{
  "id": 15997260,
  "title": "Where Will D-Wave Quantum Stock Be in 5 Years?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/where-will-d-wave-quantum-stock-be-in-5-years",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-22T04:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Motley Fool",
    "slug": "motley-fool",
    "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/10/22/where-will-d-wave-quantum-stock-be-in-5-years/?source=iedfolrf0000001"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "D-Wave, a quantum computing company, currently boasts a valuation that suggests significant future growth. However, sales remain modest at $3.1 million per quarter, and the company has yet to generate profits. Its approach to quantum computing, quantum annealing, has provided real-world results, but it is considered less promising than other methods with higher long-term potential. D-Wave is exploring a different quantum computing strategy, gate-based, following its acquisition of Quantum Circuits. The company does have a substantial backlog of $40.7 million and a healthy cash reserve of $546.2 million. In five years, D-Wave stock could potentially be worth less than today, around $850 million at 10 times sales, given the challenges of scaling a quantum computing business and the current skepticism about its growth prospects.",
  "summary": "D-Wave has paying customers and promising technology. But its stock price may demand more growth than the business can deliver.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}