DDC Enterprise Limited (NYSE American: DDC) Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO Norma Chu Provides Mid-Year Update

DDC Enterprise Limited (NYSE American: DDC) Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO Norma Chu Provides Mid-Year Update August 05, 2026 09:20 ET | Source: DDC Enterprises Inc. DDC Enterprises Inc. NEW YORK, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dear Valued Shareholders, During the first half of 2026, DDC remained committed to our mission of building a profitable and growing food business while stacking more Bitcoin per share for the benefit of our shareholders and our community. We focused on delivering organic growth in the operating business while adding more Bitcoin to our treasury, against a challenging macro backdrop in the global economy and in the Bitcoin market. Building this dual engine inside one company continues to guide us toward better capital allocation decisions and to carry us through the current market environment.

We expect first-half 2026 revenue of $19.5 to $20.5 million, up approximately 28% from $15.6 million a year ago. Gross profit of $5.8 to $6.2 million, up approximately 15%, and Adjusted EBITDA of $1.0 to $1.3 million, approximately 3 times our entire full-year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA of $0.4 million. Gross margin came in around 30%, against 31.4% for full-year 2025. We leaned into higher-volume channels during the period that delivered more revenue and EBITDA, on slightly thinner margin per dollar.

Since announcing the DDC Treasury Intelligence Platform in April, we have been building it with our partner Appnovation. The work so far has gone into the DDC Treasury Graph, a governed internal record of our past Bitcoin purchases and the market conditions around each one. On top of that we are developing a predictive model to support how we evaluate the timing of incremental purchases, including how a purchase that makes sense on a long horizon interacts with short-term market conditions, and whether to run or unwind passive yield strategies against the treasury. This is an investment in how well we run the strategy we already have. Every company that adopts a Bitcoin treasury is making the same long-term bet on the asset, and what will start to separate them is whether the decisions around that asset are disciplined, consistent and defensible. We build that discipline into our own process now, while the industry is early. A record of what we considered, what we chose and what followed also compounds. Our objective for the system is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of how we manage our treasury. More functions are being implemented weekly. We will report on it as the system continues to learn through iterations over a full market cycle,

As of today, DDC held 2,899 Bitcoin at an average cost of $78,204. Bitcoin per 1,000 fully diluted DDC shares stood at 0.060942, up 53.3% year to date. That is the figure we manage against. Adding Bitcoin counts for something only when each share ends up backed by more of it than before. Our management focus is clear. We will exit this bear market with a larger Bitcoin treasury, lower average cost, and a stronger capital stack to support further expansion as we head into the next bull market.

Another part of our mission at DDC is to further the reach of Bitcoin. We believe that everyone in the Bitcoin community has the responsibility of sharing Bitcoin with others. When I first entered this space as an outsider, the community was incredibly welcoming and there were lots of educational materials on Bitcoin. But as I think about the future of Bitcoin and where Bitcoin’s next hundred million holders are going to arrive from, I see a very big gap in the media between the thousands of podcasts and any lifestyle content for Bitcoin. The exist...