In the latest trading session, 8.32 million Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:RIOT) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 4.23. With the company’s most recent per share price at $11.07 changed hands at -$0.81 or -6.78% at last look, the market valuation stands at $3.81B. RIOT’s current price is a discount, trading about -65.85% off its 52-week high of $18.36. The share price had its 52-week low at $6.36, which suggests the last value was 42.55% up since then. When we look at Riot Platforms Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 45.28 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 35.90 million.
Analysts gave the Riot Platforms Inc (RIOT) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.28. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 8 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended RIOT as a Hold, 7 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Riot Platforms Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.
Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:RIOT) trade information
Instantly RIOT was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action -3.28%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 8.47%, with the 5-day performance at -3.28% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:RIOT) is 8.47% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 68.48 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 2.45 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 9, meaning bulls need a downside of -23.0% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, RIOT’s forecast low is 7.5 with 10.5 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 5.15% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 32.25% for it to hit the projected low.
Riot Platforms Inc (RIOT) estimates and forecasts
Data shows that the Riot Platforms Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 18.83% over the past 6 months, a -25.00% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of 14.30%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 31.74% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 13 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 135.37M. 11 analysts are of the opinion that Riot Platforms Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 153.27M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 78.81M and 79.3M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 71.76%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 93.28%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 42.06%. The 2025 estimates are for Riot Platforms Inc earnings to decrease by -21.25%.
RIOT Dividends
Riot Platforms Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in March.
Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:RIOT)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 7.05% of Riot Platforms Inc shares while 40.92% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 44.02%. There are 40.92% institutions holding the Riot Platforms Inc stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 11.3814% of the shares, roughly 29.54 million RIOT shares worth $269.95 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.2764% or 21.48 million shares worth $196.31 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Sep 30, 2024 were Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF. With 8.99 shares estimated at $101.12 million under it, the former controlled 2.61% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Russell 2000 ETF held about 2.34% of the shares, roughly 8.04 shares worth around $90.5 million.
