JPMorgan Keeps Bitcoin Bull Case: $266,000 Remains The Target
JPMorgan is sticking with its long-run bitcoin upside framework, together with a $266,000 per-coin goal, even because the financial institution flags near-term stress indicators round mining economics and still-chilly threat sentiment heading into 2026.
The financial institution’s newest read hinges on two pillars: a “mushy” flooring round bitcoin’s manufacturing price, and a valuation mannequin that maps bitcoin’s potential market cap towards private-sector gold funding on a volatility-adjusted foundation.
In the close to time period, JPMorgan frames the present drawdown as a well-known stress check for miners. The financial institution estimates the associated fee to supply a bitcoin at roughly $77,000, whereas bitcoin was buying and selling across the mid-$60,000s in the identical evaluation window, placing spot beneath breakeven for much less environment friendly operators.
JP Morgan Remains Bullish On Bitcoin
Historically, JPMorgan argues, manufacturing price tends to behave like “mushy” help moderately than a tough line. The mechanism is reflexive: if costs keep beneath profitability for lengthy sufficient, weaker miners shut down, issue adjusts decrease, and the common price of manufacturing falls, successfully tightening the band that beforehand sat above spot.
The financial institution additionally keeps its broader market tone constructive for 2026, leaning on the concept institutional capital (not retail or company treasuries) is the marginal purchaser that may restart flows when the macro backdrop stabilizes. As JPMorgan put it: “We are optimistic on the outlook for 2026 and anticipate elevated inflows into digital belongings, pushed by institutional traders.”
JPMorgan’s $266,000 goal shouldn’t be pitched as a 2026 “name,” however because the mathematical finish level of a gold-parity thought experiment. In the financial institution’s mannequin, matching the dimensions of personal gold funding (roughly $8 trillion, excluding central banks) implies a bitcoin worth round $266,000, a stage the analysts themselves described as “unrealistic” within the close to time period.
The bridge between “unrealistic now” and “doable later,” in JPMorgan’s framing, is volatility. The financial institution has pointed to a bitcoin-to-gold volatility ratio round 1.5, unusually low by historic requirements and argues that gold’s surge since October alongside rising gold volatility has improved bitcoin’s relative attraction over the long term.
“The giant outperformance of gold vs. bitcoin since final October coupled with the sharp rise in gold volatility has led to bitcoin trying much more enticing in comparison with gold over the long run,” the analysts wrote.
JPMorgan’s stance successfully splits the tape into two timeframes: a messy adjustment course of if bitcoin stays beneath mining breakevens, and a longer-duration guess that institutional inflows and regulatory progress within the US can reprice the asset’s function versus gold as 2026 unfolds.
At press time, BTC traded at $66,229.
