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Daniel Oliveira's avatar

Oklo's Q3 10-Q (Nov 6) moves its cash further out, which fits your discount-rate arithmetic. The Q2 10-Q said the target was "deploying our first powerhouse in 2028"; the Q3 filing says "in 2028-2029". On the cash point, the $3.13B of cash and securities at Sept 30 came largely from ATM sales this year: 32.6M shares for $2.29B gross, at average net prices of $96.95, then $55.64, then $39.30 on the program opened in September. So the first half was raised near the top and the newest money costs about 2.5 times as many shares per dollar. Data: Oklo 10-Q filings, processed by Equibles.

MoatPeak Investing's avatar

So both levers are working at once. On our arithmetic, a one-year delay at a 10% discount rate takes about 9% off the value of the plan. Dilution is getting costlier too: at $25.25, the price we used, new money would take almost four times as many shares per dollar as the first ATM tranche at $96.95. The cash buys time, but the price of that time keeps rising.