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Second-quarter revenue was $16.72 million against $2.12 million a year earlier, with a gross margin of 34.7% and a GAAP operating loss of $7.83 million. Cash and investments were $316.4 million at June 30, and the company has agreed to buy Upgrade Energy for an estimated $52.0 million. The Draganfly strategic offering announced September 28 is now confirmed completed.
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The annual meeting is on October 5, 2026 and its third proposal is the approval of the warrant grant to the chief executive: 5,000,000 shares at $25.00, vesting in five tranches of 1,000,000 shares as the price reaches $25.00, $40.00, $60.00, $80.00 and $100.00, in exchange for waiving all cash compensation after December 31, 2026.
The loss from operations was $7,834,143 in the quarter against $7,190,473 a year earlier, and general and administrative expense alone was $10,799,261, nearly twice the gross profit of $5,802,134. Inventories of $21,914,332 and prepaid inventory of $20,543,732 are cash already spent, against $24.82 million of half-year revenue. The $316.4 million of cash and investments that funds the gap came from equity: financing activities provided $200,981,341 in the half.
All financial figures on this page come from the Form 10-Q filed on August 6, 2026 for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Three figures are Merlintrader sums and are marked as such: cash and investments of $316,372,225, which adds cash, short-term investments at fair value and a short-term investment carried at cost; working capital of $363,690,799, which is current assets less current liabilities; and the $42,458,064 of inventories plus prepaid inventory quoted in the risks. The market capitalisation is a Merlintrader calculation from the 49,956,505 shares outstanding on the record date of the October 5, 2026 annual meeting and the September 18, 2026 close of $23.18. The provider fields for ownership, short interest and consensus could not be read on September 21, 2026 and are not estimated here.
Revenue went from $2.12 million to $16.72 million in a year, an increase of 687%, and the growth is not in the retail line: enterprise revenue was $14,330,372 against $831,000 a year earlier, because the company moved from selling drone parts to manufacturing motors, headsets and cameras in production runs for programme customers. The gross margin was 34.7% in the quarter and the balance sheet at June 30, 2026 holds $229.60 million of cash, $39.27 million of investments at fair value and $47.50 million of short-term investment at cost — $316.37 million in total — against $6.89 million of current liabilities, for a working capital of $363.69 million and stockholders’ equity of $388.04 million. The company has agreed to acquire Upgrade Energy, a maker of battery and power systems for unmanned aircraft, for an estimated $52.0 million of which 1,792,012 shares are the equity component, and the chief executive has agreed to waive all cash compensation from 2027 in exchange for a warrant grant that the shareholders vote on in October.
The sevenfold growth comes with a loss that grew too: the GAAP operating loss was $7.83 million against $7.19 million a year earlier, and general and administrative expense alone was $10.80 million in the quarter against $7.20 million. Cost of goods sold was $10.92 million against $16.72 million of revenue, so the gross margin is 34.7% on a business that is buying and making components, and the operating expenses were 2.35 times the gross profit. Half-year revenue of $24.82 million carried an operating loss of $15.09 million. The balance sheet is strong — $316.4 million of cash and investments — but it is strong because the company sold equity: financing activities provided $200.98 million in the half, and inventories of $21.91 million plus prepaid inventory of $20.54 million are the money already spent on the ramp. The half closed with net income of $2.50 million, and it did so because of a $9.53 million realised gain on short-term investments rather than because of the operating line, which lost $15.09 million.
The Form 10-Q filed on August 6, 2026 carries the unaudited accounts for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. Revenue of $16,722,467 against $2,123,970, of which retail was $2,392,095 and enterprise $14,330,372; cost of goods sold of $10,920,334, leaving a gross margin of $5,802,134; operating expenses of $13,636,276 made of operations $1,540,919, research and development $430,759, sales and marketing $790,012, general and administrative $10,799,261 and depreciation and amortisation $75,324; and a loss from operations of $7,834,143 against $7,190,473. Interest income was $1,820,162 and the unrealised loss from investments was $3,883,535 in the quarter. Six-month revenue was $24,818,304 against $4,166,270, with a gross margin of $8,456,241 and a loss from operations of $15,093,130 against $10,458,284. The balance sheet at June 30, 2026 shows cash and cash equivalents of $229,598,776, short-term investments at fair value of $39,273,449, a short-term investment at cost of $47,500,000, accounts receivable of $9,333,235 plus $1,278,160 from related parties, inventories of $21,914,332, prepaid inventory of $20,543,732, total current assets of $370,575,945, total assets of $397,493,148, total current liabilities of $6,885,146 and total stockholders’ equity of $388,040,737, against $174,939,670 at December 31, 2025.
