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Popular Bitcoin mining stock surges after thrilling announcement

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HIVE Digital Technologies  (Nasdaq: HIVE), the Bitcoin mining company, has seen its stock rally as the firm recently claimed to have captured 2% of global Bitcoin production.

Founded in 2017, HIVE Digital Technologies has a global footprint in Canada, Sweden, and Paraguay and depends exclusively on renewable hydroelectric energy to mine Bitcoin.

Related: What is Bitcoin mining? Explained

For the unversed, Bitcoin mining is the process of using high-end computing to solve cryptographic functions to validate and add BTC transactions in order to add blocks to the blockchain network.

A miner is rewarded with BTC rewards for adding blocks to the Bitcoin network.

HIVE captures 2% of global Bitcoin production

On Sep. 23, the firm announced exceeding 20 Exahash per second (EH/s) of global Bitcoin mining capacity, representing approximately 2% of the global Bitcoin production.

Frank Holmes, chief executive officer of Hive Blockchain, listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Saturday, June 5, 2021.

In a recent conversation with TheStreet Roundtable , HIVE Digital co-founder and executive chairman Frank Holmes revealed , 

"We are now accelerating rapidly our Bitcoin production that by American Thanksgiving we should be 3% of the global Bitcoin production — and it's all green coins."

The company's recent Bitcoin achievement and its bullish outlook on future production had a positive impact on the charts as the stock has jumped 35% in a month.

However, it fell 11.6% to close at $3.58 on Sep. 25.

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Most analysts ask traders to buy HIVE

As per TipRanks , Michael Grondahl, a senior research analyst at Northland Securities, has reiterated his price target of $6 for the HIVE stock and granted it a Buy rating.

Related: Explained: Types of Bitcoin mining

Darren Aftahi, a research analyst at Roth Capital Markets, has also raised the price target from $6 to $7.5 and granted it a Buy rating.

KBW analyst Bill Papanastasiou thinks the stock can go as high as $11 and granted it a Buy rating.

TR's Mira Patchera, on the other hand, has raised the price target from $2.87 to $3.94 and granted it a Hold rating.

HIVE was trading at $3.62 in pre-market hours on Sep. 26.

This story was originally reported by TheStreet on Sep 26, 2025, where it first appeared in the Investing section. Add TheStreet as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

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