8-K
DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. (DUOT)
UNITED STATESSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the SecuritiesExchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 31, 2026
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Duos Technologies Group, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in itscharter)
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| Florida | 001-39227 | 65-0493217 |
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| (State or Other Jurisdiction | (Commission | (I.R.S. Employer |
| of Incorporation) | File Number) | Identification No.) |
7660 Centurion Parkway, Suite 100, Jacksonville,Florida 32256
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (ZipCode)
(904) 296-2807
(Registrant’s telephone number, includingarea code)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
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| Common Stock (par value $0.001 per share) | DUOT | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
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Item 2.02. Resultsof Operations and Financial Condition.
On March 31, 2026, Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing the financial and operating results of the Company for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025. The text of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
Additionally, on March 31, 2026, the Company held an earnings call open to the public (the “Earnings Call”). Mr. Doug Recker, the Company’s President, and Ms. Leah Brown, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, discussed the financial and operating results of the Company for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025. The transcript of the Earnings Call is furnished as Exhibit 99.2 and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 7.01.Regulation FD Disclosure.
The information set forth in Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 7.01.
The information in Item 2.02 and Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
The press release and transcript of the Earnings Call may also be found on our website at https://ir.duostechnologies.com/
Forward-Looking Statements
This Current Report on Form 8-K includes forward-looking statements regarding the Company's financial results and estimates and business prospects that involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Forward-looking statements relate to future events and typically address the Company's expected future business and financial performance. The forward-looking statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K relate to, among other things, information regarding anticipated timing for the installation, development and delivery dates of our systems; anticipated entry into additional contracts; anticipated effects of macro-economic factors (including effects relating to supply chain disruptions and inflation); timing with respect to revenue recognition; trends in the rate at which our costs increase relative to increases in our revenue; anticipated reductions in costs due to changes in the Company's organizational structure; potential increases in revenue, including increases in recurring revenue; potential changes in gross margin (including the timing thereof); statements regarding our backlog and potential revenues deriving therefrom; and statements about future profitability and potential growth of the Company. Words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "should," "plan," "aim," "will," "may," "should," "could," "intend," "estimate," "project," "forecast," "target," "potential" and other words and terms of similar meaning, typically identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and there are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the Company's ability to generate sufficient cash to expand operations, the competitive environment generally and in the Company's specific market areas, changes in technology, the availability of and the terms of financing, changes in costs and availability of goods and services, economic conditions in general and in the Company's specific market areas, changes in federal, state and/or local government laws and regulations potentially affecting the use of the Company's technology, changes in operating strategy or development plans and the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel. The Company cautions that the foregoing list of risks, uncertainties and factors is not exclusive. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors is contained in the Company's most recently filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other filings filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which are available at the SEC's website, http://www.sec.gov. The Company believes its plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions. No assurance, however, can be given that the Company will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations. Indeed, it is likely that some of the Company's assumptions may prove to be incorrect. The Company's actual results and financial position may vary from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements and the variances may be material. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular statement. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any forward-looking statement is based, except as required by law.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description of Exhibit |
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| 99.1 | Press Release, dated March 31, 2026 |
| 99.2 | Transcript of Earnings Call with Mr. Doug<br> Recker and Ms. Leah Brown, dated March 31, 2026 |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File<br> (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
| DUOS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. | ||
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| Dated: April 2, 2026 | By: | /s/ Leah F. Brown |
| Leah F. Brown<br><br><br><br>Chief Financial Officer |
Exhibit 99.1
DuosTechnologies Reports Record 2025 Results, Driving Momentum in AI and Edge Infrastructure
Achieves270% revenue growth, raises $110 million, launches GPUaaS and high-density EDCs, and expands Technology Solutions to support scalable2026 growth
JACKSONVILLE,FL / Globe Newswire / March 31, 2026 - Duos TechnologiesGroup, Inc. (“Duos” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: DUOT), a provider of modular, colocation Edge and AI data centers and technology infrastructure solutions, reported financial results for the fourth quarter (“Q4 2025”) and the year ended December 31, 2025. The Company delivered record annual revenue and marked a pivotal year of transformation, driven by rapid expansion of its Edge Data Center platform, entry into high-density AI infrastructure, and the launch of GPU-as-a-Service (“GPUaaS”) and Technology Solutions. Supported by significant capital raises and accelerating customer demand, Duos enters 2026 with strong momentum and a growing pipeline of opportunities across AI, hyperscale, and enterprise markets.
FourthQuarter 2025 and Recent Operational Highlights
| · | Generated<br> $9.46 million in fourth quarter revenue, including $9.08 million in services revenue, of<br> which $8.53 million was derived from the Asset Management Agreement (“AMA”) with<br> New APR Energy |
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| · | Achieved<br> record full-year 2025 revenue of approximately $27 million, representing more than 270% year-over-year<br> growth and marking the highest annual revenue in the Company’s history |
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| · | Delivered<br> strong operational momentum, with sequential quarterly revenue growth exceeding 37% and continued<br> improvement in gross margins driven by enhanced execution and operating efficiencies |
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| · | Completed<br> a $45 million capital raise in July 2025 and an additional $65 million capital raise in March<br> 2026, significantly strengthening the Company’s balance sheet and providing capital<br> to accelerate deployment of its Edge Data Center (“EDC”) platform and high-performance<br> compute infrastructure |
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| · | Successfully<br> deployed 15 Edge Data Center pods, achieving a key strategic milestone and demonstrating<br> the Company’s ability to rapidly design, manufacture, and deploy modular infrastructure<br> in underserved Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets |
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| · | Expanded<br> into high-density data center deployments, including a 4.8MW high-power EDC configuration<br> designed to support hyperscaler and AI-driven workloads, positioning the Company to address<br> growing demand for large-scale compute capacity |
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| · | Launched<br> GPU-as-a-Service and high-power colocation offerings, including a contract to deploy 2,304<br> NVIDIA GPUs across the Company’s EDC platform, expected to generate significant recurring<br> revenue over a multi-year term and deliver strong margin contribution |
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| · | Established<br> Duos Technologies Solutions, Inc., a new infrastructure solutions business focused on manufacturer-agnostic<br> sourcing, logistics coordination, and fulfillment services for data center and IT environments.<br> The division has already generated approximately $10 million in new backlog within its first<br> quarter of operations, highlighting strong market demand and early commercial traction |
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| · | Advanced<br> strategic transition to a data center-focused platform, with increased emphasis on Duos Edge<br> AI and Technology Solutions as primary growth drivers, while initiating the planned divestiture<br> of the legacy rail inspection business to streamline operations and reallocate resources<br> toward higher-growth opportunities |
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| · | Continued<br> expansion of the Company’s Edge Data Center pipeline, with additional units in production<br> and plans to scale capacity to support increasing demand for AI inference, training, and<br> high-performance computing workloads |
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FourthQuarter 2025 Financial Results
Itshould be noted that the following Financial Results represent the consolidation of the Company with its subsidiaries Duos Technologies,Duos Edge AI, Inc., and Duos Energy Corporation (“Duos Energy”).
Totalrevenues for Q4 2025 increased 548% to $9.46 million compared to $1.46 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 (“Q4 2024”). Total revenue for Q4 2025 represents an aggregate of approximately $10,000 of technology systems revenue, $343,000 of technology solutions revenue and approximately $9.12 million in recurring services and consulting and hosting revenue. The significant revenue increase in the fourth quarter, compared to the same quarter last year, was primarily driven by Duos Energy executing against the AMA with New APR that was signed on December 31, 2024. Under the AMA, Duos Energy oversees the deployment and operations of a fleet of mobile gas turbines and related balance-of-plant inventory, providing management, sales, and operational support services to New APR. Other revenue sources included the start of hosting revenues for its edge data centers and limited progress of two Railcar Inspection Portals (“RIP®”) currently being developed for Amtrak.
