Fisker Inc. officially revealed the Fisker Ocean all-electric luxury crossover at CES 2020 in Las Vegas.
Shares of electric-vehicle startup Fisker are sinking in premarket trading Tuesday following a disappointing earnings report and a regulatory filing that raised concerns concerning the company’s previous financial statements.
Shares were down greater than 17% from their previous close of $4.11 apiece.
Fisker reported its third-quarter results on Monday afternoon, and so they weren’t what Wall Street had hoped to see. Revenue of $71.8 million and a net lack of $91 million, or 27 cents per share, that fell in need of the Street’s expectations.
But there was more. In a Monday night regulatory filing after its earnings report, Fisker said that following the abrupt departure of its chief accounting officer in October, it “determined that it has material weaknesses within the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.”
Those weaknesses will delay its quarterly 10-Q filing, it said.
Fisker shares sink after third-quarter results and financial disclosures.
Fisker had originally planned to report its third-quarter results before the U.S. markets opened on Nov. 8. However it abruptly postponed its report early that morning, saying that the departure of its chief accounting officer on Oct. 27 and the appointment of a latest one on Nov. 6 had “delayed the completion of the financial statements and related disclosures.”
Fisker hasn’t yet explained why its former chief accounting officer left or why its earnings report was delayed, though CFO Geeta Gupta-Fisker said during Monday’s earnings call that the third quarter was “highly complex” due to company’s global ramp up.
Monday’s filing raises the chance that the corporate may very well be forced to restate a few of its past financial reports.
Fisker noted the “material weaknesses” shall be discussed intimately in its upcoming 10-Q report, and Gupta-Fisker said the corporate is actively hiring additional financial experts. It didn’t say when investors can expect the 10-Q to be filed.