Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited - Earnings Call - Q2 2025

Executive Summary

• Q2 2025 was dominated by a full-limit catastrophe loss (Hurricane Milton) that drove a 621% combined ratio and a net loss of $1.87M (-$0.25 EPS), versus a 111% combined ratio and -$0.14 EPS in Q2 2024.
• Results materially missed Wall Street consensus: EPS -$0.25 vs +$0.03 consensus and revenue $0.664M vs $1.105M consensus, reflecting the storm loss and higher G&A; estimate set size was thin (1 analyst)*. Values retrieved from S&P Global.
• Management advanced its tokenized reinsurance strategy: announced a strategic partnership with Midnight Foundation (privacy-focused blockchain) and reiterated its position as the first Nasdaq-listed issuer of a tokenized reinsurance security; an EGM was scheduled to accelerate strategic initiatives.
• Liquidity improved via capital raises; cash and restricted cash totaled ~$6.65M at quarter-end (up from $5.89M at YE), supported by a registered direct offering (~$2.7M net) and ongoing ATM sales.

What Went Well and What Went Wrong

• What Went Well

  • Net premiums earned increased slightly year over year to $0.582M (Q2 2025) from $0.564M (Q2 2024) on higher rates on contracts in force.
  • Strategic progress in Web3/tokenized reinsurance: partnership with Midnight Foundation to bring tokenized reinsurance securities to a privacy-first chain; management highlighted first-mover status in tokenized reinsurance.
  • Liquidity and balance sheet: total cash and restricted cash reached ~$6.65M at quarter end, aided by capital markets activity (registered direct + ATM), adding financial flexibility during storm-driven volatility.

• What Went Wrong

  • Hurricane Milton: Recognized a full limit loss of ~$2.29M on one reinsurance contract; loss ratio surged to 394% and combined ratio to 621% for Q2 2025, overwhelming underlying premium growth.
  • Operating expense pressure: total expenses rose to $3.61M (vs $0.628M in Q2 2024), driven by the storm loss and higher IR/marketing, web3 tokenization, S-3, HR, and legal costs.
  • Bottom line deterioration: net loss widened to -$1.87M (vs -$0.82M in Q2 2024) as catastrophe losses and higher G&A offset modest revenue improvements.

Transcript

Speaker 3

Good afternoon and welcome to Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited's second quarter 2025 earnings call. My name is Dineh, and I will be your conference operator this afternoon. At this time, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Joining us for today's presentation is Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited's Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer, Jay Madhu, and Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary, Wrendon Timothy. Following their remarks, we will open up the call for your questions. I would like to remind everyone that this call will be available via telephone replay up until August 28, 2025. Details for the telephone replay are included in the press release issued today. Now, I would like to turn the call over to Wrendon Timothy, Chief Financial Officer of Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited, who will provide the necessary cautions regarding the forward-looking statements that will be made by management during this call.

Over to you, sir.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Operator. During today's call, there will be forward-looking statements made regarding future events, including Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited's future financial performance. These forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as anticipates, estimates, expects, intends, plans, projects, and other similar words and expressions are intended to signify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and conditions, but rather are subject to various risks and uncertainties. A detailed discussion of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events that differ materially from such forward-looking statements are included in a section entitled Risk Factors contained in our Form 10-K filed on March 26, 2025, with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The occurrence of any of these risks and uncertainties could have a material adverse effect on the company's business, financial condition, and the volatility of our earnings, which in turn could cause significant market price and trading volume fluctuation for our securities. Any forward-looking statements made on this conference call speak only as of the date of this conference call, and except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained on this call or in any company presentation, even if the company's expectations or any related events, conditions, or circumstances change. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Jay Madhu.

Speaker 4

Thank you, Wrendon, and welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Let me start by saying we're proud of the significant steps we have taken to fortify and diversify our business. While we are solidly entrenched in the RWA Web3 space, where we issue tokenized reinsurance securities and an RWA on real-world assets, our core business remains reinsurance, where we write fully collateralized policies to cover property loss from specific catastrophes. Because we write fully collateralized contracts, we believe we can compete effectively with large carriers. We specialize in underwriting low-frequency, high-severity risks, where we believe sufficient data exists to effectively analyze the risk-return profile of reinsurance contracts. Our objective is to achieve long-term growth in book value per share by writing business on a selective and opportunistic basis that will generate attractive underwriting profits relative to risk.

