MARA Q1 revenue fell 18% YoY, missing expectations; $1.3 billion net loss drags down after-hours stock price

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Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings announced its Q1 2026 financial results, with revenue of $174.6 million, down 18% year-over-year and missing market expectations. The company reported a net loss of $1.3 billion, and a loss per share of $3.31, which also fell short of the $2.20 loss estimated by analysts, causing the stock price to drop 3.44% in after-hours trading. Source: Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea (Context: The former top site "Digg" is revived: abandoning the Reddit model to transform into an AI news aggregator tracking X sentiment) (Background: Google parent company Alphabet issues yen-denominated bonds for the first time, raising capital expenditure cap to $190 billion for AI investment) U.S.-listed Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings (MARA) released its Q1 2026 financial results after the market closed on Monday (5/11). Revenue not only fell 18% compared to the same period last year but also significantly missed Wall Street analyst expectations. Coupled with a roughly 23% drop in Bitcoin prices during the quarter, which led to massive unrealized losses on its holdings, the company reported a net loss of $1.3 billion, dragging its after-hours stock price down by over 3%. According to the financial report filed by MARA with the U.S. SEC, revenue for the quarter ending March 31 was $174.6 million, down 18% from $213 million in the same period last year and below the consensus market expectation of $192.7 million. The net loss widened from $533.4 million in the same period last year to $1.3 billion; the loss per share reached $3.31, also worse than the analyst-estimated loss of $2.20. Following the earnings release, MARA's stock price fell 3.44% to $12.93 in after-hours trading, completely erasing the 3.48% gain from the regular trading session that day. Based on the closing price of $13.39, MARA has seen a cumulative decline of approximately 16% over the past 12 months. MARA noted that the massive Q1 loss was primarily due to unrealized losses on its 38,689 Bitcoin treasury holdings caused by the decline in coin prices. Bitcoin fell by approximately 23% in the first quarter of 2026, dropping from the $100,000 level at the start of the year, significantly eroding the balance sheet of this mining giant. To address debt pressure, MARA sold off over 15,100 Bitcoin in the last week of March, totaling approximately $1.1 billion, to repurchase corporate debt at a discount. While this move reduced financial risk, it also reflected the reality of tight cash flow. MARA's predicament is not an isolated case. Bitcoin is currently trading at around $82,000, still about 35% below its all-time high of $126,080 set in 2025, and the revenue miners earn per block produced has shrunk significantly. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin network's mining difficulty has risen by nearly 30% over the past year, continuously compressing the profit margins for unit hashrate. In this industry winter, MARA's market position is also slipping. Once the world's largest Bitcoin miner by market capitalization, it has now fallen to seventh place, as some competitors have been more aggressive in their transition to AI, capturing market attention and capital. Facing the mining downturn, MARA has clearly identified AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) as its next growth curve. The company emphasized that Bitcoin mining remains its "operational foundation," but future development will focus on transforming mining infrastructure into AI data centers. MARA's current core AI strategy includes partnering with Starwood Capital to convert Bitcoin mines into AI/HPC data centers, and the $1.5 billion acquisition of the Long Ridge Energy & Power natural gas power plant and data center at the end of April, a facility that can support up to 600 MW of AI computing power in the future. MARA stated: "Our strategy is to co-locate new infrastructure with existing Bitcoin mining facilities. This approach creates flexibility—generating revenue through mining today while retaining the option to shift power to AI and critical IT loads." The company revealed that approximately 90% of its non-custodial mining capacity could be reconfigured for AI and IT computing in the future. Notably, MARA explicitly stated in its financial report that it has no plans to purchase additional Bitcoin mining machines in the

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