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By Will Canny, AI Boost|Edited by Parikshit Mishra
Jul 8, 2025, 12:17 p.m.
- Broker Benchmark assumed coverage of Semler Scientific with a buy rating and a $101 price target.
- Semler trades at a deep discount to bitcoin treasury peers and this gap is expected to close, analyst Mark Palmer wrote.
- The analyst’s $101 price target for Semler is based on the assumption that bitcoin will hit $225,000 by year-end 2026.
Benchmark’s Mark Palmer initiated coverage of Semler Scientific (SMLR) with a buy rating and a $101 price target, citing the company’s dramatic pivot from medical diagnostics to bitcoin
accumulation as a key value driver.
Semler, which spent over 15 years focused on chronic disease detection, adopted bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset in May last year.
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The move made it only the second U.S.-listed firm, after Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR), to adopt bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.
Since then, the company has acquired roughly 4,636 BTC for $430 million, with an average cost basis of $92,753 per bitcoin, the report said.
Palmer noted that the stock rallied 178% in the six and a half months following its Bitcoin Standard announcement, peaking at $81.56 in December 2024. However, the analyst argued that Semler still trades at a steep discount compared to bitcoin treasury peers.
Its multiple of net asset value (mNAV) sits at 1.25, compared to 4.29 for Japan-based Metaplanet (3350) and 6.45 for France’s Blockchain Group (ALTBG), the analyst noted.
Benchmark believes this gap could close. Management recently appointed Joe Burnett as Director of Bitcoin Strategy and outlined bold BTC accumulation targets: 10,000 BTC by end of 2025, 42,000 by end of 2026, and 105,000 by end of 2027.
The report notes that resolving legal and regulatory headwinds from Semler’s legacy healthcare business, including a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation and Medicare reimbursement uncertainties, could help lift its valuation further.
Benchmark’s $101 price target is based on a sum-of-the-parts valuation that assumes bitcoin will hit $225,000 by year-end 2026.
Read more: Semler Scientific Trades at Premium to Bitcoin Holdings for First Time in Three Weeks
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Will Canny is an experienced market reporter with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. He’s now covering the crypto beat as a finance reporter at CoinDesk. He owns more than $1,000 of SOL.
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