---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-045174"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SDST"
cik: "0001831979"
company_name: "Stardust Power Inc."
filed_at: "2024-11-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T01:04:22.078966+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stardust Power Q3 net loss widens to $10M; cash at $1.6M; zero debt

## Summary
- Net loss of $10.0M in Q3 2024, up from $0.8M year-over-year; loss per share $(0.22) vs $(0.02)
- Cash and equivalents $1.6M as of Sept 30, 2024; zero long-term debt
- Cash used in operations $8.5M YTD, vs $1.6M a year ago, driven by public-company expenses and pre-refinery investments
- Appointed Paramita Das as Chief Strategy Officer and Adam Johnson as Chief Commercial Officer
- Entered $50M common stock purchase agreement with B. Riley and 90-day exclusivity with KMX Technologies for lithium brine concentration tech

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-045174
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SDST
- cik: 0001831979
- company_name: Stardust Power Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-11-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- 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/1831979/000149315224045174/0001493152-24-045174-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1831979/000149315224045174/form8-k.htm

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