Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.

Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.

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Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. designs, manufactures, and deploys battery storage solutions for utility, commercial and industrial, and renewable energy markets in the United States. It offers stationary battery storage solutions. The company's flagship product is the Eos Znyth DC battery system designed to meet the requirements of the grid-scale energy storage market. Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey.

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Market Cap$2.14B
EPS-6.6900
P/E Ratio-1.23
Earnings Date07/29/2026

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EOSE โ€ข 2025 โ€ข Q4

Operator
Good morning, and welcome to Eos Energy Enterprises' Full Year 2025 Conference Call. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded, and your participation implies consent to such recording. [Operator Instructions] With that, I would like to turn the call over to Liz Higley, Head of Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.
Elizabeth Higley
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Eos' Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Conference Call. Today, I'm joined by Eos' CEO, Joe Mastrangelo; COO, John Mehas; CTO, Francis Richey; and CCO and Interim CFO, Nathan Kroeker. This call may include forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, current expectations with respect to future results and our outlook for our company. Should any of these risks materialize or should our assumptions prove to be incorrect, our actual results may differ materially from our expectations or those implied by these forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that forward-looking statements are subject to are described in our SEC filings. Forward-looking statements represent our beliefs and assumptions only as of the date such statements are made. We undertake no obligation to update these statements made during this call to reflect events or circumstances after today or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law. Today's remarks will also include references to non-GAAP financial measures. Additional information, including reconciliation between non-GAAP financial information to U.S. GAAP financial information is provided in the press release. Non-GAAP information should be considered as supplemental and is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the related financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, our non-GAAP financial measures may not be the same or as comparable to similar non-GAAP measures presented by other companies. This conference call will be available for replay via webcast through Eos' Investor Relations website at investors.eose.com. Joe, John, Francis and Nathan will walk you through our business outlook and financial results before we proceed to Q&A. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Eos' CEO, Joe Mastrangelo.
Joseph Mastrangelo
Thanks, Liz. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us. This quarter, we continue to operate in an energy environment defined by one clear trend, the acceleration of demand for power, combined with constrained grid flexibility and reliability. That creates opportunity for a company like Eos. What we've been talking about over the 5 years that we've been a public company is being able to bring a product that was flexible, reliable and can do multiple discharges in a day or long or short discharges with quick response times. That's exactly what the market is looking for. And although data centers are in the headlines and data centers are changing the way that we think about our grid, and data centers are requiring us to make decisions on faster time horizons than we've ever done before in the energy sector, there are other demand drivers in the industry, things like electrification and transport and also electrification of heating and then the increased domestic production in the United States are creating higher load growth for a grid. That fits in perfectly with our technology. We're moving to in energy storage is moving away from managing volatility to providing reliability. What you need is this buffer resource that allows you to keep the grid balanced but also allows you to adapt to quick changes in load growth. But a vision of a product and a vision of a company only goes so far, execution is what counts. And when you look at our quarter and our year, yes, we set records. Our volume was up. Our margins improved sequentially quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. We had a great quarter as far as orders being booked, and Nathan will talk about how those orders fit into different use cases that are going to provide growth for the company in the future. But the bottom line is we missed our guidance, and that falls on me as the CEO of the company. What John, Francis and Nathan and I will talk about today is building out the capabilities of our team, of our product and of how we bring that product to market and manufacture and install it to be able to provide reliable performance. And it's reliable performance not just to achieve guidance, which is important, but to achieve the operating requirements of our customer as the grid evolves and demand emerges. We think we have the product that meets those future needs. We've got to continue to build the company and continue to smooth out and deliver predictable performance for our shareholders and our customers. I think we have the team that is able to do that, and we'll show the initial results that are beginning to lay out how we can deliver reliably in the future. When you think about on the bottom, yes, 7% -- 7x year-over-year growth on revenue, combined with our highest cash position that we've had in the company's history, along with closing the gap and moving towards profitability, we've removed the going concern language inside of our 10-K filing, which Nathan will talk about in a moment, which