Shares of Hut 8 Corp (NASDAQ:HUT) were down on Wednesday, after the company reported its second-quarter results.

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Needham: Hut 8 reported revenues of $75 million, missing consensus of $77 million, and adjusted EBITDA of $10 million, surpassing expectations of $2 million, Todaro said in a note.

The company signed the second phase at Beacon Point in the second quarter, with the full leased capacity representing a little over 700MW (megawatt) of critical IT load, he added.

Due to audit requests in Texas, "the timeline on Beacon Point becomes a bit murkier," although management indicated energization in the first quarter and site delivery in the third quarter of 2027, the analyst stated. There is likely "some political posturing" to the audit, which suggests that it could take until after the November elections "to get clarity," he further wrote.

Rosenblatt Securities: As Hut 8 announced an impressive second HPC (high-performance computing) contract at its Beacon Point a couple of weeks back, the second-quarter results were "largely uneventful," Brendler said.

The company’s earnings will be driven by its legacy Bitcoin mining business and will be "largely irrelevant" until the HPC contracts begin in mid-2027, he added.

The analyst stated that the stock came under pressure in after-hours trading following the earnings release mainly due to the unexpected delay in the new batch process of ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), which manages the flow of electric power in Texas and dictates how data centers connect to the power grid. Since Hut 8 successfully raised $4.25 billion in project-level debt for Phase 1 at Beacon Point in June, the ERCOT risk seems "relatively small," he further noted.

HUT Price Action: Shares of Hut 8 had declined by 4.76% to $96.35 at the time of publication on Wednesday.

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