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The market’s weird little plot twist
FuelCell Energy just posted a rough second quarter: it lost 53 cents a share, a penny worse than analysts expected, and revenue came in at $35.6 million versus the $40.5 million Wall Street was modeling. Normally, that’s the kind of report that sends a stock into the penalty box.
But analysts saw the other movie
Instead, the company’s shares jumped 20.6% to $18.68 on Tuesday, because the real headline wasn’t the miss — it was the optimism around FuelCell’s role in powering data centers. CEO Jason Few pitched the carbonate fuel cell platform as a way to bring “resilient, continuous power” directly to customers and help AI compute expand without waiting on jammed-up transmission lines.
The price-target remix
Here’s where the caffeine kicks in:
- Canaccord Genuity’s George Gianarikas upgraded FuelCell from Hold to Buy and hiked the price target from $12 to $30.
- TD Cowen’s Jeff Osborne kept a Hold but still raised his target from $9 to $16.
That’s a pretty loud signal that, even with the ugly quarter, some analysts think the data-center power angle is getting more real — and maybe more valuable.
Big picture
FuelCell is basically asking investors to squint past the quarterly miss and look at the AI infrastructure boom instead. If that story keeps gaining traction, the stock could keep acting less like a struggling industrial name and more like a speculative bet on the power-hungry future of computing.