On August 21, Riot Platforms rose 5.04% in pre-market trading, reaching $21.96/share, with turnover of $1.9583 million. The stock continues its upward momentum following a wave of analyst target price increases and broader crypto sector strength.

The rally comes amid a broader crypto stock surge driven by Bitcoin price appreciation. Coinbase Global rose 5.7%, Strategy gained 5.7%, and MARA Holdings climbed 3.8% in the prior session. Additionally, multiple Wall Street banks recently raised their price targets on Riot Platforms: JP Morgan lifted its target to $22, Morgan Stanley raised to $43 with an Overweight rating, Macquarie adjusted to $35, and Piper Sandler moved to $25.

The positive sentiment is further underpinned by Riot Platforms' landmark $9.1 billion, 20-year compute agreement with Anthropic announced on August 11, which involves a 191-megawatt data center lease. This deal marks the company's strategic pivot from pure Bitcoin mining toward AI/HPC infrastructure, a transformation that has driven an 83% year-to-date stock gain through July and attracted sustained institutional interest.

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