Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC

Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC trades at $14.6, in a downtrend and 5 weeks into that stage. That is −22.2% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 6% of a 52-week range of $13 to $41. On relative strength it is currently behind the S&P 500 on a trailing-13-week view (7 weeks and counting).

Today the stock is in a downtrend — week 5 of stage 4. At $14.6 it trades −22.2% versus its 200-day average and sits at 6% of its 52-week range ($13–$41).

Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 4.1 years the stock moved −95% while the S&P 500 moved +102% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (7 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-06-18) — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.

What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.

Valuation P/E is the price of $1 of annual profit: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar the company earns in a year.

P/E does not price Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC — earnings are negative, so there is no multiple to rank against its own history. The revenue and margin lines below are where a turn, when it comes, would show first. On sales the market values Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC at 0.7× its FY25 revenue of $3.1 B.

With earnings negative, P/E does not price — there is no multiple to rank against its own history. The revenue and margin lines below are where the turn, when it comes, will show first.

Put together: the multiple is unremarkable against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.

Stage: No read Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC reads as no read on its fundamental arc. Under eight usable quarters on the growth trio — not enough history for an honest trajectory read. The read is built from 10 quarters across 2 curves, on partial evidence.

Why it matters: with too little history, an honest page says so instead of guessing a trajectory.

One or more growth curves carry a base-effect spike — a large year-on-year move off a near-zero or loss-making comparable quarter. Those spikes are capped before the classifier reads the trajectory, and shown pinned on the chart, so a single distorted quarter does not drive the stage call.

Fewer than eight usable quarters on the growth curves — this page will not guess a trajectory from a stub of history.

4-Factor Sector Score

43.0/100 — rank 11 of 12 in Auto Manufacturers · 35% evidence confidence · provisional, ranked below fully-evidenced peers

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC scores 43.0 out of 100 against the 12 companies it is compared with in Auto Manufacturers, ranking 11. Fill the missing evidence before acting; the ranking is deliberately pulled toward neutral.

The four contributions add to the total exactly: 18.3 + 9.8 + 10 + 4.9 = 43. This is the SAME number shown on the sector comparison — it is computed once, for the whole peer set, and read here.

What would change it: The read weakens if profit growth turns negative or margin improvement reverses while sector-relative strength deteriorates.

Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC reported $1.6 B of revenue in the Dec 25 quarter, +45.1% year on year. That is the 2nd straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 22.9% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $3.1 B. The last four reported quarters add to $5.1 B.

FY25 revenue came in at $3.1 B (+50.7% on the year), capping 4 years at 22.9% compound. The latest quarter (Dec 25) printed $1.6 B, +45.1% year on year — the 2nd consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.

Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +18.6% growth against the decade's 22.9% — the current year is running slower than its own long-run rate.

Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +6.0% over the last 4 quarters against +61.7%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over.

Operating margin Operating margin is what is left of every $100 of sales after running the business, before interest and tax. It is the cleanest read on pricing power and cost control.

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC's operating margin is −55.5% in the Dec 25 quarter, +63.1 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. Across the last four quarters the operating margin has moved +30.3 percentage points. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −89.2% to −52.9%. The current quarter sits inside that band.

The latest quarter's operating margin is −55.5%, +63.1 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −89.2%–−52.9%.

Why the margin moved: operating margin went +30.3 pp year on year while gross margin went +14.9 pp — the gain came mostly below the gross line: operating leverage, with costs spread over a bigger revenue base.

Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC posted a net loss of $1.2 B in the Dec 25 quarter. The full FY25 year was a loss of $2.4 B. That loss is 70.7% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier lost $0.8 B. 11 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Dec 25 profit was $−1.2 B, null year on year. On the full year, FY25 printed $−2.4 B (null).

Cash flow — the router The P&L says what was earned; the cash-flow statement says what actually arrived. Operating cash flow (CFO) against profit is the cleanest lie detector in the accounts.

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC's cash-flow history is too thin to judge how much reported profit converts into cash. In FY25 that was $−0.9 B of operating cash against $−2.4 B of profit. After $0.2 B of capital spending, $−1.1 B was left as free cash. Cash resolution here is annual, because quarterly cash statements are not published.

FY25: operating cash of $−0.9 B against reported profit of $−2.4 B, leaving free cash of $−1.1 B after $0.2 B of capital spending.

Cash-flow readings here are annual — that is the resolution our series carries, so this section moves once a year.

Router verdict: the visible cash user is investment — the next section checks what the spending is buying.

Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid: debtor days (customers owe), inventory days (stock waits), and the cash conversion cycle (the whole loop, in days of sales).

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC does not report the debtor, inventory and payable day-counts a cash cycle is built from, so this section reads the investment side instead. Capital spending ran $0.0 B over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 0.0% of FY25 revenue a year.

Working-capital day-counts are not in our numbers for this stock, so this section reads the investment side — where the cash is being put to work.

On the investment side: capital spending of $0.0 B over the last 3 fiscal years.

The synthesis: the cash is going into capacity, not disappearing into the cycle — the question becomes whether the new capacity earns.

Return on equity Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. With the full capital-employed split not in our numbers, ROE is the cleanest long ladder we can draw here.

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC earns a ROE of −46% in FY25. That is up from a trough of −533% in FY22. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by −41.8 percentage points, so growth here is not yet paying for the capital it uses. The wiring behind it is −77.1% net margin on 0.78× asset turns.

FY25 ROE is −46%, recovered from a FY22 trough of −533% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.

🚨 Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY25): −77.1% net margin × 0.78× asset turns × 0.77× balance-sheet leverage ≈ −46.3% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is modest — this is an earned return, not a borrowed one.

The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: −35.0% − 6.8% = a −41.8 pp spread. The 6.8% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital — read the sign and the size of the spread, not the decimals. Negative — growth at these returns destroys value until the returns recover.

Dividend

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC pays no dividend. Across the last 12 reported quarters it has declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to quote. Companies at this stage typically reinvest earnings rather than distribute them, which makes the cash-flow and reinvestment sections the place that cash shows up.

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC does not currently pay a dividend. Across the last 12 reported quarters the company has declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to quote. Companies at this stage typically reinvest earnings instead of distributing them.

Debt Debt-to-equity says how much of the business is funded by borrowings; interest cover says how many times operating profit pays the interest bill. Low and high, respectively, is the safe corner.

A borrowings history is not in our numbers for this stock.

A borrowings history is not in our numbers for this stock, so this section says that plainly rather than working around it.

Ownership There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read here, so we read the crowd through short interest — the slice of tradable shares currently sold short, positioned for a fall.

No ownership or positioning reading is held for Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC, so this section names the gap rather than filling it. At typical trading volumes those positions would take about 13.4 days to buy back. There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read for this filer, so the crowd is read through short interest instead.

We hold no ownership or positioning reading for this stock, so this section says that plainly.

Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.

Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC: the Z-score reads −4.24. A Z-score above roughly 3 reads as safe and below roughly 1.8 as the distress zone, so this sits inside the distress zone. It is a distance-to-distress estimate from the balance sheet, not a forecast of failure.

🚨 Why it matters: a Z-score of −4.24 is inside the distress zone — the balance sheet is a real risk, not a detail.

The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score reads −4.24.

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