CoinShares International — An attractively priced option on crypto adoption

CoinShares International (OMX: CS)

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CoinShares International — An attractively priced option on crypto adoption

We consider CoinShares International (CS) an attractively priced option on the prospective adoption of digital assets. We estimate that CS’s market capitalisation of £204m (on a fully diluted basis) is at present at least 85% covered by the sum of CS’s cash at bank (£13.9m at end-June 2022), net amounts from brokers (£38.1m) and the accrued management fees related to XBT Provider products (we estimate the current balance at c £120m). Moreover, CS is now trading at c 0.93x book value. With a steady fee income and good equity position, we think CS is well placed to be one of the beneficiary survivors of the current ‘crypto winter’.

Milosz Papst

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Milosz Papst

Director, Financials

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Financials

CoinShares International

An attractively priced option on crypto adoption

Q222 results

Financials

10 August 2022

Price

SEK34.65

Market cap

SEK2,364m

SEK12.2702/£

Gross cash (£m) at end-June 2022

13.9

Shares in issue

68.2

Free float

30.1%

Code

CS

Primary exchange

Nasdaq First North

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

3.7

(46.7)

(51.2)

Rel (local)

1.2

(48.6)

(38.7)

52-week high/low

SEK100.50

SEK22.60

Business description

CoinShares International develops innovative infrastructure, financial products and services for the digital asset class. It manages and provides liquidity for exchange traded products and undertakes proprietary trading in digital assets. It also acquired a blockchain equity index business and a consumer-facing crypto company in 2021.

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Q322 results

1 November 2022

Analyst

Milosz Papst

+44 (0) 20 3077 5700

CoinShares InternationalCoinShares International is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

We consider CoinShares International (CS) an attractively priced option on the prospective adoption of digital assets. We estimate that CS’s market capitalisation of £204m (on a fully diluted basis) is at present at least 85% covered by the sum of CS’s cash at bank (£13.9m at end-June 2022), net amounts from brokers (£38.1m) and the accrued management fees related to XBT Provider products (we estimate the current balance at c £120m). Moreover, CS is now trading at c 0.93x book value. With a steady fee income and good equity position, we think CS is well placed to be one of the beneficiary survivors of the current ‘crypto winter’.

Year end

Revenue
(£m)

Adjusted EBITDA*
(£m)

Adj. EPS**
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/20

18.4

22.1

0.28

0.00

10.1

0.0

12/21

80.9

121.7

1.64

0.00

1.7

0.0

12/22e

49.3

20.0

0.25

0.00

11.3

0.0

12/23e

36.1

31.5

0.28

0.00

10.1

0.0

Note: *Sum of revenue, income and gains from capital markets infrastructure and gains on

principal investments less administrative expenses excluding D&A. **Total comprehensive

income (excluding currency translation differences and fair value gain/(loss) on investments

recognised in other comprehensive income) per share attributable to the shareholders of the parent.

Remaining cautious in its capital markets activities

CS recognised a £17.7m loss from the TerraUSD (UST) collapse in Q222 (see our previous note for details ), resulting in a CoinShares Capital Markets (CSCM) loss of £11.4m during the quarter. Having said that, it has so far avoided any further significant losses from counterparty risk arising from the financial issues of several large players, which sent ripples across the digital asset industry. CS has successfully recalled most of its decentralised finance (DeFi) and fixed income positions and remains in a defensive mode in its capital markets activities for now.

CoinShares Physical continues to attract new funds

Meanwhile, the company further expanded its exchange traded products (ETP) suite (five products launched in Q222). While net outflows from the legacy XBT Provider products continued at c US$132m (vs US$246m in Q122), the CoinShares Physical platform recorded a minor positive net inflow in Q222, bringing the H122 net inflows to US$105m (excluding seed assets). We consider the above as an indication of sustained investor interest in digital asset exposure. CS’s equities platform saw US$60m net outflows, translating into H122 net inflows of US$35m. The decline in digital asset prices in Q222 reduced CS’s assets under management (AUM) to £1.66bn at end-June 2022 (vs £3.95bn at end-March 2022), resulting in asset management fees of £14.2m in Q222 (compared to £19.6m in Q221).

