NuScale Power Corporation (SMR)
Utilities
- Fundamental
- 2
- Sentiment
- 3
- Technical
- 3
Do Nothing: fundamentalScore is 2 (below required floor of 3); strategy requires fundamentalScore ≥ 3 before any bullish entry.
Company overview
NuScale Power Corporation specializes in the development and sale of modular light water reactor nuclear power facilities. These innovative plants are designed to provide energy for a wide array of applications, including the generation of electricity, district heating systems, water desalination, hydrogen production, and various industrial heat processes. Key products in their portfolio include the NuScale Power Module, an individual water reactor unit capable of producing 77 megawatts of electricity (MWe). They also offer the VOYGR-12 power plant, which delivers a substantial 924 MWe, along with four-module VOYGR-4 and six-module VOYGR-6 configurations. Beyond these standard offerings, NuScale provides other adaptable configurations tailored to meet specific customer demands. Established in 2007, the company maintains its headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and operates as a subsidiary of Fluor Enterprises, Inc.
Fundamental
weakThe company faces severe operating losses, high cash burn, and lacks binding customer contracts.
NuScale has a strong liquidity position and no long-term debt, but it remains a pre-commercial SMR developer with collapsing 2026 revenue and substantial ongoing cash burn. Management flags the lack of binding customer contracts and long regulatory lead times, and recent filings show continued reliance on large at-the-market equity programs (dilution risk). With EV/Sales near 191x and a deeply negative free-cash-flow yield, this is best treated as speculative/watchlist rather than a fundamentals-driven buy right now.
Sentiment
fairSentiment is mixed with no significant catalysts or legal issues identified.
Near-term coverage is cautious after Q2 results highlighted a severe revenue drop and follow-on price-target cuts, and the newly filed up-to-$750M ATM program adds a fresh dilution/supply overhang; partnership/MOU headlines are the main bullish offsets. Baseline media coverage is too sparse to compute a clean sentiment delta, and a moderate red-flag cap applies due to dilution risk and conflicting catalysts.
Technical
fairThe stock is in a strong downtrend with no reversal signals.
Score 3/5: short-term structure improved with price above SMA20 and EMA21 plus MACD above zero, but SMR remains below SMA50/SMA200 and Friday closed under EMA9 and daily VWAP, so the chart is constructive yet still mixed.
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