Costof revenues for Q4 2025 increased 287% to $6.93 million compared to $1.79 million for Q4 2024. The significant increase in cost of revenues was primarily due to supporting the AMA with New APR. The cost of revenues on technology systems decreased compared to the equivalent period in 2024. This reduction is primarily driven by our ability in Q4 2025 to reallocate certain fixed operating and servicing costs for technology systems to support the AMA, an allocation we could not make in the comparative period because the agreement was not yet in effect. It also reflects the limited manufacturing progress ahead of field installation of our two high-speed RIP®s while we await customer readiness for site deployment.
Grossmargin for Q4 2025 increased $2.86 million to $2.53 million compared to negative $330,000 for Q4 2024. Gross margin improved primarily due to Duos Energy’s performance of the AMA with New APR. This also includes $904,125 in revenue recognized during the three months ended December 31, 2025, related to the Company's 5% non-voting equity interest in the ultimate parent of New APR, which carries no associated costs and therefore contributes at a 100% margin. These revenues and the associated margin contribution were not present in the prior year period.
Operatingexpenses for Q4 2025 increased 116% to $5.95 million compared to $2.76 million for Q4 2024. The increase in expenses is largely attributed to non-cash stock-based compensation charged for restricted stock granted to the executive team on January 1, 2025, under new employment agreements with a three-year cliff vesting schedule as well as one-time incremental personnel-related costs that were not in the comparative period. Overall, sales and marketing costs declined as resources were allocated to costs of service and consulting revenues in support of the AMA with New APR. Additionally, research and development expenses fell by 100% owing to scaled-back testing of prospective technologies. The Company continues to focus on stabilizing operating expenses, including evaluating reductions in some areas, while continuing to meet the increased requirements of our new businesses.
Netoperating loss for Q4 2025 totaled $3.42 million compared to net operating loss of $3.09 million for Q4 2024. The slight increase in loss from operations was primarily the result of increased revenues during the quarter, driven by revenue generated by Duos Energy through the AMA with New APR, offset by non-cash stock-based compensation charged for restricted stock and one-time incremental personnel-related costs that were not in the comparative period.
Netloss for Q4 2025 totaled $3.20 million compared to net loss of $3.41 million for Q4 2024. The 6% decrease in net loss was mostly attributed to the non-cash stock-based compensation charged for restricted stock and one-time compensation expenses that were not in the comparative period, offset by an increase in revenues generated by Duos Energy through the AMA with New APR as described above. Net loss per common share was $0.15 and $0.41 for the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
Cashand cash equivalents at December 31, 2025 totaled $15.47 million compared to $6.27 million at December 31, 2024. In addition, the Company had over $6.81 million in receivables and contract assets for a total of approximately $22.28 million in cash and expected short-term liquidity.
FullYear 2025 Financial Results
Totalrevenue for the full year 2025, increased 271% to $27.02 million from $7.28 million in 2024. Total revenue for the full year 2025 represents an aggregate of approximately $370,000 of technology systems revenue, $350,000 of technology solutions revenue and approximately $26.3 million in recurring services and consulting revenue. The significant revenue increase in the period, compared to the prior year, was primarily driven by Duos Energy executing against the AMA with New APR originally signed on December 31, 2024. The decrease in technology systems’ revenues was primarily attributed to delays outside of the Company’s control with deployment of our two high-speed Railcar Inspection Portals. Although these systems remain largely ready for deployment, customer delays at the deployment site continue to prevent the Company from entering the installation phase. The Company has begun recognizing its first revenues from the Technology Solutions business unit, which provides manufacturer-agnostic infrastructure sourcing, integration, and value-added supply chain services supporting data center, AI, and enterprise deployments. The Company is now recording its first revenues from the deployment of Edge Data Centers and identified as “Hosting”. The $56,000 of revenues recorded in the year 2025 represent those received from the first data center which became “live” in the second quarter. The Company is investing capital in building out a network of these data centers all of which will begin generating revenue following deployment with the “anchor” tenant. The Company expects services revenue from both its hosting and technology solutions to increase throughout 2026. This growth is expected to be driven by the deployment of additional edge data centers coming online, as well as expanding technology solutions revenue tied to growth in the data center market.
Costof revenues for the full year 2025, increased 181% to $19.15 million from $6.81 million in 2024. The significant increase in cost of revenues was primarily due to supporting the AMA with New APR. The cost of revenues on technology systems decreased compared to 2024. This reduction is primarily driven by our ability in the period to reallocate certain fixed operating and servicing costs for technology systems to support the AMA, an allocation we could not make in the comparative period because the agreement was not yet in effect. It also reflects the ramp-down of manufacturing ahead of field installation of our two high-speed RIP®s, which have continued to temporarily slow project activity and further reduce cost of revenues while we await customer readiness for site deployment.
Grossmargin for the full year 2025, increased 1,579% to $7.88 million from $469,00 in 2024. Gross margin improved primarily due to Duos Energy’s performance of the AMA with New APR. This includes $3,616,500 in revenue recognized during the period, related to the Company's 5% non-voting equity interest in the ultimate parent of New APR, which carried no associated costs and therefore contributed at a 100% margin. These revenues and the associated margin contribution were not present in the prior year.
Operatingexpenses for the full year 2025, increased 54% to $17.64 million from $11.45 million in 2024. The Company experienced a significant increase in overall operating expenses compared to 2024. Sales and marketing costs declined as resources were allocated to costs of service and consulting revenues in support of the AMA with New APR. Additionally, research and development expenses fell by 45% owing to scaled-back testing of prospective technologies. General and administration costs increased 100%, largely due to non-cash stock-based compensation charged for restricted stock granted to the executive team on January 1, 2025, under new employment agreements with a three-year cliff vesting schedule as well as one time compensation costs related to the closing of the AMA and 5% ownership agreements as previously described. Additionally, there were general and administration costs that were allocated to cost of service and consulting revenues in support of the AMA with New APR. Overall, the Company continues to focus on stabilizing operating expenses while meeting the increased needs of our customers.
Netoperating loss totaled $9.76 million compared to net operating loss of $10.98 million in 2024. The decrease in loss from operations was primarily the result of increased revenues during the period, driven by revenue generated by Duos Energy through the AMA with New APR.
Netloss totaled $9.84 million compared to a net loss of $10.76 million in 2024. The 9% decrease in net loss was mostly attributed to the increase in revenues generated by Duos Energy through the AMA with New APR as described above. Net loss per common share was $0.64 and $1.39 for the years ended December 31, 2025, and 2024, respectively, an improvement of $0.75 per share (basic).
FinancialOutlook
At the end of 2025, the Company’s contracts in backlog represented approximately $25.8 million in revenue, of which approximately $12.4 million is expected to be recognized during the year, including contracted backlog and near-term anticipated awards. In addition, approximately $1 million of contracted Technology Solutions revenue recorded in 2025 will be recorded as revenue in 2026, further supporting near-term performance.
Based on these committed contracts and near-term pending orders that are already performing or scheduled to be executed throughout the course of 2026, the Company expects total revenue for 2026 to exceed $50 million. A significant portion of this revenue is anticipated to be recognized in the second half of the year, aligned with project timing and infrastructure deployments, supporting continued operating leverage and progression toward the Company growth strategy.
ManagementCommentary
“2025 marked a pivotal year for Duos as we scaled our platform and firmly positioned the Company at the intersection of AI compute and edge infrastructure,” said Doug Recker. “With a $65 million capital raise, the launch of our GPU-as-a-Service offering, and the deployment of high-density infrastructure supporting hyperscale workloads, we are addressing a clear and growing shortage of power and compute capacity across the market. Demand continues to accelerate from enterprises, neo-cloud, and hyperscale customers, particularly for megawatt-scale solutions, and we are focused on expanding our high-density footprint, increasing recurring revenue, and executing on a pipeline of opportunities that we believe will drive meaningful growth and long-term shareholder value.”
ConferenceCall
The Company’s management will host a conference call today, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss these results, followed by a question-and-answer period.
