Some news. Today, for the first time in Opendoor's history, we bought back our own stock.
Our share count is down 5%. We paid for this buyback with money borrowed at a 0% coupon and we still have hundreds of millions of dollars left to grow faster.
There are plenty of helpful details, along with a lot of legalese, in our press release and 8-K (linked below). But there are a few things I want to say directly and in plain English.
First, I *despise* dilution. On my first earnings call at Opendoor, I told you that if we issue a share, it has only one job: to make every other share worth more for our existing shareholders, not to extend runway for management. The flip side is just as simple: when our own stock is one of the best uses of capital, we should buy it back. Today, we did just that - by 5%.
Second, I run a publicly traded company. I don’t get to have feelings about the macro or the way Wall Street works. My job is to understand the rules of the game and use them to find an edge and build a better company.
One of those realities is that our stock price has lots of volatility.
People disagree - A LOT - about what Opendoor could be worth one day. Some think we're worth less. Some think we're worth dramatically more. I obviously have a view…
That disagreement isn’t just noise - it has economic value that Wall Street monetizes every single day.
Most companies would treat this as a headache, but we see it as an asset. If people are going to speculate about our future, I'd rather our shareholders get paid than anyone else. So instead of complaining about volatility, we used those dynamics to borrow $650M at a 0% coupon.
Then we turned around and used part of those proceeds to buy back our own stock. At today's prices, buying back our stock and call options was one of the best trades on the board. The rest stays on our balance sheet so we can buy more homes and grow faster.
As for dilution, we bought our stock where we thought it was cheap and pushed any future dilution far above today’s price. Not one net new Opendoor share will exist below $10.38. And if we buy back stock in the future, that floor goes higher.
But why raise now? Because the best time to raise capital is when you don’t need it. We’ve proven the business can reach ANI profitability, but profitability is just the starting point, not the finish line. And waiting could make the shares we are buying back today more expensive, and homes we could be buying don’t get bought. I’d rather move now.
Some people will call what we did today aggressive. They’re right. But being aggressive is how we fixed a company that spent years being careful. I’d make that trade again.
To our shareholders: You trusted us with your capital. Today, for the first time, Opendoor used its own capital to buy more of itself. The company is putting its money where its mouth is. Tomorrow, I will too.
After our lawyers allow, I’m personally buying $100K worth of shares. I'm all in, and I plan to keep buying.
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Opendoor is now running ads in ChatGPT.
We launched a test this week putting Opendoor in front of sellers directly inside ChatGPT via OpenAI's new ad product.
Excited to see how this new channel does.
NEW ALL IN*: $CLSK @ 15.83
I said the biggest winners in H2 2026 will be neoclouds and now I'm putting my money where my mouth is on the one with the most asymmetric upside.
Thesis is simple: every hyperscaler is raising capex and it will be a neocloud summer 😎
$CLSK has more than 1.8 GW of power and just signed a 20-year $6.6B triple-net lease (~100% margins) with a mystery hyperscaler.
Contracted revenue could rise to $11.6B, 3X their current market cap.
They are earlier in the transition from bitcoin miner to AI data center but that also means the bigger the re-rating.
IMO high-reward low-risk swing as the market prices in we need MORE compute from all these earning reports and good long-term hold too if you're into that.
Also:
- Leopold owns $100M about ~5% of the company
- $META is the rumored hyperscaler
- 32% short interest, one of the highest amongst neoclouds
It's been green the last few days amongst this rollercoaster of a market which is good strength to me and worth an entry today.
Huge credit to @michaelsikand for this amazing writeup https://t.co/8l0E6nVou7 and @Dick_Capital too.
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I do understand if people are underwhelmed so far by the price action on the day of the deal.
Unfortunately short term price action often times doesn't make any sense.. as we saw with wulf and mara as well.
The bottom line is if it can hold the lower box it can go to the upper box if not beyond it.
Will do a video tonight on the two counts I am monitoring if enough people want to see it.