APLD - Applied Digital Corporation
Applied Digital remains a compelling AI infrastructure investment, driven by a surging revenue backlog and hyperscaler demand. APLD's new 15-year deal with a leading U.S. hyperscaler adds $7.5B to its backlog, now totaling $31B. I see further upside in APLD's valuation, as ongoing AI Data Center buildouts could add billions more to its contracted revenues.
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Applied Digital Corp (NASDAQ:APLD) shares are trading lower during Friday's pre-market session as traders continue to digest the latest AI campus deal headlines.
Applied Digital Corporation has secured a 15-year, $7.5B take-or-pay lease at Polaris Forge 3, confirming its transition to a scaled, contracted AI infrastructure platform. APLD surpasses 1 GW of total contracted IT load, with repeat hyperscaler demand and 65% of revenue now tied to investment-grade clients. Valuation is rich, with EV/sales at 32x forward and EV/EBITDA at 136x, reflecting high market confidence in backlog conversion and future margin expansion.
The AI infrastructure designer signed another multibillion-dollar deal.
Applied Digital (APLD) rallied on May 21 after Needham said the firm's 15-year lease agreement for 300 MW of critical capacity at its advanced Polaris Forge 3 data center campus in North Dakota will drive its share price higher. In a research note this morning, analyst John Todaro told clients that the multi-billion-dollar hyper-scaler commitment offers exceptional visibility and predictability into future revenue.
Nebius Group (NBIS), CoreWeave (CRWV) and IREN Limited (IREN) rose on Thursday after Nvidia (NVDA) said rental prices for H100 GPUs continued climbing, undersco
Applied Digital bets on direct-to-chip cooling to attract hyperscalers as AI rack densities strain traditional air-cooled systems.
Applied Digital signs $7.5B long-term lease agreement with U.S. based high investment-grade hyperscaler for fourth AI Factory campus, Polaris Forge 3.
Applied Digital's AI hosting expansion and Microsoft Azure's hyperscale AI buildout reflect rising demand for large-scale compute infrastructure.
Applied Digital Corp (NASDAQ: APLD) stock is trading lower on Monday. This downward movement tracks a broader decline across crypto-related equities.
Core Scientific (CORZ) offers a more attractive risk/reward profile than Applied Digital (APLD) due to its larger, immediately leasable power capacity and faster delivery schedule. CORZ is set to deliver 590 MW to CoreWeave over 12 months, with 243 MW already being billed and the remainder expected ahead of APLD's timeline. APLD's near-term upside is limited, with most capacity set for delivery further out, while trading at a premium 23x FY27 sales versus CORZ's 14x CY26 sales.
Applied Digital trades at a premium, but expanding AI data center capacity and $23B in contracted lease revenues keep growth expectations elevated.
IREN Limited's NVIDIA deal adds $700M ARR potential as the company ramps AI cloud capacity and targets $3.7B ARR by 2026-end.
Applied Digital's ChronoScale stake expands its AI strategy beyond data centers, adding GPU cloud exposure as AI compute demand accelerates.
Applied Digital (APLD 0.58%) just added a massive AI infrastructure catalyst with its $7.5 billion hyperscaler deal, pushing contracted revenue above $23 billion. The upside story is getting stronger, but the stock's huge rally, rising debt load, and execution demands make this one of the most important AI infrastructure stories to watch.
Applied Digital Corporation (APLD) reported earnings 30 days ago. What's next for the stock?
ChronoScale to begin trading on Nasdaq under ticker CHRN Applied Digital to retain approximately 97% ownership and invest $15.75 million at closing DALLAS, May 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: APLD), a designer, builder, and operator of high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking, and blockchain workloads, today announced the closing of its previously disclosed transaction to contribute its cloud business to EKSO Bionics Holdings, Inc. (“EKSO”). As a result, the cloud business became a wholly owned subsidiary of EKSO, and EKSO changed its name to ChronoScale Corporation (“ChronoScale”).
DALLAS, May 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: APLD), a designer, builder, and operator of high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking, and blockchain workloads, today announced the closing of a $300 million senior secured bridge facility led by Goldman Sachs.
On the Lightning Round of Mad Money on April 29, 2026, a caller named Bob from Florida told Jim Cramer he was “knee-deep in Applied Digital right now, and they just signed that big $7.5 billion contract.