Date: Tuesday,March 31, 2026
Time: 4:30p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time)
U.S.dial-in: +1 877 407 3088
International: Dial-In Matrix Link
Confirmation: 13759531
If you experience any difficulty accessing the call or wish to submit questions in advance, please contact the Company at DUOT@duostech.com. A live audio webcast of the call will also be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website, along with a replay following the event.
For additional information about the Company, please visit: www.duostechnologies.com | www.duosedge.ai.
About Duos Technologies Group, Inc.
Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DUOT), based in Jacksonville, Florida, is focused on providing and managing modular data center colocation facilities and infrastructure solutions. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries Duos Edge AI, Inc., and Duos Technology Solutions, Inc. the Company delivers high function computing infrastructure at the “Edge” designed to support high power computing facilities suitable for AI and Enterprise Computing. Duos is strategically focused on scaling its edge data center platforms in conjunction with its data center infrastructure solutions business. It provides manufacturer-agnostic sourcing, and fulfillment services to support efficient deployment of data centers and IT environments. Together, these platforms position the Company to address the growing demand for distributed digital infrastructure, while continuing to support legacy applications in Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets.
For more information, visit www.duostech.com and www.duosedge.ai.
Forward-Looking Statements
Thisnews release includes forward-looking statements regarding the Company's financial results and estimates and business prospects thatinvolve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Forward-looking statements relate tofuture events and typically address the Company's expected future business and financial performance. The forward-looking statementsin this news release relate to, among other things, information regarding anticipated timing for the installation, development and deliverydates of our systems; anticipated entry into additional contracts; anticipated effects of macro-economic factors (including effects relatingto supply chain disruptions and inflation); timing with respect to revenue recognition; trends in the rate at which our costs increaserelative to increases in our revenue; anticipated reductions in costs due to changes in the Company's organizational structure; potentialincreases in revenue, including increases in recurring revenue; potential changes in gross margin (including the timing thereof); statementsregarding our backlog and potential revenues deriving therefrom; and statements about future profitability and potential growth of theCompany. Words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "should," "plan," "aim,""will," "may," "should," "could," "intend," "estimate," "project,""forecast," "target," "potential" and other words and terms of similar meaning, typically identify suchforward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and there are important factors that could causeactual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include, but arenot limited to, the Company's ability to generate sufficient cash to expand operations, the competitive environment generally and inthe Company's specific market areas, changes in technology, the availability of and the terms of financing, changes in costs and availabilityof goods and services, economic conditions in general and in the Company's specific market areas, changes in federal, state and/or localgovernment laws and regulations potentially affecting the use of the Company's technology, changes in operating strategy or developmentplans and the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel. The Company cautions that the foregoing list of risks, uncertaintiesand factors is not exclusive. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors is contained in the Company's most recentlyfiled Annual Reports on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other filings filedby the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which are available at the SEC's website, http://www.sec.gov.The Company believes its plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are based onreasonable assumptions. No assurance, however, can be given that the Company will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations.Indeed, it is likely that some of the Company's assumptions may prove to be incorrect. The Company's actual results and financial positionmay vary from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements and the variances may be material. Each forward-looking statementspeaks only as of the date of the particular statement. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publiclyany updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditionsor circumstances on which any forward-looking statement is based, except as required by law. All subsequent written and oral forward-lookingstatements concerning the Company or other matters attributable to the Company or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualifiedin their entirety by the cautionary statements above.
Contacts
Corporate
Fei Kwong
VP, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DUOT)
+1.904.652.1625
| DUOT@duostech.com
DUOSTECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATEDSTATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
| For the Years Ended<br> December 31, | ||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | |||||
| REVENUES: | ||||||
| Technology systems | $ | 373,270 | $ | 2,252,357 | ||
| Technology solutions | 349,166 | — | ||||
| Services and consulting | 3,888,372 | 4,106,966 | ||||
| Services and consulting - related parties | 22,356,843 | 921,562 | ||||
| Hosting Revenue | 56,000 | — | ||||
| Total Revenues | 27,023,651 | 7,280,885 | ||||
| COST OF REVENUES: | ||||||
| Technology systems | 1,050,671 | 2,818,078 | ||||
| Technology solutions | 320,143 | — | ||||
| Services and consulting | 2,320,444 | 3,051,301 | ||||
| Services and consulting - related parties | 15,297,513 | 942,291 | ||||
| Hosting | 157,171 | — | ||||
| Total Cost of Revenues | 19,145,942 | 6,811,670 | ||||
| GROSS MARGIN | 7,877,709 | 469,215 | ||||
| OPERATING EXPENSES: | ||||||
| Sales and marketing | 1,227,740 | 2,138,431 | ||||
| Research and development | 846,850 | 1,531,390 | ||||
| General and administration | 15,565,997 | 7,782,920 | ||||
| Total Operating Expenses | 17,640,587 | 11,452,741 | ||||
| LOSS FROM OPERATIONS | (9,762,878 | ) | (10,983,526 | ) | ||
| OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES): | ||||||
| Interest expense | (439,261 | ) | (286,114 | ) | ||
| Change in fair value of warrant liabilities | — | 245,980 | ||||
| Gain (Loss) on extinguishment of debt | (95,718 | ) | 379,626 | |||
| Interest income on lease receivable | 8,466 | — | ||||
| Interest income | 446,941 | 37,224 | ||||
| Other Income (Expenses), net | 7,419 | (157,647 | ) | |||
| Total Other Income (Expenses), net | (72,153 | ) | 219,069 | |||
| NET LOSS | $ | (9,835,031 | ) | $ | (10,764,457 | ) |
| Basic and Diluted Net Loss Per Share | $ | (0.64 | ) | $ | (1.39 | ) |
| Weighted Average Shares-Basic and Diluted | 15,265,022 | 7,736,281 |
DUOSTECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATEDBALANCE SHEETS
| December 31, | |||||
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| 2024 | |||||
| ASSETS | |||||
| CURRENT ASSETS: | |||||
| Cash | 15,472,229 | $ | 6,266,296 | ||
| Accounts receivable, net | 730,211 | 109,007 | |||
| Accounts receivable, net - related parties | 5,304,231 | 294,434 | |||
| Lease receivable | 35,361 | — | |||
| Contract assets | 741,722 | 635,774 | |||
| Inventory | 306,759 | 605,356 | |||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 489,071 | 176,338 | |||
| Total Current Assets | 23,079,584 | 8,087,205 | |||
| Inventory - non current, net | 391,770 | 196,315 | |||
| Lease receivable, less current portion | 227,629 | — | |||
| Property and equipment, net | 27,737,806 | 2,771,779 | |||
| Operating lease right of use asset - Office Lease, net | 3,650,717 | 4,028,397 | |||
| Financing lease right of use asset - Edge Data Centers, net | — | 2,019,180 | |||
| Operating lease right of use asset - Land, net | 357,561 | — | |||
| Security deposit | 450,000 | 500,000 | |||
| OTHER ASSETS: | |||||
| Equity Investment - Sawgrass APR Holdings LLC | 7,233,000 | 7,233,000 | |||
| Intangible Asset, net | — | 9,592,118 | |||
| Note Receivable, net | — | — | |||
| Patents and trademarks, net | 186,073 | 127,300 | |||
| Software development costs, net | 95,275 | 403,383 | |||
| Total Other Assets | 7,514,348 | 17,355,801 | |||
| TOTAL ASSETS | 63,409,415 | $ | 34,958,677 | ||
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY | |||||