Draganfly’s September 29, 2026 release confirmed the closing of the offering in which Unusual Machines committed US$5 million. Issuer release
Unusual Machines makes the hardware that small drones are built from — motors, flight controllers, cameras, video transmitters, headsets — and sells it two ways: retail, to people building their own aircraft, and enterprise, to companies and programmes that buy in production runs. In the second quarter the enterprise line became the business: $14.33 million of the $16.72 million of revenue, against $831 thousand a year earlier, with retail roughly flat at $2.39 million. That shift from a catalogue to a supply relationship is what the revenue line shows, and it is also what the losses show: the company is carrying the inventory and the overhead of a manufacturer while the volume arrives. The $316.4 million of cash and investments is what funds the gap, and it came from equity raised during the half rather than from operations.
Draganfly confirmed that its approximately US$10 million registered direct offering closed: 1,869,159 shares at US$5.35 per share. Its September 28 announcement identified Unusual Machines’ US$5 million participation, alongside US$5 million from an unnamed U.S. investment fund. Confirmation comes from Draganfly’s closing release. Issuer release · September 28 announcement
The audit committee approved the dismissal of Salberg & Company as the company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately. The reports on the 2025 and 2024 financial statements contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer and were not qualified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles, and the filing states there were no disagreements.
The company made an updated investor presentation available on its website on August 10, 2026 and furnished it on Form 8-K. It is a furnished document, not a filed one, and it is not part of the company’s financial statements.
The company announced its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 in a shareholder letter furnished as Exhibit 99.1. Revenue of $16,722,467, a gross margin of $5,802,134, and a loss from operations of $7,834,143. The full Form 10-Q was filed the same day.
The compensation committee approved a grant to Dr. Allan Evans, chief executive, of warrants to purchase 5,000,000 shares at an exercise price of $25.00, expiring July 24, 2031, vesting in five equal tranches as the share price reaches $25.00, $40.00, $60.00, $80.00 and $100.00. In consideration, Dr. Evans agreed to waive all cash compensation from the company after December 31, 2026. The grant requires shareholder approval.
The company signed a definitive agreement to acquire DroneNX, LLC, which operates as Upgrade Energy, a manufacturer of battery and power systems for unmanned aerial systems. The purchase price is estimated at $52.0 million and includes a fixed quantity of 1,792,012 shares at $13.9508 a share, based on the preceding five-day volume-weighted average price.
The company delivered an order to Red Cat in the first half of 2026, including several different drone components it manufactures and sources. Red Cat is a related party: its chief executive, Jeff Thompson, sits on the board of Unusual Machines.
Inventories were $21,914,332 at June 30, 2026 against $5,316,648 at December 31, 2025, and prepaid inventory was $20,543,732 against $9,748,483. Financing activities provided $200,981,341 during the half against $39,300,836 a year earlier.
The meeting will be held virtually at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on October 5, 2026. The proposals are the election of five directors for a one-year term, the ratification of the independent auditor, the approval of the warrant grant to the chief executive and the adjournment of the meeting. On the record date there were 49,956,505 shares of common stock outstanding.
Both cases are stated below, the constructive one and the one against, and each stands on its own; what neither of them resolves is the turn the company is waiting for.
Better. The enterprise line keeps growing from $14.33 million a quarter, the gross margin holds near 34.7% as the production runs scale, and the overhead stops growing faster than the revenue: general and administrative expense was $10.80 million in the quarter against $7.20 million a year earlier, which is the gap that has to close. Upgrade Energy arrives, brings batteries and power systems into the product list and starts earning, and the inventory of $21.91 million turns into revenue rather than into a write-down. The $316.4 million of cash and investments funds all of it without another raise.
Flat. Revenue keeps stepping up with each production order and the operating loss stays in the neighbourhood of $7 million a quarter, because the company is paying for the ramp in inventory and in people before it earns the margin. The retail line stays around $2.4 million a quarter, the enterprise line is lumpy because it depends on a small number of programmes, and the balance sheet absorbs the difference for a few more quarters.
Worse. A production order slips or a policy change closes the door on a component the company imports, and the inventory it has built becomes the problem rather than the preparation. The concentration is the risk: the enterprise line is a small number of programme orders, and approximately $2.2 million of the half’s revenue came from one related party, Teal Drones. The filings in this window do not publish a concentration figure, so the page describes the shape and not a percentage.
