LM Funding America Inc (LMFA) 2025 Q3 法說會逐字稿

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the LM Funding America, Inc third quarter 2025 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Cody Fletcher. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, operator, and thank you all for joining LM Funding America's third quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Joining us today are Chairman and CEO, Bruce Rodgers; President of US Digital Mining, Ryan Duran; and CFO, Richard Russell.

For today's call, we have uploaded an accompanying supplemental investor presentation, which can be found under the Events section of LM Funding's Investor Relations website. Before we get started, please note that our remarks today may include forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. We will also reference certain non-GAAP financial measures today.

Please refer to our 10-Q filing and our website for a full reconciliation of these non-GAAP performance measures for the most comparable GAAP measures. For a more comprehensive discussion of these and other risks, please refer to our filings with the SEC available on sec.gov and in the Investors section of our website at lmfunding.com/investors.

I'll now turn the call over to our CEO, Bruce Rodgers.

Thanks, Cody. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Third quarter was one of execution, integration and disciplined capital allocation, as we continue building LM Funding into a vertically integrated Bitcoin miner with a simple ambition: increase Bitcoin per share and grow intrinsic value over time.

We entered the quarter with momentum from our Oklahoma site and a growing Bitcoin treasury. As summer progressed, we added meaningful scale and strengthened our foundation. In August, we bolstered our balance sheet with $21 million of capital designated primarily for Bitcoin accumulation and quickly deployed a large portion of those proceeds to purchase 164 Bitcoin, accelerating our treasury growth.

Just weeks later, we closed on the acquisition of 11-megawatt facility in Columbus, Mississippi, bringing our total capacity to 26 megawatts across two wholly controlled sites. This move expanded our operational base, diversified our power and climate exposure and gave us full control of energy and uptime across a second location.

By the end of September, we had integrated Mississippi, energized additional capacity and exited the month with approximately 304.5 Bitcoin in treasury, valued in at nearly $35 million versus a market capitalization of roughly half that amount. That disconnect between our treasury value alone and our equity valuation underscores the opportunity we are working toward.

Then in October, we advanced two core priorities simultaneously. We enhanced our per share economics and positioned our mining fleet to improve productivity. In a private securities repurchase, we retired more than 3.3 million shares and over 7.3 million warrants in a single transaction, reducing dilution, simplifying our capital structure and increasing our Bitcoin per share.

Subsequently, in early November, we announced a $1.5 million stock buyback, further committing our resources to increasing Bitcoin per share. During the same quarter, we secured Bitmain S21 immersion cooled machines to grow our immersion systems at our Oklahoma site. We expect these machines to come online in December.

Importantly, October was also our first full month with Mississippi operating at steady state and the results validate our strategy. Bitcoin production increased 28% sequentially, rising from 5.9 Bitcoin in September to 7.6 Bitcoin in October. Taken together, Q3 and October were about strengthening control of our energy, expanding our mining footprint, growing our treasury and reducing our share count, all in service of improving Bitcoin ownership on a per share basis.

We strongly believe in Bitcoin as a growth asset. We built our company to take advantage of Bitcoin's growth and long-term value proposition. We find inexpensive power machines to add to our Bitcoin holdings, and we are active in the capital markets trying to increase our total Bitcoins held and our Bitcoins per share. It's a long game, and it starts with sound mining operations.

With that, let me turn it over to Ryan for an operational update.

Thanks, Bruce. Operationally, the last four months were about turning owned infrastructure into accelerating hash power and building an asset base that compounds efficiency over time. We moved from a single site facility at roughly 0.48 exahash in June to exiting October with roughly 0.71 exahash energized, plus additional growth coming online in December, representing roughly 50% hash rate expansion in build cycle.

That growth came from owning and controlling our power, upgrading fleet mix and integrating our second site in Mississippi. The acquisition added roughly 7.5 megawatts of energized capacity and approximately 230 petahash of installed hash rate at an attractive $0.036 per kilowatt hour power cost, giving us a second low-cost, self-managed facility and a diversified operating base.

