According to Coindesk, cryptocurrency mining rig manufacturer Bitmain lost USD 500 million during its Q3 financials due to a prolonged bear market, citing a recent update on its financial results to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx).
According to a source, the company fell short of its quarterly earnings by as much as USD 500 million. In a previous report it submitted to the exchange, it reported earnings for the first half of the year as having USD 1 billion as profits.
The company’s portfolio had reportedly dropped in valuation by as much as USD 100 million at the end of the third quarter compared to the beginning of the quarter. Being a major stakeholder in the Bitcoin Cash fork, it held a lot of stake in the asset, however, the market downturn had severely traumatized the price of the asset to as much as a 70% loss. Its other major assets holdings like Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, and Dash had lost 39%, 67%, 42.68%, and 64.31% respectively.
Bitmain had filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with HKEx in August 2018 to allow it list its shares with the exchange which may possibly improve its financials. However, the company has experienced many constraints on all sides. On the part of the exchange, it had claimed that the industry is still immature for such a leap, and the resulting earnings report for Bitmain further buttresses its point.
For months, many crypto-related ventures have been up against an uphill battle of weathering the storm stirred by the bearish market of 2018. For the most part of the year, aspirations to return to the all-time high seasons gradually waned, instead, many companies began to adjust. For Bitmain, it had to deal with the internal restructuring that saw a reshuffling of management staff, office closures of subsidiaries, and layoffs of its staff.
The chances of Bitmain’s IPO to gain approval from HKEX gets slimmer with the numerous challenges besetting the mining hardware giant.
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