None of the three scenarios above is a forecast, none is a price target and none carries a price. They are built only on what the documents state: second-quarter revenue of $16,722,467, a gross margin of $5,802,134, expenses of $13,636,276, a loss from operations of $7,834,143, cash and investments of $316,372,225, working capital of $363,690,799, 49,956,505 shares outstanding at the record date, and the terms of the Upgrade Energy agreement.
Two cautions govern the page, and both are the company’s own. The first is that the loss from operations and the net result are not the same number, and in the half they have opposite signs: the operating line lost $15,093,130 while the company reported net income of $2,499,441, because interest income, an unrealised gain and a realised gain of $9,532,673 on short-term investments sit below the operating line. A reader who takes only one of the two takes half the picture. The second is the share count: the 49,956,505 shares are those outstanding on the record date of the annual meeting, and they do not include the 1,792,012 shares to be issued for Upgrade Energy or any shares from the warrant grant if the shareholders approve it.
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The company makes the parts that go into small unmanned aircraft and sells them two ways. The retail line is a catalogue business: motors, flight controllers, cameras, video transmitters, radio links, headsets, sold to people building or repairing their own aircraft. The enterprise line is a supply relationship: the same components, manufactured or sourced in production runs, sold to companies and programmes that build aircraft in numbers.
The quarter shows what happens when the second line becomes the business. Enterprise revenue was $14,330,372 against $831,000 a year earlier; retail was $2,392,095 against $1,292,963. In the half, enterprise produced $21,643,379 and retail $3,174,925. The company’s own description of the change is that it started manufacturing production on certain products including drone motors, headsets, cameras and other drone-related products, which is a statement about capacity and not about margin.
What the accounts add is the cost of that transition. Cost of goods sold was $10,920,334 in the quarter against $1,329,291 a year earlier, so the gross margin of $5,802,134 — 34.7% — was earned on a much larger volume at a lower percentage than the catalogue business used to produce. And the expense line that carries the scale-up is general and administrative at $10,799,261 against $7,195,193, nearly twice the gross profit on its own.
Revenue by channel in the quarter ended June 30, 2026, in dollars.
Unusual Machines is a component manufacturer for small drones that has moved, in a year, from selling parts to individuals to filling production orders for programmes. Revenue went from $2.12 million to $16.72 million in the quarter, and the enterprise line went from $831 thousand to $14.33 million. The company is listed on the NYSE American under UMAC and its chief executive is Dr. Allan Evans.
The financial picture is two-sided, and both sides are in the same filing. On one side, revenue up 687%, a gross margin of 34.7%, $316.4 million of cash and investments, working capital of $363.7 million and stockholders’ equity of $388.0 million. On the other, a loss from operations of $7.83 million in the quarter and $15.09 million in the half, general and administrative expense of $10.80 million in the quarter alone, inventories of $21.91 million and prepaid inventory of $20.54 million, and financing activities that provided $200.98 million during the half.
What ties the two sides together is the ramp. The company has bought and built inventory ahead of the orders, paid for the people and the facilities that will make them, and funded the difference with equity rather than with debt or with operations. The question the next two quarters answer is whether the revenue arrives fast enough for the overhead to stop outrunning the gross profit — and the dated items that bear on it are the closing of Upgrade Energy, the shareholder vote of October 5 on the chief executive’s warrant grant, and the policy calendar that governs what it costs to bring components in.
The quarter, as the Form 10-Q reports it: revenue of $16,722,467 against $2,123,970; cost of goods sold of $10,920,334; a gross margin of $5,802,134, or 34.7%; operating expenses of $13,636,276, made of operations $1,540,919, research and development $430,759, sales and marketing $790,012, general and administrative $10,799,261 and depreciation and amortisation $75,324; and a loss from operations of $7,834,143 against $7,190,473 a year earlier.
Below the operating line the quarter carries items that change the reported result without changing the business: interest income of $1,820,162, which is what $316 million of cash and investments earns; an unrealised loss from investments of $3,883,535; and a realised gain from investments of $2,267,931. In the half those lines reverse and grow: interest income of $2,612,240, an unrealised gain of $5,608,541 and a realised gain of $9,532,673. That is why the half closed with net income of $2,499,441 against a loss of $10,231,018 a year earlier, while the loss from operations was $15,093,130. The quarter itself was a net loss of $7,783,553. A reader comparing periods must hold the operating line and the investment line together, because they move in opposite directions for reasons that have nothing to do with drones.
