On June 10, Cipher Mining declined 5.58% in regular trading, trading at $21.71/share, with trading volume of $132 million. The stock came under pressure following the company's completion of an $810 million senior secured notes offering.
Cipher Digital's subsidiary Stingray Compute priced $810 million in senior secured notes due 2031, carrying a 6.000% coupon rate at an issue price of 99.750% of par value. The proceeds will primarily fund the completion of the Stingray data center facility in West Texas, which will be leased to Amazon under a 15-year agreement for AI computing purposes. The deal was jointly underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Santander, and SMBC Nikko.
While the Amazon partnership provides long-term revenue visibility, the high-yield nature of the debt and the company's expanding leverage appear to be weighing on shares. Cipher, formerly a pure-play Bitcoin mining company, has been aggressively pivoting toward AI data center development, having previously raised $2 billion in February for its Black Pearl data center project. The rapid pace of debt accumulation may be raising investor concerns about balance sheet risk despite the quality of the underlying tenant relationships.
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