Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for RIOT in the last 90 days.
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Riot Platforms (RIOT) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$21.62−1.38 (−6.0%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryRiot Platforms draws attention this week through comparisons with peer IREN as both companies pivot from Bitcoin mining toward AI computing infrastructure, with commentary noting Riot's more gradual approach via long-term data center deals. Jones Trading initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $30.00 price target, citing the company's transition to a digital infrastructure provider focused on AI and high-performance computing. Separate coverage notes Riot is funding new data center projects by spending down its Bitcoin holdings rather than issuing new debt or equity.
The stock closed at $21.62, down 6% on the day, though it remains above both its 50-day average of $21.08 and 200-day average of $19.24, with the 50-day above the 200-day. The GekkoIndex reads 58.8, placing it in the Neutral zone. Gekko Fair Value stands at $25.57, putting the current price 15.4% below that level.
Riot's next earnings report is scheduled for 29 October 2026, after the close, 30 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day holding window. In the prior quarter, actual EPS of -0.68 missed the -0.3 estimate, with a -1.4% reaction. Over the last 30 days, 3 unusual options signals have been recorded, alongside call premium of $7,145,666 versus put premium of $5,601,992. Seasonality over 5 years shows the next 20 trading days averaging +9%, positive in 4 of those years. Analyst consensus across 14 firms rates the stock Buy, with a consensus target of $32.40.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
Riot Platforms price vs fair value
Close $21.62200-day averageGekko Fair Value $25.57
Riot Platforms quick facts
- Market cap
- $8.18B
- P/E ratio
- —
- Forward P/E
- 20.9
- EPS, TTM
- −$3.65
- Revenue, TTM
- $674.5M
- Profit margin
- -196.3%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 3.83
- Volume
- 11.89M avg 15.94M
- 1-year return
- +29.2%
- Typical daily move
- ±6.5%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±18.2%
- 50-day average
- $21.08
- 200-day average
- $19.24
- Next earnings
- Oct 29 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 375.3M
Riot Platforms swing-trade checklist
Riot Platforms scores 5 supportive, 1 mixed and 0 headwinds across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
5 supportive1 mixed0 headwinds
- Trendsupportive
Above 50 and 200-day
Close $21.62 is above the 50-day ($21.08) and 200-day ($19.24) averages, and the 50-day is above the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
58.8, Neutral
Reading 58.8 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
15.4% below
Price is 15.4% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneysupportive
Leans bullish
Last 30 days: 3 unusual options signals.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 30 days
Next report Oct 29, 2026, 30 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+9.0% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +9% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
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Riot Platforms stock chart and price history
Riot Platforms closed at $21.62 on Sep 28, 2026, +29.2% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $11.50 to $30.32.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- +3.5%
- 3 months
- −22.1%
- 6 months
- +68.9%
- 1 year
- +29.2%
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About Riot Platforms
Riot Platforms mines Bitcoin at scale, running large mining infrastructure from sites in Rockdale and Navarro counties in Texas along with two locations in Paducah, Kentucky. This mining work forms the core of what the company is recognized for, alongside a separate line of business built around electrical engineering.
The company runs through two segments, Bitcoin Mining and Engineering. The Engineering side builds power distribution equipment and custom electrical systems, and handles the design, manufacturing, and installation of electricity distribution products for a range of customers, including large commercial firms, government bodies, and organizations tied to data centers, power generation, utilities, water systems, industrial operations, and renewable energy.
Riot Platforms was founded in 2000 and is based in Castle Rock, Colorado. Its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker RIOT.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Information technology services
- Website
- riotplatforms.com
Riot Platforms GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Riot Platforms’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 58.8, in the Neutral zone, up 10.3 points over five sessions.
58.8Neutral
Up 10.3 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 22 | +11.2% | +19.1% | ||
| Accumulation | 244 | +2.2% | +5.6% | ||
| Neutral (current zone) | 361 | +0.9% | +3.6% | ||
| Distribution | 41 | −3.6% | −2.8% | ||
| Selling | 4 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average RIOT share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is Riot Platforms stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Riot Platforms trades 15.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $25.57, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Riot Platforms shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$25.57
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 26, 2026
15.4% Undervalued
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Riot Platforms insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Riot Platforms, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in RIOT were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Riot Platforms has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $499K
- As a share of market cap
- 0.01%
- Trailing four quarters
- $6.22M
From company filings.
Unusual options activity last 30 days
3signals, 56% of the flagged premium in calls.
Latest: Bullish flow on Sep 26, $6.46M in unusual premium.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
3of the funds Gekko tracks hold RIOT.
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Riot Platforms earnings: next date and track record
Riot Platforms reports on Oct 29, 2026, after the close (30 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 3 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 29, 2026
Expected after the close, 30 days away
- EPS estimate
- −$0.33
- Revenue estimate
- $159.8M
3 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±11.8%average move across the report
2 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Aug 10, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Riot Platforms reported significant data center expansion in Q2 2026, securing a 20-year lease with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 megawatts at Rockdale, generating ~$9.1B in contracted revenue ($16.1B with extensions). Combined with the AMD lease, total contracted data center revenue reached ~$9.8B across 241 megawatts. Riot ended the quarter with $1.2B in liquidity ($666M Bitcoin, $549M cash). Corsicana's 1GW site is under a nonbinding LOI with a single tenant.
