Wall Road large JPMorgan (JPM) turned extra bullish on some bitcoin (BTC) mining shares in its protection following third quarter outcomes and up to date positive factors in bitcoin value and the community hashrate, the financial institution stated in a report on Tuesday.
The financial institution upgraded Cipher Mining (CIFR) and CleanSpark (CLSK) to chubby from impartial. JPMorgan additionally launched a brand new value $8 value goal for Cipher, and raised its CleanSpark value goal to $17 from $10.50.
MARA Holdings (MARA) was additionally upgraded to impartial from underweight and raised its value goal on the inventory to $23 from $12.
The U.S. financial institution downgraded IREN (IREN) to impartial from chubby whereas rising its value goal on the shares to $15 from $9.50.
It raised its Riot Platforms (RIOT) value goal to $16 from $9.50, whereas sustaining its chubby score on the corporate.
The financial institution stated it was introducing a brand new sum-of-the-parts (SOTP) valuation framework for the miners, which took into consideration firm’s mining operations, their respective land and energy portfolios, and their hodl steadiness to replicate any bitcoin that the companies could maintain on their steadiness sheet.
Cipher rose over 4% in early buying and selling Tuesday, CleanSpark gained round 3.5%, MARA climbed over 2%, RIOT was nearly 2% increased, and IREN was 0.4% higher.
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