Empery Asset Management Lifts Stake to 17.5% with $1.8M Open-Market Buy
EMPD sits 30% above its 52-week low of $2.484 on light trading volume (0.1× avg).
Summary
Empery Asset Management disclosed a 500,000-share open-market purchase on September 1, raising its beneficial stake to 17.51% of Empery Digital. The $1.8 million buy comes as the company faces a contested proxy fight with activist ATG Capital.
Key Events · Ownership and Investor Activity · EMPD
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500,000 Shares Purchased Open Market
Empery Asset Management bought 500,000 shares on September 1, 2026 at a weighted average price of $3.5862 (range $3.19–$3.77), totaling approximately $1.8 million.
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Stake Rises to 17.51%
The purchase increases the reporting group's beneficial ownership to 4,930,345 shares, or 17.51% of the 28,160,111 shares outstanding as of September 2, 2026.
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Proxy Fight Context
The accumulation follows a Delaware court ruling validating activist ATG Capital's nine nominees, setting up a contested election at the October 14 annual meeting.
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Cost Basis Updated
The Empery Funds' aggregate cost for their 4,830,345 shares is approximately $33.1 million; Ryan M. Lane's 100,000 shares cost approximately $1.0 million.
Analysis · EMPD · Crypto Assets
Already the company's largest outside shareholder, Empery Asset Management added 500,000 shares on September 1 at a weighted average price of $3.5862 — a roughly $1.8 million outlay. The purchase lifts the reporting group's beneficial ownership to 4,930,345 shares, or 17.51% of the 28.16 million shares outstanding. This comes amid a heated proxy contest with activist ATG Capital, whose nine nominees were just validated by a Delaware court ruling disclosed in the definitive proxy filed the same day. The accumulation by a long-standing institutional holder signals conviction in the company's strategic pivot toward AI data centers, but it also raises the stakes in the October 14 annual meeting, where every vote will matter.
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At the time of this filing, EMPD was trading at $3.22 on NASDAQ in the Crypto Assets sector, with a market capitalization of approximately $90.6M. The 52-week trading range was $2.48 to $8.17. This filing was assessed with positive market sentiment and an importance score of 7 out of 10.