Penny Grabber
1 week ago
Interesting quarter.
Based on an average btc price of 67,500 for the period, even though btc mining was reduced due to the halving and moving mining perations...still reached 3M in revenue for the quarter. Revaluing btc holdings as additional income, btc had an average price of roughly +14,000 higher than last quarter. Times 160. Another 2.2M
Q3 should come in around 5.2-5.5M
Operating costs last quarter were about 4.3M
Estimated earnings for the quarter 1M
Added to last quarters 1.9M for the first 6 months of the year they have a GAAP profit of roughly 3M in 6 months. Market cap is less than 10M. Which is less than the amount of btc held in treasury.
Valuation does not take I to account the partnership of the new 15MW plant. The 5000+ miners that, according to online reports, thebs19s they have still operate at a profit when btc is above 54,000/coin.
The stock price is really limiting growth for thus company. Management is looking for a loan to acquire additional miners because at current levels, raising 5M would dilute ownership 50%.
When they raised 35-40M in 2021 they had nothing going on. Zero bitcoin. Zero miners. Some interest in Borqs (that went defunct). And a SPAC in the works but not yet allocated to. Company to bring public. However, valuation was nearly 100M at one point. 10x current levels.
They keep pointing out their company is worth $15-$16 a share book value. Announcing a share buy back and allocating a couple million to buying back shares would go a long way with this micro cap.
Microstrategy borrows 100s of millions to buy btc, why can't LMFA borrow or use some treasury to buy back it's own stock?
At least they could shoot for an offering down the road to expand. They just don't have any interest in the company from investors.
So they continue to chug along...printing money...paying themselves...with the miners investors funded 3 years ago...who are down 95%
Can they turn it around? Can they be trusted?
Time will tell.
Cheers.
Penny Grabber
1 month ago
This is interesting after reading about it.
1.5M loan given to a company in live stock and furs at a good APR
2.5M loan given to a company to build out a btc hosting center.
4.5M in revenue last Q at 53k a btc. After halving Q2 maybe 58 btc minted. Still around 4M at 68k a coin average. Two new loans say 12% on 4M. Another 40k a month in interest income. Starting June....3000 miners operating at cost at 15mw plant, loan secured with company assets...
Balance sheet appears to have 2M in liabilities. Nearly 40M in assets. Consisting of btc (11M) btc miners (20M after depreciation), AR in notes to the above mentioned companies, and Misc.
Through their SPAC they took ICU public...and looks like they own nearly 6 million warrants still and about 3% of the company in common shares. ICU has moved from $2s to nearly $8 this week. Warrants moving much much higher as well...
Furthermore, it appears the CFO and CEO purchased options at $30 a share here. They spent maybe 100k usd each on those rights.
Lastly, the RS and recent run in stock price has it at or above $5. Making it available for more funds and traders...
They plan on closing on a 15mw plant by month end. Sights on a 60mw plant. Each mw is about 275,000 usd to bring online. So maybe 12M usd is needed for 60mw. Maybe new s21 miners to occupy it. Their offering in 2021/2022 was around 35M. They eventually got delivered and running about 6k miners. 3k of those are going to the 15mw plant in July. What would go in the 60mw? Hosting? Own miners? Unclear.
Own miners they would need another 20M for purchasing them and working capital. With the new plant, 30-40M capital raise minimum to expand btc operations. With a 12M market cap? Doesn't sound possible. Unless shares rise to the 30 range for a 70M cap. Then it's more than reasonable.
Seems to be alot of meat on this bone. Unfortunately the street isn't convinced on the management, excessive operating costs primarily salaries and SGA, may have a sour taste in its mouth from the last raise, the -90% return, and enriching themselves on the execution of the plan vs rewarding shareholders that provided the funding.
Maybe they'll look to increase shareholder value this time. They have been living very well since the miners went online...but will they take it to the next level? History has said they do not...but it may be time.
I suspect a capital raise this year after a stock run up.
Management has to show some returns to investors to be rewarded with another hefty raise. Maybe they redeem themselves this year..
TaperT2
6 months ago
Bruce M. Rodgers, Chairman and CEO of LM Funding, stated, "We continue to make steady progress in our Bitcoin mining operations. In the fourth quarter alone, we mined 108.0 Bitcoin. Over the same time period, the Company sold 103.0 Bitcoin, generating approximately $3.4 million in proceeds. We continue to strategically reinvest the proceeds of our Bitcoin sales back into the business as we position the Company for the upcoming Bitcoin halving event anticipated to occur during the first half of 2024."
The Company estimates the value of its 95.1 Bitcoin holdings were approximately $4.0 million as of December 31, 2023.