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NuScale Power Corporation

$SMR·$2.9B·Renewable Utilities·Utilities
$9.28-0.2%YTD-34.8%1Y-75.1%
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2026-08-22: 52 posts434+13%
Price updated 5h ago·X counts updated 9d ago
SMSMR
$SMRNuScale Power Corporation
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $SMR, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Broken storySelling offAI verdict · as of 2026-08-29

Falling on heavy selling — points lower unless it turns around.

NuScale at literal 52-week lows with ATM issuance active, revenue functionally zero, and officers selling — the SMR-nuclear narrative broke.

NuScale Power is the leading small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developer — theoretically the first US-designed SMR to reach commercial deployment. The setup is a broken story where the tape is confirming the fundamentals rather than fighting them.

  • The revenue picture is genuinely dire: Q1 revenue was $565K (down 96% YoY as legacy engineering-services revenue rolled off), gross margin was -43%, and operating margin was a stunning -10,181% — the company effectively has no revenue against a market cap that still prices in a commercial-deployment optionality several years out.
  • The ATM overhang is now active: NuScale filed an August 11 ATM Sales Agreement with six broker-dealers (up to 2% commission) and a matching 424B5 prospectus supplement — a fresh, unlimited-cap dilution structure into a low-liquidity name is precisely what the tape has been pricing against, and officer Hamady's post-M-Exempt $281K sale on August 27 confirms the read.
  • The narrative competitors are the tell: OKLO, NNE, and SMR are all in "clear downtrends," and the news flow is now "NuScale wouldn't own a reactor in the deal driving its stock" — the specific-catalyst hopium (Army SMR agreement, nuclear-AI tools) is not translating into orders or reported revenue.

The setup is a broken-story name breaking down against an active ATM and a peer-group downtrend — the November 5 Q3 print is the referee, and the market needs a first named commercial contract or a definitive project-decision announcement. Another $500K revenue print with continued ATM issuance and officer selling confirms the break-down; a named contract with a real-dollar figure attached is the only realistic reversal.

Differs from X sentimentThe bearish X read on SMR/OKLO/NNE stuck in clear downtrends, the ATM program capping upside near VWAP, and rejection at range highs is factually consistent with the tape — bears are right. The bulls' Army SMR agreement and nuclear-AI-tools framing is real but the recent "NuScale wouldn't own a reactor in the deal driving its stock" news undercuts the specific catalyst; the $10 bottom framing has zero support from the P&L.

What to watch: The November 5 Q3 earnings — need a first named commercial contract with a real dollar figure, stopped-out officer selling, and reduced ATM issuance pace. Another $500K revenue quarter with continued ATM and officer selling confirms the break-down; a named contract with a real dollar figure is the only realistic reversal.

On the calendar: 2026-11-05 — Q3 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment42 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-30

NuScale bulls are stalking a bottom despite the stock sitting roughly 85% below highs and being pre-revenue, citing $1.9B in cash after a $984.5M offering, the only NRC design-certified SMR at 77MWe, the TVA and ENTRA1 program potentially reaching 6GW, and an Army agreement with private industry on micro-reactors. Bulls talk long-term $70-plus targets. Skeptics call the chart broken, note real revenue is a 2028 to 2030 story, and warn against catching the falling knife.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Develops small modular nuclear reactors for clean baseload power, pursuing NRC licensing and utility partnerships.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Renewable Utilities sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $SMR.

Renewable Utilities · Utilities

AI data center power demand — hyperscalers signing long-term renewable PPAs — is the new structural demand driver layering on top of grid decarbonization mandates. Permitting timelines and grid interconnection queues remain the constraint on supply-side scaling.

What this means for $SMR

Partial — upstream oil & gas exposure ties to commodity price cycle; NuScale Power Corporation specializes in the development and.

Top industry ETF

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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-4.5How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-63.7%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-38.1%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-24.1%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
167.7Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-40.0%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
22.4%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 5, 2026$-0.13$-0.13+0.2%
Q1 2026May 7, 2026$-0.14$-0.11-27.3%
Q4 2025Feb 26, 2026$-0.21$-0.10-110.0%
Q3 2025Nov 6, 2025$-1.85$-0.14-1225.0%
Next earningsThu, Nov 5·consensus EPS $-0.11

