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Earnings.
Results are reported in thousands of simulated US dollars. They are internally consistent, externally meaningless, and audited by the person who wrote them.
Simulated corporate data · Not financial information
Q3 FY2026 · July to September 2026 · Published
Executive summary
Syntax Energy announces a record-breaking quarter despite 18% operational efficiency. The record was revenue. The other record was everything else.
Key observations
- 01Operating margin held positive, which analysts attributed to the price of offsets rather than anything operational.
- 02For the first time, incident-related expenditure exceeded the cost of preventing the incidents, as estimated by an intern.
- 03Executive compensation reached a new high, consistent with the alignment bonus and the number of things that needed aligning.
- Revenue
- $7.25M
- +21.4% vs prior, favourable
- Operating result
- $1.19M
- -8.5% vs prior, unfavourable
- Grid uptime
- 95.8%
- -1.3 pts vs prior, unfavourable
- Incidents
- 117
- +31.5% vs prior, unfavourable
- Incident spend
- $1.69M
- +34.1% vs prior, unfavourable
- Executive comp
- $5.88M
- +23.5% vs prior, unfavourable
Trend · four quarters
Revenue
Up every quarter
Incidents
Also up every quarter
Executive compensation
$1.20M base plus $40k per incident
Operational efficiency
Share of computation that needed to happen
Statement of operations · Q3 FY2026 · $k
| Imaginary computation offsets | 4,120 |
|---|---|
| Offset certificates | 480 |
| Syntax futures spread | 930 |
| Enterprise retainers | 1,720 |
| Total revenue | 7,250 |
| Unnecessary rebuilds (131,900 at $11 each) | (1,451) |
| Incident-related expenditure | (1,690) |
| AI typo correction compute | (1,110) |
| Other operating costs | (1,810) |
| Total operating costs | (6,061) |
| Operating result | 1,189 |
Operating margin 16.4%. Executive compensation of $5.88M is reported separately, which is also what the executives prefer.
Simulated corporate data. Syntax Energy Co. is satire. No figure here is real financial information.