| CURRENT LIABILITIES: | |||||
| Accounts payable | 4,860,782 | $ | 969,822 | ||
| Notes payable - financing agreements | 2,041 | 17,072 | |||
| Accrued expenses | 306,205 | 373,251 | |||
| Operating lease obligation - Office Lease -current portion | 818,519 | 798,556 | |||
| Financing lease obligations - Edge Data Centers - current portion | — | 367,451 | |||
| Operating lease obligation- Land - current portion | 53,000 | — | |||
| Notes payable, net of discount - related parties | — | 1,758,396 | |||
| Contract liabilities, current - Technology Systems | 134,331 | 403,634 | |||
| Contract liabilities, current - Technology Solutions | 1,132,164 | — | |||
| Contract liabilities, current - CN Digital Agreement | — | 2,192,484 | |||
| Contract liabilities, current - Services and consulting | 169,369 | 592,400 | |||
| Contract liabilities, current - related parties | 3,616,500 | 8,616,500 | |||
| Total Current Liabilities | 11,092,911 | 16,089,566 | |||
| Contract liabilities, less current portion - CN Digital Agreement | — | 7,399,634 | |||
| Contract liabilities, less current portion - related parties | — | 3,616,500 | |||
| Operating lease obligation - Office Lease, less current portion | 3,452,481 | 3,867,042 | |||
| Operating lease obligation - Land, less current portion | 311,457 | — | |||
| Financing lease obligations - Edge Data Centers, less current portion | — | 1,724,604 | |||
| Total Liabilities | 14,856,849 | 32,697,346 | |||
| Commitments and Contingencies (Note 13) | |||||
| STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY: | |||||
| Preferred stock: 0.001 par value, 10,000,000 authorized, 9,441,000 shares available to be designated | |||||
| Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock, 10 stated value per share, 500,000 shares designated; 0 and 0 issued and outstanding at December 31, 025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, convertible into common stock at 6.30 per share | — | — | |||
| Series B convertible preferred stock, 1,000 stated value per share, 15,000 shares designated; 0 and 0 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, convertible into common stock at 7 per share | — | — | |||
| Series C convertible preferred stock, 1,000 stated value per share, 5,000 shares designated; 0 and 0 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, convertible into common stock at 5.50 per share | — | — | |||
| Series D convertible preferred stock, 1,000 stated value per share, 4,000 shares designated; 999 and 1,299 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, convertible into common stock at 3.00 per share | 1 | 1 | |||
| Series E convertible preferred stock, 1,000 stated value per share, 30,000 shares designated; 12,500 and 13,500 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, convertible into common stock at 2.61 per share | 13 | 14 | |||
| Series F convertible preferred stock, 1,000 stated value per share, 5,000 shares designated; 0 and 0 issued and outstanding at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, convertible into common stock at 6.20 per share | — | — | |||
| Common stock: 0.001 par value; 500,000,000 shares authorized, 20,449,462 and 8,922,576 shares issued, 20,448,138 and 8,921,252 shares outstanding at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively | 20,449 | 8,921 | |||
| Additional paid-in-capital | 132,892,595 | 76,777,856 | |||
| Accumulated deficit | (84,203,040 | ) | (74,368,009 | ) | |
| Sub-total | 48,710,018 | 2,418,783 | |||
| Less: Treasury stock (1,324 shares of common stock at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024) | (157,452 | ) | (157,452 | ) | |
| Total Stockholders' Equity | 48,552,566 | 2,261,331 | |||
| Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity | 63,409,415 | $ | 34,958,677 |
All values are in US Dollars.
DUOSTECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATEDSTATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
| For the Years Ended | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, | ||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||
| Cash from operating activities: | ||||||
| Net loss | $ | (9,835,031 | ) | $ | (10,764,457 | ) |
| Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | ||||||
| Impairment of property, plant & equipment | 72,872 | — | ||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 2,112,197 | 2,161,722 | ||||
| Inventory write-off | 25,000 | 126,703 | ||||
| Insurance premium credit | (36,040 | ) | — | |||
| Stock based compensation | 4,064,389 | 108,981 | ||||
| Stock issued for services | 566,398 | 165,000 | ||||
| Amortization of debt discount related to warrant liabilities | 345,886 | 184,002 | ||||
| Fair value of warrant liabilities | — | (245,980 | ) | |||
| Loss on extinguishment of debt | 95,718 | (379,626 | ) | |||
| Amortization of operating lease right of use asset - Office Lease | 377,680 | 344,757 | ||||
| Amortization of right of use asset - land | 6,962 | — | ||||
| Amortization of lease right of use asset - Edge Data Centers | 150,821 | 50,820 | ||||
| Provision for credit losses, accounts receivable | — | 76,037 | ||||
| Provision for credit losses, note receivable | — | 161,250 | ||||
| Changes in assets and liabilities: | ||||||
| Accounts receivable | (621,204 | ) | 982,985 | |||
| Accounts receivable-related<br> parties | (5,009,797 | ) | — | |||
| Lease receivable | 19,782 | — | ||||
| Note receivable | — | (7,500 | ) | |||
| Contract assets | (105,948 | ) | 6,173 | |||
| Inventory | 28,534 | 52,700 | ||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 164,994 | 414,091 | ||||
| Accounts payable | 3,890,960 | 374,188 | ||||
| Security deposit | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||
| Accrued expenses | (67,049 | ) | 209,138 | |||
| Operating lease obligation - Office Lease | (394,598 | ) | (342,206 | ) | ||
| Operating lease obligation - land | (66 | ) | — | |||
| Financing lease obligations - Edge Data Centers | (12,358 | ) | 22,055 | |||
| Contract liabilities, Services and Consulting | (423,031 | ) | (661,048 | ) | ||
| Contract liabilities, Technology Systems | (269,302 | ) | 4,044,701 | |||
| Contract liabilities, CN Digital Agreement | (1,461,656 | ) | (623,173 | ) | ||
| Contract liabilities, Technology solutions | 1,132,164 | — | ||||
| Contract liabilities, related parties | (8,616,500 | ) | — | |||
| Net cash used in operating activities | (13,748,223 | ) | (3,488,687 | ) | ||
| Cash flows from investing activities: | ||||||
| Purchase of patents/trademarks | (71,572 | ) | (9,535 | ) | ||
| Purchase of property and equipment | (23,663,033 | ) | (1,831,763 | ) | ||
| Net cash used in investing activities | (23,734,605 | ) | (1,841,298 | ) | ||
| Cash flows from financing activities: | ||||||
| Repayments on financing agreements | (456,718 | ) | (430,855 | ) | ||
| Proceeds from notes payable, related parties | — | 2,200,000 | ||||
| Repayments of lease financing | (2,150,000 | ) | — | |||
| Repayments of notes payable, related parties | (2,200,000 | ) | — | |||
| Proceeds from warrant exercises | — | 899,521 | ||||
| Proceeds from common stock issued | 53,960,455 | 3,544,689 | ||||
| Proceeds from exercise of stock options | 865,948 | — | ||||
| Stock issuance costs | (3,584,925 | ) | (220,183 | ) | ||
| Proceeds from shares issued under Employee Stock Purchase Plan | 254,001 | 166,265 | ||||
| Proceeds from preferred stock issued | — | 2,995,002 | ||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | 46,688,761 | 9,154,439 | ||||
| Net increase (decrease) in cash | 9,205,933 | 3,824,454 | ||||
| Cash, beginning of year | 6,266,296 | 2,441,842 | ||||
| Cash, end of year | $ | 15,472,229 | $ | 6,266,296 | ||
| Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information: | ||||||
| Interest paid | $ | 282,826 | $ | 3,865 | ||
| Taxes paid | $ | 91,457 | $ | 20,126 | ||
| Supplemental Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities: | ||||||
| Debt discount for warrant liability | $ | — | $ | 625,606 | ||
| Notes issued for financing of insurance premiums | $ | 477,727 | $ | 434,882 | ||
| Transfer of inventory to property and equipment | $ | 49,609 | $ | 545,091 | ||
| Intangible asset acquired with contract liability | $ | — | $ | 11,161,428 | ||
| Non-cash intangible write-off | $ | 8,130,461 | $ | — | ||
| Equity Investment - Sawgrass APR Holdings LLC | $ | — | $ | 7,233,000 | ||
| Right of use asset and liability for Edge Data Centers | $ | — | $ | 2,070,000 | ||
| Transfer of property and equipment to lease receivable | $ | 282,772 | $ | — | ||
| Non-cash financing activity: Warrants issued as part of equity raise | $ | 836,989 | $ | — | ||
| Conversion of Series E Preferred Stock to common stock | $ | 1 | $ | — | ||
| Transfer of finance lease asset to property and equipment | $ | 1,938,662 | $ | — | ||
| Right of use asset and liability for land lease | $ | 364,523 | $ | — |
Exhibit 99.2
Duos Technologies Group, Inc.
Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 EarningsCall
March 31, 2026
| Presenters |
|---|
Doug Recker, President
Leah Brown, CFO
Q&A Participants
Ed Woo - Ascendiant Capital Markets
Dan Weston - West Capital ManagementNico Sacchetti - RBC
Carl Wiese - GROW Funds
Tom Leonard - River Bay Investments
Operator
Good afternoon. Welcome to Duos Technologies’ Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Joining us for today's call are Duos President, Doug Recker, and CFO, Leah Brown. Following the remarks, we will open the call to your questions. Then before we conclude today's call, I'll provide the necessary cautions regarding the forward-looking statements made by management during this call. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Mr. Doug Recker. Sir, please proceed.
Doug Recker
Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Earlier today, we issued our earnings press release and our 10-K for 2025. Copies are available in the Investor Relations section of our website. I encourage all listeners to review press releases and our 10-K filing to better understand some of the details we'll be discussing during this afternoon's call. Before I begin, I would like to take a minute to personally thank Chuck Ferry for his leadership and guidance. Chuck has served the Duos organization and provided personal mentorship to me. I value Chuck and the opportunity he has provided me at Duos. It is not every day that you get it to be mentored by a war hero and a corporate champion, and for that, I will be forever grateful. I look forward to your continued mentorship and guidance as you continue to serve on our Board of Directors. Thank you, Chuck, for all you have done and continue to do for the Duos organization.
As your newly appointed CEO, I am honored and excited to discuss the focus of Duos Technologies Group. We are now fully dedicated to the data center market through our Duos Edge and Tech Solutions division, driven by accelerating customer demand. I will get into more of that in a minute, but I want to give you an update on the rail technology and Duos Energy subsidiaries.
First, let me talk to you about our legacy business, which is the railcar inspection portal. In the previous calls, we had discussed that this line of business has become less important to our future at Duos. We also talked about diversifying our business strategy to edge computing. Thus, we have made the decision to completely divest the rail division. This divestiture is expected to take place over the next 60 days. This decision did not come lightly, and I know the rail technology has a rich history with Duos’ shareholders. In fact, my involvement goes back many years before joining Duos, and I was intimately involved in the design and building of the edge data centers that the portal uses today. However, the lack of growth and regulatory hurdles for that business have proved to be extremely challenging to manage. The decision to divest frees up company resources and cuts significant SG&A expenses. More details will be made available on the full divestiture in the near future. Second, I would like to talk about Duos Energy Corporation. As many of you may remember from last year, Duos entered into an asset management agreement with New APR Energy to help find new contracts to engineer, procure, construct, and operate fast power plants. Duos also was given a 5% equity stake in the parent of APR Energy. The AMA provided the interim financial ability to execute and pivot to our data center strategy. We announced on the Q3 earnings call that the AMA would conclude in 2026, that Duos will remain -- will retain the 5% equity stake.
Now I would like to discuss our data center strategy and our new line of businesses at Duos Technology Solutions. Part of our strategy in building and deploying data centers at a rapid pace has always been focused on cost savings, lowering our capital expenditures. Building data center infrastructure is very capital intensive. As Duos is a relatively small buyer compared to the larger hyperscalers and colocation companies, we needed a way to buy products cheaper, so we created Duos Technology Solutions. This brand-new division allows us to do just that as well as provide a new stream of revenue for us. We started by hiring an industry veteran with a proven track record who understands our business as well as the data center market overall. Kristen Sanderson joined Duos and will serve as a Senior Vice President of Duos Technology Solutions. Kristen has over 18 years of data center product experience, vast market distribution knowledge, relationships with all the key supplier partners that Duos needs to work with, and a wealth of relationships in the data center industry. This new division allows Duos to procure materials for its own builds at a much lower rate than the legacy way of purchasing through traditional distribution. Duos Technology Solutions offers the same strategic sourcing and product distribution to new customers including large-scale enterprise organizations, hyperscalers, large colocation companies, low-voltage contractors, and general contractors across the United States.
I'm very pleased to report that, through the first quarter, Duos Tech Solutions has already sold $10 million in new business, which currently sits as backlog, all of which I expect to be recorded as revenue this year. This new line of business has low overhead and is simple to execute while having strong commitments by the end client. The revenue generator from Tech Solutions is expected not only to replace the revenue from the New APR AMA but also provide better margins, thus further contributing to the overall future profitability and growth of Duos Technologies Group. Kristen has built a seasoned team with the talent and short three months built a tremendous sales pipeline, and we expect amazing things from this new venture.
Now I want to shift our discussion to the core of our new data center focused organization, Duos Edge AI. The demand for edge computing continues to grow at a rapid pace, and I'm pleased to share that Duos Edge AI is in a great place to meet this demand. The second half of 2025 proved to be extremely busy for Duos Edge. In July 2025, we successfully completed a capital raise of $45 million with Titan Partners to fund the construction and deployment of 15 EDCs to further broaden the connectivity and compute needs of underserved Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets. Duos Edge AI was also awarded a patent for clean room technology for modular data center deployments, which gives us a strategic competitive advantage in the space. Our goal in 2025 was to procure, manufacture, deploy 15 edge data centers. This goal was extremely aggressive and unheard of in our industry. We are proud to report today that we have accomplished that goal. Our focus for the first half of 2026 is to continue executing our sales strategy to acquire new customers in our markets to fully utilize the capacity of each EDC.
In March 2026, we completed a $65 million capital raise to deploy approximately 2,300 GPUs-as-a-Service, a 4.8-megawatt high-density EDC deployment for a leading hyperscaler and to expand our high-density EDC footprint to support growing demand for power and compute across AI inference, training, enterprise, and hyperscale AI workloads. We also have five new EDCs in production with plans for an additional 20 megawatts of deployed capacity by year-end. Having inventory for our EDCs to deploy in critical -- is crucial for our continued growth and success in this market. The Duos Edge AI story and its initial success is garnering tremendous excitement in demand, so inventory will allow us to react quickly to new market requests. Part of this new demand we now see is for higher density power, which serves AI and high-power compute needs. While Duos Edge AI is committed to sticking to our original model of deploying in the Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets, we are seeing unprecedented demand for power in megawatts compared to kilowatts. The data center market is experiencing a boom like we've never seen before, and building at scale is costly, and it takes years to complete.
During the course of this deployment, of our 15 EDCs, we saw an influx of calls requesting more power in the markets where we are in from organizations all across the country. There is such a shortage of data center space and power that companies are turning to Duos Edge AI. So, we are going to start to build our new EDCs with greater power capacity to meet this demand. We have shown in the market we can deploy at lower cost with an incredibly faster speed to market. Duos Edge AI will now be able to cater to customers that have the high-density needs like the neocloud providers and hyperscalers for their remote edge sites. These higher power capacity EDCs should provide much higher monthly recurring revenue for Duos, which we will explain in our financial update coming up shortly.
Before I transition to the financials, I would like to touch on our start of the year and our first partnership in deploying high-density power EDCs. This month, Duos executed its first contract across two newly launched business lines, GPU-as-a-Service and high-power colocation service for AI infrastructure. Under our GPU-as-a-Service agreement, Duos will deploy 2,304 NVIDIA GPUs across our Edge Data Center platform, generating reoccurring revenue through a GPU rental model, purpose-built for enterprise and AI workloads. This contract is expected to generate approximately $176 million in revenue over a 36-month term, with margins exceeding 80% and expected annual EBITDA of approximately $40 million.