really allows us to really says we're operating the company strategically, which is important for the future. At the same time, we launched Indensity, which Francis will give some more details on. But Indensity is really taking the product that we have and finding a way to package it that's easy to operate, easy to service, easy to manufacture and easy for customers to utilize multiple times in the day. It's not starting over, it's improving upon what we already have. At the same time, we're responsible to get our assets in the field up and running reliably, and Nathan and the projects team are doing just that. As we look at the overall results, I'm proud of what we did and disappointed that we didn't meet the guidance, but we are going to work to make sure that, that doesn't happen again in the future. Moving to the next page. Let's talk about how our installed base is expanding. Today, we cover 20% of the United States. We have 20 projects installed. The company continues to expand its footprint and continues to operate out in the field. Today, our
John Mehas
Thanks, Joe, and good morning, everyone. Great to be here with you all again this morning. Q4 was my first full quarter at Eos, and I'm going to speak candidly about where we are operationally. First, there's a real progress to acknowledge. We completed our subassembly automation, making our battery line fully automated. We closed 2025 with production records across all operations and delivered our fourth consecutive quarter of record revenue. 26 key suppliers supported this ramp to enable us to achieve our 2 gigawatt hour line capacity. That doesn't happen without a committed team doing a lot of things right. At the same time, we fell short of our operational targets, and that's on me. When we spoke last quarter, I felt confident in our ramp plan. We had strong early results and the excess capacity to deliver what we needed to hit our guidance. Ultimately, 3 very fixable issues prevented us from delivering our commitments. First, we had one isolated supplier nonperformance that cost us a week of production. We addressed it directly, working closely with our supplier to quickly identify root causes and corrective actions. We implemented better controls internally and at our suppliers. That specific issue is behind us. Second, the ability for the automated bipolar production to hit quality targets took longer than expected. That drove rework and lost revenue. We improved tooling, reduced variation in the automation process and tightened material specifications to stabilize bipolar production. We have also added laser detection to give us better visibility and control of any process variation. Third, our battery line downtime ran well above industry norms, the design intent of the line and our internal forecast. Best-in-class operations and our expectation is to run at roughly 10% equipment downtime. That's my expectation, and that's the expectation of our automation partners. As we push utilization higher throughout the year and ran the line for more hours, we were closer to the mid-30% range. Working closely with our automation partners, we addressed issues with our robotics, hardware, controls, maintenance schedules and spare parts. We have also improved our technical capability and strengthened our team to improve time to resolution. Downtime has improved significantly in Q1. This is a controllable lever, and we have a path to world-class performance. None of these were demand issues, none were structural. This was a significant ramp of first-generation automation designs. While the magnitude of the issues was unanticipated by me, the resulting learnings, actions and execution are my responsibility. Look, since I've been brought in, a major focus for me has been identifying single points of failure in the system. This was first-generation automation that was being run at high volumes for the first time. In some cases, you don't fully see those weaknesses until you stress the operation. We've now done that. It has allowed us to identify and address gaps in our automation, organization and operating system. We are systematically hardening the process to make sure these failures do not occur in the future. The results of our efforts have driven higher quality, repeatable and predictable operations in early Q1. The biggest structural risk today is a lack of redundancy. If our primary line goes down, production stops. That changes with Line 2. And as I said on the last call, we're making design changes in that line to further improve our performance. Line 2 is progressing well and is preparing for factory acceptance testing in Wisconsin. We've intentionally built redundancy into critical stations. Once operational, eliminates our single largest point of failure and gives us flexibility that we simply don't have today. We're also addressing efficiency. As I've mentioned before, today, materials travel across 3 floors and 2 buildings, over 2 miles from start to finish. That's not a cost-efficient design. With Line 2 and the Thornhill expansion, we're redesigning the layout around single-piece flow, significantly reducing material handling and complexity. As we work to achieve the entitlement for the line output, we have uncovered inefficiencies that result in longer end-to-end production times and higher labor costs to achieve that goal. We are fixing those challenges, and that will allow us to operate at a higher efficiency with a lower cost structure. We expect equipment to begin arriving in Q2 with fully automated production targeted in Q4. Let me close with this. 2025 was a year of heavy automation implementation, capacity expansion and rapid change. Day 1 is never perfect. My job is to turn new capability into repeatable, disciplined operations. We've identified the gaps. We've addressed the root causes, and we're building the redundancy and process rigor required to scale reliably from here. I'm confident in the path forward and confident in the team's ability to execute it. Let me turn this over to someone who's helped me get up to speed quickly, our CTO, Francis Richey.
