Nextracker

9 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2025 by Dan Shugar · said 41 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Mar 26, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Shugar: Nextracker has over 20 US manufacturers shipping finished goods
“Today, we have over 20 major manufacturers in the U.S. Shipping finished goods”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 17:21 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Shugar: Nextracker sources from three of four top US steel mills
“We're sourcing from three of the top four steel mills in the United States that have multiple manufacturing locations.”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 18:30 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Mar 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Shugar: Texas hailstorm destroyed non-Nextracker solar project, costing over $70 million
“He had just had a major hail event happen on one of his projects in Texas. It was on a, not a NexTracker system, but a different system. But the upshot was they had to replace all the solar panels on the entire project. It cost over seventy million dollars.”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 5:20 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Mar 26, 2025
Assertion Supported
Nextracker co-located manufacturing with JM Steel at Steel Dynamics' Texas mill
“For example two years ago, we announced a major manufacturing facility with our partner, JM Steel, physically on the campus of the newest steel mill in the United States, which is in Sinton, Texas. It's actually operated by Steel Dynamics. It's a three million…”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 13:14 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Mar 26, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Shugar: Nextracker IPO'd after a 5-to-6-month market freeze
“When we went to go public, the market had been pretty much closed for five or six months. I don't think there was a single IPO, or certainly not a big one.”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 25:30 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shugar: Nextracker hail stow documentation reduced some customer insurance costs
“There are some cases where we're aware that customers were able to reduce their insurance costs by really good documentation on this stuff.”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 23:11 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Mar 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Shugar: COVID-19 doubled steel costs and tripled shipping costs within months
“We saw in about one to two quarters, steel roughly doubled, and logistics costs tripled in some corridors, shipping from point A to point B, in like four to six months.”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 16:15 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Mar 26, 2025
Insight
Dan Shugar: A company is a team, not a family
“The company's not a family. It's a team.”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 26:27 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Shugar: Nextracker uses an Apple-like outsourced manufacturing model
“We have a similar approach as some other technology companies like Apple. We really focus on where we can design and product position, strategy, customers, and so forth, rather than trying to run a world-class, you know, manufacturing facility, which is its ow…”
Dan Shugar Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 12:43 Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
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