markets to us, enabled us to get into the Middle East, and the types of orders that we are getting there for products across the board shows that was the right thing to do. So I am enthusiastic about this. Think we are definitely shooting at the right targets and the order book is back backing that up. Thank you for that. Desmond, I also wanted to ask about the gross margin progress. So this, again, was another healthy gross margin quarter. And, there is a little bit of blue sky between where you are now and what your longer term gross margin targets are.

Can you maybe discuss the margins on some of these new business opportunities particularly in Europe? I know that EV market was just absolutely brutal as far as competition. And in defense markets and others, the customers want their suppliers to make money. They are not they are not there to put you out of business. Can you maybe just, give us a little bit of detail on margins and the expected margins from your current book of business? Yeah. So you are absolutely right that there is still a big gap between where we are and where we want to be. A good deal of that has to do with volume.

For instance, the major element of the pickup we saw between the first quarter and the second quarter was simply producing a lot more product and getting out the door and overcoming our fixed overhead allocations. We have got a lot further to go there. As you see our non GAAP margins 26%, 27% right now. And when I say non GAAP, all that is doing is it is GAAP, except that we are reversing out the noncash contributions. But the unit economics are way better than that. And so that tells us that we have got a lot of ground to gain in gross margins without changing anything else except increasing volume.

Obviously, we are working very hard towards that. But there is still a lot of opportunity for cost reduction even beyond just increased volume. And the good news is, particularly around things that we are doing around and in the drone industry and other areas like that, because we do difficult stuff that other people cannot do or at least the majority cannot or are not doing. You know, I have always been a fan of margining x expertise and that is where we are. We do not make commodity products. We make products which are difficult for other people to make, and then we make them well and make them in a in a really robust manner.

So I have often said that I think this is a 50% gross margin business. We are halfway there. When you back out the non cash items. And we are way more than halfway there when you look at unit economics. Unit economics on some of our more expensive products have as much as 40% gross margin now. that is an important metric because once you get enough volume to overcome the fixed overhead allocations, that 40% gross margin becomes what we end up reporting. So we are on track. I am not-- am I happy? No. But will I ever-- you have known me a lot of years, Craig. You have never known me be happy with anything.

You know? Yeah. But we are moving in the right direction, and, you know, I think the team's doing a great job. Volume will deliver a great deal of this and then continuing to do the difficult things that other people cannot do. Your last point about the competitive environment in Europe around EVs. So 2 things there. First of all, EV sales in Europe up 35% year over year. Anyone who thinks that EV is dead is just completely missing the mark. We are in an anomalous period in the United States right now which is going to come to an end with certainty. And in the rest of the world, EV sales are growing very dramatically.

I was in Norway recently. 95% of new vehicle registrations electric. I was in The Netherlands. 65% of new vehicle registrations electric. You drive around streets in Norway and The Netherlands, you do not see anything but electric cars. So it is it is absolutely happening. And so but your point is that correct. it is very competitive over there, but it is not for our products. Remember, we are not in the EV charging business. We do not make EV chargers highly competitive business. We do not offer EV charging services highly competitive business.

We make very hard to manufacture with full of intellectual property, energy generation and storage systems which provide the power for other people's low margin EV chargers. But we have really no competition in that space. We are operating in many tenders now. Our products are in many tenders which of course, we hope to win. And you are selling us over there slightly different. You end up in these tender vehicles, and we are in a lot of them now. Is part of reason we feel so bullish about the future in Europe. And we are in them alone. Because there simply is not another product out there yet, which can compete with us.

And again we have very good patents and intellectual property protection and we intend to defend those vigorously. Okay. And then last question if I may. Desmond, you are clearly shooting at the right targets now. My question is, are you shooting at any elephants? Is there anything that can make a dramatic impact on your P and L, over the course of the next year? That we could potentially see booked within the next couple quarters. Well, again, you have known me a long time and the fact is the answer to your question is yes. I am.