Valuation: Fair value at SEK80.0

We have reduced CS’s FY22 forecasts on the back of more muted CSCM activity but have retained our mid- to long-term digital asset allocation assumptions, arriving at a CS valuation of SEK80.0 per share (down from SEK85.0 previously).

Q222 results: £17.7m loss from the UST collapse

CS reported and adjusted EBITDA loss of £8.2m in Q222 (vs a £28.6m profit in Q221) and its adjusted net loss came in at £11.4m (vs a £26.6m profit in Q221), mostly due to a one-time loss of £17.7m arising from the UST stablecoin de-pegging (see our previous note for details). Its total comprehensive loss was minimal at £0.1m in Q222 (vs a £26.6m profit in Q221), assisted by a currency translation gain of £11.3m arising from the appreciation of the US dollar (in which CoinShares Capital Markets (Jersey) Limited is denominated) against sterling.

Exhibit 1: Q222 results highlights

£m, unless otherwise stated

Q222

Q122

Q421

Q321

Q221

Revenue, of which:

13.9

18.0

25.8

18.4

19.6

XBT Provider

13.0

16.3

24.4

17.5

19.5

CoinShares Physical

0.6

0.4

0.5

0.2

0.1

Equities platform

0.6

0.5

0.6

0.6

-

B2C*

(0.1)

0.7

0.3

-

-

Capital market infrastructure income/gains, of which:

(11.4)

10.1

16.2

8.4

14.7

Liquidity provisioning

1.6

2.0

2.4

1.7

3.3

Delta Neutral Trading Strategies

(1.3)

0.6

5.3

2.6

9.1

Fixed income activities

0.8

1.2

3.5

3.1

1.7

DeFi

4.9

6.3

3.6

-

-

Other

(17.4)

0.1

1.5

1.0

0.5

Principal investment gains/(losses)

(5.1)

(0.1)

0.7

4.8

4.1

Adj. administrative expenses

(5.8)

(9.2)

(10.0)

(5.7)

(9.7)

Adj. EBITDA

(8.2)

18.7

32.9

26.0

28.6

Adj. EBITDA margin

N/A

67.1%

77.0%

82.0%

74.7%

Depreciation and amortisation

(0.7)

(0.6)

(0.5)

(0.5)

(0.1)

Finance expense

(2.4)

(2.2)

(2.9)

(1.5)

(1.6)

Income taxes

(0.1)

0.1

0.3

(0.4)

(0.3)

Currency translation differences

11.3

4.1

(0.4)

2.6

(0.1)

Total comprehensive income

(0.1)

20.2

29.5

26.2

26.6

Adjusted net income

(11.4)

16.1

29.7

N/A

N/A

Source: Company data; Note: *Acquired in December 2021.

CSCM: Moving into defence mode

CS recognised the loss on UST in its Capital Markets Infrastructure segment (under ‘other’ activities) but has so far avoided any further large losses from the contagion spreading recently across the digital asset markets, as it has no direct exposure to the troubled players such as Celsius, Three Arrows Capital, BlockFi or Voyager. The company has significantly reduced its DeFi positions, notably in institutional lending protocols such as Maple and TrueFi. Together with the lack of income from the Anchor protocol following the UST collapse in May, this translated into a decline in DeFi income to £4.9m in Q222 from £6.3m in Q122. CS has also successfully recalled most of its balances in its fixed income activities outside of DeFi to limit losses from defaulting counterparties (generating a £0.8m income in Q22 compared to £1.2m in Q122 and £1.7m in Q221). The CEO highlighted during the earnings call that most of the contagion in the form of counterparty risk arising from poor risk management of several large players in the sector has likely materialised. This particularly applies to Europe and the United States, while some incremental risk may still materialise in the case of Asian players.