Separately, Duos was awarded a high-power colocation contract to deliver 4.8 megawatts of critical compute power to support a leading hyperscale’s high-density NVIDIA GPU cluster housed within Duos edge data centers. This contract represents Duos’ entry into the market of high-power colocation where demand for AI-grade infrastructure continues significantly, outpacing supply. Together, these contracts mark a significant commercial inflection for Duos, establishing two distinct and complementary revenue streams within our data center platform and validating edge data center infrastructure at the highest level of the AI compute market. Since announcing these contracts, we have received strong incremental inbound interest from hyperscalers, neocloud providers, and other large-scale compute customers seeking high-density EDC solutions. We see a significant opportunity to scale the high-power EDC model through 2026 and beyond. Now I would like to turn it over to our CFO, Leah Brown, who will go over our financials for 2025. Leah?
Leah Brown
Thank you, Doug. This has been an exciting year for Duos. 2025 is a year marked by significant revenue growth, strategic investments, and meaningful progress towards building a stronger, more scalable company. I am truly excited to walk through our full year financial performance and highlight key operational drivers that shaped our results. For 2025, total consolidated revenue was approximately $27 million. The company previously projected revenue in 2025 of $28 million. Although that target was not met, we recorded a little over $1 million in deferred revenue for Technology Solutions, which is contracted, cash was received, and we will record as revenue in 2026. In 2025, the $27 million in revenue was a significant increase compared to $7.3 million in 2024, which is over a 270% increase year-over-year. This growth was primarily driven by services and consulting revenue from the asset management agreement with new APR Energy, totaling $22.4 million in 2025 versus $900,000 in 2024. The company delivered materially stronger gross margin in 2025, generating $7.9 million in gross profit, achieving approximately 29%, a significant year-over-year improvement. This was driven by improved cost absorption and continued operating efficiency. The company reported net loss of approximately $9.8 million in 2025, an improvement from the $10.8 million net loss in 2024. The year-over-year improvement was driven primarily by higher revenue and significantly stronger gross margin.
As we discussed on our Q3 earnings call, achieving positive adjusted EBITDA was an important milestone for the company, reflecting the early benefits of revenue scale and margin improvement. I'm pleased to report that we've built on that progress in Q4, delivering positive adjusted EBITDA for the second consecutive quarter. This consistency is meaningful and demonstrates that the Q3 result was not a one-time event but rather the continuation of improving operating performance as the business scales. The consecutive improvement from Q3 to Q4 reinforces our confidence in the direction of the business, driving higher revenue volume, improved gross margin, and more efficient cost structure.
Let's shift to the balance sheet. The company ended 2025 with approximately $63 million in total assets, reflecting meaningful growth year-over-year. Cash increased significantly compared to the prior year driven by capital raise during the year which strengthened liquidity and enhanced our ability to support operations and planned investments. Another strong position on the balance sheet is property and equipment, which significantly increased year-over-year, reflecting continued investments in infrastructure and assets required to support the program execution and long-term growth initiatives. The current contract liabilities over $5 million supports the company's future revenue recognition. On the equity side, capital raised during the year strengthened our balance sheet and liquidity while ongoing investment in the business aligns our strategy to scale operations and drive longer-term value creation. 2025 was a transformative year for Duos Technologies Group. We significantly scaled revenue, strengthened our liquidity position, and made strategic investments that position the company for increased operating leverage and margin expansion going forward. As previously reported, the rail segment remains relatively flat. In response, we are divesting the rail business and reallocating resources to support the continued expansion of our edge data center segment.
Turning to our 2026 outlook, the company is providing revenue guidance of $50 million to $55 million in total revenue across all business lines. This forecast reflects growth from both our core operations and newer initiatives, which Doug will cover, and we believe positions us for a strong year. Due to the timing of revenue recognition, a significant portion of revenue is expected to be recognized in the second half of the year, coinciding with the periods in which we expect to achieve positive EBITDA. Our investment and expanded revenue opportunities give us confidence in our ability to execute and continue building a stronger, more profitable company. Doug, I'll turn it back to you for additional comments.
Doug Recker
Leah, thank you. Before we open this up for questions, I wanted to say again how honored I am to serve as your new CEO. The new data center-focused strategy is the new Duos Group -- Duos Technologies Group, and we are poised for great success. We have been awarded global recognition with the Innovation of the Year award at the largest data center and telecom conference at Pacific Telecom Council 2026 in January. We have also been nominated for breakout success in North America Digital Infrastructure Leader of the Year from the Tech Capital Global Awards coming up in May. The global recognitions only solidifies we are on the right path at Duos with a prosperous future ahead. We understand we have a new focus, and this is a departure from our legacy business past. We are taking steps to ensure the new messaging is related to the market and that we will be given the appropriate market coverage moving forward. We will be retaining an IR firm to assist and expect several analysts to report on our new focus and business activities in the near future. And with that, I will open it up to questions. Operator?
Operator
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Ed Woo with Ascendiant Capital Markets. Please proceed.
Ed Woo
Yeah, I'd just like to give my congratulations to you, Doug, and to the entire Duos team. The growth that you guys had has just been amazing. My question is, as you mentioned that demand remains very, very strong, are there any worries of competitors entering this market? And what can Duos do to be able to have the advantages to be able to compete if new entrants come in?
Doug Recker
That's a great question, and that's why we're -- we manage the business appropriately. So, you're going to see some people come into the market like you just probably saw the press release from Caruso. They're entering the market as far as building 5 to 10 to 20-megawatt modular data centers. They're one of the largest in the business. They built Stargate. They're huge. So, that in itself tells us we're in the right market. But what we've done -- and this is an incredible piece. I just got back from GTC, and everybody was talking about how they're concerned about deploying with modular because GPUs are extremely sensitive to back -- to particles and dust. And ironically and the best part about our business, we obtained a patent in September called the clean room. We actually have a patent that goes on top of our -- it connects to our modular data center that cleans the air before you come in. So, all the particles on your body, on your equipment are blown off, filtered off, then you walk actually into the data center. That is huge when it comes to deploying because what's going to happen is the GPU providers like NVIDIA and everybody that make chips, everybody makes servers, they won't honor their warranties if the fans get dirty and dust in them. So, that is a huge win for us, and it's going to help us differentiate us from the competitors coming in the market. You will see them, but we are the only ones that have deployed, prime example, 15 pods. I challenge everybody that comes into this business that doesn't have a 3D rendering to go look at physically look at their pod. We had a customer fly in from China last week, and they flew into Corpus Christi and toured our pods just to see our manufacturing capabilities. So, it looks like they'll be a new customer of ours on the hyperscale side possibly. So, we have the experience. We've done it. We can actually show people our markets. They can physically go there, see our customers, see the GPUs burning, and see how the facility works. So, we welcome the competition, but we're strong where we sit.
Ed Woo
That sounds good. And my last question is kind of like a longer-term plan. I know you guys kind of been focused on the rural underserved markets. Is there plans to go into the bigger markets? And also, you mentioned China customers or China partners. Do you anticipate possibly going international? Thank you.
Doug Recker
Yeah. Great question. Right now, our focus is Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets, and let me tell you why. The demands to deploy in a Tier 3 market, I can deploy my pods and get access to power in 90 to 120 days. If I go into a Tier 1 market, I'm competing against the larger data centers and the infrastructure that's already in place. We're going to build infrastructure fast. So, where do you do that? You go into markets that have accessible power. They've built substations that have 5 to 10 meg available on them, and permitting is a lot quicker. So, our focus is going to continue to Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets, and that business sector is huge, and it's going to be huge for the next 10 years. And to your international question, once we start deploying at scale here and move on, we'll be open to international. But right now, our number one focus is in the U.S. into the Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets.
Ed Woo
Great. Well, thank you and I wish you guys good luck.
Doug Recker
Thank you, sir. Thank you so much.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Dan Weston with West Capital Management. Please proceed.
Dan Weston
Yeah. Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for taking the questions and congrats on the quarter. Doug, a couple of quick points of clarification. The -- I think you mentioned you were expecting to have -- or you do have five new EDCs in production to be deployed by year-end if I heard that right. Are those five EDCs specific to the GPU-as-a-Service contract you just signed?