On the operating loss itself, the number to use is the company’s filed figure — $7,834,143 for the quarter and $15,093,130 for the half — and not any figure quoted in a presentation or a letter. Where a presentation shows an adjusted measure, the adjusted measure removes items the filed statement includes, and the reconciliation is the document that matters. The Form 10-Q is the filed statement, and its numbers are the ones this page uses.
Revenue in millions of dollars, the second quarter of 2025 and of 2026.
The balance sheet at June 30, 2026 is the strongest part of the company’s position and the part that explains how the ramp is being paid for. Cash and cash equivalents of $229,598,776; short-term investments at fair value of $39,273,449; a short-term investment carried at cost of $47,500,000. The three together are $316,372,225, which is a Merlintrader sum and not a line the company reports. Against it, total current liabilities of $6,885,146, so working capital is $363,690,799 — also a Merlintrader sum — and total stockholders’ equity is $388,040,737 against $174,939,670 at December 31, 2025.
The equity figure tells the reader where the money came from. Financing activities provided $200,981,341 during the six months, against $39,300,836 a year earlier, and the company’s operating activities consumed cash: the half’s operating loss of $15,093,130 is the starting point, and the inventory build from $5,316,648 to $21,914,332 plus prepaid inventory rising from $9,748,483 to $20,543,732 is the rest.
What that means for a reader is specific. The company is not dependent on borrowing and has no debt problem in front of it; it is dependent on the inventory it has already paid for turning into shipped product, and on the market’s willingness to fund the difference until it does. The $52.0 million for Upgrade Energy, of which 1,792,012 shares are the equity part, is a small fraction of the balance sheet, which is why the acquisition is a product decision rather than a financing one.
Draganfly confirms closing of offering backed by Unusual Machines. The September 29 Draganfly release replaces the earlier expected closing date. For Unusual Machines, the announced US$5 million participation is a cash investment in equity of a customer, not a purchase order for drone components, recognized revenue or an acquisition of Draganfly. The total 1,869,159 new shares and US$10 million relate to the whole Draganfly offering, not solely to the Unusual Machines allocation.
Draganfly’s initial release tied the investment to its production growth and supplier relationships. That strategic intention does not establish incremental component orders. The buyer split is documented by Draganfly’s September 28 announcement and completion by its September 29 release; these are issuer-side sources, not a separate closing statement from Unusual Machines. June cash and investments remain a historical reporting-date balance and are not restated by subtracting the announced stake. Issuer release · September 28 announcement
Upgrade Energy, which is fully documented. On May 7, 2026 the company signed a definitive agreement to acquire DroneNX, LLC, which operates as Upgrade Energy, a manufacturer of battery and power systems for unmanned aerial systems. The purchase price is estimated at $52.0 million and is made of three parts: a fixed quantity of 1,792,012 shares of the company’s common stock at $13.9508 a share, a price based on the preceding five-day volume-weighted average and estimated to be worth approximately $25.0 million; $1.0 million in cash on closing; and an additional $26.0 million in cash based on revenue. Batteries and power systems are the part of a small drone that determines how long it can stay in the air, so the acquisition is the company buying a component it currently has to source from others.
XTEND and Altana. The quick-nav of the page this rebuild replaces lists XTEND and Altana alongside Upgrade Energy, and this page does not report them: neither the Form 10-Q for the June quarter nor any filing in this window describes an investment, an agreement or a figure connected with either name. The rule applied is the one used across this group — what is in a filing is reported with its date, and an item that cannot be traced to a document is not reported at all rather than softened. If the company describes them in a later filing, they belong in this section then.
The related-party order. The half’s revenue includes an order from Teal Drones, a subsidiary of Red Cat, made of several different drone components the company manufactures and sources. Red Cat is a related party and the filing says why: its chief executive, Jeff Thompson, also sits on the board of Unusual Machines, and he is one of the five directors standing for election at the October meeting. The amount is disclosed: approximately $2.2 million of revenue from this related party in the six months to June 30, 2026, with related-party receivables of about $1.3 million at June 30. A related-party sale is a real sale and it is also a sale that has to be disclosed separately, and the reader sees both the relationship and the figure in the same note.
The most recent filings from the company in this window are the proxy statement of August 24, 2026, the Form 8-K of August 12 with the change of independent auditor, the Form 8-K of August 11 furnishing the updated investor presentation, and the Form 8-K of August 6 carrying the second-quarter shareholder letter. Around them sit a Schedule 13G/A of August 10, a Schedule 13G of July 30, and a group of Forms 4 and Forms 144 dated August 20 and 21.
