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When something like the Strait of Hormuz gets disrupted, the impact spreads everywhere.

This isn’t a narrow event.

~20M barrels per day normally pass through that route

~25% of global oil shipped by sea

~20% of LNG trade

There is no real replacement capacity. Pipelines can only reroute a fraction of that volume.

That’s why even partial disruption creates pricing pressure.

But not every company experiences that the same way.

For airlines or logistics → higher costs

For fuel-linked revenue models → higher topline potential

NXXT fits into the second category.

Because the business is tied to fuel delivery, revenue is sensitive to price per gallon.

Same volume, different environment:

28M gallons

$2.90 → $81.2M

$4.13 → $115.64M

That’s +$34M in revenue potential without growth assumptions.

Now add fundamentals:

2025 revenue: $81.8M (+195% YoY)

Adjusted EBITDA: $17.1M

And a new development

NeutronX partnership unlocking access to federal energy and infrastructure contracts, with a pipeline estimated at $1.3B–$2.2B

Plus the broader US advantage:

fracking-driven production

net exporter status

stronger positioning during global supply shocks

That combination makes the current setup very different from previous cycles.

When you step back and look at copper beyond short-term price moves, the bigger picture starts to stand out.

Demand is being driven by multiple independent forces at once. EVs, grid expansion, renewables, and now AI infrastructure are all adding incremental pressure. Each of these trends alone would matter - combined, they create a sustained demand curve that grows faster than traditional industrial cycles.

On the supply side, the issue isn’t geology. There’s plenty of copper in the ground. The bottleneck is how long it takes to turn a discovery into a producing mine. In many cases, that timeline stretches over a decade, and permitting, ESG constraints, and capital costs are slowing things even further.

That’s why projections keep pointing toward a meaningful supply gap later this decade.

In that kind of environment, early-stage companies like $NRED start to make more sense on a watchlist. They represent potential future supply in a market that may need it.

The oil shock is global, but the upside is not distributed equally

The copper setup over the next decade looks structurally tight