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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000947871-25-000215"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LIDR"
cik: "0001818644"
company_name: "AEye, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T09:23:49.400043+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AEye reports Q4 GAAP net loss $8.5M ($0.93/share); cash burn beat guidance at $4.8M

## Summary
- GAAP net loss Q4 2024 $(8.5)M, $(0.93) per share; Non-GAAP net loss $(6.3)M ($0.69 per share).
- Cash burn in Q4 was $4.8M, beating guidance of $4.9M; seventh consecutive quarter of beat.
- Cash and equivalents $22.3M as of Dec 31, 2024; raised $12.7M in early 2025, extending runway to mid-2026.
- FY2025 cash burn guidance of $25M, moderate increase to fund Apollo production ramp.
- Apollo product launched at CES; production of first Apollo B samples begun.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000947871-25-000215
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LIDR
- cik: 0001818644
- company_name: AEye, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1818644/000094787125000215/0000947871-25-000215-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1818644/000094787125000215/ss4476640_8k.htm

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