Core Scientific Cuts Hashrate Outlook, Q1 Revenue Misses Estimates

Core Scientific (CORZ), the most important publicly traded bitcoin miner by hashrate, reported first quarter income of $192.5 million, falling in need of the consensus analyst estimate of $200.3 million, in line with FactSet.

First quarter income was up 255% from the identical quarter final 12 months, primarily because of will increase in digital asset mining income and internet hosting income, however partially offset by a lower in tools gross sales, the corporate mentioned in a press release.

Core Scientific minimize its 2022 hashrate outlook to 30-32 EH/s from its earlier outlook of 40-42 EH/s, and now sees complete energy of about 1 gigawatt versus earlier steerage of between 1.2 and 1.3 gigawatt.

“Now we have labored to de-risk our 2022 progress to between 30 and 32 exahash, absolutely supported by our current capital construction,” mentioned CEO Mike Levitt. “We protect the flexibleness to develop past our plan, ought to capital market circumstances enhance.”

The miner additionally reported adjusted EBITDA of $93 million, which was up 644% from the earlier 12 months quarter, however under the consensus estimate of $111 million.

The miner mentioned its mining phase had a gross margin of 48% within the first quarter of 2022 in comparison with 83% within the prior 12 months interval. The lower was pushed by larger miner depreciation, larger energy prices and decrease common worth per bitcoin mined.

Regardless of the steerage minimize and lacking estimates, the shares of the miner have been up 1.3% in after hours buying and selling, whereas bitcoin traded down roughly 2% over the past 24 hours to round $28,000. The inventory has dropped 65% this 12 months, roughly on tempo with friends Marathon Digital (MARA) and Riot Blockchain (RIOT).

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