You know, I cannot obviously go into any details around all of those things, and the thing about shooting it elephants is, oddly enough, even though they are big targets, sometimes you have to shoot at quite a lot of them to bring 1 down. But, you know, I have I have had a history of doing what I said I was going to do over years. Sometimes it takes me longer, and, you know, we have had a very hard time. there is no question about that. The, you know, the reduction in acquisition from government entities of our products after we basically wind up a federal selling machine was very has been very tough on us.

But, boy, we are we are-- we are coming out of the fire quickly. But there is-- honestly, Craig, the honest best answer I can give you is there is never a time when I am not trying to bring down something which is going to be fundamentally shifting for this company. And, you know, I am I am I have got a lot of energy. And I have a lot of passion for the business. And I am not alone. There are many other members on our team now. Senior members and others alike who are shooting at very large targets. Single signature away from doing something which completely changed our whole trajectory.

Can never guarantee we are gonna get there, and even less, when. But we do have the right products, in the right industry, shooting at the right targets and again a history of performing. So I feel personally, my personal view, I have a high degree of certainty that we will get there. But I do have to caveat that by saying that is my personal point of view. Understood. Well, congratulations on the significant movement this quarter. I will hop back in the queue. Thanks very much, Craig.

Operator: The next question comes from Tate Sullivan with Maxim Group. Please go ahead.

Desmond Wheatley: Hi, Tate. How are you?

Tate Sullivan: Good afternoon. Hi, great. Thank you. And you ended your prepared remarks with a mention of your intention to actively participate in the drone and robotic markets. Can you comment on your competitive advantages with your customized battery in those markets? And our competitors, I think you hinted at less flexible in general with their solutions than your battery business?

Desmond Wheatley: Yeah. I think, I mean, look, it is you cannot have a drone if you do not have a power source for it. And we do 2 things really cleverly. We have a way of recharging them without human interaction. And in remote locations. And again, remember when I say remote location, I am not talking necessarily about the middle of a national park or on a contested battlefield. Sometimes that is just a rooftop in the middle of Los Angeles or something like that. So we have got that piece of it late. And yes, our ability to create these highly energy dense, very safe and bespoke form factored energy storage solutions is a major leg up for us.

But there is another part of it too, which I think is really interesting. If you look at all of our existing customers, U. S. Army still our largest customer. Marine Corps is in the top 10. Lots of law enforcement. Border patrols, European militaries, and all those sorts of things. You can see where we are positioned to where we are kind of at the center of something here. And they are certainly very aggressively looking towards drones and robotics to improve their operations 1 way or another. And we are very well positioned for that.

And so beyond that, again, that we have learned over the last decade or so of deploying infrastructure in very tough environments, creating energy storage solutions for very tough environments, and marrying that with our existing customer base, think puts us in a really, really interesting place where this is concerned. And I do intend to capitalize on that to the extent that I can. Thank you.

Tate Sullivan: Can you remind us for the you got comments on the wireless charging opportunity and certainly with more autonomous vehicles, but can you remind me of the scope of your existing wireless charging patents? Is it integrating the wireless charging pad with your EV ARC design? Do you have some patents on the wireless charging itself? Go into detail there, please.

Desmond Wheatley: Yes, so you are absolutely right. We will remain relatively agnostic on the charging interface itself, but just as we have always done with every other type of EV charger. That was a very deliberate and conscious decision on our part. Recognizing what competitive bloodbath that was going to be and also how rapidly things will change. what is really important about what we can do is our ability to deploy wireless charging rapidly at scale and without construction or work and do it in a way where we can disperse it.

If you think about a city environment where let's say a robotaxi is operating, we can put charging no more than 2 minutes away from every drop off or pickup point that a city does, and we can do it without construction electrical work. Impact to the grid or the tremendously high cost of electricity and infrastructure that are required when you bring all of those robo taxis back to a central location plug them into very high speed charging, and have human beings do that. We can replace that entire model. You do not need super fast charging which damages the vehicles. You do not need super fast charging which is incredibly expensive.

