{"id":24784,"date":"2025-05-01T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24784"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:01:35","slug":"riot-vs-microstrategy-strategy-vs-block-one-bull-one-bear-one-in-the-balance-ahead-of-q1-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=24784","title":{"rendered":"Riot Vs. MicroStrategy (Strategy) Vs. Block: One Bull, One Bear, One In The Balance Ahead Of Q1 Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As earnings season heats up, three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\">crypto-adjacent players<\/a> \u2014 <strong>Riot Platforms Inc<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/RIOT#NASDAQ\">RIOT<\/a>), <strong>MicroStrategy Inc (Strategy) <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSTR#NASDAQ\">MSTR<\/a>), and <strong>Block Inc <\/strong>(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/XYZ#NYSE\">XYZ<\/a>) \u2014 are stepping into the spotlight after the bell today. But heading into their first quarter earnings, the market has already picked its favorites \u2014 and its laggards.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/pro\/register?utm_adType=bzprocontent&amp;utm_campaign=14daytrial&amp;utm_ad=0501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/01122407\/Screenshot-2025-05-01-at-9.25.54-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-897429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/01122407\/Screenshot-2025-05-01-at-9.25.54-PM.png 627w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/01122407\/Screenshot-2025-05-01-at-9.25.54-PM-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/pro\/register?utm_adType=bzprocontent&amp;utm_campaign=14daytrial&amp;utm_ad=0501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chart created using Benzinga Pro<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with Riot stock, the pure-play <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) miner that&#8217;s been feeling the heat. Despite a modest 4.91% bounce over the past month, Riot is still down more than 24% year-to-date and nearly 20% over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, the picture isn&#8217;t pretty: the stock is trading below its 200-day simple moving averages (SMAs) and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/technicals\/25\/05\/45147802\/riot-vs-microstrategy-strategy-vs-block-one-bull-one-bear-one-in-the-balance-ahead-of-q1\" alt=\"Riot\" vs. microstrategy block: one bull bear in the balance ahead of q1 earnings>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As earnings season heats up, three crypto-adjacent players \u2014 Riot Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:RIOT), MicroStrategy Inc (Strategy) (NASDAQ:MSTR), and Block Inc (NYSE:XYZ) \u2014 are stepping into the spotlight after the bell today. But heading into their first quarter earnings, the market has already picked its favorites \u2014 and its laggards. Chart created using Benzinga Pro Let&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-24784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}