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Analysis as of: 2026-02-13
Riot Platforms, Inc.
Riot Platforms operates bitcoin mining facilities and is converting large Texas power-and-land sites into data center capacity for AI/HPC tenants, plus an electrical-engineering products/services segment.
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Summary

Texas power becomes an AI infrastructure option
A credible first hyperscale lease creates a pathway to re-rate from volatile mining spreads toward contracted infrastructure cashflows. The upside is real but gated by MW delivery execution and capital discipline through a capex-heavy conversion cycle.

Analysis

Thesis
Riot’s edge is scarce, power-dense Texas sites; if it delivers the AMD build and repeatedly converts more MW into contracted data-center revenue (while using mining as a flexible load), it can re-rate from BTC-beta miner to hybrid power-to-compute infrastructure by 2031.
Last Economy Alignment
Owns a real bottleneck input (power-ready sites) that becomes more valuable as AI data-center power demand scales; upside is gated by delivered MW execution and financing discipline, while mining remains commodity-cyclical.
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Opportunity Outlook

Average Implied 5-Year Multiple
2.9x (from 5 most recent analyses)
Reasoning
The re-rate is a business-mix shift: turning a portion of its power portfolio into contract-backed data-center cashflows (with escalators and higher visibility) while retaining mining as a flexible monetization backstop. We underwrite a blended multiple that sits above pure-play miners (commodity spread exposure) but below mature data-center landlords, because Riot still faces schedule risk, tenant concentration risk, and ongoing equity-market dependence during the conversion cycle.
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Risk Assessment

Overall Risk Summary
The path is gated by (1) power-to-IT delivery timing (utility/substation and retrofit execution), (2) financing discipline amid capex (ATM reliance/dilution), and (3) proving repeatable leasing beyond the first tenant; without those, Riot remains a commodity miner with volatile cash generation.
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Last Economy Structure

AI Industrial Score
0.38
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Third Party Analyst Consensus

12-Month Price Target
$26.89
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