QBTS Builds Early 2026 Momentum on Bookings, Deals and Acquisition

D-Wave Quantum enters 2026 with surging bookings, major deals and a strategic acquisition as it accelerates quantum capabilities and expands its market reach.

D-Wave Quantum QBTS, or D-Wave, moved into 2026 after marking one of its strongest years in recent history. The quantum computing company delivered strong growth across key business metrics, including a 179% year-over-year increase in fiscal 2025 revenues. The general availability of the Advantage2 system, an energy-efficient annealing quantum computer capable of solving computationally complex problems beyond the reach of classical computers, expanded the sales opportunity pipeline by nearly 1,500% year over year.

Momentum has started off early, as in January alone, the company completed a $20 million system sale with Florida Atlantic University and signed a two-year, $10 million enterprise Quantum Compute as a Service (“QCaaS”) agreement with a Fortune 100 company — one of the largest enterprise deals in the industry. These developments resulted in Bookings of $32.8 million, surpassing the full fiscal 2025 figure.

D-Wave acquired Quantum Circuits, which is expected to significantly accelerate the time to a scaled, error-corrected gate-model quantum computer, alongside and complementary to its commercial annealing quantum computing systems. The company also demonstrated that the on-chip cryogenic control currently being used in its Advantage quantum computers can be used to control gate-model qubits without loss of fidelity, marking an industry-first milestone.

Several annealing quantum computing product enhancements were introduced that further extend the capabilities of the Advantage2 system. These include the Stridehybrid solver software, multicolor annealing and fast-reverse anneal capabilities.

D-Wave also teamed up with Anduril and Davidson to develop quantum-classical hybrid applications for complex U.S. air and missile defense planning challenges. An initial proof-of-concept project showed nearly 10 times faster time-to-solution and improved threat mitigation compared to classical-only methods. Management pointed to potential U.S. government applications across both its annealing and gate-model platforms.

QBTS’ Peer Updates

Rigetti Computing, Inc. RGTI has announced the general availability of its 108-qubit quantum computing system, Cepheus-1-108Q. It is now accessible to customers and partners via the Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services Platform and Amazon $AMZN Braket, the quantum computing service by AWS. Rigetti is releasing Cepheus-1-108Q now in response to growing customer interest and will continue to improve the system performance throughout 2026 as it advances on its roadmap.

IBM $IBM IBM recently announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to develop new dual-architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data-intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability and security. The collaboration brings together IBM's enterprise leadership in systems reliability, security and scalability with Arm's capabilities in power-efficient architecture, workload enablement expertise and broad software ecosystem.

QBTS’ Price Performance, Valuation & Estimates

Over the past year, QBTS shares have surged 111.9% against the industry’s 2% decline.

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Based on forward Price/Sales (P/S), D-Wave is trading at 93.34X over the last five years, significantly above its median and industry average.

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The Zacks Consensus Estimate for D-Wave’s 2026 and 2027 loss per share has significantly increased in the past 30 days.

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D-Wave currently carries a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell).

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