The Plain Bagel gives Anthropic's IPO filing a profit check

Richard Coffin separates adjusted earnings from accounting losses, then examines how much control public shareholders would actually get.

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The Numbers Behind Anthropic

Anthropic's revenue is climbing rapidly, but deciding what counts as profit takes a closer read. Richard Coffin's "The Numbers Behind Anthropic" works through the Claude developer's newly public IPO prospectus, including the accounting adjustments, founder voting power and computing commitments behind the growth.

The distinction at the heart of The Plain Bagel's analysis is between adjusted results and standard accounting statements. Anthropic's adjusted measures show positive margins, while its GAAP statements record large net losses, including losses driven by changes in the fair value of financial instruments. As Coffin puts it: "The issue, of course, is that these are all adjusted figures."

That does not mean he dismisses the business's progress. He also identifies a turn to operating profitability in the second quarter, alongside first-half revenue of roughly $16 billion. But he notes that the company expects operating margins to fluctuate as more upfront expenses arrive. An operating profit, an adjusted profit and a bottom-line profit are not interchangeable.

There is a separate question for anyone imagining that buying shares means getting much say. Coffin explains a structure involving a public benefit corporation, a long-term benefit trust and founder-controlled shares carrying a majority of the voting power. Public ownership would not mean public control.

He then moves beyond the balance sheet to multiyear computing agreements with Microsoft, Google and Broadcom, plus purchase and lease commitments. Those future obligations matter when assessing what the revenue growth will cost to sustain.

The analysis follows Coffin's earlier videos on AI-related debt and stock valuations, but this time he has a specific company's filing to unpack. His closing caution is characteristically direct: "High return opportunities come with a lot of risk."

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