Income from liquidity provisioning for the XBT Provider products was £1.6m, down from £2.0m in Q121 and £3.3m in Q221, influenced by lower digital asset prices. With most of the trading capital tied up in DeFi in the earlier part of the quarter, CSCM did not generate any meaningful income/gains from delta neutral strategies, where it booked a small loss of £1.3m in Q222. This arose from opening a long futures position to take advantage of historically low annualised premiums to maintain the required exposure related to XBT Provider products, with the potential to reduce CS’s interest expense and/or invest the cash in higher yielding strategies. The Value at Risk on CSCM’s derivative book stood at £125k at end-June 2022.

As a result of the above, CSCM reported a loss of £11.4m in Q222 (or a £6.3m profit excluding the UST loss). Together with the reduced capital markets activity, CS paid down all revolving credit lines it has with brokers. As a result, it had a net amount due from brokers of £38.1m at end-June 2022, compared to a net amount due to brokers of £205.2m at end-March 2022. We understand that CSCM has remained cautious in terms of activity so far in Q322, which if sustained would result in a significant reduction in interest expense.

Asset management: AUM and fees lower, but inflows into CoinShares Physical continue

CS booked £14.2m in asset management revenue in Q222 (vs £19.6m in Q221). The vast majority of fees still comes from the legacy XBT Provider products (£13.0m in Q222), but with gradually increasing importance of the CoinShares Physical platform and the equities platform (£0.6m each).

We note that despite the turmoil in the digital asset markets, CoinShares Physical enjoyed net inflows of US$105m (excluding seed assets) in H122, of which US$86m was in Q122. We believe that this demonstrates the strength of the platform’s value proposition. During the quarter, CS launched five new products based on the following assets: FTX Token, Chainlink, Uniswap, Matic and Cosmos (the last two with embedded staking mechanism), bringing its current suite within CoinShares Physical to 14 products. We estimate that all the new CoinShares Physical products launched in 2022 year to date had a combined AUM of c US$66m at end-June 2022 (of which c 84% are seed assets of Solana and FTX Token ETPs provided by FTX). Net outflows from XBT Provider seen throughout FY21 and in Q122 continued in Q222 at around US$132m (vs US$246m in Q122), according to our calculations. The decline in net outflows is likely driven by lower digital asset prices, but also may have been driven by the declining share of unit holders who invested before the latest bull run, which started in 2020. CS’s equities platform saw a c US$60m net outflow in Q222, bringing the H122 balance to c US$35m of net inflows.

CS’s AUM stood at £1.66bn at end-June 2022, of which 58% was attributable to XBT Provider, 8% to CoinShares Physical and 34% to the equities platform. This represents a decrease from £3.95bn at end-March 2022, affected by the decline in digital asset prices, and has translated into lower custody fees, resulting in lower direct costs of CS’s asset management platform at US$0.5m in Q222 vs US$1.4m in Q122. Coupled with a reduction in administrative expenses to £1.1m in Q222, from £1.9m in Q221, this translated into a still robust operating profit of the segment of £12.6m (vs £16.3m in Q221).

Principal investments: Write-downs of 3iQ and Solana tokens

Both CS’s equity investments and proprietary digital asset holdings were written down during the quarter, resulting in a principal investments loss of £5.1m in Q222 (vs a £4.1m gain in Q221). Major drivers were 3iQ Asset Management (revalued downwards by c US$3.5m in Q222 to US$2.5m), whose valuation was affected by the fall in AUM amid lower digital asset prices, as well as CS’s proprietary holdings of Solana tokens (down by c US$1.4m to US$0.7m). This was partially offset by c US$0.6m of carried interest from CoinShares Fund II booked in Q222 (US$3.0m in total in H122).

