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  "ticker": "SMR",
  "name": "NuScale Power Corporation",
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  "status": "WATCHLIST",
  "current_conviction": "LOW",
  "graded_conviction": null,
  "archetype": {
    "code": "a5",
    "n": 5
  },
  "current_thesis": "Funded wait on one unsigned ENTRA1–TVA power purchase agreement, with the company silent for twenty days since the 2026-08-05 Q2 release. The 2026-08-24 close of $9.05 gave back most of the bounce off the 2026-08-18 floor at $8.64 and RSI(14) slipped to 45.8; the only dated item inside a week — 2026-08-27 — belongs to a rival design's licence docket at NuScale's own prospective customer.",
  "invalidation_trigger": "A daily close below $8.64 (the 2026-08-18 range floor) re-opens the 2026-07-20 close of $7.96 and the 2026-07-17 low of $7.21; secondary: 2026-08-27 passing with the Clinch River comment record closed, no NuScale site named at TVA, and still no company release after 2026-08-05.",
  "catalyst_date": "2026-08-27",
  "outcome": "OPEN",
  "outcome_date": null,
  "invalidation_fired": null,
  "themes": [
    "nuclear-uranium"
  ],
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    "watchlist"
  ],
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  "notes": [
    "2026-04-18: seed: Serenity/attention list",
    "2026-06-04: NEW live catalyst — South Korea $200B US-investment package eyeing NuScale Tennessee/TVA SMR program; Doosan Enerbility + Samsung C&T in talks (KED Global 2026-05-13, Motley Fool 2026-05-31). UNDATED/unsigned — watch KED/Reuters for a named $ allocation.",
    "2026-06-06: SMR closed $10.50 on 2026-06-05 (−12.50%) on 45.2M shares (~45% above 31.2M 3-mo avg) — June 1–2 pop to ~$14 fully round-tripped; now pressing the $8.85 52-wk low. Sell-the-rip regime intact.",
    "2026-07-04: SMR ~$9.83 (7/2 close, range $9.60-$10.87), down on cash-burn/commercialization-timeline questions; ~11% above the $8.85 52-wk low, ~83% below the $57.42 52-wk high. Sell-the-rip regime intact since April.",
    "Up-C structure: Class A pairs with NuScale LLC units held as Class B, so Class A share-count growth overstates economic dilution versus new issuance.",
    "The at-the-market program of up to $750M disclosed 2026-08-11 sells at company discretion and is disclosed in arrears in quarterly filings.",
    "ENTRA1 holds the commercialization rights; NuScale owes Milestone Contributions on binding agreements, so a contract win also carries a cash obligation.",
    "Securities fraud class action pending: Truedson v. NuScale Power Corporation, D. Or. 3:26-cv-00328, class period 2025-05-13 to 2025-11-06.",
    "RoPower/Doicesti datapoints originate in Nuclearelectrica (SNN) filings in Romania; NuScale's own releases have lagged them throughout 2026.",
    "Revenue is project-milestone driven and lumpy; single-quarter swings reflect contract timing and completion, not an underlying demand run-rate."
