The bridge is already built

The bridge is already built: management walks investors from today's numbers to a bigger business using only pieces alre

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EVGO · Q2 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management's explanation of the next year's business is built primarily from specific pieces already secured or in motion, making current results understate the locked-in...YES The transcript shows management framing the next-year outlook around the newly announced, signed GM-Pilot eXtend deal (up to 2,000 stalls at 500 locations, with EVgo procuring, constructing, operating, and maintaining, delivering both near-term revenue and longer-term contracted cash flows that already exceed IRR hurdles) plus the Delta supply agreement (1,000+ chargers for 2,000 stalls through 2026) and the GSA BPA (which removes procurement friction for federal fleets). These pieces are presented as already committed and in motion, with explicit timing for revenue ramp in H2 2022 and into 202 3, while the company notes it has baked some of the PFJ contribution into its 2022 guidance. The structure treats these secured elements as the primary bridge from today’s numbers to a meaningfully larger business, rather than relying on pipeline, demand, or future bids. Other items (NEVI solicitations, fleet pilots ) are secondary and contingent, but the core forward posture is built on the named, already-executed contracts and programs. Current results visibly understate the locked-in trajectory because the eXtend model shifts cash flows forward and the secured stalls/contracts are only beginning to flow.

BRBR · Q4 2023 → YESThe question is about whether management's explanation of the next year's business is built primarily from specific pieces already secured or in motion, such that current results understate the locked...YES The transcript shows management framing fiscal '24 growth as driven by concrete, already-committed pieces: the two co-man additions from '23 that are scaling, the Michael Foods greenfield facility that starts up in December and will be a "much larger contributor" in the second half of '24, the 20 %+ production growth plan (40 % from new co-mans in '24, 40 % from lapping prior adds, 20 % from existing), and the restart of shake promotions in Q2 plus marketing step-up in Q4 once target weeks of supply are reached. These are presented as nameable, scheduled 2024 actions that will enable double-digit volume growth for both Premier Protein and Dymatize, with the current-year results (22 % sales growth under capacity constraints) treated as a base that the locked-in capacity ramp will visibly outgrow.

MEC · Q3 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management's explanation of the next year's business is built primarily from specific pieces already secured or in motion, such that current results understate the locked...YES The transcript shows management framing 2023 growth primarily around specific, already secured or in-motion pieces: the electric side-by-side family of parts (production fully launching in 2023), the reshoring project for the commercial vehicle customer (production scheduled to start early 2023), the high-value ag takeover project (already awarded), incremental business on the light-duty truck platform, and the new industrial infrastructure customer relationship (quickly supported and expected to grow). These are presented as nameable, committed items whose contributions are beginning or ramping over the coming year.

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