Building on the stable reinsurance foundation, we have begun to diversify our business in 2022. We expanded our business portfolio by establishing SurancePlus Inc., our new subsidiary focused on RWA Web3 technology. SurancePlus specializes in democratizing tokenized real-world assets, or RWAs, offering tokenized reinsurance securities as alternative investment opportunities. These securities leverage blockchain technology to ensure complete transparency and compliance with SEC guidelines, representing a significant advancement in the digital security market. This initiative aims to broaden investor participation, extending our opportunities beyond what traditionally has been a select group of ultra-high-net-worth individuals. We are enthusiastic about the prospects of these two new investments and remain committed to keep our stakeholders informed of our progress in the forthcoming quarters. Looking ahead, we intend to position Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited as a prominent player in the real-world asset, or RWA, and Web3 sector.

In summary, we maintain a strong sense of optimism regarding the long-term outlook of our core reinsurance business, alongside the successful integration of SurancePlus as we embrace the RWA market more comprehensively. I'll now turn things over to Wrendon and take us through our financial results. Wrendon?

Speaker 2

Thank you, Jay. I would like to remind you that our typical contract period is from June 1 to May 31 of the following year. With respect to net premiums earned, net premiums earned for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, increased to $582,000 from $564,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. Net premiums earned for the six months ended June 30, 2025, increased to $1.18 million from $1.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The increases are due to higher rates on contracts that were in force in the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2025, when compared to the contracts in force in the prior year periods. Our net investment income and other income for the three months ended June 30, 2025, increased to $93,000 from $56,000 from prior year's second quarter.

These factors combined, resulting in total revenues of $664,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2025, compared to $44,000 in the prior year's second quarter. Our net investment and other income for the six months ended June 30, 2025, increased to $173,000 from $126,000 from prior year period. These factors taken together resulted in total revenues of $1.36 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, compared to negative $81,000 in the prior year comparable period. For the quarter ended June 30, 2025, total expenses, which comprised of loss and loss adjustment expenses, policy acquisition costs, and general and administrative expenses, increased to $3.61 million from $628,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. For the six months ended June 30, 2025, total expenses increased to $4.18 million from $1.18 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024.

These increases are primarily due to the adverse development and loss recognition from Hurricane Milton on monoline reinsurance contracts, coupled with increased human resources, personnel costs, professional marketing and hiring costs, our Web3 subsidiary tokenization costs, renewed HQ-related costs, and legal expenditures when compared with the prior year period. Our net loss for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, was $1.87 million or $0.25 per basic and diluted loss per share, compared to a net loss of $821,000 or $0.40 basic and diluted loss per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. Net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2025, was $2.01 million or $0.28 basic and diluted loss per share, compared to a net loss of $1.73 million or $0.29 per basic and diluted loss per share for the six months ended June 30, 2024.

The increases, again, are primarily due to the adverse development and loss recognition from Hurricane Milton on one of our reinsurance contracts during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2025, when compared with prior periods. As we have discussed before in our investor calls, we use various measures to analyze the growth and profitability of our business operation. For our reinsurance business, we measure underwriting profitability by examining our loss ratio, acquisition ratio, expense ratio, and combined ratio. Our loss ratio, which measures underwriting profitability, is the ratio of loss and loss adjustment expenses incurred to net premiums. The loss ratio increased to $394,000, 394% and 194.8% for the quarter and six month periods ended June 30, 2025, respectively, when compared with the prior comparative period. This was due to the full limit loss of approximately $2.3 million on a monoline reinsurance contract affected by Hurricane Milton.

