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FUFU, BitFuFu Inc.

Capital Markets & Asset Management diversified Distress / turnaroundCyclical

We provide or procure mining equipment hosting services, including rack space, power, network, hardware maintenance, and other infrastructure from various suppliers, and combine them with our proprietary services into an integrated hosting solution.

Revenue from sales of mining equipment represents our sales income of the mining equipment that we first purchase from our suppliers and then sell to our customers.

Customers can entrust us to deploy their own miners within our own hosting facilities or those of our suppliers.

Latest annual: FY2025 20-F
FUFU · BitFuFu Inc.
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$478M
+3.1% YoY · 47% 4-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $478M 5-yr avg $305M
Gross margin 6% 5-yr avg 11%
Operating margin −5.0% 5-yr avg 4.6%
ROIC −7% 5-yr avg 37%
Owner-earnings margin −26% 5-yr avg −26%
Free cash flow margin −26% 5-yr avg −26%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

What it is
Revenue is led by Cloud mining solutions (74%) and Selfmining Revenue Member (13%), with 2 more lines behind.
Situation
Distress / turnaround. Thin interest coverage, or operating cash burned against real debt, across the record. The balance sheet carries this situation; the debt schedule sets the clock. Cyclical. Margins collapse and recover repeatedly across the record; a single year, good or bad, misstates the through-cycle earning power.
What moves the needle
Gross margin has run about 8.8% and operating margin about 5.7% through the cycle, a thin spread that turns the result on volume and the cost of what it sells far more than on the price it sets. On a spread this thin the operating result swings hard on small moves in cost or volume — it has ranged from −5.0% to 14% over the years, so the cost line is where the needle moves. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on customer concentration, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Return on capital has run high across the record (median 21%, above 15% in 3 of 4 years). Owner earnings, the cash-based check, have been thin too. Whether these returns reflect real pricing power or an accounting artifact is the judgment the 10-K is for.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

Where the money comes from

read the 20-F →

Cloud mining solutions is 74% of revenue, with Selfmining Revenue Member the other meaningful line at 13%.

Revenue by product line, FY2025
  • Cloud mining solutions74%$353M
  • Selfmining Revenue Member13%$63M
  • Sales of mining equipment11%$54M
  • Hosting services and others2%$8M
  • Revenue recognized in U.S. dollars payment1%$3M
By geographyAfrica33%Asia23%Oceania16%North America13%Others1%Europe1%

From the segment footnote of the company's own 20-F. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2021–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMDec 2025
Income statement
$103M$198M$284M$463M$478M$478MRevenueRevenue
9%18%6%6%Gross marginGross mgn
$6M$4M$17M$66M($24M)($24M)Operating incomeOp. inc.
5.7%2.0%5.8%14.3%−5.0%−5.0%Operating marginOp. mgn
$5M$2M$10M$54M($31M)($31M)Net incomeNet inc.
17%17%12%Effective tax rateTax rate
Cash flow & returns
$16M($7M)($196M)($220M)($113M)($113M)Operating cash flowOp. cash
$2.9B$18M$25M$25M$28M$28MDepreciationDeprec.
($2.8B)($28M)($231M)($299M)($110M)($110M)Working capital & otherWC & other
$54K$4M$68K$37K$9M$9MCapexCapex
0.1%1.9%0.0%0.0%1.9%1.9%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
$16M($11M)($196M)($220M)($122M)($122M)Owner earningsOwner earn.
15.4%−5.7%−69.0%−47.5%−25.5%−25.5%Owner earnings marginOE mgn
$16M($11M)($196M)($220M)($122M)($122M)Free cash flowFCF
15.4%−5.7%−69.0%−47.5%−25.5%−25.5%Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
100%7%16%26%-7%ROICROIC
102%36%61%33%-19%Return on equityROE
102%36%61%33%−19%Retained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$60M$32M$38M$28M$28MCash & investmentsCash+inv
$6M$4M$11M$12M$12MReceivablesReceiv.
$246K$145K$145KInventoryInvent.
$38K$806K$14M$5M$5MAccounts payablePayables
$6M$3M($3M)$8M$8MOperating working capitalOper. WC
$88M$121M$265M$325M$325MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$82M$86M$64M$98M$98MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
1.1×1.4×4.2×3.3×3.3×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$198M$210M$378M$358M$358MTotal assetsAssets
$109M$102M$101M$116M$116MTotal debtDebt
$49M$70M$63M$89M$89MNet debt / (cash)Net debt
1.5×3.0×10.5×-2.8×-2.8×Interest coverageInt. cov.
$5M$7M$17M$162M$162MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
143M149M150M166M170M167MShares out (diluted)Shares
$0.72$1.33$1.89$2.80$2.81$2.87Revenue / shareRev/sh
$0.03$0.02$0.07$0.33$-0.18$-0.19EPS (diluted)EPS
$0.11$-0.08$-1.31$-1.33$-0.72$-0.73Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$0.11$-0.08$-1.31$-1.33$-0.72$-0.73Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.00$0.03$0.00$0.00$0.05$0.05Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$0.03$0.05$0.12$0.98$0.98Book value / shareBVPS
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
4-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+40.5%/yr+40.5%/yr (4-yr)
Capital spending / share+244.2%/yr+244.2%/yr (4-yr)
Book value / share+207.0%/yr (3-yr)+207.0%/yr (3-yr)

