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What is MARA Holdings, Inc. (MARA) worth?
Currently $12.25 — above the base case ($8.63) · ● live
Platform / optionality
low confidence in the point estimate
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● live · as of 2026-07-21 21:13 · Market cap $4.5B
As of 2026-07-18, MARA Holdings, Inc. (MARA) looks overvalued. Dolphy estimates a fair value of $9.10 versus a current price of $12.25 — a 35% premium to fair value.
Executive summary
MARA Holdings is repositioning from 'Marathon' the Bitcoin miner into an 'energy-into-compute' platform: a large Bitcoin treasury, a ~1.9 GW mining fleet across 19 data centers, and a capital-hungry push into AI/HPC data-center development (Long Ridge 505 MW gas plant, a 2 GW Texas campus, a Starwood JV).
The operating business consumes cash — LTM free cash flow ~ -$1.2bn, operating cash flow ~ -$0.8bn — so there is no cash-flow engine to discount. What you are buying is (1) a marked-to-market Bitcoin balance sheet, (2) a mining fleet of uncertain through-cycle economics, and (3) a call option on becoming an AI/power-infrastructure landlord.
This version revises our valuation after an external correction audit. Our prior report carried the AI/HPC leg as an undocumented $2.6bn. Rebuilt bottom-up on CleanSpark's July-2026 contracted hyperscale lease economics — and carried at separately-risked signing and financing probabilities — that leg is materially larger, lifting base-case NAV from ~$5.72 to ~$8.63 and the scenario-weighted fair value to ~$9.1. At $11.83 the stock trades at ~2x reported book and ~8.5x forward EV/revenue; on the HPC framework the price implies roughly a 20-25% joint probability of signing and financing a CLSK-scale lease. We therefore step back from 'Overvalued' to a modest-premium Hold, with a genuinely wide distribution driven by Bitcoin and, above all, whether MARA lands and finances an investment-grade tenant.
How we value it
Probability-weighted SOTP / NAV (Bitcoin treasury + mining infra at replacement + bottom-up, separately-risked AI/HPC power optionality on CLSK unit economics, Long Ridge broken out, net of debt)
Every figure is computed from SEC filings by the analyst’s calculator tools and fact-checked by a second, independent model.
Investment thesis
About MARA Holdings, Inc.
MARA Holdings, Inc. operates as an energy and digital infrastructure company in North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. The company leverages Bitcoin Mining and Artificial Intelligence compute to monetize excess energy and underutilized power, optimize power management across operations and support AI inference applications. The company was formerly known as Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to MARA Holdings, Inc. in August 2024. MARA Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Hallandale Beach, Florida.
Frequently asked questions
Is MARA a buy?
As of 2026-07-18, MARA Holdings, Inc. (MARA) looks overvalued. Dolphy estimates a fair value of $9.10 versus a current price of $12.25 — a 35% premium to fair value.
What is MARA's fair value?
Dolphy's estimated fair value for MARA Holdings, Inc. (MARA) is $9.10, versus a current market price of $12.25.
Is MARA overvalued or undervalued?
MARA Holdings, Inc. (MARA) currently looks overvalued — trading at a 35% premium to Dolphy's estimated fair value of $9.10.
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