Aqua Metals, Inc. (AQMS) Stock

Aqua Metals, Inc. (AQMS) is a Materials stock trading at $2.87 (as of 2026-09-02), with a market capitalization of $10.21M. Figures are sourced from first-party U.S. SEC EDGAR filings and market data.

Understand Aqua Metals, Inc.: how it makes money

Aqua Metals is a pre-revenue materials company in the steel works space, investing in a metallurgical process with no commercial product sales yet. With zero revenue and deeply negative margins, the entire case rests on whether the underlying technology reaches commercial scale.

No profit model exists yet; every dollar of production spend is a loss. The entire investment is a bet on process economics inverting once the metallurgical process reaches commercial volume.

Business quality (Unprofitable): Pre-revenue development stage. No demonstrated path to profitability in current financials; all commercial value is hypothetical.

Bull case

  • Full-scale capital deployment underway: An operating margin of -19796% against zero revenue signals the company is in heavy capital-deployment mode, funding process buildout, testing, and overhead. That level of spend is what a materials company must absorb before a product can reach market, and it distinguishes an active builder from a patent-holding shell.

Bear case

  • Unit economics deeply negative: A gross margin of -6980% means per-unit production and material costs far exceed any product value. Until the process achieves a fundamental cost reduction, each additional ton of output deepens the loss rather than approaching breakeven, and scale alone will not close a gap this wide.
Valuation — source: SEC EDGAR (first-party)
Price$2.87
Market Cap$10.21M
Price / Book1.07
FCF Yield-104.6%
Profitability & Growth — source: SEC EDGAR
Revenue (TTM)$0.00
Revenue Growth (YoY)-100.0%
EPS Growth (YoY)1432.0%
FCF Growth (YoY)145.2%
Valuation vs Sector & Industry
Sector P/E (Materials)23.9
Industry P/E (Steel Works)21.0
Company
SectorMaterials
IndustrySteel Works

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Data as of 2026-09-02.

Figures sourced from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) filings and market data. Not personalized investment advice.