The record, charted

FY2021–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
170Mpeak FY2025
ROIC
26%low FY2022
Gross margin
6%low FY2025

Owner earnings vs. net income

Owner earningsNet income

The accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.

($122M)owner earningsvs.($31M)net incomelow FY2024

Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.

In fiscal 2025 the business reported a $31M loss but ($122M) of owner earnings: $91M less than the profit line, taken out by capital spending and the timing of cash.

FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Reported net income($31M)$54M$10M$2M$5M
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$28M+$25M+$25M+$18M+$2.9B
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items−$110M−$299M−$231M−$28M−$2.8B
Cash from operations($113M)($220M)($196M)($7M)$16M
Capital expenditurecash put back in to keep running and to grow−$9M−$37K−$68K−$4M−$54K
Owner earnings($122M)($220M)($196M)($11M)$16M
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue-26%-47%-69%-6%15%

Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the capital it must spend to hold its position .

Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.

III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →
Material weakness in financial controls
“In the course of preparing our consolidated financial statements, we identified one material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting.”

The figures below are only as sound as the controls that produced them. read the note →

Will it survive?

  • Does not cover its interest
    Operating income ($24M) ÷ interest expense $9M
    What this means

    A full year of operating profit didn't cover the interest bill. This is the zombie zone: the business depends on refinancing, asset sales, or forbearance to service its debt.

  • Net debt against an operating loss
    Cash $28M − debt $116M
    What this means

    Netting $28M of cash and short-term investments against $116M of debt leaves $89M owed, with no operating profit this year to measure it against — understand that combination before anything else about the company. Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.

  • Tight
    DSO 9 + DIO 0 − DPO 4 days
    What this means

    Days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. Lower is better; a long cycle means growth itself eats cash.

Is it a good business?

  • High through the cycle
    4-yr median, range 7%–100%; -7% latest = NOPAT ($19M) ÷ invested capital $251M
    Industry peers: median 5%
    What this means

    The rate the business earns on the money tied up in it, Buffett's north star, because over time a stock tracks the ROIC beneath it. Above ~15% sustained hints at a moat; a return below the cost of capital (~8%) erodes value as a business grows rather than building it — the test Buffett weighs most. The headline is the median of the last 4 years (it ran -7% most recently), so one peak or trough year doesn't set the verdict. Asset-light businesses (R&D expensed, little capital) read artificially high, pair this with Owner Earnings.

  • Consumes cash through the cycle
    5-yr median margin, range -69%–15%; latest ($122M) = operating cash ($113M) − maintenance capex $9M
    Industry peers: median 15%
    What this means

    What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's -26% of revenue this year, a -26% median across 5 years.

  • Loss, and burning cash
    Net income ($31M) · cash from operations ($113M)

    In the filing’s words The filing discloses a material weakness in its financial controls — the reported numbers here, and the record built on them, are only as reliable as the controls that produced them.

    What this means

    The company reported a net loss, so a conversion ratio isn't meaningful. What matters then is whether operations still threw off cash, here, they did not.

How is the cash used?

  • Not enough data
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • Investing or harvesting? 0.32×
    Harvesting
    Capex $9M ÷ depreciation $28M
    What this means

    Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.

Graham’s defensive tests · 2 of 5 met

Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.

  • Adequate size Miss
    Revenue ≥ $2B · $478M
    What this means

    Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.

  • Strong liquidity Pass
    Current ratio ≥ 2× · 3.30×
    What this means

    Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.

  • Conservative debt Pass
    Debt ≤ working capital · $116M vs $226M WC
    What this means

    Graham's rule that borrowings not exceed net current assets. Capital-heavy and buyback-heavy firms routinely fail it, read it next to interest coverage, not alone.