Francis Richey
Thanks, John. It's great to be joining the call today. I'm the Chief Technology Officer, and I've been with Eos for 11 years. I started at Eos when we were a 15-person company, and it's been a rewarding journey with an incredible team of scientists and engineers, developing the chemistry, battery, system and software over multiple product iterations. I'm a chemical engineer by training, and my passion is scaling and optimizing technology to build profitable products, particularly products utilizing electrochemistry. Throughout my time at Eos, the market environment has evolved significantly, and Eos has evolved along with the market. We started with an aqueous zinc-based battery. As our technology continued to advance, we found more efficient ways to configure our systems and implement better power electronics to control performance, most recently with the Eos
Nathan Kroeker
Thanks, Francis, and good morning, everybody. Let me start on the commercial front, where we had a very active fourth quarter. And I want to start by looking at the results. We ended the quarter with just over $701 million in backlog, booking nearly 1.1 gigawatt hours across 8 customers and 9 individual projects, representing a 9% sequential increase. During the quarter, we secured more than $240 million in new orders with a healthy diversification across commercial and industrial, distributed generation and front-of-the-meter utility scale applications. Now let me give you some background on 3 of these orders that highlight the operating flexibility of our technology and how we can work across the energy value chain in different customer use cases. First of all, we signed a 50-megawatt hour master supply agreement with a developer in the Midwest to deliver projects that are supported by Commonwealth Edison's Distributed Generation rebate program. This program provides a $250 per kilowatt hour incentive for new energy storage systems, and we have already executed the first purchase order under this agreement with delivery being scheduled for later this year. Now moving on to the second one I want to highlight and just as important, we signed 2 initial projects for systems to be installed at hotels in Florida with a developer that has a robust pipeline of additional projects, and we expect additional projects to materialize over the next 12 to 18 months. And the last one I want to highlight, we secured an order from a global power company that is a focused renewable and energy storage platform to deliver a
Joseph Mastrangelo
Thanks, Nathan. Let me wrap up with our outlook on 2026 as we initiate guidance on revenue. You can see the progression of our guidance from 7x. If you take the midpoint of the guidance range in 2026, it's 3x what we did in 2025. We feel confident about the guidance that we're giving, given what John and Francis have talked about. And when you think about this guidance, think of it this way, the $300 million is coming from backlog. And the range to the $400 million is tied to some of the bigger projects that we talked about as they go through the normal approval processes with the grid operators where our customers will be installing projects. We're excited about the things that you see, the NYSERDA projects that Nathan talked about, working with Talen in PJM, things that we're seeing as far as states like Virginia, ERCOT growth, data center growth. We feel confident that we'll begin shipping Indensity as we get into the second half, later part of this year. And that's how we go from the $300 million to $400 million. As we go through the year, we'll give updates on where we are against that progress. And when you also think about this, one other thing that we've never given official guidance on what we've talked about a few times in earnings, we talked about becoming gross margin positive in Q1. Unfortunately, with where we wound up in volume last year, our material costs pushed out into 1Q. That's going to delay our path to profitability as we get into 2026. But we feel very confident on the projects that Francis is bringing from a technology standpoint that John is driving from a productivity and cost out -- material cost-out standpoint and Nathan delivering better efficiency out in the field that we will be gross margin positive in the second half of 2026. And we feel very confident on the guide that we're giving on the range of $300 million to $400 million. So with that, I want to thank everybody for listening today.
