PCTPureCycle Technologies, Inc.
Is PureCycle Technologies struggling financially?
Yes, by its own account. PureCycle Technologies told the SEC on 26 Feb 2026, in Form 10-K, that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
Going concern disclosed Feb 2026
30/100
Fragile
- Sector
- Industrial/Cyclical
- Market cap
- $1.4B
- Source filing
- 10-K 26 Feb 2026
- Balance sheet
- 30 Jun 2026
Cash runway
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9months
If the burn speeds up
Empty by Mar 2027
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13months
If it eases off
Empty by Jul 2027
Both rows are the same reported burn flexed 15% either way, and neither assumes the company raises a cent.
Out of cashTwo years or more
The runway math
Cash and short-term investments
$165.2M
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Cash burned over the last 12 months
$183.6M
What PureCycle Technologies told the SEC
…raise and/or project financing. The Series B Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock funding has led management to conclude that the previously disclosed substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a twelve-month period following the date that these financial statements were available to be issued is no longer present. Our current financial projections support our ability to…
PureCycle Technologies, Inc., Form 10-K, filed 26 Feb 2026.
Read the filing on SEC.govWhat this means
- Not a bankruptcy filing, and not a prediction.
- It is the company’s own statement, agreed with its auditor, that the doubt is material enough to disclose.
- The runway is arithmetic on two reported numbers, not a forecast. Companies carry this language for years, raise money and keep going.
What else the numbers show
- Cash burn is narrowing It is spending 48% less cash per year than it was, so the runway above is lengthening rather than shortening.
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