Overview
- The company arranged a $40 million digital asset–backed loan at about 3.4% APR with an average maturity of 4.9 months.
- Pledged collateral consists of staked SOL, and Forward says it will continue earning roughly 6.2% in annual staking rewards on those tokens.
- The buyback cuts common shares outstanding to 76.98 million from 83.14 million, a reduction of about 7%, and raises SOL-per-share to 0.0662.
- The purchase of approximately $27.4 million in stock was executed as a privately negotiated transaction with an institutional investor.
- Forward reports holding just over 7 million SOL worth about $616 million and guides to a roughly 45% drop in core SG&A from fiscal Q1 to Q3.