You do not need to buy incredibly expensive electricity burden with demand charges and all these other things. In fact, you can operate your fleet on zero unit cost of the energy without construction, without electrical, electrical work, without human beings. And the wireless charging solution that we have I talk a lot about robo taxis because that is what gets the press. But it is also incredibly interesting for drayage, logistics, material re handling for drones, for robotics and for all sorts of other equipment as well. And our ability to deploy in the very robust and dynamic way that we can is the major differentiator for us.

And again, I am not aware of anybody in the world today who can match us and we have good intellectual property protection over those patents.

Tate Sullivan: And last for me, I am going to, since you did the San Diego transition, the lease transition at the end of the quarter, should we forecast any sort of costs in this current quarter? Related to moving the manufacturing to Arizona? Any I mean, do you have mostly hourly workers in San Diego? Any equipment moving costs? Those kind of costs?

Desmond Wheatley: Yes. So obviously, there were some costs related to the move, but we did it like Beam does everything. You know, we did not spend a dollar or a dime or a penny where we did not need to. We self performed a great deal of it because actually nobody's better qualified than our own people to move our machines and equipment and that sort of stuff around. So there will be some costs related to that. But the real savings kick in basically moving forward from here. Tremendous reductions as I said in rent, tremendous labor, compliance and all the other costs.

Literally a dollar goes twice as far in Yuma, Arizona as it does in San Diego for just about everything that we do. As far as our team's concerned, what is been fantastic about that is that everyone who we wanted has moved. And they are thrilled to go with us. So we are not gonna have to go back go over there and start from scratch. We will be taking the same equipment, the same tooling, same everything, and even the same key people will be moving over there.

And then as we do expand our labor force in Yuma, which of course we expect to, the typical labor rates that we will be paying are about 3 quarters Just the hourly, and the salaries about 3 quarters face value of what we pay in San Diego. And then when you burden them with all the other costs that come along with that, much less expensive again for us. Great detail.

Which by the way, a time-- yes, just to round out on that thought, obviously you can imagine that from our point of view a time when we are really aggressively getting back into growth and producing a lot more This idea of moving to a place where we just every day have much lower operating costs and at the same time expanding revenue and margins, it is very important for us and I am really enthusiastic about it. Thank you. Thank you, Tate.

Operator: And just by the way, before I take the next question, I just want to say for everybody listening to the call, remember San Diego is only 1 of our facilities.

Desmond Wheatley: Manufacturing now moved to Yuma. We also have a facility in Chicago where we make our batteries and we have 2 factories in Belgrade. In fact, 1 of the-- well, 1 in Belgrade and 1 in Crepaja in Serbia. Very much larger We own all the land and buildings there. We have no lease liability there. What we have is a an asset which while it depreciates on the on the balance sheet is in fact getting more valuable every day to the company.

And as we expand further into these markets, the drones, robotics and things like that, I want everybody to understand we have tremendous manufacturing capacity here with human beings who have the training, electromechanical, structural, and everything else like that, that can easily be transferred to these industries. Too. So that is another reason that we are so bullish about the fact that we have created this platform of technology now that we are now using to address these exciting areas is because our people have the capabilities and the and even in many instances, the equipment and tooling to actually perform tasks in these new verticals that we previously have not been addressing.

Sorry, I just wanted to make sure that we were clear on that. I will go back to the next question please.

Operator: The next question comes from Ryan Pfingst with B. Riley Securities. Please go ahead.

Desmond Wheatley: Hi, Ryan.

Ryan Pfingst: Hi. Hi, team. This is Sander on behalf of Ryan. So thanks for taking my question. Yeah. I will start on the batteries. So you mentioned that more than half a million in drone and robotics orders in a single week. Can you give us a sense of where that business sits today in terms of revenue? And what does the pipeline look like from here? And on the data center opportunities that a 2027 event or are we further out than that?

Desmond Wheatley: Yes. So we do not segment the business on this. So I cannot break out revenues per segment We speak in loose terms about geographic revenue breakouts, but I have to be really careful on this because it is an accounting rule that we are-- so I cannot give you the actual contributions from any of these groups. But I can tell you it is growing and it is growing in the way that I want it to, too, with very, very high quality sales and very high quality customers. As to your question about the data center opportunity, I do not know.

