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D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Q3 2024 Earnings Transcript

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D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Q3 2024 Earnings Transcript Image source: The Motley Fool. Date Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 8 a.m. ET Call participants Chief Executive Officer — Alan Baratz Chief Financial Officer — John Markovich Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst?…
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  • Leap Quantum Cloud Service has achieved 99.9%+ availability over 2 years

    80% confidence
  • The long sought killer use case for quantum is quantum optimization, and evidence shows only annealing quantum systems will deliver speed-up on quantum optimization

    80% confidence
  • Europe is ahead of US in likely government quantum deployments

    80% confidence
  • Work by Chinese researchers shows only quantum system factoring non-trivial numbers is D-Wave annealing

    80% confidence
  • Q4 bookings expected to improve over Q3

    80% confidence
  • D-Wave's annealing systems are one of few quantum technologies used by organizations to run production use cases to gain business value

    80% confidence
  • D-Wave aims to achieve profitability with substantially less funding than competitors

    80% confidence
  • D-Wave is the only quantum company offering formal SLAs

    80% confidence
  • Q4 revenue expected to improve over Q3

    80% confidence
  • NTT DOCOMO deployment achieved 15% reduction in network congestion, solving in 40 seconds vs 27 hours classical compute

    80% confidence
  • D-Wave does not sell to China or Chinese companies due to US and Canada government restrictions

    80% confidence
  • D-Wave is the only quantum computing company with commercial production deployments

    80% confidence
  • Production apps generate high $100Ks to $1M+ annual recurring QCaaS revenue

    80% confidence
  • Go-to-market hiring expected to complete by mid-Q1 2025

    80% confidence
  • FY2024 adjusted EBITDA loss will be less than $54.3M

    80% confidence
  • D-Wave's intellectual property covers both annealing AND gate model technologies, with majority of 240+ US granted patents covering both

    80% confidence
  • D-Wave goal is to be the first independent public quantum company to achieve sustained profitability

    80% confidence
  • D-Wave shows versatility once thought limited to gate-based systems

    80% confidence
  • Advantage system with 5,000 qubits is the largest and most powerful quantum computer in the world

    80% confidence
  • Advantage 2 will be added to Leap cloud service sooner rather than later

    80% confidence

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D-Wave Quantum Inc. · gross margin gaap55.8 percent
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · gross margin non gaap67.2 percent
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · lincoln park equity line remaining49.9 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · bookings7.4 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · adjusted ebitda loss13.8 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · atm program remaining79.1 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · eps-0.51 USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · cash30 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · total customers132 customers
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · commercial customers76 customers
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · commercial revenue decrease0.2 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · forbes global 2000 customers27 customers
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · research revenue increase0.6 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · qcaas revenue5.1 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · professional services revenue0.3 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · patent count240 patents
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · debt0 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · net loss66.7 million_USD
D-Wave Quantum Inc. · government revenue increase0.8 million_USD
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