Joseph Mastrangelo
And now we'll go to the Q&A portion, where we'll start off with some of our questions that came in over the [ SAE ] tool from our retail shareholder base. Okay. First one, "As part of Project AMA
John Mehas
Yes. Over the last few months, we've developed multiple automation partners for automation equipment to shrink lead times. We've developed a national building partner that can deliver a building in a short period of time that's in line with our automation commitments from an implementation standpoint. And then we've worked with our suppliers to understand where their inflection points are, where they have to add additional capacity and what their time lines are so that I can stay out ahead of Nathan on from an order standpoint.
Joseph Mastrangelo
And I would just add at the end here before we go to the next question. Look, we're not out chasing volume. We're building capability. We're building capability to reliably deliver. When you flip the switch in your home, you want the lights to come on and we want to deliver a product that enables us to do that. So we're going to be very disciplined on how we do that for delivering for customers and also disciplined about how we think about our working capital and cash balances as we also expand. If I move to the second question, "What recent operational metrics and achievements validate achieving your Q1 2026 positive gross margin target? How much of the margin expansion is dependent on the Indensity transition versus efficiency gains on the existing
John Mehas
Yes. If I look at it from a lean methodology, all aspects of our operations have waste and opportunity for improvement. So I look at -- I talked earlier about downtime. So reducing downtime and increasing fixed asset utilization and labor utilization. Talked about yields, so improving the yields and reducing scrap. If I look at materials, we've got several projects that are going to reduce material costs, but not only reduce material costs, but also reduce assembly time and manufacturing time. We continue to look at ways to increase run rates, look at ways to increase efficiency. And then as we get into Thornhill, we'll have an optimized cost perspective from a material handling standpoint. We're literally going from 2 miles down to 1,000 feet. So if you consider all the material handling that goes into there, there's a significant opportunity to reduce cost in just that one item.
Joseph Mastrangelo
And I think just closing out, like John brings up a great point on Thornhill. Over time, we're going to want to consolidate the footprint into one location to capture all those synergies, and we'll be -- that will be part of the plan as we move forward and think about expanding. With that, we'll wrap up with the SAE questions. And operator, we'll turn it over to our sell side for any Q&A.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Stephen Gengaro of Stifel.
Stephen Gengaro
My first question is on the guidance and maybe 2 parts. One is you, a couple of months ago you had a pretty high expectation for the fourth quarter. And clearly you fell short. And now we're looking at a pretty big ramp in '26. How do you think about the components of guidance and sort of derisking the parameters you put out versus guidance historically?
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes, Stephen, thanks for the question. First, you look at the range, as I talked about when we talked about the guidance in and of itself, we're looking at the improvements that John has implemented coming out of fourth quarter, looking at the backlog of orders that we have to get to the bottom end of the range, then looking at the opportunities that we're working on, the fact that we're bringing a new line in to give us the top end of the range. But we tried to really look at -- we tried to really look at how we can change our discipline as a company to not have happened what happened in 2025. The range is $100 million, the midpoint is $350 million. What hasn't changed about the company is the demand that's out there for the product. We're trying to do in 2026 is better control our scale, get the manufacturing throughput quality and margin expansion that we need and really look at like where we think we can land without going for like a degree of difficulty that's a 10, but coming in with something that we can manage to over time.
Stephen Gengaro
Okay. Great. That's helpful. And then just -- I imagine this is correct, but when we think about the quarterly growth, I mean, I would imagine that 1Q would be above 4Q, but the low point and then escalate throughout the year. Is that a reasonable pattern?
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes. Well, look, Stephen, so part of what we have coming in -- and we don't give quarterly guidance, but from a standpoint of coming into the year, we're coming off a high point. We're delivering to customer schedules. I think we'll be around the fourth quarter number as we look at like what we have to deliver to customers, and there's some -- there's also commissioning revenue in there as well and then from there sequentially grow.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Julien Dumoulin-Smith of Jefferies.
