Can Applied Digital Stock Recover On Leases It Has Already Signed?

Applied Digital (APLD) stock has fallen about 47% over the trailing three months. The business moved the other way. Contracted lease value more than doubled between its fiscal Q3 2026 and fiscal Q4 2026 reports. The upside case here is simple, but not quick: capacity the company has already sold still has to be built, come online and start paying rent.

What Has Applied Digital Actually Sold?

By its own account, contracted lease value was $16 billion at its fiscal Q3 2026 report and $36 billion at its fiscal Q4 2026 report. Three new campuses, Delta Forge 1, Polaris Forge 3 and Delta Forge 2, carry about $20 billion of it, all leased to one high investment-grade hyperscaler. That $36 billion covers the whole life of leases it expects to run for at least 15 years, not one year’s revenue. Underneath it sits 1.41 gigawatts of contracted critical IT load.

Has Applied Digital Started Collecting That Rent Yet?

Very little of that load is earning yet. In the quarter ended May 31 2026, only the first 100 megawatts were online and contributing, by the CFO’s own account. Another 75 megawatts has since been delivered at Polaris Forge 1.

Management calls power and supply chain the two biggest constraints on the pace, and says demand is still robust. Its answer on power is Base Electron, an independent power producer adding gas-fired generation in the Dakotas, though its first capacity arrives in 2029 and 2030.

A year ago management set a goal of $1 billion in net operating income within five years. That is base rent from the leased campuses less property costs, taxes and insurance. It now expects that run rate a year from its July report, three years early. That run rate would be a property-level profit larger than the company’s entire revenue over the past twelve months, $580 million, from a business still losing money at the operating line.

Should You Worry The Leases Were Signed Too Cheap?

That is the live doubt. Investors ask whether the three recent leases, 810 megawatts in all, were signed at yields below what peers get. Management says its lease rates sit in the middle to upper end of the band for leases of that scale, and that market rates have risen since those deals were struck.

That claim gets tested soon. The company is marketing another 1.7 gigawatts, and is in advanced talks with two existing customers over roughly 100 and 150 megawatts of expansion that it expects to sign at materially higher rates than their current leases. At existing rates and duration those two would add over $6 billion of contracted revenue. Watch those rates.

So the upside case is real, and narrow. It is a conversion story: power and supply chain set the pace, and the lease rate sets what that pace is worth. The business grew while the price fell, and this stock has run hard off lows before, with 23 gains of more than 30% inside two months since 2010, though it still trades above where it did a year ago. If the question is whether a fall this steep is worth buying, our dip-buying screen ranks every stock on that.

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