CBL International Ltd

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CBL International Limited operates a business that moves massive amounts of money while actually losing it. The company acts as a middleman for marine fuel, buying it from suppliers and selling it to container ships and tankers in more than sixty-five ports globally. The math for 2025 is a disaster because they processed 538,49$ million in revenue but ended up with a gross profit of only 4,47$ million. This means their profit margin is less than 1,0%. For a child, this is like running a lemonade stand where you buy lemons for 99$ and sell the juice for 100$, but then you pay 2$ to your parents for the table and 1$ to the bank for a loan. You lose money on every glass, so selling more lemonade only makes the hole deeper. The cycle of dilution began in 02/2025 when the company filed to sell up to 2,6$ million in new shares just to keep the lights on. By 12/08/2025 the market decided the business was failing and kept the share price under 1,00$ for thirty business days, triggering a notice from the Nasdaq exchange. On 30/10/2025 the Chief Executive Officer Teck Lim Chia scheduled an extraordinary meeting while opening a legal door called a shelf registration under file 333-284228 to dump more shares on the public. By 19/11/2025 an insider named Yuan He was appointed to the board with a new contract paying him an extra 2.700$ per month starting 01/12/2025 even though he was already an executive.