As Bitcoin continues to surge to historic highs, market enthusiasm is also being ignited, and publicly traded companies investing in Bitcoin are part of this trend. After tasting the "sweet head," Boyaa Interactive plans to continue to invest a substantial sum of $100 million in digital currencies.
With the continuous strengthening of cryptocurrencies, Boyaa Interactive has chosen to increase its holdings.
On March 11th, at the close of trading, Boyaa Interactive was reported at 2.26 Hong Kong dollars per share, with a single-day increase of over 30%.
The stock price surge may be related to an announcement on the evening of March 8th, where Boyaa Interactive announced that in order to further promote the group's business development and layout in the Web3 domain, the board of directors is seeking shareholder approval at the shareholders' meeting for further authorization to potentially purchase cryptocurrencies, authorizing the board to continue purchasing cryptocurrencies with a total amount not exceeding $100 million.
With the continuous strengthening of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, the company's stock price has also been soaring, with a 143% increase in just three trading days.
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Stock price soars 143% in 3 days
The continuously rising Bitcoin is creating a substantial amount of wealth for a group of publicly traded companies that favor it, and Boyaa Interactive is one of them.
Looking at the performance in the secondary market, on March 11th alone, Boyaa Interactive closed at 2.26 Hong Kong dollars per share, up 30.64%, and in the last fifteen trading days, the company's stock price has soared by nearly 300%. Among them, in the last three trading days, the company's stock price has surged by 143%.
Specifically, on March 7th, Boyaa Interactive rose by 43.01%; on March 8th, it increased by 30.08%; on March 11th, Boyaa Interactive's hot upward trend continued, also pushing the company's market value to 1.604 billion yuan.
It is reported that Boyaa Interactive is a company focused on the development and operation of card games, with main products including Texas Hold'em, Landlord, Chinese Chess, Sichuan Mahjong, etc. As early as November 2013, Boyaa Interactive successfully went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.In recent years, Boyaa Interactive has been accelerating its deployment in the Web3 domain. The company's board of directors believes that a comprehensive transformation towards a Web3 strategy and the creation of a pure, leading Web3 public company is an important decision for the company's current and future development.
Therefore, to further promote the company's business development and layout in the Web3 field, the board of directors is seeking shareholder approval at the general meeting to grant further authorization for the potential purchase of cryptocurrencies, authorizing the board to continue purchasing cryptocurrencies with a total amount not exceeding 100 million US dollars.
Boyaa Interactive stated that this is to enable the company to complete the reserve of encrypted assets at a more favorable time, laying a solid foundation for the implementation of the group's Web3 business development strategy.
It is worth noting that in terms of purchase price, Boyaa Interactive said that the company will purchase according to the market and price situation of cryptocurrencies at its discretion. The highest percentage of premium paid for purchasing related cryptocurrencies will not exceed 10% of the market price. In addition, the company will purchase cryptocurrencies in the form of cash payment, with funds mainly coming from idle cash reserves.
In fact, as early as the end of last year, the company had significantly increased its investment in cryptocurrencies. The announcement shows that on December 22, 2023, the special shareholders' meeting approved the authorization for the company to plan to purchase cryptocurrencies not exceeding 100 million US dollars within the next 12 months. Currently, this investment plan is close to completion and has achieved a certain increase.
It is understood that as of the announcement date, Boyaa Interactive has purchased a total of 1,110 Bitcoins, with an average price of about $41,790; a total of 14,855 Ethereum coins have been purchased, with an average price of about $2,777.
As of the time of publication, the price of Bitcoin is $71,600 per coin, and the price of Ethereum is $4,010 per coin. Based on this, according to the number of cryptocurrencies announced by Boyaa Interactive on the announcement date, the company has made a floating profit of about $33.09 million in Bitcoin and a floating profit of about $18.32 million in Ethereum, with a total floating profit of about $51.41 million, equivalent to about 370 million yuan.
In fact, the continuous upward trend of Bitcoin is just one of the catalysts for the surge in Boyaa Interactive's stock price, and the company's performance recovery is also a factor supporting its stock strength.