  ],
  "body_markdown": "\n*Price reference: the last completed daily close is 2026-08-24 at $9.05, from split- and dividend-adjusted daily bars. All levels below are graded against that series.*\n\n## SMR — NuScale Power Corporation\n\n## Current Thesis\n\nThe company leg has produced no new dated fact since the second-quarter release. NuScale's press-release page, checked 2026-08-25, still ends at the 2026-08-05 Q2 results item — twenty calendar days with nothing company-originated on the tape. The asset being underwritten remains one unsigned document: a definitive power purchase agreement between ENTRA1 Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority that would convert the 2025-09-03 collaborative agreement (six plants, roughly 6 GW, up to 72 NuScale modules across TVA's seven-state region) into a contract. On the 2026-08-05 call CEO John Hopkins put the potential scale at 6–8 GW; no site, megawatt allocation or signature date has been named.\n\nSince the last reading the tape has given back most of the bounce. The 2026-08-21 close of $9.40 became a 2026-08-24 close of $9.05, and RSI(14) fell from 53.6 to 45.8 across that single session. The shares sit 83.1% below the 52-week high of $53.43, with a three-month price change of −25.9%.\n\n**The narrative is dead** for the company leg, unchanged and now carrying twenty days of silence. What dates that label: Q2 revenue of $75,000 against an $8.910M consensus with EPS of $(0.13) (2026-08-05); five sell-side target cuts in fifteen sessions with no raises — Citigroup to $6.50 with Sell and Canaccord Genuity to $15 with Buy on 2026-08-06, RBC Capital to $10 with Sector Perform on 2026-08-11, B. Riley to $15 with Buy on 2026-08-14, Texas Capital initiating at $12 with Buy in coverage dated 2026-08-20/21; a fresh at-the-market authorisation of up to $750M disclosed 2026-08-11; and a director selling at the range floor on 2026-08-18. The sector leg is a separate organism and still moves this equity on Oklo, Constellation and AI-power headlines.\n\n## Bull Case\n\n- **Roughly $1.9B of cash and investments at 2026-06-30.** $766.46M cash and equivalents, $305.69M short-term investments, $820.85M long-term investments (Q2 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-08-05), against six-month operating cash use of $372.86M. Nothing dated inside the next thirty days requires drawing on the new authorisation.\n- **The completed 2026 equity program cleared far above the current tape.** 86,568,060 Class A shares sold in Q2 at an average $11.11 — $962.068M gross, $947.214M net — finishing the $1.0B authorisation in June 2026. That clearing price is 22.8% above the 2026-08-24 close of $9.05.\n- **No ENTRA1 milestone liability sits on the balance sheet.** The Q2 10-Q states the criteria to record a Milestone Contribution liability were not met as of 2026-06-30, after $247.5M in 2025 and $259.9M in Q1 2026 were paid against Contribution 1.\n- **The stated TVA opportunity got larger, not smaller, at the print.** Management moved the framing from the September 2025 6 GW figure to 6–8 GW on the 2026-08-05 call, while keeping the agreement pre-definitive.\n- **Sell-side dispersion has not compressed toward the tape.** Standing targets run from Citigroup's $6.50 (Sell, 2026-08-06) to the $15 marks at Canaccord and B. Riley — roughly 2.3x low to high against the 2026-08-24 close.\n\n## Bear Case\n\n- **Revenue is not a business yet.** $75,000 in Q2 against an $8.910M consensus (2026-08-05) is a project-milestone artifact; the number carries no run-rate information and the market treated it as a miss the same session.\n- **Issuance follows the story.** The 2026-08-11 disclosure of up to $750M of Class A stock under an at-the-market agreement arrived six days after the print, with Class A outstanding already at 410.4M versus 318.5M at 2025-12-31. Sales occur at company discretion and are disclosed in arrears.\n- **Insiders sold into the range in August.** Director Shinji Fujino disposed of 20,000 Class A shares on 2026-08-18 at a weighted average $8.858 (prints $8.85–$8.865), leaving 17,242 held directly (Form 4 filed 2026-08-20), alongside reported August dispositions by the CFO and COO.\n- **A rival design is ahead on the regulatory clock at NuScale's flagship prospective customer.** The NRC's uncontested mandatory hearing on TVA's Clinch River Unit 1 — GE Vernova Hitachi's BWRX-300, 300 MWe / 870 MWt, docket NRC-2024-0146 — convened 2026-08-13 in Oak Ridge, with staff having recommended the construction permit in a June 2026 safety evaluation report (ADAMS ML26168A505).\n- **Commercial news reaches the tape through counterparties.