TD Cowen has raised its price target for The Smarter Web Company to £0.73 ($0.99) from £0.64 ($0.87) while keeping its Buy rating after the Bitcoin treasury firm proposed a new perpetual preferred-share offering.
Summary
- TD Cowen raised its Smarter Web price target to £0.73 from £0.64 and retained its Buy rating, implying roughly 90% upside from Monday’s share price.
- The analysts said the proposed MORE perpetual preferred shares could give the Bitcoin treasury company another source of long term capital.
- Smarter Web reported an approximately 11.5% Bitcoin Yield for the year through Sept. 2 despite selling nearly 178 BTC to repay its TOBAM convertible financing.
- TD Cowen expects Bitcoin to reach roughly $100,000 by December in its base case, with upside and downside scenarios of $175,000 and $25,000, respectively.
TD Cowen analysts led by Lance Vitanza said in a Monday note to clients that the planned MORE preferred shares could provide another source of long-term capital and expand the financing options available to the London-listed company.
Smarter Web shares traded at £0.385 ($0.52) on Monday, up 1.32% from Friday’s £0.38 ($0.51) close, based on London Stock Exchange data. The revised £0.73 target represents roughly 90% upside from Monday’s trading level.
The increase reverses part of TD Cowen’s July adjustment, when the investment bank cut its target from £1 to £0.64 after updating its Bitcoin forecasts and treasury assumptions.
TD Cowen sees MORE adding another capital source
The latest valuation followed Smarter Web’s Sept. 11 announcement that it is considering an initial public offering of a new class of perpetual preferred shares under the reserved ticker MORE.
TD Cowen said the proposed structure could give the company another route to raise long-duration capital alongside the financing tools already available to its Bitcoin treasury operation.
“More broadly, we view the initiative as evidence of increasing sophistication across the bitcoin treasury ecosystem as issuers explore preferred equity, secured credit facilities, convertible securities, and other forms of structured capital,” the analysts wrote.
Smarter Web plans to seek between £15 million and £25 million in gross proceeds through the possible offering. The company has set a minimum £10 million fundraising condition for the IPO, while admission remains dependent on other requirements including shareholder approval and Financial Conduct Authority approval of a prospectus.
The preferred shares are expected to carry a cumulative variable-rate preferential dividend paid weekly. Holders would receive a liquidation preference, while the company would have redemption rights. MORE shares would not carry voting rights at general meetings.
A general meeting has been scheduled for Sept. 28, when ordinary shareholders will vote on changes needed to create the new preferred-share class. If the remaining conditions are met, the securities are intended for admission to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
The proposal follows other Bitcoin treasury companies using preferred securities to raise capital. Strategy has built several preferred-stock products around its Bitcoin financing model, while Strive has used preferred equity as part of its own treasury funding structure. Strategy’s STRC preferred stock was listed by Binance in July after the company expanded its use of the security for funding and dividend-related capital management.
Bitfinex Securities later listed tokenized treasury products linked to several public Bitcoin holders, including a product providing economic exposure to Strategy’s STRC preferred shares.
Smarter Web treasury performance remains in focus
TD Cowen’s revised target came as the analysts assessed Smarter Web’s Bitcoin treasury performance following a financing repayment that temporarily reduced its holdings.
The company reported Bitcoin Yield of approximately 11.5% for the year through Sept. 2. TD Cowen said the figure came despite an approximately 420 basis point drag caused by the July 23 repayment of the company’s TOBAM-backed Smarter Convert instrument.
Smarter Web sold 177.8909127 BTC to repay the financing early, using Bitcoin originally purchased with proceeds from the instrument. As crypto.news previously reported, the $11.7 million repayment took place around two weeks before maturity and removed the potential issuance of more than 7.7 million ordinary shares associated with the convertible structure.
Chief executive Andrew Webley said at the time that the convertible had provided an alternative financing source during an earlier stage of the company’s treasury expansion, but management no longer considered convertible instruments the preferred funding option for its current position.
The repayment left Smarter Web with exactly 2,700 BTC. It returned to buying soon afterward, purchasing another 11.89 BTC and taking its holdings to 2,712 BTC in early August. The 11.89 BTC purchase moved the company to 28th place in BitcoinTreasuries’ ranking of public corporate Bitcoin holders at the time.
Smarter Web has used several funding channels during the expansion of its treasury. In May, the company disclosed that it had drawn £18 million from a Coinbase credit facility secured against Bitcoin, with its leverage ratio standing at roughly 12.19%. The facility carried a variable interest rate of 6.75% to 7.25% and could be repaid without penalty.
At the time, the company had increased its holdings to 2,869 BTC after purchasing 10 BTC at an average price of £55,786 per coin. Its total investment in Bitcoin stood at £232.48 million, with an average acquisition cost of £81,032 per BTC.
Bitcoin forecasts underpin TD Cowen valuation
Bitcoin was approaching $78,000 on Monday and remained approximately 38% below its all-time high near $126,000.
TD Cowen’s base case assumes Bitcoin reaches roughly $100,000 by December. Its upside scenario puts the cryptocurrency at $175,000, while the downside case assumes a decline to $25,000.
The bank had previously revised its Smarter Web valuation in July after changing its Bitcoin price assumptions. At that point, TD Cowen assigned £63 million to the company’s treasury operations and projected year-end 2026 Bitcoin holdings worth £229 million. After accounting for an estimated £18 million of net debt, the analysts arrived at an equity value of £274 million, equivalent to £0.64 per share based on 426 million fully diluted shares.
Smarter Web began building its Bitcoin treasury in 2025 under its long-term “10 Year Plan.” The company started accepting Bitcoin payments in 2022 before making BTC accumulation part of its corporate treasury policy.
Its Bitcoin position expanded quickly through repeated purchases during 2025 and 2026, while the company used equity raises, convertible financing and secured borrowing to support its strategy. The firm moved from Aquis to the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market in February 2026.
TD Cowen expects Smarter Web’s acquisition activity to gradually return to the pace recorded during fiscal 2025 as the company continues developing its treasury and operating businesses.
