{"id":439711,"date":"2026-10-09T03:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/td-cowen-lifts-2026-bitcoin-projection-to-about-109000-reversing-september-cut-439711\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T03:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:32:26","slug":"td-cowen-lifts-2026-bitcoin-projection-to-about-109000-reversing-september-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/td-cowen-lifts-2026-bitcoin-projection-to-about-109000-reversing-september-cut-439711\/","title":{"rendered":"TD Cowen lifts 2026 Bitcoin projection to about $109,000, reversing September cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The revision is more a recalibration than a fresh catalyst. Sell-side Bitcoin targets have trailed price this year, cut on the way down and lifted once the quarter beat the bank\u2019s own assumptions. A forecast upgrade does not add demand by itself, so confirmation needs to come from price action and ETF flows rather than the headline. The distance between spot and the year-end projection implies a strong fourth quarter is needed to get there.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Earlier:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/cryptocurrency\/bitcoin-short-video-the-price-of-bitcoin-is-near-the-low-of-a-swing-area-are-you-a-buyer-or-seller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">Bitcoin short video.  The price of Bitcoin is near the low of a swing area.  Are you a buyer or seller?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nTD Cowen is nudging its Bitcoin forecast back up after a better quarter, but $109,000 is still a long way short of where the bank stood at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Summary:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>TD Cowen has raised its year-end 2026 Bitcoin projection to roughly $109,000 from $97,500, according to Crypto Briefing, and set a 2029 target of $280,000<\/li>\n<li>The bank had cut its outlook through 2026, from about $177,000 in February to about $100,000 in June and $97,500 in September<\/li>\n<li>Analyst Lance Vitanza said this week Bitcoin finished Q3 several thousand dollars above the firm\u2019s $76,235 assumption, prompting a review of longer-term targets<\/li>\n<li>Vitanza cited an end-2027 figure of $132,750 and expected annual gains of high-20% to 30%, a pace that does not fully reconcile with the $280,000 for 2029<\/li>\n<li>The Strategy price target was reportedly kept at $260, with share issuance expected to offset part of the boost from a higher Bitcoin price<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nTD Cowen has raised its year-end 2026 Bitcoin projection to roughly $109,000, according to a report from Crypto Briefing, partly reversing a cut the firm made just five weeks earlier. The report said the revision was made on October 8 and that the bank also set a long-range target of $280,000 for 2029. The full research note was not available at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The change follows a run of downgrades from the bank\u2019s digital-asset research team, led by analyst Lance Vitanza. In February the firm was forecasting Bitcoin at around $177,000 by the end of 2026. At the end of June it trimmed that base case to about $100,000 from roughly $140,000, and lowered its end-2027 target to $135,000 from $190,000. On September 2, with Bitcoin trading near $78,000, it set a year-end target of $97,500, attributing the cut to recent price weakness rather than any change in its broader view.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The trigger for the latest revision appears to be the third quarter. In a Bitcoin Magazine interview published on Monday, Vitanza said the firm\u2019s price deck had assumed Bitcoin would end the quarter at $76,235, but it finished several thousand dollars higher. He said TD Cowen needed to reassess its longer-term targets as a result, while making clear the interview itself was not a forecast change. He also pointed to an end-2027 figure of $132,750 and said the firm still expects Bitcoin to appreciate at a high-20% to 30% annual rate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That growth rate does not sit neatly with the 2029 figure. Compounding $109,000 at 30% a year for three years gives roughly $240,000, so reaching $280,000 would require faster gains, a different starting point or assumptions not yet set out in the reporting.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The bank reportedly kept its $260 price target on Strategy unchanged, expecting dilution from share issuance to offset part of the lift from a higher Bitcoin price. Vitanza has argued that well-managed Bitcoin treasury companies could outperform the coin itself by around 50%.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The headline figure is best read as a partial recovery from earlier cuts rather than a fresh bullish call. Even at $109,000, the 2026 projection remains well below the $140,000 to $177,000 the firm was forecasting earlier this year. The next things to watch are the note itself, which should confirm whether $109,000 is a formal target or a base case and how the 2029 number was built, Bitcoin\u2019s fourth-quarter performance against the new projection, and whether the bank revisits its Strategy target when the year closes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revision is more a recalibration than a fresh catalyst. 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