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SLNHP, Soluna Holdings, Inc.

Capital Markets & Asset Management capital-intensive UnprofitableDistress / turnaround

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Latest annual: FY2025 10-K
SLNHP · Soluna Holdings, Inc.
I

The business

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

Revenue · FY2025
$30M
−21.8% YoY · 119% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM
Cash & investments $5M
Cash burn · annual $15M
Runway 4 mo

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 Data hosting revenue (57%), Cryptocurrency mining revenue (38%) and Demand Response Services (4%).
Situation
Unprofitable. No meaningful revenue yet; the record is the cash on hand against the burn. 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.
What moves the needle
Operating margin has run around −113% through the cycle on a 25% gross margin, the operating line deeply negative — so the lever is the path to a margin at all: revenue growth against the cost curve and the cash runway, not the level of a margin that isn't there yet. Capital spending runs about 94% of sales, well above depreciation, so the return earned on what it sinks into that plant weighs as much as the margin. 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 rarely cleared the cost of capital (median −33%, above 15% in 0 of 7 years). Owner earnings, the cash-based check, have been thin too. This is price-taker territory, where the balance sheet and the cycle matter more than any multiple; the rest is in the 10-K.

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

Where the money comes from

read the 10-K →

Revenue spreads across 4 lines, the largest Data hosting revenue at 57%.

Revenue by product line, FY2025
  • Data hosting revenue57%$17M
  • Cryptocurrency mining revenue38%$11M
  • Demand Response Services4%$1M
  • High-performance computing service revenue0%$28K

From the segment footnote of the company's own 10-K. 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, 2019–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2019’192020’202021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMMar 2026
Income statement
$7M$595K$14M$29M$21M$38M$30M$33MRevenueRevenue
−28%25%25%22%22%Gross marginGross mgn
41%308%75%101%118%74%135%152%SG&A / revenueSG&A/rev
21%251%5%R&D / revenueR&D/rev
$259K($2M)($4M)($85M)($20M)($48M)($34M)($43M)Operating incomeOp. inc.
3.9%−276.0%−31.2%−297.0%−96.1%−125.0%−113.3%−130.0%Operating marginOp. mgn
$323K$2M($5M)($99M)($29M)($63M)($53M)($63M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
$289K($1M)$5M($6M)($3M)($5M)($9M)($15M)Operating cash flowOp. cash
$87K$81K$2M$10M$10M$10M$10M$10MDepreciationDeprec.
($152K)($3M)$6M$79M$12M$43M$24M$19MWorking capital & otherWC & other
$83K$805K$46M$64M$13M$9M$28M$27MCapexCapex
1.3%135.3%319.2%223.1%60.3%23.3%94.4%81.7%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
$206K($1M)$3M($16M)($13M)($14M)($19M)($25M)Owner earningsOwner earn.
3.1%−217.6%21.3%−54.7%−59.3%−36.6%−63.1%−75.2%Owner earnings marginOE mgn
$206K($2M)($41M)($70M)($16M)($14M)($37M)($42M)Free cash flowFCF
3.1%−339.3%−286.9%−244.5%−74.5%−36.6%−125.2%−127.9%Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
$4M$0$630K$630KDividends paidDiv. paid
7%-28%-8%-122%-60%-416%-33%-50%ROICROIC
8%33%-14%-236%-110%-100%-134%Return on equityROE
−84%33%−15%−135%Retained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$745K$59K$531K$320K$3M$3M$6M$5MReceivablesReceiv.
$924K$828K$888K$888KInventoryInvent.
$210K$192K$3M$4M$2M$3M$5M$4MAccounts payablePayables
$1M$695K($2M)($2M)$849K($147K)$663K$2MOperating working capitalOper. WC
$4M$5M$25M$4M$14M$13M$92M$91MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$1M$2M$16M$30M$28M$48M$49M$52MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
3.7×2.9×1.6×0.1×0.5×0.3×1.9×1.7×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$6M$9M$118M$85M$91M$88M$188M$190MTotal assetsAssets
$7M$13M$22M$27M$26MTotal debtDebt
$7M$13M$22M$27M$21MNet debt / (cash)Net debt
-2.4×-10.1×-7.4×-18.8×-7.0×-7.9×Interest coverageInt. cov.
$4M$6M$39M$42M$27M($12M)$54M$47MShareholders’ equityEquity
0.5%6.7%13.5%12.9%20.5%14.0%35.6%57.1%Stock comp / revenueSBC/rev
Per share
480K479K592K599K1.3M5.1M29.0M84.1MShares out (diluted)Shares
$13.69$1.24$24.23$47.63$16.04$7.44$1.02$0.39Revenue / shareRev/sh
$0.67$4.06$-8.89$-164.72$-22.23$-12.40$-1.84$-0.75EPS (diluted)EPS
$0.43$-2.70$5.16$-26.07$-9.51$-2.72$-0.65$-0.30Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$0.43$-4.21$-69.52$-116.47$-11.94$-2.72$-1.28$-0.50Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$7.38$0.00$1.06$0.01Dividends / shareDiv/sh
$0.17$1.68$77.35$106.26$9.67$1.73$0.97$0.32Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$7.98$12.35$65.42$69.86$20.18$-2.44$1.84$0.56Book value / shareBVPS

Share counts before 2022 are restated ×1/20 for a stock split, so per-share figures sit on one basis.

