Cipher Mining Inc. saw its stock price drop by 5.85% as it crossed below the 5-day SMA, reflecting broader market weakness with the Nasdaq-100 down 1.27% and the S&P 500 down 1.22%.
Despite the decline in stock price, Cipher Mining recently secured a significant 10-year HPC colocation agreement with Fluidstack worth approximately $3 billion, with potential extensions bringing the total value to around $7 billion. Additionally, the company signed a 15-year lease agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) valued at about $5.5 billion, indicating strong demand for its high-performance computing infrastructure and potential for future revenue growth.
These strategic partnerships position Cipher Mining favorably in the AI and HPC markets, suggesting that while the stock is currently under pressure, the long-term outlook remains positive due to these substantial contracts.
Wall Street analysts forecast CIFR stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for CIFR is 26.23 USD with a low forecast of 18.00 USD and a high forecast of 34.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
11 Analyst Rating
Wall Street analysts forecast CIFR stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for CIFR is 26.23 USD with a low forecast of 18.00 USD and a high forecast of 34.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
10 Buy
1 Hold
0 Sell
Strong Buy
Current: 18.970
Low
18.00
Averages
26.23
High
34.00
Current: 18.970
Low
18.00
Averages
26.23
High
34.00
Keefe Bruyette
Stephen Glagola
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$13 -> $22
2026-01-27
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Keefe Bruyette
Stephen Glagola
Price Target
$13 -> $22
AI Analysis
2026-01-27
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Keefe Bruyette analyst Stephen Glagola raised the firm's price target on Cipher Mining to $22 from $13 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares.
Keefe Bruyette
Outperform
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$13 -> $22
2026-01-26
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Keefe Bruyette
Price Target
$13 -> $22
2026-01-26
New
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Outperform
Reason
Keefe Bruyette raised the firm's price target on Cipher Mining to $22 from $13 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares. The firm updated the company's model ahead of the Q4 report to reflect recent business developments and hash price trends. Cipher is executing well on its AI colocation strategy, says Keefe, which is "constructive" on the company's 2026 lease signings.
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Rosenblatt
Rosenblatt
Buy
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$33 -> $25
2025-12-19
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Rosenblatt
Rosenblatt
Price Target
$33 -> $25
2025-12-19
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Buy
Reason
Rosenblatt lowered the firm's price target on Cipher Mining to $25 from $33 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares. Stubbornly high network competition has been an issue for Bitcoin miners throughout 2025 and the situation has "gone from bad to worse" with the sharp drop in BTC, the analyst tells investors. Although pure play miners will remain under pressure, the impact is limited for high-performance computing plays given "entirely uncorrelated and considerably more profitable HPC hosting opportunities," the analyst added.
JPMorgan
Neutral -> Overweight
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$12 -> $18
2025-11-24
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JPMorgan
Price Target
$12 -> $18
2025-11-24
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Neutral -> Overweight
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JPMorgan upgraded Cipher Mining to Overweight from Neutral with a price target of $18, up from $12.
About CIFR
Cipher Mining Inc. is focused on the development and operation of industrial-scale data centers for bitcoin mining and high-performance computing (HPC) hosting. The Company operates two wholly owned bitcoin mining data centers, a 207 megawatts (MW) site located in Odessa, Texas that draws fixed priced power from a power purchase agreement with its electricity provider (the Odessa Facility), and a 300 MW data center in Wink, Texas, of which 150 MW is operational as a bitcoin mining data center, that draws power from the power grid (the Black Pearl Facility), and has equity investments in three partially-owned 40 MW bitcoin mining data centers. Its development pipeline totals approximately 3.4 gigawatts (GW) across eight sites. The Odessa Facility is an approximately 52-acre site, located next to a natural gas power production facility. Through a subsidiary, it is in the process of constructing a data center for HPC near Colorado City, Texas (the Barber Lake Facility).
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