Doug Recker
No, those five EDCs are committed to markets that have been contracted. So, there are markets in Georgia, and we're working with a utility to deploy on their network, as well. So, those are our normal pods that we deploy and that we've deployed. Like the 15 we've deployed, they're identical. So, yeah. And let me give some clarification because this might help answer a lot of questions for other folks, too. We're still building our same model. Our core is you go after the education, healthcare, and local government in these markets. But what we're doing at the factory is we're building the pod with more power. So, we're deploying these units the same concept, the same places, but we're building more at scale, so we can bring in higher density users. So, yeah. So, that's the model.
Dan Weston
Got it. Thank you for that clarification. Back to the first GPU-as-a-Service customer that you just recently signed. When do you expect to have those larger pods, if you will, in the ground and expect it to generate revenue?
Doug Recker
We're on track for July, August. So, with permitting and things like that, I want to say August to you, but we're looking good. So, more August time frame.
Dan Weston
That's amazing. And as it just kind of ties into the guidance that Leah provided, Leah, if you're there, I think I wrote down $50 million to $55 million of revenue expected for this year. Could you give us a sense of how that revenue breaks down, please?
Leah Brown
So, yeah. Thank you for that question. So, the revenue line that we anticipate for this year, we're expecting definitely on a holistic view to achieve that aggregate. As a company, we don't go into specifics for each business line. But overall, we do anticipate to meet that guidance.
Dan Weston
Okay. Okay. I understand. And while you're there, you mentioned the PP&E up at $27 million and change. That's obviously a massive increase from last year but also up $12 million from your Q3. Can you give us a breakdown of what that PP&E is, please?
Leah Brown
Absolutely. So, the majority of our PP&E is our edge data center. So, we have 15 edge data centers, and we've also started prebuying for the next lot that is coming online in 2026. So, you -- the majority of that -- yes.
Dan Weston
Great stuff. And then last one for me, and I'll jump back in. Doug, I think you mentioned that you had secured the 4.8 megawatts of power for -- I assume you're talking about the GPU-as-a-Service contract. The initial LOI, I think you mentioned 10 megawatts dedicated to that project. Could you explain a little bit what the delta is there between the 4.8 and the 10 megawatts?
Doug Recker
Sure. So, the site is built to 10 megawatts. So, there's 10-megawatts available. So, they're taking down 4.8 for critical load, so that means I can add to that site quickly up to 10 meg. Now, that site can go to 20 meg, but it might take another year to get access to another 10. So, that -- so, the winner here is that site has a capability that's already been transformed down at 10 meg. So, there's 10 meg physically available today if I wanted to sell it. So, I would just build the pods -- I’d build another section of pods to get to the 10 meg. So, another five meg cluster of pods.
Dan Weston
And in terms of real estate, if you will, there's plenty of space there to just drop another two, three, or five pods down if needed?
Doug Recker
Yes. So, there's three acres there. And what we've noticed is three acres is plenty. Basically, if you look at our model, if we're deploying five meg, it's really like looking at five school buses.
Dan Weston
Understood completely. Do you anticipate that your first technology, global technology customer for the GPU-as-a-service will end up taking the whole 10 megs?
Doug Recker
Yes. The actual -- there's two customers that are -- yes, absolutely. They're looking at five more sites at five megs with us right now. Obviously, we've researched, we found five sites with the power there. But we're going to get this one installed and the one in Iowa installed first, and then we'll report on how quickly we did it and how the revenue looks. But the demand -- I mean, I came back from GTC, and there was 21 -- we had 21 inquiries on 5 to 10 meg sites.
Dan Weston
That’s amazing.
Doug Recker
The demand in this niche is unbelievable. So, like I said, I'm not really worried about other people coming in. Our secret sauce is how we deploy quickly, how we find the power. We have a secret to that. And the other piece is the clean room. I don't see you -- prime example, in one of these pods, you're talking $10 million to $12 million just in GPU in a pod. So, a clean room -- I don't understand why you wouldn't go to it if somebody has a clean room. It doesn't cost them more so.
Dan Weston
Understood. By the way, do you anticipate that you'll be able to disclose who that first technology customer is in the near future?
Doug Recker
I'm not sure. It's a very, very, very strict NDA right now. So, I think maybe if we -- once we prove ourselves to them, it might be an option. But I’ll put it this way. They're Tier 1, so we're good.
Dan Weston
I appreciate that. Let me squeeze one last one, and I'll hop back. You mentioned that there was a $10 million backlog in the tech solutions business that you expect to record as revenue for this year. Is that typical for this business where the booking of the contract could take several quarters to actually run through the revenue line?
Doug Recker
Yes, exactly. So, let me give you an example. So, we sell a lot of -- and we have a lot of -- our funnel is huge. So, we have a lot of like cabinet, PDUs, fiber connectors. Those are 60 days, 90 days max, right? Well, we booked that. We ship it out quickly. But UPSs and other switch gears are six to eight, some of them are nine months out. So, that's -- we had a big booking towards the end of the year, but it took three months for us to bill it, right? So, a lot of the bigger products take longer. But everything that we're booking that's in the funnel and that you see us report in this quarter, next quarter, we'll all build this year because the majority of it is I wouldn't say off the shelf, but it's more UPS, PDUs, cabinets, cold aisle containment, that kind of stuff. And there's a lot of it.
Dan Weston
That's incredible. I really appreciate your taking the time to answer the questions. Congrats to everybody.
Doug Recker
Thank you. That's why I'm here. I love the questions. Thank you, sir.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Nico Sacchetti with RBC. Please proceed.
Nico Sacchetti
Hey, Doug.
Doug Recker
Nico, sir. How are you? Good to hear your voice.
Nico Sacchetti
Yeah, I’m good. Maybe I'll piggyback on Dan's last question here. So, not only is that 10 million of the distribution business [inaudible] recognizing revenue. Is 10 million like a quarter a typical run rate for that business? Is that [inaudible] low? Obviously, not looking for a definitive guidance, just trying to get an idea of what you're expecting or what that capability of that business could be in just like a normalized situation.
Doug Recker
Yeah. And we're new to the business, but what we're seeing is when we can recognize it and how stable it is. So, let's say the funnel is over $150 million. Depending on what the product is --
Nico Sacchetti
[Inaudible] just to clarify, you said the funnel like annual capacity. Is that like your high-end number that you could do in a year?
Doug Recker
The 10 million was over two months, and that was when they first started. So, obviously, we're looking at a lot greater than that.
Nico Sacchetti
Yeah. [Inaudible] little better. I thought you said the funnel is 150 million. Is that like an annual like TAM or capacity that you could do? Did I hear that number right?
Doug Recker
Yeah, that number is from two sales reps that she’s hired that's in their funnel for this year. And that's only for three months of doing business. We just started that group. I mean, look, one data center buys $1.6 billion worth of product, right? So, that's normal, believe it or not, in this industry.
Nico Sacchetti
So, it would be fair to say if there was any kind of negative perception around the loss of that $20 million two-year AMA [inaudible] but it sounds like this could be a multiple of that in a normalized situation.
Doug Recker
That's exactly right. That's why we brought it on. And Nico, just real quick about that division. Remember, the main reason we brought that division on is, in the marketplace right now, everybody knows to build a megawatt, it's anywhere from $10 million to $13 million, right, to build a megawatt. Why they're looking at us is I can build a megawatt for $6.5 million. And how do we do that? It's because that infrastructure group has direct to the manufacturer now. So, I'm not buying through a Wesco or a Graybar. So, 20% to 30% comes off the line because I buy direct.
Nico Sacchetti
So, you are offering something that can be set up substantially quicker than like a traditional football field size data center and at a lower cost is what it sounds like.
Doug Recker
That's right.
Nico Sacchetti
Any thought of removing the lower cost and just go with the shorter time frame and look for better margin profile?
Doug Recker
Right. But we can deploy quicker. Remember that. So, the CapEx isn't as intense. So, you're deploying five megs at $25 million. It's a big difference.
