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Core Scientific Top AI Pick in Bitcoin Miners Despite DeepSeek Dislocation: Bernstein
The shares are now available at a deep discount, the report said.
What to know:
- Bernstein remains bullish on Core Scientific shares despite the recent drop.
- The company is the leader of the AI-focused bitcoin miners, the broker said.
- Bernstein maintained its outperform rating on the stock and a $17 price target.
Bernstein remains bullish on Core Scientific (CORZ) even after the shares tumbled 30% earlier this week as Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek challenged the idea that bitcoin (BTC) miners had value as data center plays.
The slide means the stock is now available at a deep discount, the broker said in a research report Thursday.
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Core Scientific is the "leader of the pack" of the AI-focused miners, the report said, with 1.3 gigawatt (GW) of available power supply and a 12-year AI deal with CoreWeave.
"Bitcoin miners have a 12-18 month finite window to build a hybrid data center business, while the hyperscaler capex remains consistent," analysts led by Gautam Chhugani wrote.
Bernstein said Core Scientific is on track to deliver on its first cluster of data centers in the first half of the year, and the company continues to buy and develop new power sites.
The stock now trades closer to bitcoin mining valuations rather than data center valuations, "despite 70% of its capacity allocated to AI," according to the report.
Bernstein has an outperform rating on Core Scientific's shares with a $17 price target.
The stock was 3.8% higher at $11.90 in early trading.
Read more: Bitcoin Mining Stocks With AI Ambition Battered 20%-30% Lower as Nvidia's Plunge Grips Crypto
Will Canny
Will Canny is an experienced market reporter with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. He's now covering the crypto beat as a finance reporter at CoinDesk. He owns more than $1,000 of SOL.