Equally important, we quickly integrated Mississippi and the site immediately started contributing to our mining operations. And when we reached our first full month of steady-state operation in October, total production of the company increased, as Bruce mentioned, 27% month-over-month from 5.9 Bitcoin to 7.6 Bitcoin.

This gain reflects not only expanded capacity, but also the compounding benefits of tighter operational control, optimized firmware, refined curtailment and power sales scheduling and more efficient fleet deployment in warmer months. We now operate approximately 6,700 machines across the fleet and additional units staged for deployment behind immersion. Our energized hash rate held stable through high heat periods, supported by curtailment and energy sales that directly improve our margins, and we position the fleet for stronger winter uptime when performance conditions naturally improve.

Looking forward, we are entering our next efficiency phase. We secured Bitmain S21 immersion cooled units that will add roughly 70 petahash of compute power to our Oklahoma site and are scheduled to energize in December. This upgrade is meaningful. Immersion cooling improves heat transfer, reduces thermal strain, tightens fan load overhead and increases uptime, especially during seasonal peaks.

Combined with the S21's efficiency profile, this gives us a step change in efficiency and should meaningfully increase Bitcoin per megawatt at the site. This is the same philosophy that guided our site acquisition, combine owned power with modern generation hardware and operate it with discipline. We now operate a cleaner, more efficient and fully controlled mining platform, improving uptime and next-gen hardware and immersion coming online. The foundation is built. From here, the focus is simple: increase production, efficiency and Bitcoin per share.

With that, I'll turn it over to Rick to walk through the financials. Rick?

Thanks, Ryan. For the third quarter, revenue was $2.2 million, up approximately 13% sequentially and 74% year-over-year. The sequential increase reflects stronger average Bitcoin pricing of $114,000 and contributions from the newly operational Mississippi facility for the second half of September. Mining margins improved to 49%, driven by a shift from hosting fees to self-mining, utilizing our curtailment and energy sales to offset mining expenses and higher fleet efficiency.

Curtailment and energy sales totaled $152,000, down from $223,000 in Q2 due to cooler seasonal temperatures. We reported a net loss of $3.7 million and a core EBITDA loss of $1.4 million, both driven by increased staff costs and payroll expenses. Following quarter end, we executed a substantial balance sheet and equity enhancement initiative, completing an $8 million private repurchase of around 3.3 million shares and 7.3 million warrants financed through our $11 million Galaxy facility secured by Bitcoin.

This transaction removed a large warrant overhang and materially reduced the share count, improving per share economics and shareholder alignment. We paired that with a newly authorized $1.5 million public share repurchase program, which gives us flexibility to act opportunistically when our market value trades meaningfully below our Bitcoin holdings and infrastructure value.

In terms of our balance sheet, at quarter end, LM Funding held cash and cash equivalents of $300,000 and 304 Bitcoin valued at $34.7 million, nearly double our market cap, while our equity was $50 million, nearly 3 times our market cap. As of October 31, our Bitcoin treasury stood at approximately 295 Bitcoin, valued at roughly $31.9 million or $2.62 per share compared to a stock price near $1.07 on 12.2 million shares.

Our liquidity, treasury and credit capacity give us flexibility to support operations, growth and continued share repurchases while limiting dilution and preserving long-term upside for shareholders. The numbers tell a clear story, expanding hash rate, improving operating leverage, disciplined cost control and a balance sheet and cap table built to improve per share value over time.

Thanks, Rick. Our focus remains clear: increase Bitcoin per share, expand owned infrastructure and close the gap between intrinsic value and market value. We built a vertically integrated platform that gives us operational control, cost efficiency and treasury leverage. With Mississippi fully online, Oklahoma adding immersion and Bitmain S21 machines coming online in December, we are entering a phase where scale, efficiency and productivity converge.

From a capital strategy standpoint, we will continue to balance Bitcoin accumulation, strategic investment and opportunistic share repurchases that we'll use only when it strengthens the balance sheet without sacrificing per share value. We have no interest in growing for growth's sake. We're interested in growing per share Bitcoin and per share intrinsic value. We believe deeply in the long-term value of Bitcoin, and we believe just as deeply in the long-term value of LM Funding.