The net impact of Hurricane Milton's loss on the company's equity, however, after accounting for the portion of losses borne by external token holders, was approximately $1.2 million. Our acquisition cost ratio, which measures operational efficiency, compares policy acquisition cost to net premium earned. The acquisition cost ratio remained consistent at approximately 11% for the quarter ended and six months ended June 30, 2025, when compared with the quarter and six month period ended June 30, 2024. Our expense ratio, which measures operating performance, compares policy acquisition cost and general and admin expenses with net premium earned. For the quarter ended June 30, 2025, the expense ratio increased to 327% from 111.3% for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. For the six month period ended June 30, 2025, the expense ratio increased to 160.7% from 105.7% for the six month period ended June 30, 2024.

The increases are primarily due to increased professional costs related to investor relations on our Web3 subsidiary marketing and operation, renewed HQ-related costs, increased human resources and personnel costs, and legal expenditures during the quarter and six month period ended June 30, 2025, when compared with the prior comparable period. Our combined ratio, which is used to measure underwriting performance, is the sum of the loss ratio and the expense ratio. The combined ratio increased to 621% from 111.3% for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. For the six month period ended June 30, 2025, the combined ratio increased to 355.5% from 105.7% for the six month period ended June 30, 2024. The increase again is primarily due to losses incurred from Hurricane Milton and increased general and admin expenses during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2025, when compared with the prior comparable period.

Now, turning to the balance sheet, our investment portfolio decreased to $104,000 at June 30, 2025, from $115,000 prior year end, primarily due to decrease in fair value of equity securities during the six month period ended June 30, 2025. Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents increased by $750,000 or 12.9% to $6.7 million from $5.9 million as of December 30, 2024. The increase is a net result of premium deposits made during the six months ended June 30, 2025, the registered direct offering that generated $2.7 million net of expenses, and premiums of Hurricane Milton losses on general admin expenses during the period. I'll now turn the call back over to Jay to wrap up before we take any questions. Jay?

Speaker 4

Hi. Five minutes, guys.

Speaker 3

Jay?

Speaker 4

Thank you, Wrendon. This quarter marks a pivotal moment for Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited. We not only expanded our footprint in the rapidly growing tokenized reinsurance market, but also forged strategic partnerships that position us for accelerated growth. As the first Nasdaq-listed company to issue a tokenized reinsurance security, we are proving that innovation and compliance can go hand in hand, creating new opportunities for investors and setting a high standard for the industry. To further accelerate our strategy and strengthen our leadership position, we have scheduled an extraordinary general meeting to approve measures that will accelerate our strategy and strengthen our leadership. These initiatives, combined with our ongoing focus on transparency, position us to capture significant opportunity in the quarters ahead.

Building on our memorandum of understanding with Plume last quarter, a leading real-world asset platform with an institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure and a track record in scaling compliant blockchain solutions, we have now entered into a strategic partnership with Midnight Foundation, which is an Input Output Global company, the same founders of Cardano. The Midnight Foundation supports ecosystem growth and enterprise adoption of the Midnight Network, a privacy-focused blockchain developed by Shielded Technologies, a subsidiary of Input Output Global. The team behind Cardano again. Today, these alliances expand SurancePlus Inc.'s reach, strengthen distribution capabilities, and position our platform at the forefront of blockchain-enabled RWA innovation. We have advanced our 2025 and 2026 tokenized reinsurance offerings, which provide some diversity of investment opportunities within the $760 billion reinsurance market TAM. Our sector is uncorrelated to broader capital markets.

Our balance yield product targets a 20% annual return, and a high-yield product targets a 42% annual return, assuming no underlying losses. By delivering compliant blockchain-powered pathways into this traditionally elusive asset class, we are broadening investor participation and reinforcing our mission to democratize reinsurance investing. This year, we have been an active participant and sponsor at leading blockchain and RWA events globally, including iConnect in Miami, ETH Denver 2025, and RWA Day in Denver, Apex Invest 2025 in the Cayman Islands, Token 2049 in Dubai, Money 2020 in Europe in Amsterdam, Permissionless 4, and Yield Day NYC in New York, and ETH CC in Cannes, and Rare EVO recently in 2025, again in Las Vegas. These forums provide an opportunity to showcase SurancePlus Inc., strengthen industry leadership, sign new partnerships, and explore collaborative opportunities with leading blockchain platforms.

