Hut 8 Corp. (HUT) Stock Analysis
Breakout setup
Financial Services · Capital Markets
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $96.19: Quality below floor (3.3 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.6/10. Specifically: High short interest: 17%; Below-average business quality; Rich valuation.
Hut 8 is an energy infrastructure platform operating Power, Digital Infrastructure, and Compute layers, developing and operating data centers for AI, HPC, and Bitcoin mining across 1,020 MW of capacity in the U.S. and Canada. Revenue comes from data center hosting fees,... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $96.19: Quality below floor (3.3 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.6/10. Specifically: High short interest: 17%; Below-average business quality; Rich valuation. Chart setup: Golden cross, above all MAs, RSI 66, MACD bullish. Score 4.6/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 79d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
Recent Developments — Hut 8 Corp.
Latest news
- CleanSpark Stock Pulls In Bigger Bet From Situational Awareness Hedge Fund — benzinga May 20, 2026 positive
- Hut 8 Enters Agreement With A Louisiana Parish To Invest ~$16M In Local Water System Capacity In Connection With Its Riv — benzinga May 19, 2026 positive
- Dan Loeb Dumps Microsoft, Slashes Nvidia And Rail Stocks In Sweeping Q1 Portfolio Overhaul — benzinga May 18, 2026 neutral
- Third Point Takes New Stake In Alphabet Inc With 175,000 Shares; ASML With 12,000 Shares; Broadcom With 50,000 Shares; D — benzinga May 15, 2026 neutral
- Jefferies Initiates Coverage On Hut 8 with Buy Rating, Announces Price Target of $156 — benzinga May 14, 2026 positive
Generated 2026-05-20T21:06:21Z.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- HIGHCustomerRiver Bend data center tenant10-K Item 1A: 'we recently entered into a 15-year, 245 MW IT lease at our River Bend campus valued at $7.0 billion over the base term'
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Unprofitable operations — net margin -109.8%. Quality floor flags this regardless of sector context.static
Priced at a premium — multiples above sector norms. Needs delivery on growth + margins to justify.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $96.19: Quality below floor (3.3 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.6/10. Specifically: High short interest: 17%; Below-average business quality; Rich valuation. Chart setup: Golden cross, above all MAs, RSI 66, MACD bullish. Prior stop was $89.47. Score 4.6/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $104.17 (+8.3% upside). Prior stop was $89.47. Stop-loss: $89.47.
Concentration risk — Customer: River Bend data center tenant; Quality below floor (3.3 < 4.0).
Hut 8 Corp. trades at a P/E of N/A (forward -55.2). TrendMatrix value score: 3.6/10. Verdict: Sell.
11 analysts cover HUT with a consensus score of 4.0/5. Average price target: $116.
What does Hut 8 Corp. do?Hut 8 is an energy infrastructure platform operating Power, Digital Infrastructure, and Compute layers, developing and...
Hut 8 is an energy infrastructure platform operating Power, Digital Infrastructure, and Compute layers, developing and operating data centers for AI, HPC, and Bitcoin mining across 1,020 MW of capacity in the U.S. and Canada. Revenue comes from data center hosting fees, colocation, AI cloud services, and Bitcoin mining rewards through majority-owned American Bitcoin.