Julien Dumoulin-Smith
Quick question. Just going back to the comment about the $300 million to $400 million range. Can you guys comment a little bit about like what exactly those bigger projects that you're talking about are? Like which ones in particular seem particularly right, right, again, just to maybe track against the milestones this year and what would materialize? And also, if you can speak a little bit against, you've got a materially larger backlog in aggregate. What's the duration of that backlog when you think about it, just given that, call it, $300 million of it is burning off this year, if you will?
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes, Julien, great question. Look, I think we go back on the material large stuff. Look, I think we all know the industry needs power, needs power quickly. But at the same time, we still operate in a framework where approvals and queues are long. So we're kind of hedging that. But like Nathan talked about 2 large projects in NYSERDA that when approved by NYSERDA as part of their Bulk Storage buy would go into delivery almost immediately. So like that's 2 of them in there. We've talked about PJM and what we're doing with Talen. There's other projects that we have that we haven't discussed with large hyperscalers that could potentially come in. And then Nathan talked about what appears to be -- when you look on the surface, they look like small projects, but they're small projects with a big pipeline of opportunity that you deliver and grow and continue to deliver. And we just got to work through that. We'll keep everybody updated on that as we move forward from there.
Julien Dumoulin-Smith
Got it. And then just if I can follow up there. The defense space seems intriguing here. Can you comment about that end market and the opportunity you see there? What does the project look like in that space, size, duration? And just even elaborate a little bit more about what you guys were talking about a second ago in the timing of seeing some of that come to fruition. Again, how -- what does that look like?
Joseph Mastrangelo
So defense, like I think you start off with NDAA, right, which is how the Defense Department of War purchases. In the NDAA, they're being told to buy American products. And I think we have that American product. As we go through that, there's a lot of things we have to go through as far as working with different branches of the government to get approval. I think a big thing that helps accelerate us is the due diligence process that we went through with the Department of Energy to get our loan. But like we're working through across all branches of the military to see what the needs are. And like what we're looking at is what do they need and they also have -- there's also large power growth that they have and how do we meet those needs and then we go through and show them how the product is. But also as you work with the military, there's things that we're doing to make sure that we hit all their requirements because we want to hit the ground running. But that's something that we'll continue to work on, and we are working on, and we do spend a significant amount of time down in Washington walking everyone through what the technology is capable of.
Julien Dumoulin-Smith
Got it. Excellent. And then lastly, if I could just ask, just given where you are coming out for '26, how do you think about the ramp of Line 3 and 4, right? So how do you think about when and the timing and scaling of that, right? Obviously, you got Line 1 and now Line 2 here. But 3, 4, it's more of a '27 question, right?
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes. And I think, Julien, like this goes back to disciplined execution, right? It's a great question, right? So John is taking us into a new building. The new building changes the game from a throughput efficiency and cost. Turtle Creek is a fully functioning factory that's up at 2 gigawatt hours of production. It hit its nameplate capacity coming out of 2025. But if you have a lean mindset, you're constantly looking at how to get things better, how to improve on things. That goes with how you operate your manufacturing, but also how you implement capacity expansion. So what we've told John is come up with a plan that we can execute and implement lines within the window of when a customer orders to when they ship. So as things come in, we'll be able to do that. What John has done in his time -- not only did he increase output 80% in the fourth quarter, if you look at quarter-over-quarter sequential manufacturing output, he also went in and revamped our automation partnerships, got us in with Tier 1 automation providers, broke up how we were doing the different pieces of that and positioned those suppliers to be able to come up with a framework agreement approach with them where we can put a signal into them and they can deliver faster than what we're doing on Line 2 today. Line 2 today, part of what's happening there is it's a new building. And there's a lot of work that we got to go through, and we want to make sure that we get that right and we get that ramp right and the transition and balancing between the 2 facilities.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Mark Strouse of JPMorgan.