The largest holding within CS’s principal investments portfolio remains its 32.06% stake in the online bank, FlowBank, which is basically a Swiss provider of online trading services with a local banking licence. Its carrying value at end-June 2022 was US$29.1m (out of CS’s total portfolio of US$44.2m) and the stake is accounted for using the equity method. During a recent interview (released on 25 May 2022), FlowBank’s CEO highlighted that he expects the company to be profitable on a monthly basis starting from the second half of 2022 or even earlier (possibly in May/June). In Q222, CS recognised a minor £0.1m loss from its share of joint venture and associate profits/(losses), which we understand consists primarily of its stake in FlowBank and Gold Token SA.

B2C: Development in progress

CS continued the integration of the Napoleon Group (acquired in Q421) and successfully launched a beta version of NapBots (trading bots) on 11 July 2022, with a formal relaunch and rebranding planned for Q322. Furthermore, on 4 July 2022, CS completed the acquisition of Napoleon Asset Management, the first crypto asset manager in Europe with an Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive licence. Management highlighted that the B2C platform remains in its infancy and that the £0.8m operating loss in Q222 is a function of costs incurred to drive growth of this business line.

Forecast revisions and valuation update

We have retained our mid- to long-term digital asset adoption assumptions, as we see enough evidence that digital assets have established themselves as another distinct asset class. Further adoption signs include the recent deal signed by BlackRock with Coinbase to provide its clients access to digital assets (by connecting Coinbase to its Aladdin platform). Consequently, we have made only limited adjustments to our FY25e forecasts, with our new adjusted EBITDA expectation down 10.8% vs our previous forecasts published in June. For FY22, however, we have reduced our adjusted EBITDA forecast from £41.0m to £20.0m, primarily due to lower CSCM income/gains (£6.9m vs £31.8m previously) given the lower Q222 results compared to our expectations (even though the latter accounted for the UST loss) and CS’s expected muted trading activity in Q322. We assume a gradual pick-up in CSCM activity from Q422, but expect somewhat lower income and gains in FY23e and FY24e, as we factor in more moderate activity in the broad digital asset markets compared to FY21 following the current ‘crypto winter’. The weaker CSCM forecast for FY22 is partially offset by lower administrative cost assumptions given the reversal of bonus accruals CS booked in Q222 and more limited direct costs amid lower CSCM activity and AUM of CS’s asset management business (translating into reduced trading fees and custody fees, respectively).

We now arrive at CS’s fair value per share of SEK80.0 based on our discounted cash flow (DCF) model (compared to SEK85.0 previously). This implies a significant upside to CS’s current share price of SEK34.65. Consequently, we believe that CS represents an attractively priced option on the prospective digital assets adoption. We estimate that CS’s market capitalisation of £204m (on a fully diluted basis) is at present at least 85% covered by the sum of CS’s cash at bank (£13.9m at end-June 2022), net amounts from brokers (£38.1m) and the accrued management fees related to XBT Provider products (we estimate the current balance at c £120m). Moreover, CS is now trading at c 0.93x book value. With a steady fee income and good equity position (£220.9m at end-June 2022), we think CS is well-placed to be one of the beneficiary survivors of the current ‘crypto winter’.

We note that the upgrade of the Ethereum network (often referred to as ‘The Merge’), which will involve migrating the network from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm, is now scheduled for September. We believe that, in line with other CoinShares Physical ETPs based on PoS blockchains, CS is likely to offer a fixed percentage staking yield to Ethereum ETP holders at some stage, retaining any excess yield. However, at this stage we do not account for any excess staking yields CS could earn on its CoinShares Physical Ethereum ETP AUM, given the limited visibility in terms of the exact staking yields on the Ethereum network following The Merge (which will depend, among others, on the proportion of total Ether (ETH) supply being staked on the network). For illustrative purpose, we estimate that every 10bp excess yield on CoinShares Physical Ethereum ETP AUM would raise our CS valuation by c 1.5%.

