PowerCompute (Nasdaq: PWCM) Reports Third Quarter 2026 Results: Bitcoin Production Up 36%; Buys 600 S21++ Miners Expected to Add About 10% to Hashrate

Secured debt reduced 94% and annual secured interest cut to approximately $138,000, with no Bitcoin pledged; mining margin improved to 50.7% from 29.0% in Q2 2026

Net income of $0.4 million, or $0.20 per share, on fair value gains as Bitcoin rose approximately 43% during the quarter

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PowerCompute, Inc. (Nasdaq: PWCM) (“PowerCompute” or the “Company”), formerly LM Funding America, Inc., a Bitcoin mining and power-infrastructure company, today reported results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026. The Company mined 23.9 Bitcoin in the third quarter of 2026 (“Q3 2026”), up 35.8% compared against the third quarter of 2025 (“Q3 2025”), and mining margin improved to 50.7% compared against 29.0% in the second quarter of 2026 (“Q2 2026”). Because the average value of each Bitcoin mined was 37.5% lower than in Q3 2025, revenue was $1.9 million, compared with $2.2 million in Q3 2025.

On September 24, 2026, the Company repaid and terminated its Bitcoin-backed credit facility, reducing secured debt from approximately $19.4 million at June 30, 2026 to $1.25 million, with no Bitcoin pledged. In November 2026, the Company paid approximately $1.0 million in cash for 600 Bitmain Antminer S21++ miners which is anticipated to be in service by mid-December 2026. The Company anticipates this purchase to increase its active Bitcoin mining hashrate by approximately 80 to 85 PH/s, or about 10%.

Q3’26 Financial Results

• Revenue: $1.9 million for Q3 2026, compared with $2.1 million in Q2 2026 and $2.2 million for Q3 2025. More miners actively mining raised production 35.8% to 23.9 Bitcoin, while the average value of each Bitcoin mined fell to approximately $71,400 from approximately $114,200.
• Mining margin: 50.7% in Q3 2026, compared with 29.0% in Q2 2026 and 49.0% in Q3 2025. Energy cost to mine one Bitcoin, net of curtailment and energy sales, was approximately $35,000, compared with approximately $58,000 in Q3 2025, and blended net power cost was approximately 2.4 cents per kilowatt-hour in Q3 2026. Curtailment and energy sales generated approximately $304,000 in Q3 2026, compared with approximately $152,000 in Q3 2025, primarily from summer heat-related curtailment at the Oklahoma site. Mining margin is digital mining revenue less digital mining cost of revenue, net of curtailment and energy sales.
• Operating costs: Total operating costs and expenses were approximately $2.8 million in Q3 2026, compared with $5.7 million in Q3 2025, primarily reflecting a $1.5 million decrease in staff costs and a $1.2 million decrease in depreciation and amortization. Operating loss narrowed to approximately $0.9 million from $3.5 million.
• Arch facility items: Q3 2026 results include a $6.7 million gain on the fair value of Digital Assets Receivable for Bitcoins held under the Company’s Arch loan, a $4.4 million loss on the related loan derivative and $1.0 million of interest expense, of which approximately $0.7 million was non-cash and related to the derivative. With the facility repaid on September 24, 2026, annual interest expense on the Company’s remaining secured debt is approximately $138,000.
• Net income attributable to common shareholders: approximately $0.4 million, or $0.20 per basic and diluted share, compared with a net loss of $4.1 million in Q3 2025. As the Bitcoin price rose from approximately $58,400 at June 30 to approximately $83,800 at September 30, 2026, the Company recorded the $6.7 million fair value gain for Digital Assets Receivable, partially offset by the $4.4 million loan derivative loss. Core EBITDA was approximately $2.3 million in Q3 2026, compared with Core EBITDA losses of $1.4 million in Q3 2025 and $2.8 million in Q2 2026.
• Balance sheet: Total liquidity was approximately $6.0 million at September 30, 2026, comprising 63.8 Bitcoin valued at approximately $5.3 million (at approximately $83,800 per Bitcoin), cash of approximately $0.7 million and marketable securities. Total liabilities were approximately $3.7 million, compared with $21.6 million at June 30, 2026. At October 31, 2026, the Company held 65.7 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $5.1 million based on a Bitcoin price of approximately $77,000, or approximately $2.00 of Bitcoin per share of common stock outstanding.
  
  

