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CoinTelegraph 2025-05-16 18:31:14

Basel Medical shares down 15% on $1B Bitcoin buying plans

Shares of Basel Medical Group are down around 15% after the healthcare company announced plans to buy $1 billion in Bitcoin for its corporate treasury. On May 16, Singapore-based Basel said it was “in advanced discussions with a consortium of institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals to acquire a US$1 billion BTC through an innovative share-swap arrangement. The company said the benefits of its planned purchase include creating “one of the strongest balance sheets among Asia-focused healthcare providers” and providing “unmatched financial flexibility for mergers and acquisitions.” It also said the Bitcoin ( BTC ) treasury would help Basel “[e]stablish “a diversified asset base to weather market volatility.” But the company’s shareholders weren’t sold. Basel’s stock, BMGL, has dropped around 15% on the announcement, according to data from Google Finance. Basel Medical’s shares are down 15% intraday on May 16. Source: Google Finance Related: Strive to become Bitcoin treasury company Fueling acquisitions In April, Basel announced that it had acquired a peer healthcare provider, Bethesda Medical, for an undisclosed sum. The deal marked “the beginning of Basel Medical Group’s expansion strategy in Singapore and the broader Southeast Asian healthcare market.” Basel’s management team expects that accumulating Bitcoin will aid in these plans. “Our expanded balance sheet will allow us to move quickly on strategic opportunities as we build a premier healthcare platform across high-growth Asian markets,” Darren Chhoa, Basel’s CEO, said in a statement. Bitcoin treasury metrics. Source: Bitcointreasuries.net Corporate Bitcoin treasuries This isn’t the first time a company’s shareholders have punished it for announcing plans to build a Bitcoin treasury. GameStop shed nearly $3 billion in market capitalization during a single trading day in March as investors questioned the videogame retailer’s plans to stockpile Bitcoin. “There are question marks with GameStop's model. If bitcoin is going to be the pivot, where does that leave everything else?” Bret Kenwell, US investment analyst at eToro, told Reuters in March. Corporate treasuries collectively hold roughly $80 billion worth of Bitcoin as of May 16, according to data from BitcoinTreasuries.NET. Bitcoin can “potentially be a valuable hedge against growing fiscal deficits, currency debasement, and geopolitical risks” for corporations, asset manager Fidelity Digital Assets said in a 2024 report. Magazine: Bitcoin’s $100K push wakes taxman, Vitalik visits real Moo Deng: Asia Express

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