Crypto Miner Canaan Shares Sink 7% Despite Strong Q4

Crypto miner and producer Canaan fell 6.9% on the Nasdaq on Tuesday regardless of reporting a 121.1% year-on-year improve in income to $196.3 million within the fourth quarter, pushed by a rise in {hardware} gross sales and stronger mining efficiency.

Canaan reported that its Bitcoin (BTC) mining income rose 98.5% year-on-year to $30.4 million, serving to increase its Bitcoin treasury to a report 1,750 BTC, valued at practically $120 million, whereas the corporate additionally elevated its Ether (ETH) holdings to three,950 ETH, price $7.9 million.

The income determine is Canaan’s highest quarterly posting in three years, and was additionally pushed by Bitcoin mining machine gross sales, with the corporate delivery a report 14.6 exahashes per second (EH/s) of computing energy in the course of the quarter.

Canaan mentioned computing energy gross sales had been supported by a “milestone order” from a US-based institutional miner, serving to it set a brand new quarterly report for computing energy gross sales and obtain a 60% year-on-year improve.

On the mining front, the Singapore-based firm mentioned it expanded its installed hashrate to 9.91 EH/s, with 7.65 EH/s operational in the course of the quarter.

Bitcoin community hashrate has fallen from a report 1,150 EH/s in mid-October to 980 EH/s as miners proceed to unplug unprofitable machines and pivot to AI and high-performance computing.

Despite the robust Q4 efficiency, Canaan (CAN) shares tanked one other 6.87% to $0.56, Google Finance data exhibits, making it one of many lowest performers among the many 15 largest Bitcoin miners by market cap.

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At its present value of $0.56, the corporate is now down 18.1% year-to-date and 70.2% during the last 12 months.