Mark W. Strouse
Just curious if you can comment on the competitive environment that you're seeing recently. Obviously, you guys are making good progress with your backlog, but there's one of your publicly listed peers that's traditionally in lithium-ion, they have really been talking up their long-duration pipeline in the last couple of quarters. There was a very large project, long-duration project up in Minnesota that just recently got announced. Just kind of broadly speaking, I know those are completely different technologies in both of those cases, but just kind of broadly speaking about the competitive environment would be great.
Joseph Mastrangelo
Mark, I think, first off, it points to what we're showing in our backlog about longer duration discharges coming to fruition. I think it's great to have other companies that are doing it because it just goes to show that what we've been talking about for 5 years, the market is now there. I've said this many times, like there's many different use cases, and I always draw the correlation of energy storage is going to look like gas turbine technology over time. You have different types of gas turbines that do different things with different efficiency points. So I think what was announced in Minnesota, delivery in 2028 is a great example of people looking for longer duration energy storage, longer than what we do. At the same time, Nathan showed like our pipeline is up by -- above 40% for longer duration. And we -- and it has now become 40% of our pipeline, sorry, I misspoke, but like it's becoming more and more. And I think like established players, there's a market out there for that product. I think we've come up with the work that Francis has done and the team, we've come up with a solution that delivers in that 4- to 16-hour spot, which is going to be very important. And look, we've been running load profiles here in our test facility in Edison, New Jersey using the load profiles of data centers. And our technology matches up great with that. So we're encouraged by that, but there's a lot of demand out there, and I think it's great. There's other players. It's going to be a competitive marketplace, and I think we have a product that competes.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Craig Shere of Tuohy Brothers Investment Research.
Craig Shere
So first, can you opine on the potential margin deltas, gross margin deltas between U.S. and international orders? Does American Made help in any way internationally to the degree some trading partners want to right-size trade balances on a national level? And can you give some color on the time line for that foreign power company national lab testing and the level of prospective order flow should they deem you're having the most optimal solution?
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes, Craig, just a couple of things inside of that. Like I think where we're seeing interest in our product internationally has less to do with politics and more to do with performance. I think people are looking at what the product delivers and less about trade balances. I think having a product where we go through and talk about the intrinsic value of it is what's attracting our customers, whether that's domestic or international. I think we're starting to plant seeds starting off in Germany. And obviously, we have a big pipeline of opportunity in the U.K. that Nathan talked about. Just on your last point here, like the customer that Nathan talked about is a global utility that's doing testing in the United States at a lab that is tied to a project for the NYSERDA program. So like we're going through that -- and by the way, that testing is great. Like we love doing that because it gives us data to show people about how the product performs and put this through its paces. And that's where doing stuff like this, that's what brings out Indensity and improved performance on the product that we have out in the field.
Craig Shere
And would one assume that international sales are going to be slightly lower gross margin?
Joseph Mastrangelo
No, I wouldn't assume that.
Craig Shere
Okay. And my last question, and I apologize if my quick math is incorrect, but it looks like you burned through maybe $65.75 million in operating cash flow before working capital changes in the quarter. Thoughts about tempering that bleed as you move into positive gross margin in the second half of '26.
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes. Look, look, our goal, as Nathan talked about, like we've capitalized the company. We are focused on being good stewards of that capital. I think as you look at that, one of the reasons why we removed the going concern for the company this quarter is that we see a trajectory to be able to manage the company strategically and for the long term. And then obviously, like there was a ramp into a build plan that then levelizes, but then we'll ramp again. So we manage through that. But like as we look at where the company is, we have cash to be able to grow it over the long term.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Jeff Osborne of TD Cowen.
Jeffrey Osborne
Just a couple of quick ones. I think last quarter you mentioned that the yield on the bipolar line that started, I believe, in July was 98%. I was wondering what the fabrication yields were in the fourth quarter.
Joseph Mastrangelo
Go ahead. Yes, John, take that one.
John Mehas
So the bipolar yields in the [Audio Gap] growing from there. So we're basically within January hitting the target. We've reduced that significantly, and we'll continue to do so. And we did not anticipate that with the automation. The goal for that automation is 97% first pass yield, and we're well on our way there.