The Forms 144 are notices of intended sale, not sales, and the Forms 4 are the record of what was actually done. The distinction matters because a Form 4 filed after an award vests and shares are withheld or sold to cover the associated tax describes the mechanics of a compensation plan rather than a decision about the company; a Form 144 describes an intention that may or may not be carried out. Neither is evidence about the business, and neither changes the share count in any way a reader needs to model: the count that matters is the one the company reports on a cover page, and the last one it reported is 49,956,505 shares on the record date of the October 5 meeting.
The auditor change is worth naming because it is a change and not a dispute. Salberg & Company was dismissed by the audit committee on August 12, 2026; its reports on the 2025 and 2024 financial statements carried no adverse opinion and no qualification as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles, and the filing states there were no disagreements. The same filing names the successor: the company engaged Ernst & Young LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2026, and the annual meeting asks the holders to ratify that selection. A company that changes auditor while scaling production is a company whose controls are under load, and the filing’s own words are the evidence available: what it says is that there was no disagreement.
The shareholder vote. The annual meeting is on October 5, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern, held virtually. Four proposals: the election of five directors for a one-year term — Dr. Allan Evans, Cristina A. Colón, Robert Lowry, Sanford Rich and Jeffrey Thompson — the ratification of the independent auditor, the approval of the warrant grant to the chief executive, and the adjournment of the meeting. The third is the one with a number attached, and the number is large: warrants for 5,000,000 shares at $25.00, expiring July 24, 2031, vesting in five equal tranches as the share price reaches $25.00, $40.00, $60.00, $80.00 and $100.00. The consideration the company discloses is that Dr. Evans agreed to waive all cash compensation after December 31, 2026. Five million shares against 49,956,505 outstanding is a tenth of the company, and the shareholders are being asked to approve it rather than being told about it.
The policy calendar. The page this rebuild replaces tracks a set of dated policy items on duties affecting unmanned aircraft systems, and this page does not report them: no filing in this window contains any duty or tariff figure, and the company’s risk factors are not reproduced in the documents held here either. What this page does is state the exposure in words — a manufacturer that imports components and sells into domestic programmes is exposed on both sides of a duty — and leave the percentages out rather than publish a number it cannot trace.
What is dated and documented is the corporate calendar: October 5 for the vote, and the Upgrade Energy transaction, whose agreement was signed on May 7, 2026 and whose closing the company targets during 2026.
The common stock trades on the NYSE American under UMAC. The reference price on this page is the September 18, 2026 close of $23.18, and the market capitalisation of about $1.16 billion is a Merlintrader calculation from that close and the 49,956,505 shares outstanding on the record date of the October 5 annual meeting; $1,157,991,786 before rounding. That count does not include the 1,792,012 shares to be issued for Upgrade Energy, nor any shares issued if the warrant grant to the chief executive is approved. The provider fields for ownership, short interest and consensus could not be read on September 21, 2026 and are not estimated here.
What to monitor. Four series, all of them in the filings and all of them quarterly. The first is the enterprise revenue line against the retail line: a business that grows production orders is a different company from one that sells a catalogue, and the mix is the evidence. The second is the gross margin, 34.7% this quarter, which says whether the production runs are being priced to make money. The third is general and administrative expense, $10.80 million in the quarter, which has to stop growing faster than the gross profit. The fourth is the inventory, $21.91 million plus $20.54 million prepaid, which is the money already spent and the best indicator of what the next two quarters will deliver.
Two events sit outside the quarterly rhythm and both are dated: the annual meeting of October 5, 2026, whose third proposal is the warrant grant and whose outcome changes the share count, and the closing of Upgrade Energy, which is targeted during 2026 and would add batteries and power systems to the product list.
A component manufacturer selling into programmes has a concentration problem by construction. The filings in this window do not publish a customer concentration figure, so this page does not assert one: what they publish is the related-party revenue, approximately $2.2 million from Teal Drones in the half, and the shape of the enterprise line, $14,330,372 in the quarter described by the company as the result of having started manufacturing production on certain products — a description of a handful of programmes rather than of a market.
The related-party item belongs in the same paragraph. Red Cat, whose chief executive sits on this company’s board, placed an order that was delivered during the half and that included several different drone components. The accounting treatment is ordinary — a sale is a sale — and the disclosure is what lets a reader judge it: the amount is inside the revenue line, the relationship is named, and the terms are subject to the company’s related-party procedures rather than to negotiation at arm’s length.
