SunPower Inc.
For the period ended Dec 28, 2025. Filed Apr 14, 2026.
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FY2025 · Filed Apr 14, 2026
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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (“Disclosure Controls”) within the meaning of Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the “Exchange Act”). Our Disclosure Controls are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act, such as this Annual Report on Form 10-K, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Our Disclosure Controls are also designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating our Disclosure Controls, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management necessarily applied its judgment in evaluating and implementing possible controls and procedures.
As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our Disclosure Controls, which was done under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer. Based on the evaluation of our Disclosure Controls, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of December 28, 2025, our Disclosure Controls were not effective due to material weaknesses in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as disclosed below in the remainder of this Item 9A.
Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures
We do not expect that our Disclosure Controls will prevent all errors and all instances of fraud. Disclosure Controls, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the Disclosure Controls are met. Further, the design of Disclosure Controls must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all Disclosure Controls, no evaluation of Disclosure Controls can provide absolute assurance that we have detected all of our control deficiencies and instances of fraud, if any. The design of Disclosure Controls also is based partly on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
Management’s Report on Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
It is the responsibility of the Company’s management including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer to establish and maintain adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Management has performed an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 28, 2025 based upon criteria set forth inInternal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this assessment, management determined that our internal control over financial reporting was ineffective as of December 28, 2025, because of the material weaknesses described below.
On September 24, 2025, we completed the acquisition of Sunder Energy LLC (“Sunder”) and on November 21, 2025, we completed the acquisition of Ambia Energy LLC (“Ambia”). As permitted by Securities and Exchange Commission guidance, management elected to exclude these acquisitions from its assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of December 28, 2025. Because the Company reported a loss for the year, percentage comparisons to continuing loss from operations are not meaningful. As of and for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2025, Sunder assets (excluding goodwill and intangibles) accounted for 6% of our consolidated total assets and 5% of our consolidated revenues. Sunder’s operating income was $6.2 million compared to our consolidated operating loss of $26.9 million. As of and for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2025, Ambia assets (excluding goodwill and intangibles) accounted for 5% of our consolidated total assets and 2% of our consolidated revenues. Ambia’s operating loss was $2.7 million compared to our consolidated operating loss of $26.9 million.
Material Weaknesses Identified
In connection with the preparation and audit of our financial statements for the year ended December 28, 2025, our management identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that a reasonable possibility exists that a material misstatement of annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The material weaknesses are as follows:
We did not maintain controls to execute the criteria established in the COSO Framework for (i) the control environment, (ii) control activities, (iii) information and communication, and (iv) monitoring activities.
Each of the control deficiencies identified below constitute a material weakness, either individually or in the aggregate.
*Control Environment.*Our Company did not maintain an effective control environment and identified the following material weakness: our Company lacked appropriate policies and resources to develop and operate effective internal control over financial reporting and a lack of appropriate and consistent IT policies given the significant volume of financially relevant IT changes, which contributed to our Company’s inability to properly analyze, record and disclose accounting matters timely and accurately.
*Control Activities.*Our Company did not design and implement effective control activities and identified the following material weakness:
| ● | Ineffective design and operation of certain control activities due to significant personnel changes throughout 2025. Control deficiencies, which aggregate to a material weakness, occurred within substantially all areas of financial reporting. |
*Information and Communication.*Our Company did not design and implement effective information and communication activities and identified the following material weaknesses:
| ● | Our Company did not design and maintain effective general information technology controls over logical access and program change management for our key information systems used to support the financial reporting process. Specifically, management did not maintain effective controls to ensure proper segregation of duties related to user administration and other privileged access functions and in implementing program changes in information systems. Due to the pervasive nature of these deficiencies, business process controls that are dependent upon information from these systems were also not effective. |
| ● | Our Company did not have adequate processes and controls for communicating information among the accounting, finance, operations, and legal departments, necessary to support the proper functioning of internal controls. |
*Monitoring Activities.*Our Company did not design and implement effective monitoring activities and identified the following material weaknesses: (i) failure to adequately monitor compliance with accounting policies, procedures and controls related to substantially all areas of financial reporting; and (ii) failure to properly select, develop and perform ongoing evaluations of the components of internal controls (including the monitoring of service providers’ control environments).