Jeffrey Osborne
Perfect. And then can you just touch on -- spend a few seconds on what sort of field performance has been, safety, reliability, commissioning schedules relative to expectations?
Operator
We're not hearing a response. [Technical Difficulty]
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes, sorry about that. Don't know what happened.
Operator
Okay. Jeff, did you want to repeat your question in case they did not hear that.
Jeffrey Osborne
Yes, sure thing. I was asking about, can you just spend a few seconds on sort of field reliability for units that have been shipped over the past 6 to 9 months, what commissioning cadence has been, safety issues, installation timing, et cetera, just as we think about that trend over the past 6 months or so as it relates to the guidance that you've given. I just want to understand what that lag is in reliability and uptime has been.
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes. So Jeff, I don't know if you heard -- I don't know where we dropped off before. Look, we continue to go through and execute on the field, bringing a new product online, operating -- we were doing our operations meeting this morning and continue to see good cycles out in the field, as Francis talked about. We continue to learn on each cycle and incorporate those things back into the installed base from a commissioning cadence standpoint. It's a mix and cadence of things where there's permitting challenges, there's bringing the site up to speed, there's getting our stuff up and running, there's integrating everything, and we work through that with the customer on a customer-by-customer basis. But if you go back to that page I showed, we shipped to 10 customers, recognized revenue on 18 customers, and that ties back to the commissioning that we have.
Jeffrey Osborne
Got it. And just very quickly, are you capturing higher price as the duration use case extends out to 6, 8 hours and beyond? Or is pricing consistent with a sub-4 hour relative to longer duration?
Joseph Mastrangelo
Well, I mean, Jeff, I think it all depends on how you look at that. I think when you look at the value proposition of Eos and you look at our ASP in the backlog, the ASP in the backlog is higher than what you would expect for a shorter duration product. What we do is we sell on a levelized cost of storage basis, which is a little bit higher on the CapEx side, but a lot lower on the operating cost side, and that's what the customers evaluate to make their purchasing decision.
Operator
I am showing no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn it back to CEO, Joe Mastrangelo, for closing remarks.
Joseph Mastrangelo
Yes. Thanks, everyone. And again, thanks for the question and the continued engagement. A couple of points I want to close with. First, demand for long duration, domestically sourced energy storage is not a question. The grid is changing. The load growth is real, whether it's AI electrification, industrial reshoring, these are structural changes to the power grid in the United States, and they're not cyclical. The market is moving towards solutions that match what we bring to the market, and that's how we've positioned Eos for the long term. Second, 2025 was building a foundation, strengthening our balance sheet, scaling manufacturing, standardizing our product architecture, improving operational cadence. We delivered great revenue growth. It reflects the progress that we've made. It's not linear yet, but it's directional and it's improving. Third, 2026 is a year where we have to show disciplined execution. Our guidance reflects what we believe we control as we sit here today, and we'll keep everybody updated as we go through the year and where we wind up. I feel good about where the team is positioned. And as execution improves, predictability improves. So we know we've got -- that's what -- that's ultimately where we need to focus on, and that is where the team is focused on a day-to-day basis. And then profitability for the company, look, it's a scaling equation. Automation how we move material, efficiency, bring a lean mindset, finding waste, eliminating waste, resetting it, going back and doing it again and again and again, you see the sequential improvement in margin that we need to continue until we become margin profitable, and that's the goal of the company for -- to deliver long-term value to both shareholders and customers. Look, we strengthened our liquidity. It helps us operate the company more strategically. It gives us runway to be able to execute. Eos is an infrastructure business, right? Infrastructure businesses are built on discipline, consistency and operational trust, that's what we're building, and that's what we have to show and deliver. We appreciate the questions and the focus and really the attention to Eos across the board of all of our stakeholders. And we look forward to demonstrating this continued improvement in progress quarter-over-quarter as we build a great energy infrastructure company. Thanks for listening today.
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