D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ:QBTS) shares are trading slightly lower Thursday morning, consolidating Tuesday’s gains following recent enterprise partnership momentum and federal funding milestones.
Here’s what investors need to know.
- D-Wave Quantum stock is facing resistance. What’s driving QBTS stock lower?
Go-To-Market Partnerships and Industry Showcases
The minor price pause follows a commercial milestone announced on Wednesday when global IT consulting firm CGI entered a strategic go-to-market partnership with D-Wave.
Under the agreement, CGI will integrate D-Wave’s Advantage2 quantum annealing systems and hybrid solvers directly into its enterprise technology services portfolio to deploy commercial optimization applications.
Coinciding with the commercial rollout, D-Wave executive leadership is showcasing its dual-platform annealing and gate-model roadmap at the Quantum World Congress 2026, running from Wednesday to Friday in College Park, Maryland.
To further expand its Asia-Pacific commercial footprint, management also announced on September 16, that it will host its annual Qubits Asia user conference on October 28 in Seoul, spotlighting production deployments with enterprise clients including NTT DOCOMO and LG CNS.
Providing structural support beneath recent trading volatility, D-Wave also finalized a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce on September 8, securing up to $100 million in federal funding to accelerate U.S. quantum manufacturing infrastructure.
QBTS Stock Edges Lower Thursday
QBTS Price Action: D-Wave Quantum shares were down 1.43% at $16.57 during premarket trading on Thursday, according to Benzinga Pro data.
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