Exhibit 2: Summary of forecast revisions

 

FY21

FY22e

FY23e

FY24e

FY25e

 

Actual

Old

New

diff (%)

Old

New

diff (%)

Old

New

diff (%)

Old

New

diff (%)

Revenue, of which:

80.9

51.9

49.3

(5.1)

37.1

36.1

(2.7)

48.6

49.1

0.9

69.4

73.2

5.5

XBT Provider

78.5

44.7

43.1

(3.7)

29.1

25.2

(13.4)

34.7

30.5

(11.9)

41.6

37.0

(11.0)

CoinShares Physical & other *

0.9

2.4

3.0

25.6

4.3

7.6

76.2

9.4

14.3

52.3

22.1

30.9

39.5

Equities platform

1.2

2.2

1.9

(10.4)

2.3

1.9

(16.9)

2.8

2.5

(10.2)

3.4

3.0

(10.2)

B2C

0.3

2.6

1.2

(52.9)

1.4

1.4

(0.6)

1.8

1.8

(0.6)

2.3

2.3

(0.6)

Capital market infrastructure income/gains, of which:

62.1

31.8

6.2

(80.6)

51.9

35.9

(30.8)

59.9

44.0

(26.5)

68.8

54.9

(20.2)

Liquidity provisioning

13.8

7.7

6.6

(15.1)

4.6

5.5

18.8

6.5

5.7

(13.3)

8.4

4.6

(44.8)

Delta Neutral Trading Strategies

27.2

10.9

0.5

(95.0)

19.0

16.0

(15.9)

23.3

21.7

(7.0)

27.5

30.7

11.6

Fixed income activities

10.9

6.7

2.5

(62.7)

6.8

2.5

(62.7)

6.8

2.5

(62.7)

6.9

2.6

(62.7)

DeFi

3.6

4.0

13.9

246.3

18.8

11.5

(38.6)

19.7

13.8

(29.8)

20.7

16.6

(19.8)

Other

6.6

2.5

(17.4)

NM

2.7

0.3

(87.5)

3.6

0.3

(90.4)

5.3

0.3

(93.4)

Principal investment gains/(losses)

9.6

(0.1)

(5.3)

NM

0.0

0.0

N/A

0.0

0.0

N/A

0.0

0.0

N/A

Administrative expenses excluding D&A

(31.1)

(42.4)

(30.3)

(28.4)

(46.1)

(40.2)

(12.9)

(50.6)

(46.8)

(7.5)

(56.6)

(55.0)

(2.8)

Adj. EBITDA

121.7

41.0

20.0

(51.4)

42.6

31.5

(26.0)

57.2

45.5

(20.5)

79.9

71.3

(10.8)

Total comprehensive income

110.5

33.9

18.2

(46.4)

29.0

20.3

(29.9)

42.1

33.7

(20.0)

62.0

57.0

(8.2)

Source: Company data, Edison Investment Research. Note: *Includes fees from CoinShares Physical, 3iQ and Invesco

Exhibit 3: Financial summary

Year ending December, £000’s unless otherwise stated

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

FY22e

FY23e

FY24e

FY25e

Income Statement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenues

10,549

11,331

18,389

80,892

49,278

36,107

49,080

73,177

Administrative expenses

(10,927)

(9,284)

(14,312)

(32,167)

(32,560)

(42,399)

(49,071)

(57,234)

Other operating income

4,811

529

607

11,427

18,427

19,349

20,316

21,332

Profit/(loss) on financial instruments

519,988

(64,553)

(1,398,436)

(2,236,196)

1,905,694

(1,141,829)

(790,728)

(2,223,823)

Realised gain/(loss) on investments

(1,074)

(405)

942

5,287

(5,574)

0

0

0

Adj. EBITDA

12,993

11,171

22,113

121,688

19,950

31,480

45,463

71,310

EBIT

523,347

(62,382)

(1,392,810)