  • Earnings stability Near
    A profit every year (5-yr record) · 1 loss year
    What this means

    Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.

  • Dividend record Miss
    Uninterrupted dividends · none paid
    What this means

    An unbroken dividend was Graham's mark of durability. He wanted twenty years; the filings show about ten, and a single suspension breaks the streak. Non-payers, many fine modern compounders, fall outside his defensive net by design.

  • Moderate price
    P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
    What this means

    Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $0.07/share (latest year $-0.19), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $0.98/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.

Durability & moat, 2021–2025

Whether the record’s returns held, and what the capital reinvested earned.

  • Profitable years 4 of 5
    What this means

    Lost money in 1 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.

  • Return on capital ≥ 15% 2 of 3 yrs
    What this means

    A moat shows up as a high return on invested capital that holds year after year, not one good vintage.

  • Operating margin 4% → 5% (2-yr avg ends)
    What this means

    Through the cycle the operating margin held roughly steady — about 4% early, 5% lately, median 6%.

  • Reinvestment, incremental ROIC returns capital
    What this means

    The capital base barely grew: this business returns cash through dividends and buybacks rather than reinvesting. Judge it on the cash returned, not on compounding.

  • Worst year 2025 · −5.0% op. margin
    What this means

    Operations went underwater in 2025, understand why before trusting the good years.

  • Share count +4.5%/yr
    What this means

    The share count is rising, dilution works against you on a per-share basis.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.

Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Current Position

as of fiscal year-end, Dec 31, 2025

Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.

Current assets$325M
  • Cash & short-term investments$28M
  • Receivables$12M
  • Inventory$145K
  • Other current assets$284M
Current liabilities$98M
  • Debt due within a year$15M
  • Accounts payable$5M
  • Other current liabilities$79M
Current ratio3.30×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio3.29×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.28×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$226Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Debt due this year vs. cash$15M due · $28M cash covered by cash on hand, no refinancing forced · both figures from the Dec 31, 2025 balance sheet
Cash runway0.2 yrsthe business is consuming cash; this is how long the cash on hand lasts at that rate
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$158Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value$117MGraham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$117M$251K of it operating leases
Deferred revenue$51Mcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float

From the company's latest filing.

Peers, Capital Markets & Asset Management

The same industry, side by side on owner economics. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.

CompanyRevenueGross marginOp. marginROICOwner earn. margin
PGYPagaya Technologies Ltd.$1.3B41%-1.3%4%3%
PWPPerella Weinberg Partners$751M-7.6%15%
RMRegional Management Corp.$646M21.6%6%43%
WRLDWorld Acceptance Corporation$585M16.9%8%44%
DAVEDave Inc.$554M-4.2%-12%13%
FUFUBitFuFu Inc.$478M9%5.7%21%-26%
WDWalker & Dunlop$320M143.4%14%149%
GEMIGemini Space Station Inc.$180M-192.5%-95%-123%
Group median2.2%6%14%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Enter the home-market price, not the US ADR quote. BitFuFu Inc. reports in USD, and every figure here (owner earnings, book value, the share count) is on that ordinary-share basis. Enter the price on the same basis: the local-exchange quote per ordinary share. A US ADR price in dollars bundles the ADR-to-ordinary ratio, so it will not reconcile with these figures and would throw the multiple off.

BitFuFu Inc. is profitable, but owner earnings are negative this year because capital spending currently outruns operating cash, a build-out, so the owner-earnings reverse-DCF has no positive base to grow. We read the price from both ends instead: type a price to see the steady-state profitability it demands, then set the mature margin you would believe and weigh the two against each other. Nothing leaves your browser unless you enter it in your notebook.

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The assumptions

Revenue, delivered48%/yr’21→’25

Enter a price to run it.

Owner earnings it must reach
Margin the price demands
Owner-earnings margin today−26%

Two reads of one future. From your price: the owner earnings the company must reach, valued at a mature multiple and discounted back at your rate, expressed as the margin it implies on revenue grown at your rate. From your belief: the mature margin you would credit, set on the dial above. When the margin the price demands runs above the one you would believe, you are paying for a future taken on faith. For a deep cyclical at a trough, normalized through-cycle earnings are the better lens; this mode is for the genuinely unprofitable, and for the profitable business whose capital spending currently outruns its cash.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "BitFuFu Inc. (FUFU), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/FUFU, data as of 2026-07-09.

Manual order: ← FTS its page in the Manual FUFUW →

Industry order: ← FRHC the Capital Markets & Asset Management chapter FUFUW →