Obviously, every day we are reading and seeing about the power problems, power crunch problems, most of the time people talk about utility scale batteries for data centers. But what is being missed and this is what our team is so cleverly, I think-- and again, we have got industry backing it up. Not our opinion, is the fact that actually the energy requirements are not just about producing utility scale energy for these things, but it is also about producing very large bursts of energy, sometimes for very short periods of time. And this is particularly true where AI is concerned rather than just normal data centers. Because of the way those AI data centers operate.

They get these tremendous requirements for very large surges in power very short periods of time. And as I said in my remarks, batteries do not like doing that. You have to really do a lot of good science and engineering to create battery solutions that are able to provide for that. And just serendipitously, we spent a lot of time developing that type of prowess for weapon systems which require the same type of capabilities. And so the answer to your question is I do not know but I am pretty clear that it is going to be a very large opportunity for us, I believe.

And we were again like a lot of other things we do uniquely positioned to take advantage of it. Thank you.

Ryan Pfingst: Thank you for that color. And then on the recurring revenue EV ARC deployments in Europe, the sponsorship funded rental in Serbia and Spain. So how big that you know, how big can that model get? And does it change the margin profile?

Desmond Wheatley: Yes. It does. it is a-- I mean, we expect it to be highly profitable. Because it is a recurring revenue model. It does not involve us actually selling the units. They remain on our balance sheet. And the what we are we are not pricing this based on electricity or anything else as mundane as that. What we are doing is we are competing with other forms of outdoor media and it turns out that we are a very attractive solution for that. And so we expect that I will get in trouble for this comment because people have been hearing me talking about the sponsorship model for years, and I have always been bullish about it.

The difference between now and then is we are actually doing it now. We are pulling it off now. And we are seeing it scaling up. And so I honestly, I do not know what the what the potential for it is, but I think it could be very large. The world is going to need an awful lot of charging infrastructure deployed. They are gonna need rapidly deployed charging infrastructure that is off grid. We have a unique solution for that.

And then our ability to find ways of paying for that, which do not involve capital expenditure and do not involve people paying per kilowatt hour, which is a model which I have got to say I cannot figure out how to make that work in my own head. This is a much better way of doing this. As I have often said before, charging from our point of view for charging cars is like trying charging for ketchup in a steak restaurant. I think we have uncovered the steak. We are we are gonna give the ketchup away for free. I believe that there is a very large opportunity.

And it is an important recurring revenue, high margin opportunity for us as well. And of course, that is no business wants to turn their back on that.

Ryan Pfingst: Yeah. Understood. And just last 1 on the Middle East. Front. Are you seeing any progress in terms of new orders or any conversation progressing?

Desmond Wheatley: Yes. Without a doubt without a doubt. But I do not-- but I do not want to create any wrong impressions here. The simple fact of the matter is people are feeling at least in my experience, people are feeling pretty uncertain there at the moment. it is not surprising. The situation is changing daily. You know, 1 minute we have got an agreement with there is peace and the next minute we are going to flatten the whole area and turn it into a parking lot. I None of us know what is going to happen tomorrow in that region.

However, the things I said about it, sunshine rich, cash rich, and incredibly aggressive about moving to new mobility models. I mean, a lot of the things that we are talking about here in the U.S. -- autonomous vehicles, EV toll taxis, those sorts of things. They are already actually using them in Abu Dhabi where our headquarters are. So, you know, it is a real shame. The timing's been appalling for us. I could never have imagined that this was going to happen when we started being Middle East in the third quarter of last year. Shame on me, I suppose. I do not know.

But I am confident that this is a region that is not going to go away. This will come to an end. I do not think it is in anybody's interest to prolong it. Well, certainly not in ours, meaning the U.S. And so, I think it does come to an end And when it does as I said in my comments, we are going to be very well positioned to take advantage of that. Remember this is a region that has publicly disclosed that they intend to spend a trillion dollars on sustainable infrastructure much of it focused on mobility in the next decade.

