D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ:QBTS) shares are trading marginally lower Friday morning as investors continue to weigh new enterprise partnership and ongoing federal funding momentum.
- D-Wave Quantum shares are under pressure. Why is QBTS stock trading 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 Sept. 23 to Sept. 25, 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 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.
This builds on broader policy tailwinds, highlighted by the Trump administration’s recent $215 million quantum competition aimed at expanding domestic capabilities.
QBTS Stock Edges Lower Friday Morning
QBTS Price Action: D-Wave Quantum shares were trading 0.34% lower at $17.42 during premarket trading on Friday, according to Benzinga Pro data.
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