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$565K-95.8%-43.2%-10181%$-0.27$-316.2M
Q4 FY25$1.8M-94.7%-3.4%-4022%$-0.16$-204.1M
Q3 FY25$8.2M+1635.2%32.9%-6533%$-1.85$-199.9M
Q2 FY25$8.1M+732.9%22.1%-535%$-0.13$-33.3M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 11 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$43.4M$42.4M – $44.3M-$0.58-$0.66 – -$0.4410
FY27$157.5M$122.8M – $192.3M-$0.73-$1.29 – -$0.3510
FY28$283.9M$270.5M – $297.3M-$0.58-$1.50 – $0.0211
FY29$612.4M$312.1M – $1.1B-$0.41-$0.81 – -$0.155
FY30$1.5B$745.4M – $2.6B-$0.17-$0.34 – -$0.065

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.7×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.4%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+0.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-30.2%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 130.1M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today17.8% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β2.315-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.FilingActive offeringA shelf registration (S-3 / S-3ASR / S-1) or prospectus supplement (424B*) was filed in the last 90 days — the company is registered to (or actively) issuing new shares. Dilution risk.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellAug 27Hamady Robert RamseyCFO29.9K sh$281KSellAug 18Shinji FujinoDirector20.0K sh$177KSellAug 17Hamady Robert RamseyCFO— sh—SellAug 5Carl M. FisherCOO18.8K sh$176KSellJun 30Hamady Robert RamseyCFO20.0K sh$203KSellApr 21Corp FluorDirector13.5M sh$159.4MSellApr 15Corp FluorDirector12.9M sh$150.4MSellApr 9Corp FluorDirector13.5M sh$162.9MSellMar 25David A TonnelChief Accounting Officer2.3K sh$27K
+ 17 other (12 awards · 5 exempts) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KMaterial agreementAug 118-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement
AI summary

NuScale Power (SMR) entered into an ATM Sales Agreement on August 11, 2026 with six broker-dealers: UBS Securities, B. Riley Securities, Canaccord Genuity, Craig-Hallum, Texas Capital Securities, and Tuohy Brothers Investment Research. The agreement enables NuScale to sell Class A Common Stock at market prices over time to fund its small modular reactor development program.

424B5Prospectus supplement (offering)Aug 11424B5
AI summary

NuScale Power (SMR) filed a prospectus supplement for its at-the-market offering of Class A Common Stock. Sales agents receive up to 2.0% commission on gross proceeds. This ATM program gives NuScale ongoing capital-raising flexibility for its nuclear SMR development.

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 23
AI summary

NuScale Power (SMR) — Stuart Alan Harshaw filed an initial Form 3 via POA reporting no securities beneficially owned. Routine new insider Form 3.

3New insider — initial holdingsJun 23
AI summary

NuScale Power (SMR) — Dale E. Klein filed an initial Form 3 via POA reporting no securities beneficially owned. Routine new insider Form 3.

8-KShareholder voteJun 28-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

NuScale Power held its 2026 Annual Meeting; all nine director nominees were elected, executive compensation was approved, and Ernst & Young was ratified as auditor; notable: Harshaw and Warnica each received approximately 29–30% withheld votes out of shares voted. Routine annual meeting; significant withhold votes on two directors suggest investor dissatisfaction.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentApr 17SC 13D/A
AI summary

Fluor Corporation filed an amended Schedule 13D on SMR disclosing beneficial ownership (13,500,000.00 shares) as of 2026-04-17. The filer's stated intent is passive investment with no plan to influence control of the company.

SC 13D/AActivist amendmentApr 13SC 13D/A
AI summary

Fluor Corporation filed an amended Schedule 13D on SMR disclosing beneficial ownership (26,436,472.00 shares) as of 2026-04-13. The filer's stated intent is passive investment with no plan to influence control of the company.

8-KPress release / Reg FDApr 88-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

SMR filed an 8-K Item 7.01 (Reg FD) disclosure dated 2026-04-08. Reg FD disclosures make material information simultaneously available to all investors; content may include guidance updates, strategic plans, or preliminary results.

+ 11 other (5 13Gs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 10-Qs · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

NuScale Power's CFO Sells Nearly 30,000 Company Shares as the Stock Remains Near a 52-Week Lowfool.com·1d agoNuScale Reported Just $75,000 in Quarterly Revenue and Announced a $750 Million Share Sale. Is The Dilution Worth the Dream?fool.com·1d agoAre Oklo and NuScale Power Still a Buy After Data Center Backlash?fool.com·2d agoNuScale Power May Sign a Deal That Will Change Everything for SMRs -- Here's Whyfool.com·3d agoBloom Energy vs. NuScale Power: Which Energy Innovator Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?fool.com·4d ago

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