What a reader has to decide is whether a customer base that includes a related party and a small number of programme buyers is a pipeline or a dependency. The filings support both readings and resolve neither: they report the concentration and the related party, and they do not report the duration or the value of the contracts behind either.
The risks and red flags the filings support are these, each with its own number.
The loss is growing with the revenue. The loss from operations was $7,834,143 in the quarter against $7,190,473 a year earlier, and $15,093,130 in the half against $10,458,284. Revenue multiplied by seven and the operating loss grew by 9% in the quarter and 44% in the half: the ramp has not yet produced operating leverage.
General and administrative expense. $10,799,261 in the quarter against $7,195,193, which is 64.6% of revenue and nearly twice the gross profit of $5,802,134. This is the line that decides whether the scale-up is a margin story or a spending story.
Inventory and prepayments. $21,914,332 of inventories plus $20,543,732 of prepaid inventory is $42,458,064, a Merlintrader sum, against $24.8 million of half-year revenue. Some of it is in transit, some is in components, and all of it is cash already spent on a demand that has to arrive.
The funds came from shareholders. Financing activities provided $200,981,341 in the half, and operating activities consumed cash. The balance sheet is strong because equity was sold, and where the operating line does not turn, the next financing is the next dilution.
Concentration and a related party. The quarterly revenue comes from a small number of programme orders rather than from a broad base, and approximately $2.2 million of the half’s revenue came from Teal Drones, a subsidiary of Red Cat, whose chief executive is a director of this company. Both are disclosed and neither is a defect; both are reasons a single order moving can move a year.
The chief executive’s compensation. A grant of 5,000,000 warrants at $25.00 against 49,956,505 shares outstanding, partly in exchange for waiving cash salary from 2027. If the price targets are met the grant vests and the count grows; if they are not, the company has the same salary waiver and no grant.
The catalysts below are the dated or documented ones, and two of them have a date.
October 5, 2026 — the annual meeting. Four proposals, of which the third is the approval of the warrant grant to the chief executive for 5,000,000 shares at $25.00. The outcome changes the share count and it is decided by the holders.
During 2026 — the closing of Upgrade Energy. The definitive agreement was signed on May 7, 2026 for an estimated $52.0 million including 1,792,012 shares. On closing the company adds batteries and power systems to what it sells.
Undated — the third-quarter report. The second-quarter Form 10-Q was filed on August 6, 2026. The next set of accounts is the first place a new enterprise revenue figure, a new gross margin and a new expense line will appear.
Undated — the inventory turning. $21.9 million of inventories and $20.5 million of prepaid inventory are the leading indicator of revenue, and the pace at which they convert is the pace at which the company’s balance sheet stops carrying the ramp.
Not on this page — the duty calendar. The quick-nav of the page this rebuild replaces carries a set of dated duty items. No filing in this window carries any of those figures, so the page records the exposure in words and not the numbers.
The US$5 million Draganfly stake is a strategic investment in a customer, not revenue or a component order.
The Merlintrader bottom line is that Unusual Machines has crossed from a catalogue business to a component supplier without yet crossing from a loss to a profit. Revenue of $16,722,467 was seven times a year earlier, the enterprise line produced $14,330,372 of it, the gross margin was 34.7%, and the loss from operations was $7,834,143. On the other side of the balance sheet sit $316,372,225 of cash and investments, working capital of $363,690,799 and equity of $388,040,737, funded by $200,981,341 of financing activities during the half.
What the company has bought with that money is capacity: inventories of $21,914,332, prepaid inventory of $20,543,732, and the people and facilities behind an expense base of $13,636,276 a quarter. What it has not yet bought is the margin that makes those numbers work, and the gap between the two is $7.83 million a quarter and the honest description of where this company is.
The two things to watch are both dated. On October 5 the shareholders decide whether the chief executive’s 5,000,000 warrants are issued; during 2026 the company completes the purchase of Upgrade Energy for $52.0 million. Everything else that matters is in the next set of accounts: whether the enterprise line keeps growing, whether the gross margin holds, and whether general and administrative expense stops growing faster than the gross profit.
Every company figure quoted comes from the filings listed above, each with the date it was filed. The results for the quarter were announced in a shareholder letter furnished on Form 8-K, and the filed statement is the Form 10-Q of the same day: where the two could differ, this page uses the filed one. Items that appear in the quick-nav of the page this rebuild replaces but that no document in this window describes — XTEND, Altana and the duty items — are not reported rather than softened.
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