- Guidance
- Riot is targeting delivery of the first 96MW to the frontier AI lab tenant, with AMD's 25MW expansion delivering first phase later in 2026 and full delivery by May 2027. Corsicana's 1GW campus is in advanced commercial discussions under a nonbinding LOI for full-site tenancy.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2026 | −$0.68 est −$0.30 | $174.2M est $154.3M | −1.4% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | −$0.35 est −$0.28 | $167.2M est $130.5M | +15.8% |
| Mar 2, 2026 | −$1.88 est −$0.13 | $152.8M est $159.9M | −6.1% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | $0.26 est −$0.19 | $180.2M est $159.6M | −10.8% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | $0.57 est $0.06 | $153.0M est $168.1M | −18.4% |
| May 1, 2025 | −$0.90 est −$0.21 | $161.4M est $160.7M | +15.9% |
| Feb 24, 2025 | $0.44 est −$0.08 | $142.6M est $139.1M | −10.9% |
| Oct 30, 2024 | −$0.54 est −$0.16 | $84.79M est $128.7M | −15.0% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Riot Platforms stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Riot Platforms is $32.40, +49.9% from the last close, from 14 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$32.40consensus 12-month target, +49.9% from the last close
Now $21.62Avg $32.40
Low $22High $43
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 14 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28 | Clear Street | — | — |
| Aug 31 | Bernstein | $35 | +61.9% |
| Aug 18 | Clear Street | $38 | +75.8% |
| Aug 17 | J.P. Morgan | $22 | +1.8% |
| Aug 13 | Bernstein | $35 | +61.9% |
+3.6%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
+9.0%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±6.5%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Riot Platforms seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, Riot Platforms averaged +9.0% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +4.7% | 5 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +1.7% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +7.5% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +9.0% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +17.0% | 3 of 5 |
For scale, RIOT’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 18.2%.
Riot Platforms market cap and key statistics
Riot Platforms’s market cap is $8.18B and revenue of $674.5M over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $8.18B
- Forward P/E
- 20.9
- EPS, TTM
- −$3.65
- Gekko Fair Value
- $25.57
Trading
- Volume
- 11.89M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 15.94M
- 52-week high
- $30.32
- 52-week low
- $11.50
- Shares outstanding
- 375.3M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $674.5M
- Profit margin
- -196.3%
- Return on equity
- -48.2%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +37.3%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 3.83
- Typical daily move
- ±6.5%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±18.2%
Riot Platforms stock news this week
Coverage of Riot Platforms this week reads positive: 3 positive, 1 neutral and 0 negative headlines.
- IREN vs. Riot Platforms: Which Bitcoin-to-AI Stock Looks Stronger Now?Yahoo Finance, Sep 28
- Jones Trading initiates Riot Platforms stock coverage with buy ratingInvesting.com, Sep 28
- Riot Platforms Is Quietly Spending Its Bitcoin — Here’s Why That MattersTIKR.com, Sep 27
- RIOT 8-K Filings - Riot Platforms, Inc. SEC 8-KStock Titan, Sep 26
- Riot Platforms, Inc. (RIOT) Stock Dips While Market Gains: Key FactsZacks Investment Research, Sep 25
- Riot Platforms, Inc. (RIOT) Outperforms Broader Market: What You Need to KnowZacks Investment Research, Sep 21
Riot Platforms peers
Riot Platforms’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| IBMInternational Business Machines | Accumulation | 16.1% below |
| FTNTFortinet | Neutral | 32.5% above |
| NETCloudflare | Neutral | 22.9% above |
| ACNAccenture | Neutral | 9.7% below |
| WDAYWorkday | Neutral | 13.2% above |
| CRDOCredo Technology | Neutral | 19.0% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Riot Platforms stock FAQ
What is Riot Platforms’s market cap?
Riot Platforms’s market cap is $8.18B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $21.62, with 375.3M shares outstanding.
What is the Riot Platforms stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Riot Platforms is $32.40, +49.9% from the last close. Of the 14 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 14 rate it a buy, 0 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Riot Platforms stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Riot Platforms is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $21.62 is 15.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $25.57. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Riot Platforms report earnings next?
Riot Platforms is expected to report on Oct 29, 2026, after the market closes (30 days away). Analysts expect earnings of −$0.33 per share on revenue of $159.8M. Riot Platforms beat the earnings estimate in 3 of its last 8 reports, moving 11.8% on average across the report.
What is Riot Platforms’s 52-week high and low?
Riot Platforms’s 52-week high is $30.32 and its 52-week low is $11.50; it closed at $21.62 on Sep 28, 2026, +29.2% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $46.28 on Nov 15, 2021.
Is Riot Platforms stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 5 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (trend, fair value, smart money, earnings risk and seasonality), 1 as mixed (gekkoindex). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
Is there unusual options activity in Riot Platforms?
Gekko flagged 3 unusual options signals in Riot Platforms over the last 30 days, with $7.15M of flagged premium in calls and $5.60M in puts. The latest, bullish flow, was on Sep 26, 2026 with $6.46M in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.
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