Every action we take, every machine deployment, every site decision, every capital move is designed to improve per share ownership, per share cash flow and per share Bitcoin. We like the path we're on, and we like the structure we've built. LM Funding is one of the few micro-cap miners with active invested management. We've built this business to endure volatility and to scale into the next cycle. Our focus is to keep executing methodically, patiently and with conviction.

Thank you for your continued support. We'll now open the line for questions.

(Operator Instructions) Matthew Galinko, Maxim Group.

Hey, good morning guys. Thanks for taking my question. Congrats on all the progress over the last few months. With your mining infrastructure pretty radically different from where it was entering '25, I'm curious if you could maybe give us some thoughts on how you think about that your path in '26 as far as the Bitcoin mining infrastructure and equipment goes?

Sure. The Mississippi acquisition has worked really, really well. First off, it's doing what it was supposed to. And then secondly, Greenidge left behind some low-hanging fruit, and they did some things to grow there that they didn't take advantage of that we're now kind of slipping into. And -- so we've got a nice runway there that we didn't anticipate.

So I look for more growth there and on the magnitude of what we've achieved this year, it seems foreseeable. So that's there. Oklahoma, we're adding the two immersion machines in there. We'll have that thing built out pretty soon. And then it just starts paying for itself and making money after that. It's going to be a long-term Bitcoin mining site given the energy pricing there.

And this is Rick. We also have the ability to expand in Mississippi by additional 4 megawatts. So --

Got it. Okay. So if I could read between the lines there, it sounds like you're not necessarily pursuing or close on any additional site acquisitions or is that something you're still exploring, but just nothing appealing at this point?

We always have people exploring site acquisitions when we do it based on where the energy tariffs and then we look for a property that goes with those energy tariffs.

Got it. And last question for me and I'll jump back in the queue. Just with the -- I guess, with the perspective that you have the, I guess, mandate now to maximize your Bitcoin per share, how do you, I guess, think about allocating between mining business and directly acquiring additional Bitcoin?

We always say you have to take a dollar and decide whether the price of Bitcoin, the price of the infrastructure, et cetera, and then it's a target of where in the future you want that to pay off. And so we kind of play a long game five years on that, looking at what do we think the price of Bitcoin is.

And that means you don't necessarily make a dollar decision based on the current circumstances. You have to make it on a pro forma basis, which kind of makes it a little more black magic, I get it. But it's a long game. So growing the mining helps pay the bills and it has the potential to be accretive to the overall treasury strategy. And then the treasury strategy is a balance between your equities market and the Bitcoin market.

Kev Dede, HCW.

Hello, this is Sky Moore calling for Kevin Dede.Thanks for taking my call. I've got two questions for you all. The first is going to be, with about 15% of your old machines in storage, as reported in the company's October update, how are you guys managing your fleet of these machines going forward?

Ryan, do you want to -- that's kind of granular. You want to handle that?

So yes, those machines are kind of sitting in the wings. As we've hit on, we do have build-out capacity available already immediately at Mississippi. And as Bruce already alluded to as well, we're exploring other opportunities. And we feel strongly that having those machines in the wings is a great way to quickly deploy once that power becomes available.

And then as we're doing in Oklahoma, we kind of set our roots in and then upgrade the fleet from there. So that's generally our strategy.

Awesome. Thanks for that. My final question is, you mentioned more efficient machines being placed at your current sites. Could you guys provide a current cost of mining 1 Bitcoin or perhaps a range of mining 1 Bitcoin?

Yes. This is Rick. Our current mining costs right now per Bitcoin for this most recent quarter was $66,000. Last quarter, it was like $70,000. So we've been able to reduce it by direct mine cost quarter-over-quarter.

Awesome. Thank you so much for taking my questions and I look forward to speaking with you guys next earnings.

Thank you.

Thank you. This will conclude today's question-and-answer session. Ladies and gentlemen, this will also conclude today's conference call. Thank you for participating, and you may now disconnect. Everyone, have a great day.