Performance Recovery
On March 1, Boyaa Interactive released its 2023 performance. The announcement shows that in 2023, the company recorded a total revenue of 395 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%; net profit of 117 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 82.5%; basic earnings per share of 17.74 cents, and a proposed final dividend of 0.0335 yuan per share.In fact, over the past four years, Boyaa Interactive's revenue has shown a growth trend. Specifically, in 2020, Boyaa Interactive's revenue increased by 8.5% compared to 2019; in 2021, the full-year revenue increased by 4.2% compared to the full year of 2020; in 2022, the company's revenue increased by approximately 2.5% compared to 2021.
According to the announcement, the main reason for the year-on-year increase in the company's revenue during the reporting period was the holding of certain online operational activities and the continuous optimization of game products and gameplay during the reporting period.
It is reported that during the reporting period, the revenue generated by Boyaa Interactive's mobile games and web games accounted for approximately 70.1% and 29.9% of the company's total revenue, respectively. In the same period last year, the revenue generated by the company's mobile games and web games accounted for approximately 66.6% and 33.4% of the company's total revenue, respectively.
It is worth noting that the operation of activities has undoubtedly increased related expenditures. Financial report data shows that in 2023, Boyaa Interactive's sales and marketing expenses were approximately 48.3 million yuan, which was about 35.4 million yuan in 2022, a year-on-year increase of approximately 36.3%; its proportion of revenue also increased from 9.4% in 2022 to 12.2% in 2023.
In fact, Boyaa Interactive's performance recovery also largely benefited from the overall recovery of the game market. It is reported that in 2023, a total of 1075 game licenses were issued domestically, an increase of 563 game licenses compared to 2022.
Against this backdrop, the game track has rapidly heated up. Data from the "2023 China Game Industry Report" shows that the actual sales revenue of the domestic game market in 2023 was 302.964 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.95%.
It is worth mentioning that, perhaps to attract more investors, the company's board of directors has adopted a new dividend policy and announced that in the next five years, it will continue to distribute at least 20% of the operating net profit to shareholders each year, and distribute at least 5% of the appreciation income obtained from purchasing encrypted assets each year.
Listed companies frequently invest in Bitcoin.
In fact, in recent years, companies that have made a lot of money in cryptocurrencies are not only Boyaa Interactive, but also Meitu, which is also a listed company in Hong Kong.
Data shows that on March 8 alone, Meitu Company's stock price soared by 13.38%. On March 11, the market sentiment continued, and as of the close, Meitu Company's stock price was reported at 3.11 Hong Kong dollars per share, up 1.97%.In fact, the recent market performance of Meitu Company has also been significantly influenced by the rise in cryptocurrency prices. It is reported that Meitu Company previously announced a large-scale purchase of Bitcoin.
According to the announcement, in the open market transactions on March 5, 2021, Meitu Company purchased 15,000 units of Ethereum and 379.1214267 units of Bitcoin, with a total consideration of approximately $22.1 million and $17.9 million for these two cryptocurrencies, respectively.
Furthermore, Meitu Company continued to increase its investment in the subsequent process. As per the company's published cryptocurrency investment plan, it further purchased 175.67798279 units of Bitcoin in open market transactions, with a total consideration of approximately $10 million.
As of June 30, 2023, the fair value of the Bitcoin and Ethereum purchased by Meitu Company was $28.28 million and $57.41 million, respectively. With the continuous rise in the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum in recent days, the market has also had higher expectations for Meitu Company. In addition, OSL Group, a listed company on the Hong Kong stock market, has also been slightly affected and has experienced a small increase.
In fact, not only domestic listed companies have expectations for cryptocurrencies, but foreign companies have also been continuously increasing their investments. It is reported that on February 26, Michael Saylor, the founder of Microstrategy, posted that Microstrategy purchased approximately 3,000 Bitcoins at a price of about $155.4 million from February 15 to February 25, with an average price of about $51,813 per Bitcoin.
Based on this calculation, in just half a month, Microstrategy made a profit of $59.36 million through investing in Bitcoin.
In addition, according to the on-chain data analysis platform Arkham, which announced the launch of Tesla and SpaceX's holding data, Tesla's related Bitcoin wallet has about 1,789 more Bitcoins than the 9,720 Bitcoins reported in the last financial report.
With the continuous fermentation of capital market sentiment, Boya Interactive has now become a "shadow stock" of Bitcoin.