The trading price of Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:RIOT) closed higher on Friday, May 23, and closing at $8.85, 3.45% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $8.67 and $8.93. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $15.87 and a 52-week low of $6.19. Over the past month, the stock has gained 13.84% in value.
Riot Platforms Inc, whose market valuation is $3.16 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-30. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable.
On the technical side, indicators suggest RIOT has a Hold on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 50% Sell, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Sell.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned RIOT a recommendation rating is 8. Out of them, 1 rate it a Hold, while 7 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Riot Platforms Inc (RIOT) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that RIOT’s price is currently 4.71% off the SMA20 and 13.29% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 57.04, and weekly volatility stands at 2.35%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 3.95%. Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:RIOT)’s beta value is currently sitting at 4.60, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.56. With analysts defining $20-$20 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $20 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about -125.99% off the estimated low and -125.99% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if RIOT’s share price rises to $20, which is the median consensus price. At that level, RIOT’s share price would be -125.99% below current price.
To see how Riot Platforms Inc stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: RIOT stock’s performance was 3.45% in the latest trading, and -18.03% in the past year.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:RIOT) indicates that the 3-month average is 27.94 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 29.15.
Currently, records show that 350.18 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 7.08% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 57.57%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2025-04-30, stood at 83.51 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.05 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 2383.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in April were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 86.61 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -13.37% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
