Riot Blockchain Inc RIOT shares are buying and selling decrease by 2.09% to $5.63 throughout Monday’s after-hours session after the corporate reported worse-than-expected third-quarter gross sales and EPS outcomes.
What Occurred?
Riot Blockchain reported quarterly losses of 24 cents per share which missed the analyst consensus estimate of a lack of 2 cents per share.
The corporate reported quarterly gross sales of $46.30 million, which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $57.04 million by 19%. It is a 29% lower over gross sales of $64.81 million in the identical interval final yr.
Riot says the corporate maintained an industry-leading monetary place, with $369.8 million in working capital, together with $255.0 million in money readily available, and 6,766 Bitcoin (unaudited), all of which have been produced by the corporate’s self-mining operations, as of September 30, 2022.
What Else?
“Our outcomes this quarter are a powerful testomony to the advantages of Riot’s vertically-integrated and diversified enterprise mannequin, which is additional complemented by our conservative monetary strategy,” stated Jason Les, CEO of Riot.
“Regardless of rising power costs, which considerably impacted many Bitcoin miners, Riot was in a position to leverage our long-term mounted charge energy contract to generate vital energy credit and in doing so, considerably cut back our working prices. Moreover, our sturdy liquidity place has enabled us to stay centered on executing our progress plans and reaching new information in hash charge capability, as we work in the direction of our aim of turning into the world’s main Bitcoin-driven infrastructure platform.”
In line with knowledge from Benzinga Pro, RIOT has a 52-week excessive of $46.28 and a 52-week low of $4.02.