Correction of Accounting Errors; Restatement of 2025 Quarterly Financial Statements
These material weaknesses described in the paragraphs above contributed to material accounting errors identified and corrected during the audit of our financial statements. Additionally, in connection with the preparation of our audited financial statements for the year ended December, 28, 2025, we identified material errors to our interim results for the thirteen weeks ended March 30, 2025, the thirteen and twenty-six weeks ended June 29, 2025, and the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 28, 2025 (the “Prior Periods”) and we determined that the Prior Periods included in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 30, 2025, June 29, 2025, and September 28, 2025 (the “Prior Filings”) should no longer be relied upon and should be restated. The Company has determined that material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting resulted in misstatements across multiple financial statement line items. As a result, the Company will restate the financial statements included in the Prior Filings. If we fail to adequately remediate these material weaknesses, there could be material misstatements that may not be prevented or detected.
Remediation Plan and Status
Our Company is committed to remediating the material weaknesses identified above, fostering continuous improvement in internal controls and enhancing the effectiveness of our overall internal control environment. Since identifying the above material weaknesses, we have begun the process of implementing the remediation activities described below. We believe that these activities, when fully implemented, should remediate the identified material weaknesses and strengthen our internal control over financial reporting. These remediation efforts remain ongoing, and additional remediation initiatives may be necessary.
A material weakness cannot be considered completely remediated until the applicable controls have operated for a sufficient period of time such that management can conclude, through testing, that the controls are operating effectively. If not remediated, material weaknesses or control deficiencies could result in material misstatements.
Accordingly, as management continues to monitor the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we will continue to perform additional procedures prescribed by management, including the use of certain manual mitigating control procedures and the employment of additional tools and resources deemed necessary, to ensure that our future consolidated financial statements are fairly stated in all material respects. The following planned remediation activities highlight our commitment to remediating the identified material weaknesses:
| ● | Hire finance and accounting professionals with the appropriate level of experience and training necessary to develop, maintain and improve our accounting policies, procedures and internal controls, utilize third-party consultants and internal audit professionals to enhance the control environment, and continue to hire other qualified finance and accounting professionals. |
| ● | Provide, and continue to provide, training for employees regarding their responsibilities related to the performance or oversight of internal controls. |
| ● | Reinforce the importance of communication between the operations, accounting, and legal departments regarding key terms of, and changes or modifications to, customer, debt, equity, legal and other contracts by establishing controls requiring finance department approval of certain non-standard terms and agreements. |
| ● | Begin the implementation of a process to reevaluate, revise and improve our Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, including governance, risk assessment, testing methodologies and corrective action. We plan to enhance our risk assessment procedures and conduct a comprehensive risk assessment. |
| ● | Develop, and continue to develop, internal control documentation over financial processes and related disclosures. We plan to continue to design and implement control activities to mitigate risks identified and test the operating effectiveness of such controls. |
If we are not able to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting and Disclosure Controls, or if material weaknesses are discovered in future periods, a risk that is significantly increased in light of the complexity of our business, we may be unable to accurately and timely report our financial position, results of operations, cash flows or key operating metrics, which could result in late filings of our annual and quarterly reports under the Exchange Act, restatements of financial statements or other corrective disclosures, an inability to access commercial lending markets, defaults under our credit agreements and other agreements, or other material adverse effects on our business, reputation, results of operations, financial condition or liquidity.
Attestation Report of Registered Public Accounting Firm
This Annual Report on Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm due to the Company’s status as a non-accelerated filer and an EGC and is exempted from the auditor attestation requirement of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Other than the material weaknesses and remediation efforts described above, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the fourth quarter that have materially affected, would have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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