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Beam Global (BEEM)

Nasdaq: BEEM · Miscellaneous Electrical Machinery, Equipment & Supplies · San Diego, CA · filing with the SEC since 2007
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Grade3.5
◀ Past 3.2● Present 4.3▶ Future 2.7
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The grade of Beam Global

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.5/10
◀ Past3.230% of the headline
● Present4.340% of the headline
▶ Future2.730% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.2/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Surviving crises

as filed
2.9/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

17 warning events since 2017; the latest 2026-08-14.

weight 33% of this tense · 29th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Beam Global's filings since 2017 show 17 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 5 times, the latest 2023-12-08); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 4 times, the latest 2025-04-25); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 8 times, the latest 2026-08-14) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+29.4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 0 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 36th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Beam Global's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3 million in fiscal 2016 to $28 million in fiscal 2025, up 29.4% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 58% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 0 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span29.4%top 33% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 26% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak58.1%bottom 21% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

SI estimate
3.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

SI estimate 3.0/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 30th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, the share count over the years, which ranks in the bottom 30% of 39 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
How it was reasoned
one part: the share count over the years, the one part on file, ranked among 39 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Beam Global's shareholder treatment is put at 3.0 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, the share count over the years, which ranks in the bottom 30% of 39 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.3/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -109%: lost 109¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 42%: owes 42¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 45th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Beam Global lost about 109 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 8 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 42 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 15.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 28% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 34% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 37% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 39% of 39 in its family; net margin -95.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 39th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Beam Global's standing among 39 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $28 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 37% by size; a net margin of -95.6% ranks in the bottom 37%; revenue growth of 8.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 42% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$28.2Mbottom 37% of its family
  • net margin-95.6%bottom 37% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth8.7%bottom 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
4.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 45% of 24 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2011.

weight 22% of this tense · 45th percentile among 24 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Beam Global's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Wheatley, Desmond C (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2011-08-17, 15.2 years (top 2% of its family); the 5 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 2.9 years (bottom 34%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 5 people in charge now (bottom 2%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge14 in three years among 5 peoplebottom 2% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed2.9 yearsbottom 34% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record15.2 yearstop 2% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

2.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 33% of 39 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 39 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Beam Global's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $969 thousand against no long-term debt tagged leaves 2.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 48% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -38.6% of revenue (bottom 45%); a gross margin of 12.5% (bottom 24%); research spending of 2.1% of revenue (bottom 14%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets2.3%bottom 48% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-38.6%bottom 45% of its family
  • gross margin12.5%bottom 24% of its family
  • research spending against revenue2.1%bottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
2.2/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 22% of 35 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 22nd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Beam Global's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 8.7% a year over the last three filed years against 29.4% over all 10, slowing (bottom 27% of its family); the newest year grew -42.8% (bottom 7%); research spending grew -20.6% a year (bottom 18%); capital spending grew -21.7% a year (bottom 35%) (its annual reports). Beam Global tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-20.7 points a yearbottom 27% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-42.8%bottom 7% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-20.6%bottom 18% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-21.7%bottom 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
2.3/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 23% of 35 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 23rd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Beam Global's newest year against its own record: revenue of $28 million in fiscal 2025 came in 61.8% below the $74 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 4% of its family); net income of $27 million against a prior three-year average of $16 million (bottom 36%); a net margin of -95.6% against -45.4% before (bottom 30%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-61.8%bottom 4% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-72%bottom 36% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-50.2 pointsbottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton BEEM · research, not advice