And we have solutions which are actually ideally suited for the marketplace and a very, very good setup there with our relationship with The Platinum Group. When we were at Make It in The Emirates, I could not believe the quality of the meetings that we had. Not some ranking officer in the police department, the police chief. Not some, you know, lower officer in the military, but, you know, general level people not some lower office government minister, but top ministers. Coming to us. And why? Because they were being brought to us by our partners at the Platinum Group who are incredibly influential there.

That was always their role what their role was designed to be in the joint venture. We are operationally and product wise, I think we control the organization completely. Their role is always to help us smooth over rough edges and bring us these types of opportunities and introductions. And I have to tell you, they earned their money. I am very happy to be partnered with them, and it and it worked very well for us. We just need this bloody war to come to an end, and then we can get back to work over there. No, thank you. Thank you, Desmond, for those clear answers and congratulations on the quarter. I will pass it over.

Thank you very much.

Operator: We are coming to the end of our time, but I am prepared to take I will take another, I guess, 1 more question here. The next question comes from Brandon Wickman with Individual Investor. Hello, Brandon. Go ahead, Thank you very much, Desmond.

Analyst: I appreciate everything you have shared about the quarter. Just 1 question I have here, I will try to wrap it up quick. But just looking at your manufacturing around the world, you manufacture here in The US, over in Europe. Segmented, if you could, but if you cannot, I understand. I am just curious with all the facilities you have, what is the maximum amount of revenue roughly do you think you could produce worldwide?

Desmond Wheatley: And if you could break it down by continent, I am hesitant to throw that number out there because I am gonna get flack for it, but it is very significant. We have never come close to maxing out our facility in San Diego. We were we were, you know, capable of producing, you know, revenues in the hundreds, not the tens of millions of dollars globally. And we have never come close to maxing our capabilities even in that facility. Our Yuma facility will be as capable, if not more so, the great thing about the Yuma facility is that we intend to in source a good deal of stuff that we have been outsourcing in San Diego.

A great example of that coatings, sandblasting, and painting. Expensive, disruptive, and something that we have been outsourcing in, San Diego. We will, in the future, be insourcing that in Yuma and that will further improve our gross margins and reduce our risk and friction in terms of running the business. Now that is the San Diego/Yuma facility. We have another 30 thousand square feet in Chicago where we are for batteries and for other types of devices, which as I have mentioned, our people have the skill sets to start getting involved in manufacturing some other very interesting things. Which I intend to pursue. But in Serbia, we are 5 times again bigger than that under roof.

250 thousand-square-feet under roof in Serbia and then another 6 acres upon which we can expand And remember, we own the land, we own the buildings, we own everything over there. We do not need anybody's permission to do anything, and we have an incredibly friendly government there in terms of our expansion. So it is certainly not hyperbole to say that we can get to a billion in revenue with our existing facilities. But, again, I am I am I wanna be a little careful with that because people sneer when I say things like that in the way that people always sneer when you talk about you know, positive things and big plans.

But we have got loads of room for expansion and not just with our existing products, but with other interesting things that we intend to do as well. And the best part about that is with very little capital required to do it. And that is, you know, that has hurt us because we have had a cost center historically which has been higher than we have needed for the, you know, the revenue levels that we are at, but it will pay us dividends when we do get into these much higher level revenues and we do not need to expend a great deal of capital to execute on the growth. Awesome.

Well, thank you very much. that is my only question. Great quarter. Thanks. Thank you, Brandon. Thank you.

Operator: This concludes the question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Desmond Wheatley for any closing remarks. Please go ahead.

Desmond Wheatley: Okay. Thanks, everybody, for the excellent questions. Thanks for your attention and the time on this call right now. And as always, thanks for caring and supporting this company. We are definitely shooting at the right targets. We are aggressively growing into some very interesting spaces. Stay tuned. We are going to have more to talk to you about. Thank you.

Operator: The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

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