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IREN Limted Crashed 40% This Month: Three Wall Street Analysts Agree It’s Going to Quadruple

IREN shed nearly half its value in a single month and now sits at a 52-week low, yet top Wall Street analysts are holding price targets that imply the stock could multiply several times over. The gap between those two…

By Alex Sirois
Published October 21, 2026, 8:45am ET · 4 min read

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A financial infographic titled 'IREN: PRICE DROP VS. ANALYST TARGET GAP'. It shows an average analyst price target of $77.81 with an upward green arrow, and a current price of $26.62 with a downward red arrow, indicating a 192.3% implied upside gap. A smaller red arrow notes a recent -42.97% drop over 1 month. To the right, an 'Analyst Rating Breakdown' pie chart shows 13 Buy, 2 Strong Buy, 5 Hold, and 0 Sell ratings. Below that, a 'YTD Performance VS. S&P 500' bar chart shows IREN at -29.52% and S&P 500 at +12.82%. The bottom right box states 'ANALYSTS COVERING: 20' with a group of people icon. The background is white with gray and green elements.
Despite a significant -42.97% drop over the last month, IREN's current price of $26.62 presents a 192.3% implied upside gap to the average analyst price target of $77.81. © 24/7 Wall St.

IREN (NASDAQ:IREN) is now priced at $26.62. Wall Street’s average price target is $77.81, which means 192.3% upside.

During fiscal 2026, IREN stopped being a Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) miner and became an AI cloud provider. It signed a $9.7B Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) contract and a 5-year $3.4B NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI Cloud deal, and it expects $4B of contracted annualized recurring revenue (ARR) to be operating by year end. Right now, the market and the Street are pricing two very different versions of that build-out.

A 43% Monthly Collapse Pushed IREN to Its 52-Week Low

Shares fell 42.97% in one month. In the past week alone, shares fell 23.51%. The stock now sits just above its 52-week low of $26.55. A beta of 4.271 helps explain how quickly the move grew.

Other AI infrastructure names sold off too, but IREN fell further than its peers. Shrinking earnings expectations are a big reason. The average EPS estimate for the December quarter dropped from 0.085 to -1.34 in 30 days. The fiscal 2027 estimate went from -0.94 to -3.4211 in 60 days. Management guided fiscal 2027 capex to $25 to $30 billion and expects cash SG&A to rise $40 to $50 million sequentially.

The last quarter didn’t help either. Revenue came in at $137.2M, missing the $140.75M consensus. The net loss of $684M included a $450.4M impairment on retired mining hardware.

Bernstein, Northland and Cantor Still Have Targets Near $100

The most bullish analysts haven’t moved. Sanford C. Bernstein holds the Street-high target of $100.00, and Northland Securities and Cantor Fitzgerald are both at $99.00. Bernstein’s number works out to 275.7% upside, close to 3.76 times the current price.

Their case rests on scarce power and pricing. IREN controls a 5GW power portfolio. Recent three-year contracts price above $20M revenue per MW, and current talks are near $25M per MW. Capacity for 2026 is largely sold out, and the company holds $14B in cash, committed GPU financing and prepayments.

At its core, the bullish thesis is an AI infrastructure bet: power, cooling, and computing capacity sold to hyperscalers. We rounded up seven companies playing that same build-out, outside the chipmakers, in a free report here: 7 Stocks Powering the AI Boom (That Aren’t Chipmakers).

The next few months will test that case. Horizons 2 through 4 for Microsoft are due in the December quarter, and mining is set to wind down by the end of December 2026. On the fiscal fourth-quarter call, management summed up what matters: “The contracts are not the driver in this industry. It’s getting the compute online.”

Analysts expect revenue to rise from $2.81 billion in fiscal 2027 to $7.41 billion in fiscal 2028. Even so, the fiscal 2028 EPS range stretches from -15.12 to 0.66. Nobody agrees on when profits arrive. The average target still sits above the 52-week high of $76.87, which points to targets that haven’t caught up with the price.

Applied Digital and Core Scientific Fell Less Sharply Than IREN

Every name in the group sold off, and IREN was the hardest hit.

Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) lost 31.26% in a month. Its $19.33 share price compares with a $64.27 target, or 232.5% upside. Its ratings are 2 Strong Buy, 11 Buy and 2 Hold. That’s more upside than IREN, and it comes after fiscal first-quarter revenue of $341.9 million exceeded estimates.

Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) fell 23.35%. With shares at $13.79 and a $32.62 target, it offers 136.5% upside, the lowest in the group. It carries 3 Strong Buy, 17 Buy and 2 Hold ratings.

Applied Digital has the most analyst-implied upside of the three. IREN lands in the middle even though its stock fell the most, so the Street is pricing in its execution risk more than the market’s reaction alone would suggest. Treat all of these targets as estimates.

IREN Is Down 29.52% This Year While the S&P 500 Gained 12.82%

At $26.62, IREN trades far below the $77.81 consensus, which means 192.3% upside across 20 analysts. Shares are down 29.52% this year and 55.05% over the past year. By comparison, the S&P 500 rose 12.82% this year and 1% over the past month.

  • Strong Buy: 2
  • Buy: 13
  • Hold: 5
  • Sell: 0

IREN Comes Down to Its December Quarter

The bullish case strengthens if Horizons 2 through 4 arrive on schedule and the $4B ARR target is operating by year end. That would confirm pricing near $25M per MW and make the road back toward $77.81 believable.

The bearish case gains weight if delays push revenue out while capex keeps rise. IREN still needs about $8 billion more in GPU financing and prepayments. Debt-to-equity already stands at 1.87, and the company leans heavily on Microsoft.

The selloff has priced in a lot of execution failure. Proof that the December-quarter deliveries arrived is the key test for a target near $100.00.

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Alex Sirois

Alex Sirois is a financial writer with experience spanning both retail and institutional investing. He has written for InvestorPlace and held roles at BNY Mellon and Bernstein, giving him a perspective that bridges Main Street portfolios and Wall Street analysis.
Alex holds an MBA from George Washington University and has built his career across multiple industries, including e-commerce, education, and translation — a breadth of experience that informs how he breaks down complex financial topics for everyday investors. His writing is conversational, actionable, and grounded in long-term, buy-and-hold investing principles.
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