Canoo Stock More Than Doubles on Key Walmart EV Order

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Walmart’s purchase of Canoo’s EVs will help add to the retail giant’s last-mile delivery capabilities.

Courtesy of Canoo

Walmart

is providing a lifeline to electric vehicle start-up

Canoo
.

The retail giant is buying 4,500 electric delivery vans with the option to purchase up to 10,000 units. The electric vehicles will support

Walmart
’s
(ticker: WMT) last-mile delivery operations and are slated to hit roads in 2023.

In early trading,

Canoo

stock (GOEV) was up 108% to $4.92 a share. The

S&P 500
and

Dow Jones Industrial Average
were up 0.5% and 0.4%, respectively.

“We are proud to have been selected by Walmart,” Canoo CEO Tony Aquila said in the company’s news release. “Our [Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle] has the turning radius of a small passenger vehicle on a parking friendly, compact footprint, yet the payload and cargo space of a commercial delivery vehicle.”

Coming into Tuesday trading, Canoo stock was down 69% this year and down about 90% from its all-time high of almost $25 a share. Inflation, rising interest rates, and recession fears have sapped investor enthusiasm for more speculative ideas. Canoo doesn’t generate sales yet.

In May it signaled that it might not be able to keep operating unless it can raise more cash. Canoo used language like “going concern,” which spooked investors.

Going-concern language “is warranted when there is substantial doubt the company can continue…

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