Our achievement in the quarter reflects a disciplined approach to execution and clear vision of the future. With a strong balance sheet, innovative products, and an expanding network of strategic relationships, Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited is well-positioned to drive sustainable growth, create long-term shareholder value, and lead the tokenized reinsurance market into its next phase of evolution. With that, we are ready to open the call for questions. Operator, please provide the appropriate instructions.

Speaker 3

Thank you, Sam. Ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and then one now. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and then two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. Again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and then one now. The first question that we have comes from Allen Robert Klee of Maxim Group. Please go ahead.

Speaker 0

Excuse me. Hi. Congrats on growing your premium. I was interested in.

Speaker 1

Thank you.

Speaker 0

Sure. You've been very active on the conference front. I was just wondering what takeaways you have to share with us from what you've gotten from all those attendance.

Speaker 4

Yeah. First off, Allen, thanks for getting on the call and listening. Conferences, in my opinion, are very important, right? You have various different people in the ecosystem that can congregate in various different places, and being front and center at these events is very important. We not only glean important information about our ecosystem, but we're also able to talk to folks about how we all can add value by collaborating together. Some of the things that we have learned from all these conferences is what investors very importantly want to know is compliance and transparency. It's great to show yield. Everybody wants to see yield, but they also want to know what kind of compliance and transparency are part of our tokenized product. Are we writing? How are we doing? What kind of leverage are we putting on our product? What kind of opportunity there is?

They're stunned when we tell them there's no leverage on our product. We write one-to-one, and there's total transparency compliance. SurancePlus has PCOV auditing financials, as does Oxbridge. Everything flows up, but SurancePlus has segregated PCOV auditing financials, which is, I think, key in making sure that whole compliance aspect works. We're making some great strides. We're making some great opportunity over here. We've opened a few different doors, some of which we have already put out and some of which we are still working to, which I think would be extremely interesting as we go forward. All in all, very important to go on the trail, but more importantly, it's important to get the right mix of folks involved.

Speaker 0

That's great. You talked about an upcoming AGM meeting and some proposals. Could you elaborate on that, please?

Speaker 4

Yes. You know, it's nothing new that we are always very transparent and open. We've put out information in the past that we are looking to get in the blockchain space, RWA space, in a bigger way. Part of this is not only planning for the future, making sure that we have the right partners and so on involved in this, but it's also important when the timing is right. Let me emphasize, when the timing is right and we need to do something, we need to make sure that all the bits and pieces are in place. The AGM that we have over here is making sure that, as opposed to hoping that things will go right once we kind of get into that spot, we're putting all the building blocks in place. That way, when timing is right, we can move in the right direction.

Very interesting, very interesting space. The current administration has talked widely, widely about not only the blockchain and crypto space, but they've also recently, in the last two days, talked highly about the RWA space. We're slap-banging that. Just to put some perspective to this, the reinsurance space is the TAM of the reinsurance space is $700 billion. To just kind of put a point to it, $150 billion is a stablecoin TAM, right? Stablecoins, which everybody talks about, the TAM on stablecoins is $150 billion, but reinsurance is a $750 billion market. Compliance, transparency, positioning the company in the right direction, making the right partners, growing the right partnerships, and getting it into the right direction is where we're currently working towards.

Speaker 0

That's great. Thank you so much.

Speaker 4

Thank you, Allen.

Speaker 3

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, just a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and then one now. We'll pause a moment to see if we have any questions. Ladies and gentlemen, just one final reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and then one now. At this time, this concludes our question and answer session. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Mr. Madhu for any closing remarks. Please go ahead, sir.

Speaker 4

Thank you for joining us on today's call. Before we conclude, I would like to extend my gratitude to our employees, business partners, and investors for their unwavering support. I particularly want to acknowledge our dedicated Oxbridge team, whose extensive experience has been instrumental in navigating and advancing our business amidst these challenging circumstances. We anticipate providing you with further updates on our progress during our next call or before. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us anytime. Once again, thank you for your time and attention today and for your ongoing interest in Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited.

Speaker 3

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that then concludes today's conference. Thank you for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.