Shares of Fermi tumbled sharply on Monday after the company announced the departure of Chief Executive Toby Neugebauer, triggering investor concerns about leadership stability at a critical stage of its expansion. The stock fell as much as 23% to around $5.03, extending its year-to-date decline to roughly 18% as of last week's close.
Fermi co-founder and CEO Toby Neugebauer and CFO Miles Everson have suddenly departed the AI nuclear power firm, sending shares down 22% on Monday.
Fermi Inc. remains highly speculative, with shares down ~75% since IPO and no signed tenants for its ambitious data center buildout. FRMI reported a GAAP loss of $1.13 for 2025, is essentially pre-revenue, and burned $605 million in free cash flow last year. Despite an attractive Texas site and a 99-year lease, FRMI's lack of infrastructure and tenant agreements undermines its massive $80–$120 billion buildout plan.
Fermi Inc. (FRMI) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Fermi confirms Monday that it is yet to sign a cornerstone tenant for its Project Matador campus in Amarillo, Texas.
Fermi Inc (NASDAQ:FRMI, LSE:FRMI)'s shares fell about 25% on Monday morning after the company reported a steep first-year loss and flagged ongoing uncertainty around securing a tenant for its flagship AI energy project. The nuclear energy infrastructure developer posted a GAAP net loss of $486.4 million, or $1.13 per share, for the period from its inception in January 2025, through the end of the 2025 year, exceeding analyst expectations for a $366.5 million loss, according to FactSet data.
Fermi Inc (NASDAQ:FRMI, LSE:FRMI) shares climbed 13% to $10.49 after the company announced a $500 million financing facility with MUFG Bank to accelerate its gigawatt-scale power development plans. The loan, structured as a non-recourse turbine “warehouse” facility, enables Fermi America to purchase three Siemens Energy SGT6-5000F gas turbines and repay a prior loan.
Fermi remains substantially overvalued, even after a steep price drop following the loss of a major tenant. FRMI's structural flaws—massive dilution and inflated market cap vs. capital raised—make value creation for equity holders extremely challenging. Current asset value is mostly cash raised and an idea now diminished by tenant loss; tangible demand from new tenants is unproven.
Shares of Fermi Inc. (NASDAQ:FRMI) are down 32.8%, last seen trading at $10.25.
Fermi, co-founded by a former secretary of energy, Rick Perry, said its first potential tenant of Project Matador has backed out of an agreement to provide $150 million in advance funding.
The nascent AI infrastructure company says a potential tenant cancelled a $150 million agreement.