Nico Sacchetti
So, a lot of what I have are just clarification questions. Obviously, there's a lot of moving parts. I'm just trying to make sense of what was the company you have, the AMA, the equity [inaudible] software, and then it's going towards this modular data center, school, hospital, anchor tenant, the metrics around that were very black and white like cost, what the revenue opportunity is. And then it seems like we're kind of pivoting again. And so, I just want to make a sense of all of these moving parts. And maybe the -- it would be helpful if you could clarify that the deck that you have available on your website from February, I think it is, is this like good information? There's just some difference in metrics from what's on the slide versus like what was reported. And I just have some clarification questions. I'm just curious like how set in stone the numbers were off of that specific presentation.
Doug Recker
Yeah. So, we're actually after -- obviously, after the call, we're going to update because now we've recognized and told some information. We're going to update that. But just remember, there's -- and I don't want to make it confusing. I'm trying to -- that's why I'm trying to change the model here a little bit. There's two pieces to our business. One is the edge data center business, and the one is the infrastructure. The edge data center business -- the GPU business falls under the edge data center business. Remember, it's the same pod. It's the same concept. It's just I'm building them bigger. Just look at the GPU as a different type of customer. So, I'm just bringing in different types of customers. So, it's the same model, and the revenue is a lot higher, obviously, because they're taking power. We make money off of power space and cross connects, right? So, the more power we sell, the more money we make. So -- but obviously, the CapEx goes up in the pod cost. The model -- and I'm pretty sure we shared that, the model on the GPU is a big difference. Prime example, remember, our pod model at 15 cabinets is $350,000 to $400,000 a year. That's the goal, right? Out of that. If you compare it to the GPU model, one meg, you're at $1 million a year. So, at 4.8 megawatts, you're now at almost $1 million a month. So, why not build the pod bigger and take the customers in that need that power when all it is for us is at the factory, we just put bigger panels in.
Nico Sacchetti
So, when you say the same model, you've talked about just the original [inaudible] kind of like Tier 2, Tier 3 markets or rural areas where there is like 500 miles [inaudible] --
Doug Recker
Hey, Nico. You're cutting out. It's hard to hear you.
Nico Sacchetti
I think I'm having [inaudible]. I just want to get like -- do you have -- it sounds like it totally depends on the unit for what the metrics are or it was much more standardized with the other versions of the original model. And then when you say the same model, are they going in certain locations where instead of it being a colocation where you still have the hospital and the school, and it's in a rural area, and you're just having less of it available to be leased out essentially by maybe other businesses in that town now that [inaudible].
Doug Recker
Yep. That's -- you're exactly right, Nico. That's exactly right. So, our core customers are our anchor customers, which are education, healthcare, and then enterprise in that market, right? The carriers coming in to take space so they can peer and cross connect to each other. That's the best -- you there? Someone's cross talking. I'm sorry about that. But yeah, Nico, if you can hear me, that's the original model, and that's why we're sticking with that model. We're just adding more capacity to bring those customers in that need higher density. So, we're always servicing that market. And that's what helps us get into those Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets, especially with permitting and everything because we're low on the radar. We're not 10, 20, 30, 40 megawatts that they have to build out that stream in the community. We're going after power that's already there that's in excess that the utility wants to make money on. So, in return, it helps the local community, as well, in tax dollars. So, they're actually welcoming us.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Carl Wiese with GROW Funds. Please proceed.
Carl Wiese
Hey, Doug. How you doing?
Doug Recker
Good, sir. How are you? Long time no see.
Carl Wiese
Yeah. I was wondering if you can kind of talk to at scale as you go into the second half, what does the model look like from a gross margin perspective? And then with all of the selling -- the rail business and winding down the management contract, what kind of OpEx should we expect on a go-forward basis?
Doug Recker
We'll talk real quick. Let me take over the rail. So, the rail business we're hoping to offload or decommission that -- offload it in the next 60 days. That's the goal on that. So, there's no burn on that business for us right now. So, hopefully, we'll exit that. It frees up a lot of SG&A. So, we'll obviously not carry that load of employees and all the other expense. So, that's a good thing, and that should happen in the next 60 days. But I'll turn it over to Leah on your numbers there.
Leah Brown
Sure. So, Carl, good afternoon. Yes, so, we should expect to see gross margin improve in the second half of the year. Just a reminder with the revenue recognition for some of our business lines, you are going to see that revenue recognized in the second half of the year. So, we're looking at gross margin around 7% to 6%.
Carl Wiese
Gross margin, shouldn't it -- well, the data centers themselves are what, 70 to 80 type gross margins?
Leah Brown
Yes, exactly. So, we should see around -- for gross margin, you're about 7 million, 6 million towards the end of the year. Yeah, exactly. So, just when we report here in May, you'll see our Q1, but you'll be able to see that revenue picking up in Q3 and Q4.
Carl Wiese
And OpEx should actually be coming down at the same time?
Doug Recker
The OpEx, yes.
Carl Wiese
Okay. And then just, Doug, as you said here today, how long do you think this demand environment will last?
Doug Recker
I think the high demand like what we're seeing now like when I go to GTC and there's 21 people trying to talk to me to take -- sign contracts, I think that is going to be strong for the next three to four years. And then what's critical about our business is the main data centers that are out there -- and I think we might have talked about this before. The main data centers that are out there are going to look to us as a hub and spoke because they're going to want to capture those markets that we're in like the Dumas, like the Corpus Christi, Lubbock, these Tier 3 markets that we're going in. They need to have compute out there. So does the mobile operators. When we go to 6G -- we're at 5G. We're going to 6G now. They need the compute out at what we call the eyeballs. So, all that data is going to take a lot of fiber to get back, a lot of network, right? So, they want to be able to own that network, and they want to own that customer. The best way to do that is obviously buy these many data centers everywhere, bring them back to the core. Because to be honest with you, they're all going back to a core anyway. So, it makes complete sense. So, I think the growth is going to be very strong and extremely strong in the 3 to 10 meg range because right now -- and I just did this exercise for another potential client. He needed two meg worth of power. Two meg, which doesn't sound like a lot nowadays, but it's a lot. I couldn't find it throughout the country in one data center. I'm talking about a legacy data center. So, the market is looking past the need of the 10 to 15 meg data centers. And prime example, like Johnson & Johnson, they keep their stuff at a local data center. They go to like a QTS. They go to Flexential. That's where they house. They don't go to a hyperscaler. They don't go to these big ones they're building. We're losing sight that the demand is there and they're still growing. So, I think you're going to see the market for the next 5 to 10 years focusing on that 10 to 15-megawatt range. So, we have a long haul, but we do have to build quickly.
Carl Wiese
Thank you.
Doug Recker
Yes, sir.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Tom Leonard with River Bay Investments. Please proceed.
Tom Leonard
Hey, Doug. [Inaudible].
Doug Recker
Sure. How are you?
Tom Leonard
Great. You provided a lot of color on the GPU-as-a-Service, the economics, the revenue of that. I'm trying to think about the revenue exit run rate this year. And so, could you put a little more color on the high-density EDC, how many total megawatts and what's the revenue value per megawatt for that high-density colocation customer versus leasing and GPUs that you purchased?
Doug Recker
Sure. On the GPU model -- let me back up. Look, the goal for this year is to deploy 25-megawatt. Now, that can be through 300 kW pod that we deploy. Right now, we have 15 of them on the ground at 300 kW. But the total megawatt, because that's what we're being judged by right now -- everybody is being judged by megawatts, not by kilowatts or cabinets. So, the plan is 25 megawatts. And when we look at the GPU model, for every megawatt, we're looking at $2 million a year in revenue. That's right on the head. That's what they're billing, that's what the industry shows, and that's what we're building to. So, it obviously is a very strong model to house GPU for customers.
Operator
Thank you. And with that, that concludes today's question-and-answer session. I'd like to pass the call back over to Doug for any closing remarks.
Doug Recker
Well, I'd like to thank everybody for joining today, and we look forward to speaking with you in Q1 earnings. Thank you so much for your time.
Operator
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