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American Superconductor Corp/DE – ‘10-Q’ for 12/31/19 – ‘XML’

On:  Wednesday, 2/5/20, at 4:09pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/19   ·   Accession #:  1437749-20-1789   ·   File #:  0-19672

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 2/05/20  American Superconductor Corp/DE   10-Q       12/31/19   94:6.9M                                   RDG Filings/FA

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

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                Revenue (Details)                                                
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                Liabilities (Details)                                            
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                Customers (Details)                                              
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                Textual)                                                         
35: R47         Note 3 - Stock-based Compensation - Stock-based     HTML     35K 
                Compensation Expense By Financial Statement Line                 
                Item (Details)                                                   
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                Valuation (Details)                                              
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                (Details Textual)                                                
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                - Reconciliation of Numerators and Denominators of               
                EPS Calculation (Details)                                        
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                Basis (Details)                                                  
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                Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis                      
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                (Details Textual)                                                
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