** The 2026-08-06 Curio/Framatome fuel MOU naming NuScale was announced by Curio; RoPower/Doicesti datapoints have arrived through Nuclearelectrica filings all year.\n- **Litigation overhang.** Truedson v. NuScale Power Corporation, D. Or. 3:26-cv-00328, covers a class period of 2025-05-13 to 2025-11-06 and remains pending.\n\n## Setup & Price Structure\n\nThe two-week band running into 2026-08-24 is $8.64–$9.89. The 2026-08-18 close of $8.64 is the floor; the 2026-08-24 close of $9.05 sits 4.7% above it, in the lower half of the range. Below that floor the nearest reference points are the 2026-07-20 close of $7.96 and the 2026-07-17 low of $7.21.\n\nMomentum is neutral-to-soft: RSI(14) at 45.8 on 2026-08-24, down from 53.6 three sessions earlier. There is no base to speak of — the structure since the 2026-08-05 print is a drift inside a five-week downtrend that has not produced a higher weekly close.\n\nCrowding and positioning observables, stated as observables: short interest was last reported at 70.48M shares, 20.77% of float; the company has an open authorisation to sell up to $750M of stock at its discretion (disclosed 2026-08-11); three insiders reported August dispositions, the most recent a director at a weighted average $8.858 on 2026-08-18; and retail-facing coverage on 2026-08-24 framed the session as target cuts plus deployment-risk concern rather than any company event. There is no earnings date inside the next thirty days — the Q2 print is behind, and the next scheduled company disclosure is the Q3 10-Q in November.\n\n## Catalyst Calendar (next 30 days)\n\n- **~2026-08-26 (est.)** — Mid-August short-interest report covering the 2026-08-14 settlement date. Tests whether the short side built past 70.48M shares and 20.77% of float or covered through the advance off the 2026-07-20 close of $7.96.\n- **2026-08-27** — Written-comment deadline on the Clinch River Unit 1 hearing record, docket NRC-2024-0146. Closes the docket ahead of a Commission decision on the BWRX-300 construction permit.\n- **2026-08-29** — First quarterly vest tranche of the 2026-05-29 director RSU grants. Opens the next Form 4 window after an August that already produced three reported dispositions.\n- **~2026-08-31 (est.)** — Nuclearelectrica (SNN) H1 2026 reporting. SNN filings have carried every RoPower/Doicesti datapoint this year; signed external financing or a pre-EPC contract would surface there first.\n- **~2026-09-10 (est.)** — End-August short-interest report. First positioning reading spanning the 2026-08-11 at-the-market disclosure and the $8.64–$9.89 band.\n\n## What Would Change Our Mind\n\nThe structure that matters is the 2026-08-18 floor. Losing it on a **daily close below $8.64** ends the argument that the post-print drift is a range rather than a continuation, and re-opens the 2026-07-20 close of $7.96 and the 2026-07-17 low of $7.21. A secondary condition compounds it: 2026-08-27 passing with the Clinch River comment record closed, no NuScale site named at TVA, and still nothing on the company's press-release page after 2026-08-05.\n\nThe other direction is equally specific and would require the company leg to restart. A signed ENTRA1–TVA definitive power purchase agreement with a named site and megawatt allocation would re-date the narrative from dead; so would a Q3 10-Q showing no shares sold under the $750M authorisation, or an SNN H1 report disclosing signed external RoPower financing. Absent one of those, the sell-side clustering at $10–$15 against a $6.50 low is disagreement about a contract nobody has seen, and the tape is pricing the delay.\n\n## Correlation Notes\n\n- SMR trades with the listed nuclear-and-AI-power complex rather than on its own disclosures. On 2026-08-18 it closed $8.64 alongside declines in Oklo and Constellation Energy on an AI revenue datapoint and a 19-year high in the 30-year Treasury.\n- Oklo's 2026-08-06 first criticality at its Groves isotope test reactor is a competing-narrative event: it supplies the sector with a hardware milestone NuScale has not matched commercially, and sector flows have rewarded demonstrated hardware over licence-stage optionality this year.\n- The Clinch River docket links SMR to a competitor's schedule at its own prospective customer. A BWRX-300 construction permit is a positive for the SMR theme in aggregate and a negative for NuScale's share of TVA's first tranche.\n\n- Up-C structure: Class A pairs with NuScale LLC units held as Class B, so Class A share-count growth overstates economic dilution relative to new issuance alone.",
  "first_seen": "2026-04-19",
  "last_analyzed": "2026-08-25T04:04:18+00:00",
  "last_synthesized": "2026-08-25",
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