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WULF Stock Rallies As Anthropic Megadeal Fuels AI Pivot

TIM BOHENUPDATED JUL. 21, 2026, 4:03 PM ET
Reviewed by Ben Sturgilland Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs

TeraWulf Inc. stocks have been trading up by 5.62 percent amid strong sentiment on its Bitcoin mining expansion.

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Key Takeaways

  • Rosenblatt lifted its TeraWulf price target to $30 after a new Anthropic contract validated the company’s brownfield AI data center strategy and hyperscale tenant appeal.
  • A planned $3.5B debt raise will fund a fully leased Kentucky campus for Anthropic, projected to deliver about $19B in revenue over 20 years.
  • Needham and Morgan Stanley raised WULF targets to $33 and $72, respectively, as models shift toward long-term data center cash flows.
  • Cantor and Needham argue New York’s one-year data center moratorium should have limited impact on WULF, calling the recent selloff overdone versus contracted lease value.
  • Trump-era signals on a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and criticism of New York’s moratorium highlight a friendlier backdrop for Bitcoin-linked, AI-focused names like TeraWulf.

Quick Financial Overview

WULF has been trading like a high-voltage rollercoaster. Over the last few weeks, TeraWulf ran from a late-June close near $24 to a recent close around $19.87, with swings up to $26.76 on the way. That’s classic momentum compression after a strong run, and traders should respect how fast this name moves in both directions.

Intraday, WULF’s 5‑minute chart shows tight action between roughly $19.50 and $20.50 for most of the day, with buyers stepping in on dips and fades near $19.60–$19.70 getting soaked up. That tells traders there’s still demand under the surface, even as the stock digests big news.

More Breaking News

Fundamentally, TeraWulf is in heavy-build mode. Quarterly revenue is about $34.0M, with trailing revenue around $168.5M, but margins are deeply negative and EBITDA is roughly -$330.3M. Free cash flow was about -$540.5M last quarter as WULF poured more than $522.9M into property and equipment. The balance sheet shows about $2.63B in cash and short-term investments and significant long-term debt near $4.68B. For traders, that mix screams “high growth, high burn, high leverage” — a recipe for big moves around every headline.

Why Traders Are Watching WULF’s Anthropic AI Bet

The real driver for WULF now is the AI pivot anchored by Anthropic. TeraWulf plans to raise about $3.5B in leveraged loans and high-yield bonds, led by Morgan Stanley, to build an AI-focused data center campus in Hawesville, Kentucky. The key: this site is already fully leased for 20 years to Anthropic, and the CFO pegs the total revenue near $19B over the term. That’s long-dated, contracted cash flow — a very different story from pure Bitcoin mining volatility.

Traders noticed. On the day chatter about the $3.5B financing hit, WULF jumped more than 7%. That’s not a small pop for a name already up big on the year. The move shows the market is treating the Anthropic-backed campus as a growth catalyst, not just another debt burden.

Wall Street is lining up behind this view. Rosenblatt raised its WULF target to $30, explicitly pointing to the Anthropic contract as proof that TeraWulf’s brownfield development strategy works and can attract more hyperscale AI tenants. Needham bumped its target to $33 after a “highly attractive” Justified data center lease and model cleanup. Morgan Stanley went even further, taking its target to $72 while sticking with an Overweight stance — the most aggressive call in the group.

Meanwhile, regulatory noise around New York’s one-year data center moratorium hit WULF, but Cantor Fitzgerald and Needham are telling a different story. Cantor calls the selloff overdone, arguing existing leases are unaffected and that contracted leases alone exceed the current share price. Needham adds that the Lake Mariner project should be insulated as existing construction, with potential tweaks needed mostly at Cayuga. For traders, that combination — strong contracts, bullish targets, and a perceived overreaction to policy headlines — sets up a classic sentiment squeeze scenario.

Conclusion

TeraWulf sits at the intersection of two powerful themes: Bitcoin-linked infrastructure and AI compute. WULF started as a miner, but this Anthropic deal and the Kentucky campus financing push it deeper into the role of AI data center landlord. At the same time, macro chatter from the Trump administration about a possible U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve adds a potential tailwind to the broader Bitcoin ecosystem that WULF still taps into.

There are real risks. WULF is burning cash, carrying heavy capex, and preparing to layer on roughly $3.5B more in debt. Margins are still sharply negative, and New York’s policy stance shows how quickly regulation can bite. But the flip side is equally clear: long-term leases to Anthropic, a string of higher price targets from Rosenblatt, Needham, Morgan Stanley, and Cantor, and a political narrative that may push data center growth into friendlier states like Kentucky.

For active traders, WULF is a battleground between fear of leverage and excitement over locked-in AI revenues. The chart shows volatility, but also dip-buying support. As Tim Sykes likes to say, “Patterns repeat because human nature doesn’t change — your job is to recognize them early and manage risk like a pro.” As Tim Bohen, lead trainer with StocksToTrade says, “Time and experience have taught me that missed opportunities are part of the game. There’s always another setup around the corner.” With WULF, that means respecting both the upside from Anthropic-driven growth and the downside that comes with a leveraged, hyper-growth balance sheet. This article is for educational and research purposes only and is not investment advice.

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