Why This Fund Bet $4.5 Million on Riot Stock Amid a 30% One-Year Run

• New York City-based Aurelius Capital Management initiated 238,220 shares in Riot Platforms during the third quarter.

• The reported position value was about $4.5 million at quarter-end.

• Riot Platforms is now the fund’s fifth-largest holding.

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On November 13, New York City-based Aurelius Capital Management disclosed a new position in Riot Platforms (NASDAQ:RIOT), acquiring 238,220 shares valued at approximately $4.5 million.

Aurelius Capital Management established a new equity position in Riot Platforms (NASDAQ:RIOT), according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing released November 13. The fund reported ownership of 238,220 shares valued at $4.5 million based on September 30 quarter-end data. This entry marks Riot Platforms as one of the five largest holdings in Aurelius’s portfolio.

The new position accounts for 8.2% of Aurelius’s 13F reportable assets under management.

Top holdings after filing:

• NASDAQ:BITF: $19 million (34.4% of AUM)

• NASDAQ:CORZ: $8.4 million (15.3% of AUM)

• NASDAQ:CIFR: $6.3 million (11.4% of AUM)

• NASDAQ:WULF: $5.1 million (9.3% of AUM)

• NASDAQ:RIOT: $4.5 million (8.2% of AUM)

As of Friday, shares were priced at $14.50, up about 30% over the past year and well outperforming the S&P 500, which is up 16% in the same period.

• Riot Platforms provides Bitcoin mining services, engineering solutions, and manufactures power distribution equipment for large-scale commercial and governmental customers.

• The company generates revenue primarily through its Bitcoin mining operations and the sale of custom electrical infrastructure products and services.

• It targets institutional-scale Bitcoin miners, data centers, utilities, and industrial clients in the United States.

Riot Platforms is a U.S.-based Bitcoin mining company with operations in infrastructure engineering and power distribution solutions. It operates multiple large-scale mining facilities and provides services to institutional clients in the digital asset infrastructure sector.

What matters here isn’t the trade itself, but the message it sends about where durable value may be forming inside the digital infrastructure stack. Riot has spent the past several years being priced more than 75% below its 2021 highs, but the latest data suggests a turnaround might be in sight.

In the third quarter, Riot posted record revenue of $180.2 million, more than doubling year over year, alongside $104.5 million in net income and $197.2 million in adjusted EBITDA. Importantly, those results weren’t driven solely by higher Bitcoin prices. The company is actively repositioning around large-scale data center development, including the initiation of 112 megawatts of core and shell capacity at its Corsicana campus. That shift expands Riot’s addressable market well beyond self-mining.

The balance sheet helps explain the confidence. Riot ended the quarter with $330.7 million in unrestricted cash, $170 million in working capital, and nearly 19,300 bitcoin worth roughly $2.2 billion at quarter end. Within this portfolio, the Riot position sits behind more speculative miners but ahead of smaller allocations — suggesting targeted conviction rather than a broad crypto bet.