markets accounts for 4 of the 5 tracked stories, while 1 other category carries the remainder. Applied Digital is most often covered alongside CoreWeave, which appears in 3 of these 5 stories. Sentiment skews less negative than the wider beat, at 0% negative against 26% across all 4397 Finance stories in the same window.
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What the coverage shows about Applied Digital
markets accounts for 4 of the 5 tracked stories, while 1 other category carries the remainder. Applied Digital is most often covered alongside CoreWeave, which appears in 3 of these 5 stories. Sentiment skews less negative than the wider beat, at 0% negative against 26% across all 4397 Finance stories in the same window. Source depth averages 2 original sources per story, versus 2.7 across the same-window beat baseline. Their average consequence score of 5.2 runs below the beat's 6.2 for that window. Across a 199-day span, the pace is roughly 0.2 stories per week. Applied Digital appears in 5 tracked Finance stories published from February 21, 2026 through September 7, 2026.
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Computed from the 5 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 4397 Finance stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
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Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Applied Digital. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
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