The diluted share count moved ×2.19 into 2023 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×3.89 into 2024 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×5.69 into 2025 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×2.9 into TTM — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
6-yr5-yr
Revenue / share−35.1%/yr−3.8%/yr
Dividends / share−62.0%/yr (2-yr)−62.0%/yr (2-yr)
Capital spending / share+33.2%/yr−10.5%/yr
Book value / share−21.7%/yr−31.6%/yr

The year, in the company's words

the filing →

Verbatim from the 10-K's management discussion. Each sentence is shown only because its subject, direction check out against the filed numbers on this page. The words are the company's; the arithmetic is the record's.

  • Data hosting revenue-9.8%
    “Data Hosting Revenue: Hosting revenue decreased for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to 2024, driven by two primary factors.”
    ✓ direction matches the filed record

The record, charted

FY2019–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked. Share counts on the current split basis.

Share count
29Mpeak FY2025
ROIC
−33%low FY2024
Gross margin
22%low FY2022

Owner earnings vs. net income

Owner earningsNet income

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

($19M)owner earningsvs.($53M)net incomelow FY2025

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 earned ($19M) of owner earnings, the operating cash left after the $10M it takes just to hold its position. It put $18M more into growth; free cash flow, after that spending, was ($37M).

FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Reported net income($53M)($63M)($29M)($99M)($5M)
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$10M+$10M+$10M+$10M+$2M
Stock-based compensationreal costnon-cash, but a real cost+$11M+$5M+$4M+$4M+$2M
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items+$24M+$43M+$12M+$79M+$6M
Cash from operations($9M)($5M)($3M)($6M)$5M
Maintenance capital expenditurethe spending needed just to hold position and volume−$10M−$9M−$10M−$10M−$2M
Owner earnings($19M)($14M)($13M)($16M)$3M
Growth capital expenditurediscretionary; spent to get bigger, not to stand still−$18M−$3M−$54M−$44M
Free cash flow($37M)($14M)($16M)($70M)($41M)
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue-63%-37%-59%-55%21%

Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position (here about $10M, roughly its depreciation, the rate its assets wear out). The other $18M of its capital spending is growth it chose, not upkeep it owed; charged only with the maintenance it must do, the business earns well more than the year's free cash flow shows. The cash-flow statement also adds stock comp back as non-cash, but it is a real cost paid in shares; counted as the expense it is (less $11M), owner earnings is nearer ($29M).

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 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →

Will it survive?

  • Does not cover its interest
    Operating income ($34M) ÷ interest expense $5M
    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 $462K − debt $27M
    What this means

    Netting $462K of cash and short-term investments against $27M of debt leaves $26M 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 68 + DIO 14 − DPO 76 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?

  • Below average through the cycle
    7-yr median, range -416%–7%; -33% latest = NOPAT ($27M) ÷ invested capital $80M
    Industry peers: median -6%
    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 7 years (it ran -33% 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
    7-yr median margin, range -218%–21%; latest ($19M) = operating cash ($9M) − maintenance capex $10M
    Industry peers: median -73%
    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 -63% of revenue this year, a -55% median across 7 years. It chose to put $18M more into growth, so free cash flow this year was ($37M) — the gap is investment, not weakness. Treating stock comp as the real expense it is (less $11M of SBC) leaves ($29M).

  • Loss, and burning cash
    Net income ($53M) · cash from operations ($9M)
    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?

  • No surplus to allocate
    What this means

    The business didn't generate positive Owner Earnings this year, so any distributions came from the balance sheet or borrowing, not from operations.

  • Investing or harvesting? 2.92×
    Expanding
    Capex $28M ÷ depreciation $10M
    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 · 1 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 · $30M
    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 Near
    Current ratio ≥ 2× · 1.87×
    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 · $27M vs $43M 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 Miss
    A profit every year (7-yr record) · 5 loss years
    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 · 2 of 7 yrs
    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.

  • Earnings growth
    Earnings +33% over the record ·
    What this means

    Earnings were negative early in the record, a growth rate isn't meaningful.

