{"id":97016,"date":"2026-05-12T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/?p=97016"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:30:16","slug":"mara-reports-1-3-billion-quarterly-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/mara-reports-1-3-billion-quarterly-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"MARA Reports $1.3 Billion Quarterly Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company MARA <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.mara.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/detail\/1422\/mara-announces-first-quarter-2026-results\">released<\/a> its report for the first quarter. As of January-March, the company&#8217;s net loss increased to $1.3 billion (compared to $533 million a year earlier).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ce3d293de554b33b-4171942730163063.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-279852\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: MARA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s revenue decreased by 18% compared to the same period last year \u2014 to $174.6 million, falling short of Wall Street&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zacks.com\/stock\/news\/2917469\/marathon-digital-holdings-inc-mara-registers-a-bigger-fall-than-the-market-important-facts-to-note\">expectations<\/a> of $192.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>MARA&#8217;s total hash rate increased by 33% \u2014 from 53.3 EH\/s to 72.2 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>During the past quarter, the miner produced 2247 BTC without purchasing any coins. However, the company&#8217;s total reserves of digital gold decreased by 26% \u2014 to 35,303 BTC.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reasons for Weak Performance<\/h2>\n<p>According to the report, the negative financial results were mainly due to losses in treasury reserves, as Bitcoin fell by more than 20% over three months.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of MARA stated that mining digital gold remains the &#8220;core activity&#8221; of the company, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mara-to-invest-1-5-billion-in-energy-company-transformation\">expansion<\/a> into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to seek additional revenue sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOur strategy is based on placing new infrastructure next to existing mining facilities. This approach provides flexibility: we can generate revenue today through Bitcoin mining while maintaining the ability to redirect resources to AI and critical IT tasks as these areas develop at the same sites,\u201d MARA noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the company emphasized that it does not plan to purchase new mining equipment in the near future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The publication of the quarterly results put pressure on the company&#8217;s shares. Since the report was released after the market closed, MARA&#8217;s stock fell by 4% in pre-market trading.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-9017226a66e1b616-4171942732190718.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-279853\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/MARA\/\">Yahoo Finance<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In April, miner Bitdeer <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitdeer-surpasses-mara-in-bitcoin-mining-capacity\">surpassed<\/a> MARA in terms of Bitcoin mining capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARA released its first-quarter report, revealing a net loss of $1.3 billion, up from $533 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"MARA's Q1 net loss rose to $1.3 billion from $533 million.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,1185,1252],"class_list":["post-97016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-marathon-digital-holdings","tag-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"MARA's Q1 net loss rose to $1.3 billion from $533 million.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97018,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97016\/revisions\/97018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}