On August 11, IREN Ltd declined 5.25% in regular trading, trading at $39.065/share with turnover of $8.27 billion. The stock had surged 8.70% on August 8 to $41.23, and the current session represents a rapid retracement of those short-term gains.
On the news front, while the company recently completed its acquisition of Mirantis to strengthen the software layer of its vertically integrated AI cloud platform and secured $2.8 billion in multi-year AI cloud service contracts, profit-taking pressure emerged as these catalysts were largely priced in. Meanwhile, the options market has shown persistent bearish positioning, including a notable $680,000 long-dated out-of-the-money put order on August 7 and a $1.74 million put-call combination trade on August 6, both signaling institutional skepticism over the near-term trajectory. The convergence of post-rally profit-taking and concentrated short-side options flow weighed on the stock.
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