{"id":12960,"date":"2025-02-13T18:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2025-02-13T18:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:17:30","slug":"zoom-should-embrace-bitcoin-as-treasury-asset-eric-semler-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12960","title":{"rendered":"Zoom Should Embrace Bitcoin as Treasury Asset, Eric Semler Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nasdaq-listed Zoom Communications (ZM), a stock market high-flyer during the pandemic boom that&#8217;s faced tougher times since, should embrace a bitcoin (BTC) strategy to shake up sluggish stock performace and provide value to shareholders, said Eric Semler, chairman of medical technology firm Semler Scientific (SMLR).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once a pandemic darling, Zoom is now stuck in a highly competitive, slow-growth market,&#8221; Semler said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SemlerEric\/status\/1890062724211650613\" target=\"_blank\">X post<\/a> Thursday. &#8220;By leveraging its $7.7 billion cash pile, $2 billion in annualized free cash flow, and ready access to low-cost debt, Zoom could rapidly become one of the largest corporate holders of Bitcoin,&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Zoom shares are down about 85% from their 2020 peak even as the Nasdaq and S&amp;P 500 have continued to push to new record highs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Semler&#8217;s comments came from experience as his company adopted a BTC treasury strategy last year after studying the example of Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy (MSTR), formerly known as MicroStrategy, on how to provide value for the company&#8217;s shareholders. Semler since has converted most of its cash holdings to bitcoin and tapped capital markets for more cash with which to acquire tokens. As of the most recent update, it&#8217;s accumulated 3,192 BTC, worth $305 million at current prices.<\/p>\n<p>Even as SMLR shares have struggled in recent weeks alongside bitcoin&#8217;s poor price performance, the stock price has still more than doubled since the company disclosed its first bitcoin purchases in mid-2024.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom Communications, said Semler, is &#8220;Zombie Zone&#8221; company number one, and he promises more such picks in the future.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/news-analysis\/2024\/08\/06\/semler-scientific-studied-microstrategys-success-before-adopting-bitcoin-strategy\" target=\"_blank\">Semler Scientific Studied MicroStrategy\u2019s Success Before Adopting Bitcoin Strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasdaq-listed Zoom Communications (ZM), a stock market high-flyer during the pandemic boom that&#8217;s faced tougher times since, should embrace a bitcoin (BTC) strategy to shake up sluggish stock performace and provide value to shareholders, said Eric Semler, chairman of medical technology firm Semler Scientific (SMLR). &#8220;Once a pandemic darling, Zoom is now stuck in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-12960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}