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FRMI - Fermi Inc.

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Long-Term Notes

Overall notes: This company has a lot of problems. But what worries me is whether its place in line, its permits, might have some value. It has no funding right now, but could there be a player that has money but is short on time, and could what FRMI already has save that player time? There is plenty of fake, something-for-nothing nonsense here, but the macro direction really is good.

Technical path: Lease land, generate power, and rent out the land and power.

Stock communities:

  • Reddit.
  • SA comments.

Signals that I am wrong:

  • A buyer is willing to lease the site and provide funding.
  • A player is willing to acquire it outright, specifically because it values FRMI's permits and its place in line for equipment purchases.

Learning Notes

Online Thesis

2025-12-14 WSM video

  • Business plan: Prepare sites, provide power, and lease the sites and power to data centers.
  • The business plan and claimed connections mention Trump a lot. But most likely it has nothing to do with Trump. Lots of AI-generated videos.
  • The prospective tenant pulled out, and there is currently no prospective tenant. It needs a prospective tenant to put up money -> then the bank lends. Right now there is neither chicken nor egg.

2026-04-25 WSM video

  • It needs 3B to build. The funding is nowhere near enough.
  • CEO Toby Neugebauer. He was fired.

Time-Sensitive Notes

Created Notes

StockFRMI
Latest Earnings26Q1
Current Price5.62
Diluted Shares629.84 M
Market Cap3.54 B# Not small
Revenue0.00 M
Earning-675.0 M
PSINF# None
PE-5.24# It loses money at a pretty good clip
Cash207.50 M
FCF (-SBC)-1.3 B
Cash Runway0.16# If you calculate it this way, it is about to run out of money
Dilution - 3 Years
Dilution - 1 Year
Short Float %12.09%
Days to Cover2.33
Borrow Fee0.50%
My MC Forecast - 3 Years1.87 B
CAGR13.72%
Confidence It Is Unviable2.50%# The business model could actually work, if it is executed well
Crash Catalyst Exists0.50%# Less than 0.2 years of cash left
No Short-Squeeze Risk0.50%# Not much risk
Letmo Score10.22%
SS CalculationFRMI
Expiration Date2028-01-21
Time to Expiration - Years1.62
Strike Price5.00
Current Price5.62
Credit - Worst0.10
Credit - Matching0.95
Credit - Best1.80
Annual Return - Worst, Incl. Fee-6.06%
Annual Return - Matching, Incl. Fee4.13%
Annual Return - Midpoint, Incl. Fee4.13%
Annual Loss - One-Way Commission0.14%
Annual Loss - One-Way Spread9.34%

The spread is so high. I will wait until I am down more before considering switching to SS.

Current position:

Total Gain Total Return Exposure Weight

-1,640.79 -11.73% -15,629.22 -1.18%

Decision: Hold the position. I do not understand the business model's lack of viability well enough, so I decided to use a conservative, tiny position.

Price Surged

Current position

Total Gain Total Return Exposure Weight

-10,484.37 -74.95% -24,472.80 -1.78%

Why the price rose: Rumors about OpenAI / a large tenant. The source was non-public notes issued by Citizens JMP Securities.

  • Some time has already passed. The former CEO said more concrete news was coming soon; I do not know how credible that is.
  • There have been similar stories before, and none of them ended up happening.

The business model is possible, but the SBC, the forced one-sided attempts to tie itself to political figures, and the sky-high valuation when it had nothing at all yet are all real problems. But honestly, I started shorting a little late.

Decision: Add to the short until it reaches -2.5%. But I am not very certain; a lot of this is just feel. Would a hyperscaler really be willing to work with a company whose management is still fighting a legal battle over control? Putting myself in its shoes, I would not be very willing. My sense is that the long-term-tenant rumor will probably fizzle out just like the earlier ones.

DateTickerTypeActionPosition BeforePosition After
2026-06-26FRMIStockShort-1.83%-2.50%