  • 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 $-0.31/share (latest year $-0.34), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $0.34/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, 2019–2025

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

  • Profitable years 2 of 7
    What this means

    Lost money in 5 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.

  • Return on capital ≥ 15% 0 of 4 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 −101% → −111% (3-yr avg ends)
    What this means

    Through the cycle the operating margin slipped — about −101% early to −111% lately, median −113% — competition or costs are biting in.

  • Reinvestment, incremental ROIC
    What this means

    The reinvested base moved too little against the change in profit to read a reliable return on it here — the figure would be a small-denominator artifact, not a moat. Judge this one on the owner-earnings record and the cash it returns instead.

  • Worst year 2022 · −297.0% op. margin
    What this means

    Operations went underwater in 2022, understand why before trusting the good years.

  • Dividend record paid
    What this means

    Paid a dividend in 2 of the years on record.

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.

In its own filing Named as a competitive risk

Its FY2025 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat.

“Some of our equipment may become outdated, and upgrading or replacing it—especially mining hardware or advanced AI infrastructure—could be costly and time-consuming.”

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, and the company is using it that way.

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 the latest quarter, Mar 31, 2026

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$91M
  • Cash & short-term investments$5M
  • Receivables$5M
  • Inventory$888K
  • Other current assets$80M
Current liabilities$52M
  • Debt due within a year$10M
  • Accounts payable$4M
  • Other current liabilities$38M
Current ratio1.75×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio1.73×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio0.09×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$39Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Debt due this year vs. cash$10M due · $5M cash cash alone won't cover the maturities; it leans on refinancing or operating cash · both figures from the Mar 31, 2026 balance sheet
Cash runway0.1 yrsthe business is consuming cash; this is how long the cash on hand lasts at that rate
Revenue, latest quarter vs. a year ago+58.3%the freshest read on whether the business is still growing
Current ratio, recent quarters0.8× → 1.7×
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$41Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value$15MGraham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$26M$244K of it operating leases
Deferred revenue$22Mcustomer cash collected before delivery; operating float

From the company's latest filing.

Management, ownership & pay

read the proxy →

From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid.

  • Insider ownership10.1%

    The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2025 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.

  • Stock-based compensation$11M

    The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 36% of revenue. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.

Inverting the record

Invert: instead of why Soluna Holdings, Inc. is a good business, the question is what would make owning it a mistake, and whether those marks are in the record. Disconfirming tests across 2019–2025.

2 of the 3 tests turned up something to look into; the other 1 came back clean.

  • Look hereIs it less profitable than it was?−53.0% vs −10.1%

    The business ran at a loss early in the record (an owner-earnings margin of −10.1%) and the loss has widened to −53.0% across the last three years, with the latest year at −63.1%. Ask the filing where the widening sits — price, cost, or spending growing faster than revenue — and what would narrow it.

  • Look hereAre "one-time" charges a yearly habit?4 of 7 years

    Management took an impairment or write-down in 4 of the last 7 years, $48M in all. Taken across the majority of the record, the "one-time" label is wearing thin — ask whether these are past deals coming due rather than genuinely isolated events. Read it beside the goodwill the company still carries.

And these came back clean
  • Did receivables and inventory outpace sales?

Each test is read from the filings and is noisy alone; a flag can mark a cyclical trough or a year of heavy investment as easily as a problem. The filing says which.

What an owner would ask, FY2025

read the 10-K →
  • How much of the revenue rides on one buyer?
    ≈$20M · 59% of revenue on the largest customers (TTM)
    “In 2025, two customers accounted for 59% of hosting revenue and 34% of total revenue.”verify →
  • Which reported numbers are a judgment call?
    Management names Revenue recognition, Income taxes, Stock compensation as critical estimates

    each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →

The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.

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
HIVEHIVE Digital Technologies Ltd.$298M1.8%0%-42%
HUTHut 8 Corp.$235M54%-55.2%-8%-73%
CRCLCircle Internet Group Inc.$110M1102.0%-4%699%
DGXXDigi Power X Inc.$34M-95%
ORBSEightco Holdings Inc.$33M9%-20.7%-39%-33%
SLNHPSoluna Holdings, Inc.$30M23%-113.3%-33%-55%
PFSIPennyMac Financial Services Inc.$20M6967.8%12%-14347%
BMNPBitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc.$6M-224.0%-32%-139%
Group median23%-20.7%-8%-64%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Soluna Holdings, 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, delivered19%/yr’20→’25

Enter a price to run it.

Owner earnings it must reach
Margin the price demands
Owner-earnings margin today−128%

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, "Soluna Holdings, Inc. (SLNHP), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/SLNHP, data as of 2026-07-09.

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