AURI Inc: Four Public Subsidiaries, No Debt, and a NASDAQ Roll-up Starting to Take Shape
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The OTC is full of holding companies that put out press releases about acquisitions that never close, subsidiaries that never generate revenue, and management teams that dilute shareholders while the stock goes nowhere. AURI Inc (OTCID: AURI) did something different: it actually closed the deals, built the operations, and flew under the radar for years while founder Eddie Vakser focused on building instead of promoting. Things started changing when advisor Roxy Green came in to start telling AURI's story. Green helped turn HIRU from a stock everyone had written off into one of the most active sub-penny OTCs on the market, and on a recent Twitter Spaces hosted by @buffalofireside she laid out exactly how they plan to run the same play at AURI.
Green has known Vakser for almost twenty years and her team is now working with AURI's legal and financial side to push audits and filings through across all four public subsidiaries. What she did at HIRU wasn't complicated but it worked: get the disclosures out, get the assets properly on the books, and let the company build a track record that institutional money could actually underwrite. Retail came in first, and once the volume started building, family offices and brokerage houses started accumulating behind them. Then commercial bank financing came in to expand operations and fund more acquisitions. She's running the same process at AURI now.
The biggest number traces back to Black Dragon Resources (OTCID: $BDGR), which closed
two acquisitions in December that turned it into a vertically integrated oilfield services operation. One was Triumph Energy Services, a trucking company servicing oil and gas clients out of Texas. The other was RJK Ranch Holdings, a sand mining operation that feeds directly into the trucking business because the fracking sand being mined is the same sand getting hauled to the rigs. The Linquist & Co. mining report referenced in the company's PR estimates 50 million metric tons of frac sand in the ground at current market prices of $55 per metric ton, putting the gross asset value at $2.75 billion. Apollo paid $1.85 billion for US Silica in July 2024 and the global frac sand market crossed $10 billion in 2025. BDGR carries a market cap under $3.5 million and management has announced plans to uplist within six months.
The rest of the portfolio fills in around BDGR. PBS Holding (OTC: $PBHG) controls a joint venture with Melody Trust over a music catalog that was independently appraised at $146 million by Sun Business Valuation in 2021, a number confirmed in the HWAL Inc. (OTCID:
$HWAL) JV press release, with inflation adjustments pushing that north of $174 million today. The catalog features master recordings from Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Frank Sinatra among others, and the Starfest Rock Artist Gold Record Collection launches Q1 2026.
On the fintech side, TradeStar Resources (OTC: $TSRR) is building an AI-powered cryptocurrency trading platform with European market access through Moldova, walking into a market valued at over $10 billion in 2024 heading toward $18 billion by 2033 where transaction volumes peaked at $234 billion in a single month last year. And SutimCo International (OTC: $SUTI) consolidated all of AURI's cannabis and nutraceutical products in a January restructuring, with The Champ Knockout line endorsed by former undisputed heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe anchoring the lineup.
What ties all of it together is the balance sheet. Green confirmed on the Spaces that every single subsidiary is completely debt-free with no convertible notes. Dividends to AURI shareholders from subsidiary operations are actively being planned, whether as stock in the subsidiaries or cash from operations. In December, several parties approached AURI with proposals for a full NASDAQ filing or SPAC merger that would take the entire holding company to a major exchange, and that interest came before Green's team even finished pushing the audits and filings through across the four subsidiaries.
AURI carries a $2.2 million market cap against a portfolio where BDGR alone claims $2.75 billion in sand assets, PBHG holds a catalog appraised at $146 million, and two more subsidiaries are building into crypto and consumer products markets worth billions. All of that drew NASDAQ interest before a single audit was finished. Once those filings start hitting across all four subsidiaries, the math on the parent company will get hard to ignore.
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