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Hyperliquid Strategies shares jumped 11% after reporting $305.5M net income, driven by HYPE token gains.
Shares of Hyperliquid Strategies advanced 10.99% on Thursday, hitting $12.83, following the treasury company's disclosure of $305.5 million in net income for its fiscal year ending June 30. PURR extended those gains by 3.43% in after-hours trading, reaching $13.27.
The Nasdaq-traded firm ended the period holding 29.3 million HYPE tokens alongside $149.9 million in cash. It reported no outstanding debt.
The bulk of the earnings resulted from movements in token prices. According to the company's financial report, unrealized gains on the HYPE token amounted to $709.9 million.
A one-time loss of $169.2 million on tokens related to the business combination partly offset that figure. An additional $183.5 million was consumed by deferred tax expenses.
Operating income was relatively modest in comparison. Staking revenue and validator commissions generated $9.5 million, while interest income contributed another $2.7 million.
Total assets stood at $2.06 billion, which included $1.9 billion in HYPE valued at $65.04 per token. CEO David Schamis described the past year as a period of building.
"We more than doubled our HYPE treasury, jointly launched a validator that has quickly become one of the largest on the network and completed the exit from our legacy biotech operations," Schamis said.
Meanwhile, Hyperliquid Strategies raised $646.6 million through a committed equity facility at an average price of $8.70 per share. It also allocated $773.4 million to acquire approximately 16.5 million HYPE at an average cost of $46.77.
The company spent $27.8 million to repurchase roughly 5.8 million PURR shares at an average price of $4.80. Cash reserves amounted to $132.6 million as of August 19.
HYPE saw an increase of about 77% during the quarter ending June 30. Over the same period, the total market capitalization of digital assets fell by roughly 13%.
That divergence set HYPE-focused vehicles apart from the remainder of the treasury sector, which experienced declines. Hyperion DeFi reported record quarterly net income of $31 million this month, fueled by similar treasury gains.
Companies linked to other tokens experienced the opposite trend. Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin (BTC), recorded a net quarterly loss of $8.62 billion.
Bit Digital reported a $107.2 million loss, with approximately $86 million stemming from writedowns and non-operating items. Token performance, rather than treasury structure, accounted for most of the disparity this quarter.
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