A look at which quantum computing stocks actually have real revenue

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Rough Reece

With investors increasingly looking past the AI boom toward quantum computing as a potential next big theme, a recent screener highlighted three publicly traded quantum companies with genuinely different business models worth understanding on their own specific terms. IonQ, a pure play on trapped ion hardware and cloud access, reports roughly 246 million dollars in revenue across a single segment covering cloud access, hardware, support and consulting, and now carries a market value around 16.9 billion dollars after expanding into quantum safe communications, detection systems and semiconductor manufacturing through its SkyWater acquisition

Rigetti Computing, building superconducting quantum computers and selling access through its own cloud platform, reports about 13 million dollars in revenue with a market value around 5.5 billion dollars, working on larger higher fidelity chips while securing multi year public sector contracts and a letter of intent for up to 100 million dollars in CHIPS Act funding. Infleqtion, built around neutral atom hardware alongside quantum sensing and timing products for defense, space and finance, reports around 42 million dollars in revenue with a market value of roughly 3.2 billion dollars, backed partly by government contracts including work with NASA

All three companies remain loss making and heavily reliant on government and defense funding rather than broad commercial adoption, with genuine questions around share dilution and insider selling raised across the sector. This article does not constitute financial advice and nobody here is a licensed financial advisor. Curious what people think about evaluating quantum stocks specifically through actual reported revenue rather than pure speculative narrative and hype


Quanta

Share dilution and insider selling getting flagged across multiple different companies in the same sector simultaneously is honestly a real pattern worth taking seriously rather than dismissing as coincidental to just one specific company

Python

CHIPS Act funding specifically flowing toward Rigetti is a good reminder that quantum computing increasingly intersects with broader national semiconductor policy, not just pure academic research funding streams anymore

Skibidi

Heavy reliance on government and defense contracts rather than broad commercial adoption across literally all three companies mentioned here says something important about how genuinely early stage this entire sector's actual revenue still is
git commit -m "fixed everything"

StringTheory83

IonQ's revenue being nearly six times Rigetti's while its market cap runs about three times higher is an interesting specific data point for anyone actually trying to compare relative valuation across this whole sector honestly

Ryan72

Genuinely appreciate an article that focuses on actual reported revenue figures rather than pure speculative future narrative, even though all three companies here are still clearly losing money on a net basis currently

Woven Sasha

Curious how these specific three companies actually compare against IBM and Google's much larger quantum programs, given those bigger tech giants don't report quantum specific revenue as its own clearly separated standalone segment

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