Maxeon Says 'Because Of This Unprecedented Level Of Uncertainty, We Are Currently Unable To Provide Financial Guidance For Q3 And Are Therefore Withdrawing FY24 Revenue And Adjusted EBITDA Guidance; Expect That Q3 Revenue Will Decline Significantly From Q2'

In a letter addressed to the Company's shareholders, Maxeon's Chief Executive Officer Bill Mulligan noted as follows:

Maxeon's financial performance was largely consistent with our guidance for the second quarter, but the Company continues to face significant market headwinds and uncertainties due to intense competitive pressures, subdued distributed generation (DG) market demand, project delays and order cancellations affecting our large-scale business, and an unpredictable policy environment. In addition to these broader challenges, we recently experienced Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) first-ever detentions of our modules being imported into the U.S. from our factories in Mexico to assess compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). It is our understanding that these detentions are routine, however, they have effectively stopped all of our shipments into the U.S., a market that accounted for over 60% of our second quarter revenue, and are causing intense pressure on the Company's revenue realization and cash flow. We have no visibility into the CBP's process or timing, and we are therefore uncertain as to when we will be able to recommence deliveries into our largest end-market.

Because of this unprecedented level of uncertainty, we are currently unable to provide financial guidance for the third quarter and are therefore withdrawing full year 2024 revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance. However, we expect that our third quarter revenue will decline significantly from the second quarter for the reasons discussed above. Due to these uncertainties as well as the rolling closing of the recapitalization-related transactions and related note conversions, we will not conduct a conference call to discuss second quarter results. Instead, we are providing an overview of our business as detailed in this letter. We intend to resume quarterly earnings conference calls once the business has stabilized, and we can offer more meaningful insights on current business metrics and future expectations.

We are taking aggressive actions to address the challenges we face. We recently improved our balance sheet by securing consequential new financing and renegotiating maturing debt. We have put a special committee in place to drive transformation, and we are evaluating several aspects of our operations to respond to the new market environment. We share below some of the actions we are taking to address the current challenges, and resume growth and profitability.

First, we will review second quarter results, which were largely in line with our expectations.