Q3’26 and Recent Operational Highlights

• Debt: Approximately 39.6 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $3.3 million, were returned to the Company when the Arch facility was repaid. The Company’s only remaining secured debt is a $1.25 million note with Brown Family Enterprises, LLC, whose maturity was extended on November 2, 2026, effective October 31, 2026, to December 31, 2027.
• S21++ purchase: In November 2026, purchased 600 Bitmain Antminer S21++ miners for approximately $1.0 million, paid in full in cash. Delivery is expected in late November, with deployment by mid-December 2026 at the Columbus, Mississippi site, where the new miners will replace approximately 500 S19 and 100 S19j Pro units in existing slots without additional power capacity. At an expected average 228 TH/s per miner, the new units are expected to produce approximately 137 PH/s in place of approximately 52 PH/s, a net increase of approximately 80 to 85 PH/s, or about 10% of our total active hashrate, which would bring active hashrate to approximately 880 PH/s from its October 31, 2026 level. At constant network difficulty and Bitcoin price, about 10% more hashrate would mean about 10% more Bitcoin mined. This estimate replaces the approximately 964 PH/s projection in the Company’s September 30, 2026 release, which included an approximately 3.5 megawatt expansion in Mississippi that is not included in the current estimate.
• Fleet refresh: Installed approximately 900 Bitmain Antminer S19j XP miners in Oklahoma by September 30, 2026, and moved the displaced S19j Pro units to Mississippi to replace older S19 units. Each swap replaces a machine producing approximately 95 TH/s with one averaging approximately 132 TH/s, about 39% more. Active hashrate declined to approximately 718 PH/s at September 30, 2026 from approximately 771 PH/s at June 30, 2026, primarily from degradation of older miners, then reached approximately 800 PH/s at October 31, 2026, up 11.4%, without adding power capacity.
• HPC: Operating a professional-grade graphics processing unit (“GPU”) at the Oklahoma site that has Verified status on the Vast.ai compute marketplace, which allows the Company to evaluate HPC and AI workloads on power the Company already owns.
• Columbus power: Secured 11 megawatts at the Columbus, Mississippi site under the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (“TVA”) new data center rate without the capacity commitment charge of approximately $1.5 million per megawatt, above the first five megawatts, that TVA now imposes on new data center load, a charge that would total approximately $9 million for 11 megawatts. The Company moved the site to Columbus Light and Water’s Large Data Service Rate (Schedule DCB) effective October 1, 2026, before the new rate took effect, increased contracted demand from 8.5 to 11 megawatts and made no capital contribution to the utility.
  
  

Management Commentary

“We own 26 megawatts of interconnected power, and our job is to earn the best return we can on every one of them,” said Bruce M. Rodgers, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of PowerCompute. “This quarter we repaid our Bitcoin-backed debt, and we now use Bitcoin as working capital rather than collateral. This month we paid cash for 600 new miners that go into slots we already have and should add about 10% to our hashrate by mid-December. We keep replacing older machines with ones that produce more hashrate on the same power, and this summer we sold power back to the grid when that paid more than mining with it. Our GPU work in Oklahoma is early, but it is teaching us what it takes to run HPC on power we already own.”

“Revenue fell because each Bitcoin we mined was worth less on average, not because we mined less,” said Richard Russell, Chief Financial Officer of PowerCompute. “This quarter’s net income primarily came from lower operating costs and fair value gains as Bitcoin rose, on Bitcoin held as working capital and Bitcoin held under the settled Arch facility. What continues is the lower cost of debt: interest on our remaining secured debt now runs about $138,000 a year, and that note matures December 31, 2027.”

Investor Conference Call

PowerCompute will host a conference call today, Friday, November 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM EST, to discuss these results. A question-and-answer session will follow management's presentation.

Conference Call Details:

• Date: Friday, November 13, 2026
• Time: 8:30 AM EST
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About PowerCompute

PowerCompute, Inc. (Nasdaq: PWCM), formerly LM Funding America, Inc., is an owner and operator of electrical infrastructure that converts electricity into Bitcoin and high-performance computing and artificial intelligence capacity. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, the Company operates 26 megawatts of interconnected electrical infrastructure across Bitcoin data center facilities in Oklahoma and Mississippi.

The Company also operates a technology-enabled specialty finance business providing funding to nonprofit community associations primarily in Florida. For more information, please visit https://www.power-compute.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” and “project” and other similar words and expressions are intended to signify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and conditions but rather are subject to various risks and uncertainties.

Some of these risks and uncertainties are identified in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and its other filings with the SEC, which are available at www.sec.gov. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the Company’s ability to maintain compliance with the continued listing requirements of The Nasdaq Stock Market, including the minimum bid price requirement and the minimum Market Value of Listed Securities requirement if the stayed rule retakes effect; the availability, cost and timely delivery and installation of mining equipment and related infrastructure, including the effect of tariffs on imported equipment; the Company’s ability to increase active mining hash rate or realize anticipated improvements in fleet efficiency; the Company’s ability to energize remaining power capacity on anticipated timelines or at anticipated cost; the Company’s ability to repay or refinance its remaining indebtedness at or before maturity; the Company’s liquidity and the substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern described in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026; the Company’s ability to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms and the dilution that any equity financing may cause; changes in Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin network difficulty and total network hash rate; the availability and pricing of energy sales and curtailment revenue; the Company’s ability to convert owned power capacity to HPC and AI use on anticipated timelines or at anticipated cost; the Company’s ability to acquire additional electrical capacity on acceptable terms; the Company’s ability to secure customers for HPC and AI capacity; changes in TVA or Columbus Light and Water rate schedules, tariffs or rate classifications, including the application, amount or timing of any capacity commitment charge, and the Company’s ability to maintain its current rate classification at the Columbus site; the anticipated reduction in interest and collar-related expense following repayment of the Company’s Bitcoin-backed credit facility; the availability and cost of GPU and related infrastructure equipment; competition in the HPC and AI compute market; and other risks associated with the Company’s Bitcoin mining, HPC, AI and specialty finance businesses.

The occurrence of any of these risks and uncertainties could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update such statements except as required by applicable law.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Our reported results are presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). We also disclose Earnings before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization (“EBITDA”) and Core Earnings before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization (“Core EBITDA”), which adjusts for unrealized loss (gain) on investment and equity securities, loss (gain) on disposal of mining equipment, loss on impairment of prepaid mining machine deposits, and stock compensation expense and option expense, all of which are non-GAAP financial measures. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors because they are widely accepted industry measures used by analysts and investors to compare the operating performance of Bitcoin miners. Non-GAAP measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of net income (loss), the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to EBITDA and Core EBITDA is included in the tables below.