NEW YORK, January 4, 2026, 06:42 ET — Market closed.
Fluence Energy shares surged 16.3% on Friday to $23.01, finishing the first U.S. trading session of 2026 sharply higher.
The outsized move put the spotlight back on battery-storage names, a corner of clean energy that investors often treat as a high-beta bet on grid investment and power-demand growth.
It also came as markets turned to a familiar driver: rates. “Value is outperforming growth and AI infrastructure is up,” said Jed Ellerbroek, a portfolio manager at Argent Capital. 1
The surge in Fluence echoed gains across solar and storage-linked stocks. First Solar rose about 5%, Nextracker climbed 6.5%, Array Technologies added nearly 5% and Eos Energy Enterprises jumped about 13% on Friday.
Fluence supplies battery energy storage systems, or BESS — utility-scale batteries that store electricity and deliver it later, helping stabilize the grid when demand spikes or renewable output drops.
The company last gave a detailed update in late November, when it reported fiscal 2025 revenue of $2.3 billion and launched fiscal 2026 revenue guidance of about $3.2 billion to $3.6 billion. Fluence also guided adjusted EBITDA — a profit measure that strips out interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, plus some one-off items — of $40 million to $60 million, and said roughly 85% of the revenue midpoint was already covered by backlog, which stood at about $5.3 billion as of Sept. 30.
That backlog coverage matters because Fluence typically recognizes revenue as projects are delivered, which can make quarterly results sensitive to project timing and supply-chain execution.
Before the next session, investors will also be watching the macro calendar for signals on rate expectations. Next week’s U.S. jobs report is due Jan. 9 and consumer price data is due Jan. 13, with investors also watching for developments around tariffs and Federal Reserve leadership as January trading picks up.
On the chart, Fluence traded between $20.14 and $23.12 on Friday and remains about 11% below its 52-week high of $25.85, based on Investing.com data. The site lists the stock’s market value at about $4.21 billion, with the average 12-month analyst price target at $16.55.
