QuantumScape is a poor business, with heavy dilution and self-enriching executives, a clear sign that executive pay is the only way left to make money in a high-capex, low-margin battery business. x.com 

QuantumScape is less attractive than Tempus AI because it is still pre-commercial and burning a lot of cash. x.com 

QuantumScape is a highly speculative bet that this week's 13F filings reveal hedge funds loading up, after Renaissance, Vanguard and BlackRock raised stakes in Q4. It trades at a $5B valuation with $1B of cash and 20% short interest, as volume and call open interest climb. A solid-state battery leader with patents, it has expanded beyond EVs to AI data centers and defense and switched to licensing. The risk: solid-state batteries have been "almost here" for 5+ years and remain at pilot scale. … Show more

QuantumScape's PowerBlock has no customers, producers or contracts and was absent from a recent trade show, making CEO Siva Sivaram's promotional photos look like vaporware. Sivaram should be fired immediately and replaced by a competent businessperson before shareholders are wiped out. The board should also stop officers selling shares; Tim Holme has dumped $150 million worth amid continued poor performance. x.com 

Quantum Computing Inc. is a fake quantum company: its revenue all comes from acquisitions, shows no real top-line acceleration and is not even quantum-related. The company used to be called Innovative Beverage Group Holdings. A $3 billion market cap on $3 million of acquired revenue makes the retail-driven rally a great opportunity to short again. x.com  x.com  x.com 

QuantumScape's diversification into data-center energy storage supports accumulating now, ahead of a likely 2027 takeoff. It introduced the QS PowerBlock for AI data centers, claiming 4x the power density and 5x the runtime of current industry standards. The stock keeps getting pummeled along with most high-beta names, but its time will come. x.com 

D-Wave Quantum's $5.2 billion valuation, or 325 times revenue, leaves substantial downside against just $1.50 per share in cash. The stock still has an estimated 80% downside. x.com 

Quantum computing's suppliers get paid whoever's machine wins, as steel mills did while most railroads went bankrupt. Chips, test benches, cryogenic freezers, inspection, lasers, vacuum gear and light must be bought regardless. Washington signed nine letters of intent worth about $2.013 billion before any machine was built, half to the one recipient with a working foundry. Only one name is in its buy zone; the rest await lower prices. Two flat quarters of cryogenic and control orders ends it. … Show more

QuantumScape has a second growth leg the market is not pricing: battery-in-rack backup for AI data centers. Its non-combustible ceramic separator lets cells sit inside server racks, buffering millisecond power spikes faster than external UPS systems as racks pass 100 kW. In EVs, Honda signed a development deal after validating hardware. A hyperscaler design win would re-rate it as AI infrastructure. It has $904M of liquidity, but is pre-revenue and depends on scaling its Cobra process reliably. … Show more

Infleqtion's target of 100 logical qubits by 2028, the threshold Bain and McKinsey tie to practical quantum advantage, could turn it from a sensing business into a full quantum computing platform. Today it guides $40 million of 2026 revenue, holds $569 million of cash with no debt, and gets 85% of revenue from government customers. The US government just committed $200 million via a grant and a CHIPS R&D LOI. At $500 million of revenue by 2032, it could be a $5-7 billion company. x.com