(2,170,757)

1,935,113

(1,128,772)

(770,404)

(2,186,547)

Finance income

693

931

3,793

10,905

10,356

7,132

8,079

9,211

Finance expense

(148)

(404)

(1,191)

(6,810)

(7,245)

(8,927)

(9,494)

(12,107)

Pre-tax profit

523,892

(61,855)

(1,390,208)

(2,166,662)

1,938,223

(1,130,567)

(771,819)

(2,189,443)

Income taxes

(230)

(269)

(401)

(1,284)

0

0

0

0

Net income

523,662

(62,124)

(1,390,610)

(2,167,946)

1,938,223

(1,130,567)

(771,819)

(2,189,443)

Total comprehensive income

14,407

8,914

18,419

114,346

18,168

20,308

33,724

56,957

Reported EPS (diluted, £)

N/A

N/A

(21.68)

(32.62)

26.77

(15.62)

(10.66)

(30.24)

Adjusted EPS (diluted, £)*

N/A

N/A

0.28

1.64

0.25

0.28

0.47

0.79

DPS (£)

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

Balance Sheet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Property, plant and equipment

214

376

223

510

510

577

714

922

Digital assets

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

2,495

2,495

2,495

2,495

Intangible assets

0

7

20

19,781

18,908

18,035

17,162

16,289

Investments

6,158

5,585

3,626

24,501

41,536

41,536

41,536

41,536

Long term receivables and other

15

323

329

581

1,360

1,360

1,360

1,360

Non-current assets

6,387

6,290

4,199

45,372

64,810

64,004

63,268

62,603

Trade and other receivables

9,350

27,011

62,274

1,075,971

551,054

775,790

959,232

1,537,196

Digital assets

217,521

427,524

1,826,695

2,736,481

953,360

1,645,463

2,112,714

3,803,550

Cash at bank

32,897

2,350

2,266

11,088

5,542

19,608

91,295

98,308

Amounts due from brokers

N/A

39,405

66,518

118,976

42,869

78,159

102,226

186,941

Current assets

259,767

496,290

1,957,752

3,942,516

1,552,824

2,519,020

3,265,467

5,625,994

Total assets

266,154

502,580

1,961,951

3,987,888

1,617,634

2,583,024

3,328,735

5,688,597

Share capital

2,214

2,215

31

34

34

34

34

34

Share premium

111

111

2,387

30,781

30,781

30,781

30,781

30,781

Other reserves

104,322

168,813

1,209,630

667,846

(1,252,209)

(101,334)

704,208

2,950,609

Retained earnings

(68,003)

(125,795)

(1,155,551)

(497,727)

1,440,496

309,929

(461,890)

(2,651,334)

Total equity

38,644

45,343

56,497

200,934

219,101

239,409

273,133

330,090

Trade payables and other liabilities

227,469

419,340

1,792,936

3,491,612

1,127,156

2,055,049

2,687,851

4,915,273

Amounts due to brokers

N/A

37,631

112,121

292,708

270,517

287,707

366,892

442,375

Lease liabilities

0

0

0

0

859

859

859

859

Current tax liabilities

42

266

398

2,635

0

0

0

0

Current liabilities

227,510

457,237

1,905,454

3,786,955

1,398,533

2,343,615

3,055,602

5,358,507

Non-current liabilities

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total equity and liabilities

266,154

502,580

1,961,951

3,987,888

1,617,634

2,583,024

3,328,735

5,688,597

Ratios

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adj. EBITDA margin

52.1%

54.0%

62.8%

85.1%

36.0%

43.7%

48.8%

55.7%

Adj. net margin

59.4%

38.4%

47.6%

80.0%

32.8%

28.2%

36.2%

44.5%

Source: Company data, Edison Investment Research. Note: *Total comprehensive income (excluding currency translation differences and fair value gain/(loss) on investments recognised in other comprehensive income) per share attributable to shareholders of the parent.


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